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knights angle. >> laura: this is very exciting, in case you haven't heard, hunger games starlet jennifer lawrence made a big announcement yesterday. >> i'm going to take the next year off. i'm going to be working with this organization i'm a part of. it's trying to get young people engaged politically on the local level. >> that's awesome. >> it doesn't have anything to do with partisan. it's just anticorruption, trying to pass state by state laws. that can help prevent corruption, fix our democracy. >> laura: that's all. wow. we also learned today that actor george clooney is donating 500,000 bucks for the march for our lives, the totally student organized. the ocean's eleven actor, the tequila baron, he's been sniffing around politics for 20

plus years. let's not forget 2016 he raised $15 million in one weekend, that's pretty good, for hillary clinton and other democrats. and of course he was horrified by that. >> it is an obscene amount of money. the campaign when they talk about it is absolutely right, it's ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics. i agree, completely. >> laura: of course you have to love clooney because he went on to say if asked if you would engage in this obscene act again. if it's legal, he will continue to do it. they continue their routine by putting all their chips on hillary. after all, they had helped her husband, who had been a very successful two-term president mine is that impeachment thing, and stayed in the lincoln bedroom, they flocked to the white house correspondents dinner. it was all hunky-dory. but hollywood was cut out of the picture under george w and

hollywood mocked him endlessly and viciously. so when the most left-wing president ever was elected, barack obama, it was nirvana for all those entertainers who had felt disrespected and offended by the very existence of bush and certainly of conservatives. but with the obama's, they celebrated from the beginning. the inauguration. >> please welcome beyonce. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> laura: birthdays. >> the president of these united states. [cheers and applause] >> laura: white house parties.

♪ >> in the white house. >> laura: even in the situation room. that is a cool photo. all the way to the end. >> for eight years you kept your word and your calm. you are the epitome of cool. >> laura: they are having fun. come on! doesn't that look fun? sad to see president obama go because he echoed their worldview. as samuel jackson said, he had that hollywood cool factor. let's face it. trump, even though he had a hit show with the apprentice, he was never really part of their world because on some key issues he thought differently, and he dared to speak up. when so many in the entertainment arena put all their money, their chips on

hillary, they raised so much money like clooney and anna wintour. let's face it, when trump was elected, they were embarrassed and furious. most of the entertainment and sports in crowds, they see from supporters as either ignorant, racist, or bible-thumping fanatics. george clooney to his credit put blame where it belongs, on hillary. he told "the daily beast" after she lost it was frustrating because i never saw her elevator game. i never saw it. and i had a lot of liberal friends who were like she's not good at this. well, i agree, george. let's face it, top-tier celebs surrounded by p.r. people, managers, agents, millions of adoring fans, they can get pretty used to coasting on political cliches. they are used to dishing it out against conservatives. sometimes in the vilest of terms

without ever having to explain themselves. and without ever getting called on it. so when celebs wait into politics as we are seeing today, jennifer lawrence and george clooney, they win fans on their political side, but then they can alienate many more. you think of what happened, for instance, when the nfl, colin kaepernick refused to stand for the anthem. what happened was he spurred other players to do the same. then the nfl lost tens of millions of dollars in advertising revenue during the regular season as viewership took a sizable hit and attendance was down. if too heavily infected by politics, the sport, stage and screen, they kind of just become like everything else in washington. nasty and polarizing. call me crazy, but i think we need more, not fewer places where we can gather, cheer, and

even boo without worrying about politics. everyone has the right to speak their mind, but stars on screen and those on the field should know that when they practice hate hateful political vitriol they are likely to get some pushback just like the rest of us in politics or political analysis. now it's your turn, clooney and jennifer lawrence. why don't you explain beyond just epithets or bromides, cliches, sometimes maybe insults, your own ideas on how to grow the economy, how to increase the standard of living for the poor and middle-class americans, how to increase violence and drug addictions. you see, if you really want to get into the political ring, really, you can't just talk to your fans or even write a check. you need to be daring enough to go into unfamiliar and even hostile territory and answer tough questions. think about oprah, maybe for a

millisecond she mulled dipping her toe into the political pond, then she quickly pulled it out. if there were rumors of kid rock running for the senate. rumors that the rock may hit the trail. no clooney, who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, good on him for earning that cash, he is shoveling money at gun control. it's his right to do that. but as democrats watch, worry and hope that someone is there next obama, maybe even clooney because he is the star with a killer smile and a cool factor, it got to think about what the repercussions will be. our celebrities really the best candidates? celebrities that are not quite ronald reagan, because remember he was an actor and people say laura, you worked for reagan, don't you have a double standard here? no, no, no. it's true i did work for president reagan, i'm a reagan conservative, but remember what he did. he spent at least two decades

