rush limbaugh, his crew for giving us the time to do the full hour tonight. set your dvr, don't miss an episode. we're always fair and balanced. we're not the destroy-trump media. don't let your heart be troubled. stay tuned. laura ingraham takes it away. she's in the swamp. d.c. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is the "ingraham angle" from washington. boy, do we have a show for you tonight. texas senator ted cruz will be here in moments to respond to his opponent beto o'rourke who spoke out in a town hall moments ago. plus his reaction to the growing caravan making its way toward our border. congressman devin nunes is here and he has details of a democratic operative who harassed him and later arrested for assaulting a g.o.p. campaign worker in nevada. wait till you hear what this group is affiliated with and where this person comes from.

in 18 days out from the midterm elections, eric trump is also here and he's going to tell us why he says it's a good thing his father is the most important factor this election season. but first, the caravan of lies and manipulation. that's the focus of tonight's angle. as we approach election day, here is one thing that has become patently obvious. democrats are uninterested in the things americans care about most. their prosperity and their safety. instead of policy prescriptions, democrats poison american discourse with constant demonization. and per pent yule intimidation. in the kavanaugh saga, we saw they are masters of producing choreographed outrage. after that backfired, democrats began to panic. although still favored to take the house of represented, things began to shift somewhat after

the kavanaugh dust settled. stories suddenly began to pop up that pelosi, schumer, and company were concerned that latino voters were sufficiently enthusiastic in the mid-terms which of course could doom democrat chances to take the house. then, like magic, a few days later a story appeared out of nowhere about another caravan of central americans heading from honduras to the u.s. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> laura: a former honduran left-wing politician even joined the caravan for a time before he was arrested. what started as a group of 1600 soon became 2,000. and then 4,000. apparently growing. meanwhile, crusading reporters

are feeding the narrative that anyone opposed to welcoming these caravaners are cruel, horrible, awful, rotten people. >> what is the g.o.p. strategy? we see it at this point is to push fear and loathing. if you don't vote, the scary people from the south are coming for you. >> you see that picture? that's what they want you to think all immigrants look like. people laying on the floor splayed out, not as civilized as you, different from you. >> laura: the medias over the top slurs against those of us who believe the system must change and that our border has to be protected, it speaks volumes about their bias and their real motivation, which of course is to help democrats like presidential hopeful julian castro. >> the president continues to fearmongering around immigration. one of the worst things to happen these last 18 months is basically state-sponsored child abuse of young kids at the

border. this example today of what he says is a caravan. you know, he's picking that and trying to make an issue of it to gin up his base. i think the american people can see through that. >> laura: do you know what the american people see through? democrats' phony compassion politically time in a desperate attempt to turn that latino voters who themselves seeing the wonders of the trump economy, record low unemployment and the best economy in decades. castro was the mayor of san antonio and his brother represents an san antonio in congress. i've never seen any of them on television standing for the families of those brutally murdered by illegal aliens, brutally hurt by rape, spousal abuse, child abuse, even murder. >> crime scene tape still outside this apartment on jones

musburger road, just yesterday where firefighters found a badly burned body. police arrested and charged ernesto garcia with murder, arson, abuse of a course. -- corpse. san antonio has learned u.s. immigration and customs enforcement is a part of this investigation. >> laura: i.c.e. was apparently involved in the very beginning of the story, even before the gruesome murder. back in 2017, garcia was arrested for dwi and the misdemeanor criminal mischief after he reportedly rammed his truck into the car of an ex-girlfriend and her family member. he got an immigration judge, though, to give him a voluntary departure order. would you be surprised to hear that he did not leave the country voluntarily after that order? a few months later, he was in i.c.e. custody a second time. a second time he was given a voluntary departure order. and now, in just 11 days, he awaits his trial for the murder

of jerry vargas. why aren't any of the democrats who rail against family separation also railing about stories like this? 55 illegal immigrants found stuffed in a truck ready to be shipped across the united states, undoubtedly many to unscrupulous employers. our open borders, as well as our immigration and asylum loopholes, are enriching the cartels, they are endangering migrants, and they are also making life worse for most americans beyond the super rich who live in a protective bubble. how can we continue with this and live as a country? of course not all illegal immigrants commit violent crime and many are good and hard working people. but that's not really the point. no american should suffer or be brutalized in order to fulfill the democrats' fantasy of a borderless society.

