we thank you for being with us and we hope you'll tune in tomorrow night along with the breaking news, roseanne barr will join us. let not your heart be troubled. "the ingraham angle." you have some of my best friends on the show. you have jordan, meadows, and gregg jarrett, was the number-one book in the country. speak to his book is awesome. giuliani came on my show last night. i loaned him to you tonight. >> sean: is everything is everything tit for tat? >> laura: basically. you started it. you have my guests, so there. we are like brother and sister. how long have we been fighting like this? we have been fighting like this for at least 18 years. >> sean: i'm going to tell the whole story one day, on top of the trouble he got into. >> laura: all right.

>> sean: see you tomorrow. >> laura: i am laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle." a stunning development concerning the potential fate of the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein tonight. congressman mark meadows and jim jordan have just filed, wait for it, articles of impeachment against the man tasked with overseeing the mueller probe. they will be here exclusively to dallas why in just a bit. raymond arroyo will be here to expose the literal and figurative stars broken by a pc gone totally mad. a special hollywood edition of our "seen and unseen segment is ahead. we have major stories to report about i.c.e. and the threat from china. first, trump wins while the resistance spins. that's the focus of tonight's angle. to listen to the media, you would think that these are the biggest stories in america. >> as the fallout from

donald trump's disastrous summit from vladimir putin continues, so does the mueller investigation into possible collusion. >> there seems to be a system in place with the trump organization for things that needed to be fixed like stormy daniels. >> the conversation with donald trump that michael cohen secretly recorded is officially no longer a secret. >> the big story here is the fact you now have michael: , he has flipped on donald trump. >> laura: those stories are nothing more than meaningless stand ins, distractions from the most important story of the day. what is it? america is winning again because we have a president with guts. few presidents have fought their way trump has. even his former g.o.p. foes have had to concede the obvious. here is marco rubio on trump's interactions with china. >> on a broader scale, i don't

know of any administration that has confronted china's cheating more than this one. >> laura: trump has steadfastly refused to seat america's preeminence to the communist regime of china. china already has a $23.2 trillion economy which is almost 4 trillion more than our own. but with top tariffs and blunt talk, he has now brought china to the negotiating table. that is a very good thing. just today, the president met with e.u. commission president to discuss trade. trump boosted tariffs on certain goods to create a fair situation for american manufacturers, the e retaliated. today they were all singing a different tune. >> we agreed today to work together towards zero tariffs, zero nine tariff barriers and zero subsidies on nonauto

industrial goods. will also work to reduce barriers and increased training services, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical products as well as soybeans. it will also make trade fairer and more reciprocal. >> when i was invited by the president to the white house, i had one intention. i had the intention to make a deal today. and we made a deal today. >> laura: why haven't these other presidents done what trump did. they didn't want to or they didn't have the brainpower or they didn't have the courage. today the market responded. closing at its highest level since january. this kind of advance wouldn't have been possible if trump had not raised the issue and the ante with the e.u. all along. the market is soaring. wages are beginning ever so slowly to rise. in fact, 213,000 jobs have been added here just last month due

to trump's policies. gdp growth is strong with an expected huge number this friday. bottom line: it's a great time to be an american, someone who was working, who wants a job. to top it all off, the president's hire americans initiatives issuing results. denials of h1b visa applicants. that helps american citizens over foreign workers in the job market. about time. the president is doing all of this while battling the deep state, the unfair media. of course all of the international bureaucrats they have come to know and love. and establishment politicians in washington. there are some congressmen, despite all this great news, just refuse to get the memo that the bush era is over. >> i don't support tariffs. tariffs are taxes. there are better tools we can

use to hold abusers of trade laws and countries that perpetuate unfair trade practices, i think they're better tools to use to get them to play fairly. >> laura: if those magic tools were out there, why weren't they used before? what tools? look in the toolbox. what are they? let's remember what other experts and congress were saying about the tariffs. >> and wildly swung bad hitting our closest allies in a way that harms national security and our chances of better trade deals. >> there is so much collateral damage, it's a risky and dangerous strategy. >> this is an abuse of presidential authority. it's an abuse of presidential authority. >> laura: well, once again, guess what. they are wrong. trump stood for america with a tool that every president has used in one form or another and our economic competitors ended up doing the thing he predicted they would do. they came to the table.

