>> sean: godspeed, hw bush. good and grateful servant. our thoughts and prayers with the bush family. thank you for being with us and let not your heart be troubled. the news continues. laura ingraham is up next. >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. with disgraced fbi director jim comey set to testify on the hill tomorrow, there are specific questions that need to be asked and answered, namely why did hillary aides cheryl mills and who huma abedin likely get away with lying. byron york has some answers. while the resistance cheers, the mueller probe may have

inadvertently snared former obama and clinton aides. jonathan turley will talk to us. we were led to believe everything the government tells us about climate science is true but what if those reports are being funded by billionaire activists? the man who investigated the latest climate report is here to tell us what's going on. herman cain and raymond arroyo are here as well. first, the attack of the liberal killjoy's. that is the focus of tonight's angle. liberals are trying to tell us how to feel, how to celebrate, and if you can believe it, even how to pray during the holidays. a few decades back, they fought really hard against a campaign by tipper gore. remember when she was lobbying for warning labels on music that had explicit content in the lyrics? let's face it. when parents raise concerns

about the music industry's gross, explicit lyrics or oversexualized scenes on tv, liberals respond with just change the channel. today they have a case of amnesia because they are the new centaurs. and the offending content: christmas songs. >> the characters saying no and they are saying does no really mean yes? in 2018, what we know is consent is yes. >> did you see in the video how she tries to leave and he grabs her arm and she looked at her arm. then he closes the thing and says you can't leave. it is somewhat coercive. i have to say it's making me rethink the song. >> it is making me rethink it. to be dear i am rethinking a lot of things too. notice how the left don't want to place limits on what's truly objectionable content, hip-hop,

rap, some of the worst of which routinely objectifies women, demonizes law enforcement and celebrate things called murder. instead they seek to take the darkest spin on our american musical traditions. the left has no problem with performances like these but "baby, it's cold outside" is a national disgrace. thankfully not everyone is thrilled about where the politically correct crowd is taking them. >> i'm going to go back. >> we have to agree to disagree. i think it's a light, flirtatious song. she clearly doesn't seem to be so upset. look at the whole darn song before you make a decision. [laughs] so irritated. we are losing our sense of humor nowadays. >> bingo, gayle king. even christmas specials, we used to look forward to them. they play them once a year and it made them more special.

even though specials on save from the liberal black list. rudolph red nosed reindeer has been singled out by "the huffington post" as seriously problematic. have they watched tv recently? people are being sexually assaulted and brutalized 24/7. but a 54-year-old claymation reindeer sends them to the crying room? seems like this are quite harrowing. >> from now on, we won't let rudolph join in any reindeer games. right? >> laura: i love the whistle around his neck. sorry. i think i had to take a moment here. i think just seeing the unseen may have triggered my post rudolph stress disorder. >> all right, son, try it on. >> i don't want to. daddy, i don't like this. >> you will like it and wear it.

now there's one thing i want to make very plain. noto of mine is going to be seen with a red nosed reindeer. >> laura: summoned the grief counselors. and they say it is sexist because rudolph's dad tells his wife with the search for their son is man's work. so she can't go out in the cold. he will find rudolph. you stay here on the homefront, honey. this is a beloved christmas schedule and the longest continuously running one as well. do you see what liberals seek to do? they are trying to disrupt and destroy traditions and replace them with their own version of some transitory nonsense. by seeing dark forces and even an innocent christmas special, they divide us with the goal of ripping away yet another innocuous thing that families have enjoyed for more than half a century.

but nothing fun and traditional is off-limits or i would say for any of these stories. years ago they started complaining charlie brown, that christmas special, was offensive too because it was too christian. >> the angel said unto them fear not for behold, i bring you tidings of great joy. for unto you is born this day in the city of david a savior which is christ the lord. >> laura: i still cry when i see that. it could never be made today. any day i am expecting peter will lodge a complaint about the grinch. the green guy with the attitude didn't treat max the dog very well. the last types -- they talk about tolerance of diversity and being your authentic self. going to speak my truth. what were they really want is for you to bow down and worship at their alter of self-righteous political correctness. they want to control what you

watch, what you eat, what you ear and yes, how you speak and even as we soldering the bush 41 funeral, how you pray. >> i will point out the apostles creed being recited. president trump and the first lady not reading. everyone has a thing in their hand. what are -- what is that about? >> it's on because he's is the a supposed -- he has all these evangelicals around. i thought it was bizarre that he didn't even try to read it. >> laura: first of all, trumpets considered a very religious person? i don't know what she's reading. sally quinn, who was a journalist, and a memoir she described a hexane two people. she's going to demand that trump recite a religious creed at a public ceremony?

