online and in bookstores. as always, thank you for being with us. tune in every saturday night. "the ingraham angle" is next. >> laura: judge jeanine, i am bawling. i'm literally crying. i saw you tear up and then you went to the book plug. i love the seamless transition. really sad. go to the book plug. i am better now. i was going to lose it. you started me off. thanks, judge jeanine. don't you love those? i know some people might have seen that. i hadn't seen it. >> judge jeanine: i did not. it's the first time i saw it. especially after we heard about what happened with golsteyn, you've got to thank them every day for what they do for us. >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington.t ahead, the reporter who broke the news on the infamous steele

dossier. carter page calls its claims largely false. why are the media still hyping it? by spending their political capital targeting the president, could the incoming democrat house leadership be helping a dangerous foreign power? wow. details in tonight's angle. plus a special christmas edition of "seen's and unseen" later in the show. raymond arroyo is here to expose a city with no room for baby jesus as well as some of e the most shocking toys flying off the n shelves the season. we begin tonight with liberal activists, politicians, and the media attacking american sovereignty. it's important to know that the forces that oppose open debate on immigration, so you've got to stay with me. here first, there are liberal advocacy groups siding with illegal immigrants over our own border agents. overwhelmed by the crush of thousands of asylum-seekers at the border, the trump

administration has instituted a practice known as metering. the procedure is meant to help alleviate thee pressure on the border by limiting the number of asylum-seekers allowed to enter the country each day once they present themselves at a port of entry. seems kind of reasonable given the limited resources we have. not according to the advocacy group al otro lado, the activist legal aid group is slapping the trump administration with the class action lawsuit over the practice. melissa crow, an attorney with the southern poverty law center's immigration justice project says the goal "is to get cbp to comply with the law which requires them to process the asylum-seekers at ports of entry." the law requires them to admit legitimate asylum-seekers into the country. last fiscalt years immigration judges found only about 9% of all those immigrants qualified. despite that, the talking heads

continue. >> people coming to our country asking for asylum which also is their right to do. >> these individuals are in america. by law, they should be able to apply for asylum. >> people we've talked to are exerting their legal right to asylum. >> laura: the second group attackingg your sovereignty are politicians partnering with these advocacy organizations to create these well-choreographed fairly theatrical stunts. yesterday democratic reps nanette barrigan and jimmy gomez, both from the los angeles area, accompanied 15 asylum-seekers from the central american caravan to the otay mesa port of entry. their goal: to push for a greater number of asylum claims. imagine the surprise when we discovered that the group they partnered with is the same group suing the trump administration. al otro lado. the third group guilty --

of the american media, using emotion over facts and honesty. take this exchange on "morning joe" today. >> in a nondescript building in downtown el paso, ruben garcia is welcoming another busload of migrants bridges process release from i.c.e. custody. >> [speaking spanish] >> he's the director of annunciation house, a group of volunteers providing shelter and food for thousands of migrants a week. >> the desire to breathe free in america is real. but sacrifices come at a price. >> after months on the road with the american dream insight, these migrants who know the uncertainty ahead are allowing hope to prevail over fear. >> these are folks that have hope.

these are folks that have dreams. that's why they fear. they think they have a shot at a better life. and they are not going to give up on their hopes and dreams, and we are not either. >> laura: the hopes and dreams. 160 million people around the world had the hope for the dream to come to the country. most of those overwhelmingly want to follow the rule of law and they want to be part of the american experiment that includes law and order. more on this. no wonder in a new gallup poll actual americans point immigration is the issue most important to them right behind our government. so why aren't the activists, politicians, and the majority of the media listening? here to debate, tom homan former acting director of i.c.e. and a fox news contributor. lisa johnson-firth is a professor of law at georgetown university. it's good to have you both. let's start with you, professor. i understand there's a great

