ahead of them as the flooding begins. >> sean: leland vittert to come up stay safe north carolina. we'll have a continuing coverage of hurricane florence throughout the evening. let not your heart be troubled. we are always fair and balanced. we are not the destroyed truck media. laura ingraham is standing by to take it away. a lot of news tonight. >> laura: i can't believe leland is out there hanging out to that pool. it is more dangerous than being in the golan heights where he was. >> sean: who used to be in a jerusalem bureau. look, i want to call him hurricane steve harrigan. they really do a great job, put their lives on the line to give us the great coverage. >> laura: fantastic. great show as always. >> sean: have a great show. >> laura: thanks so much. good evening from washington. i'm laura ingraham. welcome to "the ingraham angle." at this hour, hurricane florence is lashing the carolinas. hurricane force winds already being felt and are expected to worsen through the night. we have fox news coverage all along the coast. but we begin tonight in

north carolina where fox news correspondent steve harrigan is really feeling the storm. steve? >> laura come i've seen this bridge over the past few hours behind me just gradually disappear as the water comes up. if we do get an 11-foot storm surge, that would go over and go up the first floor. it is dark all along this island. people really heeded the call to get out. they have boarded up their houses with plywood and most of them left, either going far inland or north or south, trying to get away from this giant storm. the power is out. we just lost electricity a few hours ago. those of the camera lights on me now running on batteries. as many as 3 million people could lose power before this is over. right now, the winds have picked up considerably over the last hour or two. we are seeing tropical storm force winds. really, strong enough to try and cause some damage. we are hearing things a snap and crack and move.

it's our business pitch darkness to see exactly what is being moved by the house to my left has lost some bits off its roof and small branches as well. because the wind is so severe, they've shut down the bridge, this island from the mainland. if you are someone who has decided to stay here, you are going to be here to have to ride it out. as far as rescues go, there is a lot of assets in place, they are swift boat teams from 19 different states. that is something we see over and over again in these massive storms. the real contribution from all across the u.s. not only officially, but people with their own boats, who i'm sure we are going to see in the days ahead carrying out water rescues because that is the long-term danger. the wind is going to be dramatic. it's going to get worse over the next couple of hours. we are probably going to see 100-mile-per-hour sustained winds here but it is that rain that is going to cause a land flooding, that is going to be tl danger for the people across the states. laura, back to you.

>> laura: steve, we are watching you, everyone in the studio is watching this with me. we are actually afraid for you. i mean, that deck that you are on, the steps, that is not going to be there in an hour or two. that is gone. i'm sorry, i think you got it -- i know you want to report what you got to get off that within walkway. that ain't going to be there for much longer. i know that beach very involved, by the way, and that is brutal. >> we've been kind of moving back a little bit along the way. so we all try and moving back. but we are trying to show you the drama of what is going on at the same time. >> laura: the drama but we like you more. steve, please stay safe. we'll check back with you later on in the hour. that is unbelievable. if you live in the outer banks or near north topsail, that is incredible sight. we will have live reports of cores from the ground, from a closed throughout the hour. we also expect authorities to

bus on the latest, do not go anywhere. you want to not miss the latest on this monster storm. and we do want to get to some other important stories tonight, like the ugly smearing of brett kavanaugh. she should be ashamed of herself. senator dianne feinstein -- i actually have a lot of respect for her. we don't agree on everything. i have a lot of respect for her as a woman and being out there in the senate. but what she did today, we are going to tell you about this. we have breaking news on what this might do or not do to the kavanaugh confirmation. so stay right there. plus, we break down the media treatment of michelle obama versus melania trump. this as michelle obama gets ready for her big stadium-sized book to her. he will want to stop by for that and -- it's another unbelievable story. but first, global titans versus the american people. that is the focus of tonight's

"angle" ." immediately following the election, google executives gathered to share their feelings of dejection and despair. a video recently leaked to breitbart revealed the mind-set of google's leadership from within their corporate safe space. this is cofounder sergey brin. >> it safe to say that most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad because of the election. on a more serious note, myself, as an immigrant and refugee, i certainly find this election deeply offensive. i know many of you do, too. and i think it's a very stressful time, and it conflicts with many of our values. >> laura: values?

