>> well, there's your apology. ok, severed heads are ok. they're on the table. we're fair and balanced, never the destroy trump media news you'll get nowhere else. let not your heart be troubled. there she is. back to throwing the football tonight. i'm going to throw it right into the camera. >> laura: you know something? were you cleaning out your socks night?rday your sock drawer saturday night? >> i'm proud. 30 yearsm radio, 23 years on fo, never been to one of those stupid dinners. >> laura: i think i went to one maybe 12 years ago. i have, like, one weekend night to have any fun, the last place i would like to be with those people. l i mean, sean, it's insane.ou >> sean: i would rather be p sanding wood than hang out -- and have more fun than hanging out with those people. >> laura: i would rather be chewing glass. we could do this all night. it was a disaster. you had an awesome show. as always, hannity. >> have a great show.

>> laura: all right. go. >> didn't work.ur we'll figure it out tomorrow. >> laura: good evening fromhe washington. i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle." we have shocking new details about some of the so-called innocent asylum-seekers campedce out at our border. as attorneys for these migrants are screaming about the u.s. not letting them in. plus our new crime blotter series kicks off tonight with an outrageous example of imported crime -- i first read about it, it sounds like something out of "scarface." plus, we will rip the mask out off of the media's free-speech double standard, especially in the white house press corps. speaking of which, the death of comedy and decency. that is the focus of tonight's "angle." at the start of her monologue as the headliner of the white house correspondents association dinner, michelle wolf, a comedian neither myself or anybody on my staff at ever heard of, made plain the direction she was headed in.

>> good evening.g. here we are, the white house correspondents dinner. like a porn star says when she's about to have sex with a trump, "let's get this over with." that's what you are getting tonight. >> laura: at least she had a really good voice. well, they got much more of it.. the president wasn't in attendance. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, kellyanne conway, and others from the white house were at the dinner.. this was supposed to be an evening to celebrate the first amendment. that's nice. but of all the comedians the correspondents association got fired, they turned to the obscure michelle wolf. >> trump thinks yarn sales are through the roof. after trump got elected, women started knitting those [bleep] hats. when i first saw them, i was like, [bleep]. i guess mine just has lot more yarn on it.ho

yeah.in should have done more research before you got me to do this. >> laura: that's an understatement. the choice of an aspirational comedian like wolf, with one hbo special, i guess, a few writing gigs to her credit, tells us a lot about the correspondents association. some of those who cover the white house, let's face it, we know it, are brimming with hatred of this president and all that he represents. let's face it, he embarrassed them with his electoral victory and he continues to prove them wrong day after day. and he ends up revealing them for who they really are. i have to say, guys, when you see the faces of the crowd at the correspondents dinner, when they were cutting away from the c-span coverage, it was -- i was

thinking, wait a second, can we just have a full screen and leave it there? because we need to see the exact -- we need to see the exact facial expressions on the reporters who are laughing at the particular times which we are about to highlight. when you compare what she was saying to what happened when the president was speaking in michigan, wow. >> by the way, is this better than that phony washington white house correspondents dinner? is this more fun? i could be up there tonight smiling like i love when they are hitting you, shot afterin shot, these people, they hate your guts. >> laura: well, for this andy other statements like it, the press will forever despises trump. unlike other republican presidents who ran to the

nearest corner and did not apologize with the media attacks, trump returned fire. by choosing wolf as their avatar, the d.c. media elite have confirmed their bias for anyone who will give them even the slightest benefit of the doubt.fi boy, was i glad my kids and i weren't watching. >> i know people really want me to go after trump tonight but i think we should give the president credit when he deserves it. m like, he pulled out of the paris agreement. and i think he should get credit for that because he said he was going to pull out and then he did at that is a refreshing quality in a man. people say romance is dead. mike pence is what happens when anderson cooper isn't gay. mike pence is also very antichoice. he thinks abortion is murder. which, first of all, don't knock it till you try it. then when you do try it, really knock it. you know, you got to get that baby out of there.

