one of the deadliest serial killers in american history. wow. tragedy. so many innocent people and their families. we pray for them. we will always be fair and balanced. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues. she is in the swamp, the sewer, laura ingraham. >> laura: can you do me a favor and stop saying the word sewer and then say laura ingraham. >> sean: how about i say the sewer and then the swamp? would that work? >> laura: i need a buffer sentence between that and my name. >> sean: i will figure it out. >> laura: hannity, i have a question. >> sean: hit me with whatever you want. >> laura: my question, do you, i seem to remember you cook your turkey for thanksgiving? >> sean: i do. >> laura: do you cook it in a pit? don't you dig a pit or something?

>> sean: master built has the butter ball turkey fryer. it is safe. it cooks twice as fast. the best, juiciest, most delicious turkey you've ever had in your life. and i'll even make one on the air before thanksgiving if you're in new york. >> laura: i think it's lovely that you invited michael avenatti to come. that's a gesture only you could have thought of. it's very generous. >> sean: he should have done this for kavanaugh. he didn't. but i believe it across the board. these principles -- you are a lawyer. you know this. too important. >> laura: i agree. all right, i'll be waiting for my turkey next week. i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. an important and fun show for you. stay with us. drama continuing, i can't believe we are still saying this, and florida. the rick scott campaign is now

charging broward county election official brenda snipes with intentionally missing today's deadline because the results shows he had more votes. the latest updates in moments. my angle is going to tackle the latest with the aforementioned michael avenatti, not just the latest felony assault charges he faces but the complicity the left and the media share. what could possibly be controversial about president trump posthumously awarded elvis presley the medal of freedom. well the "washington post" found a way. and wait until you hear how. what happens when a doctor and a millennial who does vaping take on the latest fda push for regulations on the e-cigarette market? that's a can't-miss debate later in the show. but first, breaking news out of florida tonight. unprecedented statewide hand recount underway following a five-day machine recount of the more than 8 million votes cast in last week's election.

the secretary of state there ordered hand recounts in the senate race between bill nelson and his challenger republican governor rick scott. this isn't just in broward and palm beach counties. the order gives canvassing boards in every single one of the sunshine state 67 counties three days to pore over thousands of ballots rejected by machine. for more on what's next we go to fox's phil keating live in beautiful rivera beach in florida tonight. phil? >> reporter: same two florida counties and new election issue once again. palm beach county where we are, they missed the states recount deadline. the only 1 of 67 counties to do so. broward county got their results in two minutes too late, meaning five long days of hard recount

work down the electoral drain. the machine recount shall republican rick scott gaining in votes and his lead over the original results. scott leads by .15%. hand counters will go through all the problematic ballots which had under votes and over votes to see if that changes anything. also in the closely watched governor's race, the recount results stayed almost exactly the same with republican former congressman ron desantis leading tallahassee mayor andrew gillum by .41%. still close but avoiding a hand recount. while broward county celebrated after midnight when it completed recounting the ballots, today's election staffers uploaded its results to the state at 3:02 p.m. they were due at 3:00 sharp. the original numbers will be the ones made official. not everybody was happy down there in broward and in the words tonight of a staffer "i worked my ass off for nothing."

palm beach county failed to make the recount deadline, period. >> i will explain it to say that i believe strongly that it wasn't -- not a human effort. it was mechanical. we are required to present a report of the secretary of state and that's what i'm going to report. >> reporter: because of that, senator nelson has now filed a new lawsuit late this afternoon against palm beach county and the state. he wants all of palm beach county's ballots, the entirety of it, recounted by hand. this new hand count of these under and overvotes due to the secretary of state by sunday. laura? >> laura: thank you. today's order for recount, more evidence of potential dirty tricks by democrats in florida. first, "the naples news" reporting earlier that florida democrats plan to use altered forms to fix mail ballots across

the state after the imposed deadline. these altered forms were reported to federal prosecutors so that they could review the potential election fraud. second, after u.s. chief judge mark walker ruled thursday that voters should have until saturday to correct signatures on ballots, a win for senator nelson, fox news learned that karen d. walker, the wife of the judge had previously donated to senator bill nelson's campaign. shouldn't that have led to recusal? joining me is pete dunbar, an election lawyer in florida. overseeing many recount efforts. and harmeet dhillon, an attorney and rnc committee woman. i want to get to the issue of judge walker in a moment. but, pete, what can you tell us about these seeming dirty tricks from the florida dems with regard to these altered forms? >> it's nice to be with you. we've been hearing rumors about this for the last couple days. i think it is now taken the appropriate course of action so it will be looked into.

