blocking highways, you name it, sean. >> sean: stay safe. thoughts and mayor's to all the people impacted. us be fair and balanced. let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham. >> laura: good evening. i'm laura ingraham and this the single angle. hurricane florence is sweeping through the carolinas. we will keep you updated with critical reports throughout the hour. and now democrats scrambling with their 11th hour smears against brett kavanaugh. plus, new explosive page-strzok texts blow the lid open on a media fbi loop that looks like it was meant to take trump out from the beginning. that's a shock. maxine waters compare's trump immigration policy to you guessed it slavery. all that head awesome friday follies with raymond. let go first to fox news correspondent steve harrigan who is in top sail beach,

north carolina. steve, what do you see? >> laura, outside of the camera lights and police lights, much of this coast of the north carolina is in the dark. more than 500,000 north koreans without electric power, many in homes that have been damaged by the winds. damaged by flooding. that means they have no airconditioning, no tv, no cell phone service. and some of them are in life-threatening conditions. now, the rescues have begun already. people coming from arranged the country. swift boat rescue teams from at least 19 states here. that's one of the remarkable things about these storms it brings out the volunteers from all over. the police chief said they are going to set out at first light to see some areas they have not yet seen. we have gotten a break after 30 hours from pounding rain and wind. strong enough to dage damage along the coast. part of hoofs, balconies, things like that.

making roads very treacherous for travel. they will try to help people as waters to continue to rides acrowfs the straight i. now let's get to rick leventhal in wilmington, north carolina. rick? >> i wanted want to update those numbers there are more than 800,000 without power. everyone here in wilmington, writesville beach where we were for the last few days. today highest it's ever been almost 5 feet above high tide. roads were flooded for hours today and a lot of homes put at risk. we drove from there into a neighborhood just on the other side of the intercoastal and saw dozens of trees that have toppled. a lot of branches down and big old trues. some of them 50 years or more that were blocking reads. they weren't letting anyone in exempt accepts he -- many

flooded areas. the traffic lights are all out. we saw state troops terrify light of interactiones because there is not working in this part of south carolina. they expect it to get work iwork atree fell on a how the ad killed her woman and infant child u and the husband was also injured. he was taken to the hospital. buff two of the five dead were from a tree coming down and someone else died when they were trying to plug in a generator and plug in extension cord. a lot of the hazards come, laura, as you know after the hurricane passes. but,by the way, it's still storming out here. we had a band come through minutes ago that was almost as ferocious as the hurricane itself. they are expecting more of these bands to come through as night comes on and rain to continue for two or three more days. flooding hazards will continue for a while here. >> laura: thanks so much, rick. rick and steve two of the

harvardest working reporters out there coverings hurricane floors. we will continue to bring you live updates from north carolina throughout the hour. meanwhile, the me too movement has become, let's face it, a powerful force as victims have come forward to make accusations against those who they say abuse dollars them. we have seen this in holiday, major if i cans taken out media make figures taken out and politics ditto. first hand attacked led by witnesses to some accuse bring in the end. prescription us to brett brings us to brett kavanaugh. no one has come forward and witnesses dispute the charge. but the new yorker is reporting allegations of an unnamed woman who claims that kavanaugh, while in high school tried to force himself upon her. now, kavanaugh is vemently denying it took place in high school or innocent. and the only other

corroborating witness has no recollection of it whatsoever. so what are we left with? a nearly four decades old anonymous charge released late in the game now, remember we told you late last night that senator dianne feinstein had a letter containing allegations back in july related to this. well, she chose to sit on it. she let brett kavanaugh go through a series of senate meetings. three days worth of unending testimony. judiciary committee and answered 263 pages worth of follow up guess. now, at the last minute, the democrats drop this bomb sell on him and media people lap it up. all eerily reminisce september what my old boss clarence thomas did 25 years ago after leaked fbi memo they reopened his confirmation proceeding so they could basically publicly humiliate thomas and his family. >> how would any member on