no american workers and see they his or her wages go down because immigrants just arrived to the u.s. and are willing to work for 40% less. in donald trump, we finally have a president who wants to tackle this problem, not just pass it on to the next, the way president obama did. don't buy for a moment what the left is selling you. democrats are the ones using this and that stoking false fear among the latinos to try to fill congress. again, no ideas, just more emotional manipulation. we welcome and we treasure the hispanic immigrants of this country who came here the legal way, like tia from venezuela who called into my radio show today. >> i was born in venezuela. i am a proud american citizen now. but i am terrified of what is happening. my mother would've never thought in venezuela 30 years later was going to be a socialist country.

and then, five, eight years after that, was going to descend into a dictatorship because once they get in, they change the instituti constitution and now they're not waiting, they want to change the constitution and there goes our country. >> laura: there goes our country. i get a lot of calls in the radio, legal immigrants enraged now we all know the negative changes that open borders and catch and release bring to america. look no further than california's rampant homelessness, filthy streets, welfare programs, crushing regulations. that's what the democrat supermajority is looking like. the president is standing up for you. he wants this to stop. this morning, he tweeted, "we spend billions enforcing other countries' borders as our own has become a joke. our laws ignored and our generation and compassion

exploited. he also said in addition to the stopping of payments i must ask mexico to stop this onslaught and if they are unable to do so, i will call up the u.s. military and close the southern border. that's what his tweet said. the democrats taking the house will ensure that this caravan of 4,000 eventually becomes a flow of 4 million, 4-million-plus before you know it. this cannot happen. but as we told you last night, if you are still on the fence about what to do on november 6th in the mid-term election. just think for a moment who is in line to chair the important committees when it comes to these issues like homeland security and the jewish committee if the democrats take the house. bennie thompson from mississippi would take homeland security. >> you would think the most

important homeland security problem facing the nation is a handful of central americans moving through mexico. that does not make it so. better to distract the american people from the real issues facing the department and perhaps from the president's own problems, too. >> laura: and jerry madly would ov ov oversee judiciary and border security. he's far more interested in investigating justice kavanaugh then solving our border problem. come on. hispanic americans are smart enough to spot a con when they see one. i say it's time to walk away from the democrats' cynical game of identity politics and emotional manipulation and towards candidates whose policies and result in higher wages. and better security for all americans. and that's the angle. here with us now is kristen vargas, her nephew jared was the man murdered in the story i just talked about in the "angle."

and first of all, i want to thank you so much tonight for being here. i know it's really difficult to do this interview. this is a horrible situation for your family. i just appreciate it so very much. because i think americans need to hear about jared's story and what happened to him. how did you family react to those who say that raising concerns about illegal immigration and, clearly, what is de facto amnesty going on, are just being used, these stories are just being used to stoke fear? >> it's completely disgusting. and it's outrageous. i just want to thank you, laura, for the opportunity to come onto your show and for paying attention and for caring about jared. >> laura: tell me about him. his life, his family. i know his mother is devastated.

tell me about him. >> absolutely. i could, frankly, talk about him for hours and i know we don't have that kind of time here today. but jared, beautiful mind, college student here in san antonio. hard worker is an understatement. he was always working full-time and going to school, sometimes working two jobs. and he had an uncanny ability to balance family, friends, work, school, always smiling. just an awesome kid. >> laura: ernesto garcia, i hate to even mention his name. he's up for murder. trial is in 11 days, illegally in the united states. he's accused of setting fire to your nephew's apartment and abuse of a corpse, burning your nephew alive.

