tv The Ingraham Angle FOX News June 15, 2018 11:00pm-12:00am PDT
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>> laura: i'm laura ingraham. this is the ingarage angle. we come to you tonight le from beautiful san francisco. so much fallout on the day after that bomb shell ig report. we have complete coverage from every angle. also, raymond arroyo explains why msnbc hosts look like televangelists. why whiningg about the cult of trump? we beginin with broad sides from team trump after the outlandish
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reports.it starting with president trump shot at the fbi brass, even the chief he fired, jim comey. on fox and friends he took a swipe at the scum under the bureau of obama. >> the fbi looked bad. your fbi. >> it's comey, it was comey. the people in the fbi are incredible. bet if you took a poll in the fbi, you would win that by more than anybody has won a poll. you look at what happened, they were plotting against my election. >> laura: rudy giuliani says it's comey who should be investigated and that the fbi agent should be fired today and in prison next week. >> let's investigate the investigators. let's take a halt to the mueller
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investigation and get rid of all the agents doing it. somebody like that shouldn't be working at the fbi and probably needs valium. >> laura: he was referring to peter strzok. strzok is now facing his own day of reconning as house judiciary chair begun proceedings to subpoena him. he was the lead fbi agent in the clinton e-mail probe and the agent who interviewed mike flynn. he became a cop investigators in special counsel bob mueller's investigation. that stopped when the fbi texts to his lover were revealed. it raises the question, why is he still working at the fbi?
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especially in light of the text message revealed yesterday where he vowed to stop trump from becoming president. joining me now are former fbi national spokesperson and special agent, john anareli and former assistant attorney general robert driscol. i want to start with you, bob, on this. it's fascinating to me how when you survey the other networks over the last 24 hours, it was like on to stormy daniels. they spent precious little tim of this. no evidence of bias. this is a big nothing-burger. i'm sickbu of that word. let's remember what horowitz did conclude. departing from fbi and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the
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perception of the fbi and the department as fair administrators of justice. robert, fair administrators of justice with a russia collusion probe gone on for more than a year, $18 million, it's cost, with no end in sight. >> the damage has been done. this report makes it clear. there is bias within the fbi and levels of the r doj. all the report says, people take this out of context, the report says that horowitz couldn't link the examples of bias to any particular investigator decision, which of course he couldn't. no one generally writes down when they are doing something that improper. but he found bias throughout each page. and so the bias is there. it's a question of he took a broad view of any decision was defensible, not proper, but just
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defensible. he passed on it. it really is, to me, shockingly bad, both the breadth of the report and the breadth of the bias and corruption was, i mean, i think shocking. >> laura: peter strzok is still collecting a taxpayer funded salary, which, i mean, i can't believe he's still working. of all places, in human resources. that takes the cake. you can't write how stupid that is. it looks like bob wants him to testify on capitol hill. he's wanted to talk to him for over a year. he's begun the process of getting that subpoena. it takes two days, the process takes about two days. he wants strzok up on capitol hill and he wants information and wants it like yesterday. >> right. the question is when you read this shocking ig report, why hew
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had this job for so long, strzok, and ray who the president was praising in his tweets, why they haven't done something about it already. we have seen the shocking instance of the text he sent back to his lover about how he wasn't going to let trump become the president. you can't help but feel like, it'sel a thorough report and gos into the shocking bias. the conclusion is we don't have a smoking gun, so we can't do anything about it. that's the problem all along, they don't have the power to do anything about it. it's like an hr internal investigation, what we can do better next time. that's not going to cut it here. the damage that's been done and being done, it requires stronger measures than an investigation into what went wrong. we got to do something about it. >> laura: john, the damage to the fbi cannot be overstated
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here. we have mener and women who work so hard in the field offices all across this country, day by day, night by night, to keep americans safe and do really great investigative work.s this ended up being a political research operation against, ultimately against the presidena with the russia probe, but a cya situation with hillary clinton and these e-mails all along. if you read this report, i have gotten through most of it, there is a lot in this report that the press is glossing over. >> you are right. the fact of the matter is that some horrible things were doneth that should have never occurred. and we have to keep it in context. remember, this is a group of individuals who knew each other, some were hand picked by their friend to work in this project, if you will. meanwhile, you have 35,000 fbi employees doing good things every day and not acting biasly.