but again, this is the left, depending on the politics of the moment they go from being liver teens to puritans. the once aggressive secular suddenly become religious enforcers. these are the same people who applauded one prayer was driven out of public schools and cheered when manger scenes were pulled from public square. forever crowing about how we need separation of church and state, a phrase found nowhere in any of our founding documents. today's left is blissfully unaware of how much they become caricatures of what they accused conservatives of being. they claim to be tolerant. they are among the most rigid, intolerant people on the planet. they claim to be pro-choice. that only applies to abortion, maybe gender. they claim to be for creative expression but they are control freaks and monoliths. what they want to do is stifle

and marginalize conservative voices whether they are on college campuses, the workplace, the u.s. military or right here on cable tv. while they point the finger at trump for being divisive, they are the ones working overtime to divide the country long lines of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, just to name a few. above all, liberals have become aggressively boring and no fun at all. and that's the angle. joining me now for reaction is attorney and rnc committee woman from california, harmeet dhillon. fox news contributor raymond arroyo. and jennifer holdsworth. first of all, i want everyone to know that this is a safe space here. we won't censor you like some of the liberals. raymond, i want to start with you. there's a sense sense of phone and whimsy that seems to be missing in this whole political correctness moment we've been

living in for some time. >> jokes are out the door. you can't kid. how do we get over difficult situations? how do we overcome and find connections with people we disagree with? we joke. we make fun of each other and ourselves. it's being pushed further and further out of society. you see it some of the clips you played. you can't do a racy or suggestive song. this is a way in the 1950s that people interacted. it was a way to suggest something without gratuitously hitting you over the head with it. now we are in a gratuitous age where you can't make the quiet sideswipe some of the fun jokes on the side. everything has to be very plain and black and white and frankly it's a lot uglier out there. >> laura: more divisive and not fun. jennifer, this is what jerry seinfeld said a few years ago. he was on a seth meyers talking about what it's like to be on the comedy circuit. he's also said he will not perform on college campuses because talk about an unformed place these days. let's watch. >> i can imagine some people say it's offensive to suggest that a

gay person moves their hands in a flourishing motion and you need to apologize. there is a creepy pc thing out that really bothers me. >> i don't think it's so much about political correctness as it is about being sensitive of what might really hurt someone. when we talk about christmas songs, i wouldn't necessarily put "baby, it's cold outside" in the realm of christmas songs. when you talk about liberals -- >> laura: even if it's not. do they play it in june? >> the way president trump raises, this is a president sitting less than a foot away from another president who a lot of conservatives talked about being a muslim for the last decade, as if there was something wrong with that. when we talk about turning the tide of the national conversation in the something that's a little less offensive, he doesn't have to do with political correctness. i would like to see what conservatives would have said had it been president obama who

did not recite the apostles creed when the entire rest of the church did. >> laura: one thing that's different here is that conservatives actually try to say we want to conserve the culture. we want to conserve, what makes us different is okay. it's okay to be different very different points of view. but what i'm trying to get to, jennifer, knew didn't seem quite understand what i'm saying is that in this world of if you are offended, i can't say it. i can't even feel it for fear of losing my job, not getting a promotion, and not getting a benefit in the workplace. people are afraid to speak their minds. that's not liberal. that's scary. that is censorious. that's what the left always considered conservative. harmeet dhillon. >> absolutely, laura. conservatives are not the business of critiquing how people pray. that's crass. he prayed the way he felt comfortable doing. it's not our business to critique it. what i see in college campuses and workplaces is that people are constantly censoring

themselves, walking around on eggshells. young people are doing consent videos before they moved to second base with a girl so they don't get sued. it's really sucking all the joy out of life. >> laura: and romance. >> if i were a young person these days, i would be stressed out and having to take all the drugs they take now because they're always worried about the new rules. >> are you saying that consent is sucking the joy out of romance? >> no, what i said was making a video to document the consent is sucking the joy out of interactions between the sexes. >> fear of being dragged before a board or fear of litigation keeps boys from asking girl -- asking girls out and vice versa. >> definitely a conversation to be had about due process and what we need to do on college campuses. i think consent is a completely different conversation.