studying, reading, debating anyone who would debate him and writing on politics. he was masterful. he was a successful two-term governor of california. he ran for president in 1976. he lost the nomination by a hair and then had to come clawing his way back four years later to change politics forever. it did not happen overnight. he didn't just write a check or launch into insults against his opponent. he did more than just drive by hits on his political adversaries or just raised money for his political friends. i think what most of these celebrities will find out is that the talents that make them megastars, acting, sports, or music, don't always translate into politics, at least not without a lot of really hard work. and you can't just issue ad hominem attacks on your political opponents without making a substantive argument at

some point. politics is not ease coverage aren't the red carpet. there's also a big downside for people in need of adoration in today's environment, the moment you enter politics, national politics, let's face it, you alienate half the country. millions of people will instantly dislike you. many will hate you. others will lie about you. still others, just to elevate themselves and win back power will say vile and hateful things that are demonstrably false. let's face this, most celebrities have no desire to risk their cushy lives to really make that up big time in politics. thinking about it, the only one i can remember post-reagan who did this is the one celeb, also a businessman like clooney, that they are now vilifying 24/7.

and that's the angle. joining us now with reaction, actor antonio -- a civil rights eternity and lauren right, a princeton university professor who is examining the issue of celebrities in politics. great to see both of you -- all of you. antonio, i want to start with you on this. this is pretty wild. jennifer lawrence, you don't get any bigger than she is as a star of the big screen. she announces today she's taking a year off and she's going to devote all of her time to a nonpartisan group. she insists that it's only about corruption. what do you say? >> what i say is that she can take a year off because she has the money to back it up. she's making enough, she can probably take two or three years off. but let's face it, how are you going to help the community? you really going to get involved in politics? are you really going to go out there and talk about the issues that we are dealing with, especially in california? homelessness skyrocketing, we

are number one in that department. regulation, taxes. if you go to san francisco now it's unwatchable what they've done what liberals have done to that. especially los angeles as well. i was going to talk about the issues to american people, are we going to help the veterans? what are we actually doing here we just going to blame everything on the president as usual? >> laura: i want to get to you on this because i actually think the desperation on the left is palpable. you feel it now and i'm saying this because trump is actually winning on the issues. you see the popularity of the tax cut today, a new poll out. majority of americans like what they are seeing. the economy is generally getting better. people are less stressed, business confidence way up. they are looking for the next obama and maybe it's oprah, maybe it's clooney, a combination, maybe it's a new person. so they lurched to the celebrity, yet when they are hit even remotely criticized, they go bananas. they've never been criticized in their lives.

if you want to put out the heat, you have to take it in return. what do you say? >> absolutely i agree with you completely. celebrities in hollywood, they put all of their chips on clinton and then when she lost they were kind of at a loss and they live in a shallow world that it's all about their appearances and so they haven't really been able to cope very well. when anyone challenges their worldview they lash out with this incredible vitriol and bitterness, as you mention. it's really the last refuge year of what is acceptable criticism and oppressive violence in our culture today. it is against conservatives and particularly conservative women who speak up on behalf of conservative values in this country that got donald trump and other conservatives elected. sarah palin's bay game, you are fair game. ann coulter is fair game, michelle malcolm. all of these people who challenged the orthodoxy at apollo would have all -- the most horrible things are said about you and other women and it

is accepted in hollywood. i have a theory. i think that sometimes these hollywood stars get into these projects like jennifer lawrence. 27 years old, knows nothing about going state house to state house to get legislation passed. i think that's an admirable goal but it's a joke if you think it's easy as memorizing lines or taking your clothes off on tv, but i think they do that because some of the violence and some of the very negative things that they perpetrate in society that is coarsening our society. a lot of what you see out of hollywood is not positive. >> laura: professor, i know you're writing a book about this, the perils of celebrities wading into politics without having taken the time to actually -- whether it's read aloud, debate a lot, think through the complex nature of some of these problems. not that they don't have a right to speak out, but it's more than just you know trump is this or that or whatever epithet happens to be invoked during any period of time.