>> laura: tasteless. aggressively unfunny. it was frankly sad for her. i thought about that a while after. of course, it was insulting to half the country who believes in protecting innocent lives. the debbie wasserman schultz doppelgaenger, in between dropping f-bombs, attacked sarah huckabee sanders looks, who of course was seated at the head table with her. >> i actually really like sarah. i think she's very resourceful. she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create aes perfect smoky eye. >> laura: now imagine if this were someone, let's say, a few years back attacking susan rice or valerie jarrett or samantha power or any adult child of the democratic president. the fact that no one heckled her, that is the tradition of great comedy, haggling back, and that so if you walked out during wolf's 20 minute brand, isis frankly astounding.

this, after the me too movementd conservatives and even some reasonable liberals, got to give it to them, were stunned by the audacity of what they saw. >> when sarah huckabee sanders was being made fun of, everybody felt pain for her.s she felt pain. and it really bothered me. >> if you say, this year, we want a tone of civility and lower the temperature because the nation is being ripped asunder and let's try into it a little differently tonight, you got to have that conversation. >> the idea is to have a truce and let her go. but the remarks went way over the line. i think everyone agrees with that. >> laura: now michelle wolf herself finally responded to the controversy on npr today. >> i'm honestly -- i wouldn't change a single word that i said. i'm very happy with what i said. i'm glad i stuck to my guns. >> laura: of course she's happy because she's just another warrior princess and the resistance. the white house correspondents association issued this lame

statement amid the wolf fall out.ho "last night's program was meant to offer unifying message about our common commitment to a vigorous and free press. while honoring civility, great reporting, and scholarship winners, not to divide people. unfortunately, the entertainer's monologue was not in the spiritt of that mission." civility? celebration of the free press?t the white house correspondents association has failed on both counts. had a conservative said the things that wolf said about a democratic administration, they would be roadkill by now, theyic would never work again. white house correspondents president margaret sought to defuse the wolf controversy ovee the weekend. >> i hope that everyone can remember that comedy is meant to be provocative and it doesn't always hit the mark and c sometimes it hits the mark for some people and not for other people. >> laura: provocative, sure.

but not a verbal assault that would never be tolerated if not directed at conservatives. you want to know provocative? don rickles at reagan's second inaugural. >> good evening, mr. president. nice to see you, sir, and your lovely wife, nancy.l. it's a big treat for me to fly all the way to california to be here for this kind of money. billy graham, nice to see you, sir. this hand is bothering me. is this too fast? anyway, he sitting there looking at the program, going, where does it say he makes fun of me? i'm telling a joke, mr. reagan. they've got real guns. >> laura: cutting but really fun. oh, my gosh, do we miss him. don rickles is a comedian who knew how to push boundaries

without crossing them. now compare that to miss wolf. >> this brings me to the me too movement, probably the reason i'm here. they were like, a woman's probably not going to [bleep] in front of anyone, right? into that i say, don't count your chickens. >> laura: ap reporter meg kinnard captured it best when she wrote on twitter, "if the whc dinner did anything tonight, it made the chasm between journalism and those who don't trust us even wider, and those of us based in the red states who work hard every day to prove our objectivity will have to deal with it. this revealing episode has shown the american people that hateful intolerance of the press corps and those we trust to cover the news. she's right. it will take a long time to prove their objectivity after this heinous display. the fact of a correspondents association is now talking about reformatting their dinner, rather than just doing what they need to do, which is

soul-searching, about bias and j the fact that it exists, just demonstrates the problem anew. a filthy comedienne and a tainted dinner are symptoms of our deeper issue, animus against tradition, against conservatism, against this president. that is the thing that taints their coverage of this president and all our news on a daily basis. and that's the "angle." joining me now for reaction are two men who attend at the white house correspondents association. from new york is juan williams, a cohost of fox news is "the five," and with me in studio, matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union. matt was here when my prompter went down. >> it looked good. >> laura: the thing that's amazing, people might not have i noticed it, i was starting to watch -- i think it was, i don't know what to show it was? "jeopardy," i was like, i guessa i am playing jeopardy now.

>> i wasn't breathing. >> laura: i had to ask it in question form. matt, you did walk out and i didn't even turn the dinner on, i was with friends and my kids and i didn't turn the dinner on. i started getting messages, two of my producers might come and they walked out. i think they walked out about the same time you did. they were sitting -- you were right near the front, they were sitting kind of on the side. they walked out.th they were shocked. this was the first dinner they attended. >> can you imagine, you are sitting there at this dinner where the president has decided not to go, and you think the press is going to get it right. they are going to look like they have the upper hand, they have grace, instead, they go from the swamp to the gutter and start making jokes about abortion. that was the first moment when s my wife and i, we looked at each other and said, what is this?h why are we here? and then the pummeling of kellyanne conway and sarah sanders, who are my wife's colleagues, she was like, this is it. i got to get out of here.. i'm not the type of person to walk out of anything but there comes a point when you just have to say, we don't have to put up