>> laura: raymond, you interviewed candidate trump about his faith. about prayer. liberals criticizing how someone decides to pray in the moment. that is wild to me. i want to play what he said to you about his own prayer. >> when you pray, what do you prefer? >> i don't want to talk to about that. i pray. it's very personal to me. i'm a person of belief. i pray for my family. i pray for our country. but i don't want to talk to you about that. i think it's very personal. >> between you and god. >> it is between me and god, yes. >> i get trashed for wearing this cross. >> i never get trashed for wearing my cross. >> laura: go to my twitter feed. you are a liberal. you can do whatever you want.

>> criticizing the man for not praying the creator reciting it, first of all, you are dealing with the man i think is new to faith. he's working his way through it and he's not ostentatious. i would prefer someone, i would rather a faithful pagan who follows, protects religious freedom and advances basic morality in our government over a pious fraud who assaults both. that's the difference many faith filled people had with president obama. it was the policy, not the man. >> criticizing the way someone prays and pointing out hypocrisy and conservatives. liberals have been called godless for years when they have worshiped a variety of gods. >> laura: what? that's a non sequitur. you are not arguing the point. the point is that liberals claim they are pro-choice, be who we want to become of the eurocentric authentic self.

trump is praying the way he darned wants and he gets trashe trashed. don lemon has gone so far over the line. god bless them. i don't know what's going on with him. you are so obsessed with trashing trump that you've got to trash him in the moment when everyone is honoring george bush. i don't understand it. it speaks so poorly of where the culture is in it i think it goes back to people are truly just afraid. they are afraid. they are afraid to speak. afraid of feel. if you hum along to "baby, it's cold outside, you might as well have raped somebody. can you really have fun? i guess you can smoke pot and do edibles and talk about how you want to change her gender but you can't do much else. i guess play sports. honestly, and public life, it's very hard. jerry seinfeld is right. humor is dead and that's why they are trashing trump. >> they are moving to secular

dogma. pope benedict and dictatorship of relativism. i think we are here. >> laura: our next guess is here. democrats claim to be that smart party, the science, intellectuals. all the troglodytes who voted for trump. you need to sit down, shut up and let the smart people run the country. things are very complicated. last night we pointed out and sadly the left and many of the g.o.p. establishment smarts that have been wrong on issue after issue for years. today were they just were wrong on geography. >> we can move forward with this. we have a responsibility all of us to secure our borders. north, south, and coming in by plane on our coasts. three coasts. north, south, and west. that's it. it's a responsibility we honor

but we do so by honoring our values as well. >> laura: was she in rem cycle? what was that? here now former g.o.p. presidential candidate herman cain. we all misspeak. we've all misspoken. it's fun. trying of poke fun at ourselves. what coaster you on right now? >> i am on the east part of the nation. i want to respond to jennifer, your previous guest. the constitution says freedom of religion which means also freedom to read and freedom to not read if you don't want to. >> it also means freedom from religion, sir. >> allow me to speak, please. you had your chance to say what you wanted to say. i've been in a different religious setting than my normal

setting and i didn't pretend to do everything that they did because i wasn't comfortable doing it. so i remained silent. now liberals want to make a big deal out of it that the man didn't read. freedom of religion means, excuse me for getting a little passionate about this, also means freedom to not read if you don't want to. laura, the compilation you put together last night was so impressive to me that i wanted to reproduce the clip on my website, herman cain.com. it demonstrates without a question of a doubt hypercritical the democrats are, and it demonstrates clearly, better than anything of ever seen, that they do believe they are smarter than everybody else. this is why they are trying to

destroy and change our culture from top to bottom. that's what they are trying to do. you made that point very clearly by showing what they've said historically. >> laura: a lot of the republicans have screwed up along the way as well. >> exactly. >> laura: china, the wto, not worrying about the housing bubble. >> on and on and on. >> laura: don lemon said he wouldn't shake hands with trump at the funeral. is that a sign of openness or tolerance? don lemon is kind of a liberal guy. if you were there, he wouldn't. >> laura, that's not a sign of tolerance. that's a sign of disdain and trying to enforce the liberal doctrine of you conform the way we want you to conform or we are going to try to intimidate and

ostracize you. that's what don lemon is talking about. >> laura: i have to get to the apostles creed here. i've got to go to confession after this segment. all right, thank you so much. while they resistance cheers the mueller probe, it may have inadvertently ensnared former clinton and obama aides. professor jonathan turley and byron york next. ♪ you think you've seen everything? ♪ let's talk about that when you get here.