>> celebrities are not going to save democracy. in the founders actually thought they were an affront to it. they were worried specifically about people getting involved in politics and getting elected especially who were practicing and what they call the little arts of popularity, fame in other words. so i think what we have to watch for his celebrities are running for office for themselves, not advocating for other people, because they are masters at garnering support on their own behalf. they are not so good as we can see from the research that we have had advocating for other people. >> laura: i think the results speak for themselves. antonio, again, talking for a living, i do it, others do it. major litigator and civil rights. i know you give a lot of speeches. talking is one thing, but actually getting involved in the nitty-gritty of legislation, policy proposals, that is kind of the drudgery of politics. i've never written legislation,

i wouldn't know the first thing about how to write legislation. i've been doing this for about 30 years now. i've learned a little bit. what about the atmosphere right now in hollywood. you've talked about it, the lack of ideological diversity -- or i would say even curiosity about people with whom they disagree. >> i don't get it. the facts are the facts. they want to give all this money for example to hillary. she was able to raise over a billion dollars for her campaign and look at the scandals, look at the things she's done. benghazi being one of them. how could you vote for a person like that? i think at this point we need to have people in hollywood who are going to stand up for the constitution and stand up for the great laws we have in this country. not for themselves. i want to step up. my campaign is about the people. i left hollywood to work for the american people. that's my concern. my district 26. i will do everything i can to protect them and make sure they have everything they need from washington at any given moment.

that's my passion right now. i live for this every single day. >> laura: before we let you go, i don't think we are going to see the end of this. i think they really had their heyday during obama. he was the celebrity candidate. trump is mostly a businessman. he did the apprentice, that was hugely successful. but he's mostly a businessman until he got involved in the apprenticed stuff. clooney is a star. he's a big star. i just don't see george clooney giving up his life to just be another politician hitting the trail. he has a lot of fun doing what he does. maybe i'm wrong. i don't know. >> you are right. he's got a successful wife who has her own career. it does look alluring to get all of that adulation that politicians seem to get. but i don't think the politicians think about the downside. when you look at some of the hollywood people were coming out of the woodwork the last couple of days, it tends to be people who are kind of on the down slope. you've got ellen pompeo came out and said some negative things and threaten violence against you, i believe. i thought she was retired.

i didn't even believe her career was still going. this is one like to get it alive. michael rappaport, lost his job recently and using bile threats attack people on twitter is a way to get celebrity back for these people. it's cheap. it's fleeting and ultimately it's not going to make a difference in our society. we need to look for leaders who are more substantive. >> laura: it doesn't create a single job. it doesn't create a single drop. jennifer lawrence is a huge star. george clooney is a huge star. lebron is a huge star. policy is not easy. it's tough. and it is drudgery. it is total drudgery. if your dish it out you've got to be able to take it. thanks so much. great panel. president trump, by the way, is responding to the florida school shooting perhaps with a gun control measure. we will tell you what's going on and what he may be banning next. people would stare.

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>> laura: president trump is directing the justice department to look into a band in the wake of the florida shooting, or the las vegas shooting more accurately. he's targeting bomb stocks, like the one used in that las vegas shooting in october. >> it just a few moments ago i

signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. >> laura: 's bomb stocks semiautomatic rifles to fire rapidly. close to an automatic rifle. joining us now to discuss implications of the president's move our executive director of the gun owners of america, eric pratt and philippe, senior advisor to the former secretary of state hillary clinton. great to have you both on. we will start with you. good move on the part of the president? >> i don't think you will be surprised to hear me say yes. but i grew up in new york city. i'm not going to pretend i'm a lifelong hunter, i've never been hunting, i'm an animal lover. i totally understand why people of hunting. to meet guns with the bad guys had guns and i was happy the cops had more guns. but i'm going to put my cards on the table. i am a d.c. firearm licensed

citizen. i couldn't have this a decade ago until a man named heller sued washington, d.c., and won. but in that, scalia, who i think we can all agree it was conservative, he said there are limits to the second amendment. you can't tell people they can have guns, but you can put reasonable prohibitions on guns. it's hard to for me to understand how bump stocks -- we've been on air for a minute and 50 seconds. stephen paddock held that trigger for 11 minutes straight. we will sit here for maybe five more minutes. imagine a machine gun going off into a crowd killing 58 people. that was a bump in stock. let's get rid of it. >> laura: we just put up a photo of nikolas cruz, who did not have a bump stock. it was used in the las vegas shooting. the dramatic nature of this conversation i think is powerfu

powerful. emotions can't win back the day. facts are facts. explain to us what the bump stock really is. >> it certainly doesn't convert a semiautomatic -- >> laura: that's what the president said. kind of. >> he ordered that it be -- that are will be issued. if they do go down that road, it's not going to stop bad guys from getting them, because no gun law yet has worked to stop bad guys -- just look at chicago. chicago has been an utter failure. what actually woodwork is what candidate donald trump used to talk about, and that was repealing gun free zones so that the good people can shoot back at the bad people and unfortunately we didn't have that they are in florida. we protect our president with guns. we protect the congress with guns, the senators, the representatives. but how do we protect our schools? we put a sign out front that says no guns are allowed here.