they started listening, and they made concessions. more are coming. rather than taking pot shots at the president come republicans should be celebrating and promoting this approach to trade and the economy. the trump agenda. it's also their clearest path to victory in the midterms. it reminds me a word of caution for this president at the same time. we have to talk straight with all the good news. a word of caution. every time, mr. president, you comment on the latest michael: cohen tape for every time you spar with lowlifes like brennan or avenatti, i think you end up having oxygen to the stories advanced by your political opponents. to distract from the most important story. that is america's economic resurgence on the restoration of our place in the world. so donald trump should be taking a victory lap almost every week in a different way, shape, or

form, things are awesome right now. the more the residents focusing on that story, the more the stormy, mueller, michael cohen sideshow is diminished. the media attempt to distract voters from the lived experience of the trump economy, but i am telling you it's not working. my radio listeners tell me every day we don't care about the stories. what's my bottom line? trump's approval today at 48%, according to a new american barometer poll. the voters know reality and they are tuning out the rest. it is kind of white noise, background noise. they can see the impact of this presidency. every day they can feel it in their pocketbooks and their lives. that's "the angle." joining me now for reaction is dan bongino, host of the dan bongino show podcast. dave bossi, former deputy campaign manager of president trump's campaign.

coauthor of "let trump be trump." richard goodstein. strategist and former advisor to phil and hillary clinton. >> for your viewers, there were two more recent polls. the quinnipiac poll had his approval at 38. in the quinnipiac poll, the question was because the president stand up for u.s. interests? 54% said no. 41% said -- >> laura: what are you saying? richard, hold on. simple question. i know you're here and you are going to say trump socks. you're going to say that. listen for a second. you see him with the e.u. commissioner, you are out there saying this thing was going to take and that the tariffs were going to tank. he stood up there with the e.u. commissioner and they stood together and they said we are going to work together. we're going to lower tariffs. that was a victory. for anyone, democrat, republican, independent, to claim anything other than that was the president standing up

for america is false and fraudulent. so i hope you are not about to do that on the show tonight. >> it is a victory in the same way him standing with kim in north korea and saying we have denuclearize -- >> laura: the e.u. is kim? >> i am saying that it's empty. just like the kim deal was empty, this is a promise to talk about -- >> laura: they made announcements on soybeans. >> this president campaign as an america first president. that's what he's done. he has done it on trade. he has done it on foreign policy. he has done it on the economy. this president has decided i'm going to take on these unfair tariffs in these bad trade deals which have been on america for the last 30 or 40 years. after i build a strong economy. that's what we have. this president, unlike any president in the recent past, has done america first and america only. he stood tall with the world doing it. >> laura: richard, you are going to get another chance to

come back at me because i came at you pretty hard. dan bongino, the friday gdp, that number, you get the sense it's going to be high. 4% loss. anyone know the last time we had a 4% gdp? >> obama, 24 teen. >> laura: it was part jackson he was going to take that economy. dan bongino, dear people claim this president is asleep at the wheel, he is playing a reality game, doesn't know what he's doing, that's preposterous. look at what happened today. we have more news on china. go ahead. >> i love it, laura. keep underestimating him, folks. richard, you too. it's working so well for you. didn't you give him a 0% chance of winning? i remember the headline. listen, here's the deal. new rules: the democrats for eight years attacked us with the most vicious identity politics known to man.

nobody gives a about michael cohen. nobody gives a dam about this president's personal behavior. here's the new rules. it's about winning on taxes. it's about winning on business, it's about winning on a pro-life judge agenda. saving infants in the womb. it is about saving your health care. it's about saving the education system. it's about doing the right thing for once with his government. you want to focus on a tape recording with a sleazy lawyer who taped his client? you go right ahead. knock it out. will be looking at a landslide in 2020. make no mistake. the new rules are here. it's about winning and again one more thing, probably never trump-ers out there, sacrificing our principles. b.s. this is the first president since reagan and the white house fighting for our principles. spare me the more lectures. save it for someone who gives a dam, and it's not me. >> laura: when i hear paul ryan say i am for other tools. what is he talking about? this kemp-i.e. an idea that there are other tools. like reagan, bush, they didn't

