this is the first night, all the calls were nice. you want to sound off? like me, hate me, doesn't matter. "the ingraham angle" ." 877-225-8587. we are fair and balanced. we are not the destroyed terms of media. where does, laura ingraham? in. we already know she can beat you in tennis badly. that sounded, that voice, sounds a little bit like you, hannity. that's really bad when your family has to call. in. >> sean: you are so mean. all i am is nice to you and every night we come on, you are so mean to me. i don't understand. be mean to the liberals and the corrupt media. >> laura: i have a question. do you have like a big basket like a big baby basket business kerr basket with footballs in it and sign it with all your fans and give them to them. do you do that like sit there all day. >> sean: all i can say is pay back is coming. it's coming. >> laura: i'm waiting for it it's going to be great.

sean, that was awesome. >> sean: it's going to be better than great. you wait. >> laura: also show tonight you had though. thank you, sean. and good evening from washington. i'm laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. we have unbelievable news tonight. it's huge and we have all the angles covered for you. former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe is in the crosshairs of the inspector general at the justice department for possible illegal leaks that he made to the media. or had directed made. plus, vladimir putin claims he has unstoppable super nukes. and is warning the west you have failed to contain russia. victor david hanson will discuss that as well as bold tariffs, president trump slapped on china, other countries today. and later in the angle, i'm going to look at whether an obama era program to reduce school crime and statistics and police might have been helping keep that florida

shooting suspect under the radar. but we begin with the number of fast moving developments in the russia probe. house intel committee member tom rouhani told fox news today that the russia investigation has become a dead end after testimony by white house aide hope hicks. well that's what president trump has been insisting with no evidence of collusion having been emerged. and now there are new charges from devin nunes that the fbi may have violated federal law in seeking that fisa warrant for carter page. and, there may be more indictments coming from the mueller team of more russians. this to my knowledge for the hacking. to get into it all, let's bring in former deputy independent council saul wisenburg, san francisco attorney and rnc committee woman from california harmeet dhillon and washington attorney and chair of the d.c. democratic party scott bold den. great to see all of you. we have a lot of news to get

through tonight. tom reason j o rooney, i don't e has given one interview about the probe yet. he said today on the house intel side, he said this thing should wrap up from what he has seen behind closed doors, there is no collusion. they have seen no evidence of that. and he said, you know, this thing -- we should end this thing. on the mueller thing, he said, well, that has to keep going. i'm not going to speak to that. but he was really adamant. saul, given what we know now, what the focus is of this investigation, what are the key points? >> >> key points are waiting for bob mueller and we just don't know what he is doing. he has kept a very tight, tight ship over there. i'm not at all surprised by the report of the committee member and also you have to remember, however, a lot of the people who have gone in to testify have refused to do so. but they don't have the power anywhere near the power that bob mueller has.

now, having said that what we do know publicly right now, including what people have said about how they were questioned by mueller is that we still don't have on the public record any evidence of collusion by trump or people closely affiliated with trump. that's just the way it is. you have -- you have a little bit of stuff about papadopoulos but is he a very minor figure. >> laura: let's get to andrew mccabe, scott, let's go to you on this. andrew mccabe former director of the fbi is now it looks like the i.g. is going to come down on him hard because he directed fbi staff to share information about the ongoing investigation october 2016 with the media. >> well, he may have shared it himself. i mean, they wanted to give some information out to the "new york times" and they actually set it up. the pr people at the fbi. if you made a bad judgment

call and used that information that was confidential when he shared it to kind of balance out the article, then certainly he is going to be disciplined but the reality is, andrew mccabe is a republican, one, and two, in that article, he was arguing for the fbi to continue to investigate hrc. >> laura: there is a dispute about that. two different accounts. i think the "new york times" lays it out. two different accounts. some say he actually wanted the hillary investigation not to go forward. and then his having champion say no, no, no, fbi can you do whatever you want. senior justice department officials disagree. >> i do met particular trily opposed positions. facts don't like and they don't go away republicans screw things up all the time. >> why are republicans obsessed with andrew mccabe. >> laura: andrew mccabe is best buds with jim comey. but he was the lead in the

