the events unfolding in syria. remember, this show will always be fair and balanced. get to us on twitter @seanhannity and facebook and every other social media. laura ingraham is back on monday. oh, wait a minute. it's tuesday. >> laura: you have no idea. if diamond and silk are a threat to the community, what is the community? isn't that everyone? >> sean: two of the nicest people. >> laura: i love them. >> sean: i love them. they came to my christmas party. you didn't come but they did. >> laura: i got no invite. how did you pass the threshold? how are you not unsafe to the community? >> sean: i would be the last man standing at the original fox team. nobody made that bet.

>> laura: thanks. awesome show. i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle." a powerful lineup, including the continuing battle against the censorship of conservative voices. what role exactly has facebook played? jeffrey lord is here tonight to answer it. speaking of facebook, how much involvement do they actually have with mueller's investigation. >> have you or anyone at facebook been interviewed by the special counsel's office? >> yes. >> have you been interviewed? >> i have not. >> others have. >> i believe so. i want to be careful here. our work with the special counsel is confidential. speak to the question we had is to what end? we're going to examine it. in the air over syria is eerily quiet. we are learning a potential strike on assad loyalists could come at any moment after he

reportedly used chemical weapons once again on his own people. where will those missiles originate from? and we will get to tonight's angle in a moment which includes a message and some advice for the president. but first, the heavy-handed fbi raid of president trump's personal lawyer michael cohen continues to reverberate at this hour. tonight, cohen is speaking out saying this unprecedented act is upsetting to him and his family but that he will cooperate, adding he still stands by the legality of what he did with that payment. so is cohen using the media to communicate now with president trump? coming up tonight, we are going to talk with house intel chair devin nunes on what he thinks of the president's next steps with the justice department. first, let's analyze all of this with john iannarelli. he is a democratic strategist

and attorney, scott bolden. and byron york. we have a lot to get to tonight. byron, i want to start with you. very interesting that michael: who was kind of chased down the street today with that jacket of his, i don't know. men in puffy jackets. we don't like it. don't wear a puffy jacket. they catch up with him eventually but it's on the phone with don lemon, the reporter from abc. why is he going to media outlets that are fairly hostile to the president at this point? what do you think? >> it's a good question. to some degree, there are a lot of people in the white house who communicate with the president through the media. they are trying to send him a message to the media, through the media. one of the things about cohen, if he talks about the hardship this has been on him and his family come obviously one of the issues here is if he were

charged with a crime, would he cooperate and would he be a bigger part of the mueller investigation? these are all messages that are flying around as he talks tonight. >> laura: this is part of what he said in one of his interviews. i think we have a full screen. he was talking about not only the hardship for his family. he was asked, was he worried. he said i would be lying if i told you i'm not. joy need this in my life? no. do i want to be involved? no. scott bolden, when the fbi knocks on the door and says hello, thanks for your phone, sit down and put up your feet for a while. it is worrisome. >> not just my office but my home and hotel. let's remember one thing. michael cohen has been probably the most aggressive defender of donald trump. he is a very aggressive lawyer. he has a lot of swag, if you will, attitude. this is a humbling experience. remember one thing. before my republican friends start blaming mueller, this was

delegated to the u.s. attorney, another trump republican appointee. >> laura: who recused himself. >> had to review this along with a federal judge. whatever they have on michael cohen, whether it's the women are bank fraud, wire fraud, they have a lot. >> laura: does it bother you? this started as presumably some type of russian collusion investigation which sounds pretty nefarious and disturbing. people who don't follow this. russian collusion? oh, my god. now we are looking through lawyers, hotel rooms, daughters, his house, his office. looking for some porn star payment. the democrats were complaining and the republicans were not complaining when an investigation into whitewater, a land deal commands up in a blue dress. now the democrats seem to be salivating over an impropriety, personal impropriety that might've been paid off by some lawyer. it is an odd deal, is it not?