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i think it's important that they need to come clean here. you are right, whether or not mr. strzok should be working at fbi headquarters is a question a lot of us are asking. >> laura: the ig did not say he found no bias. he said there was no documentary evidence that bias produced certain decisions. there is another report coming down the pipe. that could end up being loaded with evidence of such bias, because that's about looking into the informants that were used in the trump campaign and the potential fisa abuses, fbi handling of, the russia probe.us i want to go back to you, bob, thinking that the ig, trump was annoyed, he petered out at the end, that's what donald trump said. i think this other report could be really important in seeing
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what happened to place individuals or encourage individuals to try to penetrate these lower level people inside the campaign. >> i think it's impnt for two reasons. one is what you talked about, we'll find the basis for this russia investigation, whether or not it was the dossier, the research generated investigation totally or not, but more importantly, we'll lay it side by side with the ig report that just came out. it will provide some context. in the clinton investigation, we have the clinton it guy granted immunity for nothing, admitting they destroyed the e-mails after they were already under subpoena. mills being in an interview with clinton. all those things, you know, may be defensible individually in a vacuum. but an incredibly light touch for anyone. we get to compare that, 2.0, to
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what do you know, people'so houses are being searched at 6 in the morning, everyone is charged with false statements, whether or not they are material to any given crime. the second report could be a big deal. it could fill in some of these gaps. >> laura: oh, yeah. they are very zealous in trying to find this evidence of russia working with trump, getting this professor in london, all this stuff they were trying to do. they are like leaving no stone unturned, trying to get a russian billionaire to help. meanwhile, with hillary, maybe we shouldn't get the weiner laptop, maybe wait on that. a different approach which also comes through when you read the totality of this report. giuliani today talked about the question, we have been talking about for months here, about whether the president should testify. i want you to listen carefully to this.
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>> what do you think should happen in the mueller investigation? >>ve they should end it. the report says both prongs of the mueller investigation are corrupt or answered. >> laura: he went on to say thee president should not, no interview, the president shouldn't be bothered with it. any thinking of yours that's changed from the beginning of a possible perjury trap for a president? president trump likes to talk. heum loves to get his pointoi across. he didn't do anything wrong, he says. i'm happy to talk. he wants to talk. but as a lawyer, i'm a lawyer as well, how dangerous is it for him to go into that special counsel's office? >> as for the first part, does it change anything, no. from day one i thought the president shouldn't talk. you know that federal prosecutors are not just regular prosecutors, they are the gunners. they are the go-getters, they
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want to make their case and make their name. there is no bigger prey than the president of the united states. we have seen that with flynn and how strzok behaved in other instances. in terms of witnesses, a ceo, the powerful person is the worst witness. they are used to getting their way. everybody in the room sucks up to them. it's a different scenario when you are talking even casually to a prosecutor or fbi agent. it will be a big mistake for any ceo oren president, particularly for this president. >> laura: this is going for a legal chop. that's what giuliani's point was. his point was now that we have seen, we know just what was going on in there with the desperate effort to stop him from becoming president. sheryl mills gets to sit in
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there when they are talking about whether or not to subpoena hillary, the cozy relationship between the press and fbi agents, the press are giving perks to the fbi agents, they don't know where the leaks came from, it's out of control. >> it's corrupt. >> laura: we have john who gave us a comment tonight about what this ig report actually says. he said the clear evidence, the lead counsel for a trump, the clear evidence of his violation of his oath of office and material false statement to the public and conduct all to concede his conduct, the finding was ludicrous. the findings support the president's decision to fire comey. john. >> absolutely. comey was fired because of the things that he had done and the president was right to step and take those actions. i think a lot of things have
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been made out of the fact that the president fired a director of the fbi. it's not unprecedented. we saw it with william sessions where he was fired by a democratic president. there were firings before then.s but this is clearly, based on the report we are seeing, gives good cause and justification for the actions the president took. >> laura: a federal judge appointed by obama jailed paul manafort after mueller claimed he tried to tamper withr witnesses. shortly after that, giuliani responded by floating the idea of presidential pardons in the russia investigation. robert, this led jeffrey to say the following about giuliani. watch. >> it is so corrupt and unethical what giuliani said. we are in an area here that is
