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 is a a journali who described hecksing three people, who of whom died. she's going to demand trump recite a religious creed at a

public ceremony. this is the problem with the left. depending on the politics of the moment they go from being libertines to puritans. they're religious enforcers. these are the same people who by the way applauded when prayer was driven out of the public schools and who cheered when manger scenes were pulled from the public square. crowing about how we need separation of church and state a phrase found nowhere in our founding documents. today's left is blissfully unaware of what caricatures they are. they claim to be tolerant. they're among the most rigid intolerant people on the planet. they claim to be pro choice. that only applies to abortion or gender. they claim to be for creative expression but they're control freaks and monoliths. what they want to do is stifle and marginal lies conservative

voices, whenever they are, yes even on cable tv. while they point the finger at trump for being device sieve they're working overtime to divide the country along lines of race, sexual orientation and ethnicity just to name a few. liberals have become aggressively boring and no fun at all. and that's the angle. fun at all. >> joining me now for reaction is attorney and rnc committee woman from california harmeet dhillon, fox news contributor raymond arroyo and cro of dees political jennifer hauls worth. i want everyone to know this is a safe space. we won't sensor you like some of the liberals. raymond there is a sense of fun and whimsy that seems to be missing in this whole political correctness moment that we've been living in for some time.

>> jokesme are out the door. you can't kid. and look how do we get over difficult situations? how do we overcome and find connections with people we disagree with? we joke, make fun of each other and ourselves. that is being pushed further and further out of society. you see it in some of the clips you played.ou a little race i or suggestive songs. this was a way in the 1950's that people interacted. it was a way to suggest something without gratuitously hitting you over the head with it. now youou can't make the quiet side swipes, the fun jokes on the side. everything has to be very plain, black and white and frankly it's a lot uglier out there today. >> laura: it's more device sieve and for the fun. jerry sieinfeld was on with set myers talking about what it's like to be on the comedy circuit and he will not perform on college campuses, talk about an unfun place. >> i can imagine how people say that's offensive to suggest that

a gay person moves their hands in a flourishing motion and you now need to apologize. this is a creepy pc thing out there that really bothers me. >> laura: jennifer. >> i don't think it's so much about political correctness as it is to being sensitive to what might 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. >> criticizing. >> laura: do they play it in june? >> president trump prays, this is a president who was sitting less than a foot away from another president who, you know, a lot of conservatives talked about being a muslim for the last decades as if there was something wrong with. that i think when we talk about turning the tide of the national conversation into something less offensive it doesn't have to do with political correctness, i would like to have seen what conservatives would have

said had it been president obama who did not recite the apostles creed when the rest of the church did. actually conservatives tried to say we want to conserve the culture, what makes us different is okay. it's okay to be different, to have different points of view.ha jennifer you didn't quite seem to understand what i'm saying, is that in this world of if you're offended, i can't say it. i can't even feel it for fear of losing my job, not getting a promotion, not getting a benefit in the workplace. people are afraid to speak their minds. that is not liberal, that's scary. that's sensorius. that's what the left always considered conservative. harmeet dhillon. >> absolutely laura. i mean you know conservatives are not in the business of critiquing how people pray. i think that's crass. he prayed the way he felt h comfortable doing. what i see on college campuses and in work places where i do a lot of litigation is people are

constantly sense soring themselves, walking around on eggshells, people are doing consent videos before they move to second base with a girl so they don't get sued. it's successing all the joy out of life. >> laura: and romance. >> if i were a young person i would be stressed out on having to take all the drugs because they're worried about what the new rules are. >> are you saying consent is successing the joy out of romance? >> no, what i said was making a video to document the consent is successing the joy out of the interactions between the sections. >> the fear of being dragged before a board or the fear of litigation keeps boys from asking girls out and vice versa in some cases. >> don't forget about title 9 which puts all the boys who looked at a girl in the box for years. >> this is a conversation to be had about due process and what we need to do on college n campuses, i think consent is a completely different conversation. >> laura: raymond you

interviewed candidate trump about his faith. >> about prayer in particular. >> laura: aboutut prayer. again liberals criticizing how someone decides to pray in the moment. that's wild to me. i want to the play what he said to you about his own prayer. >> when you pray, what do you pray for? >> president trump: i don't want to talk to you about that. i mean, i pray, it's very personal to me. i'm a person of belief. but i certainly, you know, i pray for my family, i pray for our country. you know, but i don't want to talk to you about that. i think that's very personal. >> okay.ou between you and god. >> president trump: it is between me and god, yes. >> laura: i like the fact he didn't want to talk about it. i get trashed for wearing the cross by the way over my clothes. >> i never get trashed for wearing my cross. >> i do, go to my twitter feed. you're a liberal you can do whatever you want, i can't.