humanitarian story to be told. there are thousands, indeed millions probably in central america. i spent a lot of time in both el salvador and guatemala. i know the people well. another place well. beautiful countries, very corrupt. most of these aren't asylum-seekers. they're economic migrants. by our own border patrol during obama, most of them were overwhelmingly rejected. why isn't the metering slowing this down so we can process an orderly way? why isn't that the right way to go? >> first i would take issue that they are economic migrants. if you read the state department report on any of these countries, the northern triangle, some of the most violent countries in the world. gangs have, as you noted, taken over those countries. they are very corrupt and very dangerous. so i would say have been practicing immigration law for 16 years. ten years ago yes, i was seeing more economic migrants. now i believe i am seeing in my

caseload true asylum-seekers fleeing horrific gang violence. >> laura: that's not one of the -- that doesn't work on their credible fear calculator. >> those cases are difficult to win. o the way that asylum law has been constructed. >> laura: you think it should be more lenient than it is now? >> i think getting to the metering, i'm going to address your issue but getting to the metering issue, when we are having people at ports of entry rather than being able to cross the border wherever, which is being challenged. we are basically forcing a huge population to go through a small entry point. in the process of waiting, those people are subject to violence while they are waiting. i just interviewed a woman last week who was raped while waiting at the border. she had been gang raped 60 times in the process of coming to the united states. some people will turn back. i think it's a way the

government is discouraging people from legitimately presenting asylum claims at the border that they are entitled to under u.s. law. >> laura: tom, i think the politicians have really blown this. i have no doubt that horrificic things -- we know horrific things have happened to children, women and others. there are criminal elements within the migrant caravan. we know that. it's's already been proven. politicians refused to do what they need to do to make the system work. they refuse. right now i'm capitol hill, the lights are still on. they're not going to do anything. >> it's a political ploy what they are doing. they got this group of 15, moved them to the front of the line ahead of 2500 people that were waiting in line playing by the rules. i've been enforcing immigration law twice as long as you've been practicing it and i'm telling you most are not legitimate asylum-seekers. violence is not a claim for asylum.. 90%. what the politicians should be doing rather than pulling a political ploy,, they ought to e

here in washington, d.c., fixing the loopholes in our immigration laws that causes these caravans to exist in the first place. i've been on the hill many times with the secretary, raise the asylum bar. address the settlement agreement. give i.c.e. detention money so it's not back to catch and release. if they close the loopholes, they will stop a lot of the illegal immigration. it's not about protecting the border or closing loopholes. it's about taking on the trump administration. it's about politics ahead of public safety and national security. >> laura: this is joe scarborough this morning who was a republican. i guess is no longer a republican. he made this comment. let's watch. >> i believe when you come to the united states, he should come here legally. this is what is lost in this argument. ithese people coming to america now are coming here legally. they are seeking refugee status. that is legal. as far as america being overloaded, there's a net negative flow back into mexico.

>> laura: net negative flow back into mexico. it's more the central americans, the triangle folks. >> we have to take it back to basics. >> laura: they are not frefugees. they are asylees.e >> we have to get back to the issue. if they are escaping fear and persecution from honduras, they are in mexico. rethey have escaped the fear and persecution.om they oughtht to be claiming asym in the first safe place they come to. a people did take mexico up on it. this is about getting to the united states because of maybe violence. >> laura: i want the professor to react. looks like the united states is going to give billions of dollars to mexico and central america in part to try to help them keep people in their homelands and also give people jobs in mexico. what is it, $4.6 billion that

came out today. they are not giving that money for nothing. that money is going i think in part to say look, you've got to stop this flow coming to the united states. you need to start incorporating people in mexico. why aren't people staying in mexico? >> mexico is not safe either. the same gangs and cartels in honduras, el salvador, guatemala are also in mexico. >> laura: do you think everyone should just be able to come because it's a bad place? there's a lot of bad places. >> if you look at the american history and our history and central america and what we've done over the past 100 years, we have created a lot of the refugee crisis. >> laura: so it's kind of a reparation thing. >> we should be sending money to those countries to help establish safer governments,th more accountable governments. but it's also, that's not going happen overnight. in the meantime, we do have thousands of particularly women and children who are fleeing for their lives.