with this crap. >> laura: i hate to do this to our viewers, however, we must play this for juan williams. this is what wolf said about kellyanne and ivanka. let's watch. >> we should definitely talkan about the women in the trump administration. there is kellyanne conway.ni man, she has the perfect last name for what she does.. conway. you guys gotta stop putting kellyanne on your shows. all she does is live. if you don't give her a platform, she has nowhere to lie. it's like that old saying, if a tree falls in the woods, how do we get kellyanne under thatin tree? i'm not suggesting she gets hurt, just stuck. there is also of course ivanka. she's the diaper genie of the administration. on the outside, she looks sweet, but the inside, it still [bleep].

>> laura: juan, this is the me too era, we are all for women who speak their mind, i know you thought this was hilarious, you thought it was great, tell me why that in your worldview is funny. >> i didn't think the stuff with sarah huckabee sanders was funny because sarah was seated seated right there, laura, and i thought it made everyone in the room uncomfortable. matt can tell you, i think everybody visibly was worriedd that sarah might cry or get up and walk out. it just made for a huge fuehrer at a time when that was unnecessary because it had a sense of she was kind of on the hot seat while the camera was on her. but in general, i don't understand that you see this as evidence of liberal media bias. when the president -- when president trump says horrible things about a conservative, the attractiveness of carly fiorino

or heidi cruz, i don't see people saying, that is evidencee of right-wing bias against women, because he won thee nomination even after he saidce those things. in fact, when you look at the comments that came from michelle wolf, a lot of them were darts right at the media saying, you know what, you guys are profiting from trump, you guys make money off of trump, and you should --it >> laura: what she was doing, juan, she was saying, you need to be harder on trump. so that was more evidence of her bias. hold on. she was not criticizing the hosts on msnbc for being slavishly left wing. she was saying they weren't being left-wing enough with herw criticism. that is why it was a problem. >> oh, you missed something. she said specifically about cnn. all you guys cover is trump, russia, scandal. that is the entirety of everything going on in the world.

>> laura: that wasn't -- let's talk about personal invective. >> what did trump do to heidi cruz? >> laura: we are not talking about trump. we are talking about the press corps, which is supposed to be objective. they invite an entertainer on and they are going to be getting as good as they get. that is fine. there was not the same type of treatment. it was kind of the same type of treatment they gave obama, which was a few jokes and they were fun, jokes at the entertainers, joking about -- >> if i recall, larry will more saying the -- larry willmore was using the n-word. >> when republicans get the white house of this dinner, they make fun of republicans. when republicans get their white house, they make fun of republicans and conservatives. that is the way it goes. i think with the american people saw last night is exactly why they hate the d.c. liberal media

elite. that is why they hate them. >> laura: that is why their approval rating is half of what trump is. w >> we remember the deplorable moment and what the white house press corps said, because we support trump, everything about us is deplorable because we support the president. it's fair game because we support the president. >> laura: no big shock, brian seltzer on cnn thought this was groovy. let's watch. >> why do y'all care what a young comedian said? >> she's joking, he's actually telling the truth. >> she wasn't talking about sarah sanders looks. michelle wolf's argument is, i was talking about her w "despicable behavior." everything is upside down. frankly, comedy is supposed to be uncomfortable.hi maybe it's a good thing people in that room are uncomfortable. >> laura: you know what i thought was uncomfortable is reading some of michelle wolf's tweets that she deleted. one of them comparing serena williams to looking like a man, looking like lebron james, i

guess, which was wild. other things she said about eric trump, that he is an abortion, that trump must be pro-abortion because eric trump -- as she tweeted that and she deleted thousands of her tweets apparently last june accordingha to the reporting today. these white house correspondents folks, they don't even know how to vent their own people. >> laura, i just want to do a little history. you forget that don imus came on, he was a comedian during the clinton era, with a democrat, and right in front of clinton and his wife, started talking about extramarital affairs and making very tawdry jokes. that is a democrat -- and you say -- >> laura: that was 1996. >> okay, larry wilmore, i think his use of the n-word in front of obama, i found it offensive. >> laura: that was stupid. >> that contradicts what you are saying. >> laura: that's one example.