talk to europeans. they talked and got nowhere. >> it's going to cause us to have a recession and go to war across the globe. none of those things have happened. that's what the democrat party stands for. the negativity. they hate this president more than they love -- >> laura: they despise them. >> i give some credit for going after the chinese who have been getting away with murder. no question about it. for example, they are getting away with murder on aluminum for example. why put tariffs on the e.u., canada, mexico? countries that are not responsible for this. >> laura: actually they are. >> here's what i think. here's why the numbers are dipping below 40. truthful hyperbole doesn't work. you can't say the public would and the next day wouldn't and expect everyone is going to fall for it. people are getting wise to -- you can't say i didn't have an affair with these people and then it comes out on tape that

you did. you just can't get away with it. >> laura: well, first of all, we do know bill clinton said a lot of things that ended up not being true and he is one of the most popular president the 1990s. republicans overplayed their hand on the clinton impeachment. david bossi and i were there then. the american people, they said the economy is great. worked with gingrich. looked like things -- welfare reform, they accomplish things for all there was, all that cas cast. richard is right, the independents seven points down, republicans. people who identify themselves as republicans shrinking. poll came out tonight. minnesota, wisconsin, michigan. numbers are down for trump. not where he wants them to be. that's not good. he's got to not get distracted on this other stuff. >> i totally agree with you. however, these are poles based on minutes and hundreds of hours of anti-trump media.

the media bias that is pervasive across the newspapers and televisions that the american people consume every day. that's why the president go straight to the american people and tries to speak directly to them. whether it is using twitter or speaking directly to them like he did today the rose garden. this is what he's up against. he's up against the hillary clinton who will not accept defeat, didn't accept the results of the election nearly two years later or the democrat party who hates them and wants to delegitimize. speak to a lot of republicans don't like him either. they hate the tariffs because -- you know i'm going to call a lot of these people. corker doesn't need the money. he's rich. these other guys, future lobbyist ryan. future lobbyist flake. that might be uncharitable but i imagine they will be doing some lobbing. dan bongino, listen to an exchange. secretary of state mike pompeo was on capitol hill. he was grilled by the senate. watch this exchange.

>> how do i know the difference between a presidential statement that's not a policy and a statement that is? >> senator, here's what you should look at. compare the following. barack obama speaking tough on russia and doing nothing. >> i understand you want to rewrite the obama policy on russia. >> he would have more flexibility. >> my question isn't about -- i know you want to turn -- >> i want to look at facts. >> laura: at that point, chris murphy kind of gave up. he was like, can i buy a vowel? this guy is fighting back. your reaction. they are trying to distract that putin owns trump. trump is giving it all way to moscow. i'm not saying the trump administration has handled everything right. i don't think they handled post-helsinki right. i want a better relationship with putin.

i would've said that. i wouldn't have apologize. i wouldn't have changed, wouldn't, would. nevertheless, it looks like penny-ante stuff on capitol hill. most people, their wallets are getting thicker. >> laura, what's interesting, the trump administration isn't saying they handled everything right. he came out the next day and corrected and made a course correction. i ask the american people candidly. it's an honest question. do you want a president under barack obama who was honestly weak and then weak in action, or do you want a president like president trump who goes out. he talks candidly. he doesn't always use a teleprompter. sometimes that requires them to dial a few things back, which he has. but you have this strong pro-america fashion. your choice? obama talked weak, acted weak and basically subverted american values on the international stage. now you have a guy, all right, has to correct some things. that's fine. look at what he's actually doing. that should matter.

this is all showmanship on capitol hill. that was ridiculous. i watched the whole thing today. >> laura: richard, the dow is up 30% since the election. s&p up 33%. nasdaq up 52.7%. don't you wish you bought the futures? winning. >> as regards weakness, to say a former fbi, former kgb head, putin, gets more deference than our intelligence community, that's weak. sorry. that's not protecting weakness. that's inviting people corrupt governments to take a run at us. i'm sorry. >> laura: do you know what the size of the russian economy is? >> it is 30f. >> laura: you are worked up on it like he's wearing underwear with a hammer and sickle on it. he wants to get along with russia because he things we're going to get something for israel, in syria, in north korea

and we need russia's help to triangulate against china. >> the quinnipiac poll says people think -- >> because of what the democrats have been feeding the american people lie after lie night after night. >> we will find out when mueller is done. we will. >> laura: fantastic segment. i said to richard i love his suit tonight. look at his eyes, blue eyes. oh, you look fine, you other two. house republicans -- you all look great tonight. house republicans of officially filed articles of impeachment against deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. the two congressmen leading the charge, meadows and jordan, joined me exclusively. what comes next? you will find out. or... around the yard. on the shelf... or even... out in the field. your mom knew she could always count on us... and your grandma did too. because for over 150 years, we've been right by your side.