what are those google values? after all this, this is a company that has actively worked with the chinese communist regime for years. right now, google is developing an app to screen out content that the chinese government considers too sensitive for its citizens. translation: google is helping china silence its political opposition. the chinese government, let's remember, and presents dissidents and staley. they have more than a million muslims in reeducation camps played with a legitimate election of president trump, somehow conflicts with google's vaunted values? give me a break. today we learned that a senior google research scientist named jack paulson was so disgusted by the company's collaboration with chinese sensors, that he has quit in protest. in our thinking about this, you

want to know the real reason that the google execs were so exercised, so hurt by the election of term? because he promised to hold google's partner, china, accountable. to punish chinese cheating on trade deals that hollowed out u.s. manufacturing. for google and many other big manufacturers, the pretrump status quo was much easier. keep that production overseas, lower wages, no regulation, no health care that you have to worry about for those employees over internet. and if it hurts america, so be it. after all, those blue-collar americans will probably be trump orders anyway. and of course, google, they hate you deplorables. >> that fear, i think, not just in the united states, right around the world, is what is fueling concerns, xenophobia, hatred, and his desire for answers that may or may not be there.

>> laura: actually, trump found the answer is pretty easy two words: america first. sure, trump will work with the rest of the world. he stood on that. but on a much more level playing field. so why is google so threatened by that? i'll tell you why. >> history teaches us that there are periods of populism, of nationalism that rise up and that is all the reason we need to be in the arena, that is why we have to work so hard to make sure it doesn't turn into a world war or something catastrophic, but instead, is a blip, as a hick up. >> laura: left michael kay. you stop a world war with your search engine. ridiculous. like a liberal elites crossed politics, academic, and the entertainment industry, big tech doesn't really like the american voters are turned off or trump. that is pretty obvious. google thinks it knows better than its customers, after all, google execs are richer than they are. >> people are leaving, staff is crying, we are going to lose.

that was the first moment i really felt like we were going to lose. everybody come if you could turn around or go to the person next to you, and do a hug at work. >> laura: that's worse than a sign of peace at mass. sorry, i'm not a sign of peace person. [laughs] hug, a group hug. trump won. oh, my gosh. i needed comic relief today. that made me laugh more than anything else. but then huggy bear ruth got down to business. >> our values our strong, we will fight to protect them, and we will use the great strength and resources in which we have to continue the really important values. >> laura: again, the word values. what values? is google talking about? the left-wing globalist values that have helped enrich the

chinese regime at the expressive free expression and religious liberty. and of course, made google execs really rich. part of google's appointment was that their efforts in 2016 failed really spectacularly. of course they claim they are nonpartisan. but on email linked to my colleague tucker carlson show that the tech giant tried to turn out the latino vote in 2016 because they were confident latino voters would support hillary. but can you imagine our surprise when they wake up on election morning, they say they're 29% of latinos voting for trump? they were gob smacked. google is not some local business practicing civic engagement, we should all stand up and cheer, oh, google, go. google is one of the most powerful companies on the planet. they are responsible for about 90% of all searches online, they are more than 1.2 trillion searches on google each year, globally. more than 2 billion people use

its android mobile platform. and they've made $110.8 billion in revenue last year alone. but when smaller companies, smaller companies like chick-fil-a or hobby lobby or in-n-out burger, when they move in the smallest of ways to support more traditional or even conservative causes, those companies are sued and vilified nonstop by the mainstream media. well, when i giant like google s to actively undermine the political will of the american people, the media don't cover it. you know my? because the media agree with the google agenda. this is one of my favorite moments from the google anti-trump corporate rally. speak your last question. >> is there anything positive you see from this election? [laughter] >> boy, that's a really tough one right now.

