night. mark le vin, allan dershowitz will be with us. laura ingraham, how are you? >> laura: if you put your screen shot next to de niro, you guys have the same hair. >> sean: "dirty grandpa"? >> laura: you kind of look alike. >> sean: you want to hear my brando? >> laura: i would say shut up and act but that might get me in trouble. >> sean: it's always the corleone family what about the clinton crime family?

i do a better mark le vin, i'll do that tomorrow night. >> laura: a great show tonight. i'm laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle." everything from the left's war on the law to the supernature we're talking exorcism. and we have a candidate for governor helping lead the charge. plus, the angle digs up the truth on whether the catch and release policy by border patrol agents is really over. meanwhile, jim comey's whiney tour makes him sound like a mean girl being dumped by the president. and you will see rare footage of an actual exorcism. we have an interview with william freedkin on the vat

kin's exorcist. and trump on talks with north korea and whether he will fire the special counsel. first, starbucks in black and white. that's the focus of tonight's angle. never has a request to use the bathroom caused so much havoc. last week, two black men were awaiting a meeting at a starbucks in philly and asked to use the bathroom but they were told no because it was reserved for customers and they bought nothing. they returned to their seats and were asked to leave. they didn't and the manager called 911. >> i have two gentlemen in my cafe who are refusing to make a purchase or leave.

>> police will be there as soon as possible. >> reporter: the two men were arrested but not before it was all captured on a phone and went viral. soon, a starbucks boycott campaign raged across social media. activists rushed to the starbucks shop and #starbucks while black started trending big time. and within a day starbucks apologized. two days after the incident, the manager who called 911 was no longer with the company and the founder, howard schultz described her this way. >> i think you have to say in looking at the tape she demonstrated her own level of unconscious bias. and you are asking yourself whether or not that was racial profiling. there's no doubt in my mind the reason they were called was because they were african-american. >> laura: there's a lot we still don't know. and here are some questions. was there a pattern of racial

bias in this philadelphia starbucks? were other african-americans treated unfairly there? and did this particular employee display a pattern or practice of racism in the past, or was she just enforcing company policy by denying the bathroom to noncustomers and trying to stop some loitering? the call to the cops feels like overkill but it's again, we don't know the full story. as starbucks faces demonstrations all over the country there was a rush to judgment and the company quickly jumped on it and a lot of people think went overboard. whether than apologizing and disciplining an out of line employee, starbucks is closing 8,000 stores for one day in may and they will force 170,000 of its employees to undergo racial bias training. according to the "washington

post," the sessions will include training in something you might not know of but it's called unconscious bias where you are unaware of your inherent biases. the training will be guided by -- wait for it -- former attorney general eric holder, the naacp and anti-defamation league officials. what could possibly go wrong. holder has his own history in discussing race. >> in things racial we have always been and i believe continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards. >> laura: that is how he introduced himself to the justice department when he became attorney general and this is a man who will conduct a training on race relations of 175,000 employees? okay. this is where we are. one employee in philadelphia calls the cops on a pair of black men. and employees across the nation

are kind of assumed to be blatant racists. starbucks is one of the most liberal companies in the world. you think ben & jerrys are here and starbucks is up here. they hired refugees as a protest against policies. they forced baristas who were had to scrawl #racetogether on coffee cups. but if the coffee chain thought it would inoculate itself by being left leaning, they are wrong. there are progressive, supposedly inclusive identity made them an easy target for protesters. a comedian. i didn't know this, i thought it was for real, a comedian going to join us later, he decided to see just how far liberal guilt would go in starbucks. so he found his way into a

starbucks and he demanded reparations. >> i heard you all was racist. so i came to get my own free coffee. >> i saw. that. >> i heard you guys don't like black people. i am here to get my starbucks reparations. >> is that a real thing? >> it's a real thing. >> i'll give it to you. i saw it on my twitter last night. >> she gives him the coffee. he should have asked for the machine or a venty frappuccino. just take it. the question begs the following how just is it to subject all starbucks employees to the indoctrinations of the racism industry because of the actions of one employee and will this strengthen race relations or could it deepen division between the races? if we're not careful, and if we don't refuse to get all the