that must be addressed. we have an international obligation to address it. >> laura: international obligation. tom. >> the fact of the matter, when i was i.c.e. director, we removed thousands of people from guatemala, honduras, and el salvador to w the country evy day and there's no claim of fear. these claims are false. very few mexicans claim asylum. so i don't agree with mexico not being a safe place. we don't have mexicans claiming asylum. we've got to get back to the basics of what's going on here. these are people who want to come to this country for a better life. can't blame them for that but you can't want to be part of the greatest country on earth and not respectt its laws. you can't have it both ways. >> laura: skipping the line. they are also using the system. as it exists today, the system sis ridiculous, and the fact tt this crowd on capitol hill will not address it tonight, they should be addressing this issue. it's a crisis. it's a crisis on the southern border. it has been for a long time. thank you so much. onto anotheron story you are not going to find covered on other

networks, the infamous steele dossier, the document that led to the surveillance of trump campaign officials. the reporter who broke the news of its existence revealed in an interview that is probably all bunk. >> when you get into the details of the steele dossier, the specific allegations, you know, we have not seen the evidence to support them. there is good grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations willat never be proven and are likely false. >> laura:e here now, byron york, chief political correspondent at the "washington examiner." andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney. both fox news contributors. byron, let's start with you. you've been covering this extensively. michael isikoff was the guy. he delivered this story to journalists and they were salivating over the steele dossier and still are.

>> this is very important that isikoff is saying this. a month before the presidential election, christopher steele was desperate to stop donald trump and desperate to get the dossier into the press. he went to a bunch of reporters, half a dozen. michael isikoff was one of them. they didn't really bite on the wholel thing. it wasn't until the intelligence chiefs, remember, the head of the fbi, cia, nsa went up to trump tower on january 6 of 2017. donald trump was the president-elect. they go up there and they briefed him on russian efforts to interfere with the election, and after that, there's a one-on-one meeting with comey and president-elect trump and comey tells him about the dossier story about trump being in the hotel room with prostitutes in moscow. the dossier has played a key role in getting trump and the t fbi off to a very, very bad

relationship. it's been a really important part of this trump-russia investigation. >> laura: andy, i want to go to you. even when we saw some of the transcript of what comey was saying yesterday on capitol hill, he is blaming the republicans despite the factt that we know this dossier was phony from the beginning. steele was the guy who brought it together with the help of fusion gps, a democrat firm. he said the republicans initially funded it. a long-debunked myth that was conveniently parroted r for mons and months and months. he is still parroting that. >> laura, a lot of the real anguish over -- people i think should feel is precisely that, a lot of this stuff has been debunked. byron has done reporting months ago that debunked this and that aspect of what we are talking

about. what i would be infuriated about if i were a fisa court judge or if i were the president for that matter, this material started to come into the fbi in july of 2016. they didn't go to the fisa court until october of 2016. when i read the steele dossier when it first became publicly available, what occurred to me is somebody who used to do this for a living. there were a lot of details that should have been easy enough for the fbi to run down and corroborate. there were sources that were identified with enough specificity that they should have been able to figure out why they were. in short order, understanding this -- a lot of this is in russian but nevertheless, using steele, who was working with the fbi, they should have been able toho identify these people and figure out yes, this happened or

no, he didn't. and yet, you know, the incident that byron just referred to where they go and brief trump at trump tower, that's five months after this information starts to come into the fbi. the thought that they hadn't corroborated by then and yet they were using it as information that was worthy of briefing the president-elect is just astonishing to me. >> laura: hold on one second. i want to play. so people know how fraudulent this is. i want to play a short montage of individuals who are still touting the dossier. watch. >> what's interesting, this is another win for the so-called steele dossier. >> there's the question of whether there is a tape that exists there was brought up in the steele dossier which is looking better and better as more charges are brought. >> nothing, nothing in that dossier, the christopher steele dossier, has been proven to be wrong. >> laura: byron.