hillary email investigation and took a lead in the trump investigation. that's the problem. and if you are pushing stories to the "wall street journal" in october 2016 in addition to the concerns about his wife and everything else, you can't blame donald trump thinking this guy should never have been touching my case. even just given his wife's connection to terry mcauliff. harmeet? >> absolutely, laura, what we are seeing here is one more brush stroke in a painting. all of these strokes are coming together to show there was an entire culture at the fbi and even, you know, some of the actions that they have taken with regard to the fisa court show complete lack of regard for the ethics rules that would apply. these are people making false representations to a court. so nothing that is coming out here with regard to mccabe or any of these other players is surprising to me. it's just surprising that they are being allowed to you get away with it and distract all of us from what should be going on and the

president should be focusing on in the country moving forward. they have been successful in bogging him down. that's a part of this. >> laura: ken starr, saul said today about the scope of this investigation. we are hearing stuff about jared kushner. hearing things about ivanka trump now. this is what he said. >> i think it's beyond his mandate. the mandate is what happened during the 2016 election in terms of collusion. that's the key idea. so, here's what i think is happening i think bob mueller is findings out information leading him back to the attorney general. >> laura: saul you, your comments on that? >> there is no question that it's outside the mandate in terms of the specific items covered. but, remember, the mandate says if there's anything -- any crime that directly arises from the investigation, he can look at it we know from rod

rosenstein's testimony that he has got to go to rod rosenstein if any of those things occur and he has got to get the imreement of rosenstein. so the real story here. i don't think there is any doubt he would have gotten authorization. the story is we know from the manafort indictment and the gates indictment all you have to do is look at it. then he got authorization long ago to go beyond the four cor conners at least the specific things is he supposed to looking at. i'm surprised it hasn't been commented on that. earlier. if i can go back to mccabe, to me the two main things about mccabe that we have deep going back to, one, out gross conflict of interest. he should not have been involved in either the email or the clinton foundation investigation, which, if you believe news reports, he kept agencies from looking -- am looking at things. number two he is responsible for that fisa warrant. and that fisa warrant he has

admitted and the shift memo did not contradict this. if they had not had the steel dossier. they woodland not have even submitted that. that's a shocking thing that fisa warrant. >> laura: in the devin nunes letter today, scott where he went chapters and verse about the doj guidelines, in part the accuracy of information contained within fisa applications is of utmost importance. only documented and verified information may be used to you support fbi applications, fisa, to the fisa court. they did not verify the outrageous allegations in this dossier and they couldn't. there was no way for them to, yet that was at the core of this application. was a federal statute violated in their submission of this fisa application. >> we will certainly never know that it seems to me et fundamental difference between democrats and republicans obviously is the republicans think it was the heart of that fisa warrant and the democrats think it was part of it.

we know back in september of 016 that the intel agencies were picking up these communications and doing their own investigation. if you didn't verify everythinged in the fisa warrant, if you didn't document everything, that means there were other things in that fisa warrant that told you that the trump administration or the campaign needed to be investigated. and by the way, there is a term called croctio corroboratin that solve knows very well. if everything was corroborated, what are we talking about then. you make a big teal out of this fisa warrant. they won't back to the fisa judges three or four times i. >> what does it have to do with donald trump, why did four judges do it over and over again? lawyers lawyers because they weren't polled. hillary clinton paid for the dossier. >> even if they did. >> laura: solve, let's get down to brass tacks here or or harmeet. do you think that a federal