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literally unprecedented. not that many people in americau life have the power to give a pardon. we are so far out of normal, ethical behavior, it's just worth preserving our sense of outrage about it.bu but it really is appalling. >> laura: is jeffrey that outraged, surveilling reporters, checking sheryl's computer. nevertheless, the throwing outhe the pardon thing, i wouldn't have done that if i were rudy. it champions the water for no reason. >> as a defense lawyer, i wouldn't want manafort pardoned before the case is over. once he's pardoned, his 5th amendment right goes away. if he is pardoned, he no longer faces prosecution, he could
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conceivably be forced to testify. just no reason to handle it now. you just wait and see where the chips fall. if the president wants to pardon, he can. as far as it being unprecedented, george bush senior, pardoned a man the day before his trial. it's been done. there is an inherent power the president has. there is no real check on it. i just can't get that outraged. the answer to it is a political answer. it was done publicly and the president can suffer a blow back for it. >> laura: there is always conjuring up the sense of moral outrage.ce the obama justice department, we had eric held in contempt of congress over the documents in fast and furious. there is moral outrage. we are outraged over a
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discussion of pardons. give me a break. >> someone need to give him the smelling salts. the hypocrisy is laughable. they should be concerned about americans as the corruption of the fbi and other agencies. i'm outraged that a judge is appearing to use incarceration as a penalty, as a punishment for somebody prior to their trial. we know it's only supposed to be used for attention and limited circumstances where it deals with flight risk or other issues. that wasn't met today. that's what people should be outraged. >> laura: she was lecturing manafort. you are not in junior high, can't take away your cellphone, but can't trust you not to talk to witnesses. thank you, goodbye. with trump flying so high here
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>> laura: meet the real cultists. that's the focus of tonight's angle. you have to hand it to the anti-trump resistance. they have tried a lot of different things to stop donald trump. during the campaign, the chattering classes called him a racist, he was stupid, a fraud in business, wasn't as well read as the other candidates. he didn't play nice in the sandbox with his fellow republicans. he was brash and an ego maniac. not fit for the presidency.
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now after this ig report yesterday, we know that inside the fbi, they were agents by day and activists by night working on an insurance policy to stop trump from winning the president u.s. when that didn't work, fired jim comey leaked his notes to a pal and leaked them to the press. and now more than a year and $17 million later, while the special counsel's approval numbers have gone down and president trump's have gone up, the economy is soaring. he's unleashed the possibility of a denuclearized korean peninsula and enforcing immigration laws after years of neglect. wages are going up, unemployment is down.. salary, americans are more
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confident about their future. yay! now they have to try something new. >> not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president. >> it's evolved into a cult. >> you get the last word. >> the cult is fair to you? >> i think the republican party is headed that way. >>ub i think cult is a strong, t very good word in this case. >> laura: obama called us bitter clingers. and hillary called us a basket of deplorables. and comey's fbi used less ambiguous. this is how an agent described trump voters the day after the 2016 election. trump supporters are poor, middle class, lazy that think he
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will magically think they will grant him jobs. they aren't educated and stupidlstupidly wrapped up. donald trump isn'tri perfect, ne of us are. but more americans are seeing that his new and often unconventional approaches toac governance are paying off. they are seeing past the press' constant sniping and criticism and recognizing through it all, trump focused on making lifeog better, safer, more prosperous for the american people. that's not cultish, it's common sense. the closest thing to a cult we have seen in politics over the past decade is the cult of obama. who can for get these gems? >> o you know, you are the equivalent of a rock star in politics. >> the feeling most people get,
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i felt this going up my leg. >> who does it make you think of? is there a loved one? >> he's personable, handsome. >> i don't think we have had a president since abe lincoln who is as great a speech writer. >> you are a better man than me. you care about us, the american people. >> laura: we had so manyan clip, we couldn't fit them in the angle. maybe we'll do a special show. but look, thing a location was filed on so high, so over the top, even obama joked about it. >> can somebody tell me what happened to the great columns that i requested? and to name my great earth strength, i guess it would be my
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humility. greatest weakness, possible i'm a little too awesome. [singing] >> although obama left the white house, his cult members haven't left the commune. democrats are desperate to have him hit the campaign trails again for the midterms. >> meet the midterms, meet president obama, wading into the development of the midterm elections. democrats should talk about kitchen table issues. >> you went to obama. he's helping us raise some money. >> laura: to they have no one else to turn to? i thought they had such a deep bench. don't think forno a second that trump's economic nationalism won't outlast his presidency.