i've been in the florida political arena now for about five decades. this is the first time we've seen something quite like this or the allegations quite like this from either of the two state parties. it is a bit troubling. but it will be processed appropriately. i'll also say that after the governor-elect was confirmed today after the machine recounts, the waters here in florida are calming a bit. >> laura: it's about time. no reason they should continue happening and florida, frankly anywhere, with modern technology. this shouldn't be that difficult if you follow the rules from the beginning through the process. harmeet, i want to play this. about this two-minute supposed missing the deadline late deal. let's watch. >> in broward county, what's amazing is that they finished the count 2 minutes late. they submitted their results two minutes late so they will not be counted. >> in that case, i mean, a law is a law or do you let it in?

i understand. >> laura: you're not going to let it in, harmeet, if it's going to help the republicans. >> in this case it was almost an 800 vote advantage for the governor. so that's why i think there's suspicion about it being a potential missing of the deadline. >> laura: when you keep hearing the refrain republicans are saying voter fraud, no voter fraud at all. this is just a process. you're raising a red flag for no reason. how should we speak about this given these irregularities that have been reported and people like brenda snipes has become the poster girl for this type of corruption. >> it is fraud. first of all, rick politely referred to the fact that the democratic party in conjunction with officials of the democratic party actually sent out altered forms to several thousand voters in broward county. statewide. they did so-called chasing effort but they only sent them to democratic registered voters. their only interesting and

corrected the signatures for democrats, not republicans. and unfortunately, this judge, who seems to have a conflict went ahead and extended that deadline. that's organized. it wasn't one-off. isn't a mistake. thousands of ballots, thousands of forms going out with false information deceiving voters about their right to correct their ballots. >> laura: pete, what i'm concerned about in the hand recount, this effort to discern the intent of the voter. if the ballot is rejected by the machine because it was either i guess it could be an under vote. no, there was something on the ballot that was wrong? you spill your coffee on it? i don't know what it is. if it is not read easily by the machine, the attempt to say well, if you voted for desantis, you would have voted for nelson or if you voted for the democrat agriculture commission, how odd that you didn't vote for nelson. this is the kind of thing people look at and say maybe people don't want to vote for these

people. maybe that's why they didn't vote. >> i think you're right and i think, here's what happens. they will look to examine but it's possible for the machine to reject ballots that might have a smudge on them. if you mailed in your ballot and you happen to fold over one of those items and it may not be the races that are in the close contests, the machine will kick it out and it needs to be examined. now the canvassing board process in florida is pretty balanced and i think fair. it consists of a circuit judge or a judge, the supervisor of elections, the county commissioner. both sides are allowed to be there and be present while the decision is being made and if they want to object to it, they can. but here's the other interesting point for what it's worth. if you look at the volume of the universe of ballots that are now narrowed and what remains an issue, candidly, it's not going to change the results. much like we saw on the governor's race, i would tell

you that the results that were given on election night, i think in the governor's race after 8.2 million votes, the recount showed there was a one-vote differential, and by the way, that went to the governor-elect. i think we're going to find the same process to be true. while there is the issue for the legal ballots when it's all said and done. >> laura: this is when i'm concerned about. harmeet, last comment. the republicans always seem to be outflanked by lawyers on the ground. the democrats are always ready for this. we're going to do this. rick scott has his own money and he has a lot of money in his campaign coffers. he was smart to take this right to the court. some of these other races across the country, the republicans didn't take the same approach. >> i would agree. we've been caught flat-footed in many races where lawyers on the ground and that kind of aggressive effort could have changed things. unfortunately that didn't happen so i hope they learned a lesson for 2020. we're really going to need to do that and have lawyers in every