>> laura: that's actually not so tough. i love those beanies, by the way. i want one. i will get one for my kids. that's a tough one. anything good that comes out of trump's election, well, how is this, tried on for size. the economy is booming. fair trade deals, wages are rising and blue-collar america is more optimistic about the family and they have ever been for decades. these google execs should have to do public acts of penance for their petty, idiotic statements. here's the bottom line. the google gang and the rest of big tech were happier when america was losing to china. they didn't care that blue-collar america got poorer and communist china got richer and stronger. so long as google got richer in the process. but today, president trump is turning the tables on that sick dynamic. his policies are working. google is still rich, of course.

but the globalists, even on the economy is going well, the globalists are still grumpy. that tells you all you need to know. and that's the "angle." joining us now the reaction a crtv host michelle malkin along with atac and cyber security expert, who is author of the forthcoming book, "what the tech is going on in politics." good to see both of you. china, let's start with you. give us the google take that came out the last couple of days, breitbart has it exclusively, shows a corporate culture that is overwhelmingly in the tank in 2016 for hillary, they are dejected and despondent. they look like they are set at that point to exert their influence in the tech world to change that dynamic of trump as president. this is a quick and diverse company to you? >> i think of the entire thrust of technology in the tech world

is actually diversity. when you consider that almost half of of the fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants, you would understand this. of support -- >> laura: legal immigrants, right? >> yes, legal immigrants. >> laura: we are not against legal immigrants. >> have to say this. 80% of graduate students of the united states in the field of computer science in electrical engineering are international students, and in order for those students to stay, they need to operate on h1b visas. and so they are not necessarily going to take the track of permanent residency because that takes many years. these companies, and many, many ways, have been supported and propped up by people who don't have that linear a path to immigration. so it is really not a black and white issue. and i don't think they see it as -- >> laura: why are they so dejected by trump winning? trump was going to do one thing, and michelle come i want you to join in.

the number one think they are really annoyed with is trump taking on china. i think the immigration thing -- yeah, they are worried about her coming out but trump taking on china is something obama and his only promise to do, bush promised to do, and i wanted it. trump did it and is leveling the playing field. that means at some of these google execs might not make as much money in the end but they are still multimillionaires but more americans might get a slightly higher wage. michelle? >> you've got the bottom line, laura. i'll get to china's comments about h1b and a second. let me just say this, i want to give a huge salute and shout out to the reporters come with a chuckle part is not breitbart. i think this is a blockbuster report. it it is both revelatory and confirmatory, for those of us who followed google's capitulation to china, that goes back 12 years, where they have thrown their own old corporate local, "don't be evil" under the bus by agreeing to all sorts of censorship regulations, when

they always stand so sanctimoniously is a holier than that community that embraces progressive values. is that gift that we now get to see that hypocrisy on display, and i think you are absolutely right, laura, that these kinds of companies, in silicon valley, do not have america's interests at heart. so let's talk about diversity. general, i did a report for crtv and michelle malkin investigates on the neighbor's american workforce, tech workers, black, white, asian-americans, who were fired and forced to train their inferior h1b replacement because google and their bikes are more interested in suppressing the wages of american workers that they are supporting the diversity of an american i.t. workforce. more hypocrisy from big tech. and it is a cult. you look at them all seeing the praises of diversity when you he

earth within the company that are too afraid to talk about their values and their support for the president. >> laura: someone leaked this outcome obviously, china. someone is concerned outside the company. paulson resigned to the last week or two. you had tristen harris, the former global employee, february 7th, 2018, let's watch this. >> i actually genuinely view this as an accidental threat. when you shake people attention, you shape their thous and thoughts proceed actions you are really shaping society, you are shaping culture, you are shaping whether people have the relationships that they are intended to have come or whether they sleep or not, shaping elections. there is an entire set of consequences when you shape people's attention through design. >> laura: china, your reaction? >> i think it is just such a monolithic beauty think that all big tech companies have the samt the spirit of what they are doing, it is not about being for or against the trump