how did your nephew know him? did he know him? >> so jared had encountered this individual at his place of employment. he worked at a high end bar/restaurant here in san antonio. and the individual that killed jared was working there under an alias name. as a matter of fact, he has nine alias names that we are aware of. using fake, fraudulent documents to do so. they knew each other than less than three weeks, but they met each other through their employer. >> laura: jared's grandmother is a dual citizen of mexico and the united states, i understand, and she is beyond furious,

heartbroken, as is so many members of your family. losing a beautiful young man, working hard in this country, only -- i mean, this is a death that you wouldn't want to happen to an animal. but this man did this, a man who should not even have been in this country, and i think it's so important for you and your family to speak out about those people who are continuing to welcome in all of these illegal immigrants. we don't know what their intentions are. a lot of them are just here to work and indeed garcia was working. but it's not a victimless crime, is it? >> no, it's not. you call out the fact that he was working but he was also committing crimes. so it's just really difficult for us to process now from the outside looking into this and just seeing all the systemic failures, as far as coming here

illegally, working here illegally, living here illegally, continuing to break laws, commit crimes and ultimately, taking jared away from us. we are very strongly positioned that this was a preventable tragedy, a completely preventable tragedy, and i think that's what is most difficult as we continue to grieve and try to make some sort of sense of this. >> laura: did you hear from any of the politicians in your state? did you hear from the castro brothers? did they call or come visit your family? >> the castro brothers absolutely did not. we have had a very, very bright light come into our world. his name is chip roy. he's a congressional candidate here in san antonio. and he listened to our story. he cares about our story. we've developed a personal relationship with him.

and it's been really helpful to us to have someone that's actually advocating for us, understands the issues, and as we explain the fractures that we are seeing as victims, he gets the big picture and we just trust that -- clearly, we need more of chips, too, to help not just put pressure on enforcing the existing laws, but influencing change, so this can stop. i mean, our mission, our justice position is to not have one other family go through this compete horror that we're having to go through. >> laura: i'm going to talk to you off-line because i want to try to help your family as well. i'll be in touch with you after the show, but thank you for coming on. i don't know how i'm going to do the rest of the show. this is so enraging that a single american loses a life because of these ridiculous policies.

please give my best to your family and i'm so sorry about the loss of jared. i wish i got a chance to meet him. i'm so sorry. >> thank you, laura, for this opportunity and thank you for caring. >> laura: i do care. i care greatly. i'll be in touch with you after the show and thank you again. >> thank you so much. >> laura: absolutely. for reaction to this story we're joined by texas senator ted krewe. senator, i went long in the interview and i'm sorry because i took some of your time. but this is a great family from texas. their lives have been turned upside down and hearts broken. they don't even get a call from the former mayor of san antonio who was on tv talking about this caravan thing and demonizing donald trump and all republicans and didn't even get a call from his brother who is a congressman from the area where this kid was burned to death. what is going on in this country, senator?

>> laura, thank you for having miss vargas on and for telling her story and for telling jared's story. it's heart breaking and tragic and it should never have happened. you are right, the democratic politicians turn a blind eye to the suffering, the violent crimes that are committed. i was glad to hear her describe that she's been able to work with chip roy. he's my former chief of staff and the republican nominee for congress out of san antonio. he's going to make a terrific congressman. miss vargas should not been suffering this. this individual, this illegal alien, committed multiple crimes. and our revolving door system lets drug criminal, violent criminals who are illegal aliens stay here. as you noted, he got a voluntary removal order, which he ignored, which is what happens. it's the reason we need to pass kate's law, which i authored in the senate that says the aggravated felon, violent criminal illegal aliens who enter the country repeatedly

should face a mandatory minimum prison sentence so that violent criminals will not be in our community -- >> laura: this was a dwi -- >> we should've deported him when he committed a dwi, when he was arrested he should have been put on a plane or a bus and sent back to the country he came from. we should not be keeping -- too many texans, too many people who lost loved ones to illegal immigrants who are criminals who commit dwis and it's wrong. we need to protect our country and not allowed criminals and drug dealers to come into the country illegally. >> laura: you did a fantastic job in your debate with mr. o'rourke. he was in a town hall earlier tonight and said this. i want to get your reaction. >> i could spend the rest of the debate responding to every single dishonest thing he said or make sure that everyone

understands what he's doing. look, he's dishonest. one of the reasons he got tagged with this nickname. that nickname resonates because it's true. >> laura: obviously, the lyin' ted nickname which is unfortunate. now he's quoting the president in order to make his case. seems like there is no -- he's a good-looking guy, but there is no there there. where is the beef? >> you can see the desperation in that debate where he was insulting me, attacking me, call me a liar. what's striking is what he was responding to when he screamed liar is i pointed out that he voted in favor of a $10 a barrett tax on every barrel of oil produced in the state of texas. the state of texas. his response is not to engage but scream, liar, liar, liar. facts matter, and we put up on our website tedcruz.org the exact text of the resolution that congressman o'rourke voted on.