>> there's a big difference between what happened last night and what happened the previous t dinners. the big difference was a sarah huckabee sanders is sitting there as a staffer. that was a moment for the presss corps to do the right thing, to treat her with respect for coming there and being in a very difficult position. instead, they bullied her, they went after her, they tried to mock her. the american people watched, guess what? it was probably a good night for the conservative movement but i still think it's a disgusting display of the press being biased. >> i just think people are looking to manufacture anger and indignation, this is an opportunity to feed the grievance industry. >> laura: juan, when you make fun of an abortion -- >> i didn't like that. i'm just telling you -- >> laura: that's it. when you do that, when you're capable of that, you lose it.ra that is ridiculing people's face. >> laura, let me just tell you, she went after ted kennedy for

chappaquiddick -- and murder. >> laura: oh, that's original. something else we want to look at, why journalists thought this was a laugh riot, coming up. >> it's 2018, and i am a woman, so you cannot shut me up. unless you have michael cohen wire me $130,000. me $ >> laura: the hypocrisy of a far left wing laugh fest disguised as a salute to free speech, that is next. salute toe speech, th salute toe copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way, with anoro." ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma. it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma.

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independent media. how independent is the white house press corps that is so overwhelmingly leftist? how can it be independent? how committed to free speech as a group that only invites comedians to their marquee dinner who attacked the right?t? let's examine this hypocrisy with jeffrey lord of the american spectator, host of "our record stories," and ari fleischer, george w. bush's first press secretary. great to see all of you guys tonight. let's start with you, ari. did you go to the dinner? you probably didn't go. you've been to enough of those. >> i haven't been to one of those -- i'm happy to report. >> laura: what was your reaction when you first started seeing the clips roll in? >> frankly, laura, until i saw it on your show, i had no idea how vulgar it was really was. i hate seeing a lot of the excerpts, things that were said about kellyanne, things that

were said about sarah huckabee -- but i did not know how bad it was. the real problem here is the press is killing themselves. they just don't get it. they are an industry in decline and they are in decline because half of america, the conservative half, does not trust them. events like this just make it worse and the press still doesn't understand how bad last night was. when you hear juan williams defend it, when you hear one of the most reasonable liberals defended, as you pointed out, laura, scan the crowd, the laughter, the press doesn't get it.t >> laura: lee, i want to go to you. you are my old executive producer and radio and partner in crime 17 years ago, back to law school. a lee, it was your idea to play a lot of these sound bites tonight. you said, a lot of people didn't see this, they have to see just how vulgar and low it was to understand how far we've sunk with the media and the so-called defense of the first amendment. the double standard here is glaring for anyone who wants to

see it, about the treatment of women, the me too movement, "i am woman, hear me roar," all ofe that. >> what's funny, laura, for the last few weeks we've heard the press excoriated for lack of vetting by the white house. they didn't do a proper job with the veterans affairs gentleman who was ultimately dismissed and yet they could not vet this comedian? don't they have youtube?im don't they have google? can't they watch this woman's performance on "the daily show"? what is fascinating, laura, what juan williams must come and 95% of jokes were in better -- were aimed at republicans. she did not spread it around.e she targeted mostly women. 6 to 7 minutes straight, vile, repulsive jokes, they were aimed at women. these were not just jokes. it was like a public shaming. it was just disgraceful. to listen to the audience laugh, and we wish we could see who was laughing and at what, because these jokes were disgraceful, and the laughs continued and w

they continued. on the key here, laura, there was a winner here. they were two winners. one was a comedian because my goodness, she's going to get aer really big deal with hbo. she'll be following bill maher in the next three months. she was playing to her audience, a liberal set of journalists, and trump, by the way, was a winner too, the smartest man not in the room. he was playing to his audience, america. >> laura: jeffrey lord, you wrote a piece for "the spectator" about this. this was supposed to be about the first amendment and beating back those who would want to intimidate people from speaking out on any issue, yet there was something desperately missing at saturday night's dinner. >> that's right, first i have to tell you, breaking news, the federal elections commission is starting to investigate the white house correspondentsak association for a multimillion dollar contribution to the trump campaign in 2020. you see these clubs that you