administration. it is about policy brady look at the international entrepreneurship rules that were set apart by the obama administration, and yet has not seen into implementation, been pushed back over and over again. such things as the international entrepreneurship role encourage those intellectual resources that we need to run these companies, all of these companies, apple, facebook, google, amazon, all have founders in the matter immigrants and that purport -- >> laura: that's fine. that's great. i don't think there is any problem with that. i think michelle -- i think you come here illegally, sergey brin and his parents fled the soviet union. i think it's ironic that they flee the soviet union, his father as a mathematician of the university of maryland, his mother works were goddard. they are both brilliant. he's brilliant. they flee the express oppressive soviet union only for him to turn around and help the chinese communists develop an app to screen out offensive content. how does that make any sense?

how are those the values that google's stance of the day after the election and says, "our values are fronted by donald trump" because they are helping the train cloud to free expression? speak about is inaccurate. >> laura: that's not inaccurate. that's a fact. that is where one of the researcher's quest. >> i think by supplying their products, really, to the people of china, they are allowing china to be part of the global global conversation, part of the -- >> laura: you think that is what is happening? they want the market. >> you think google should not participate? they should not be a part of it? >> laura: michelle, go ahead. we got 30 seconds, michelle, go ahead. >> no, no, no. google is kowtowing to the communists and putting essentially internet duct tape around the mouths of dissenters who dare to criticize the

communist government. also, by the way, read "sold out" the book that i wrote it, with a former programmer, american computer programmer who defends american citizens who have been harmed by these h1b policies. guess what? the american i.t. workforce is sick and tired of these globalist elites telling them but there aren't best and brightest workers when they are the one being fired and replaced with these wage slaves. >> laura: "fortune" magazine research in china -- okay, "fortune" magazine research on this shows that for every 100 foreign computer scientist working in united states, between 33 and 61 domestic workers were replaced. the influx of foreign workers also held down wages of compensation being 2.6 percent to 5.1% lower if foreign workers were not allowed. okay. thanks to both of you for joining us, china and michelle. by the way, it's a disgusting democratic smear, and the media are all too happy to run with that.

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why? from a pathetic glass ditch effort by democrats to scuttled brett kavanaugh's nomination to the supreme court. intrigue swirls about a letter that dianne feinstein is sitting on. tonight the guarding reporting that kavanaugh and a male friend walked a woman in a room against her will during a party making her feel uncomfortable. the woman was later able to leave the room. we did that last week -- come on. joining me now, carrie severino, chief counsel and policy director at the judicial crisis network mariah carey, i'm laughing at this. it's a pathetic on so many levels. >> we know very little about what this letter was supposed to mean but we know a lot about the politics. if senator feinstein had this letter since july, why didn't

she -- if she really thought this was credible, why didn't she ask about him during the questions for the record? was going on here is very clear. senator schumer said we will do everything in our power to stop the nominee and that means character assassination, smears, all fair game. look at what they are doing to senator collins. she's got people going after her staff saying, i hope you get raped and impregnated, they want people to spit in her food at restaurants, there is a bribe that might even violate federal election law. >> laura: with kavanaugh, he 17 years old, georgetown prep kid at washington catholic school, 17 with a friend, locked someone when in a room and then she was able to leave. that is what is being reported this night is a story. if someone you don't know who heard it from someone else, who's at stanford. diane feinstein has actually had a pretty amazing career. she was elected -- is this really how she wants to end her

senate career? this way? pathetic doesn't even describe it, though. it's an attempt at september surprise that goes down and out or flames. it's a complete and total embarrassment. >> she's getting push from the lab, even as someone as far left as she is, she's feeling the pressure all more outrageous and fanatical. >> laura: carrie, thanks so much. democrats continue to deny that republicans deserve any credit for the economy. their argument goes something like this. it's really only good because of obama. oh, it's okay now, but the economy is okay but it's going to get worse, not going to last long, or who cares. the economic boom is overshadowed by how awful a person trump is. former white house staff, chief of staff reince priebus joins us now. you heard obama on the trail saying the economic boom is his. he's glad people are getting around and recognizing it. how humorous was that for you to watch? >> it's humorous because really what jump-started this economy