>> a lot of republicans who might be salivating also. as a former prosecutor and white-collar criminal defense lawyer, the investigation goes where the facts take them. what we don't know is what they have. that's the bottom line. >> laura: byron, we are going to get to the piece you wrote about but i want to go to john iannarelli. set the stage for us if you would. the fbi has a separate team that goes in to the office of michael cohen, to his residence, and to this temporary, i guess he is in a hotel room part of the time. they go in and they take what? how long does this typically take in a raid like this? >> let's keep this in perspective. first of all, that is unprecedented. never before have we had an attorney for a sitting u.s. president be the subject of a search warrant and an investigation by the fbi goes in, they are looking for documents. electronic devices, computers, anything that might have information for the target of the investigation of what they are looking for.

all of that is taken, depending upon the size of the house which i imagine, a large one, it's going to take hours. it will be a team of agents gathering everything and bringing it back to the fbi office for review. >> laura: what happens to the attorney-client privilege? people were laughing about this today. the attorney-client privilege is sacrosanct. nevertheless, that is sacrosanct when you're talking about personal attorney. you would imagine they have information, significant information. they better have significant information that implicates this attorney in criminal wrongdoing. >> at least probable cause. >> laura: if they don't, this stinks to high heaven. >> if i was doj and i was looking at it, they would have to have a higher level which would scare me if i'm the republicans. let's not forget about the paint team. when they go into a lawyers

office, i can tell you it's a rare but it's not unprecedented in general terms across the nation. >> laura: the team says these documents are privileged communications. but these documents are about the porn star payment. we'll put these over here. they will remain secret. >> trusting them. >> laura: three piles, four piles. you are a former prosecutor. i was a former criminal defense attorney. prosecutors have too much power. if they want to indict you, they can indict you. byron, you wrote about happened to the russian collusion. we are not even talking about russian collusion anymore. were talking about stormy daniels and the other networks spending all their time on it because you can imagine porn star five times a minute and get ratings. >> collusion remains the heart of the investigation.

it's the big question. these two things that have happened in the last 20 farmers suggest that it's really not in the middle of the investigation anymore. one, the fact that robert mueller found farmed out this investigation to the southern district of new york suggests is not in his core area which is collusion. the other thing is we found out about the search warrant for that raid on paul manafort's house last summer, it included looking for information about the trump tower meeting. that was in july. we are 9-plus months later. he has been charged with lots of other things but nothing involving collusion. >> laura: i wish we could do an hour. i wish we had a three hour show. that's why i do radio. thanks so much. we need to get to another issue. trump's instincts versus the swamp. other issues actually matter out there. that's the focus of tonight angle. despite the unless media chatter about fbi raids and porn star

payments, there are actually far more important stories that are similar being ignored by the mainstream media. by the way, they are the ones that most affect the american people. in spite of all of the sideshow drama, i have to tell you tonight president trump is getting real results by largely following his instincts. think about it. on the immigration front, when all the others were afraid, well, trump called for serious border enforcement and he named the threat facing the united states. >> we will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. it's the policy of this administration to dismantle, decimate, and eradicate ms-13. i told mexico very strongly you're going to have to do something about these caravans that are coming up. >> laura: what became of that

caravan? that caravan was largely dispersed. whatever stragglers make it to the border, well, they will be graded by our friendly members of the national guard. then there was north korea. the pundit class attacked president trump for daring to threaten rocket men with fire and fury. if, in fact, kim jong un persisted with his nuclear ambitions. now north korea is at the negotiating table and willing to discuss denuclearization. winning. remember the chorus of naysayers that greeted trump's announcement to slap tough new tariffs on china? >> china is hitting back after president trump appeared to raise -- >> wait a second. >> it is such a surprise. who could have imagined we will be put in this terrible position? >> simply saying jobs, jobs, jobs is as convincing as saying trade wars are easy to win. >> the person negotiating this

has has facts day in and day out wrong. the person i'm talking about, mr. president, is you. >> laura: much more persuasive when you do that to the camera. well, china is blinking on trade. president xi just announced china is going to be lowering tariffs on auto imports, including those from the united states. he also promised to protect the intellectual property of those doing business in china. why would he be making such sweeping changes? i wonder. president trump's political instincts. let's face it. they are really good. but there are two major forces seeking to frustrated. first, congress. it was congressional leaders who lashed the president over those proposed china tariffs. they also refused to fund his border wall.