-- you can see these clips that you played all through the election season, i guarantee you. >> laura: let's go through 2018, first, jeffrey. >> [laughs] good point. you are absolutely right, laura. this is the kind of thing -- and you should know that i asked thd president of the white house correspondents association several days ahead of the dinner whether they would specifically be offending conservatives by name. i included you sean hannity, kevin williams, and i got no response. total, complete silence. this is the serious thing here. basically, this boils down to free speech for me but not for thee. when push comes to shove, they are not fair for conservatives.e that is a real serious problem. you see it not just in television and radio but you see it on college campuses. good lord, when ben shapiro needs serious police protection and there is a riot to give a speech in a college campus, or ann coulter has to cancel something, because of a threat

of violence, where are these people? there is not a peep to be heard from them and it's disgraceful.i >> laura: ari, i want to go to you. whether it is this comedian ridiculing an abortion or talking about knocking the babyi out, the first daughter ivanka trump is described in the most disgusting manner, i think those are gifts to americans who might be kind of -- oh, it's a midterm election cycle, i want to get out and vote. i think the democrats tend to o always take it too far. they go too far to the left and they end up offending people who might not even be all that political but they find thisey gross. they find it's gross. this new millenial poll, looks like 16,000 registered voters 18-34 shows their support for democrats over republicans has slipped by about nine percentage points over the last two years, 46% overall. they increasingly say the republican party is a better steward of the economy.

i think these democrats, ari, ought to be really careful about the supposed woke moment we might have here. >> [laughs] i want to continue on the dinner and the connection to the democrats is not as direct. it was the press that did this, not the democratic party. the democratic party loves these dinners because they like to laugh at these jokes. i think the future of this dinner, if it even has a future, it should be democrats only, laura. republicans don't go, elected officials don't go, staff don't go. president trump won't go. i remember when i did used to go to the dinner and the humor to the dinner and the humor then, this was 15 years ago. it wasn't as cutting or as nasty, even then, it had a red carpet, hollywood celebrities, preparties, post parties, how

much on earth did they pay this comedian for this? newsrooms are going broke and laying people off, how much didb they lay out for all of the entertainment, the lavishness? this is not with a price as supposed to be about. that's why the press is distancing themselves, especially from the blue-collar workers who elected donald trump, people never saw their story prior to 2016. this is the press' greatest problem. they are so disconnected fromea their readers and viewers. one of the biggest reasons why trust in the media is dropping and people don't believe them and reasons they use to. >> laura: lee? >> 92% of the jokes were aimed at republicans and 92% of the journalists were democrats and a lot of americans are starting ts see journalists as an arm of the democratic party and that is really the problem. they got to get out of my country and be at the american people more and respect them. >> laura: jeffrey lord, last word. >> last year i was at this dinner and the president was here in harrisburg and i was getting texts during the dinner while everyone was mocking the president at the dinner from a reporter covering the rally, and she said he is morerr

popular now than when he was running for election. he carried pennsylvania. this shows the divide. it's pretty sad but it's pretty definite, no question. >> laura: donald trump said i would rather be with the real people than the washington people and i think you nailed it. fantastic panel.le thank you so much. by the way, the media have onele story about what's happening on the border, speaking of bias, and they are sticking to it. >> she says that her plan now is to wait and pray to god that she is not rejected at the u.s.-mexico border. u.s.-mexico border. hordes of men seeking asylum. the media want you to believe our immigration laws are an assault on women and children. we'll reveal the coordinated efforts next. i'm all-business when i travel... even when i travel... for leisure. so i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle - without starting any conversations-

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>> laura: fox news has learned the doj has filed complaints against 11 members of the illegal immigrant caravan for h trying to enter the country illegally. near san diego. i thought they were all law-abiding. hundreds are still trying to enter the country illegally by claiming asylum. their advocates are complaining that the u.s. is moving too slowly to meet their demands. >> we can build a base in iraq in under a week! we can't process 200 refugees? i don't believe it. >> laura: i don't know what base she is talking about. that is one of a small army of american attorneys who are coaching -- oh, sorry, advising

hundreds of illegal immigrants mostly from honduras but others from other countries as well. there is a growing concern, though, that the attorneys of course are just helping me asylum seekers game the system. we were almost all last week here on "the angle." let's discuss this with former acting director for i.c.e., john torres, and attorney, good to see both of you. let's start with you, john. we have a massive series of problems. we don't just have the people at the border camped out in the tents. we have an orchestrated invasion of our country being coached and being pushed by, frankly, a religious organization, by ngos, and by lawyers, who are giving them scripts for what to say to claim asylum. your reaction to what you have seen with these videos? >> what we are really looking at here is fraud that has been