the house of representatives said we don't want a $10 tax on every barrel of oil and o'rourke voted no. and his response is just to scream liar. >> laura: senator, we are out of time. but we enjoyed that debate. i wouldn't want to debate you any day of the week. no thanks. good luck, beto, it's not going to happen. great to see you, senator. thanks so much. t know how to say this. it's okay, doc. give it to me straight. no, you don't understand, i don't know how to say this. i'm just a tv doctor. they also know you should get your annual check-up. it could save your life. schedule a check-up with your doctor, know your four health numbers, and start taking control of your health today. cigna. together, all the way.

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trace gallagher. trace? >> the man in question is wilfred m. stark iii known as mike stark. arrested in las vegas for assaulting kristen davidson, the campaign manager for nevada g.o.p. manager adam lacks. davidson says mike stark grabbed her and yanked her arm and refused to let go. she told authorities the attack left her traumatized and horrified. but for mike stark, it might be another day to the office. he's a reporter for american bridge 21st century, a liberal organization founded by david brock who founded the liberal watchdog group media matters and funded by billionaire george soros. after stark was arrested, american bridge fired him for his bad behavior, but sources also hire him for his bad behavior. the communications director for mike lee told fox news that

during the kavanaugh confirmation hearings, stark followed, films and harassed senator lee in the basement of the senate building. carol also tweeted, i've known mike stark for literally over a decade. this is who he is. american bridge knows who he is and what he does and they hired him accordingly. sources told fox news that when stark was arrested for assault in vegas he told police that this was, quote, his job and he does this for a living. that prompted kentucky senator rand paul to question whether american bridge was propagating this quoting, "soros paid protester arrested same are arrested in senate office buildings are democrats paying to incite violence? starks' resume highlights a violent past. convicted for disorderly conduct after aggressively approaching virginia g.o.p. governor candidate ed gillespie and earlier this year was arrested for assaulting a female staffer for interior secretary ryan

zinke. american bridge has not responded to whether or not they knew about stark's criminal past. >> laura: california congressman devin nunes was also harassed by this man just a few months earlier. congressman nunes joins us now. congressman, how long was this stark guy bothering you and have there been any other harassing you in a similar manner? this is a new tact of the democrats. get in your face, hope to provoke you, getting in your face or a centimeter from you and see what happens. >> they've been doing this to me for the better part of a half. anyone involved in the russian investigation, we were harassed. this guy went to our office numerous times. he'd follow me, get in my face, community hearings, even showed up where i was giving a speech one time. he actually showed up to the airport one time. we had to have the capitol

police come several times because he has harassed me, he's harassed our staff. look, this is not the way we should operate here in the united states of america. people should be frightened of this. nobody is going to want to do these jobs if you have to deal with guys like this. like for me, i'm fine. i will fight back. look at how many people are thinking of becoming a judge or supreme court judge or run for office? with these lunatics running around like this funded by billionaires who should know better, this is not the type of activity we want to see in this country. >> laura: when you say you will fight back, that's the point. you really can't. unless they touch you, if they can just grab your hand that's an assault. if you are in legitimate fear of your life, you can respond. look, i mean, if someone ever comes up to my family or touches one of my kids, good luck. mother tiger comes out. it's not going to happen. okay? it does bother me. people who get in my face? go ahead. i have plenty of jokes that i

can throw back at you. but you're right. this is meant to intimidate people who night not be like you and i away from politics altogether. george soros, we cannot underestimate the power of his billions of dollars funneling through these david brock groups and run by david brock whether it's the media matters group or this american bridge group. at some point is it time to investigate their 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) status? is this really -- is this a type of legitimate speech or is this just targeted harassment? >> look, this gets to the heart of campaign finance reform. we last had that by george w. bush at the beginning of his term and what this has led to is absolute chaos where billionaires can come in and feed these guys. so does something need to be done about this? yes. but unfortunately, the republicans, we are not going to get involved in that type of behavior.