>> criticizing the man for not praying the creed, oversighting it, you're dealing with a man who i think is new to faith, working his way through it and he's not ostentatious. i would prefer someone -- i would rather a faithful pagan who follows the -- employee protects religious freedom over a pie pus fraud who assaults both. that's the difference that many faith filled people had with president obama. it was ay policy, not the man. >> they don't believe it themselves. >> pointing out hypocrisy in conservatives. >> laura: why is it. >> because liberals have been calledli godless for years when they have wore shipped a variety of gods. >> laura: what? that's a non sequitur. you're not arguing the point. liberals claim they're pro choice be who you want to be, my truth. trump is praying in the way he

darn wants and he gets trashed by don lemon. he has gone so far over the line, god bless him, i don't know what's going on with him, but you're so obsessed with trashing trump that you've got to trash him at the moment when everyone is honoring george bush. i don't understand that. it speaks so poorly of where this culture is. i think it goes back to people are truly just afraid. they're afraid. they're afraid to speak, afraid to feel. now if you hum along to baby it's cold outside you may as well have raped somebody. >> yep. >> laura: it's gone way u overboard. it's not fun. there's no fun. can you really have fun? smoke pot, do ed i believe and talk about how you might want to change your gender. that's kind of interesting i guess. you can't do much else. i guess play sports? honestly, in the public life it's very hard, jerry seinfeld is right. humor is dead, that's why they trash trump. >> secular dogma, pope benedict

coined the phrase, dictatorship of relativism, i think we're here. >> laura: our next guest joins us to expand on what we brought you in last night's angle. the democrats claim to be the smart party, science program, all the clinging to the guns and religion, you need to sit down and shut up and let the smart people run the country because things are very complicated. last night we pointed it out to you. sadly the left and the many of the gop smart set have been wrong on issue after issue for years. today they were just wrong on er geography. >> we can move forward with this. we have the responsibility, all of us to secure our borders, north, south, and coming in by plane, on our coasts, three coasts, north, south and west. and that's a responsibility we honor, but we do so by honoring

our values as well. [ laughter ] >> laura: was she in rem cycle? what was that? here now former gop presidential candidate herman cain. we all misspeak, i've misspoken, it's not a big -- i don't want to -- it's fun, we're trying to have fun, poke fun at ourselves. three coasts herman, what coast are you on right now? >> i am on the east part of the nation. allow me laura for one moment, i want to respond to jennifer your previous guest. >> laura: she's right here. >> okay. the constitution says freedom of religion, which means also freedom to read and freedom to not read if you don't want to. i. >> it also means freedom from religion, sir. >> allow me to speak, please. you had your chance to say what you wanted to say. i have been in a different

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

destroy and change our consult tour from top to bottom. that's what they're trying to do. and you made that point very clearly by showing what they have said historically and what -- >> laura: a lot of republicans have screwed up along the way as well. >> exactly. that's exactly -- >> laura: opening china to the wto. the housing crash, iraq was going to work out in a couple years, none of that worked. >> 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? i mean again done mrem machine is a liberal guy, but if he were there, he wouldn't shake hands. >> laura that is not a sign of tolerance, that is a sign ever 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 to you about. >> laura: i have to get to my apostles creed and i have to go to confession after this thanks so much herman. ahead while the resistance cheers the mueller probe may en narrowed former clinton and obama aids. professor jonathan turley and byron york up next.

♪ ♪ >> do you see how someone could view the context of what she did, set up a private system, she alone controlled it, kept everything on it. we know from miss abedin's deposition they did it for that very reason. when they got caught they deleted what they had and they scrubbed their devices. is that part of the context in evaluating this decision? >> sure, sure. understand what inferences could be drawn from that collection of facts, sure. >> laura: what inferences could be drawn? bleach bitting. former fbi director james comey will be back on the hill. when it was revealed in emails that cheryl mills and huma abedin and lied to the fbi about their knowledge of the private server why the heck weren't they punished? this has no meaning.

general flynn, lying, 1001 violations. byron york is with us, you just wrote a great piece about a set of questions that comey should grapple with, be asked and have to answer. number one of which is: >> michael flynn. what did fbi agents think when they interviewed michael flynn on jan 24th, 2017, just four days into the administration? do you remember they interviewed him about that wire tapped phone call he had during the transition with the russian ambassador? and why did they go to the -- why did the fbi go to the white house? and did, really, as we have heard that comey has said, did the fbi agents believe that flynn was not lying? >> laura: including petr strzok who was there. >> including petr strzok. what did the fbi agents really say about this? has comey actually read the transcript of these conversations? >> laura: with kislyak? >> absolutely.