facts and if we don't refuse to be bullied by activists who jump to the worst motives and conclusions about people right off the bat, well, we may just end up doing the opposite of what we want to do. we may end up poisoning the well further in this country and encouraging more mob takedowns of well intentioned people or organizations or people who just make mistakes. and that's the angle. joining me now for a reaction is horace cooper, and here with me in studio is jamillah bay, a radio talk show host. i did this on radio this morning and people were burning up the lines. a lot of people go to starbucks and a lot of people love starbucks. and a lot of people see signs in establishments that say restrooms are for customers only. i wonder if that sign itself is no longer going to be valid if

that sign can never be enforced. jamillah? >> the sign can absolutely be enforced. if you are not making a purchase or plan to make a purchase, you shouldn't be in a seat take up space from patrons. the issue with this particular starbucks is not that the gentlemen who were not just random black dudes sitting there, these are, rather, businessmen. these are real estate investors or -- >> laura: no one should be discriminated against. >> it doesn't matter. in this case, however, when we hear that holly, the manager who is no longer there because some ray is gra vagrent chased her around. >> laura: why don't they buy a two buck cup of coffee? buy a cup of coffee.

get a water. a bottle of water. >> etiquette dictates you wait for your buddy. they offered to call their friend and corroborate. that was overkill. >> laura: we don't know much about this holly, if that's her name. we don't know much about her. we know she is no -- she is vaporized. >> the online investigators pulled up some tweets with her expressing not liking people who speak spanish in her store. >> laura: you hear that a lot. a lot of people think -- in spain they don't like it when you don't speak spanish. but i celebrate people when they are mad at me for not speaking their language. but horace, it seems like, look, this could have been handled better but it's my problem is why does this mean the entire chain has to shut down for one

day? howard schultz can do whatever he wants. but there are a lot of people making a lot of money off of inherent racial bias training and other such training sessions. it's a big business. >> racial separatists are doing everything they can to exploit everything that they find. this is an example of the emperor's new clothes. we don't have to have real conscious misbehavior. we have unconscious bias. we have implicit bias. i want to make news tonight. our organization this week is going to be contacting the eeoc and the department of justice and we're going to ask them to see to it that any employer that is going to punish, penalize or in any way interfere with the right of their employees to

operate without detecting whether or not they have some unconscious bias will be found in violation of title vii. this absolutely must not be allowed to occur. and it is not just a little overstep. this is dangerous and that's why we have civil rights laws to stop this kind of behavior. >> laura: jamillah? >> shockingly, i think horace makes a really great point. here's the thing, starbucks is virtue signaling. they are designed to make as much money for their company and shareholders. >> laura: they're going to lose $16 million. >> a lot of people are going to say look at this company addressing implicit bias. take a hint from me. you want to put an end to this and make sure everybody is treated equally, do mystery

shops. put your managers on notice. if we send a mystery shopper in, a white dude and a black dude and we find that you denied one guy the bathroom key or gave one guy a free latte or whatever they are called and didn't give it to the other guy, if you are in violation of starbucks policy we're going to fix it. shutting the stores down is going to get starbucks a lot of business. they're trying to do something for american equality and race relations. >> laura: i'm not willing to throw people under the bus for something we don't know the full context of. the michael brown deal in st. louis was horrible and ferguson, the whole city -- blocks burned down. african-american business owners had their stores destroyed. and we find out, this is not how it was described.

