typical, predictable. that's all the time we have left this evening. we expect big protests in london. we'll broadcast from london. and in helsinki on monday. let not your heart be troubled. there he is, laura ingraham standing by. it's 3:00 a.m. time for a beer for me. >> laura: the last time i was in helsinki, 1983. >> sean: i have been to helsinki, never. >> laura: on the way -- >> sean: when? >> laura: on the way to lennon grad to do my semester abroad in college. but we got on the scary soviet train. but helsinki is a beautiful city. a lot of drinking going on. beautiful people. >> sean: just so our audience know. laura ingraham was a hell razor in college.

she went to dartmouth and they made a lot of trouble and noise when they were there. just saying. >> laura: not me. a great show. >> sean: wait a minute, i read about one other offense. remember, it was -- forgot it. >> laura: i have a whole hour to fill with stories about you. you better go to the pub now, hannity. >> sean: i'm going to the last pub open. >> laura: you have a great rest of the morning. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle." bombshell from peter strzok. we'll have analysis of the raucous hearing from a top lawmaker, rudy giuliani and more. and a bombshell from john soloman that the fbi may have received multiple versions of the russian dossier. mr. soloman will be here to explain. and across the pond, president

trump is in england tonight and we'll have footage of what the british folks really think about this president. and michelle malkin joins us about an interview that president trump gave to a uk newspaper. but first when a trump hating fbi investigator struck out. that's the focus of tonight's angle. barnum & bailey would have been proud. there may not have been elephants or jugglers or trapeze artists flying through the air. but for hours and hours and hours today, former fbi investigator peter strzok was walking a tight rope that republicans desperately tried to knock him off of. >> you're asking us to believe when you say tv trump and stop trump and impeach trump those are personal beliefs and when you say those things, you never crossed that line?

>> i'm asking you to believe and offering you evidence. >> you have under oath been as clear as a bell on. that. >> how many interviews did you conduct related to the alleged collusion between russia and the trump campaign? >> the special counsel has instructed me not to answer questions about the ongoing investigation. >> did you know he was meeting with representatives from fusion -- >> i cannot discuss the content of the operational matters. >> and your testimony is bob mueller did not kick you off because of the content of the text. >> he did not kick me off because of any bias. i don't appreciate what i said being changed. >> i don't care what you appreciate. >> laura: and democrats using explosive denunciations and every lame parliamentary trick in the book.

>> mr. strzok, you are under subpoena. and are required to answer the question. are you objecting to the question, if so, please state your objection? >> mr. chairman, i object. the gentleman does not have standing to object. point of order. >> no point of order here. >> point of order should be heard. >> i move to subpoena steve bannon. >> the motion had to be heard immediately. >> the motion is not germane. >> motion made to table. >> laura: i need a pepto-bismol. then they tried to change the subject altogether. >> there are 3,000 children separated from their moms and dads and the government know where the moms and dads are. that seems like something they should be investigated. >> we have not investigated the children stolen from their

families or looked at our president meeting with mr. putin. >> mr. strzok, you are before this committee for one reason to serve as a monumental distraction. they need to identify a villain. mr. strzok, tag, you're it. >> laura: no, you're it. all these games, hijinks, games, circus. stay with me here. the hearing went from circus lights to a side show. >> i talked to agents around the country. you've embarrassed them and yourself and i can't help but wonder when i see you looking there with a smirk how many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eyes and lie to her about -- >> mr. chairman, it's o outrageous! >> mr. chairman! >> laura: well, i understand the

passions are running high but what did that accomplish, exactly? at some point, the hiyperbole cancel each other out. and anyone watching probably thought is this what it has come to? at times it seemed they were more like contestants in both parties and competing for the sound bite of the day. >> i never pre-judged anything not in this case or any others. >> impeachment for what? >> you mentioned the word impeachment. that was used in my context of not knowing what this would lead to. >> if there are two people that are thrilled and excited today, two people, the folks at fox news and at the kremlin. >> i never have seen my colleagues so out of control. >> if i could give you a purple heart, i would. you deserve one. >> the veterans must have felt

