with us, we are not the hate trump media, we never will be. let not your heart be troubled, the news continues -- laura ingraham is next, "the ingraham angle" have a great weekend we will see you on monday. ♪ >> i'm raymond arroyo in for laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle from new york city tonight. the democrats are in control of the house, for one full day and they are already making their embarrassing priorities known. president trump says he could get the border wall built without congress and warning his shutdown could last years. one of the border agents hasn't spoken alongside the president yesterday. plus a newly minted congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez making a splash on capitol hill comparing herself to abraham lincoln and saying wealthy people should be taxed at a much higher rate.

we'll get to it all with corey lewandowski and we will compare the first speaker pelosi to the latest iteration. will he or won't he? comedian kevin hart may take his academy award winning hosting gig back and ellen degeneres is taking heat for giving him a pass. the internet is exploding with people griping about netflix new interactive film black mirror band or band or snatch, a choose your own adventure series -- i won't describe what happens to the lead character but suffice it to say, no matter what options you choose as you watch the film, you basically get the same endings. the more novel choices i made the more frustrated i became with the preordained finales that continued to pop up and it got me thinking. this is what the american voter has been going through for decades. every couple of years we go to

the polls thinking we are going to control the new narrative. we are going to change things, now we are going to get the ending we want. in 2016, donald trump ran on a couple of key issues reviving the economy, trade imbalances and -- >> president trump: build the wall. [cheering] [chanting "build the wall"] >> raymond: like those bandersnatch viewers people made their choice, in this case trump because he was a change agent two is going to finally give them border security and a wall. establishment republicans and democrats, people didn't get the ending they expected so they went to the polls again in the midterms. republicans help the senate but

democrats picked up 40 seats in the house mostly to be a check on trump. voters didn't suddenly reject their desires, they just wanted some checks and balances in place. now we find ourselves in the midst of a government shutdown. >> president trump: we've done a lot of miles of wall already, we are just starting off fresh. we have large numbers of miles we have to do and we can't let gaps because if you have gaps most people are going to turn their vehicles -- is it going to be coming in through those gaps? we cannot let that happen. [reporter questioning] >> a dollar -- $1. >> raymond: this is not a policy debate at all. democrats including nancy pelosi

and chuck schumer have long supported and voted for fences and barriers, the president ran on it. what we are seeing a political standoff, the voter keeps hitting the fund government and border wall choice but nothing happens but they are trapped in the same old narrative no matter what they do. ryan and mcconnell didn't deliver but they somehow found a billions for more defense spending while blowing right through those spending caps. now pelosi and mcconnell are stiffing the voters as well. the american people want both parties to work together because they imagine adults can work across the aisle to soberly, responsibly keep the government open and protect their national security. they like the idea of parties collaborating to create the best outcome for the american people. hard as they press that button no matter how many times i try to choose a different outcome the same old story comes back at

them like bandersnatch, the people got a heavy cell this week. >> the freshman class came in a democratic wave, it looks more like the country than any freshman class than any in history. >> it will be the most diverse congress ever. >> very diverse, we've been talking to people from a lot of different backgrounds ideologically as well. >> let's have an adult conversation about how we protect our borders. >> raymond: no sooner did speak speaker mimi's grandchildren leave than her caucus started sounding like nasty kids. >> americans elected an authoritarian anti-immigrant racist strongman to the nation's highest office much like hitler took over the party, trump has taken over the republican party.

>> raymond: this is newly minted congresswoman rashida to leave of michigan last night. >> when your son says mama loves you, bullies don't -- we are going to go in there and impeach the mother [bleep]. >> raymond: if they considered this their mission they should have all run on it, it is not what the people want. they didn't vote for more political acrimony and blood sport in washington, they want solutions that affect their lives. armed with subpoena power, democrats are planning to investigate personal and professional life of this president and every official in his orbit with the goal of driving him from office. as for the voters they are stuck in a "bandersnatch" loop having to suffer through story lines