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

they had been writing this exoneration memo for months before they saquestioned her ana lot of other key figures and of course they handed out immunity like candy. on the other hand comey has been asked these questions before. there were some republicans who were not happy with comey being called to be questioned tomorrow. >> laura: strzok was the question that interviewed mills and abedin, correct? >> correct. >> laura: he also interviewed michael flynn. >> yes. >> laura: and he's testified on capitol hill. what have they gotten from him? >> well they didn't -- he didn't talk about the flynn case to them. because the fbi and everybody associated with it has said well it's an ongoing criminal investigation, i'm sorry, we can't talk about it. flynn has pled guilty and i charles grassly has been trying to get information on that grounds, on that basis, saying well look he's already pleaded guilty. now by the 18th of december, he's gonna get sentenced and

it's really all gonna be over. >> laura: byron wasn't michael flynn out of the country when he was wire tapped? >> yes. >> laura: he was surveilled. they listened in. >> it was the russian ambassador who was wire tapped. >> laura: they're allowed to do that under us surveillance policies, no problem. then his name was unmasked. you wrote about this as well. >> this is something deven nunes got a lot of criticism for bringing up. the point is we do wiretap, we never say this, but we wiretap top russian officials, we knew what was being said. then you think who is on the other did end of that conversation? that was unmasked. >> why does susan rice's name come up frequently? >> she was involved in the unmaskings, it was never answered why was it so necessary to learn these people's names? >> laura: byron york we

appreciate it. >> big night tomorrow night. >> laura: and while the resistance has -- >> this is not strictly speaking a bob mueller investigation this is where he discovers something. his fbi agents learned something about pod did hes sta's brothers in the course of the interrog e interrogating witnesses. they're learning about with with whether or not the podesta firm did lobbying with groups in the ukraine. this is the first time that any democrat is arguably within the ambit of something that bob mueller does. >> laura: now while the resistance has been cheering its every move, referral from the mueller probe involving former obama and clinton aids is heating up with an increased focus on clinton linked washington insider phony podesta and obama white house counsel greg craig. here is jonathan turley.

professor, why shouldn't web just as critical of this, in terms of it an over reach by mueller as we were when the other parties were involved? >> that's a valid point. these violations in terms of registering as foreign agents used to occur rather regularly. in washington they would get caught and often retroactively apply for these. they generally were not viewed as strong criminal cases. but they went after people like mueller and others for the failure to register for these types of issues. now it looks like they're proceeding against podesta. >> laura: he was offered immunity wasn't he? >> oh wasn't given transactional. >> laura: more limited. >> that's right. and since then manafort did speak with them a great deal. there is a possibility that manafort did drop a dime on people like pod esta. >> laura: i think for mueller's

case if he's laying out some case against some member of the trump circle, if he has -- if he seems to be a little bit more evenhandeded in 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 under when he ming. this is like going around and shooting the wounded. these are not significant crimes. th they may be certainly appropriate to proceed and receiver, but we've not been waiting for this. maybe he'll prove to be the ago good afternoon that christie prosecutor, we'll find out all the things they didn't tell us before in the final scene. if not there will be a lot of disappointed folks in this town. >> if it comes down to f e.r.a.? >> or corsi and stone? >> laura: where is the

collusion, the work between the trump circle and russia to throw the election or to get hillary? this is a long process. is it ending? do you think? >> i think it is ending. we have all of these speaking indictments that have been filed. none of them suggest there is any connection, any knowing involvement with russians by top trump officials, thus far that would sustain a type of collusion conspiracy that 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 for perhaps trump's pick to be attorney general, chris christie and others. what about bill barr? >> he would be just an absolutely brilliant choice. he is a go by the book guy. he is as steady as a rock. i represented him during the clinton impeachment with a bunch of former attorney generals. one time at this got a call from him at like 40,000 feet in his