[laughs] this whole thing has been a complete and utter fraud and pretext,nd whatever you want to call it. set this in motion to surveil trump, to get into his finances and try to go to town. insurance policy on them. >> can't be proven untrue is kind of turning the normal standards on its head. while it's important that michael isikoff is saying this now, it's kind of clear the handwriting is on the wall because ofs events. for example, one of the big parts of the dossier has michael cohen, very close to president trump, or candidate trump at the time, going to prague in europe and meeting with russians and agreeing on a payoff in which the trump campaign would pay the russians for all the hacking they were doing, helping the trump campaign. michael cohen said this is ngpatently false. michael cohen has since been charged with all sorts of things. >> laura: by not lying about

that. >> correct. not only investigated by the special counsel's office and prosecutors in new york, been charged and pleaded guilty and sentenced, and nobody said a word about prague. >> laura: no collusion. andy, i mean, unless something really wild happens, no collusion. they've got nothing. >> if there had been collusion, they would've had these accomplices testify to a conspiracy to commit espionage, and they would've come into courtns and said yes, there wasa conspiracy. here's what i did. here's what president trump did. here was who was in charge of coordinating with the kremlin and so on. that's the way you build a case. you have the accomplice plead guilty to the main scheme that you're trying to prove in the case, then your 90% of the way home. the way you don't build a case is by pleading all of your witnesses to false statements to the fbi so that the one enduring thing the jury will take away from the trial is that yours

witnesses can'tth be believed. >> laura: it's classic. thank you so much. could the incoming democrat house leaders actually put our future at risk by spending all their energy trying to take down urtrump? our angle explores what dangerous country will benefit most of all next.

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>> laura: resisting globalism and winning. that's the focus of tonight's angle. it's often lost in the cohen-comey-mueller shuffle, a more important issue, far more important with a far greater impact and reach. the threat of globalism. were it not for the leadership vision and hard work of the trump administration, we could be looking at a much less free and prosperous usa over the next 100 years. the president's instincts -- pushing for a border wall, renegotiating nafta, insisting on fair trade with china -- are spot on. >> america will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, control and domination. i honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own customs, beliefs, and traditions. the united states will not tell

you how to live or work or worship. we only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return. >> laura: on most every important issue, trump has held firm, even in the face of immense resistance from those who have made billions on the failed promise of globalism. >> america is governed by americans. we reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism. >> laura: but the president has faced enormous opposition in his efforts, and not just from outside his own party. this was his former director of the national economic council, gary cohn, this morning. >> absolutely not offended by the term globalist because i am a globalist. i believe we live in a globalized world. i think the united states is a very integral part of a globalized world. we have to figure out how to

live as a good citizen. so do the chinese. so do the russians. so do the middle eastern countries. but we are globalized. we cannot change that back. >> laura: we have to figure out how to be good global citizens? that might sound really high-minded. what happened in the 20 years since china entered the wto is not pretty. we ended up enriching other countries and lots of wall street-ers like cohn himself as our own middle-class suffered. thousands of u.s. companies moved overseas for cheaper production, all ushered in under the banner of globalization. gone were most american-made products, textiles, toys, televisions. it sure wasn't what the globalist told us what happened once china was welcomed into the world trade community. >> by joining the wto, china is not simply agreeing to import more of our products. it is agreeing to impart one of democracy's most cherished values: economic freedom. the more china liberalizes its economy, the more fully it will