race. every congressional candidate needs a lawyer on speed dial. >> laura: the rules have to be applied across the board. if you don't fill in your ballot right, guess what, it's not a vote that should count. only legal votes count. if you can't follow the rules and figure out how to fill in a bubble, sorry, no one should have to hold the ballot to the light and figure out how you voted. it's crazy. >> and the rules have to apply evenly to both sides. >> laura: thank you, harmeet and peter. another big race that still has not been called. georgia governor's race. republican brian kemp has 55,000 vote lead on democrat stacey abrams, but she refuses to concede, claiming racism. and she's claiming voter fraud. trace gallagher's live in our west coast newsroom with that story tonight that he's been following. trace? >> the campaign of brian kemp and stacey abrams, federal judge issued what appears to be a split decision to the benefit of the abrams campaign, the judge

ruled that absentee ballots need to be reviewed and the ones previously rejected because of incorrect birth dates must be recounted. to the benefit of the kemp campaign, to be clear, the abrams campaign isn't hoping to pick up enough absentee votes to win back the election. instead they are trying to extend the election. they believe by getting a 17,759 votes, that would bring brian camp below 50% and force a runoff on december 4th. the kemp campaign calls it impossible saying, quote, after all the thee act ricks, the math remains the same. abrams lost on brian kemp won. election is over." in in case the math doesn't add up, the abrams camp is on to accusing brian kemp of wrongdoing. saying as georgia's secretary of state and chief of elections he essentially cheated. watch.

>> unequivocally we believe brian kemp mismanaged this election to sway it in his favor. >> though the campaign offered no evidence which has not stopped democrats outside of georgia from also using the "s" word. here's ohio senator sherrod brown. >> if stacey abrams doesn't win in georgia, they stole it. it's clear. it's clear. >> it's clear but again no evidence. hillary clinton and new jersey senator cory booker also say without evidence the election was not fair. by the way, the deadline for all vote counts in georgia is november 20. expect more lawsuits to fly well before that. laura? >> laura: maybe we should extend it through the new year. let's go all the way to 2020. let's never end it. trace, thanks so much for that report. our next guest just wrote a terrific piece titled "the real reason stacey abrams won't concede." joining us now is someone who knows more than most about

georgia politics, he writes a lot about it. founder of the resurgent, eric erickson. eric. it's great to have you hear tonight. you heard the report from trace. you've been following this race really closely. why was this so ugly from the start? and then, how did it get -- and why is it at the place now where she is trying to force this recount. there's no way she's going to get there. what's going on really? >> you have to go back to 2014. stacey abrams claimed she could get elected by doing registration drives. she failed. she's got to explain to her donors and keep democrats agitated. she wants to run against senator david perdue in two years. by keeping democrats enflamed she thinks she can move into a runoff in december. the secretary of state's race isn't a runoff but there's a key point. the secretary of state in georgia plays no role in the election other than making sure the ballots are uniform so we don't have florida style problems. the secretary of state role

doesn't become effective until after the election is over. kemp resigned before playing that role. every problem the democrats have highlighted are actually local elections officials most of them and democratic counties. >> laura: from the beginning they have been trying to push the narrative. with oprah, and the big rollout with oprah that if you don't vote you are betraying your ancestor's past. number two, the idea that brian kemp was cleaning up the voter rolls which i believe by law he is obligated to do that he is actively trying to suppress minority voting. respond to that. >> right. and you know, to some degree there's a question of whether or not minority voters decided not to vote because the abrams campaign was telling them it's not going to count anyway because kemp is going to steal it. the kemp campaign, the secretary of state is required by law in odd-numbered roles to clean voter rolls of voters who haven't voted in seven years. democrats saying that there was voters taken off the rolls this year.