they never bargained for with no way out. should this continue they might be tempted to do it so many netflix viewers taking part in that interactive movie did during the hallways holidays at off. that's just what the politicians want you to do, look away so they can dictate how you will live and what you will spend your money on. withdrawal is not an option. you'll have to stay engaged, our future hangs in the balance, the term "bandersnatch" comes from lewis carroll's through the looking glass in one of his subsequent poems, it is described as a creature with a long neck and snapping jaws. but i'm sure it's only fictional, who would ever choose a story line was something that in it? joining me now is matt schlapp chairman of the american conservative union, she is a democratic strategist, i want to play something very weekly for

you both, this is speaker pelosi responding to the congresswoman's impeachment rhetoric tonight. >> i'm not in the censorship business, i don't like that language, i wouldn't use that language -- again, i don't establish any language standards for my colleagues but i don't think of it's anything worse tn what the president has said. >> raymond: it's all about the language and president trump responded. >> president trump: i thought her comments were disgraceful. this is a person i don't know, i assume she's new. i think she dishonored herself and she dishonored her family, using language like that in front of her son and whoever else was there, i thought it was a great dishonor to her and to her family. i thought it was highly disrespectful to the united states of america. >> raymond: everyone is

focusing on the crudeness from the congresswoman and it really was crass but is the language the outrage here? >> not at all. i can't believe i'm going to say these words but i actually feel somewhat sorry for nancy pelosi, she has got a gaggle full of nitwits that she has to deal with, people who are rambunctious, they are radicalized she got only two extra votes. she got 219 votes to be speaker, she is trapped in a crazy caucus where if she repudiates their statements which are clearly outrageous and over-the-top, she loses support and her caucus. i feel somewhat sorry for her. she is the grown up in the room but she is stuck. >> raymond: i was more taken aback by the hateful approach untethered from facts, isn't it early to talk about impeachment? >> i think nancy pelosi has the best congress ever with more diversity than we've ever seen in this country.

for you to say this conversation is new, people have been talking about impeaching trump since he was elected. we had russian bots and everything else happening in this country -- >> raymond: you talk about diversity but the diversity it's so diverse nobody is reading from the same hymnal, you've got to get a caucus to move as one not move in 50 directions. >> i think it is very diverse and they are moving in the right direction, we are only on day two. the republicans had two years to work on border control and they have done absolutely nothing, now democrats are in control may be actually something will happen. >> i applaud the democrats on diversity i think that something republican party needs to do a much better job at, i think the numbers of republican women in the house is something we need to improve on. i love this new light of attack, the president doesn't need to be

impeached because he wasn't lawfully elected. this is the kind of crazy talk we must stop doing, the president was elected to be the president of the united states, so go beat him in this reelection. >> he didn't win back the popular vote. >> you don't need to win the popular vote. >> raymond: today there are congresspeople who bought off bp articles of impeachment as well as bills to eradicate the electoral college. it shows a rather extreme movement deep within the democratic party. it's going to be difficult for pelosi to reconcile that with talk of we are the only adults in the room. stand by the shutdown showdown enters its second weekend, neither president trump nor the democrats are backing down from their border wall funding demands. i hit the streets of new york to see where people stand on the

shutdown over the wall. >> i think it's difficult to keep the government close, we know people in the military they can't afford to have that happen. we've got to draw the line somewhere and i believe in a wall. we need to protect our borders, there is no doubt. >> do believe the government should remain shut down? >> until funding for the wall, of course. >> i think it's ridiculous. >> yes and no. i support the wall but i think he needs to keep the government open. for the families that their living. >> raymond: d bought the point that mcconnell and paul ryan didn't deliver the wall funding, where was mcconnell today when trump stood with other republican leaders, where is he? >> mitch mcconnell does not like shutdowns, he's never been for them he know he's been

uncomfortable with this process but he's done something very wise saying he's not going to let the legislation that comes out of the house hit the floor in the senate, he's standing with the president, i think republicans are amazingly united in this fight for wall funding. >> i think he's doing what he needs to do because he knows trump is not going to sign the bill. it's idiotic for the government to be shut down behind the wall. you have millions of americans being affected and can't even pay their bills because the government has shut down. we should be concerned about border security but we should also be concerned about what is happening inside our own borders right now and they are not safe. we have mass shootings almost daily, we need to look inside before we look at that. >> raymond: senator scott cory gardner and susan collins want to pass bills to fund the government and end the shutdown. republicans seem to be breaking