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>> do you see how someone could view the context of what she did, set up a private system, that she alone controlled and kept everything on it and we know from huma abedin's deposition that they did it for that very reason. when they got caught, they deleted what they had and scrubbed their device. is that part of the context in evaluating this decision? >> sure, sure. and understand what inferences can be drawn from that collection of facts, of course. >> laura: what inferences could be drawn? former fbi director jim, we back on the hill tomorrow and there are some double standards at play, namely when it was revealed in the mail the clinton aide huma abedin and cheryl mills had likely light to the ff her private server. why were they punished? this question has new residents in the wake of general flynn's life being turned upside down on

account of similar transgressions. lying. 1,001 violations. so will comey face questions about that double standard question right here is byron york. great piece about a set of questions that comey should be grappling with, being asked and have to answer. >> michael flynn. what'd fbi agents think when they interviewed michael flynn on january 24, 2017, just four days into the administration. they interviewed him about the wiretapped phone call he had during the transition with the russian ambassador. and why did they go -- why do the fbi go to the white house? and did relay, as we've heard that comey has said, the fbi agents believed that flynn was not lying. >> laura: including peter strzok, who was there. >> including peter strzok. what did the fa agents really say about this? i comey read the transcript of these conversations?

and did comey believe that michael flynn was going to face a false statement charge? because members of congress say that comey told them he did not expect michael flynn to be indicted. >> laura: the sentencing memos are going to come out on friday. both manafort and cohen. it's going to be a big news night tomorrow. what do you expect if anything comey behind closed doors look at the transcript on saturday with what he says, what light will he shed on this question we posed at the top? how do hillary's aides seem to always get away and the end? they get away with this stuff. >> he's been questioned about stuff like this before because as you remember, it was over the july 4th holiday in 2016 that they questioned her. and then almost instantly they exonerated her. >> laura: he wasn't there during the questioning. >> no, but it's as if the fbi didn't even check her testimony.

we later learned that they had been writing this exoneration memo for months before they questioned her and before they questioned a lot of other key figures. of course they handed out immunity like candy. on the other hand, comey has been asked these questions before and there were some republicans who were not happy with comey being called to be question tomorrow. >> laura: peter strzok was the agent who interviewed mills and abedin. he also interviewed michael flynn and he's testified on capitol hill. what if they got from him? >> he didn't talk about the flynn case to them because the fbi and everybody associated has said it's an ongoing criminal investigation. sorry we can't talk about it. flynn has already pleaded guilty and charles grassley has been trying to get information on that ground, that basis. by the 18th of december, a few

days from now, he's going to get sentence. >> laura: wasn't michael flynn out of the country when he was wiretapped? they listened. >> it was the russian ambassado ambassador. >> laura: they are allowed to do that under u.s. surveillance policies. no problem. but then his name was unmasked. you wrote about this as well. >> this was something devin nunes got a lot of criticism for bringing up but the point is we do wiretapped. we never say this. but we wiretapped top russian officials. we knew what was being said. but then you think who's on the other end of that conversation? that's what was so-called unmasked. >> laura: why does susan rice's name come up frequently? she was involved in a lot of the unmaskings and never got any answer, why was it so necessary to learn these people's names? >> laura: byron york, we

appreciate it. christmas is early. big night tomorrow night. while the resistance -- >> this is not strictly speaking a bob mueller investigation. this is an example where he discovers something. his fbi agents learn something about podesta's brother in the course of interrogating witnesses and they are looking at whether or not the podesta firm in conjunction with the manafort firm did lobbying for political groups in the ukraine and did not tell the federal government. this is the first time the democrats or any democrat is within what bob mueller does. >> laura: the resistance has been cheering its every move, a referral from the mueller probe involving former obama and clinton aides is heating up with an increased focus on clinton linked washington insider tony podesta and former white house counsel greg craig. here to make sense of the the players, constitutional law professor, fox news contributor

jonathan turley. professor, assuming it's true, while shouldn't we be just as critical of this in terms of an overreach by mueller as we were when the other parties were involved? >> it's a valid point. these violations in terms of registering as foreign agents use to occur rather regularly. rather regular process in washington. people get caught on them. they would often retroactively applied. they generally were not viewed as strong criminal cases. but they went after people like mueller and others for failure to register for these types of issues. now it looks like they are proceeding against people like podesta. what's interesting about podesta. >> laura: he was offered immunity. >> he wasn't given transactional but he was offered immunity. >> laura: more limited. >> since then, manafort didn't speak with them a great deal. there's a possibility that manafort did drop a dime on people like podesta. >> laura: i think for