that's true but the secretary of state in georgia is prohibited from removing people from the rolls in election years. those were local officials who were removing voters who have either died, been convicted of a felony. those are the only people removed from the rolls this year. >> laura: why is sherrod brown and kamala harris getting involved? kamala harris is running for president in 2020. so this is part of that effort, clearly. by why is sherrod brown? i'm not making that connection. >> december 4th there's going to be a secretary of state runoff and the democrats have a chance of winning it. so they're trying to keep the democrats enflamed and impassioned. this all goes back to a democrat strategy after 2000 in florida where they decided that key to winning was to win secretaries of state races because they presided over voter rolls. they've been making claims about brian kemp. when really that's what the democrats want to do. they want to win the secretary of state's office in georgia thinking that will help the democrat in 2020. >> laura: her campaign mentioned

the secretary of state role today. let's watch. >> i would like to remind everybody that his last official act as secretary of state was using that body as a taxpayer-funded arm of his campaign and issuing a press release that said i am the victor. the next day he is standing saying he's governor-elect. we reject that. >> laura: i'm happy to have that loop play morning, noon, and night. that would be really good for the republican party in georgia. but your response to her? >> the math doesn't add up for her. there are no more votes outstanding. all the counties have reviewed even the absentee ballots now and there -- there are no more votes. she fell 17,795 votes short of getting in a runoff, let alone a recount. the results aren't there. she will never be governor of georgia.

>> laura: this is about more identity politics, trying to register more people to vote leading all the way to 2020. eric, terrific piece. thank you so much for joining us tonight. you won't want to miss this. tonight's angle tackles the media and the democrats' michael avenatti problem. the angle after this. ' michael avenatti ♪ when heartburn hits... fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue... and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum tum tum tum... smoothies... only from tums

>> laura: avenatti's assault on democrats' credibility is the focus of tonight's angle. since trump entered his run for the presidency in 2016, democrats and their media sycophants have been on an absolute mission to not just defeat him but to destroy him. and all those around him as well. they are also blinded by their hatred of all things trump so much so that they have hitched

their political wagons to a cast of radical unsavory characters that looks like a reunion of the suicide squad. enter michael avenatti. a two bit tax cheat and celebrity attorney reborn as crusading lawyer to porn star trump accuser stormy daniels. >> the president trusted mr. cohen as his fixer for years. he trusted him with his innermost secrets and i think that the chickens are about to come home to roost. >> laura: they are coming home to roost, all right. as a battering ram against donald trump and later his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, avenatti was elevated by the left. the media couldn't get enough of avenatti. he went from huckster hard-charging lawyer to nationwide brand. his face was suddenly plastered all over tv. this profile from "vanity fair"

is my personal favorite. there he is, the race car driving lawyer with a shaved head and well defined cheekbones who launched a thousand heart eye emojis. i don't think i can continue. the piece goes on to address some salacious rumors about his tan. "i don't fake bake. he does moisturize twice a day but shuns complicated skin treatments. at one point last spring he was getting 100 to 125 interview requests a day. he was soon a featured guest at glittery events as well. like mtv's video music awards. maybe they confused him with the rapper pitbull. i see the similarity. the political and entertainment media, they worked overtime to showcase all things avenatti.

>> thank you very much. what's right is right. you saw this coming. you are putting a lot of chips on what was going to happen with michael cohen and what it would mean for your case but today your stack is a little higher. >> a little higher. >> michael avenatti, thank you very much. avenatti has been getting fed information that's more true than not. what he's doing on tv, that's his business and the people that put him on. >> we are going to bring in a key player from all of this, michael avenatti, he sees it differently. >> laura: curiously neither cuomo nor don lemon covered avenatti's arrest last night by the lapd on domestic abuse charges. huh, wonder why. last night anderson cooper did cover michael avenatti's post-prison press conference. >> i appreciate it. thank you. >> michael avenatti released from custody. we are going to continue the

follow story. tonight, there's more breaking news this time in the russian investigation. potentially a development as we wait for new moves from special calls for mueller. that is next. >> laura: wait, wait, wait, i missed it. it was a drive-by mention. move on to the next topic now. go, go, go. from weinstein to sharpton to farrakhan and now avenatti, the democrats have the pattern of aligning themselves with seedy figures even if it means betraying the democrats' espoused values that would have actually advanced their cause. the democrats are more than happy to sell out basic principles of decency and fairness in their efforts to take down trump and frankly anyone connected to him. at least avenatti was forthright in his intentions. >> i believe that our party, the democratic party, must be a party that fights fire with fire. so i say when they go low, we hit harder.