this committee, any person in this room or any person in this country would like said about him or her in this fashion? or this dirt dredged up and this gossip and these lies displayed in this manner? how would any person like it? the supreme court is not worth it. no job is worth it. i am not here for that. i am here for my name. my family, my life, and my integrity. >> the kavanaugh case has an all too familiar taint, doesn't it? detailed legitimate concerns should be dealt with in the fbi background check process or that's followed up, in the public hearings. not in this 11th hour media circus. joining us now with reaction is meghan mckay lebanon oneleb a

letter supporting him. and this woman working in the white house. and former clerk for judge kavanaugh. helge, i will start with you, the entire panel, have you known brett kavanaugh the longest. and, i am lived about what they are doing to him. i can imagine you are as well. your reaction? >> laura, you and i have been friends with judge kavanaugh we used to call him bret for 25 years. i have also worked with him in the white house counsel's office side by side every day. he treated me like a serious lawyer, like his equal. like his teammate in every fashion. he atlantic me seriously. he debated issues with me. this is a man who treats women with the upmost respect, care desi. he icourtesy. is a kind and gentle person.

it make me upset too, lawyerlauraa person willing to n the supreme court. those qualification us willing to serve to be smeared like this at the very last minute such an obvious attempt to stop him or tarnish him in some way because some people can't accept the fact that he is so well qualified and is he going to be on the supreme court. >> laura: meghan, i want to go to you because there has been some whispering around washington about this letter, the 65 classmates who signed this letter in support of judge kavanaugh. and it was said that this letter had been written long ago. is that the case? because i know you signed it. i want to clear that up once and for all. >> no. that is absolutely mouth the case. we got winds you have this yesterday. from my husband received a call from a reporter with those allegations. and we couldn't believe it. absolutely couldn't believe

it. i have known bret since i wa a freshman in high school. we knew we had to rally around him u. >> so have you known him since high school. have you known him longer than we have. and if anything in his character indicate behavior, such as that is alleged today, again, by an anonymous person in a letter that feinstein sat on since july. anything in his background or character? >> absolutely nothing. he always treat i had us -- girls with respect. it was simple to final from five different high schools everyone jumped on poured and happy to see it in i had behalf. evidence saw it. >> there are legitimate claims that haven 'raised spanned ounced and people put their thames behind those claims and accusations. this is someone who refuses

to give her name for whatever reason and it ends up in the hands of dianne feinstein. porter, i have to ask you about that. what about those circumstances? dianne feinstein doing this in this way? >> well, i'm not a political commentator so i don't have a lot to say. >> laura: oh, shucks. >> the way dianne feinstein has handled this aside you from the fact that i believe she takes the concerns of women seriously. if they thought there was a serious credible allegation here she would have come forth sooner and said something. during the fbi background check or the hearing. >> laura: tell us about judge kavanaugh the boss. >> i was a law clerk to judge kavanaugh in 2007 and 2008. i worked closely with him day in and day out. i helped him prepare and decide cases. is he unfailingly kind and representful. respectful. these are contrary to what i have known for a decade.

>> laura: there was a tweet from obama's top guy brian fallon or hillary's campaign, committee, and he competed this out today in response to this emily singer tweet. emily singer tweet you had make the whole bring in the daughter's basketball team and talk about how great a coach he was look even more transparent. and then fallon tweets back and his emphasis on hiring women clerks. i would like you to respond to that so, in other words, he hired female clerks for 12 years in anticipation of being nominated to the supreme court. porter? >> laura, i'm not alone in my assessment of jawfn. i think you know that women from every phase of his life have written letters judiciary committee supporting his nomination. every single one of his female clerks not predicted from finding a letter based on current employment vouched for character, integrity, the fact it is because of him that they are succeeding in their careers. there is an amojt in an

entry i did last november about there this whole process that he went through 11-how fit if it please memo dismissed anizations by aneath that tammaro will here is what he said watch. >> 28 years ago you went through the worst confirmation spectacle in history. was it worth it. >> i think we are called to do certain things. i don't think anyone would choose to go through unpleasantness. if it has to be that to do what is right then so so be it. >> laura: i clerked for justice like you did. it's so disappointing that the confirmation process and senate judiciary committee has sunk so low. we could be having a conversation about the constitution. we could be having a conversation about the 300