it was a horrible, tragic, sad situation but the cop was cleared. people jump to conclusion and they are jumping to conclusion without knowing the context. they made the problem worse. that's what i'm worried about here. people are afraid to say anything. >> i don't think it's an issue of being afraid to say anything. >> laura: i do. >> michael brown can have its own hour. you treat people the same or you don't. >> laura: i like that idea of mystery shoppers. >> laura, we don't have evidence of what actually happened. it could have been an accident. it could have been a misunderstanding. it could have even have been intentional but it's before we can get any of that information, people have rushed to condemn one of the most liberal, left leaning corporations in the country. they were so for president obama

twice they did everything they could. and, yet, we're supposed to -- we're supposed to believe that without any information, let's just assume evil racism is at work. this is dangerous. it's a poison. and it is dividing our country. i absolutely think that we overreacted in this situation. and ought to have waited for more information. >> laura: i think she -- depending on the facts, she could have an unbelievable defamation claim against howard schultz. but i'm sure he is paid up on his -- thank you, both. in the angle i told you about someone who wanted to see just how far starbucks liberal guilt will go. his video has gone viral. so we asked brian sharp to join us this evening. there he is. how are you? >> how are you? >> laura: you totally fooled me.

i played this on my radio show this morning. my producers and i were screaming. if i didn't know better it sounds like -- you sound like chris rock. it's so funny and that poor girl in starbucks is ready to turn over the keys to the shop to you. tell me why you did what you did by asking for reparations going into that starbucks and saying i want my free coffee for what you did in philly. she said, okay. i'm giving you the coffee. why did you do this? >> i am sick and tired of liberals using black people and making us look like victims, making us look soft with their liberal dogma. it is disgusting. the other thing i hate about liberals is, if you are a black man, as i am, in america, they will not hand you a microphone unless you follow the liberal narrative. i said you know what, i bet if i

go into starbucks and follow a liberal narrative i'll make the news and here i am. >> laura: performance art. when you talked to her and went in there and had it on the cell phone. the woman said i think i saw it on twitter. she thought there was something on twitter that when a black man comes into starbucks just hand him the coffee. why didn't you go for the blender to make the fancy smoothy drinks. >> she went straight for the venti. i got a large. she gave me milk. i should have asked for almond milk and she did give me the caramel with the sugar in it. >> laura: are you getting grief for this from your friends, liberals saying how dare you do this? this is a serious issue and you're making light of it, how dare you?

>> you're going to get enemies and you have to learn how to use it. i have a chapter in my book that talks about how to use enemy. so i embrace the hate. it gets balanced out with love. but all the people that hate are brainwashed by liberals. they're afraid to think for themselves. >> laura: we have a longer clip. people who somehow missed the top of the show. i want to play the longer clip if we can. >> bring that back. >> laura: play the original clip once again. it's screamingly funny. i want to play it one more time. let's watch. just one second. anyway, so you go into the starbucks. did you pick the starbucks for a reason? >> i happened to just be there. the thought was in my mind. i just happened to be there with my family. you saw my son in the video. and i'm like, starbucks. >> laura: you did this off the top of your head? >> off the top of my head.

>> laura: i thought you planned it out. >> get my free coffee. are you ready? are you ready? yeah, yeah. >> laura: we thought this was planned out and scripted. great stuff. thank you so much. we may, by the way, be hearing the first rumblings of a political earthquake in california. the growing number of fed up citizens there fighting back against the sanctuary state. the man behind "the exorcist" joins us with a documentary that shows you the real thing. don't miss it. you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet.

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brown's refusal to use national guard troops. trump tweeted today, there is a revolution going on in california. and jerry brown is trying to back out of the national guard at the border. but the people of the state are not happy. want security and safety now. and the president may have the numbers to prove it. nearly 20 jurisdictions in california have announced their opposition to the state sanctuary law. let debate these developments with john cox and the border angels founder enrique morones. enrique let's start with you. on the issue of the national guard at the border, not all governors are wild about it, i'm sure. but jerry brown initially said 400 troops would take part in this effort but he made it clear

there's no wall. i guess they're not going to build a wall. we know that. they're not going to enforce immigration laws and now it's reached a fever pitch. do you think the fact that all these counties are worried are a bad harbinger for where this is going? >> i'm glad david hogg let you back on the air, by the way. i'm with with the majority of californians. we support the sanctuary state situation. the fact that republican small groups within california are opposed to the sanctuary law, that's not a surprise but it's the majority of californians support the sanctuary state situation. we realize that these people should not be turned over to i.c.e. they are risking their lives. we don't encourage that and there has been an almost 50% drop in -- >> laura: you might not be aware