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it surely will. there is no broad consist wentcy for the old bush republicanism of unaccountable deals. those days, my friend, are over. so let the good times roll until the democrats and bitter bushies come up with some other attack against this successful president and his hopeful, very optimistic supporters. and that's the angle. joining me to react, host of media buzz, howard and dick morris, former adviser to bill clinton. i have been t dieing to talk to you. when i started hearing this, it's the cult of trump, they tried to say he was dumb, he had dementia, they needed to remove him from office, the cabinet had to be activated. they are just a bunch of jim
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jones kool-aid drinkers. you have seen the cultish adulation of clinton and obama. is trump more about policy or personality? >> policy is crucial. but his personality, he's congruent with what people want. we want the president to getfl things done. and trump is a builder, he's a developer, that's what they do. he gets it built. when he talks about career or iran, the economy, all the critics say you can't do it. but he gets it done. even after he does, they still say he didn't do it. that creates a sense that this guy is somebody to follow because it gets it done. it's the same concept that
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inspirininspire reagen and he es our desires about what the government should do for us. >> laura: he's unapologetic in his patience for change. that's just refreshing. you have been around washington for so long, it's refreshing to hear somebody like today, the media was saying they had the lie meter when he went off the driveway today. he spent 45 minutes answering questions out on the driveway? i have never seen anything like this. i thought it was great. you just wrote a piece about the cult phenomenon and the lines come from the media all week. tell us your thoughts about
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where the real cult phenomenon is today. >> the media have a new four letter c word, cult, spooky, creepy, extremist overtones. the people who would follow such a leader are delusional whack jobs. there is a sense you show bob earlier, it took me about 15 seconds on google to find new york times editorial last week, cult of trump, national journal last year, trump's cult overwhelms the gop. i get the idea this is his party. many republicans are falling into line. to call it a cult, shows you the media minds. >> laura: it's unbelievable to me, dick, that now a year and a half into this, his numbers are
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going up, mullers are going down. all the measures that we have talked about a possible denuclearized north korea peninsula. this is positive, wild tough happening. this is the best they have? they are waiting are the big deliverance. lindsey graham today, not always in agreement with trump, lindsey graham was being criticized for actually working with trump. let's watch. >> i like the president. i trust him in terms of trying to do things that are big and matter. >> people say this is two-facedr where is the lindsey graham standing up to president trump? >> when i worked with president obama, i was a hero. now with president trump, i'm two-faced. if you don't like me working
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with president trump, i don't give a [bleep]. >> laura: you got lindsey graham to swear on tv. they are trying everything. none of it is sticking. they are out of political ammo. >> i think first the democrats bet on impeachment, they bet on russia gate. that's falling apart and they have no b plan. on policy, it was so clear, we are opposed to trump's economy, trump is horrible, when he accomplishes something, they can't share the spotlight. they can't share the credit. like republicans could share welfare reform. it was good for them all. >> laura: they are fresh b out f ideas. it's showing and i think the american people are noticing it. sorry i had to cut you off there. by the way, why are the media
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>> laura: time now for friday follies. is this one of the signs of the apocalypse? they are quoting the bible on msnbc. joining me is raymond arroyo. raymond, apparent already there is an explosion of men also diving into plastic surgery. let's hope that's not a father's day trend. what's up? >> we are going to bet into that. i got'v to start with this bible mania. w look, earlier this week the southern baptist convention
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chastised the trump administration for immigration policies. jeff sessions says st. paul says you have to obey the law. ali velshi looked like pat robertson's understudy. >> we did dig to the bible that led to the separation of children from parents. i want to begin with matthew 19, versus 14. but jesus said suffer, little children, forbid them not from c coming to me. >> this is turning scripture into a public policy pronounce him. >> laura: how long did the bible reading go on? i'm glad they have the baseball over there. the bible over there? >> this went on and on.
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>> i'm not finished yet. isaiah 10, whoa unto them that right grievousness. >> laura: okay. >> that one is interesting. that's an old testament reading. is ali suggesting we should be a theocracy, wherego you follow god's commands? this policy has been on the books for years. they did it during the obama administration, they did it during bush administration. clerics say god wouldn't want this. >> laura: all the catholic churches can take the 11,000 kid, send them to college, feed them. we have to get into the explosion of men who are doing plastic surgery. okay? >> i knew you were going to go there. i haven't had any.
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>> laura: i love this segment. what are the most popular types of plastic surgery for the metro sexual men with skinny jeans, man buns and man purses. >> here are the top five. the first is nose reshaping. eye lid surgery. liposuction, breast reduction was number four. hair transplants were at the bottom. that would be at the top. breast reductions top it. >> laura: when people say the word moved, is that what they are talking about? am i allowed to say that? >> man boobs, i hope not. >> laura: unless we are talking about a gender transformation,. >> they are reducing the man
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boobage. kraft cheese started a contest, they are calling it cheesy is great. can you imagine doing a promotion for mother's day? i hate this diminishment of dad. planet fitness put ow out a calendar of dad bod's. it's father's day, we should celebrate men. >> laura: celebrate fathers, male role models. raymond is a god father. >> i brought my daughter tonight. >> laura: have a great weekend. this could be the most viable allegation ever made against the president. you have to hear what a former reform nc chair said about president trump. i will play it for you, next.