opinions that judge kavanaugh has written. we could be talking about the future of our country. instead we are talking about trash, smut, anonymous agencies and even justice ginsburg yesterday. a fighter implet con respected by some people across the aisle said the confirmation process et way it is now is wrong. if liberals don't believe justice ginsburg then i don't know who they will listen to. >> laura: meghan, have you been in touch with judge kavanaugh? how is he doing? how is his family doing throughout this process? it certainly was rough in that confirmation hearing especially when they had the plans pleft and all out disrespecting. >> i saw them at the hearings and the they are doing spells be successful. there was one moment last night and i want you i guys

to respond this is lawrence o'donnell raise go ahead this herb of this athletic. let's watch. >> the fact that the senator and congresswoman issued statements about this today and tack too many too step to the fbi. wamples where weigh now and we do not know we are where to be tomorrow. >> we overuse the word unprecedented for supreme court nominations even with the clarntion thomas background this absolutely unprecedented. >> it really suvment. >> laura: so pathetic. i'm sorry e even morning joe this morning had to say -- they can't stand trump at morning joe. even they were saying come on, guys. you have made a mockery of the senate confirmation process for the supreme court. we have all these incredibly impressive women. porter who is not a political person, decided to come on and put her name out there tonight. obviously meghan, did you out same thing. helgi you have better things to do. you are out here to stand

against unfairness. >> i would like american women to know all these women on this seth today are accomplished women. we all think he is grate would you take the word of somebody known for 25 years or last-minute character answers. >> thank you for joining us tonight. what an embarrassment for the media. first desperate attempt to smear kavanaugh then reported a story about a u.s. ambassador early this morning that turns out to be totally false. the "new york times" hit piece indicate you had that nikki haley had spent nearly $53,000, indicated, on curtains in her residence in new york. except, guess what? it wasn't trump's state department. it was obama's. the time is now walking back that story. like if you are going to do a hit job. don't fall flat on your face

my friends u joining me now with reaction is howie kurtz, the host of media buzz which hairs sunday here on cbs u big news gr a friday night. we have to left in nikki hail buy thing. the ben carson spendin spending everywhere much money. enough to it'sening can i hail live it didn't rent you true today when i heard it what happened. >> one of the worst headlines i have seen in the neantle or any other newspaper trying to paint out of control scott prosecute spending 10s of thousands of dollars on luxuries. read down she had nothing to would the pretty much of state department. rich we created crawrn implech. what is missioning the tore should have been obliterated blown up digitally erased

has no reason to being. issuing an apology from the paper to nikki haley. >> laura: i saw there was an editor's note. who reads editor's note. that's way down at the bottom of the story. that's it? they are able to do that at the "new york times" ar sail character. into the only was it pad bad headline. when you say unfair then the story has no reason. >> laura: they should be publishing above the fold in tomorrow's paper print edition if they want to gain a shred of credibility back. the new york slimes what they're now proving themselves to be another extension of the dnc. that's all it is. dnc, obama, hibbert, whatever it is the old gray lady should be red faced with shame after just that one piece. i have got to ask you about this roman pharaoh getting

this memo though today and again -- he wins a pulitzer prize. he has a lot of credibility in reporting these issues. obviously weinstein what ntsb did to stop that story and other cases like it. but i was kind of surprised that he decided to go on television and talk about this given how thin and how old and how uncorroborated this particular allegation is. >> yeah, well before ronan pharaoh did that today i think most of the media were sort of cautious what had all the earmarks of a late hit. mysterious letter. anonymous accuser something may or may not happened when brett kavanaugh was 17 years old. sort of gave the rest of the media cover to now go on tv. did he not interview this woman. evidence got ahold of the hem mow. >> i admire his reporting