good about that line. that didn't work. but set that aside for a moment and we're stilt at the same point we have been at for the past year or so. the fbi agent in charge of two of the most political investigations in the past decade was steeped in animus toward candidate and president trump. at a time when he was supposed to be impartially examining and overseeing the clinton investigation he was rooting for her victory. he agonized about the possibilities that trump would win and assured his then lover he would not let that happen. but pay no attention to that because there's no bias there. >> there is no act of bias. so this false assertion you're making that political personal belief must equal bias and we merged the two words in the dictionary is one of the triumphs of what is going on

that i cannot disagree with more. i and men and women of the fbi every day take our personal beliefs and set those aside in vigorous pursuit of the truth wherever it lies and whatever it is. >> laura: the men and women in the fbi who run high profile investigations do they carry on a running commentary via text message about the tujt of their investigation and what they hope happens to the key players therein? i don't think so. and i hope not. but that is precisely what strzok did. now there, is no doubt, of course, as we repeated over and over again. fbi agents are entitled to their own political opinions and have them but it's the blatant biases revealed in the texts and the specificity therein are troubling and they remain so. he claims to take great offense and he was sitting up very straight and looking down his

nose at everybody that anyone should believe that he meant to stop trump's election and create that insurance policy he referenced to guarantee trump's defeat. but that is what he wrote. and he wrote it as he said today, when he thought no one was looking but his girlfriend. strzok's denials of bias are as incredible and maddening as today's hearing and that's the angle. joining me for reaction is jason chaffetz. and with me, richard good steen and gop congressman rhonda santos who attended the hearing. congressman, i was looking forward to. this but i thought at times, it wasn't working for the republicans. i've got to say. i think peter strzok did not come across particularly well, priggish and snooty and indignant. i never think that works well

for a witness. and i like louis gomer. i thought that exchange, i didn't think that was good and i wouldn't have wanted to have been a republican on the committee when that went down. >> it was a wild day. reading the text is one thing but have him sit there and say i said i was going to stop trump. i didn't mean the fbi. it wasn't credible just like his explanations were not credible to the inspector general. he was not a credible witness and his explanations didn't hold water. the idea he is doing this -- and he did act with bias with the huma abedin e-mails and focusing on trump/russia collusion. and he would not answer these questions. what was the basis for the collusion case? you won't tell us about pop daopoulos and barely talked about the dossier.

you have the bias but then you have this investigation which we still have no there there. he said ten months after it, i'm worried there's nothing here. >> laura: there were a lot of interesting moments but for ten hours you could have gotten at some of these points but there are so many people on the committee. that was difficult. i want to get to richard. throughout the hearing, strzok did insist he had no bias but the ig report said the following, when one senior fbi official, peter strzok, who was helping to lead the russia investigation at the time conveys in a text message to another senior fbi official, lisa page that we'll stop candidate trump from being elected it's not only indicative of a biassed state of mind but implies a willingness to take official action to impact the candidate's electorial prospects. the ig did not have confidence

that this decision by strzok was free from bias. richard. >> here's what is not plausible to me. the intelligence community says that the russians meddled to hurt hillary. the intelligence committee said the same thing. the president meanwhile is basically saying i'll ask putin if he did it and if he didn't -- >> why are now not -- >> strzok. strzok could -- >> this is what the democrats did. >> strzok could have blown the campaign to high heaven by disclosing what he knew. >> laura: let me tell you why that is a lame point. you know why? because it's would be have been so overtly obvious and stupid for him to do that, easily trace back to him. >> but he was such a fanatic and he biassed this thing so badly

he would have gone to jail to stop trump from getting elected. >> laura: because he's not that stupid, he might have thought he was talking to his girlfriend but he would not leak the fact that this investigation was going on right before the election. it would have been obvious and he would have been -- >> "the new york times," though, did accomplish publish on octob said no ties to trump. he didn't have the goods, that's why. >> laura: mark meadows was asking strzok about obama's knowledge on the russia collusion probe. >> were you aware of any discussion that took place with regards to russia collusion investigation that took place with the obama administration's executive branch? >> i'm certainly aware of conversations that occurred with obama administration officials. >> it took him a long time to get him to finally say that.