plane heading to europe to tell me spotted a tie oh in a brief. i spent years in therapy about that. he's actually one of the best lawyers i've ever encountered which really puts the pressure on when you represent him. but he would be die ideal. he would get through the senate easily, bring instant credibility. you could not pick a better guy at this moment for this job. >> laura: he was once confirmed. they're saying things he said about comey. this is from may of 2017. let's watch. >> he crossed the basic line back in july. fundamental line in the department. which is that investigations are supervised and directed by the lawyers, the prosecutor's at the department, not the agents. and 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 transgress did those limits on his power. >> laura: not shy about talking about that. >> no, it's hard to imagine anyone that would object with anything he just said. the democrats have been saying that the republicans have been saying. that it's the one point upon which there's universal agreement is that comey over stepped his bounds. that was in the rosenstein memo. rosenstein said what ed bordered on the horrific. the point that he should get out of that is really the essence of barr. he was loved by agents at the justice department 123478 boy do they need that now. >> yeah. he's just this rock solid guy who views these things with clarity. he speaks very directly to them. there's no effort to spin ever. he talks directly to the issue. comey was outside the navigation until that beacon and he said that.

bill doesn't want the credit, he the doesn't need to get the credit. steadfast and clear, and i would not want to debate him on any issue. i'm glad you were representing him and not eye. jonathan turley thanks so much. when you hear the term deep state you might think it refers to things like we discussed. what it goes to climate reports as well. that's coming up next. i'm alex trebek here to tell you

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♪ . >> laura: when the government puts out reports, it does give it an aura of credibility, right? that's exactly how the latest national climate assessment was treated. news rooms flew into an inference frenzy about the looming at okay ka lips, watch. >> it is tragic that we have a president who tikrit cal 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. >> the climate change could --

we're just suggesting mr. president if you don't want to believe science maybe start with climate kids do the nasa do the glove. it's a pretty easy read, it's fun, there are pictures. >> laura: oh, that's right anderson you're smarter than everyone else. anyone scared yet? what if we were to tell you that policy paper was funded with the help of billion airs tom steier and mike bloomberg. the man who uncovered the funding chuck did he have vor. 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 nick morris at the heritage foundation. ed a quick critique on the point you showed. 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 and michael bloomberg and tom steir and i dug into it and found out professor rising from berkeley is a vert able basket case o his blog he talks about eliminating the president. on his blog he talked about how he's concerned about the rise of religious stream miss many in the united states and the middle east. equating guys like me with al qaeda and isis which is, i don't know, a little cookie if you ask me. he's one of the main authorize of the report. the reason they're doing this is they need to whip people up into fear so we can hand over our sovereignty and autonomy to these people who are better than us and smarter than us. >> laura: smarter. i did an angle last night on 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 beter under the new way of doing commerce and fueling vehicles. you have to listen to us, look at the tax incentives, electric cars and so forth. you see what's happening in france. people are rejecting this. there's a lot going on in france beyond that but that's part of it. it costs real money and people don't want to lose their wallets. >> it hits the middle class the most. gas there is $7.06. they were righting on a 25 sent increase and ten sent increase on diesel. the un climate expert who wants to transfer a lot of our wealth to corrupt third world countries estimates in twelve years we're going to need a carbon tax give the rent to $49 a gallon for

fuel. you think there's riots in france now over $0.25, imagine what happens with 49 bucks a gallon. >> laura: there's another brain yack who's 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, more like kind der garr ten cop. climate cop. he should do a see kwal to that. >> think of what he said, if he could travel back in time and stop all fossil fuels, so stop the industrial revolution in its tracks around 1700? we would be living in an correct poverty and misery right now if that were to happen. which i guess is kind of like

the terminator movies, wasn't that a post disstep i can't. >> laura: yes. thanks so much. this leads us to our next question. some of the most influential leaders of the democratic party have lied to you about science for decades. why are we still listening to those? former shuck schumer aid chris hahn. you just got off your global express jet. but there was a great piece today documenting the less than stellar track record of some of the climate alarm i was. back in 1970 harvard biologist george walled estimated would end with 15 or 30 years unless media action was taken. what happened? he was the truth say err of the time. >> yeah, you know, look major

events don't happen on a schedule. right? climate change is real. it is happening. we've seen evidence of it. >> laura: it's always happened, yeah. >> just this year between the major storms, california wild fires. it is a problem that we should be addressing, 97% of scientists who study this agree that this is a problem that is man made, caused by our using of fossil fuels, especially cole. and it is time f us to wake up and all speak with one voice. it should not be a political debate whether or not it's real or not. it should an a debate about how we solve the problem. instead we have a president of the united states who says this isn't even a real problem. >> laura: do you have a problem, though, chris, do you have a problem, though, i think we have a lot of problems that are resulting in cataclysmic issues happening to our environment. i'm a conservationist. i want to conserve the beauty we