perpetrated by a number of different years when they coach people how to pass a credible fear test so that they can openly get political asylum here. >> laura: credible fear, have to say you are being persecuted for a number of reasons. what happens is they then are processed into the country, people think, you are outside of the country, how do you get in? you approach the port of entry, you approach a customs official, and then you plead your case, and then you are processed into the country, and then if you are an unaccompanied minor, because of that case in 1997, you are released into the country. if you are a parent of a minor, you are released. two decisions out of the court in the ninth circuit. this is a problem with congress, democrats and republicans, mostly democrats haven't acted

on this. so you live in a sanctuary state. h we have a lot of democrats running for senate races who are moderate democrats, but who vote in favor of sanctuary cities, who vote against kate's law,w, people like jon tester and montana, claire mccaskill was against kate's law as well. others claim to be tough on law enforcement. but i think most people seeing these pictures are saying to themselves, i'm sorry, god bless them, but 200 people all at once claiming asylum is a bit much. >> as john will attest, these numbers are not statistically significant. we have thousands of people that try to get over the border on aa daily basis. so having 150 people -- this is an annual pilgrimage that has been happening -- >> laura: oh, pilgrimage. it sounds better when you call it a pilgrimage.ra >> let's call it a caravan. the people are coming, you know.

the "rapists," the worst of the worst, it plays into the hollywood narrative of what soma troops to the border -- >> laura: hold on. 11 of these guys had already been deported from the o united states. trying to reenter the country is a felony. you are not allowed to reenter the country. they've already been deported out of the country. now they want the free pass back into the country, claiming asylum, are you kidding me? this is an embarrassment to our country! this is a travesty for the hardworking people of your state for putting up with this emergency homelessness in san francisco and l.a. and your mayor of l.a., eric garcetti, announced today they are spending more than double on homelessness, $430 million on homelessness. you don't think you have a big enough problem already in your state? state? with homelessness in the state of california. >> laura: let's add 150 more. okay.

>> it's a travesty was happening with immigration. but even the president said today, he was quoting the failed immigration policies on how congress has just failed us onhe immigration. so these people aren't acting outside of the law, they are acting consistent with the law with the exception of the 11 -- >> laura: we don't know that. we don't know all their backgrounds! most of them are fleeing economic conditions. that means millions, tens of millions of people, if not probably a billion people would want to come.en come here on the united states. john, i want to go to you. the media's role in all of this. we have a sound bite or a series of sound bites from what has happened. we will play one main sound bite and this is, i believe, from cnn. let's watch. >> [speaking spanish.] >> she is saying she is just waiting for immigration officials to open the door.

>> [speaking spanish] >> she's got three children that she is coming with. >> here you will see mothers, you will see their babies, infant children, all sleeping here, waiting for asylum. all of the families here say they are trying to escape the violence. >> the media has been portraying the sympathetic stories for years because -- >> laura: sob stories. immigration sob stories. >> exactly. they don't necessarily cover the gritty crime part of it with the same intensity as they do the sob stories. how many times does somebody come across the country illegally, commit crimes, impact people that live here in theop united states, all at taxpayers expense, not to include the impact it has on families of a violent crime and sometimes it gets covered but not with the same -- >> laura: joe, i will say that when you think about the people who wait, we are focusing on them waiting at the border, when

they waited four days now -- how about the people who wait for years because they do it legally coming to the united states for valid, legal reasons. they call into my radio show, and they watch the stuff, and there sympathy is pretty thin. the media think it's helping their cause but i think it's turning americans after this, we wish them well but we can take in the world. that just the way it is. >> but these people are doing in legally. these aren't people who are illegal aliens. they are people going through an asylum process set up by our failed immigration policies. if we want to fix it, let's go ahead and fix it instead of addressing some of the other addressing some of the other deal about the caravan coming, let's fix the immigration policy. if you don't like the way this process is set up, let's change it. i agree, it's not a great process. these people should be seeking asylum from their home countries. not coming to mexico and sitting at our borders on doing it. but they are unable to do it

because of the current policy. >> laura: they should seek asylum in mexico.th if they traveled all through mexico, they could have stayedof there. >> many have. a lot were deported from mexico which is a story the media didn't cover. i think they should embed coming out of the caravan, they should embed two blocks from here we have a homeless shelter, people living under the bridges who are veterans and people who are down on their luck or american citizens. cnn doesn't in bed with him very often. guys, fantastic panel. you are making good points by a the way. i will give that to you. president trump reportedly had sharp words for german chancellor angela merkel over trade and nato when she visited last week. our new ambassador to germany joins us next with an inside scoop in our new exclusive interview. later, our new crime blotter series kicks off with one bad hombre. hombre. underground world featuring drugs, guns, fast cars, luxury condos, famous rappers, and even a connection, yes, to china,