in fact, they misled him on the border wall. they are the same people who railroaded the president into that $1.3 trillion fiasco of omnibus spending bill. remember, that last day, his instinct was to veto the bill. under pressure from congressional leaders, the generals and military industrial complex, he signed it. >> they sold this bill of goods to the president with the promise that it was going to bolster the military which it does. protects the country, but now the president has buyer's remorse. >> i say to congress i will never sign another bill like this to prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again. i'm calling on congress to give me a line item veto. for all government spending bills. >> laura: i have a question here. how does mounting debt and rising deficits make us

stronger? how does that make america great again? it doesn't. and now, even the g.o.p. leaders who created this funding nightmare are looking to pass a few, i don't know, show votes to demonstrate how fiscally responsible they are before the midterms. that's going to work. the second floor is frustrating the presidents instinct is the war lobby. he is being dragged into a conflict in syria which is a dangerous, complex international situation fraught with trouble. assad is certainly a vicious, horrible dictator. the civil war there has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. but he also helped wipe out isis, and he is protecting the christian minority in syria. no doubt about that. assad is aided and protected also by iran and russia, further

complicating matters. any military action, even targeted, limited air strikes, they can lead to unintended consequences and international conflict that we cannot predict from this point. dragging us into another desert war? it is not with the president campaigned on. in fact, he ran against military adventurism in the middle east. >> in my opinion, we have spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people that frankly, if they were there and what if we could have spent that $4 trillion in the united states to fix our roads, our bridges, and all the other problems, our airports and all the of the problems we have, we would've been a lot better off. i can tell you that right now. we have done a tremendous disservice not only to the middle east. we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity. the people that have been killed, the people that have been wiped away, and for what? it's not like we had victory.

>> laura: the president's most successful when he sticks to his conservative, populist instincts. even when he was assaulted by the bush, graham, mccain establishment, he did the right thing and why? the people were with him. part of the reason why he won this election, a major reason why he won this election. he is also best when he follows his political instincts, those raw political instinct he has. he's not talked into things by card-carrying members of the swamp who despise his agenda. every time he lets the swamp lead, disaster follows. my advice tonight to the president, stick to your agenda. do not let investigations or congress do you relate or distract you. at a time when your numbers are up near 50% and congress'? they are cratering. you should be giving them

advice, not the other way around? that is the angle. joining me now for reaction is historian victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. all right, usually heavy on on the morning. on the radio. we have you now. your reaction to the angle and we will get to other topics. >> i think you are right. the inverse of what the so-called deep state establishment says. they say the post where -- this guy came in without prior exper. what if it was the other way around. it was chaotic and didn't make sense. what if he came in and said this is ridiculous. that's what he's doing. these instances you pointed out, whether it was the crazy open

border or the knot with the guns and the missiles. whether it was nato members. on and on. syria, to reply, he's got a lot of dilemmas. he didn't create this situation. russia was brought in after 40 years by susan rice and john kerry and they assured us there were no wmds. susan rice said that last year. trump comes in and there is wmd and we've lost all sense of deterrence because of this leaving behind. he doesn't want and can't get involve the way we did in afghanistan and iraq. he is in between those. everybody who was suspicious of going in there with the people who supported trump for just the reasons you said. they are going to get angry about it because they are going to see it as a betrayal. on the other hand, all the people pushing him forward are never going to vote for him. they despise him. a no-win situation. >> laura: he is in a box. >> got to find a way to restore deterrence without getting involved and that's hard to do. >> laura: adam kinzinger,