ranks, where does that leave the president? >> it takes more than a dozen republicans to break ranks and joined chuck schumer -- i don't see that materializing at all. you're going to have a handful of republicans may be mitt romney will join them and a few others but republicans stand united in this idea because this shutdown is about one simple yet important thing, the wall -- it's very clear republicans and conservatives and trump supporters are for it and when we fight for it we are united. >> raymond: dee, i'll give you the last word. >> the american people are against the wall and against the government shutdown and we need to be more concerned about the hundreds of thousands of americans working without pay, we need to be concerned about our people and how they're going to pay their bills and take care of their families, we need to open up the government and work on everything else after that. >> when they're not getting paid, they're not working, that's what the shutdown is all

about. >> raymond: today the president floated a novel way to end the shutdown and get his border wall built. >> have you considered using emergency powers to grant yourself authorities to build this wall without congressional approval? >> president trump: yes i have, i can do it if i want. >> you don't need congressional approval to build the wall. >> president trump: we can declare a national emergency -- i haven't done it, i may do it. we can call a national emergency and build it very quickly -- it's another way of doing it. we can do it through a negotiated process we are giving that a shot. >> is that a threat hanging over the democrats? >> president trump: i'd never threaten anybody but i am allowed to do it. >> here to debate with the president has raised, he shared

the podium with the president yesterday along with a former member of the san francisco police commission. what about allocating defense funds for the wall, what's wrong with that? >> it's not legal, we know if he did this emergency declaration, it's probably about 5% of the land along that border and if any money is appropriated to the southern border that's not specifically for the construction of the wall it would be illegal to use those funds. of course we are going to see another legal challenge and i don't think if the president wants to go there, he hasn't been successful in the past with legal challenges and i think the best route is to get back to negotiating now that he has a democratic congress, he has to deal with that. i think that's with the people of the united states want to see. they want to see compromise, they want to see a conversation of ideas.

this whole thing about a wall that has been tossed around the last few months or two years, nobody quite knows what that even means. >> raymond: its offense, a barrier, a wall, blockade, everyone knows what it means. >> for a lot of people it's different things. for president trump it's an actual wall. we can have a security wall down there that is a virtual wall that we use technology -- >> raymond: that doesn't stop drug traffickers or facilitate apprehension. there is a new poll out that 49% of voters consider immigration a top issue they would like to see addressed this year -- does what we are seeing on the border qualify as a national emergency? >> it definitely does. the numbers are going up, there are more individuals that are entering.

our agents have been getting attacked by so many central americans, they been aggressive toward our agents. we need to start thinking about the agents, the security of our nation's borders. i think that is what we are missing here. >> raymond: there are 2,400 troops on the board of the department of homeland security is requesting more to reinforce existing fencing, would you support that deployment? >> here's what i would support. i would support sound immigration policy that deals with the emergency that is existing at the border. i think that's what americans want to see. we've got this stalemate now where this executive and legislative branch aren't working together. we've got to get them back working together we need sound immigration policy we need to fix this. what is happening in the united states is not good when it comes to immigration policy. the mexicans aren't happy about the u.s. guns that are traveling

into mexico. the president had an opportunity when he renegotiated nafta for some cooperation along that border and i think that was a missed opportunity. >> raymond: they are cooperating there absorbing the refugees, that came out of the nafta conversation. >> they are part of the problem but they are also part of the solution. >> raymond: art, your reaction to that should we deploy more troops there? i have a quick piece of video i need to play. >> every time we get more eyes down there it helps them to do their jobs. the more hands we get down there the better it is. you need agents to affect the apprehensions, boots on the ground is what is important. we talk a about the wall -- it acts as a very good deterrent, and it gives agents time to

affect those arrests. spate >> raymond: donny deutsch referenced you in his conversation with the president. >> if you have white men of a certain age not smiling and look -- this is what he has lef left. this wall is not a wall, it's let's keep america white again. he doesn't have the economy anymore. >> raymond: your reaction to that, he said you're one of those stoic white men standing next to the president. >> i think that's racist and i'm sorry if i don't meet the expectations of what a latino is supposed to look like. i'm light skin and i got green eyes and i'm latino and i support the united states of america, i support this president and i'm very proud to be living in this country the best country in the world. i'm sorry if i don't meet your expectations of what hispanic is supposed to look like, who is