of the concept called facts. let me introduce you to -- >> you're the last -- >> laura: let me introduce you to the facts. it is important to take a breath and you shouldn't come on the show if it's not about facts why are you wasting our time. are you in prison? are you in prison? are you not a man with free will. border angels has no free will? enrique -- if you want to get personal -- if you want to get personal, you can get personal. but you just made a statement about how the majority of californians are not for -- or are for sanctuary cities. 59% of californians say it's important to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants. that's the -- that's the uc

berkley study. >> but you're wrong with the facts. they are talk about undocumented criminals. >> yeah, thank you. thank you, laura. i'm up in sutter counties which is one of the first to declare their opposition to sanctuary state. orange county did it a few weeks ago. the city of escondido. 20 jurisdictions around the state have acted. i think there's going to be more. people are sick and tired of the ignorance of the law. they really believe that people want to have ms-13 living next door to them. i don't think anyone wants gang members to live next door to them. we're talking about getting criminals out of california and jerry brown and gavin newsom are favoring criminal illegal aliens over the law-abiding citizens of the state. and the people are rising up,

laura. there is a revolution brewing just like there is a revolution brewing in the governor's race here. and i'm going to be the next governor of this state. >> who is this guy? i never heard of him. >> laura: enrique, you have -- i just want to tell you, god bless you. i really wish the best for you but it's you have been incredibly rude and nasty. to say who is he? i'm sure he doesn't know who you are, it's a conversation which is why we invited you on the show to talk about something that is important. >> where did all your -- >> laura: and enrique is trying to make waves and the sad thing is this is how the left operates. when they -- >> i'm not on the left. >> laura: thank you for that insightful contribution to the show.

>> this is about -- >> laura: this -- >> john, let me say something. >> this is about -- >> laura: it's important for people watching the show tonight to understand that what just happened with a rabid, pro illegal immigration activist. he is that but we invited him on. it's fun to have a spirited debate. what you just saw is what we talked about on monday of a week ago which was the attempt by the left to demonize those with whom they disagree. we didn't demonize him, he tried to demonize or dismiss you by saying who is this guy and they go personal because they are losing on the facts. put up the graphic of all the counties in california that are rejecting the sanctuary policies. now the open borders crowd will wave that off and say they don't

matter. but their taxes matter and the money they spend to incarcerate illegal immigrants matters. but i want to close out with you and you know, you're a republican running in california. the state is in real trouble, real trouble. how can you get democrats to vote for you? how are you going to do it? >> democrats as well as independents and republicans all want safety and security, laura. that's the first role of government is safety and security. and that's what i'm going to provide. the first thing i'm going to get rid of is the sanctuary state policy. what they also want is a state that works. i'm a businessman. i look for solutions just like the president is doing. i think that's what the people in california are going to vote for in november. they are tired of the lousy roads and lousy scoops and the bad business climate with people moving out of the state. the tax burden which is choking

people. they want change and solutions. and people like enrique just throw off slogans. they are sick and tired of that. they want solutions. that's what i'm going to be talking about in this race. >> thank you, john. love the insights. now i want to get to another matter on the border. last week, a congresswoman made a claim that border patrol agents are basically practicing catch and release with illegal border. they catch them on the border and get their information and release them. let's bring in andrew arthur from the center for immigration studies. you are a former immigration judge. you don't just show up on tv. you know this stuff. when people hear catch and release, it makes no sense.