liberate the potential of its people. their initiative, their imagination, and their remarkable spirit of enterprise. >> laura: well, how did that work out? sure, the chinese are richer but we have a $375 billion annual trade deficit with china, and the only imagination they brought to the game is in their plotting to steal america's innovation. 18 years after china's entrance into the wto, even trump's most ardent critics are conceding that basically he's right. >> let's be honest. on one big fundamental point, donald trump is right. china is a trade cheat. the u.s. trade representatives that report to congress on china's compliance with global trading rules is an exception worth reading. it lays out the many ways china has failed to enact promised economic reforms, backtracked on others, and used formal and informal means of blocking firms from competing in china's market. all contradicts beijing's

commitments when it joined the world trade organization in 2001. >> laura: bingo. even as the intelligentsia begin to recognize reality, some liberal do-gooders in hollywood and silicon valley are m.i.a. they are willing to bow to the chinese sensors to maintain access to the marketplace. desperate to capture the chinese box office, industry execs forgo any project that would offend their chinese overlords. where is that mao film, mr. spielberg. redesigned, edited. all to please their communist business partners. the hollywood crowd claims to be vigilant guardians of artistic expression and they give tedious speeches at awards show about living your truth. they avoid the inconvenient truth about how day in and day out, china brutalizes dissidents both religious and political. the ap is reporting that a million muslims are housed in internment camps in china.

one facility, they are forced to make clothing that despite being a violation of u.s. law has made its way to an american sportswear supplier. and this christmas season, i ask you to remember what's happening to china's estimated 100 million christians. house church pastors and underground bishops are arrested. churches are bulldozed. crosses ripped off steeples. parishioners are forced to celebrate in secret. and there are reports that the regime has subjected falun gong members to forced organ harvesting. the khashoggi murder by the saudis is still making news and trump is faulted for his response. but there is no equivalent media coverage or condemnation of china for its widespread ongoing horrific human rights violation. access to the chinese market has turned captains of industry into silent stooges, and frankly,

enablers. >> the chinese companies have been working together for many years to drive new technologies. a lot of growth in qualcomm's business has come from working with chinese companies. >> the chinese government and chinese partners understand that we are a valuable partner in upgrading the industries. we can see that china is becoming much more positive toward intellectual property protection. >> laura: we will see that when we believe it. the political class is afraid of goldman sachs, hedge funds, and any big business that stupidly stakes so much of its future on a communist country. so the globalists don't really resist china. they resist trump and are fighting the president, urging him to back off his tough trade policies with china. >> if you look at the arithmetic, chinese exports to the united states, u.s. to china, and what the impact of tariffs is, again, it drives things in the wrong direction. >> i think in the long term,

it's bad for american manufacturing. >> the way it's being done right now is not having a positive impact on the businesses that could potentially impact the workers. >> laura: these are many of the same people who fought him on nafta and are objecting to a border wall. isn't it funny how it works? it's like a venn diagram. for the moment, the president standing firm. >> since they joined the wto, we have racked up $4.5 trillion in trade deficits with china. year after year, politicians ran for office promising to fix our horrible trade deals. and i took it on, and that's right. when they charge us a tariff, we charge them a tariff now. okay? i don't blame these other countries. i blame our past leadership for allowing these other countries to get away with it. >> laura: now they have a 90-day cooling off period but he should not relent. why shouldn't he relent? tariffs are working.

this from the hill today. "tariffs have contributed to growth directly and indirectly in the four main areas where tariffs were imposed. steel, aluminum, solar panels and washing machines. the u.s. has directly added more than 11,000 jobs as of august. since then, more investments and jobs have been announced including a massive $1.5 billion steel plant by steel dynamics that will employ some 600 workers. in the solar arena, solar power world magazine lists more than a dozen u.s. companies where new facilities have been started and/or expanded." good stuff. only the united states, my friends, has the economic and moral might to keep china's global ambitions in check. as xi continues his ruthless consolidation of power along with aggressive global expansion, both parties need to consider this question. will you support policies that strengthen the hand of a murderous communist regime in

china? or the policies that ensure a prosperous, strong, independent america? it's a time for choosing. and that's the angle. joining me now is michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy of the hudson institute, author of the phenomenal book "the 100 year marathon." mike, how big a threat are the globalists who are clearly annoyed by the president's $200 billion tariffs, only ten or 15 percentage points on that, but they want those gone and they want to go back to regular order where china was continuing to grow at the pace it was growing. 8, 9% a year. >> the globalists are a major threat. it's not just hollywood and the investment bankers. hank paulson. >> laura: he was another goldman sachs, another official -- >> the mentor for the secretary of treasury. some democrats support the president. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have both supported the tariffs.