>> laura: isn't that what the woman is saying, that is accusing him? the dems should've seen the flameout coming. a mile away. tried to cheat his law partner, out of millions in fees. a guy who was evicted from his own offices who was willing to cast his lot with a sad figure like daniels. a guy who stooped even lower to peddle julie swetnick's defamatory claims against kavanaugh. avenatti was an arrest waiting to happen. in fact, last month, senate judiciary committee chair chuck grassley made a criminal referral to both avenatti and swetnick for making false statements to congress. this was a guy that the left seriously considered as a presidential contender for 2020. for months, clinton alum adam parkhomenko has been shuttling

the lawyer, avenatti from democratic party event to democratic party event all over the country in order to familiarize avenatti with the parole process of running for the presidency. the vermont democratic party actually canceled avenatti's appearance this weekend following his arrest. well, in a twist of fate, the man who urged us to believe the women making wild decades-old allegations against kavanaugh now has a change of perspective. >> i have never struck a woman. i never will strike a woman. i have been an advocate for women's rights my entire career and i'm going to continue to be an advocate. i'm not going to be intimidated from stopping what i'm doing. >> laura: i have a question. can you advocate for women's rights behind bars? i guess they do have desks set up in prison.

how will democrats and liberal women who embrace this would-be trump slayer react to this? he's innocent until proven guilty and i said that last night. but will cnn give even a fraction of the air time to his accuser as they did to his clients? don't hold your breath. that's the angle. when we return, reaction to my angle and a further examination of why the media so desperately wanted avenatti to be their golden boy. later, what happens when a millennial vaping fanatic faces off with a doctor warning against the practice? this can't-miss debate later in the show. this can't missed debate later in the

i owe michael avenatti an apology. i've been saying enough already. i've seen you everywhere. what do you have left to say? i was wrong, brother. you have a lot to say.

democrats could learn something from you. you are messing with trump a lot more than they are. >> laura: why didn't we use that for the angle? that's the best one ever. back now to tonight's angle, avenatti's assault on democrats' credibility. i laid out my case. nd let's see what the panel thinks. wisconsin congressman sean duffy and attorney scott bolden. scott, let's start with you. avenatti was all about the women. you've got to believe the women. the women. what does she have to gain? what do these women have to gain after christine blasey ford got a million bucks from go fund me? what does she have to gain? i think she had a lot to gain. but what does she have to gain? >> he is their lawyer and he's advocating on their behalf. he's articulate, telegenic and he's fighting. >> laura: heck of a right hook. it's a joke. come on. >> no, because he's innocent until proven guilty. and with him and his clients,

the women, he's got witnesses, a complaining witness and corroboration. >> laura: and a criminal referral. >> that is politically driven. the republican chair of the judiciary committee referred it. that's not going anywhere. an affidavit she signed. >> laura: you think people should be able to accuse men with impunity? >> she was mistaken but you're going to have to take it a long way to prove she lied. >> laura: are we waiting for michael avenatti's two witnesses he claimed saw brett kavanaugh put grain alcohol in a punch bowl. i have witnesses. >> the senate judiciary committee would get to the truth. probably would've talk to them. >> laura: even you can't defend this avenatti character. at this point. >> character? he's a lawyer. >> isn't it interesting. saying that we need the constitution and innocent until proven guilty but for republicans, guilty until proven innocent. >> i don't believe that either, but i believe avenatti has clients who have made accusations against the president and they have

corroboration and they are listening. >> laura: can't relitigate kavanaugh. >> i am talking about stormy daniels. swetnick and others. what i mean is they never did get corroboration because the committee never -- >> laura: if you are going to defend julie swetnick. she's a nightmare. completely outrageous and false and kavanaugh, two words, life tenure. let's talk about this, though. where does this go for the democrats? they always complain republicans are willing to sell their souls for trump and they believe these things they didn't used to believe and for trump, i always believed in his views on trade and immigration. it doesn't apply to me, but they say that. but what about this? this guy is a piece of work. i would take the allegations from yesterday off the table, just his other behavior and all the other stuff he's been through and done. >> i think the guy is a scumbag. the three of us are lawyers, he gives lawyers a bad name. here you have a guy, attractive man, well-spoken and willing to