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>> laura: french president emmanuel macron spent three days with president trump last week while german chancellor angela merkel spent only three hours. let's get insight into what is really going on and welcome the newly confirmed to u.s. ambassador to germany, i neverht thought i would say that, ric grenell from los angeles. how are you doing?g? i want a stein of beer to toast you but i guess i can't do that on national tv. how are you doing? are you feeling good? >> and feeling great. the most important part is, today, i am four and a half years cancer free. coming up on five years. i just got that diagnosis today. >> laura: i saw that tweet today.

ric and i are both survivors, cancer survivors. so happy to see that. ric and i have only known each other for 25 years, full disclosure, we shouldn't say how long, but a long time. >> i was, like, seven. >> laura: you were basically in utero still.ay let's talk about a bunch ofs things. i want to talk about merkel withdrawn but i have to play something because i had not heard this this sound bite till we were getting ready for this show. this was menendez, senator menendez, before your confirmation vote. let's watch. >> mr. grenell derogatory comments about women are simply unacceptable for anyone to make in public let alone a diplomat. i would go further, not only do these tweets show bad judgment, they show us who mr. grenell really is and how comfortable he is publicly contributing his own brand of toxic political discourse. will he do such things if he is confirmed and goes to germany? will he insult via his twitter account to a female chancellor of germany? >> laura: [laughs] i mean, ric, i got to say, this was -- with bob menendez's past,

that was one of the most hilarious moments. that is how desperate -- you send out a snarky tweet five years ago, i don't even know what it was about. how did you react to that? >> i haven't met senator menendez. i've never met him. he doesn't know me. i have reached out to him since confirmation to ask for a. meeting, i would love to meet him, talk to him about germany, i would love to have him see who i am and see that actually what he said on the floor is wrong. but i'm going to keep on and try to have that meeting. i think once people get to know me, they will see -- >> laura: you are already a diplomat. look at you. you are so diplomatic. at the u.n. -- let's talk now about what happened last week with merkel. for our viewers who aren't allap that into the e.u. politics, where she is versus emmanuel macron, why did that seem a

little bit uncomfortable? i said last week, she looked like she had eaten some bad schnitzel, which is not diplomatic at all for me to say, but that's why i'm not an ambassador. >> i have to say that watching chancellor merkel and president trump negotiate, they clearly like each other. they clearly know each other. but every american would be incredibly proud to see howle donald trump negotiates. i spent years watchingcr presidents and secretaries of s state really talk when they're in one-on-one meetings about moral arguments when it comes to foreign policy. what should be done and we don't have just a pure moral arguments from the president.re we have multipronged arguments. and i have longed for the day to have a president to actually negotiates with all of america's strengths. our economic strength, our agricultural strength, our tariffs, all of the issues that we bring to the table need to be

brought to the table in order to pressure the relationship for a better job's record, far more jobs for americans, for trade that expands and president trump is really good at it, and so i think what you saw, any americat who would see them negotiate -- >> laura: she looked uncomfortable. she looked uncomfortable. she looked really uncomfortable to me. she did not look, macron, theysh were slapping each other on the back. maybe she wanted to spend more time with him. i don't know. >> when they were negotiatingba together, and they were across the table, they were not uncomfortable. they clearly have a great friendship but they have some differences. >> laura: okay, that's fine.e. one thing i find fun is to read the so-called foreign policy experts in europe about what they think about trump becausese they don't understand him, or they are concerned about him. this is 12 german experts, and an op ed about trump.

this is from october.it "the liberal world order with its foundation in v multilateralism, its global norms and values, its openen societies and markets, is in danger. donald trump is the first u.s. president since world war ii to fundamentally question the ideaw and institutions of the liberal international order." ric, i would say about that, yes, he is, and yes, he's right, because america needs to focus on keeping ourselves strong and helping our allies but the multilateralism sometimes only go so far. >> i think when you look back and you see candidate donald trump in the election, hl was very clear about what taxpayers were getting and watch -- and what they were tired of paying for, because they don't always get the return that they expected. you look at agencies, multilateral agencies like the u.n. or nato, and we have paid a significant amount, and i think it is the right question to say, are we getting enough?