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>> laura: the battle between house republicans on the justice department over the russia probe is rapidly intensifying this evening. a group of republican congressmen have filed articles of impeachment against deputy ag rod rosenstein arguing that the doj has not complied with nine months of oversight requests for documents tied to the investigation for joining us now exclusively to tell us what's next, congressman jim jordan and mark meadows who are spearheading the effort. we are also joined by fox news anchor and author of the new

fantastic book, the best seller "the russia hoax," gregg jarrett. great to see all of you. congrats, gregg, on the book. congressmen meadows, what are you accusing rod rosenstein of? >> really for nine months, we have asked for documents. that's all we want are the documents. what we have found is not only have subpoenas been ignored, but information has been hidden. efforts have been stonewalled. i guess for us it's all about transparency so the american people can judge for themselves. so they may be able to ignore congress, but they can't ignore the american people. >> laura: this is what andy mccarthy wrote in the national review. he said "rosenstein and christopher wray, they worked for trump. they are not obama holdovers. they are trump appointees. if they are defying congress, it's because the president is permitting them to do so. the president is empowered to give his subordinates a direct order to comply with congressional demands and fire them immediately if they fail to

do so." >> we have sent a letter to the president. mark, myself, congressman desantis. get us the information. >> laura: have you spoken to him? why won't he declassify? >> we sent the letter several weeks ago. we have sent numerous letters. to subpoenas they haven't complied with. we have caught the department of justice hiding information, redacting information they shouldn't have. we know that rod rosenstein threatened house committee intel staffers when they were trying to do their job, our job of doing the constitutional job we are supposed to do. we know what the justice department did with the dossier. rod rosenstein signed the third renewal which was based on the dossier which we know, parts of it came from bruce ohr and his wife nellie. the whole ordeal. we are tired of the justice department giving us the finger and not giving us the information we are entitled to do to do our constitutional duty of the american people are sick

of it. >> laura: going to ask you about what house leadership, including outgoing house speaker paul ryan is saying about all this. gregg jarrett, i want to go to you. gregg, this is what happened on capitol hill just recently when congressman jordan was trying to question rod rosenstein. let's watch. >> mr. rosenstein, why are you keeping information from congress? >> congressman, i am not giving any information from congress. >> i think the house of representatives is going to say something different. >> i don't agree with you, congressman. i don't believe that's what they're going to say. >> laura: no love lost between the republicans on capitol hill and rosenstein. gregg, what is going on? do you think this idea of an impeachment vote if they can get one is a good idea? >> absolutely paired rosenstein has treated congress with nothing but contempt and should be held in contempt. and impeached if appropriate. this is a guy who's been

covering up from the very beginning, for nine long months, the origins of the trump-russia hoax. as a argue in my book, he and others never had any evidence of collusion. there was no evidence of crimes or intelligence to justify a counterintelligence probe. rosenstein is a guy who put his signature on a document to renew the wiretap warrant application, and he knew that that was a fabricated, phony document. he didn't present new evidence, as the law demands. he vouched for its authenticity when he knew it was unverified and fabricated, and that is a fraud on the court and abuse of power. >> laura: mark meadows, it's been 122 years since a member of the executive branch has been impeached. it's a long time. >> it's a long time. >> laura: i'm not talking about the president, and executive branch employee other