is what the president did in the first week, which was the deregulation, executive order for everyone regulation put in place, two have to be eliminated. turned out that 22 were eliminated for every one put in place. it also tells you about the politics. it's also rather smart because barack obama and the democrats are fighting and 30 force play districts for the control of the house. split districts mean they either fled from republican to democrat in 2012 and 2016 or vice versa. in those 34 districts, 21 of them or won by trump and the rest were won by quentin. this is a fight that people are going to have. what matters right now is who can take claim over the great economy. as bizarre as it is for you and i and the listeners to believe that somehow the economy we are in is something barack obama did and not president trump is insane. but what they are trying to do is play that game and those 34

states. >> laura: they are saying everything is chaos. they want to convince people that even though their lives are getting better, it's chaos. it's trump chaos. what can the president do? what can he do to give people a sense that sun train is coming out, and all of them right on your parade, the sun is coming out? >> we talked about this the last time i was on. the president started talking about it. i would do something completely different. i would boldly champion the idea that the president is willing to put rivals in a room -- he agreed with this, he put rivals in a room. he put gary cohn, wilbur ross, bob lighthizer, all these people come and he allowed them to fight it out. i'm not talking about -- >> laura: the voters don't care about gary cohn. >> that's my point. >> laura: how do these people out to vote? >> you talk about the economy -- >> laura: numbers don't get people to vote. >> what does get people to the polls are written they are getting more money in the pocket. >> laura: they want to feel that things are called being

down. don't they want things to be calm her? they want to feel that it will be safe streets, borders will be enforced, during the president's agenda, i can take a vacation. speak of the accomplishments and the results of the trump agenda. i think the accomplishments and the results it's what the white house needs to focus on, and i would quit fighting over whether or not people are fighting over trade in the white house. admit that people fight over trade. that's what i'm saying, minimize it. >> laura: the president should focus on the results that he's brought. he does. >> i put rivals in front of me. i learned from the socratic method. who cares? look at the results of what i have done. which is why i said in the past, the things that i have said, which is that he puts the shark and a seal on a falcon and a rabbit -- >> laura: that's a woodward book trick. >> i think i set it on your show. it's not a bad thing. >> laura: let me see a quote. when you put a snake and a

falcon in a rabbit in the zoo -- is like a song. things are getting nasty and bloodied. if you said that, mike, okay, good for advise that a problem? >> the president had agreed that he encourages the fight over policy. >> laura: 14 points down in the republican -- but in this economy, blue-collar optimism, bon mots out there waving up the possibility that manufacturing was ever coming back. >> we were also seven to eight points down in 2014, took control -- >> laura: we have to make headway. >> we have to make headway, absolutely. you do have to make some headway. but the republicans have a natural advantage in the midterms. i am still optimistic, and the presidential approval numbers are no different today than they were in november. >> laura: little down a little bit? >> no, there 37% -- cnn has 36. they were at 37% of on election day of 2016. aroma, and those 34 split districts, at 34 -- excuse

me, 37%, 21 of those districts went from obama to trump. in a split districts at 37% approval in 2016. so it's not always how it appears. >> laura: we will do this in another segment. i want to get your sense on this. i think it should be all for one, one for all right here with the republicans. ted cruz is facing a tough opponent in texas. beto o'rourke. a pinup boy in texas. you may not like drum, they didn't offer trump. they are very popular in texas. george w. bush is not competing for ted cruz, what is going on? >> i don't know that. >> laura: is not come as far as i know. shouldn't he? shouldn't republicans -- >> control of the senate is what is at stake. let bygones be bygones. win control for the senate, not just for the president. if you are not willing to work for the president come to work for the good of the country and the things you believe in as a

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24 hours, which having been out here now for about ten hours in it, it's pretty miserable. but just imagine being at home, as many people are now, watching and knowing that the conditions that we are in is what is happening to their house. it is not an additive situation, every hour is just another hour, it's exponentially bad situatio situation. it's getting worse. the tide is coming in now. we watched these docs continue to rise. there is only another foot or two left on those before the docs break away and then go into the city, and have a mic sort of destructive barges to the city. that is even before we get to the point where you have the storm surge and met 40 inches of rain now that are not only going to come through here in morehead but also, upriver, all the way back. dozens, if not hundreds of miles of carolina. now about hundred thousand power outages, laura, that will go into the multi-hundred thousands before the night is over.