>> laura: rubio has been great on a lot of these issues. >> gary cohn's gone now but steve mnuchin is still there. this is the problem for president trump space. they are getting angry at the globalists. as your presentation made clear. they are not really for america. they are kind of a broader sense of somehow the whole world needs to benefit and it hurts american workers. i think that's why nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have been so supportive. >> laura: think about the 1980s. i was in college and i remember all the protests about south africa and apartheid. the divestment from south africa. remember "ain't going to play sun city." none of the rockers could go down. that was a really powerful movement on the left and it was based on a protest about what they were doing to separate people and the way they treated them. horrible abuses. where the heck are these people now? we've got 800,000 muslims in the internment, labor camps. for 100 million christians living under essentially house

arrest. you don't hear anything from these people. >> china got too powerful. they don't notice that it's still a communist country. it doesn't have a free market. have a countries free-market by the other half is not. president xi's speech reinforced it. >> laura: i want to read part of it. this is what he said yesterday, his commitment to marxism and leninism. "the practices of reform and opening up in the past 40 years have shown us that the chinese communist party leadership is the fundamental character of socialism with chinese characteristics. east, west, south, north, in the middle. the party leads everything, reaffirming marxism and leninism." >> that's right but lots of globalist don't believe it. they say underneath he's really a free-market democrat. >> laura: i don't want him to go back to mar-a-lago. i'm not interested in xi going back to mar-a-lago. michael pillsbury. >> they are afraid of president trump. >> laura: they should be. it's more important than cohen

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he claims it all be allowed as part of a rastafarian religious practice. those are the facts. jamil, you have 30, 40 seconds to lay out your case followed by a rebuttal. >> look, laura, the challenge is the argument he's making has a surface appeal to it which is that we protect religious rights very strongly in this country. the constitution has protections for the free exercise of religion. we have a constitutional -- congress has gone even further and threatened specific protections for prisoners in ous prisons, state and federal prisons. at the same time, that doesn't give you the right to use an illegal drug and require the state to pay for it which is what he's demanding. the dreadlocks, a debatable issue. the supreme court cited a case. the idea is ridiculous. >> i resist the urge to talk aboutul whether marijuana should be legal or illegal. that's another day.

>> laura: out of order. out of order. >> i agree that if you can't smoke marijuana outside of the prison, then you can't smoke marijuana in the prison. where i probably disagree is on the cutting of the dreadlocks. if it's true, as he says in the complaint, that they held him down forcibly and cut his dreadlocks, then that is cruel and unusual punishment. punishment that is unnecessarily degrading, punishment that is in violation of your religion. it's something that should not happen in the prison system. what they are not supposed to do is makee a person who's mad already, like a security guard, make them mad by asking for marijuana and then instead g of them responding no, you can't have marijuana, they tie you down and cut your hair when they know that's part of your religious practice. i think it's unacceptable. >> laura: there is the case from '87, a supreme court case that said muslim inmates weren't entitled toou go to friday services, correct?

there are reasonable restrictions on religious practices. you can't go to catholic mass at your favorite parish. you are limited in how you can practice your faith. jamil.im >> congress did pass a law that gave additional rights to prisoners. the courts have been implementing that law. it's a controversial decision to give prisoners more rights. i would say we probably agree on the dreadlocks. it appears that we agree on the marijuana. it's crazy to think that you should be allowed to use illegal drugs and have the state pay for it. it makes no sense. >> there's no argument. if you are in an incarcerated situation, you don't have the same level of constitutional rights as you did if you are outside the prison system. however, i still feel strongly glat where the dreads are concerned, it's different even than the case you mentioned and that this is a religious observation that you don't have to accommodate by making for a special service. you don't have to give a special time.