it was like three minutes of pulling teeth to get him to respond to that question. >> laura: all along we have a hard time believing that the white house did not have -- at least wasn't regularly updated is one of those text messages revealed. what was your sense about that aspect of the white house being updated, informed about this russia collusion investigation and candidate trump? >> it is one of the deep concerns and there is a triangulation between the dnc, what was going on in the hillary clinton campaign, bruce orr, the development of this dossier, and then how it was funneled back into the fbi, was that information then fed inprotoappropriately to the fisa court to obtain warrants? i thought jim jordan had one of the best sets of questions where heed to go peter strzok to admit that bruce orr was involved. his wife nelle was involved working at fusion, a company

with less than 20 employees and that whole triangulation does involve the dnc. it does involve political actors that would have naturally some ties into the white house and it's still an open and valid question. >> jason, you were head of the oversight committee. goodlatte, who has done sum great work on immigration, at the beginning of the hearing today, the democrats had clearly planned to get this thing off track as fast as possible. objection, objection, talking over each other. it was like a major swarm. if jim -- he had that gavel in his hand, i have a feeling that that room would have been cleared if that thing kept going. but goodlatte let it roll on. was that a smart move? the democrats dominated for the first ten minutes of the constant objections? >> yeah, i think one of the take aways the american public would

see the antics the democrats went through. i think it was prescripted they were going to have a recorded vote. you had the clerks in the room. normally the clerks are not there. the chairman must have known there would have been a recorded vote. when you is a poor witness with a message you don't want, that's what you do. you yell, scream, interrupt and act outside of the rules and it got away from him a little bit. but that's the way they act and that's what the democrats do and what america sees. they want to give him, peter strzok, a purple heart? i mean, that's where the democrats are coming from on that. >> laura: that was among the more embarrassing comments. i don't care if you are republican or democrat this is something you would see on "saturday night live" where peter strzok was actually asked to read his own texts like nobody would want to be in that position. he had to read his own texts. >> omg, he's an idiot.

trump is a disaster. i have no idea house destabilizing his presidency would be. >> ms. page said not ever going to become president, right, right. >> what the "f" happened to our country, lees. >> read that again. >> you just want me to repeat it. happy to indulge you. >> laura: and i mean, the tony, academy award, richard, the point the republicans trying to emphasize is that this wasn't a run of the mill fbi agent. this was the guy who was the lead investigation in two of the critical investigations of the last 25 years in politics. 20 years in politics. since i ran contra. and to hear him reading those, what a blanken disaster, it dramatized it. i liked that moment. it was dramatic but i liked it.

>> you had a list of republican house and senate members who said equally damaging things during the campaign and i won't repeat them here. by republicans, including someone who is -- >> laura: you are repeating what the democrats said. >> you are saying that strzok is -- >> laura: talking more loudly doesn't -- make your point any more cogent. i love you. but that is a lame tactic. here's what i will say, the people like ben sass who criticized donald trump, first of all, he has literally no constituency. and he is not the lead investigation into the critical investigations of the fbi in the last 20 years. to say, ben sass doesn't like donald trump. so are we going to bring him up? that's a ridiculous point. a first-year law student would know that. >> but what is perverse is that

sass sat on the -- it was a twisted way to look at it that somehow he helped. >> laura: i don't think we would want to be investigated for something we were accused of by someone who had an innate animus toward us. why are you leading this investigation? hold on. >> strzok is the only person in america who opened up a counter intelligence investigation. >> laura: and he can sign off on a fisa warrant. >> exactly. >> laura: there was a moment where peter strzok seemed to contradict whether he was under a particular type of investigation. let's watch. >> so you think it's okay for the target and you are a target, of an investigation, to determine what should be delivered, rather than, if you will, the government, right? >> i'm not aware of any investigation i'm a target. >> are you under review of the fbi office of professional

responsibility? >> yes, sir. >> laura: lpr is another wing of the justice department. he is under investigation. we knit picking here? republicans sometimes can get in a position where they are perceived to be knit picking on issues that are not the primary issues. >> but also by the inspector general for the trump/russia collusion. and the ig report is just about hillary. they are looking at his role in that. he is a subject in that. >> laura: jason, before we let you go, what are the grounds for an fbi general counsel to shut down questioning and answering questions from congressional oversight committee hearings like this? he kept relying on that. is that valid? >> it is absolutely not valid. and i can tell you the former chairman of the oversight committee there is no attorney/client privilege

between a government employee and government attorney. there is none. and the other part is -- >> laura: can't do it. >> and you can have concurrent investigations. >> laura: great panel, guys, up next, giuliani on all of this. don't go away. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level?