>> laura: leland, when do you make the decision to pull off that dock there because you got about -- looks like a lot less than 1 foot before that water starts rolling over you, my friend. what happens when that the lamp post gives way? that is not a good situation. >> the lamp post is a couple of feet in the concrete. once as water comes up here over this, the idea of slipping and being that water is not one that i think -- a risk we are going to take. that is about the time that we pull out. >> laura: leland, please, please be careful. i don't like the looks of you out there. although, you do make a nice couple, leland. you have a good rest of the night. we all send some preventions down your way. we'll have more reports from the ground later in the hour. as we explained that our "angle" last night, the democratic party is being slowly -- not slowly -- as being hijacked by a and investing itself in which trail and knocked on mike outright violence. with that in question, my

question tonight, why aren't all republican, given a clear are seeing for the democrats, including the republicans who don't even like president trump that much, mike ben sasse, jeff flake, george w. bush, and others, why aren't they all coalescing around candidates, especially those who are vulnerable, to make sure the g.o.p. wins in this november, including the senate, not just a house, but senate races? joining us to discuss, ari fleischer, former press secretary for president george w. bush and dave bossie, former deputy campaign manager for the trump campaign. ari, let's start with you. george w. bush hitting the campaign trail. he is still very popular at certain parts of the country, and former two term president. i don't think he is campaigning for someone like ted cruz, who's in a very close race and bush's home state right now. what gives? >> there is two months ago when i think the president will make decisions about what he's going to do, how sensitive it will be. he's stayed at the pain down my campaign trail since he left the presidency and that is his

personal decision. his popularity is really inferring going, laura come i want to see more establishment republicans helping the establishment candidates. this is about the future of our nation. the worst thing republicans can do, , i there were were establishment or trump republicans, such democrats take back the congress and do the damage the other to our david, insert a people come up democrats -- they are out there standing shoulder to shoulder. they don't agree on anything. >> no matter how insane they are. it doesn't matter what they say or do, the policy positions, the left is always very good at standing together, no matter how awkward it might be. look, the republicans really need to. they have 54 days to decide whether or not they want to continue to have control of the house and the senate. i think the house is really where it comes down to. trump derangement syndrome amongst some of these republicans is really unfortunate. flake and corker should be out

there campaigning for candidates across their states and across the country and instead, they are not. they are attacking this president, undermining these great policy positions, these great economic numbers that we have. they are detracting from that. >> laura: instead, we have ben sasse giving interviews, ari, about how -- the burning issue peoples mind going to the right terms as politicians releasing their tax returns. let's watch. >> has never been a lot but everybody has always done it. this is the first time it hasn't had it. the president said he would do it once he got the nomination and once he got elected, he said the people lost interest. i think there's a lot of distrust. he should release them. >> laura: ari, your reaction? >> why do they have to keep us during this part? i understand how the press can put a microphone in front of the politicians and they can say something anti-trump. it's not constructive. when it comes to ben sasse or corker or flake come i campaign, most people have not heard of

these people outside of their states. i don't know that it's all that helpful to governor scott of florida to have a senator from tennessee campaign for him. the dynamics of this race are really going to be whether or not donald trump can get his bees out for support republicans. we all know that anti-trump base is coming out. so like it or not, this is a nationalized election. there is no dodging it. the trump base needs to show up, presidential your numbers, not off your numbers. >> laura: i think ari is right. however, it is not about going out and campaigning. who cares, ben sasse -- he can get arrested. no one knows who he is. i agree about that. but how about buttoning it up? but on the mouth, we don't need to hear you doing your best msnbc pundit and interpretation. don't knee cap the the presidel presidential -- >> laura: no constituency. >> not only do they have no constituency, they are not running for reelection. the same people who elected president trump board and to