than the president. paul wright doesn't strike me as a kind of guy, on his way outcome along the by, paul ryan paul ryan. who would be keen on this. how do you get a vote on impeachment without getting paul ryan's nod? >> we hope it doesn't have to come to that. obviously this is the first step tonight, but it doesn't require consent from the speaker. it's a privilege motion, so what we put in today was not privileged. it goes in and gets referred to the judiciary committee. but starting tomorrow, we can bring it up as a privileged motion. >> laura: what does that mean, for people who don't understand? >> i'm glad you asked. it means it would require a vote on the house floor within two days. that is something any member of congress can do. quite frankly, it's either we hold him in contempt or we give the documents, or we impeach him. the only thing that we have control over is the ability to bring impeachment straight to the floor. >> laura: congressman jordan,

any concern that this will divide the g.o.p. before the midterm elections? the freedom caucus has kind of an interesting relationship with most of congress. it's not necessarily a positive one at times. but a lot of the republicans are like oh, my god. every time they hear freedom caucus. >> we don't get that back home. >> back home they love what you're doing. >> doesn't divide the republican voters. >> laura: you don't care who you will find on capitol hill. >> we care about doing the right thing. when was the last time you saw the fbi to get disproven document with no credibility, no validity, take it to a secret court not tell the court who paid for it and that the guy who wrote it was leaking information of the press. four stinking times. the last one, rod rosenstein signed. if that's not enough to force the action as gregg talked about, you tell me what is. tell me what is. we have been this patient -- we

started this a year ago in july asking for documents. we started with the letters. >> laura: which documents? >> all of them. they have a subpoena with nine different things. they are not in compliance with three elements of the subpoena issued by bob goodlatte. >> laura: are there state department documents you wanted that you haven't gotten? something was happening. >> in the last few hours, we found out about that. here's the thing. why do we have to dig so deep to find out information that should come free-flowing, if we are really interested in justice? >> laura: gregg, let's go back to may when rosenstein really got his backup. let's watch. >> any reaction to the news that certain members of the house freedom caucus have talked about drafting articles of impeachment? >> i can tell you people making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time. i think they should understand

by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted. >> laura: extorted. every time i hear that, i can't believe that is the deputy attorney general. jeff sessions, bad choice. >> this is a very vindictive man. i was the first report actually that he threatened individuals on the intelligence committee. i reported it in early february. how did i reported? i talked to people in that meeting. they both felt that he was threatening them to get his hands on their emails and texts and telephone records if they didn't back off this investigation. that is the kind of guy rod rosenstein is. he is presiding over an investigation in which he said key witness and refuses to disqualify himself, even though it's mandatory. you can to be a prosecutor, a witness, an investigator and the judge all rolled into one. it's a violation of the

regulations and the code of professional conduct for lawyers. >> laura: mark meadows, before we let you go, what next for this? within two days, you could have a vote? because hopefully tonight is a whole lot of discussion going on. i've had conversations with the speaker's office. we are hopeful we get these documents we identified today. if not, as soon as tomorrow, we can do a privileged motion that would require a vote in two days. i think the american people are tired of talk. just like jim was talking about, they want action. it's up to rod rosenstein. >> laura: is kevin mccarthy with you on this? because i haven't talked to kevin. >> laura: great to have you both on. the russia hoax, get this book, bring jared, fantastic job. you want to understand a very complicated story and a total scan and waste of time for the country, read gregg's book. by the way the president has a star on the hollywood walk of fame, and it's been smashed to pieces. that is the state of affairs.

they can't even stand to see his name in marble. the pc fallout coming up. raymond arroyo is with us. don't go away.

>> laura: it is time for "seen and unseen," where we expose what's going on by the big cultural stories of the day. president trump's star on the hollywood walk of fame was smashed to pieces early this morning. that may not be the most upsetting fact about the incident. for more, we are joined by fox news contributor, "new york times" best-selling author, raymond arroyo. this isn't the first time trump's star has been defaced. >> it's not. multiple defacement. this star has been defaced more than cher. a 24-year-old walked into the guitar case, opens it, there is a pickax in it and he wails on the star. this is nothing original. it happened in october of 2016.