criminals -- >> when i was a kid in junior high and my social studies teacher, i wouldn't want that woman packing a 22 in her purse. he is saying teachers and principals. >> what about police officers? >> 77% of america want more gun control. >> second amendment trumps your poles. >> laura: i just want to get in here. >> there has got to be some kind of reasonable restriction that you agree with. >> laura: i was thinking about this. >> what we can agree is the second amendment says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. >> should be allowed to at 19 by an ar-15? >> laura: let's talk about something that maybe we can all agree on. i was remembering in the late '70s, early '80s when i was in school, we had fire drills. i grew up in connecticut.

buying a gun was not a big deal, a lot of people had guns, they still do, a lot more laws there now. we never had thought of having a drill for something like this. something has shifted in society both with us as individuals, with families, with common sense, with us caring about each other. i think we have to think about -- those are big issues. >> people have made people think that way. >> laura: i swear we had more guns in connecticut when i was growing up. >> there are other victims of mass shootings like a man i personally know, officer rob young of california. he was shot at the stockton california school as a first grader. he completely advocates teachers, principals. he says we can't get there quickly enough. same thing with patrick knebel, a survivor of columbine, says the same thing.

>> laura: anecdotally. >> you grew up in connecticut. connecticut after newtown changed its minimum law from 19 to 21. why is it bad to make florida the same thing? he couldn't get a handgun at that age. i'm trying to ask a question. >> and i'm answering. this top-down approach thing you can own a firearm -- >> we say you can at 19. >> it is not working. >> it didn't work, he fought a long gun and shot a school. >> laura: there are a lot of things -- >> he legally bought an ar-15 at the age of 19 because it was an ar-15 he did not have to go throw waiting period. >> laura: first of all -- i don't want to disenfranchised mrs. mcgillicuddy over second amendment rights. i don't know her, but i will say this, i think in this country right now we have really big

societal problems that nobody wants to discuss. i will submit that you can ban the bump stock, ban the ar-15 and we are still going to be dealing with massive sociological problems in our schools and sociopathic kids who nobody cares about, nobody loves -- i'm not disagreeing with you. i'm saying we have bigger problems than the bump stocks. i'm not saying that's the be-all and end-all of gun ownership our second amendment rights, but we have really big problems in this country. this kid was a mess and he -- i don't think you should have been able to get a gun. i don't think he should've been able to do what he did. obviously he is a total messed up freak and nobody seemed to care about him. and the teachers couldn't do anything, the students were afraid of him. no one did anything. that's wild. and the fbi got a call that he was going to shoot up the school and they did nothing. >> no law is going to keep him

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>> laura: the democratic stronghold of san francisco has become, well, especially in downtown, a festering pile of garbage feces and drug needles. according to a survey the investigation of 153 city blocks including popular tour spots found trashed on every block 300 piles of feces on 96 blocks, lovely. 100 discarded hypodermic needles

on 41 blocks. that's all. this is a sanctuary city, is it? is a local deli owner. he spat up. >> it's filthy. it's disgusting. yesterday we taped somebody just on the side of my building peeing on my restaurant in broad daylight. i actually have pictures of people shooting up in the street. it's absolute mayhem at this point. it's completely out of control. >> laura: i had a call or my radio shows today so she went to san francisco recently with her kids and she also saw someone shooting up on the side of the street, tying up the arm, putting the needle, she had to shield her daughter's eyes. not exactly a paradise for businesses or workers. joining us now, san francisco republican party vice chair ken lu is also a police -- and ethan, a political commentator in the bay area radio host. ethan, i love san francisco. i love it. i have family there. i have friends there.