but i think it's fair to point out that i worked for the obama state department. >> whether a he did on the other stories is shoe leather reporting. this is taking a little gift wrapped up by dianne feinstein and say everybody else, you are clear. have you cover to go off and talk about this as if it is something that laches five years office over there at the d.c. circuit. i'm dwelling you this is answer insult assault cases. >> wrism who have been victimize you had should see this as it a pure political attack late hit on a great man. i grichted it. the accuser is anonymous at least neath hill testified cross-examined the media need to be extraordinarily not used in 11th hour smear. >> laura: paul manafort

accepted a plea deal with special counselor. why they might want to save the confetti. explosive enough text between strzok and page u all that next. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level?

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have to do with manafort's past. no involvement with president trump. no involvement with the campaign. no involvement with russia. and, by the way, there is also no evidence of obstruction. there have been four guilty pleas now. and they are completely irrelevant. >> laura: that was rudy giuliani moments ago with a w. sean hannity shredding the narrative of the resistance after paul manafort agreed to plead guilty in a deal with special counsel bob mueller today. and despite the media proclamations all day long, we still don't know that manafort is cooperating with mueller's team against president trump. joining me now to break it all down joe digenova is an attorney in washington and kendall coffee former district attorney for the southern district of florida. gentlemen, great to see both of you. joe, you said earlier today, i believe, that this is a village. this samir raj. this is a this is a mirage.

it accomplishes nothing. it has nothing to do with mr. mueller's mandate. it prevents mr. manafort from getting consecutive time. it also prevents mr. mueller from having to go through a trial and waste resources and it also permits mr. manafort to cooperate in the ongoing investigation by mueller of tony podesta and 6 others including gregory craig formerly of the law firm asking a and. i would walls are closing in but not on the president. >> laura: alan dershowitz called this a big deal today. he said basically this was not great news for the administration. he also then discussed the issue of a possible pardon and the timing of a pardon for paul manafort. let's watch. >> wouldn' once he agrees to cooperate he has to cooperate with everything. know such thing as partial cooperation.

the question is did he cooperates too late. would he have been better off cooperating before his first trial. i think he was prantsdz hoping for a par con. the question comes up did the president act too late if he was requesting to pardon he would have been much better than cooperating early. >> laura: kendall, your thought on the issue and overall plea. >> it doesn't look like going to hand. manual for the may have hopes for one and then he decided to turn nut towel. i don't believe this is a make make event. if indeed he had the president that he would be cooperating a song time ooj if we look at this set of criminal charges and comparing it to michael cohen, of the enen this doesn't do anything like that. in fact, if you look at the

charges, rather than suggesting collusion between the trump campaign and russia, it suggests collusion between manafort and democrats with respect to the apparently allegedly illegal efforts to lobby on behalf of ukrainian government forces. >> laura: yeah. before we get to the strzok page text, joe, you mentioned briefly greg craig former obama white house counsel for the first year of the administration. i gisz they are weighing federal charges against him southern district of new york as unregistered foreign agent and against his old law firm scadden arps which full disclosure i worked for 20 years ago. they are sucking up out podesta, sucking up greg greg. again none of it related to trump but it is related to the idea of working on behalf of foreign countries and thought disclosing it u so, where is the collusion

there? >> well, there is none for president trump and his campaign. there is plenty there for the democrats. not only derivation of the dossier and generated through christopher steel. it's obvious and these why this county r. closed lobbying form. turned over and quite evidence that the southern district of new york is investigating both gregory poll of up disclosed ukraine work gl t united states. this is all good quite good for the president. it makes his point quite beautifully and with some fashion. this is where the rubber meetsd the road. there never has been any evidence of collusion by the put of the united states and his campaign and plea bemanafort today simply

underscores that. >> laura: it's not clear that manafort is cooperating on trump. could be cooperating on out greg craig and podesta issue. i want to move on to another story. tonight more explosive texts just released between peter strzok and lisa page. and it includes this trump text pages following it will make your head spin to realize how many stories we played a personal role in. page response jeesh, it's been quite a year and forwarded the link tou "new york times" most read stories of 2016. kendall, what does this tell you about the paramour's involvement with the media in setting a narrative against trump and his associates? >> yes, deeper and worse than we thought. they talked about stopping the trump candidacy and now they are talking about orchestrating a media