it doesn't interrupt the normal flow in the prison. there is no reason for them to maviolate him in that manner. >> laura: ruling in monique's favor. all right, let's move to the next case. could new york city mayor bill de blasio actually be using racial discrimination to promote diversity? a group of asian-american education advocates are suing him for making changes to an admission policyhi for specialid schools that they claim discriminates against asian-american students. the mayor's plan would phase out testing and double the offers to black and hispanic students at these schools. monique, you've got 60 seconds.. how is this not discrimination in a different form? >> it is discrimination. what it isn't is affirmative action. affirmative action would be where in order for you to get into the school,l, you would hae to be a particular race or you have to be a particular sex, like a woman because we benefit from affirmative action too. this is antiracism. this is antiracism in that they

are trying to level the playing field. these are the poor students in new york city who are getting an opportunity to go to the best schools in new york city. all new yorkers should want that to happen. what they don't mention in this op-ed is that asian-americans could also be included in the number from those particular schools to then get to attend the better schools. >> laura: the fact is a lot of these colleges are doing the same thing. they really annoyed these asian kids who are outperforming these other students, and they don't know to do about it. we saw it in california. they tried to do it in massachusetts. they don't know what to do. harvard is involved in a big lawsuit. we will see how that turns out. is a tougher one. rebuttal. >> it's outrageous. whatne you have here is essentially an effort to discriminate on minority in favor of other minorities. it makes no sense. this just demonstrates a problem with race-based policy. you start thinking about racee s a factor, rather than merit-based issues. s

the reality is we have a reall problem in this country. we do not give everybody an equal opportunity. it's largely an issue of economics. rural folks in america. white americans rural areas or people in the interceptors. we don't give people an equal shot at education. the answer is address the problem at its root causes. not try to make up for later. discriminate against the model minority in the favor of other minorities. >> laura: jamil wins this. struck down, unconstitutional. this is like split verdicts. it's all fair for christmas. you guys are good. i love this. thanks so. much. the christmas police are out in full force. some of the most popular toys this season are unbelievably nasty. yes.oy a christmas edition of "seen and unseen" with raymond arroyo. i will look at that hat next. a ♪ ♪ there's no place like home ♪

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♪ >> laura: we have been waiting >> laura: we have been waiting to use this for a long time! time for "seen and unseen" christmas edition. killing an" decades-old christms city tradition. joining us now with the details in a few outrageous toys,

raymond arroyo. all right, raymond. christmas police are here. ay>> they are here indeed. >> laura: what's the deal? oh, again! >> they keep coming back. what's the deal? shopping center erecting a gender-neutral santa claus? >> there was a poll where they ask peopleeu how would you likeo rebrand santa? 27% said they would like a gender neutral or female santa. well, a new zealand politician reacted. he said just as mary poppins is a woman, santa is a man. in response to the politician, a mall in auckland erected a statue called "santa poppins." it's santa claus as mary poppins, gender fluid psanta. the problem with this is -- and these silly polls, i'm sorry. i don't believe even 27%. this is like the ghostbusters reboot. sony lost $70 million when all the female ghostbusters came

into the room. people like tradition, particular during christmas. it's a little bit -- as long as were talking about mary poppins. imagine if lin-manuel miranda was cast as manny poppins. i promise you there would be a female revoltin and there should be. leave santa alone. there is historical precedent. he was a bishop. sinterklaas is the embodiment ol st. nicholas. that became santa claus. we can't change it. it ruins the whole deal. >> laura: there is a nativity scene? woodland, washington. >> these officials have evicted jesus from the public park. this nativity has been a place for 40 years. this year, a handful of people complained that it violates the separation of church and state. people likend marc mcvey. >> i wrote the mayor and the city manager and said i'm not quite sure if this is in keeping with what the law allows. >> i'm not antireligious. i think it's great.