you are caught abot the border. you think you could put them back across the border. tell us why that is not happening today despite what president trump and jeff sessions have said and pledged. >> three laws come into effect here. the incredible fear position. you get arrested and you claim you have a credible fear. you go before an asylum officer and you have a 75% to 90% chance to be found to have a credible fear. you will be released. >> laura: do we have fewer detention facilities under this administration? >> we have the same number of beds. but when you have massive numbers of people, you fill up the beds quickly and turn them over. >> laura: you make a claim, everybody is pretty well versed in what you need to say to make a credible claim of purse

cushion back in your home country, correct? >> that's correct. >> laura: they make that claim, woman, man, teenager, makes that claim and what happens? >> in 75% to 90% of the cases they are put before an immigration judge and released. >> laura: and they go where? >> to the interior of the united states and half of them never file an asylum claim in the united states. >> they never file a claim and just stay here. do they have temporary legal stat us with with that? or no? >> until they are ordered removed. but they never show up. >> laura: how many hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered removed but never show up? >> more than 900,000. >> laura: this is what president trump said on catch and release. let's watch. >> you think catch and release,

which we're terminating very quickly. we're doing it in pieces. [ applause ] it's unbelievable. so we have a country where if they step one foot -- not two feet. if one foot hits our country we have to take those people, gently register them, and then release them. >> that's the problem and quite frankly, that's what's driving people to come to the united states even today. more than 50,000 last month. >> laura: these facts that people have heard on the show they don't hear. people are not aware of how big this problem is. you know how this rolls. and it's tragic for this country and the president has to fix this. thank you so much. and jim comey's national emo tour rolls on. he sounds like a bitter ex-girlfriend. details on that, next. rather tn

♪ >> laura: it's >> laura: it's kind of not of a nice question to ask but is jim comey off his medication? because seriously, just look at what he is saying on national tv while hawking his book. >> he tweeted at me probably 50 times. i've been gone for a year. i'm like the break up he can't get over. he wakes up in the morning and

tweets at me. >> laura: why can't donald just get over me. he sounds like a jilted gossipy teenager. with former secret service agent and adviser to the clinton campaign. richard, you first, jim comey is a gift that keeps on giving. i want hillary never to leave her book tour. i want nancy pelosi to hold on to that gavel but not use it. your reaction to the interviews so far? >> i have mixed feelings about comey. i think he cost hillary the election. i think the polls before the july press conference and right before the october 28th letter, she was looking good and basically cratered after that. and he admitted -- to his credit -- he admitted he didn't

have to do what he did. and i think he did it to put himself front and center, the facts, the issue the law the policy of the justice department be damned. >> laura: the idea that jim comey cost hillary the election. hillary cost hillary the election. the only person who probably maybe couldn't have won in the election was hillary clinton. and you have donald trump who is a better campaigner. she won the elite and middle america they don't want to hear hillary. and i know you think comey cost -- >> if you look at the polls, that was the only external event. >> laura: the polls are always wrong. >> but they moved dramatically right after -- >> laura: this was jim comey with, i think on "the view" talking about andrew mccabe and

the ig report. let's watch. >> this is where the confusion comes from, mccabe was fired for lying and you defended his character on twitter. lying is okay? >> it's not. the case shows what an organization committed to the truth looks like. i ordered that investigation. good people lie. i lay out on the book. i think i'm a good person, but i looked. >> michael flynn didn't get off so easy as mccabe might. >> and laura, comey can't get his story straight on anyone. he's in a transcribed interview saying they didn't think that michael flynn was being

deceptive but the fbi arrested him for false statements to the fbi. comey can't get his story straight. you know i love debating richard. >> laura: i love it. >> he advocates for his cause and probably a wonderful guy. but he is a little crazy on this. listen, hillary clinton cost hillary clinton the election. and saying the only thing that changed was the comey thing, no hillary clinton decided to put a private server in her house and not go by the standard state department rules. while i respect your passion for your cause that is an on suabsu statement. >> you are not supposed to take russians into the oval office and -- >> laura: and what regulation is that against? >> never hansanswered the quest. >> handed over state secrets?