campaign throwing things in there how they will set up some pretexts for interviews. coordinating ongoing leaks. obviously aimed at out trump administration u so this is a serious thing is try toll to understand and nail how much did you r. they have? they were involved in critical periods like this. where dots infloins end and how much of a tangts on this? >> lindsey graham, of course, has called for a expected special counsel, jojoe digenova. this is screaming investigation. we have the general investigation ongoing. this needs a justice department regular process investigation or a special counsel. this is ridiculous. setting up a pretext for interviews of trump

officials based on leaks that they planted in the media. so it's like this -- it's this feedback loop in order to get the trump folks. this is -- they call trump an autocrat? this is maddening. >> as i have been saying for two years. there was a brazen plot to illegal little exsill lear rat hillary clinton and if she lost frame donald trump. that's what these texts are about. not whether a question people can debeat. i know there is a a grand jury underway. wrack is taken about strzok, page mccain and others involved in this case and e. reason we know it james baker former counsel at the fbi has turned states' evidence and fully cooperated with the federal general andth fbi i can, i

have did he knows is he going to be indicted. >> laura: pretty nextexplosive n friday night. appalling comments from chelsea clinton about abortion and the reboot that les moonves should be most worried about. our fry dale royal seeing you meant. we will head back for update on florence incredibly destructive path. don't move.

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post is over there, thank you very much, mr. lamp post. you saved me last night. boy, what a difference 24 hours makes. you probably wouldn't want to go for romantic stroll here in more head, north carolina. it's not that terrible out. you still have the rain coming down. we have had 24 inches so far here. and that's going to be really the story of florence. there is wind damage clearly over on atlantic beach. there is roofs blown off and stores destroyed. not utter devastation that sometimes you see with huge, huge powerful hurricanes. this is going to be a flooding hurricane which means it's going to take another couple of days to figure out just how bad this is. already talked tout captain of one of the boats that's normally here. he said there are parts now that his friends can't get to that no one can get to that are completely cut off and destroyed floodwaters continue to rise. he said though, the most important thing about people here is that they come together as a community. all of these are small communities. he said we don't ask for help. we don't need it. we just get it done.

and coming up, there is going to be a lot to get done, laura. >> laura: leland, please stay safe out there. it's good to see you tonight and great work all throughout this hurricane which means, look, it's friday. what does that mean? it's time for friday's follies. chelsea clinton may need to atone after some remarks about abortions that she just made. chelsea clinton is in a little bit of hot water because she made a remark about an issue which is a little rough. >> religion. problem. rain shower. >> laura: well for answers we are joined bift raymond. chelsea was on sirius xm radio and made alarming remarks. >> yes, she did. town hall meeting left of center one. clearly setting herself up for a political run. watch. >> when i think about all of the statistics that are

painful of what women are confronting today in our country and what even more women confronted preroe, we just can't go back to that. i think that's uncon thennablununconscionable to me. i'm sure this will unleash another wave of hate in my direction but as a deeply religious person it's also unchristian to me. >> it's unchristian to stop people from having abortions. now, look, no matter where you stand on this issue and it is a deeply hurtful issue for a lot of people and a wrenching one. to suggest that people who defend life are somehow acting in an unchristian manner men and women through their religion believe their religion compels them to protect innocent life, these are remarks that i think people are going to be outraged. >> laura: going to unleash hate. no, it doesn't unleash hate it's disbelief.

you can disagree about this issue but it's almost -- you are questioning the christian beliefs of those who believe it's right to protect the most vulnerable and. >> you will remember a month ago she said abortion actuallily contributed to 2.5 trillion in the economy all the mothers who went into the workplace. >> ride. all of this remichedded me of nancy pelosi, how will remember the theologian in 2008 had this to say. >> ardent practicing catholic, this is an issue that i have studied for a long time. what i know is that over the centuries the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definitio definition. saint agus continue said at three months you don't know. >> saint agus continue considered abortion evil violence and immoral. nancy pelosi can whip up votes.