we have video of it. there have been multiple defacement of the star. they put stickers on it. they put marks on it. people have come he remembered george lopez -- >> laura: urinated on eights. thank god we don't have that video. it's like a construction site. why do they have fluorescent vests? >> when you look at it, it's an impulse to destroy, eradicate anything that'll find you are that you disagree with. this idea, this mentality has slipped into other areas of hollywood. james dunn is a $100 million director of guardians of the galaxy. disney fired him last weekend. they found tweets from seven in ten years ago where he made fun of child rape, pedophilia. they instantly fired him. the hollywood reporter said in

firing james bernstein, disney, it hurts all of hollywood. this is what they said. as long as there is no actual criminal activity, there has to be a difference between who a person was and who a person is, and we have to allow for the fact that people can change. the stars of "guardians of the galaxy" surrounded him. >> laura: chris pratt came out. >> he issued the script and quote. here's the bottom line. if people can change, why wasn't the same mercy to roseanne barr, to amy powell, head of paramount television. she made a racially charged comment about an upcoming show. they got rid of her instantly. i believe in redemption. i think people are going to make mistakes. we see this idea that some offenses are instantly asked communicable, and they instantly drive you out. you are unemployable. >> laura: you can't work ever. >> this is a panel from this

weekend. actress zoe kravitz in the harry potter spin-off said this. >> if you could use your magic in the real world for good, what would you do? >> impeach trump. >> [laughs] [cheering] >> wouldn't it be better to just make him out of existence. >> what would be the impeachment spell? >> right. impeacheous maximu's. >> why did they have to politicize? >> laura: everything is political. con is the evangelization of adults. i was once in the same city. these are men in their 40s and

50s dressed up as captain america. i don't like costumes. i'm not a costume person. i don't like costume parties. these are adults. these are parents, grandparents. >> you wouldn't have liked johnny depp who got up at the end of that panel and he appeared in costume as the villain he plays in the movie. a character who wants a racially pure when shooting. some thought this was a slide slap at donald trump. >> we live for freedom or truth. the moment has come. to rise up and take our rightful place in the world. >> apparently some offenses are acceptable. others are not. i would like to get the rulebook on what's instantly fireball or not. johnny depp's ex-wife charged

him with abusing her in their marriage. he was allowed to speak. j.k. rowling defended him. they kept him on the film. other people engage in the same behavior and they fire them instantly. hollywood needs to get it stories straight. >> laura: it gets me thinking. could i operate you? >> me? >> laura: wow. >> is this what you mean by seen and unseen? >> laura: it worked. if only nancy pelosi were here. just a joke. >> can you bring me back? >> laura: you are gone. despite abolish ic protests sweeping liberal strongholds across the country, the agency is goring huge wins in the fight against illegal immigrant crime. details coming up. exercise. and maybe even, unproven fish oil supplements.

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>> laura: you might've heard abolishing ic he has become a cause du jour. anti-ic protests popping up in cities from philly to san francisco. this demonstration of the i.c.e. field office in portland, oregon, has been going on nonstop since june 17. i hope they are taking shower breaks. at the same time i.c.e. is doing their job, ensuring illegals gunning down cops are brought to justice. like this man. 29-year-old was nerd as murray, a haitian national who faces eight felonies for shooting a fort myers, florida, police officer in the head over the weekend. i.c.e. slapped a detainer on him who is suspected to be illegal immigrant. do you really want to protest this kind of work? the officer is still in very, very serious condition. we should note that the officer is in critical condition tonight. a great sign he has begun to breathe on his own, and our prayers are with his family and

him. a horror of a deal he has gone through. joining me for reaction is john torres, former acting director of i.c.e. during the george w. bush of administration and immigration attorney eleano eleanor. tough stuff here. i.c.e. and protests, shut down i.c.e., reform i.c.e. alan, you are a democrat, and immigration attorney. protesting i.c.e. when i.c.e. is doing frankly god's work on this violent crime stuff. this officer's family, they are devastated. illegal immigrants almost killed him. still not out of the woods. >> on this specific case of the police officer, it doesn't happen that often. >> laura: it doesn't happen that often? is one police officer not too many? one american dead is not too many? >> it's an anomaly. >> laura: if that were a member of your family, would you call that victim an anomaly? >> i would not. >> laura: don't call a police

officer and anomaly. >> i would call it a situation anomaly. a foreign national is ten times less likely to be involved in a crime than anyone else. the concern around i.c.e. is not with regards to what i see is doing but who they are concentrating on. i.c.e. has been concentrating on those individuals such as the one you've talked about in the police case. they are doing low-hanging fruit. they are arresting people appearing in court, testifying in a crime or people appearing to their hearings are just going to work. i.c.e. is in focusing on the levels it's mostly doing to protect security nationwide. that's the concern. >> laura: here are some facts. i.c.e. arrests are rising. you say they're not doing real criminal arrests, and john, you can comment. fiscal year 2018 thus far, 675 criminal arrests versus last year, 139. seems like a fivefold increase to me. that's pretty good. administrative arrests, 984. 172 in 2017. they are doing both. they're doing admin arrests, criminal arrest.