mueller's case, if he's laying out some case against some member of the trump, you know, circle, if he seems to be a little bit more evenhanded and how he kind of throws out the judgment or the facts, it will be better for the overall credibility of the report perhaps. >> i think it will be but the problem is, if this is how it ends, it's going to be rather underwhelming. it's like going around and shooting the wounded. these are not significant crimes. they may be perfectly appropriate to proceed for, and certainly refer, but this is not what we've all been waiting for. maybe he will prove to be the agatha christie prosecutor and in the final scene we find out all the characters, the things they didn't tell us before. but if not, there's going to be a lot of disappointed folks in this town. >> laura: if it comes down to farah the foreign agent. >> or corsi and stone.

>> laura: where's the collusion? there's a long process. is an ending, do you think? >> i think it is ending. we have all of the speaking indictments that have been filed. none suggest there's any connection, no involvement with russians by top trump officials thus far that would sustain this type of cogent conspiracy people are talking about. maybe he's holding it for the end but we haven't seen it so far. >> laura: bill barr's name was out there today is perhaps trump's pick to be attorney general. other names out there, chris christie and a few others. what about bill barr, former attorney general himself short period of time. >> bill would be an absolutely brilliant choice. he is a go by the book guy. he's as steady as a rock. i represented him during the clinton impeachment with a bunch of other former attorney generals. one time i got a call from him

at 40,000 40,000 feet in his pe headed to europe saying that he spotted a typo. i spent years in therapy over that. >> laura: he's a stickler for details. >> is one of the best lawyers i've ever encountered, which really puts the pressure on when you represent him. he would be ideal. he would get through the senate very, very easily. he would bring instant credibility. you could not pick a better guide this moment for that job. >> laura: and he was already once confirmed. they are citing things he said about comey. this is from may of 2017. let's watch. >> he crossed a basic line back in july, fundamental line in the department. which is that investigations are supervised and directed by the lawyers, the prosecutors at the department, not the agents. what is of concern and certainly what appears to have concerned the administration was not so much that transgression but his

steadfast refusal to acknowledge that he had transgressed those limits on his power. >> laura: not shy about talking about -- >> it's hard to imagine anyone who objected with anything he just said. the democrats have been saying that. the republicans have been saying that. it's one point upon which there is universal agreement is that comey overstepped his bounds. that was in the rosenstein memo. according democrat and republican appointee saying that what he did bordered on the horrific. the point that you should get out of that is the essence of barr. he was loved by agents at the justice department. >> laura: boy, do they need that now. >> he's a rock solid guy who views these things with clarity. he speaks very directly to them. there's no effort on his part to spin ever. he just talks directly to the issue. comey was outside the navigational beacon and he said that. >> laura: he and comey couldn't be different.

bill doesn't want the credit. he doesn't need to get the credit. steadfast and clear and i would not want to debate him on anything. i'm glad you are representing him and not alive. jonathan turley, thanks so much. when he heard the term deep state, you might think it refers to topics like we just discussed but what it extends to government climate reports too? our analyst digs in next.

>> laura: when the government puts out reports, gives it an aura of credibility, right? that's how the latest national climate assessment was treated when newsrooms flew into a frenzy about the looming apocalypse. watch. >> this is criminal really when you get down to it. it's tragic that we have a president who at this critical moment chooses not to be a firefighter but to be an arson. >> we've got kids. we don't want to be slowly burned to death on our own planet. >> climate change could kill

thousands of americans and cost the economy hundreds of billions of dollars. we are suggesting if you don't want to believe science, maybe just start with climate kids dot nasa.gov. it's a pretty easy read. it's fun. there are pictures. >> laura: that's right, anderson. you are smarter than everyone else. anyone scared yet? what if we were to tell you that same government policy paper was funded with the help of progressive climate alarmists like billionaires tom steyer and mike bloomberg. here now, the man who uncovered the funding, chuck devore of the texas public policy center. chuck, tell us a bit about how you were able to find out who funded this and what their climate agenda may be. >> that's a great question. first of all, i owe a lot to the heritage foundation. they did a quick critique that thought exactly the point you should. the huge hit to the economy and thousands of people dying. that's what the media focused