be a pit bull against donald trump and you will have every liberal network put him on tv to bash the president. take down the supreme court nominee. when this story comes out, i thought it was fascinating what you played. cnn talking about this story and then back to robert mueller. back to russia. >> laura: four seconds. we all have to admit that was just so obvious. get off the story now. we have elevated him for months. now we can't report this. these are iowa voters, guys, reacting to a possible michael avenatti run for the presidency and they seem pretty excited. let's watch. >> would you potentially vote for stormy daniels' lawyer michael avenatti? >> i probably would. >> after nat y. >> avenatti. >> i would lean that way. >> laura: that was in august. i don't think they will be doing those interviews anytime soon. >> maybe, maybe not but politics

and elections are about who you like. and voters vote for who they like regardless of their policies. he's an attractive candidate. he has no political background or record, don't get me wrong and i'm not sure he could make it to the democratic primaries with so many other democrats running. but it's an interesting story. but i don't think it has a lot of depth. >> laura: would you ever fail to pay your law partner like millions of dollars that your judge ruled a $10 million verdict against avenatti cheating on his law partner. >> would you ever vote for someone who's been accused of groping 20 women? gop voted for donald trump. he's accused of lying on his taxes. not you, but the gop voted for him. so why not avenatti? i'm not a big fan of avenatti. >> donald trump had an agenda. michael avenatti is only anti-trump. and that was the message of the democrat party. listen, this is all they run on. i'm anti-trump. >> this is a hard argument i'm making.

>> laura: hold on. >> it's an anti-trump movement. and that's why -- >> laura: it worked for some of these house seats. democrats took it for some of the house seats. maybe they think they can win the presidency with it. i don't think you've heard the last of michael avenatti. i said innocent until proven guilty last night and you can't believe someone just because they made an accusation even though he didn't give that same courtesy to other folks. >> he was probably set up. don't say -- >> laura: marion berry line. one final thing. alexandria ocasio-cortez has said she can't afford an apartment in d.c. i don't know what the congressional salary is. >> 174,000. >> laura: she can't afford an apartment. >> what's unique is when i ran for congress i had six kipds and i said i struggled to pay my

bills and the left went wild. struggling sean duffy. now alexandria ocasio-cortez says she can't afford an apartment. poor working-class girl from the bronx. the coverage is outrageous. >> laura: how many people had much money? you go to craigslist. you have to live with a bunch of people like everybody else. >> when you work for congress, it's spengive. -- expensive, if you you don't work and you have six kids and your wife is not working and i had six kids and she had fix pairs of shoes. >> laura: let's be honest because sean earned a lot of money with the thing you did. lumberjack sports. you won a lot of big prize money. >> d.c. is an expensive town. we have stories of congressmen and one senator sleeping their office. because they couldn't afford two places. what i don't understand about the media is what's the angle in making a big deal out of your challenge or our challenge? what does that mean? >> laura: because the median income in the united states is $51,000 and that's with three kids. >> she hasn't started her job yet.

>> before you start the job. mine was before i started the job as well and i can't afford a nice little flower like that either. >> oh, my goodness. >> oh, my goodness -- >> laura: it's a version of "i had to walk to school 5 miles." how many bathrooms did you have growing up? >> two. >> two. 11 kids. >> laura: i had one. one. >> 11 kids. >> look how well you're doing now. >> six people in the house and one bathroom and we all survived somehow. thank you so much, and what could possibly be controversial about president trump posthumously awarding elvis presley the medal of freedom? wait till you see the message "the washington post" says it sends. stay there. this one's ridiculous. "the washt sends.