reelect them in november, and that is fundamentally their problem for them. they need -- this is part of ofe going away party. >> laura: ari -- >> america has to focus on the alternative here, the democrats take control, their policies, and their policies or government takeover of health care, donald trump committed treason, and we should raise our taxes. that is what is driving the entire democratic agenda. do we really want that to be renting the house or senate again? i sure hope not. >> ari it's exactly right. president trump is not on the ballot for november but his policies are. the america first agenda and is make america great again over the last couple of months are on the ballot and we have to show up in force. >> laura: abolishes i.c.e. that is of the democrats want to do. >> medicare for all, the rallying cry from the democrats. the worst thing for seniors who rely on medicare is to make medicare medicare for all. it's already going broke and if you want longer lines and worth

of my closed health care, make medicare for all. >> laura: blue-collar america, they are doing well, better turn out big time and the midterms. this will all go south. gentlemen, thank you very much. how the media treats michelle obama versus melania trump. it tells us a lot about our current drama that we are in. our political atmosphere. we will expand all next. but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell.

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♪ >> laura: women comes to politi, first lady melania trump

seems pretty hands-off, unlike former first lady michelle obama, who's been all over the political landscape, trying to get ready to sell her book and whip up democratic votes for the midterms. while michelle is given a cover girl treatment, an actual cover girl, melania, is disparaged and often ridiculed. joining us with a reaction, rachel campell.become a fox news contributor and gretchen von helms, strategist. all right ladies, michelle obame person, a great mom, left her husband, very politically engaged, that is fine. shot well magazine covers during her time in the white house, "volga" three times, "time" magazine, and style come again number one magazine cover melania has been on, maybe one 1 when they won the election. what do you make of this, gretchen? >> this is really about that a political issue but a gender

issue. because the press has treated an impact on women, either too fat or too skinny or too tall or too short or too frumpy, and the case of hillary clinton. so it isn't just about the first -- >> laura: we are not talking about hillary. focus on what we are talking about. michelle obama, who was literally on every magazine cover that we can remember. and melania, who was a cover girl is, is nothing. she's gorgeous. they are both beautiful women. one happens to be donald trump's wife, and one happens to be barack obama's wife. how we are saying is, take politics out of it. they are post birth both first both first ladies, and at on the view as we saw, this is what the ladies on the view sai. >> i was struck by melania's a statement. she said -- oh, yeah. >> don't do it.

>> that's why we are telling you, don't do it. >> laura: obviously, she has a goofy accent, we will see that without seeing it. rachel? >> the irony of it. this is the party of diversity and tolerance and supporting the immigrants, as well, and here they are making fun of our first immigrant first lady in modern times. so that is very interesting. really, this is about politics. your guest sounds very nice but very naive. if melania were a progressive, and she was for socialism, and all these other leftist policies, and she was married to -- >> that's ridiculous! if she just got out there and did stuff, she would get on the cover of stuff. she hasn't been very active. >> she would get the covers of the magazines. she is a former international model, she is clearly the most fashionable first lady we have

had since jackie oh, maybe even surpassing jackie o. and yet, not only does michelle obama good covers but so does chelsea clinton. i mean, who has ever thought of high fashion and chelsea clinton, and she got it but melania doesn't? this -- >> they shouldn't be about how the women look. it should be about how they think! and melania has not been forthcoming about what she thinks and what she wants to engage in and what her platform is. this is not about these women dress or the little things, it's about the beliefs that they put forth. >> with melania, it's about the leftist strategy to not normalize donald trump. so they can't legitimize him, and so the strategy includes not legitimizing his wife, his kids, his blue-collar recovery, economy, the booming economy, trade -- >> laura: i have a question, gretchen. liberal women are all like, we are pro-choice, whatever you