judgen the fisa court if he knew what happened to this dossier and who paid for it that they would not at least gone back and said do you have anything else? this seems like a dlecket conflict of interest. go ahead, solve. >> they would have absolutely asked further questions. scott makes one fair point. >> fair point not a good point. >> let me compliment you, when they go back three times they have to have some kind of information about page. we don't know what that is. it doesn't change the fact, and this is what people aren't picking up on with exception of a couple of writers like andrew mccarthy. steele himself do have been the most credible person in the world. but almost all of his information was completely, i mean completely unverified. that's shocking and actually that's something the fisa judges should have to ape for some day or explain. i would like to hear about that. i don't care whether they

are republicans or voted for harold sassens or what? >> i was going to agree that the misrepresentations for the fisa courts cannot be minimized here. they are critical and central to the issuance you have this warrant over single time and whetherth fisa is open to abuses like this. the other thing that is important is what different nunes. it not just lying to the fisa court. obstruction you have justice. conspiracy to violate the rights of american citizens. >> i don't agree with that. that's silly. >> none of it is proven. >> thanks, guys. there is a bullet. there is a bullet you had series of violations that he says are potential. i think the one that is protesty on yux is guidelines. phenomenal panel and i can't believe sol complimented

scott. that -- that's never happened before. >> wins a month. once a month. >> laura: okay. and sol smiled at least three times in this segment and harmeet. all right, guys, we told you last night how leftists like barbara stripes isn't a. scott is good friends wither had. trying to blame the florida school shooting on trump. that's true. now there is information that obama era school policy set the groundwork for allowing violent kids to stay in these schools. in the angle next. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night. hold on dad... liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. don't worry - i know what a lug wrench is, dad. is this a lug wrench? maybe? you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.

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>> laura: broward's broken program and deadly effect. that's the focus of tonight's angle. the more we learn about the school shooting in florida, the more it appears that a broward county invention may have played a role in what happened. now, what am i talking about? in 2013 broward county and their new school superintendent robert runcie had a novel idea. lower school expulsions and arrests by reducing police involvement. sounds simple. they called it the promise program. appreciating recidivism through opportunities, mentoring, intervention, support, and education. quite an acronym.

you see, in 2011 into 2012 school year. broward had the highest public school related arrest record in the state more than 1,000 kids in that year alone were arrested. the obama administration education secretary arne duncan and attorney general eric holder were so impressed by the promise plan it inspired their own new national guidelines. >> as it stands far too many students. far too many students across this country are diverted from the path to success by unnecessarily harsh discipline policies and practices that exclude them from school for really minor infractions. too often, so-called zero tolerance policies, however well intentioned they might be, make students feel unwelcomed in their own schools. they disrupt the learning process. and they can have significant and lasting negative effects on the long term well being of our young

people. >> laura: i would say a violent kid whose outbursts tolerate you had week after week leading years later to a school shooting also has lasting negative effects on young people and disrupts the learning process, eric. but i digress. the obama bureaucrats incentivized broward to go even further, awarding the district nearly $54 million in grants to improve the lives of students in poverty and students of color. the standard that their lives are actually improving? fewer arrests at schools, less police involvement, fewer disciplinary problems, at least on paper. so school administrators were basically paid to deal with student crime inhouse. and keep the cops off the premises. had nic lazarunikolas cruz beend or charged by police for bringing knives or bullets

to school or other infractions. he my not have been able to buy that gun he used to kill 17 people. when cnn's jake tapper pressed sheriff scott israel about his office's approach to student crime, he said this. >> what you are referring to is the promise program. and it's giving the school the school has the ability under certain circumstances not to call the police, not to get the police involved on misdemeanor offenses. and take care of it within the school. it's an excellent program. >> laura: what did we expect he was going to say until it helps a mass killer maintain a clean record up until the time of his shooting, that is broward cut sheriff union president jeff bell revealed this to me last week. >> they don't want the police officers making arrests on campus and elm they don't want the warrants