on. that was taken from one study funded unfortunately by federal government tax dollars but also michael bloomberg and tom steyer. so he mentioned that. i dug into its more. but i found out, laura, was one of the main office of the repor report, a professor from berkeley, this guy is a veritable basket case. on his blog, he talks about "eliminating the president." on his blog, he talked about how he's concerned about the rise of religious extremism in the united states. and in the middle east. i guess equating guys like me with al qaeda and isis which is, i don't know, a little kooky if you asked me. he's one of the main office of the report and the reason why they are doing this of course is that they need to whip people up into fear so that we can hand over our sovereignty, hand over our autonomy to these people who are better than us and smarter than last. >> laura: back to my angle. i did an angle last night about how the left loves to portray itself as the smart set. they know better than the little

people. you may like to fill your truck up with diesel but guess what, it's all going to be better under the new way of doing commerce and fueling vehicles and you've just got to listen up. we've got a tax incentive, electric cars and so forth. you see what's happening in france. people are rejecting it. there's a lot going on in france beyond that, but that's part of this. costs real money and people don't want to open up their wallets. >> it hits the middle class the most. the thing that's amazing about france's gases about $7.06 a gallon and almost half of that as taxes, a lot more than here in america. what they are writing over with a 25-cent a gallon increase in gas tax in about $0.10 a gallon in diesel. the u.n. climate expert who wants to transfer a lot of our wealth to corrupt third world countries, he estimates that in 12 years, we are going to need a carbon tax it's the equivalent of about 49 bucks a gallon for

fuel. using there's riots in france now over $0.25? imagine what happens with 49 bucks a gallon. >> laura: there is another brainiac whose words we must share with our viewers, chuck. arnold schwarzenegger. >> i wish that i could be the terminator in real life to be able to travel back in time and to stop all fossil fuels when they were discovered. >> laura: first of all, send me a memo when he's going to drop the terminator references. it's more like "kindergarten cop," it's a climate cop. he should do a whole new sequel. >> think about what he said, if he could travel back in time and stop all fossil fuels, it's like are you kidding me? so stop the industrial revolution in its tracks around 1700? we would be living in abject poverty and misery right now if that were to happen. which i guess it's kind of like the terminator movies, right?

wasn't that some sort of post-apocalyptic dystopia? >> laura: yes, yes. chuck, how would he get on the g4 to the next film festival? chuck, thanks so much. this leads us to our next question. some of the most influential leaders in the democratic party have lied to you about science for decades. why are we still listening to them? here to debate, former chuck schumer aid chris hahn. all right, chris, i know you just got off your global express jet. but the david her sahni wrote a great piece today documenting tn stellar track record of some climate alarmists. i want to start with this. in 1970, a harvard biologist estimated "civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action was taken." so what happened? he was the soothsayer of the time.

>> yeah, you know, look, major events don't happen on the schedule, right? climate change is real. it is happening. we have seen evidence. >> laura: it's always happened. >> this year between the major storms, california wildfires, it's a problem that we should be addressing. 97% of scientists who study this degree that this is a problem it's man-made, caused by our using of fossil fuels, especially coal, and it's time for us to wake up and speak with one voice. it should not be a political debate whether or not it's real or not. it should be a debate about how we solve the problem. instead, we still have a president of the united states who said this isn't even a real problem. >> laura: do you have a problem, chris, do you have a problem, i think we have a lot of problems that are resulting in cataclysmic issues happening to our environment. i am a conservationist so i want

to conserve the beauty that we have. that's where i come down. i'm not a scientist. i don't pretend to be one on tv but it's interesting, going back to judging. in retrospect, we can see who's a pretty good prognosticator and who wasn't such a good prognosticator. let's try this one. this was a 1977. mrs. barack obama's future science czar predicting global warming could lead to the deaths of about 1 billion starving people by 2020. we have about 13 months left, so what happened? there is another recent prediction that i have to get to. al gore, he proclaimed in 2006 in the "inconvenient truth" film that sea level would rise 20 feet. "in the near future." was that just when he stepped into the atlantic? sorry. according to scientists, sea level rose 3 inches between '93