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fun. let get back to the top story. peter strzok on capitol hill today. that thing never ended. we are joined by the president's top lawyer in the russia probe, rudy giuliani. this was a marathon today. and there was a lot of silliness in this hearing. the parliamentary tricks and talking about kids in cages. back to the immigration. i don't know what that has to do with what was going on. but strzok started with a prepared statement and it was almost as if he was projecting himself to be this great savior of the representative democracy that we have. let's watch. >> in the summer of 2016 we had an urgent need to protect the integrity of an american presidential election from a hostile foreign power determined to weaken and divide the united states of america. this investigation is not politically motivated.

it is not a witch hunt. it is not a hoax. >> laura: superman. >> well, i mean, with the text saying that he had to stop trump. he had a whole secret plan to stop him. the names he called trump. he should never have been involved in the investigation. we shouldn't have to worry whether he was vie bye yassbias. i would never have hired him or the others who have donated money to hillary and cried because she lost and found to be the most unethical prosecutes in the history of the united states. >> laura: he kept saying when he was pressed about the text messages. they made him read the text messages. >> which he doesn't remember.

>> laura: but that was late night texting and you have to know the context. the words were there and he wrote them but he doesn't want to own them. >> he didn't remember the stop trump one. but he can't remember the intent if he doesn't remember doing it. >> laura: we have a lot of forgotful fbi members. >> the fbi agents are glad because they see him as a complete renegade, a complete sko scoundrel and criminal. and the reason the democrats look so bad is they were stupidly defending him. i'm innocent like your former democratic guest here. i'm innocent because i didn't leak illegally. >> laura: that's what zoe lofgren was saying. they could have leaked this information. >> they also could have shot

trump you know, it's not a defense that you didn't commit audio one. it's not a defense to robbery that he didn't hold up the candy store. it's a ridiculous defense. pathetic for an fbi agent and the guy is arrogant, smug. >> laura: he reminded me of jim comey. the smell of the walmart. the smell of the walmart. you said when you went down to southern virginia or rural virginia you could smell the trump supporters. and he said, no, that was just -- he didn't want to say -- >> all those things he secretly tweeted or secretly wrote in his texts he didn't believe. he wrote it for fun. meanwhile he instigates an investigation of the president of the united states, then a candidate, totally baseless. to this day they can't find any evidence that ties president donald trump to any collusion.

>> laura: what's the progress on the mueller -- >> it's falling apart of its own weight. >> laura: they hired five more people. >> they're going to high ten more people. with this kind of support. mueller fires him but never finds out the extent of his taint. we don't know the taint of the investigation since he started. that's the investigation we're dealing with right now. >> laura: they found out that mueller did not, in fact, that came out today. he did not ask any questions about his texts when he departed. >> an assistant u.s. attorney is writing horrible things about the subject of the investigation and he is with ten other people and i don't find out what he said, who he interviewed. >> laura: what does it tell you about mueller? >> he is asleep at the switch and run by the same kind of

horrible people he is with the attitudes about deplorable americans like you and me. they're trying to set a perjury trap for him. >> laura: what do you think about the fact that strzok still has his secret clearance? >> it's disgraceful. why aren't they moving against this guy? why does he have a secret clearance? >> laura: and the democrats want him to have a purple heart. i guess he is still getting paid. >> we're paying his salary and he is the maybe the most flawed fbi agent since the guys who spied for the soviet union. when you see this kind of thing, you're a lawyer, would you walk your client into a kangaroo court with guys who donated $36,000 to his opponent and

represented the scoundrel -- >> laura: i never understood the people who thought that trump should testify. >> if you have an objective group of people you can persuade, of course you consider testifying. but if you have people like him -- >> laura: he's gone, though. >> they never unravelled the taint that he created. nor do we know about the texts of the people who are there right now. what did they write about donald trump do. they think i'm a deplorable and the 80 million people who voted for him. >> laura: we have more to get to. peter strzok's testimony comes 48 hours after john soloman drops the news of an fbi scandal. rudy will react, next.