i think the democrats, until they're taught a lesson, they're not going to change. they see this working. they are protesting, the harassment, all of this, they see it as working. i hope it backfires this fall and i think a lot of people slowly waking up to the fact that this is not the type of behavior we should have in our political system. >> laura: you live in a beautiful state. california is a beautiful state. it basically has a super majority democrat control of the state legislature, obviously all of the senators, governors, at least for now. the rest of the country, what do we need to learn from california? people say what happens in california will come to your state eventually. >> yeah. >> laura: what should and people want other than the beach and the beautiful agriculture and all that in the mountains, and so forth, but what else don't the american people want? >> what you're seeing in california today is you're seeing massive homelessness. because we don't arrest people,

because we don't put them in jail, because we let them get away with everything, we have massive homelessness all over the state. it's really people who are -- it's sad, they are burned out on drugs, they have a lot of mental problems. >> laura: a lot of illegal immigrants on the streets, correct? a lot of illegal immigrants in the tent villages as well in l.a. and so forth. >> it's tough to know who they are or whether they are legal or not legal, but -- people think it's just san francisco and they hear about the street and it's disgusting and it's true. but you see it all over california in any city or town that you go to or visit. >> laura: congressman, before we let you go, apparently some of your opponents think it's really funny to put signs around your district written in russian. okay? nunes -- [reading russian] it means, "nunes has got to go." basically, that's what that says. i speak russian so i can translate the signs for you, but

i'm not sure most people in your district are understanding the russian. so i'm not sure the joke is going to be very effective there. >> well i think the point of those signs is people understand those are also being put up by the same people that are funding this stark character. the billionaires are funding protesters, they are funding movement, crazy billboards. i have a 98-year-old grandmother who has a family farm, lives on it. she has been harassed by reporters and other wackos that have shown up on her house. she lives by herself. other day she told me she was driving down the freeway and saw some of those signs. she actually thought they were mine. to some degree, they are benefiting me to some degree. >> laura: that's not a bad picture of you, congressman, i'd take all the face time you can get on the billboards. we got through a whole interview and didn't talk about rod

rosenstein even one time. that's got to be a record with you. but we'll have it next time very cumbersome and, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> laura: despite not being on the ballot, the 2018 mid-terms are all about president trump. eric trump is here to talk about why he think that's the best possible scenario. don't go away. to talk about to talk about why he think

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20,000 people show up. he'll go to nevada and have 30,000 people show up. people are excited. people want to get out of there. the energy in these rooms is nothing short of incredible. listen, he has a lot to tout, laura. we have the best economy we've ever had as a country. the lower unemployment, the stock market is booming, consumer confidence is through the roof. i could go on and on and on. but he has a lot to boast about. he's doing an unbelievable job and our country is back. we haven't seen this in a very long time, but our country is back. >> laura: when you see the hostility, despite all that you laid out, and let me play you a clip of a total lunatic ripping down ted cruz signs. we had ted cruz on earlier. we didn't have time to play it for him. we'll play it for you. >> i have about a hundred of these. i'm about to put more out. >> i hate ted cruz. i hate ted cruz!

>> laura: that sums it up, doesn't it? they are either clawing at the supreme court door ripping other people's posters down. >> it's unbelievable. the lack of civility, i talk about it all the time. it's unbelievable. i saw that earlier today. and listen, that helps. those people are so radical, no one can reality to them. you saw the guy last week we had the pickup truck burned because he had american flag on the bumper and a trump sticker -- >> laura: we had him on. >> you have the person clawing at the supreme court door. you see ted cruz in his great wife heidi getting yelled at dinner. laura, americans don't want to see the stuff. that's not who we are as a society. that is a rogue faction. but the left has gone so far left they've become so radicalized they think this is acceptable behavior. when you have eric holder go out there saying when they're done, let's kick them in the head. when hillary clinton says the only time we're going to be civil and human beings is when we win again.

why didn't you win in the first place. your message didn't work them when you were defective, you were doing the job and you had a person much better and who beat you handily. it's really a shame. >> laura: one of your father's favorite people out there of all time is rosie o'donnell. she mixed it up today with nicole wallace. >> he wants to send the military to the border. >> i want to send the military to the white house to get him. [laughter] >> i don't think that's what we are going to get. >> laura: that's a good idea. they are either blowing the white house up or they want to take the military or take him out of the white house. by any means necessary. i guess it's a joke, but it's not all that funny. >> it's not that funny. what you forgot about rosie is she pops back on the scene every two months she cycles back through and through and through. amazing how that works. this is not what people care about. people have to get out there and vote, right? it's the most important thing in the world. the country is back, laura.