to be seshedz on campus because it looks like there is bad stats at the school. i place a lot of blame on the school alberto with that and at state. profit. for example. >> the problem is when that program started we took all discretion away from the law enforcement officers to affect appear arrest if we cheese to. >> laura: that was stunning. now, broward school superintendent robert runcie, sheriff israel, and the obama bureaucrats that create you had this perverse incentive to hide student criminality are down play it have a lot of explaining to do. by turning broward schools and those across the nation into these social justice petri dishes, they may have facilitated a lunatic. and their soft policies have turned our schools into soft targets. and that's the angle. joining me now for reaction from new york city is shavar

jeffrey, president of democrats for education reform and supporter of the promise program. and also in new york is michael faulkner. he is a promise you had critic are a former teach as at kingens college and pastor of new horizon church. gait to see both of you gentlemen. i want to go through a list of incidents that occur in schools? broward county that qualify for the promise program, meaning law enforcement won't be involved. here's the list. alcohol-related incidents, assault, threat, bullying, disruption on campus, drug use, possession, under the influence, drug paraphernalia, possession, false accusation against school staff, fighting, mutual come back, thefts, trespassing, vandalism and damage to property. we'll start with you, michael. what about this? i mean, it led to a big drop in arrests. i can tell you they had 1056 arrests from 201 to 2012.

skip forward 2015 to 2016 i think we have the fill screen. that number goes down to 392. kids started really behaving well, i guess. >> well, yeah u obviously they didn't start behaving well but we started seeing less arrests and therefore the numbers go down. it's a numbers game that we are playing. unfortunately when you play the numbers' games ultimately you lose. those 17 lives lost can be directly attributed to the lower standards created and setting of the tone that actually lowered the standards what law enforcement should be involved with. now, i was a juvenile detention chaplain in new york city. i understand. i have worked with children who have had troubles and troubled background and so forth. i understand. i get it. every kid doesn't need to be thrown in jail for their first infraction or second infraction. when i said a tone and begin

to allow school officials deal with all of those specific issues, you are setting us up, all of us up for a catastrophic problem which we saw. shah far? >> i'm going to bawl bs on this. this is absurd. president obama's minor at the school level. every day activity we see from kids, low. these are issues that are not law enforcement issues though. rets issues where student personnel should work with young people to keep them on the right path. that's very different than we with the shooter in florida who trafficked assault weapons, found on school grounds with weapons u who multiple reports went to the fbi and did go to law enforcement about this young person's inclination towards violence. and the real fundamental problem we have here is we a culture access to assault weapons. where this young man could

go and purchased. >> laura: shavar, i stashed that argument. however, he been arrested he would not have been able to purchase a weapon or multiple weapons. >> should ask the fbi got multiple reports this young manning was making violence threats. it wasn't a school base uts dash. >> the push here is to minimize at all costs involvement with the police. because if you show a disparate impact on minority kids, versus non-minor kids with disciplinary matters, guess what eric holder said. remember that big peach you gave you could be subject to a federal civil rights investigation. if they see there is a disparate impact that's what's on the mind of

administrators. we are afreight of that. >> we is have a history of being disproportionately extended and it expelled and other that is different from when there is credible reason to believe a young person may engage in deadly violence. that is fund mentally different. a low level school fight -- >> laura: arne duncan, he and runcie were like totally on the same page. in fact, the promise program was the inspiration for what eric holder aannounced in january of 2014. this was a focusing on school discipline and racial disparity. the goal was reduce out involvement of police because you would be seeing. >> that is correct for low level offenses yes. >> laura: this stuff is considered low level. >> this kid was expessed for these very reasons.

>> clearly, clearly, this incidence with the cruz case has outs of that. a lot of people dropped a lot of balls. there is dfrkts lot of blame to go around. we have to get back on track here. where do we go from here? i think we have to ceak been what would are going to could going forward to prevents this from happening. we have got to make schools safer. we have got to do everything we can do to make those environments as safe as they can be by. >> laura: how about real simple. if you are threatening people, and if you bring bullets in a backpack, and. >> hello. and he was expelled for those reasons. >> laura: you should be off campus. >> and out young man was expelled. if you wants to start expelling fourth grade kids because this get basic fight. there is nothing if the obama clouded.