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the green plan. >> once you get to the tippy top on your $10 million, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70%. that doesn't mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate but it means as you climb up this latter, you should be contributing more. >> raymond: here now, corey lewandowski former trump 2016 campaign manager and coauthor of the new book trumps enemies -- and in new york city public advocate. before i get your take, here are some taxpayers reactions. watch. >> the 1 percent does need to be taxed more than they are but at the same time trumps tax policy is helping the economy in the economy is going well. >> i think that's fair. >> at 70%?

>> i think it should be more than it is. >> it's at 39% now. >> the top 1%, that's not me. there is fair. >> she didn't ask the one per centers of her party what they think. >> raymond: is this a winning strategy to task upper income? >> income inequality is worse than it is this ever in america. after a wall street crash in 1929, income inequality was not that bad. new york city in particular generates more wealth than anyone on the planet but we have the worst income inequality, a lot of that comes from the billionaires. >> raymond: doesn't this sap of the incentive to join the billionaire class, to strive for that, to be the next oprah, the next bloomberg it doesn't deprive you of that initiative, if you know you're going to be taxed in new york a place that you want to run, if you took

this 70% tax rate and slapped local taxes on it, you're talking about an 82.7% tax break. >> for the 1% who have had tax breaks, hundreds of trillions of tax breaks which starves our housing and schools, our infrastructure, we are talking about a decrepit city that generates more wealth and it's because the 0.1% are not paying taxes. >> raymond: they are paying taxes. they are opening new businesses and the economy -- the reason the economy is exploding -- >> our taxpayer dollars are paying for it. >> and anderson cooper challenge to his credit cortez. >> i think it is only ever been radicals who change this country, abraham lincoln made a radical decision to signed the emancipation proclamation, franklin delano roosevelt made

the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like social security, that is radical. >> do you call yourself a radical? >> if that's what radical means, call me a radical. >> she's been in office exactly 24 hours and she's comparing herself to fdr and jfk and lincoln. there's a long way to go but what she is advocating for is a tax rate of 83% in california, 84, 85% in new york city to a close personal friends like michael bloomberg. they are the ones who are going to be paying for it. >> i don't know what you're talking about you live in another universe. >> raymond: she just said the rich should pay 70%. >> oh, no, the rich have to pay

taxes like other working people. what stops was billionaires from paying more right now? there's nothing that prohibits them from paying more? why can't they if they want to. >> because they're making money off the backs of working people. >> you mean like jeff bezos does? >> yes, like jeff bezos does. >> raymond: 2.6 million jobs added in the entire year, you had wages going up 3.2%, rosa delauro in connecticut is up for hiking taxes, is this what we need more of an might this the economic renaissance -- cory, you first.

>> donald trump has created more jobs in the manufacturing space in two years than barack obama did in two terms. if you raise taxes on people who are creating jobs are going to stop creating jobs. if you raise the interest rate they will stop borrowing money, that has a trickle-down effect. the tax policies cutting taxes for everyone across the board has worked -- if you don't believe me look at the numbers of the unemployment rate for hispanics and african-americans in our country, they are at record lows because of the job creating opportunities. >> raymond: i'm a latino, the hispanic numbers are at the bottom historic lows of unemployment. you have more workplace participation than ever before. what's wrong with that, is the economy working? >> it's not the economy working. wages are lower than ever and you don't have benefits. people are working two jobs but they're not able to make the rent -- rent is higher than it's ever been and wages are lower.

if you don't have benefits -- maybe you should read jeffrey sachs. when you break your arm and you suddenly are and corrupt because you don't have health care, that is why when you pay into medicare, it prevents you from going into bankruptcy. it's not just that wages need to be higher, people are working more and then they are going bankrupt. >> raymond: crime is down, unemployment is down, these are wonderful things. very quickly, i've got to get to one more. >> if this took place under the obama economy you be praising him as the greatest president since lincoln -- she already did that. bernie sanders wants to add 2.2% to the payroll tax amongst other things. >> to give people health care?