>> laura: according t >> laura: according to a report bijhon soloman, the fbi may have been bamboozled by multiple verges of the russia dossier. the revelation comes from peter strzok who wrote an e-mail when buzz feed made the dossier public. this set is identical to what mccain had and has differences from what was given to us by corn and simpson. that likely means the fbi obtained all three versions from different sources, john mccain, david corn and glenn simpson of fusion gps. jim jordan asked strzok about the e-mail earlier today. >> are there three copies of the dossiers as evidences by this e-mail. >> i want to talk about this e-mail. i want --

>> say that all you want. but you're not answering my questions. are there three copies? >> three copies of what? >> the mccain copy, the buzz feed copy and the one from corn and simpson? >> i never had contact with fusion, with mr. simpson, with mr. corn. >> laura: here to discuss, john soloman, himself. and rudy giuliani who is listening to this going this can't be happening. why does this matter, john, that there are three different versions of this salacious dossier floating around at different times that are clearly attacking donald trump? >> counter intelligence, one of the most important things to avoid are circular reporting. it's just an echo chamber. they fire -- >> laura: in october. he shouldn't have talked to reporters. >> he's out of there.

but somehow it is finding updates walking in through these emissaries. john mccain is a willing participate. he is not a fan of donald trump. >> laura: i know -- god bless him, he's suffering. but no one wants to talk about that. >> we know from the testimony of glenn simpson, that he set that up and made sure that mccain's people got there. you have david korn who wrote a story in october and gives the story to the fbi. nothing wrong in october. you have written about it, why give it to the fbi. and you have glenn simpson. you that have whole chain of custody being disrupted and people creating circular intelligence. >> laura: one investigator told you the following, the dossier and its related dirt was on a circular flight path aboard a curious service called air

clinton and the fbi kept signing for the packages. that's chilling. >> isn't that called collusion? or conspiracy to gin up a totally inappropriate, totally illegal wire? based on national security? and doesn't it with no investigation, doesn't it taint the entire russian probe? how much of that information from that wire ended up being in the russian probe? how much is presently infecting it and why doesn't manafort lawyers move to dismiss for taint. there will never be an indictment of the president. but we want to investigate that in the counter report we are write to whatever kind of hatchet job might be done on the president which i hope doesn't happen. >> laura: this is one of the best parts of the hearing. let's watch. >> the fbi got documents from bruce orr?

>> yes, sir. my direction from the fbi is i may tell you the fbi received material from -- >> this is -- this is amazing. this is amazing. so nelle orr -- nelle orr works for fusion and glenn simpson and giving -- >> regular order. >> let us bring the director of the fbi to answer those questions. the gentleman cannot answer. >> the american people -- >> laura: she should have been thrown out of that hearing. you notice when they get to the truth, the democrats start talking over the witness. that's not cool. i like sheila jackson leigh but she can't do that. the moment they got close to something, talking over it. let him answer the question. john, here -- i think people hear dossier, what does that mean? it's important because as rudy giuliani said, without that dossier, the carter page

surveillance, the kickoff of the investigation began even though they had not interviewed any witnesses. he didn't remember or wouldn't say if he interviewed one person to justify the beginning of that russian probe. >> you can look at something i wrote a week ago where pete strzok is writing, we have a pretext, an excuse to look at carter page. what is the evidence, a dossier paid by hillary clinton and a story that is based on the dossier. it's circular reporting the entire beginning of the investigation violates all the norms of intelligence reporting. >> laura: does this get in the head of the president over there? >> no. he is focused on what he is doing now in london. this does not interfere with the president. but it interfered with the presidency. it's a disgrace. the democrats trying to protect that liar, strzok should be