we are winning by every single met try. doesn't matter if it's our military, isis, immigration. america is winning. people have jobs again, salaries are going up. 401(k)s are through the roof. i mean that's what people care about. >> laura: but the left -- these people want to sow chaos. >> they don't have a message. they have no message. they stand for high taxes, they stand for banning plastic straws. they stand for going after law enforcement and total anarchy. >> laura: abolish i.c.e., that's their big platform. 205 riverside boulevard trump condominium, beautiful building. the trump name now taken down from that building. what is that all about? you're in the business of running this company on top of everything else you have going on in your life, your family, everything else, but that just seems like hate. what is that? >> it's nasty politics.

it's a by-product of the nastiness of politics. we've been out of that building for a very long time. it was a great success. my father literally rebuilt the entire west side of new york city. it was a major success. this is the byproduct and nastiness of politics. one person who doesn't like you who sits on the board and what they can do is pretty unbelievable. again, we've been out that building for a very long time. it doesn't hurt us at all. it's a byproduct of what we've been talking about the entire show. that radical left, that nastiness. and it's going to be defeated. >> laura: it's almost like the better the country does, the more unhappy and bitter you -- they become. >> they realize they're losing and they're lashing out. they all got it wrong. "the new york times" election morning gave my father a 1.9% chance of winning and he won easily, right? what do they do? they double down. i promise you, and you know this. they are going to get it wrong again.

my father is going to go down as truly one of the greatest presidents in the history of this country. this country is winning again and i could not be more proud of him. >> laura: thank you so much, eric, for being here again tonight. we have been highlighting the recent spate of attacks on republican candidates, campaign workers, offices. up next, we speak to a minnesota candidate who may be the victim of the worst attack yet. his story when we return. attac. his story when we

>> they aren't going to be able to go to a restaurant. they are not going to be able to go to a gas station. they are not going to be able to shop at a department store. the people are going to turn on them. they're going to protest they're going to absolutely harass them. >> laura: that threat from aunty maxine has now extended to include people who are running as republicans. there has been at least eight violent attacks on republicans just this year. politicians, staffers, and their offices -- become a out of

they are becoming a target for political violence. one of the more recent cases out of minnesota might be the worst one yet. local house candidate shane mekeland was out at a restaurant when a man approached him, punched him in the face, leaving him concussed. he was knocked out. he is still recovering from the incident, which he believes was politically motivated. shane joins us now. tell us a little bit about your assailant. did you know him before the assault? >> no. i did not know him. i walked into this place to inquire about renting or using a banquet room that they have for a political function for the republican ticket in our area. and the owner was not there but somebody brought -- said, how's the campaign going? there were the conversation of several people throughout the time to come and go, this gentleman did eventually come around. there was conversation with him. it did not seem bad at the beginning.

then somebody to my right started talking so i looked away. when i heard this out of my left ear, this guy say, "you bleeping people don't give a bleep about the middle class." and he literally punched me somewhere about right in here. which i was in a chair and it sent it flying backwards. when my head at the floor, that's the last thing i remember. i was told by one of the witnesses -- this was a very big man, six and a half feet tall, somewhere between 270 and 300 pounds with very big hands, i might add. he jumped on top of me. he wasn't done. some of the folks nearby were able to pull him off and throw him off. >> laura: he has not been arrested. if you do believe this is politically motivated, targeting you because you are a republican? did you know he was following you? how would he know that you're going into this banquet room? i'm not questioning that, i'm just trying to figure this out. >> when i walked in there was a group of people around.