>> but there is nothing in the obama guidance that precluded a school official from making referral to a cop if they thought this young man was going to kill people. that he's have bisk. they could have made a referral to the police officer there is nothing obama guys do. >> it's really simple, the atst keep it on the low down. keep this stuff under wraps because we don't want to go back to the reputation we had before with 1,000 arrests. this kid is a problem. subtle him off somewhere else. >> the real problem, i'm calling b.s. on this attempt to divert from the real problem which is this young man could buy an assault weapon like is he buying a bag of potato chips and murder young people in school in a matter of minutes. that is the real problem. >> laura: all right. well, do you think that -- michael, do you think thought schools across the country generally have racist disciplinary

policies? do you believe that. >> i think there is a history of racist discipline policies in schools, yes. and out criminal justice system. i absolutely do. >> okay. >> so it's all racist. >> no, no, no. >> obviously, ms. ingraham you know very little of american history around race. discriminatory discipline in our education system. have you familiar with ground wrowp. are you familiar with jim degree. >> yes i am very familiar about it. loching i will history. hour hou -- ihave got to wrap. i could go on for an hour and that would be fun. what i was trying to focus on for like the tenth time. public schools today are having to be sadly for kids, mothers, fathers. >> fathers. >> laura: they have to provide lunch, breakfast and dinner to a lot of kids u kids speak in 17 languages

in northern virginia school. the teachers are managing a lot. my point is, if someone is disrupter, we should worry less about what our reputation will look like if the police get involved and less about disparate impact and more about how to keep the kids nut school, white, black,ation, whatever they are. >> agree he had. >> if you are a classroom disruption, that doesn't make you a law enforcement issue. that may mean you may be expendeddics peld or dealt with in son-in-law sorry way. as always. by the way we have a textbook example of how the media can get any answer they want. depending on how they frame the question. we will show you how the a.p. and "the washington post" are doing that in an attempt to brand the president, speaking of, a racist. racist. next. ♪ no, please, please, oh!

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>> laura: have you heard of a push poll.

absurd push poll from the associated press finds 57% of americans think president trump is a racist. that includes more than 8 out of 10 african-americans, nearly three quarters of hispanics and nearly 50% of whites. let's bring in someone who know as little bit about media manipulation. former republican presidential candidate herman cain and garland nixon. i haven't seen both of new way too long. garland, let's start with you. >> okay. >> laura: first of all, i think if the poll is true, it's highly depressing to me. okay. that's number one. but given the fact that the economy really is doing better why have the lowest black unemployment in 17 years. lots of good indicators, slightly higher graduation rate from high school which is good but he has been in office for 13 months. people's wages will start going up and bring jobs back. what else not to love. >> that doesn't address the issue here at hand is donald trump a racist?

personally i would say that term is far too restrictive for a guy who has exhibited the level of bigotry as donald trump. i think we have to use a broader term. i think bigotry works. we remember the insults to the handicap with the "new york times" guy. he said that a mexican judge was unable to dispense their duties. >> laura: he thought it was a conflict -- i know it came out that way. but i have known him for 13 years. i don't tolerate racism. don't like racism. wouldn't be friends with someone who is a racist. i actually know him. is he not a racist. i'm telling you it is factually untrue to say is he a racist because i know him. >> that's the only excuse you can say i know him. >> laura: because i actually have personal knowledge. >> i looked into his soul or something like that. >> i just know him. >> look by what he says the tune of the famous coach says you are what your record says you are. >> laura: garland says he is a racist. >> bigot. >> laura: not all