john, you are doing it. i get very emotional about this. as a criminal defense attorney, always suspicious of prosecutors. that's kind of my background. but when a police officer, a child, a woman, domestic abuse, child abuse, human trafficking, the things we've seen done. i can't abide by it. we shouldn't have one american brutalized by someone who shouldn't be here. they shouldn't be her. john paid >> i've been seeing this criticism for my entire career. i can think of a number of times when a police officer has been shot and not only were they shot and killed or seriously wounded, but it was because they were in a community where they were not cooperating with i.c.e. the police department ignored a i.c.e. warrant. and immigration detainer and let the person walk out of their jail. that same person later on goes and shoots a police officer.

next thing you know, we are getting calls from the city saying can you set up cooperation with us. we want to work especially. let's talk about the criminals. last year, i.c.e. arrested almost 33,000 people on criminal charges. they rescued or identified over 500 child victims, predators. they arrested -- i mean they identified or rescued almost 1,000 people related to human trafficking. not talking about even the thousands of gang members they arrest every year or the million pounds of illicit narcotics sees every year or the nearly half a billion dollars in illicit financing. they do a lot more work than just immigration. it is sad to me that the agents of i.c.e. and homeland security investigations get painted with a broad brush and they get accused of being -- >> laura: it's very emotional. you get families. mothers crying, separated from their children. the images are very

heart-wrenching for americans to see. i'm a mother. i don't want to see mobs separated. it does play on the side, with the family stayed together. >> we were talking about the same thoughts. those are families. that's a woman's child. >> laura: what about the children in nigeria who want to be here and they have to do with the legal way? we could play that game all day long. >> it's not a game because they are not here. >> laura: they broke the law. people in nigeria are waiting to come here and they applied. >> asylum is a legal process. >> laura: none of it is fraud? >> there may be some fraud involved. for those individuals entering the lawful way so they required due process. you don't take a child away and then say -- >> laura: do you think they should be deported together back to their home country or do you think children should stay behind questioning the argument made by the aclu that some people should have their cases litigated soberly from their parents which seems to

fly in the face of family unification. >> i didn't see that specific case. they shouldn't have been separated in the first place. there should've been a process where they came in, file for asylum. >> laura: should they get obamacare in the first month? >> there is no proof by the fact they are getting obamacare. >> laura: should they? i'm asking. if were going to be compassionate, obamacare, recreational facilities, should they get those? the guy believe whatever benefits we get individuals that we have should be afforded to them which are already doing. >> laura: i just want to know. how much you're willing to spend? 37 years old, in 2014, he killed two california police officers. he laughed when he's being sentenced. he looked into the cameras and laughed. he knew what he was doing. i remember that case. he said he wanted to kill more. the idea that it's an anomaly. >> those quick cases, it happens all the time that in the u.s.

police let people go who go on and do violent things. it happened in school shootings. it's not inherent. it's a problem with releasing information individuals. >> laura: they shouldn't be in the country in the first place. you do not have a universal right to emigrate to the united states illegally. i know some people believe that, but they are just as no universal right. our framers didn't intend it. our founders did nintendo. the declaration of a constitution. there is a legal process and if you don't follow the legal process. you end up in criminal activity, you should banished from the country. >> the congress hasn't done and think for ten years. >> laura: there is loss on the books. they should do more. look, there's heartbreaking stories around the world. everybody wants to come here. a lot of people want to come here. you can't bring everyone. bill clinton said that, obama said that. great conversation. didn't mean to jump on you but it's an issue we all care about. student or spy?

a case of espionage by china at duke university right after thi this.