is there enough u.s. leadership? that is exactly what president trump brought to the table with angela merkel. i do want to say this, laura, when it was all done, when we were all finished with the press conference, the president took the chancellor up to the residence with the vice president and myself and gave a personal tour of the vice president -- of the residence, the presidential residence at the white house.ee that was the first time that the chancellor had been up there. it was shocking to hear that she had never been able to see the lincoln bedroom. never been able to see the gettysburg address. president trump took her there. president trump took her there. to put on the charm offensive, t he's really good at it. charm works wonders. tough but charming. ric grenell, congratulations. we'll be talking to you from germany, or in germany. up next, our "crime blotter"ng series begins with a bang. a tale of imported crime and a fast living suspect who they something like out of the film "scarface" next. something we had long deployments in iraq.

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♪ >> laura: tonight we begin our new "crime blotter" series, stories you won't see anywhere else on television. we kick off with a series on a suspected illegal immigrant who can't seem to say no to crime. victor agreed to cooperate with

prosecutors two years ago after he was allegedly found with counterfeit prescription labels. that did not slow him down. he was charged with marijuana possession and speeding last september and when officers raided his girlfriend's luxury condo two weeks later, they say he was brandishing an ak-47. although he surrendered peacefully, officers say they found more than 2,200 grams of marijuana, more than 1,000 grams of the club drug molly, and morr than 100 counterfeit prescription labels. let's bring in someone who knows all the details, "miami herald" reporter, david. great to see you. this is a wild story. i read this this morning, verye early. s and it does seem like it is something out of "scarface." tell me about this lovely gentleman. >> it is certainly something out of miami 2018. we've had a lot of these cases of suspected drug dealers and convicted drug dealers who are younger folks.

these are not the stock and trade cocaine tuffs who the cocaine cowboy days from the 1980's but these are younger people who are tech savvy, who f know how to order drugs from china, from the internet, from the dark web. you know, people who know how to get marijuana from states where it's legal and also know how to sell prescription strength cough syrup to a lot of the club scene down here. it is sort of a new breed of drug dealers in miami. it is not to say that the old cocaine days of the past are gone by any means -- >> laura: but they are the cool crowd. they are the cool, connected crowd. his rapper friend, he had some trouble with the law back some years ago, not related to this. he's connected. and the connection to china iet think it's something that americans have no idea about, or

very little idea about. and the drug trade from china, fentanyl and other drugs, is getting worse and worse. i know miami has seen its share. talk about how he managed to hook up with the chinese connection. >> well, he's not charged any of these chinese connections in this case yet. certainly, they found some of the molly drugs that are various chemicals that are made in chinese labs, and basically sent over here through the mail system. disguised as different packages. the "miami herald" did a series a couple of years ago called pipeline china where we chronicled these club drugs and the fentanyl all coming from china, easy as going on the internet. we have college students, veterans, strippers, all these people that were involved in bringing these drugs over to miami, making it one of the largest synthetic drug capitals in the country. certainly, when the police

raided his girlfriend's house, that was something that they were investigating. certainly, he is an interesting wrinkle. >> laura: i have a question. we keep hearing, marijuana legalization, we won't have a marijuana problem, it was, what, 105 pounds of marijuana? >> 105 pounds of marijuana stuffed in three suitcases. the feds are still investigating it but it is believed to have come from somewhere on the west coast where marijuana is legal. >> laura: we'll keep tracking it. great reporting from you. especially, we will be followint this trend in connection with the drug trade as well. underreported, you're doing a great job with the "miami herald." we'll be right back. a job with

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>> before we go let's look at a few tweets we received during the show. maria says i'm pro-choice but i flinched after listening to that

disgusting so-called joke. i couldn't believe i was hearing such disgusting garbage. i was thinking of those women who have been traumatized after having an abortion. some ugly stuff that dinner but a window into the soul of where so much trouble is in america today. we will be back tomorrow night. shannon bream and the fantastic fox news at night team. shannon: we are tracking several stories tonight. mike pence visiting the southern border as ice files charges against illegal immigrants trying to force their way in. exclusive comments from the vice president of the latest on tariffs, a midnight deadline looming but appears there is last-minute breaking news. is free-speech in danger? one conservative group think so answering for discrimination. new developments in