congressman, we invited him on. he was asked today about whether congress should give its, military action in syria. >> i think what the president did a year ago in destroying one fifth of assad's air force was good. it was right. i think we have to do that again. people are going to say any use of military force is going to be world war iii or it's going to mean 300,000 troops in syria. it isn't. >> does that president need to e to congress? >> laura: that's convenient for congress. they are not on the hook if stuff goes awry. >> that's exactly what congress does. they are against something and they say you have to come. they are against it and you don't have to. what trump has to do and he has good advisors. i sleep soundly tonight because of that.

they are advising him that we have to stop this idea you can hijack u.s. boat or send a missile at a u.s. carrier or point nuclear weapons but we can't go in and try to nation-building make them like carmel california. between that, we've got to do something. there is no way to shock the russians in syria and sweden looked to get in there on the ground but it's not easy. we've got to ascertain whether there was wmd. the obama administration said chlorine doesn't count. that was the first gas used, world war i. it's not really wmd so we were right so we've had nothing but misinformation about the status of wmd going back to the iraq war. we have to ascertain, did they use wmd ended they kill innocent children? did they break their word to the russians and the syrians.

if it does, we have to send a message and we have to do it in such a way that we don't. >> laura: very complicated situation. we appreciate your analysis. up next, house intel chair devin nunes' first interview since the fbi raid on michael cohen.

>> laura: we have the fbi raiding the president's lawyer's office to find stormy daniels documents. our next guest is spearheading the effort to find out why the department of justice open the russian inclusion probe in the first place. surprise, surprise. the doj won't give us straight answers. joining me now exclusively, house intel committee chairman devin nunes, a republican from california. congressman nunes, thanks for coming on. you've been trying to get

documents for as long as i've been doing the show. that's all you do is try to get documents. people have been asking why is it that you haven't yet held anyone in contempt of congress. that's a big deal to do that. eric holder was held in contempt of congress, as i recall, over the fast and furious documents. what gives here? >> it's trickle-down documents. we issued the subpoena in august. piece by piece, every time we get a little bit more. as you know, we had to get out the major information which was the information on the warrant against carter page was a trump associate. since that time, we've been investigating the state department and we have an interest in this electronic communication. >> laura: the document that establishes that justification for ultimately naming the special counsel. this whole thing ended up. >> opened the

counterintelligence investigation. >> laura: initially that ultimately led to the special counsel. >> it's a two page document. i sent chairman gowdy to see it. it was fully redacted. i called back several times, had conversations with rod rosenstein and fbi director wray. there was a few more things unredacted. most of it was still redacted. now we are at this point again where the boiling point where we need this. what's only a two page document. it's only two pages. it's less than two pages, from what i understand. if the record wasn't that every time they hide something from us, that that when we find out it was bad and they hit it from us. >> laura: like the judge contrera issue. the trickle down information. oh, no, that's why you redacted. >> they are not giving this to us and it tells me there

something wrong. >> laura: robert costa from "the washington post" is speculating tonight on twitter that you are on the verge of moving to hold christopher wray and rod rosenstein in contempt of congress. we have a deadline of tomorrow apparently. is this a real possibility? >> i can tell you we are going to get the documents. we are going to get the two pages. they can either cough them up now or it will get really complicated starting tomorrow night and we will have to take all the steps necessary in order to get the documents. >> laura: what are you thinking might be in them? >> here's -- >> here's our challenge with this. if you believe what's in "the new york times" and "washington post," sometimes they actually do get leaked information. in the information that came out in december was the information