i love this holiday season. i have a christmas trip myself. but it may make it a little uncomfortable to have it on public land.t >> how did it makepu you feel uncomfortable? >> laura: liberal killjoy. >> the mayor, will finn, cites a washington constitution that reads no public money or property should be appropriated for an applied or any religious worship exercise or instruction. or the support of any religious establishment. laura, this is not established religion. if you are granting public accommodation to all religion on public land, as they clearly were, you don't have to remove the nativity. yes, it's a religious symbol. stick a menorah next to it or whatever you like and leave it in public.ym >> laura: that guy had some bad experience in a live manger tscene. maybe he was bitten. >> the people in woodland should push back. >> laura: power to the people. just like you brought back "baby it's cold outside," bring back baby jesus. >> since " we are reporting on some of the more heinous toys of the season we've been doing it for several weeks, we've been getting suggestions from the audience.ve this is a new one.

this is a doozy. it's called no kidding poopsie slime surprise unicorn. for 50 bucks, the plastic unicorn takes a glittery dump for you. surprise. this toy actually went viral. mga toys, the maker of this wondrous device, expects to sell 650,000. >> laura: that's not made in china. speaking of my angle. >> i hope they have a unicorn pooper scooper. my daughter brought this to my attention. a suggested toy for her was, no kidding, something called fishing for floaters where you -- it's a bath toy. i wish i was making this up. you get a hook to try to capture the floating poop in your bathtub. this isn't a toy. this is a parent's worst nightmare. this is nothing we should be doing during the holidays. isn't that horrible? >> laura: my kids would love this. first of all, i haveha two boys.

this has happened to me. >> what do you need a toy for? you got the real thing. what you n need is a clorox wip. before we redeem ourselves, here are the official trumps' christmas picture released today. very pretty. in the main foyer at the white house. we too have an official picture of our. segment, laura. this isl our official picture with those much-maligned christmas trees in the white house. >> laura: i was clashing with those trees at the white house. >> justus slightly. >> laura: our picture looks pretty good, but the president and melania look beautiful. looks fantastic. >> tomorrow gary sinise is going to join us for a great story we did on the snowball express.ro this is a group that brings veterans' children to a little vacation. you will not want to miss this story. >> laura: it takes you to the happiest place on earth? >> we tell you why it's happy

and what we truly have to be thankful for this time of year. >> laura: i got broken up listening to you. >> the audience will be broken up by this, and they should be. >> laura: raymond, thank you for going there. thank you as always to gary sinise. that's tomorrow night. in tonight's last bite, coming up, we remember a hollywood legend. ..

♪ >> laura: it's time for the >> time for the last bite. >> we got to get out of here. >> what do you suggest i do? flap my arms real hard and head for the window? >> try to get to the door. [laughter] >> penny marshall died at age

75. we remember her from laverne and shirley, went to be a successful film director, she died from complications from diabetes and passed away today. a lot of her friends and colleagues remembering her today. that iconic song, how they move their legs kick forward, friday night after happy days. >> a missed see line up. happy days, laverne and shirley, the brady bunch, all in one might. they had the corner of the market but then she went on to direct big awakenings, a league of their own, amazing movies. >> incredible talent. >> new york sense of humor. >> he has that whole thing, the phone.

>> using it. nothings going to turn us back now. get ahead and on the track now ♪ we are going to make our dreams come true ♪ doing it our way ♪ what is the rest of it? a senior moment. >> shannon bream and the fox news at night team, shannon bream knows the song. >> there's nothing we won't try ♪ never heard the working world try ♪ we are not going to talk about that, thank you so much, thanks. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with a fox news alert. a shift in tone from the white house, hopeful that