>> laura: when they say russia, i say china. that's what i've been saying about the threats posed from china every time the left gets in a tizzy about the former

soviet union. the latest example, 35-year-old ruopeng liu, already a billionaire, mr. liu dubbed by the chinese, as the chinese elon musk for his efforts to send people into space. and his work on cutting edge projects like jet powered surfboards. sounds like a creative guy. where is he getting these ideas? reports that mr. liu simply stole intellectual property from one of america's most well-regarded scientists. david smith of duke university. >> we know that the chinese have a shopping list of intelligence and technology that they target every year. we know that the research he took from duke university was on that collection list, and we know that certain government officials and operatives met with him while he was in the united states. they came in and took pictures and measurements of all the equipment and sent it back to china. >> laura: take measurements and send it back to china. joining me for a reaction is

dean chang, sr. research fellow at the heritage foundation. this is nothing new but it still shocks me. he comes to duke university, lawfully here. suddenly he is a big billionaire back home and he has cutting edge technology from dr. smith. >> well, he's the, liu said he came to duke university specifically to work with that professor. he had been following his work for years and apparently brought several callings over to work on it. >> laura: how do we continue to allow this, given how bad we've done, a job we've done to combat intellectual property threaten the united states? >> here's a couple examples. there are 350,000 chinese students in the united states. >> laura: all paying cash. >> yes, that's part of why they are here. because for the university of california, they get $40,000 for

a foreign student. $13,000 for an in-state student. is it any surprise that as a result there are six times as many now chinese students at berkeley for example than there were ten years ago. >> laura: 35% of all foreign students now in american universities are chinese. >> that's right. >> laura: if you could devise government policy, what would it look like? >> i think there's a couple of things. one of the things, obviously if you're a professor taking or taking money from darpa or dod, you need to be very careful about who you accept. even on work and projects that are not funded by darpa. your computer system -- >> laura: what is darpa? >> defense advanced research project agency. super high-tech secret warriors. >> laura: i love the acronym from washington. no one knows what they mean. i have to ask. >> absolutely. the other thing we need to do is we need to promote stem, science, technology engineering

and mathematics research in the united states. one of the reasons why we bring in so many foreign grad student is that americans aren't willing to study stem and foreign students are. >> laura: the liberal arts. everyone is doing environmental science. that's important. it's good. psychology. everyone, what major are you? i'm a psych major. oh, okay. i majoring in english. okay. what are you going to do for work? how are you going to make money? ivanka trump is doing a big push on stem for girls which i think is really important. she is really spending a lot of time on that, pushing that initiative. it's critical. >> absolutely. unfortunately you have professors, for example at the university of illinois, they are pushing -- math is about grievance. it's about whiteness. >> laura: whiteness? a whiteboard that you are renting the equations on? >> foreign students come here wanting to do all the hard math and science and all that. american students, too many are being taught by professors whose

attitude is you know what math is about? math is about oppression. >> laura: scary. thank you. we will have you on again. this story is not going away. when we come back, michael avenatti. it's like a squatter who will not leave your television. ever. and now his hypocrisy is bad enough to shatter it. we will explain a moment. check out bass pro shops and cabela's for great deals on great gear. like savings of 25 to 40% on select men's and ladies' clothing. and save 30% on select towables. bass pro shops and cabela's- your adventure starts here.

>> laura: a man who spent the past few months living in a cable new studio has gone camera shy. after demanding transparency from president trump on his relationship with stormy daniels, michael avenatti convinced a federal judge to block the media from covering hs law firm's bankruptcy. they defaulted on millions of dollars in debt and they fallen way behind on payroll taxes so the closing question tonight is what are you trying to hide, mikey? we are going to keep searching for the answer. was he born with a microphone

coming out of his chest? was that a genetic condition. that's all the time we have. have no fear. shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team are up next. >> shannon: work your magic. thank you very much. we begin with a fox news alert. three major stories to break down for you tonight. first the trump administration called it a big win, the president securing trade concessions from the european union today. avoiding a potential trade were on that front for now. senator lindsey graham joins us to weigh in on that and much more. then breaking tonight, house republicans introduced an article of impeachment against deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. will they vote before breaking for august recess? it's about to happen. we will ask thomas and ron desantis. the president and his allies fighting back at his longtime lawyer michael cohen overlaid conversation as they are discussing a possible payment over the story of a "playboy" model alleging an affair with the president. former governor of arkansas