one gal, she brought up how is the campaign? it started with this younger man saying, campaign for what? he told me his story. he actually got a yard sign for me that we went and put in in his vehicle. he went away. this other person moved in and we started talking. he took my lit piece and we shook hands prior to all of this. this comment comes on and i'm looking away. i never saw it coming. the doctor said it might've been in my benefit because i would've tensed up, he would've done more damage. >> laura: do you feel like the intimidation and the call to get in people's faces, you just heard auntie maxine waters, is that fueling this, this violence? >> you know, i actually put that on facebook in response to somebody sending me well wishes when i heard about this. her name, hillary's name, eric holder literally it tore me apart, insinuated how their comments affect rural minnesota. so i don't know if they don't think we have tvs or radios out

but there but it is obviously very much tied together. they are stirring up the pot with people. i personally did not decide to get sucker punched and knocked out. i don't wish a concussion on anybody. fourth and this is one of the most awful things to ever have happened to me. i don't want this to be the environment my 12-year-old daughter brought up in going forward in life. i mean, up here in minnesota, we have a lot of really close races and we have a dfl governor who is going on sanctuary state versus our republican who is completely normal and -- >> laura: the idea, shane, that minnesota will elect this left-wing democrat governor? forget about it. minnesota? you've got to wake up. i mean, if this kind of attack on a guy running for district 15b, in a rural area, this is just okay now? this is what the democrats have come to? this is insanity. i hope you are okay. i know you aren't really able to go out campaigning now because of this injury. shane, please feel better. take care of yourself, get surrogates out there to campaign

for you. you need to pull out a win. okay? >> will do. >> laura: we're sorry about what happened to you. stand strong. we have highlighted numerous cases of conservative censorship from big tech on this show. but this could be the worst. a triple amputee air force vet is here next. he's going to tell us what facebook did to him and to his family next. him and to his family when my hot water heater failed, she was pregnant, in-laws were coming, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world. i had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? they were on it. it was unbelievable. having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa- now that's a privilege. we're the baker's and we're usaa members for life. usaa. get your insurance quote today.

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imagined it could happen to him. his page had a verified check mark and 3.5 million fans but all taken away in an instant. brian joins us now to tell us about it. thank you so much for your heroism and sacrifice for the country. you're amazing. i have to ask you, has facebook been in touch with you at all? >> no. first, thanks for having me on. no, facebook has not been in touch with us. i want to start this off and just get it out here. i want you to know that i sacrificed three limbs for everybody, your freedoms, your family freedoms because that's why i believe in. that's why i joined the military. if i can get everybody to go to thefightforfreespeech.com, we'll need everyone to go there and sign our petition and take this fight to facebook. go ahead, laura. >> laura: what was the reasoning, you think? you raised $300,000 in the kavanaugh fight, i know that.

and then pt was aftit was after your facebook page was, bingo, gone. >> there is no real reason. spent nine months begging them when they rolled out the new rule changes. they would not contact us to give us the meeting to go over the rules we want them to remain in contact to go with these rules. they wouldn't. they didn't want to help us. and we were begging them. i sent 50 emails directly to our facebook contact katie harvin and she was ignoring it. we were -- any other person or any other company, they would have been helping them. they didn't want to help us. we wanted to understand the rules, we wanted to be the good part of facebook. we always follow the rules. the facebook page never had an issue. never banned from facebook. never had issues with false news, misinformation, or anything. so the whole reasoning is it's up in the air. we don't understand why. >> laura: we reached out as well and they didn't get back to us. >> the one thing we did do, we

finally did get that meeting two weeks ago. but owe know what? on october 3rd when that meeting was supposed to take place, they cancelled it two days prior. we had raised over $600,000 with john hopkins who founded right wing news, and that's when it was pulled. i was raising all that money for justice kavanaugh. they pulled it. one week later, it was gone. i own a coffee company that was my financial support for my family. that company has nothing to do with politics and they yanked it. that was my financial support for my family. they are attacking my family, attacking me, attacking my rights. >> laura: brian, we are going to keep on the story and follow the story. thank you for your service to this country, your sacrifice to this country. everyone, go to bryan's website, it will be linked on lauraingraham.com. brian thanks so much. stay there.

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what are the midterm elections about? trump told the montana crowd this earlier tonight. >> that is what it is going to be. and election of those things. law and order, brett kavanaugh, remember, common sense, it is going to be an election of the caravan, you know what i am talking about, you know what i'm talking about. >> and election of the caravan. that is all the time we have tonight, shannon bream and the fox news at night team. shannon: new details on two major situations reaching a boiling point, donald trump threatening to shut down the southern us border, caravan of thousands of central american migrants head toward the us tonight, mexico turning to the united nations, could the military be aligning our borders and patients amid international