ashamed of themselves. and every fbi agent wants this guy drummed out of the bureau and not paid. the problem with the dossier is it led to fake news. we have to deal with fake news but it also led to a wiretap and national intelligence wiretap. and it led to evidence that came out of that. and it led to evidence that was in the minds of strzok and other people when they continued the investigation of trump into mueller. so how much of it is infecting the investigation today? we may never know which is i think the investigation is totally phony. >> laura: when i hear insurance policy, every time i read that one line over. and today, this is like, he blew it all off. >> what does that mean? it means i have a set of things i'm going to do to stop this guy as a last resort. the mere fact he didn't leak or didn't kill him doesn't mean it wasn't illegal. it was clearly illegal. >> laura: do you believe the

president in his meeting on monday with vladimir putin, will he be as open, effective, focused with our relationship with russia with all this stuff out floating? >> there's a lot of differences between him and vladimir putin and the best thing is to try to iron them out. we're probably not going to do that. here's what the two men know, they never colluded with donald trump. whatever the russians did they did not collude with donald trump. the only crime that was committed was hacking. no one thinks that he was involved in hacking. he doesn't know how to hack. if the information was hacked by the russian, everybody else is entitled to play with it. if they give it to you you can report it on fox. >> when the mayor was talking about colluders, you see reporters being part of the circular exchange, air delivering documents as part of the circular rng.

my profession needs to look at how we may have been played in all of this. that's another part of this. >> thanks for your work, the hill does a great job. >> laura: all right. just ahead we have footage from the streets of london during the president's visit. you won't believe it.

>> laura: presiden >> laura: president trump is in england where he attended dinner with british prime minister teresa may at the birthplace of winston churchill. major demonstrations are planned tomorrow in london where benjamin hall asked residents about the president's visit which he shared with us exclusively. >> reporter: this local pub rebranded to commemorate the

president's visit and where supporters have started to gather. >> despite the media trashing him, he's -- he stands strong. >> reporter: across town as people brace for protests expected tomorrow, not everyone was as complimentary. >> should we welcome him? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: others managed more words. >> are you criticizing his policies or him personally? >> a bit of both. his policies are to stir up as much trouble in as many nations as possible. >> reporter: and some spoke straight to him. >> if you could speak to him what would you say? >> he should learn to be kinder to people. >> reporter: most of the people we spoke to welcomed the visit. >> could you answer a question about president trump's visit. >> he's the president of the united states. and you know, he should be respected as such. i support him. >> reporter: here in central

london it's a mixed bag. people we spoke to disagreed with the policies but respected his leadership and others who said they wished the uk had a similar leader especially now. >> laura: and the so-called experts in the media have been overwhelming harsh of their assessment in the nato meeting. but let's talk with someone who served in the nato arena air force general philip breedlove joins us now. it's great to have you on, sir. thanks so much for joining us. i was just -- i was stunned -- >> good evening, laura. >> laura: i was stunned to see the media's reaction. their reaction. every time they would hear from one of the actual nato attendees, the prime minister, the president. they would say it was a good

meeting. frank, honest, but we made real progress. it was different from the way it's all played out in the media day after day here. does that surprise you given your experience in the complex arena of global affairs? >> no, laura, it doesn't. and what we often see is like yesterday a lot of the reporting is centered around the extra meetings on the outside of the summit. and then, much like what you have described, what i have been able to dig up is that the reporting on what went on in the summit, in the meetings was much more collegial, much more forward leaning and actually some good results. we'll not know what the actual results are until the communiques and official reporting comes out of nato. but everything we're hearing is that while there was tough verbiage surrounding the meetings came to a good

conclusion. >> laura: it's like people believe our relationship with nato should never change. i mean, even if the soviet union is gone and we still have a problem with putin, obviously. but the world is a different place. this is 69 years of our relationship with nato. and i'm glad we have nato and it's really important but the mere fact that donald trump said you got to pay your 2% and can't wait until 2024 when you are all out of office to say we'll have it done by then. he said, no, no, no you're going to pay 4%. it's the art of the deal stuff he did. but since when can't we demand our billions of dollars are well spent and reciprocated in total by the other member nations? >> this is actually a line of logic that has been used by multiple presidents. but none have had the effect to this point that president trump has had. now, some of us, including me occasionally, have been a little