want to become a bee. if you want to be politically active, if you just want to be a traditional first lady, maybe you plant the vegetable garden, may be you support -- that's great. that is her choice. why not -- >> michelle obama -- >> laura: why is melania -- you know she's being treated differently. i don't know why you are denying that. she's obviously being treated differently. >> she's choosing to stay home, she choosing to be with her family. that is a great choice. she is choosing to put faith and family first. that is her decision. it doesn't necessarily make it a sexy cover magazine. she's not putting herself out there. >> laura: wait a minute, although women on the cover of "vogue" are there because they are brilliant endeavors? most of them are there because they are fashion and their looks and a lot of them are business

people, too. come on, guys. they are there in part because they are beautiful. we are out of time. love you, gretchen, for coming on, and love you, of course, ms. duffy. i'll write, rachel. we had live to the carolinas next. latest on the hurricane.

>> laura: hurricane florence currently smashing into the carolina coast line. for more and what is happening, let's go back to fox news correspondent leland vittert, who is still morehead city, north carolina, still holding onto the lamp post. leland, still you are friends with the lamp post. >> still very good friends, about to part. much to the happiness to both you and my mother on this one. the storm surge keeps coming and if you are really getting a sense of the power of the water here. that is what is the destructive nature that florence will bring bright not only here, but farther inland. what makes it the unusual is how does curving end. the barrier islands are just about two or 3 miles that way but rather than acting as a barrier, they are acting as a final for this water, as it continues to slam in here. the longer that florence turns, it could be a total of about 24 hours of hurricane conditions. the worst is going to get, not for the people out on the islands, it's bad they are, but the water levels will continue to rise here, and up the

streams, farther inland, sometimes up to 100 miles inland. you could get really catastrophic flooding, which means water rescues are going to be going for a long time. as we are out here now, probably about eight hours into hurricane conditions, you understand why authorities were so dire in their predictions. it is so clear that the people were decided to say, they were essentially on their own. too dangerous for the police would have it my fire department to come out. >> shannon: leland , please, please be careful. let's go to rick leventhal, who is in wrightsville beach north carolina, where the storm is about to hit next. rick? >> laura, for most of the day, wrightsville beach was pretty calm. in the last couple of hours, things are picked up pretty dramatically. we were down right by the beach in a house about five doors from the ocean. because of the threats from the storm surge, we moved to higher ground, and we are definitely well protected here. we are also feeling the winds picking up, and the rain coming

down. wrightsville beach is one of these coastal communities that heeded the mandatory evacuation order, just a handful of residents stayed behind. what we saw throughout the day were police officers, be it patrol, fire department, doing their roles, patrols, to make sure that no one was getting in trouble, everything was good as a couple of hours ago. the fire department are treated to the other side of the bridge and everybody's getting ready to ride this thing out. the big fear is that the storm surge will live up to expectations, 7-11 feet. where we are will be fine but all these homes and businesses down on sea level, they could be in for some pretty significant flooding, as of course the roads could become too. we are keeping an eye on it and we will keep you posted. >> laura: rick, how long is the water supposed to be coming in there? how long is the rain supposed to last? >> we were told to expect heavy rain for the next three days. so we are.

the surge could come sometime after midnight with high tide but they are saying this storm is moving so slowly that it could be tomorrow morning, even midday tomorrow come by the time the hurricane force winds get here. >> laura: rick, please stay safe. we'll be right back.

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we think them for their coverage. please be sure to keep it to adhere to fox news channel for the latest updates and information all throughout the night. right starts with shannon bream on the "fox news @ night" team. >> shannon: laura, thank you so much. we have extended coverage. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. this is a fox news weather alert. ♪ the threat has become a reality. the monster category to transform hurricane florence is battering the carolina coast right now. you are looking at images from north carolina, and twins shredding an american flag on. that is an old coast guard station 34 miles off the coast, bending trees, turning seawater, sloshing promotions onto the streets. and wind speeds of more than 10. hurricane is leading to potential chaotic drama catastrophic torrential rainfall. we are tracking an