encompassing enough. go ahead. >> now, mr. nixon, please don't try to talk over me which is what liberals do. he is not a racist. and you and others are concluding that he is a racist. based upon your speculation from some statements that were made. you have no evidence, no results that suggest that he's a racist. secondly, i, like laura, i know mr. trump. i can spot racism 3,000 miles away. he doesn't have a racist bone in his body, based upon my own personal experience. but in that particular study that you have been referencing, every incident identified is based upon speculating that he must have been saying something racist when, in fact, he was not saying anything racist. >> well, rubbings it's 21%

of republicans think i is racist according to this poll, shocking. democrats 85% her man. do you believe 21% of republicans think donald trump is a racist? i don't know who these republicans are. i don't know if they belong in the republican party. to me, it's crazy u they can disagree with his policies that's fine or say he shouldn't tweet that's fine. >> exactly, disagree with his policies, yes. you can't disagree with the results. here's why you have such a high number of democrats believing that he is racist and you have a few republicans. they are being told this. liberal media and many democrats have been using false racist narrative ever since this president became president and even before. and as a result, many of them are simply repeating what they have been told. this president is not racist. >> laura: gargarland, one of the things that has stalled

the advancement of african-americans in this new study that we don't have time to get into, economic institute. wages and up employment from 16 of 1968 to 2017. we have tolerated millions of people coming into america who take jobs that working poor, middle class people coming into the workplace for the first time used to have. and a lot of those jobs are gone now. those entry level jobs hurt like a lot of people that i came from and a lot of minorities. and they are not there anymore. and trump is standing against. >> i would say most of the people in the black community would stand against you for that reason. that is black people are not looking for jobs picking grapes. they are not looking for johns working in hotels. they want to be lawyers and doctors and policemen. >> laura: of course they do. i picked fruit and did paper routes and worked in restaurants. you never did those jobs? those jobs taught me a lot. >> black americans want the same jobs. the black community is not blaming the guy at the

bottom. they are blaming the people who make the decisions. >> laura: we are not blaming them either. we are blaming globalists keeping wages low. i'm blaming the people who want to keep the wages down. >> my point is if anyone who is convinced by someone who has more money than they do that the people that have less money than they do are the problem. are being manipulated. >> her man, last word, real quick. the manipulation is going on by liberals and democrats. i see it every day: i see it every day on my radio show. i'm part of the black community. i'm a radio talk show host. i liked that job. i never dreamed i would be able to achieve that job. do you know how i got it? i worked hard at it i got it the old fashioned way. probably the way you got yours. so, these blanket statements about people not making a lot of money being told something about somebody who makes a lot of money, those are irrelevant comparisons. >> laura: all right, guys.

great segment. vladimir putin by the way another hot topic make what is may be his most threatening statement to western nations yet and president trump brings down the hammer to make china and other countries play by the trade rules. the one and only victor david hanson joins us next.

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nuclear weapons that can't be stopped by missile defense systems. u.s. officials tell fox news that missiles are still in development and some are crashed. so many questions to get to our guest. of course professor national review institute fellow victor david hanson. all right, let's first do putin because the neo conservatives want us to have a terrible relationship with russia no matter what. they must be happy today. what should we make of this? >> i think it's mostly for an election coming up in three weeks, quote, unquote, election. and they had a bruising in syria, some russian mercenaries did. he wants to reassure the world that russia is a still a world power. i think the real reason is the 8 years of appeasement is over with the reset has failed. during that obama administration they increased their nuclear arsenal by 24%. we decreased by 17%. and he knows that's over with. and whether there is not going to be another ukraine or crimea. if he goes into baltic

nations or something like that, another cyber attack, it's not going to be cut it out. people like jim mattis and h.r. mcmaster and trump himself are a different sort than the last administration. is he worried about it. there is kind of a tragedy about the whole thing because russia has less than half the population of the united states. it has an economy smaller than where i am in california. and in past years we would use them diplomatically, but we are not allowed to do that given the hysteria in washington. >> laura: there is a lot we could do with our north korean problem with russia. but that seems perhaps out the window. i have to get to this trade deal, victor, because the president surprised everybody with the process of announcing the tariff today. buff the globalists went berserk. they were freaking out. this is what they were saying on television today. let's watch. >> what he wants to do is straight out of the 80's. and that is why you see the market going down in fears that a president who has this america first agenda is