theologian,. >> laura: move over st. thomas aquinas. >> les moonves was ejected from cbs after six more women came forward with abuse. the cbs board is investigating howl big a severance package he will get. his wife julie chen has appeared on big brother a show she has host you had for 1 8 years. >> i'm julie chen moonves. good night. [cheers] >> first time she has ever identified as julie chen moonves as a sign of support for her husband. >> laura: i thought les was going to pop out of that door. that would have been more fun. hi, i'm back. >> cameras big brother of cbs hallways the. >> laura: it was finale. >> finale of that for the season. other women from cbs from days past is coming forward. tomlinson responsible for designing women. she has a harrowing account where she says he ended her career around killed many

shows with women in the lead. she wrote one thing in hollywood reporter this is kind of terrifying of a major actress. coming off iconic detective show starting and pitching a new one he informed her that shoe was too old to be on the network. he stood up taking her by the shoulders i can't get you leave by that she reacted suddenly touched then he shoved his tongue down her throat. i know this happened because the star is the person who told me. angela bans bury getting 40 million viewers a week when her show was cancelled. now designing women is coming back, so is murphy brown. one reboot i can tell promise you les moonves will not want to see.

♪ >> i think murder she does if lansbury comes back and les moonves on the other end of that one. you won't be seeing that reboot. >> laura: just when we think we have heard it all. maxine waters comes out with a new charge against the trump administration. it may make your head explode just in time for the weekend. stay there.

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>> laura: by now you might have thought the maxine waters tank of insults might be empty. check out a blawction foundatioblack caucusevent. >> in these united states [inaudible] i believe there has been collusion i'm just waiting on mueller the special counsel to get those [inaudible] [applause] >> laura: joining us now with reaction is horace cooper project 21 along with civil rights attorney leo terrell. horace, start with you, maxine waters is the toast of the town. if you are someone who wants to impeach trump and anti-trump, maxine waters is kind of -- she is what ruth bader ginsburg is to the supreme court. she has the cool factor. what is this latest round?

>> demonstrates' everybody's time in the sun look foolish. her chattel slavery and comparing it to what happens when people come to this country illegally is unbelievably over the top unnecessarily over heated rhetoric. and it's painful to hear her say something like this. and not be condemned by others. >> laura: leo, you know what we are talking about here. this is the actual quote of what maxine waters said. she said i know it's right to fight against separation of mothers and families because of what happened to us in slavery. they sold us at the auction block. telephone sent the father to one plantation and sent the children to other plantations. they separated us. leo is separating illegal aliens akin to slavery? >> i think it's an excellent analogy i will tell you one

thing, when illegal aliens come to this country some are coming for asylum seeking help. what you are ignoring and horace is ignoring is trivializing what is happening. separation of families that took place in slavery is taking place right now. the whole world condemned trump in separating these families right now. and let me finish. both of these issues you ever talking about victims without any type of recourse or redress. excellent analysis and magnifies the horrible situation. one last point, vunk, melania felt the same way about trump separating families. horrific. horrific. >> laura: that's fine. and i think a lot of people didn't like that at all. but it's a different question. and i'm trying to examine this -- everybody knows where i stand on immigration. do criminals get separated from their children. >> all the time. >> every day of the week, black, white, hispanic, asian, people from all

different walks of life, if you commit a crime, sometimes it's not a felony, maybe it's a serious misdemeanor. if you can't put up the bail. you actually do time. if you do time and have you kids, you are not with the kids because out kids can't be jailed with you nor should they be. the idea that that is somehow slavery when we didn't bring them to the united states u bringing someone unlawfully to your country to use them for labor, that is hideous. to have penalties for people to violate our laws i don't see how that is in this case akin to slavery worse in human history. >> respectfully, laura, you just every illegal alien comes in this country. i think you know respectfully they come here for a different reason. >> laura: that's not what the law says. the haw does not say if you come here and you have three children, and you want to get job in l.a., then it's being. that's not what the law