on an australian diplomat talking to mr. papadopoulos. that's what they say is in the ec. we haven't been able to see the ec to confirm it. somehow the maritimes has it but the u.s. congress does not have the information. >> laura: are you disturbed by these leaks that seem to be emanating from that special counsel's office about the intent of what the raid on the cohen office was, what they were really looking for, what they are speculating. there's a lot of information that came out yesterday. >> the bigger problem, the special counsel i would've thought would've gotten to the felony leaks of general flynn's name being leaked to the press with high-level information. seems like the special counsel is good at leaking but not so good it actually finding major felony leakers. >> laura: what are the chances

you are going to hold them in contempt of congress right now? >> we are not going to just hold them in contempt. we have a plan to hold in contempt and impeach. >> laura: impeach christopher wray? >> absolutely. we are not messing around. >> laura: they are going to say that you are trump's lackey. the democrats have been demonizing you from the beginning. i've been the subject of demonization myself so i know how goes. they are going to demonize you. >> welcome as i said before, whenever i see evidence of russian inclusion, i'll be the first person standing out there on the steps of the capital that i found the russian collision with the trump campaign. i haven't found it yet but i have found a whole lot of other stuff that puts doj and fbi in a bad light. >> laura: other media channels are salivating tonight in a frothy frenzy over once again, trump is going to fire robert mueller. sarah huckabee sanders was asked about this today.

>> rod rosenstein oversee special counsel and only he has the power to fire the special counsel. >> again, we've been advised that the president has the power to make that decision. >> laura: i don't think there's any sign trump is really going to fire mueller but republicans are freaking out about it as well. >> they said this before. >> laura: he has the authority. >> they said he was firing all kinds of people and it never came to fruition. >> laura: this is what he said. >> the regulation is clear. it says special counsel may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the attorney general. he may remove the special counsel for number of reasons. dereliction of duty, incapacity. has to provide reasons in writing. it's very clear if the president of the united states, as long as

these regulations are in effect, calls up bob mueller and says i'm firing you, i suspect bob mueller would not heed that. >> laura: we have an executive branch, judicial branch, legislative branch. in which branch does bob mueller reside? the executive branch. again, i think it would not be smart at all for the president to fire bob mueller. i do not think it makes sense. as tempting as it may be, i don't think it makes sense. the idea that he doesn't have the constitutional authority to do that. berra >> this is how far we've e down in the last eight or nine years where courts have become activist courts, activist judges. the fact the doj and fbi think they are above the law. congress, the legislative branch, we created these agencies. they have the responsibility to give us documents when we ask.

we have the appropriate clearances. that's why the house intelligence committee exists. at the end of the day, we are going to win on this. it's just a matter of how tough they are going to make it for congress to actually do our job. under the constitution and the priorities we are given. >> laura: to hold someone in contempt of congress, i don't know the process. you are the head of the intel committee. do you need to have signoff from others in the intel committee? >> ultimately members have to vote on it. >> laura: what's the chances? >> i don't think we are going to have to get there. i think they are going to give us the documents. >> laura: we are going to follow it and check up on it tomorrow. april 11 is the deadline. thank you so much, congressman. we are doing something different tonight. we are holding a caption contest. alabama won the college football national championship last season. head coach nick saban and the team were honored at the white house today.

i was there. do you have a caption idea for this? tweet me @ingrahamangle and we will read some of the best at the end of the show. i took the photo. up next, our defending their first series. you do not want to miss this.

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"defending our first" segment where we expose the enemies of the first amendment. check this out. last month, rockland high school in california placed history teacher julian bendel on paid administrative leave after she had the gall to question whether the school would let its students walk out. to protest abortion. the same way it did to promote gun control. now one of her students is putting her question to the test by organizing a pro-life walkout set for 10:00 a.m. local time tomorrow. joining us now for more, is juliann benzel herself. this is good because this is like, you are a hero of the first amendment in my view because the students in all of these organizations who organize and they did really well, the march for our lives. the various walkouts that have occurred over the last month or