♪ the prison man was sad they began to wail ♪ ♪ you should have heard them that jail bird sing ♪ ♪ let's rock >> laura: greatest music video ever. elvis presley, an american icon, adored by millions, has been selected by president trump to receive the presidential medal of freedom tomorrow. while most would view him as a well deserving recipient, "the washington post" apparently could not help but take a shot at the president. writing, quote, a little nod to the good old days, back when black vision airs could invet

rock 'n roll but only a white man could become the king? ridiculous? how unhinged have actually become going after elvis. joining me now set to discuss it, horace cooper and jonathan harris. jonathan, i mean, elvis is just cool, okay? i didn't like the 1972 elvis as much but that elvis was cool. he embraced black music. he wasn't trying to hide black music. "the washington post," really, this is what you're going out? >> i'm not a huge fan of elvis. might be a generational thing. but i'm not a huge fan, myself. i think the optics look weird. of all the people you could have picked, you're going to pick someone who many people feel at least, to some extent or another appropriated black music because it wouldn't be embraced by black artists that it was raised by a southern white america because of a white artist was doing it. essentially black music. why would you pick someone like that in 2018 with all the racial division that he's caused and he inherited as much as he caused and pick someone like that? why? >> laura: was elvis a racist? >> no, i don't think elvis was a

racist but the optics of what he represented was racism. >> laura: why send the message? >> he said we will take -- the south said we will take black music as long as it was packaged in a white guy. they wouldn't take it from the people -- >> laura: i think that was a fact of a changing american society. i think you could probably make the argument that without elvis, you wouldn't have had other musicians, down the road, al green or even some of the gospel singers who went back even pre-elvis and became more popular post-elvis because of the rise of that type of music. i think a lot of people were brought in the spotlight who wouldn't have come into the spotlight without that kind of meteoric rise. horace, i mean, do you -- i do think this is actually now comedic that we are talking about elvis and the fact that this sends a racist message.

is it another dog whistle, horace? >> the left has jumped the shark. >> laura: that saying has jumped the shark but that's okay. >> this individual was so accomplished, he sold albums that blacks, whites, browns, america enjoyed. america celebrated. he was america's hero. and absolutely, he ought to be -- and it's a real shame that people would look at his achievements and say, we want to hold that back because we think this is somehow a secret dog whistle for a racist agenda. >> laura: if the president had picked michael jackson who was called the king of pop. >> i was thinking donald trump and michael jackson were very close. he could have picked something like that. philanthropist, no racial controversy. >> why didn't barack obama pick him? >> laura: why didn't obama pick michael jackson? >> there's a question about that. why are you picking elvis? he's been dead for at least a

couple minutes. why are you picking elvis? >> laura: there were a lot of people who are legends. he was the most influential. i don't think anyone can argue, the most influential person of the time in american music. it was music that was threatening to the new generation obviously, people thought it was a threat. they didn't like it. they didn't like his moves. i think you can argue as a liberal that elvis was really what ushered in obviously the beatles, the rolling stones, all the way down to the who. little richard. they loved elvis. little richard loved elvis. i think you could talk to him today. >> millions of americans go to graceland. it's a ridiculous -- >> laura: have you ever been to graceland? i have never been. i'd like to go. let's all go together. we could film it. come on. >> it would be my first time. >> to bring up him as a divider when he actually united americans with music. >> okay. >> laura: i'm going to turn you into an elvis fan. i'm going to turn you into an elvis fan. you're going -- who's your favorite? >> michael jackson. >> laura: i love michael jackson. i'm going to turn you on to elvis. you're going to like elvis.

when i play you the old gospel elvis. you will love it. nancy pelosi has been thrilled with one figure that may be not as uniting as elvis and this is al sharpton. let's watch. >> thank you for helping take back america. people all over the place are calling me, writing, thank you for saving america. i give those thanks to you. thank you for saving america. reverend sharpton, thank you for saving america. >> laura: i think she said that four times in one clip. she was at that national action network legislative policy conference. it's a civil rights organization founded by sharpton. did al sharpton save america? >> i may have missed that memo. >> he saved america from racial harmony. >> no. i will say -- no.

he's done a lot -- there's a lot of things that he's done that are problematic. >> problematic? >> you are a trump supporter. we are not going to get into that. >> he's done a lot of things that are problematic. nancy pelosi is referring to the fact that he's done a lot to take on racism. >> stop racism by causing racism. >> laura: we are going to vaping. i wish you could stay for this segment. we have a millennial vaping fanatic facing off against a doctor warning against it. find out what's going on, next. n

>> the disturbing trajectory of use we are seeing in youth and the resulting path to addiction must end. >> laura: e-cig usage has raised

80% among high schoolers and as a result the fda wants regulations, specifically with regard to flavors varietals, that helped propel an explosion in use among the young. here now, two folks on opposite sides of the issue. and you go by the name tommy smokes because of videos like this. >> first thing i'm going to try, sick juul trick. ♪ ♪ >> you can't overdose on juul, can you? >> laura: that's pretty cool. all right, tommy, tell me why these flavors e-cigs shouldn't be regulated.