says. if it says that i -- maxine waters as populace as she is among some on the left, i think there a lot of regular folks say i don't like that policy. i felt terrible for those children. that's -- i don't know, that's just taking it way too far. >> absolutely. by the way for folks who use the race card for every single option to now turn around and say it can be just as casually used for people who come to this country and, by the way, a few of them do come for asylum. the overwhelming yort come here surely to barbecue. they see to for those people to be treated a the same as someone grand, kidnapped, put on a ship and brought here and forced to work over their own will, we fought a civil war over this. that's how serious that

wars. this trivial liveses that? >> i think maxine waters has the ability to make this analogy. some of these illegals have come over here for asylum. they are exploited. let's be very clear, every illegal alien comes. [laughter] >> oh my god you laugh all you want but they are exploit you had. >> by who re they exploited the drug cartels here want to seek to keep pages low. i made a imlilgted to cross our border and whatever country you go to and do that there are going to be penalties. >> what kimes do the committee. involved -- they are over the top and she shouldn't have -- >> let's just a say it,

admitted that. >> i will tell you right now i think it's a great position. >> laura: speaking of fever mongers barack obama hematocrit the trail again. what he is saying doesn't add up. shocking. reagan biographer craig shirley will be here next to tell us why.

>> laura: the barack obama come back tour made its latest stop in cleveland yesterday. and the former president let loose with some fan-favorite rips. >> people are stressed and they are anxious and it seems as if all the chatter and anger on television doesn't match up with their lives and frays our civic trust and make people feel the game is rigged that nobody is looking out for them. and historically, in those kind of conditions that's ripe for opportunities to try to exploit american history and division. racial, ethnic, religious hour lawyer oh, we are back. i wonder who is he talking about presidential historian ronald reagan biographer craig says he has it all wrong. great to see you. how are you? obama says this is -- they are scaring people out there

and it's par for the course. they are opportunists. >> he needs to study history. less stressed out now than we have been since the cold war. great depression, civil war. american revolution. we have been stressed out many, many times. less stressed out now than we have been in our history. >> laura: he made another point in this speech that i want to play about what a healthy democracy. in other words, a democracy -- represented democracy represented trump. in a healthy democracy he said this. >> in a healthy democracy where everybody is participating and paying attention and listening and voting, people of goodwill in both parties they call out the bigots and the fear monger h herers. when there is a vacuum when

we take our basic rights for granted, other voices fill the void. >> it's meaningless. it means nothing. what is a healthy democracy? i have never heard of an unhealthy democracy. phil we are not a democracy we are a republic. at the needs to get this that straight. it's without meaning. >> laura: more people should vote, he says, when you are participating and paying attention and listening, in other words, the people who elected trump were not paying attention. were not listening. he kind of throws in well people of goodwill in both parties. again, it's a different way of saying deplorables, is it not. >> exactly. a nonvote is a vote. people choose not to vote is, in fact, a vote. voters should not be compulsed. >> laura: how do you mean that? >> they don't have a stake in the system or they are happy with the way things are or for whatever reason is that they make an active decision not to go vote. >> laura: the idea that

everybody throwing out the vote. it doesn't count. it is a free will. >> he is attacking the essence of conservatism which is free will is he arguing for compulsory tv watching. compulsory newspaper reading compulsory voting? what is he talking about? >> laura: this is for fun. golden oldy smart guy about history? let's watch. >> it is just wonderful to be back in oregon over the last 15 months we have traveled to every corner of the united states. i have now been 57 states -- >> pilot and air crews around the crew, navy corpsemen on the ground in afghanistan. >> >> a lot of -- i don't know what the term is in austria wheeling and dealing. [laughter] >> those are funny. funny thing is that he didn't make that mistake once on corpse men, did he it repeatedly.

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