so, they got huge participation. they got huge media coverage. most of it was overwhelmingly positive. glowing. what have you found with your effort at your school? >> well, basically, the only large entity that i know of that has taken up this pro-life walkout because is tony perkins of the family research council. i was thinking, and to your point there, perhaps there would be other, maybe a clint eastwood or a brave movie star from hollywood because they had george clooney funding the gun protest walk on. i was hoping maybe for a few other people to join. but you know what? it's all about grassroots and what we are feeling, the pulse of the nation right now particularly among young people is extremely exciting. >> laura: i think it's interesting that we are talking about saving lives, which we all

want to do. we all want to have sensible regulations that don't run afoul of the constitution. in this case, the dominant culture does not promote the cause of life. in fact, they call the cause of life antiabortion rights advocates. they don't refer to a pro-life on cbs or msnbc. i know because i used to work at both places. they say you are anti-something. i am finding students across the united states, and you see this at the march for life every year, they are much more open to the idea of this really is a human being. why are we doing this to a new generation of americans? we are snuffing them out a million other time. every year, another million. by chemical or surgical abortions. yet the media, they act like this doesn't even, this pro-life viewpoint doesn't even exist.

>> correct. that's why my very brave student chose to stage it as a pro-life walkout. not antiabortion. we are for all life, all students who have lost their lives bygones on school campuses. but this is a pro-life, every life matters. you are precisely right. i forgot her name right now. the outgoing president of planned parenthood who said her goal was to -- es, her book. her goal was to destigmatize abortion in the united states and i'm sorry. but that has not taken place. two articles that i read gave very specific statistics that the majority of americans and the majority of women are pro-life, not for abortion. >> laura: thank you so much. we will be following what happens to this brave push to advance life in a different type of walkout.

now facebook versus conservatives. it is a theme we discussed last night with internet stars diamond and silk who got some good press today. came up on capitol hill during senator ted cruz's questioning of facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. >> reporting that facebook had purposely and routinely suppressed conservative stories from trending news, has blocked the posts of a fox news reporter, has blocked over two dozen catholic pages, and most recently blocked trump supporters diamond and silk's page with 1.2 million facebook followers after determining their content and brand were "unsafe to the community." are you aware of any ad or page that's been taken down from planned parenthood? >> senator, i am not. but let me say -- >> how about moveon.org? >> i'm not specifically aware of those. >> how about any democratic

candidate? >> i'm not specifically aware. i'm not sure. >> laura: joining me for reaction is jeffrey lord. continuing our "defending our first" segment. i thought that was a great exchange. he went on to say that he is concerned because silicon valley is very left. he said it's a left of center place and that's what it is. he said we are very concerned about protecting and allowing all voices on the facebook forum. but he didn't really have a good answer to cruz. he kind of met his match in ted cruz about all of these voices that are having being heard. what was your reaction to that exchange? >> this is what concerns me. someone else on that panel asked him whether or not he could discuss the political leanings of his employees and he said something to the effective well, he doesn't check. the point is he doesn't have to

check them. he is getting his employees from a pool of people that he himself says are extremely left-leaning. that's what's going to happen here. i have to laugh. it's the same argument i was hearing when i was a teenager from people like spiro agnew except it was about the technology of the day which was cbs, abc, and nbc. it's the same argument today except we are dealing with facebook or google or twitter. it doesn't change. what we're dealing with here are people who have a liberal bias and -- diamond and silk. i could not believe that. i know diamond and silk. they are fabulous people. the notion that they are unsafe for the community. this is crazy. that's the way the liberal mind works. that's what you get. >> laura: when they say community -- >> the question is how do we deal with it. >> laura: exactly. when they say community, they