i've been going for a long time. it has a major problem and i don't care if you're a democrat, republican, or somewhere in between, it's not getting better, it seems to be getting worse. what do you think? >> it's true. it is problematic. i will say that under mayor ed lee, who recently passed away, we produced a number of veterans who are homeless in the city of san francisco. we are taking an approach. but remember, we are being handcuffed by a number of laws that prohibit the ability of taking care of people with mental health issues and making them get the psychiatric care that they need. getting them the addictive care. we allow people under the guise of civil liberties to be free and not put them in places to get the help that they need to protect and help themselves, let alone others and allow them to become contributing members of society again. this is a really big issue. it nobody to step in feces.

i have children, i don't like finding used needles. but there are approaches that the city is trying but we actually need some federal help in this case, in my opinion, because a lot of the homeless are not from san francisco. they come because they are not going to freeze to death when we are having a cold snap, unlike the rest of the country. >> laura: are you blaming from for this? you blaming donald trump for the fact that -- >> absolutely not. this is a successive series of issues and court rulings for that matter. you know about that. we had four federal courts ruled that we can't do certain things. >> laura: don't get me started on the judges. i'm going to do a whole big segment on the judges tomorrow. ed let's go to you on this. this is so sad on so many level levels. this is supposed to be the progressive paradise of san francisco. it's a super democrat majority, the board of supervisors for years -- going back to gavin newsom when he tried to get rid of the cash -- remember the cash for the homeless? they fought him back then.

he was my first guest by the way on my radio show that i ever had 17 years ago, it was gavin newsom. but to me it's gotten worse and worse even with some modest improvements around the edges. >> go ahead. >> laura: i think we are having -- are we having audio problems? >> i'm happy to answer that. >> laura: absolutely. it's directed to you. >> san francisco hasn't had a republican elected office for multiple decades now. so none of the problems that we have seen in terms of the homeless year can be attributed to the republicans at all in san francisco, simply because we don't have a single republican elected to office representing san francisco. the homeless epidemic that we have right here is just getting worse. in fact, every year -- i was born here in san francisco and i can see progressively every year the problem has been getting worse and worse every year with

no solutions. i've met with multiple board of supervisor members here in san francisco and they just keep asking for more money. when they ask for more money it is basically rewarding a program that doesn't have any benchmarks. there is no solution in their solution is to just throw more money at the problem. >> laura: what they're also doing is declaring themselves year after year, we are a sanctuary city, sanctuary state. see the problem in orange county, we see the problem in l.a. we are bringing more people into the situation. more people who are indigent and themselves are without jobs at a way to support themselves. i don't see how the sanctuary status of san francisco or the state is doing anybody any favors. ethan and karen, great segment, thank you so much. there's a lot to get through on this and we will have to have to talk about creative solutions that don't just require a big huge piles of federal money. that's not going to work.

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>> laura: politics and kids, that's the focus of tonight's bonus angle. as we mentioned earlier in the shell, that nationwide rally for gun control organized by a few of the students from douglas high school is set for march 24th. it's called the march for our lives. here are some of the dash at least one of the impassioned voices on the gun issue. >> my fear is there's going to be another school shooting, there will be no laws that change. we need stricter gun laws, that is what we need. >> change is happening! [cheers and applause] >> never again! >> we are told that us kids don't know what we're talking about, that we are too young to understand how the government works. >> laura: teens who have survived a mass shooting have every right to express themselves and be heard. that's america and that's a good thing. but i can't help but notice that the media has a little tub or

standard problem here. considering the march for life, the pro-life event that draws hundreds of thousands of people to washington every january. by the way, it's usually in the bitter cold or rotten weather. there's no features or extended interviews about this issue in the media and of course journalists conveniently ignore the fact that the pro-life movement is winning. "the washington post" was recently astonished to discover in 2017, a quinnipiac poll that found 18-34-year-olds for the second most likely age group to oppose late-term abortions. let's say we give those had soe mention as well and maybe a little empathy, or at least a little fair coverage, that would be nice. the kids count, that means all of their views. stay with us. ♪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.

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march. they get almost no media coverage. i'm glad they got media coverage today for the kids going to tallahassee but the press is abysmally unfair. all kids voices count, you bet. if we will see you back here tomorrow night. ♪ >> shannon: hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. president trump is responding to calls for greater regulations on rapid-fire weaponry like that used in last week's florida school shooting and in las vegas last year. he's calling on the justice department to come up with new possible regulations for so-called bump stocks. that's the las vegas case. that increases the speed in which bullets can be fired from a semiautomatic gun. bump stocks were used in the vega shooting, not in florida. the move could either be a signal by this president of marta, or a move to do something ahead of the meetings this week