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camp for kid. when you give kids 22 hours of lockup time and two hours of ai. time, what else can it be. if this is where this country is going, the american people need to wake up and pay attention because your kid could be next. >> laura: and they will come for your little dog, too. you just saw the former head of the g.o.p. and i'm disappointed in you, accuse the president of running concentration camps? i would like to say i'm speechless. let's discussss it with my frie, we don't agree on everything, civil rights attorney leo terrell. happy friday. how are you? >> i can't wait to get to los angeles. i want to buy you off with kindness. >> laura: i love it. look, i'm the mother of three children. the idea of parents being separated from children is
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horrific. in any way you think about it, it feels wrong. however, to describe what we are doing at our border where people cross the border illegally or present themselves and say i want asylum as concentration camps is both, i think, dismissive and minimizing the holocaust, it's wrong. these kid have clean, nice facilities, they are getting entertainment, recreation, tutoring, teachers, english classes. they are treated as well as we can treat them under the circumstances. yournd reaction to this. >> laura, i would like to quote a person you are familiar with, reverend graham, who said the separation is terrible and disgraceful. you would agree with that. these children, why are they
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being denied access to their parents? that man in the white house with an executive order can resolve that. i would think you can agree with reverend graham that there is not a justification for those kid to be separated from their parent. we are a better country than that. >> laura: what i think we have to do to solve this problem, the president wants to do this, we have to have a normalized process that is not ripe with fraud, notom just someone who comes to the border and says if i bring a child, whether the child is my own or someone i found along the way in one of the cattle cars that the drug smugglers and human trafficking are bringing people into? can't allow people to house together and come for your hearing in two years.
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70% of them aren't showing up for their hearing. we can't house kids the same way we house adult criminals. sadly, you violate our laws, you are running afoul of the u.s. criminal justice system. >> right now there is a game played in congress. republican majority, two immigration bills, a decision to resolve this immigration issue. daca is being used as a midterm ploy. why can't the republicans get some type of resolution of border control that enforce the border, i think we have a good shot at something positive happening. i do. look, we have the 2014 crush at the border. i know we were talking about iti back then. we had 55,000 family units and
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kid, underage, minors. sometimes the kid say they are kid and we do dna tests and they are 21. are border people to be described as running concentration camps? another person using the word nazi. the white house said it's appalling for our agents to be referred to. a he compares sworn officers to nazis. i completely agree. it's unacceptable rhetoric that puts a target on the back of our great law enforcement. we can debate the policy, we have tens of thousands of people crossing our border, we have veterans sleeping in the street three weeks from where we are broadcasting. as long as we have one veteran
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on the street, we shouldn't have illegal immigrants. >> the smoke game is to play the hyperbole. what's the end game to the immigration issue? >> laura: build the wall, end chain migration. i could write the bill in 15 minutes on piece of paper. don't ask me. leo, i hope to see you in l.a. great to be here in california. but is it on the verge of cracking up? we'll tell you how voters could turn the golden state into something totally unrecognizable.
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>> we are coming to you from san francisco. i have had t no pies thrown at e yet. california is a spectacular state. but it has a notorious split personality. in november there will be a measure on the ballot to divide the golden state into three parts. let's bring back harmid. you are a couple of blocks from where i am. there's central valley, bakersfield, areas that are conservative. the bay area, we are. it's a different kind of place. what's going to happen? >> t laura, this is a whacky proposal that's been put on the ballot by a billionaire. he put on a proposal a few years ago to split it into six. it's going to fail. who wants six liberal democratic senators in congress, the way the lines are drawn, it's two
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liberal states and one moderate state. it's a nonstarter for democrats and republicans. it has to pass through a number of hurdles. it's dead on arrival; but parks interesting conversations what's wrong with california. >> i haven't been -- i used to spend a lot of time in san francisco. it's been a couple of years. i have definitely in thed a deterioration. this has been written about, homelessness crisis, the trash. we saw two needles. that's pretty good. we have walked two blocks, only two. it's definitely changed. it's beautiful. like nothing else in the world. but i think california can do better. thank you so much. we will be right back, final thoughts. stay there.
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