>> just making that up. >> laura: that's what comey did. >> he gave the russians the -- he basically let them unlock where the israelis had embedded people with isis. >> laura: we're getting far afield from comey. let's talk about what jim comey said about the republican party and how the party left him. let's watch. >> i feel like the republican party left me and people like me. i used to think that at the heart of being a conservative with a lower case "c" first was that character matters and values matter most of all. i don't know where that is today in the republican party. i'm not comfortable being a part of it. >> laura: he left when donald trump won. >> this is insane. let me talk to you about the two jim comeys. on march 21 in front of congress under oath admits he hid the

sensitive donald trump investigation from congress for eight months and avoided the quarterly briefings. every three months. he hid it in the public interest because it was sensitive but it's he also admits he leaked information to the press that would benefit him to start a special counsel investigation on the same information. jim comey is a complete fraud. him talking about values is a joke. he a should open up at a comedy club in new york city and needs a lawyer asap and get off today. >> i agree, comey should have exposed to the public about what exactly it was the trump investigation looked like. remember he said i want to say what i said about hillary, which will be illegitimate if she wins. that's the boat trump is in by virtue of comey not exposing the

investigation. i'm sorry, dan, i agree that comey had an obligation to level with the public. if he was going to level with them about hillary, he had to about trump. >> laura: in conclusion, i'm frankly really glad the republican party is not, you know, welcoming jim comey in right now. i think that's really good news. >> everybody on the panel agrees. >> reporter: the country clubber old line establishment, took our country down a rat hole and i'm really glad. let's celebrate that. guys, fantastic. love you both, by the way. the man who made the exorcist movie, a new documentary is coming out and going to show you the real thing. a real case of demonic possession when we come right back.

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>> laura: do you ever feel there might be another battle playing

out just beneath the surface of the ones we can see and hear, a spiritual one? i feel that way. william friedkin terrified the nation with his film "the exorcist" now he is exploring the real thing. we interviewed him about his new documentary. tell us about it. >> the film is called "the devil and father amort." in many ways, friedkin comes full circle in this project. here's what you can expect from the film. >> reporter: 500,000 italians see an exorcist every year. this woman is one of them. her name is christina. she's said to be possessed by

the devil. father amort has been the exorcist for the diocese of rome for 31 years. he has excised christina eight times without success. this will be her ninth. >> some of this is genuinely creepy and points to a real spiritual fphenomena. i sat down with friedkin to discuss how it came to be. >> reporter: mr. friedkin, 45 years after "the exorcist" hear you are back. i found this quote, i would never do anything with exorcism in it. why do it now? >> it was an accident, raymond. i was in a town called lucca in italy. i wrote to a friend of mine who was a catholic theologian.

and i asked him if he could give me a meeting with either the pope or father amort. and he e-mailed me back saying father amort is available and would be happy to meet you. >> he was the lead exorcist for many years. >> 41. his title was exorcist for the diocese of rome. >> you had never seen a real exorcism but you asked to allow you to photograph one. >> he agreed to let me witness one and i pushed my luck and asked if he would let me film it not knowing what i would ever do with it, but the head of the order wrote back and said you can film it but alone with no lights or crew. >> what did you see, this woman called christina, what did you see there? >> her entire personality

changed. she had incredible strength that was way beyond what she really had as a rather slight woman, 46 years old. and her entire voice and her nature and tone changed completely during the course of the exorcism. >> what surprised you about it? you are credited with giving in the popular culture a vision of what an exorcism looks like, the stakes and the battle between good and evil. is that what you saw in reality? >> yes, but you know, is the evil coming from her or directed at her? in my opinion it was directed at her and i'm not sure why. >> you took the footage to surgeons and psychologists. what did they tell you? >> the neurosurgeons said they had no idea what this was.

they said while everything originates in the brain, this is not a problem of her brain. the psychiatrist, four of the leading psychiatrists in the country, including the editors of the dsm iv and the dsm v they now recognize exorcism calling it disisobartive identity disorder, demonic possession. >> how did it change your view? >> there was no other explanation for what's going on. i thought there is a medical or psychiatric term for this. there isn't. there's a psychiatric term for it that involves possession. so someone comes to a psychiatrist and says they're possessed they don't say no, you're not possessed here's some medication and therapy and you'll be fine. no they bring in an exorcist now. which they did at colombia

university where i filmed these guys. >> i was stunned to watch you only watch academy award winning director six to seven movies a year. why? >> because i lost interest in what is the current zeitgeist. >> which is what? >> horror films to some extent. some of them are good but mostly guys in spandex flying around saving the world. that doesn't interest me, raymond. >> okay. you'll leave it there. >> good to see you, always a pleasure. >> fantastic. >> 200-plus exorcists are meeting at the vatican this week. this movie is available on demand april 24th. it is something to see. >> what a monster talent. he and i agree on the movies. no thanks. i'll watch the classics. thanks, raymond. fantastic interview. president trump made big

news about peace talks with north korea and the mueller probe. mike huckabee will react next.