mean the liberal community. they are offensive and unsafe to the left wing mind-set dominates in silicon valley and most of california. they are very concerned about it and they are very concerned about it catching on through perhaps increasing popularity of president trump. zuckerberg, obviously he's a really smart guy but he did not have good answers when it came to those questions of why are these examples of conservative organizations -- ted cruz rattle them off, not getting adequate response on facebook. their followers are not getting their notices. you get a mumbo-jumbo answer. not a good response. >> right. we need to be candid. the case of diamond and so, if they were african-american women who were liberal, no one at facebook would have blinked when they posted something. the fact that they are african-american women who love donald trump, that's not

supposed to happen. so they have to be curbed. that's the real problem. >> laura: we do what do conserv? we are concerned about defending free expression, freedom of conscience, the first amendment. these corporations are so big. they are like many governments. they can control, keep out. what do conservatives do? do they stop using facebook? just d list? >> i hate to go that route. i don't like it the boycotts and all of this. i spoke to a advertiser who was boycotted several years ago by people who didn't like rush limbaugh. he said to me this is not a boycott. this was an organized terror campaign. his life was threatened. his business was threatened. his employees were harassed. >> laura: if conservatives want to be part of the social media system, they want to be part of it, it's important for connecting with friends or advancing your product line or

whatever. facebook is still really important. so is instagram, so is snapchat and all the other means of communication. what do you do? >> you've got to, he got a question today about who was his competition. effectively the answer was he doesn't have any. i would certainly hope there are conservatives out there who are young and enterprising and entrepreneurial minded to challenge this. that certainly can be done over time. other than that at the moment, i think you are serious here on defending the first is excellent. we've got to publicize it. get the word out whether it's on television or the internet or print and let people know how this game is working. it's not a good one. >> laura: i think that's right. let's take zuckerberg at his word. he wants all voices to be heard. he wants the community, their information to be okay, take you at your word. now let's see the proof. jeffrey, thanks so much.

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>> laura: a favorite scare tactic used by the establishment of both parties as to claim president trump is about to start a trade war with china. you heard some of that at the top of the show. rather than a war, chinese president xi jinping promised yesterday to cut auto tariffs and pledge to open china's finance industries to foreign investors. joining us now for reaction is east asia expert gordon chang. i have to say people think i'm weird but the china issue in my mind is literally the most important issue facing the united states today for so many reasons. this was astounding news yesterday. president trump has gotten

literally zero credit except from a few senators. tell us how significant this is. >> this is really important because over the last week, we have heard from china's ministry of commerce and we've also heard from the chinese ambassador in the u.s. how everything is on the table. really vicious language, how they won't negotiate. >> laura: the market was up and down, mostly down. >> what happened was that xi jinping blinked. he backed down on a very important issue, china tariffs. also intellectual property. it's going to take some time for implementation but the important thing here is that president trump has pushed him off the center, and i think that trump is going to continue to push them so we are going to get to a place where we need to be. >> laura: why trump took on china, so people understand how important it is. chinese theft of american intellectual property or trade secrets currently cost between 225 billion and 600 billion annually in the u.s. trade deficit in goods and an end ses rose last year, the biggest

since 2008. imagine what we could do with the 556 billion. marco rubio tweeted today "this offer of opening china market is a total farce. it's unbelievable to read how xi said openness leads to progress while seclusion leaves one behind while his government has dramatically increased control of the internet." commenting on why we still have to be very skeptical of what china is doing. this is just the beginning. do we need to be cautiously optimistic? >> this is just the beginning. for the first time since eisenhower, you have an american president who understands the chinese threat, understands america's leverage, and is willing to use it. we look at these china tariffs that are so on reciprocal and that we are basically negotiating. we agreed to those in the clinton administration when china exceeded the wto, the global trading value. that's our fault. we've had a series of residents who thought that supporting china's communist party was more boring than supporting american interests.

>> laura: the establishment turns out to be wrong again. trump right on this tariff thing. it's the only thing they got china's attention. gordon chang, i'm going to have you on the radio this week. next, despite the wrath of ms-13 crime in the state, virginia's democratic governor go soft on sanctuary cities. what's going on with that? a debate next.