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>> laura: the nypd is investigating a bomb threat near cnn's new york city bureau in columbus circle. due to the threat, the office has been evacuated. right now, cnn is airing taped programming due to the disruption. my friends, we are going to keep following this in this segment, and raymond arroyo will join us. again, the temperature is not to be brought down in these conversations. politics should be debated and aggressively so, but nonviolenc nonviolence. and our thoughts are with our friends over at cnn. we are competitors and in cablt we are thinking of you and hoping everyone is okay. we will monitor it and bring you the updates. another topic, have losses gone

too far in the united states? it's a question was asked before and it's when we keep debating. we need lawsuit reform. too many people suing too many people. it's killing business, killing initiative, but maybe we need a fresh look at all this. check this out. public school students and parents are suing rhode island's governor and other educational officials in federal court, saying that the state failed to prepare young people to fully participate in civic life. here now, lead counsel in the case, michael revel, columbia's teachers college in new york. michael, thanks much for being here tonight. you recently remarked that "we are living in troubled times, our democratic institutions are being challenged like never before." it's a provocative statement but what makes these times more troubled than five years ago, how we had all these riots in st. louis and we had baltimore. we have the freddie gray,

michael brown, trevor martin. so is it all trump? >> you know, i like to look back to the era of george h.w. bush that we were thinking about yesterday. seems like a century ago when people could engage in civic conversation. people from different political perspectives, and try to work things out. now our whole situation is totally polarized. people scream at each other. they don't think. they don't talk. i think it is a very troubled time, and it is different from i think virtually any other era in american history but another problem we have here is our founding fathers, thomas jefferson, sam adams, you go back to any of them, they said that this experiment in mass democracy they were implementing, first time in human history, could only survive if we had an educated citizenry. that's been a theme throughout american history. >> laura: so, okay, the soliloquies fascinating.

it's fascinating. dan hannigan what a great piece in "the wall street journal" today, like don't blame trump for a corrosive culture. nice try. but the culture has been corroding for decades. every time conservatives say we've got to look at this cultural equation, both in politics and entertainment, everything's, they are laughed at and called rooms. you want to circumscribe creative expression. so the idea that trump brought in the era of coarseness which is what many in the left are trying to bamboozle us with his patently ridiculous. >> we are not saying that trump brought the same. i trace in my book that i wrote in the subject of the decline in the schools taking responsibility for seriously preparing kids for citizenship. it goes back 50 or 60 years. i think it's gotten worse now. >> laura: isn't it a little difficult for public school teachers especially today, professor, they are competing with a lot.

they are competing with broken families, i have two educators in my family. one of the public school in one of the private school, different political backgrounds both of them but what i hear in a part of the years is this is really tough. we have in some cases 17 languages spoken in public schools over northern virginia. teachers are trying to do their best, but teachers are parents. we have a fundamental problem with a breakdown across the side. it's not racial and it's not ethnic. it's in the home. >> that's a whole other area. we could get into that i'm sure for another half-hour. but the point is, only one-third of american, the american population even knows what the separation of powers is. only 23% of our students in the latest national tests were proficient in civics. i mean, our democracy cannot survive if two-thirds of the people can't name the three branches of government.

the schools have a responsibility for this. >> laura: we have heard this for some time which is why you should be for public school choice and choice in education, which is what conservatives have been lobbying for years. take the monopoly from a public school's away from the poor kids and opened it up to competition. professor, we've got breaking news in new york tonight with a new threat against cnn. sorry, we have to cut it short. we'll be right back, the very latest on this apparent bomb threat outside of cnn. again, our thoughts are with our friends over the other network. will bring you the latest. stay there.

♪ >> laura: cnn has gone to tape to programming after a phone and bomb threat of some sort of evacuated the building. raymond, we were talking about how things are too hard. there's nothing for people to hold onto. speak up when the world starts to shift, crazy people react in crazy ways. we set out in october 24th when those pipe bombs were disseminated at cnn and other media outlets. we pray this is nothing like

that. >> laura: did not bag with his weird man. people need to understand, when individuals who are already on the edge feel like -- got to take the temperature down. that is a good lesson from george h.w. bush. bring it all down a little bit. that is all the time we have tonight. shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team take it from here, all the latest developments, shannon? >> shannon: laura, we'll keep the i am a story involving cnn. we begin with a fox news alert. friday is said to be here today on multiple fronts. the mueller team facing a deadline on key court filings tomorrow. well they tip their hand on exactly what intel michael cohen and paul manafort may have been provided to the russian investigation? plus, fired fbi director james comey back to capitol hill for a grilling, and one of the people who will be asking the questions, trey gowdy, is here with us for a previ