>> laura: president trump is wrapping up two days of meeting with japanese prime minister abe

a -- shinzo abe at mar-a-lago. >> i hope to have a successful meeting with kim jong-un. if we don't think it's going to be successful, mark, we won't have it. we won't have it. if i think it's a meeting that's not going to be fruitful, we're not going to go. if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. >> laura: i love that. joining us now is mike huckabee, so happy he's here. host of "huckabee" on trinity broadcasting network. how are you? >> i'm doing great. great to be with you, and congratulations on the success of the show. delighted to be here. >> laura: thank you so much. let's talk about president trump's style here. he's down there in mar-a-lago. they didn't come to any great conclusion about exempting japan

from tariffs meaning japan didn't give enough to the united states to be exempted from tariffs. but on this issue of north korea, this is just -- this is so classic trump. he says he wants to be flexible but this thing isn't going the right way he's out of there. what do you think of this? >> he's a guy when he plays cards never gives his cards away. he's saying, pompeo came and we had a great visit and things went well. the set up is there. but he wants to make it clear he has expectations. will his expectations be met? probably not. not completely. but it's historic in that he is bringing north korea closer to behaving like a real country than anyone in our lifetime has been able to do. and that really is progress. but he's just making it clear, laura, that he's not going to be played the chump like other administrations have been played. >> laura: what's your sense on

the democrats? blumenthal came out big time against pompeo today. he had been confirmed as cia director. but now, in a pivotal moment for the united states. a pivotal meeting with north korea he is running into trouble and may not have the votes to even get out of committee and might have his whole confirmation in jeopardy. what does it tell you about the state of politics in the united states? >> it tells you for one thing, the democrats have lost any perspective of the constitution. jean shaheen said she would not vote for him because he had views that were biblical. think about that for a minute. there is a constitutional prohibition of putting a religious test on a post in office. i hope they expect when the republicans are in position to confirm a democrat's president's

appointees some time they just say no. i will tell you this, i like rand paul a lot. but he needs to vote to confirm pompeo for a simple reason. had rand paul been elected president he would have wanted his team to be confirmed and a president has a right to put the people on the field that he wants to put unless there is something memorially repugnant about them or if they are horribly unqualified. >> pompeo is a warmonger and interventionist. they are about to meet with north korea to avoid a confrontation and he already met with kim jong-un. this is crazy town stuff. on the mueller probe, the president tonight said basically, the thing has gone on, you know, too far. i hope it's coming to an end. they say are you going to fire rosenstein and mueller? they keep saying that but it hasn't happened. the left is begging him to fire

mueller. they are desperate for him to fire mueller. close it out, governor. >> the only person talking about firing mueller are the democrats, the never trumpers and the trump haters. he has never given an indication he is going to. and he knows it would be disastrous. he's not going to do it. it's a false sleight of hand of the democrats and it's beginning to look pathetic. >> it's a way of not discussing the issues that matter and just proving themselves to be completely without substance. governor mike huckabee, fantastic to see you. who is pop list before populism was cool. we'll be right back.

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the month before i left. we are up 47% with ages 18 through 49, 42% ages 24 to 54 and up 32% with ages 35 to 64. that is a lot, thank you. your continued loyalty. we love all of you and god bless all of you tonight, see you back tomorrow night, another show up next, take it away. >> welcome to fox news at night, moments away we will ask cory gardner what he thinks the odds are cia director mike pom barrow - mike pompeo will be many secondary state, many democrats voted for him months ago and later tonight the euro pilot and former naval aviator who got the plane to the ground after it appears an engine exploded. we wlk