have, and we have business. i'm in a scientist and don't pretend to be one on t.v. going back to judging, in retrospect we could see who was a pretty good progress not indicator and who wasn't. let's try this one. this was back in 1977, barack obama's future science czar john holdren predicting global warming could lead to the death of one billion starving people in 2020. we have about 13 months left. so what happened? there is another recent prediction by the way i have to get to. al gore, he proclaimed in 2006 in that inconvenient truth film that sea levels would rise 20 feet. quote, in the near future. was that just when had he stepped into the atlantic? sorry p according to government scientists, sea levels only rose about three inches between 93

and 2017. up next -- we lost chris on the satellites, it's live tv. that's what happened. chris we didn't do it on purpose, it was the climate. lawsuit madness, a federal complaint at using the state of rhode island for failing to provide students with the skills they need. i'm going to talk with the lead lawyer next. you think you've seen everything? ♪ let's talk about that when you get here. ♪ the united states virgin islands.

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gone too far in the united states? it's a question we've asked before and it's one that we keep debating. we need lawsuit reform, too many people suing too many people, killing business, killing initiative. losers should pay. maybe we need a fresh look at this. check this out, public school students and parents are suing rhode island's governor and other educational officials in federal court saying the state fails to prepare young people to fully participate in civic life. here now lead counsel in the case michael rebel of columbia's teach teacher's college in new york. thank you for being here. you the recently remarked we're living in troubled time. our democratic institutions are being challenged like never before. provocative statement. what makes these times more troubled than say five years ago something we had all these riots in st. louis and baltimore, the freddie gray, michael brown,

trayvon martin. so, is it all trump? >> well you know i would like to look back totter ra of george h.w. bush that we were thinking about yesterday. it seemed like a century ago when people can engage in civic conversation, people from different political perspectives and try to work things out. now our whole situation is totally polar eyes did. people scheme at each other, they don't think, they will 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 you know another problem we have here laura, go our founding fathers, thomas jefferson, sam adams, go back to any of them. they said this experiment in mass democracy that they were implementing, first time in human history could only survive if we had an educated citizenry. that's been the theme throughout american history. >> laura: this is fascinating.

>> okay. >> laura: it's fascinating. dan hennigan wrote a great piece in the washington journal don't blame trump for the corrosive culture. every time conservatives way we have to look at this in politics and entertainment industry, they're always laughed at and the called a bunch of rubes. and you want to circumscribe creativeness. the idea that trump brought in this is patently the ridiculous. >> we're not saying that trump brought this in. i trace in my book that i wrote on this subject 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 today, professor? they're competing with a lot.

they're competing with broken families, i have two educators in my family, one at a public school, one private school, different political backgrounds, but what i've heard over the years is this is really tough. we have in some cases 17 languages spoken in public schools over in northern virginia. teachers are trying to do their best. teach first aren't parents. we have a fundamental problem with a breakdown across so the tal lines. it's not racial or ethnic, it's in the home. if the home is broken that's a problem. >> laura we could get into that for another half hour i'm sure. but the point is only one-third of the american population even knows what the separation of powers is. only 23% of our students on the latest national test were proficient in sieve vices. 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've heard that for some time. which is why you should be for choice in public education, which is what conservatives have been lobbying, take the machine op police away -- professor we have breaking news in new york tonight with a new threat on cnn. sorry we have to cut this short. the very latest on the apparent bomb threat outside cnn. again our thoughts are with our friends over at the other network. we'll bring you the very latest. stay there. medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. dry mouth can cause increased cavities, bad breath, oral irritation. i like to recommend biotene. biotene has a full array of products that replenishes the moisture in your mouth. biotene definitely works. it makes patients so much happier.

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♪ >> 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 >> cnn, after a fountain bomb threat evacuated the building,

talking how things are too hot, nothing for people to hold onto. >> crazy people reaction crazy ways, we saw that october 24th when those pipe bombs were disseminated at cnn and other media outlets. >> with his weird van, people have got to understand, individuals who are already on the edge, you've got to take her temperature down and that is a good lesson from hw bush, bring it all down a little bit. that is all-time we have to make, shannon bream, all the latest developments. >> we will keep an eye on that story involving cnn. fox news alert, friday will be a huge day on multiple fronts, the mueller team filing tomorrow, will they took their hand on exactly what michael cohen and paul manafort may have provided to the russia investigation. james comey back to capitol hill r