>> laura: virginia's democratic governor ralph northam campaigned as a moderate but moved to the left yesterday. he vetoed a bill that would've banned sanctuary cities in the state. that's a bold move for a state that is no stranger to violence from the notorious ms-13 gang per joining us for reaction and debate, corey stewart, a republican running for senate in virginia. mark h levine, a democratic delegate to the virginia house of delegates. great to have you on. let's start with the state delegate. i live in virginia, i love virginia. went to school at the university of virginia but i am appalled by this decision by the governor. i remember i think it was valentine's day of last year and that recorded confession of an ms-13 gang member and what she did in this murder. let's watch it. >> you need to tell me what you

did. >> i killed her. >> how did you kill her? >> with a knife. [speaking spanish] >> you are going to remember me until the day we see each other in hell. don't forget my name. >> laura: a vicious, brutal murder. this is the first time this happened in virginia. why would virginia want to welcome a legal immigrants to live in the state when you do not know on their desires are, what their aims are, what their goals are, or whether or not they are criminals beyond just entering the country illegally. >> if this bill became law, no one would celebrate more than ms-13. the bill doesn't actually do anything. it's already preempted by the constitution. federal law preempts state law. with the bill would do is it would encourage victims not to talk to the police. it would make law enforcement really hard because someone who was beaten up or tortured by

ms-13, they wouldn't go to the police. they would be afraid they might be deported. if you want to stop crime, let the local authorities stop crime. >> laura: if you want to stop crime, allow more people into your state that are illegal border crosses who have already committed an offense, and oftentimes commit more offenses through document fraud, taking government services. how is that making this state safer for the average person? that's the argument. it's made by the hispanic community, either in the commonwealth illegally. we are already here, they say are working. let us stay. don't inflict this on us. we will report. >> that's what the left always does. they pull it out of the air and there's no basis in truth. we've been doing it in the county. the toughest crackdown in the country on illegal immigration. right next to fairfax. so far, ten years later, we have apprehended 8100 illegal aliens,

handed them over to i.c.e. the crime rate dropped in half and not a single case of racial profiling. the delegate here has said it would happen, it hasn't happened. let law enforcement do its job. apprehend criminals. if they are here illegally, we have an extra weapon we can use to remove them from our community so they can't commit brutal rapes and murders. >> let's put -- let's put all criminals in jail. if your crimes are reported, victims are afraid and they take the domestic violence. they don't report it. >> laura: i know a lot of my fellow virginians who are afrai afraid. >> the log does nothing. >> laura: they are living in places like sterling, which used to be kind of a rural community. they are living in manassas,

alexandria. and they don't even recognize the communities in which they live because there is more criminality. there's less of a feeling of cohesiveness in the community. i have probably lived in alexandria as long as you if not longer and i find the attitude, they don't commit as much crime? i don't care if one american dies in virginia by the hands of an illegal immigrant who shouldn't be here. are we going to say oh, but all the other people are good? one person is dead. >> why do you consider one murder worse than another? >> laura: we don't need any more murders. >> we should let law enforcement be unhampered and go after everybody, enforce the law. >> laura: more problems in your community. >> undocumented immigrants bring fewer problems. allow people to talk to the

police. it causes more crime. >> the sanctuary cities are trying to do, these left-wingers in richmond and charlottesville and now in fairfax county. >> there are no sanctuary cities in virginia. >> that's not true. >> they are not going to allow i.c.e. to pick up these dangerous criminal illegal aliens. let me tell you something. what you are talking about is letting law enforcement do their jobs. the problem with you liberals as you are telling them not to do their jobs. >> no, their job is not immigration enforcement. >> laura: we are out of time. i can do an hour with you guys. we are going to be right back with the winner of the caption contest from today's event at the white house with alabama football. lose weight and keep it off. contrave is believed to work on two areas of the brain: your hunger center... i'm so hungry. (avo) and your reward system...

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