going to end up putting america last. >> we have got a potential trade war being law firmed today by the white house. >> we don't want to make america 1930 again and forgotten men and women of america don't want to be drafted into a trade war. doesn't work. >> ainsley: victor, your reaction? >> well, i mean, the same thing, obama did the same thing with steel so did george w. bush, obama slapped a 35% tariff on tires. what's different about trump though is as he has made minimum wage controversies irrelevant because there is a shortage of jobs and the market is rebounding and people need workers. the same thing will happen with trade as we have cheaper energy. we have a more favorable business climate. we have better deregulation than europe and we have a better and more con diewivelg tax code. i think what's going to happen, capital is going to come into the united states, this entire hysteria over one or two tariffs is going to fade.

>> laura: it's armageddon as nancy would say. by the way victor, i loved how trump said today if you are a country and you don't make steel or aluminum but especially if you don't make steel are you really a country? that's a genius way of putting it because for national defense and all the reasons we need heavy steel, he made that point. like no one can say anything. do we really want to live in a world where china is the predominant power making material like steel with overcapacity. over capacity over capacity? that's a disaster for us. he pointed that out. great as always. >> i think. so thank you. >> laura: thanks so much. there is am news new evidence that the so-called experts were dead wrong but chinese communist. i have a message for them next.

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>> laura: told its that u.s. trade with china was going to promote democracy let's see how that is turning out. enormous economy was boosted in 2000 when president bill clinton signed a law normalizing trade relationship with the communist nation. this led to china's

membership world trade organization. >> clinton said it would inevitably lead to chinese liberty. in that same year, presidential candidate george w. bush flat out claimed, quote: trade with china will promote freedom. bush also claimed in the g.o.p. debate that there was a huge difference between trade with cuba and trade with china. but conservatives weren't convinced. >> tell the people rotting in the prisons of china that there is any difference between castro's cuba and communist china. >> if we turn our back on those that have gotten a equip of freedom as a result of marketplace taking hold, we are making a big mistake. >> laura: bush made the big mistake all due respect. china is moving away from freedom. of the communist party is about to abolish term limits paving the way for president xi pin to rule for life. anyone remember mao?

how can that be? that's not what bush promised. >> imagine if the internet took hold in china. imagine how freedom would spread. i told-know my earlier answer i said our greatest exports in the world as, and will always be the incredible freedom we understand in america. >> laura: that's funny to watch. now that xi has solidified his power, he has become even more brazen cracking down on free speech including on the internet the president just mentioned. american companies are also willingly giving chinese authorities control over their previously independent operation. and now chinese censors have announced they have banned certain words and phrases on posts on popular microblogging sites, disagree, my el eminem my emper.

lifelong control. references to novels animal farm and 1984. incapable ruler and i oppose were also blocked so you can't say i oppose. we haven't fostered a democracy in china. we have created a monster. we have created enormously rich communists and given them control over language. including ours. when you go over there. here's one word by the way that has not been banned by the chinese yet. and i have been saying it for all of you free trade people for a long time. chinese freedom. here is my one word. wrong. we'll be right back. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ ♪

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>>okay. unbelievable basketball game tonight. i'm glad you're watching. my alma mater for law school versus louisville.

they somehow came back in .9 seconds. they won 67-66. all i can say is we'll see you at the final four. march madness. >> i'm going to start working on my bracket right now. all right, here's what we have coming up tonight. wall street doesn't like it, but what about the rust belt? congresswoman joins us live. while the white house takes a crack at opioid epidemic. putin unveils new nuclear weapons, claiming they're unvincible and can reach anywhere in the world.