concerned with his tactics, techniques, procedures, the v b verbiage he has used along the way. but we have to be honest enough that despite that, he is the one that has gotten the results so far, at least the beginning of those results. >> macron had favorable things to say, teresa may, looks like they had a fantastic night in britain. looks like the relationship with angela merkel is more honest than it was in the past with other presidents. /thi i think honesty and transparency is better than the niceties. we hope you contribute more money and nothing happens. that's what bush did and what obama did. they both said contribute more money and the pace of the continue bugs contributions increasing

somewhat but not at the level we need. he's trying to bolster nato. >> the results have been good and we need to examine the facts on the ground across the past few years. and this -- some of it, started in the obama administration. but certainly, continued under the current president and that is, the united states is continued to increase its investment via the e.r.i. and now the e.d.i. and we've increased our rotational presence of troops, et cetera. and then as we see the nations also coming on board during this summit and pledging their own troops and things, this is a good sign for the future. >> laura: thank you so much, general. and up next, michelle malkin will be here with more on the media's hysterical reaction to what's transpired over the last 48 hours or so.

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approach to brexit. it will probably kill the deal. joining now with reaction is michelle malkin. michelle, last so much i want to get through with you. but this is quite something. as they're sitting down to this beautiful fancy dinner with all this pageantry, this story is breaking in "the sun" where donald trump says you screwed up this brexit and that boris johnson would make a better prime minister. your reaction? >> look, when are the most extreme of media freaks not freaking out about trump speaking truths that former presidents whether they had a "d" or an "r" by their name dared not ever air in public. he can't say that. he can't do that. he can't threaten that. and of course, what they covet the most is an american president who serves as a door

mat who speaks in dolcet tones. yes, he can upend the apple cart. whether it's the iran deal or north korea. it's always apocalypse. america is going to be left alone and the record so far has been is when he says the things that the american people want him to say he has gotten his way which is our way. >> laura: michelle there, was a moment when today christianian amanpour was interviewing the secretary-general. i was laughing so hard. you could tell she wants the secretary-general of nato to be annoyed by president trump. but the mild mannered norwegian seemed to say it was going well. >> really concerned and nervous

hoping that this summit was not going to devolve into a debacle like the g-7 summit did. how would you say you assess the unity and the success of this summit? >> this has been a very good summit because we are very open and frank discussions. there's no problem to have different views. >> laura: i don't know why i just thought that because was -- is that all you're going to give me, it was a good summit. please say something bad about the president. this happened all over television today. cnn, john berman was trying to -- it fell flat. and the other leaders might not like the fact that trump is demanding more things but they have to deal with it. they need our help and we're allies. i think it's worked out great for us. >> and she should be careful

about not -- in the future, not asking questions she doesn't know how are going to be answered like that. but you know, there's something else happening too which is not just the media. and i note that politico reported that george w. bush and bill clinton were in arkansas nursing the wounds on behalf of so many of these -- right, you saw that? and they don't get it? right? they are siding on -- they're on the same side as the globalists against trump and america's interests. they keep doing that, we're going to get another re-election of donald trump in 2020 between the media and never-trumpers in both parties. >> laura: wouldn't you love to have been on the line when trump called bush about brett kavanaugh. >> i don't like the fact that you didn't vote for me but brett seems like a great kid.

he went with a bush staff secretary and a great judge on the d.c. circuit even with all the animosity between the bushes and trump. >> a lot of gritted teeth. >> laura: exactly. and more analysis on all of this tomorrow on radio. thanks so much. we'll be right back. closing this out, don't go away.

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10:00 talk show or other place. >> laura: just a say it, "the ingraham angle." love ove >> if you are such a fan stop by, love to have you anytime and i won't call you peter stroxsst. she mangled his name. a producer said the brother of prozac, couldn't get his name right. that is all the time we have, shannon bream takes things from here. shannon: chaos in congress as the embattled fbi agent who sent anti-trump text messages ghost 4 to 5 with members of two house committees. molly hemingway looking at key revelations that flew under the radar at today's hearing and donald trump goes to england climbed the prime minister over her breakfast plans, and