>> i'm 22 years old. i'm using them legally and honestly they are cool. you rip them. there is nothing cooler than blowing a fat cloud like that. they call me the colossus of cloud. i just -- it helps my swag. it helps my drip. i love walking around. it's really good for getting chicks. i started about a year ago. >> laura: yeah. what's your favorite -- i have a question, you use your cell phone quite a bit? >> yeah. >> laura: why don't you rig it up to your phone so you won't have the actual calories burned by grabbing your phone so you can vape and check email and text of the same time. you have it right off the side. that will be your invention. i'm giving it to you. >> like this. >> laura: yeah, right. you don't have to keep switching devices. humor aside, doctor, what should we know about the use of these ecigarettes? vaping? wildly popular. parents don't really know their kids are doing it. what's the big deal? it's not like a cigarette, right? >> just as harmful as

cigarettes. smoking causes more deaths than alcohol, drugs, guns, car accidents combined. the nicotine in cigarettes and in vaping products such as juul, highly addictive. it can cause brain developmental abnormalities in kids. concentration problems, memory problems, problems with decision-making, anxiety, depression. it really can have a significant toll on children and it's really important that we educate parents and educate students to stay away from smoking. >> laura: the argument from the big lobbying organizations pushing vaping is that you don't get the tar in your lungs that you get from a regular cigarette. >> it doesn't matter. you are inhaling propylene glycol, formaldehyde, traces of metals and chemicals which can cause upper respiratory tract infections.

asthma flare ups. copd. it can allow you to have trouble breathing, be on oxygen tanks and put some people in the emergency room. tommy over there is gasping for air. >> laura: tommy, you don't seem to be bothered at all by formaldehyde or any of the things. you love it. look at how tommy, look at how he looks. he looks fantastic. >> 10, 20 years from now he's going to have trouble breathing. may develop chronic bronchitis. i'm here for you, tommy, if you ever decide you want to quit. >> laura: tommy, did you smoke cigarettes before? was this your way to get off? >> no, no cigarettes. cigarettes are bad for you. i would never do anything that's bad for your lungs. i just stick to juul. >> laura: have you heard of wet lungs? what that is. >> no. so what is that? >> laura: wet lungs, doctor, explain it to us. we are finding a lot of juul usurers developing this syndrome called wet lung. >> also known as popcorn lung which can cause scarring and

inflammation in your lungs. people who start off using vaping products, it's considered a gateway drug and can lead people to actually start smoking real cigarettes. that is a concern. >> no, popcorn is delicious. i'm not worried about that. >> laura: what flavor do you use? >> mango is my go-to but i will blow whatever. whatever's put in front of me. >> laura: they are regulating it now. the flavors are gone. you should go full on menthol cigarettes. >> the man can't stop me. >> that's the other thing, they are targeting cigarettes to children, mango, hawaiian punch. >> laura: that's the problem. tutti-frutti and cotton candy. we are going to check in with tommy smokes in about six years and see how he's doing. this was a fun segment. stay there. about six years and see how he's doing. this was a fun seg

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>> time for the last bite. first lady milania trump is spreading her be best initiative. are we using that one? we love milania but we have to do this. kamala harris. >> are you familiar with the perception of how power and

discretion being used to enforce the laws and you see any parallels? >> i do not see any parallels. >> she is talking about parallels to the kkk. ice, kkk, take that to 2020. that is a winning message. that is all-time we have to night. i'm discombobulated from the fading segment. shannon bream and the fox news at night team. i can't believe vapor is coming from under the door. >> any potentially incriminating evidence, thank you. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with a fox news alert. the recount