>> raymond: i want to quiet for a moment so you can fight over something else, let's get your thoughts over hillary clinton meeting with a possible 2020 democrats because her own campaigns went so swimmingly. she met with kamala harris, cory booker elizabeth warren along others, why are democrats coming to kiss this woman's ring? 36% approval rating. >> if you want to meet donald trump you have to have a working people's movement. too many democrats the majority of status quo democrats are worried about raising money and what does secretary clinton have? a lot of donors and infrastructure that they think will get them to win against donald trump. if i'm supporting bernie sanders because he is a movement of millions of working activists across america who are ready to fight and have been fighting for things like medicare for all, cancellation of student debt and a green new deal. >> raymond: sanders did awaken a grassroots movement. if i were one of these democratic candidates i would be beating a path to

michelle obama's house and becoming her best friend given those book sales. your reaction to all of these democrats kissing hillary's rin ring? >> bernie sanders had the second largest crowd of any candidates behind donald trump, he clearly had a movement behind him. the system was rigged against him. the only russians that were involved in the clinton campaign when she took $5 million from a law firm and gave it to a british spy to put together the dossier, that's your party that did that, let's be clear about that. the bottom line is this -- any candidate that is looking for hillary clinton's endorsement is going to lose. she ran a terrible campaign, terrible operation in place and she lost a campaign that every pundit thought she should have won. >> raymond: i want to show my people this. hot off the live stream beer drinking down to earth talk with real american senator elizabeth warren is spending a weekend with voters in iowa and there's

a drinking theme here, she's in a saloon tonight -- he said this just a moment ago. >> i'm not a career politician, i never thought i'd run for about office. what pulls me into the fight as i got a chance as a kid. that chance was because taxpayers invested in public schools. >> raymond: who is buying this? i'll start with you. >> you know the old adage is the politician you want to have a beer with, that's why george w. bush won against al gore. i have a sippy cup of wine in the back. >> elizabeth warren is a terrible candidate at terrible launch so far, she launched a time when no one is paying attention, she took a dna test to approve that she is no more

native american than i am, i'm not native american and i'm proud of that. if you know anything -- she said she has high cheekbones. >> raymond: let me leave it there, great conversation. when we come back, ellen degeneres is doing her best to get kevin hart back in the oscars race and she is facing backlash of her own, why's it so hard to find an oscar host? >> i said kevin is on i have no idea if he wants to come back and host but what are your thoughts? . then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am.

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ask your healthcare provider if ozempic® is right for you. >> raymond: he is in, he is out, he's in, he's out, i can't keep up with this kevin hart oscar saga, the academy awards is still without a host and now he may actually be back in the running thanks to ellen degeneres but not everyone is so enthused. trace gallagher is in our west coast newsroom with the latest. >> raymond: kevin hart was confirmed as the oscars hosted back on december 4th but within 24 hours anti-gay tweets and jokes from eight or nine years ago resurfaced ginning up big time backlash. two days later, he posted on instagram video accusing critics of being negative and another saying the academy had asked him to apologize but he refused. later that night at the comedian changed his mind a tweeting he'd

be stepping down because i do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists. i sincerely apologize to the lgbtq community for my insensitive words from my past. in this interview today with ellen degeneres who came out publicly in 1997, it may lead to another about-face after she revealed she personally called the academy to ask if they would take him back -- watch. >> they were like we want him to host, we feel like maybe he misunderstood or it was handled wrong or we said the wrong thing but we want him to host, whatever we can do we would be thrilled. you have grown, you have apologized you are apologizing again right now, you've done it, don't let those people win, host the oscars. >> after hart said he would evaluate the possibility ellen tweeted i believe in

forgiveness, second chances and i believe in kevin hart, but then ellen degeneres got called out on twitter with one person saying his attacks were geared toward black and men, you have no authority to forgive him on behalf of a section of the community you don't belong to. and at this, forgiveness happens when someone sincerely apologizes, makes amends and shifts spiritually, still waiting on steps number two and three, lastly this one. no, just know, there need to be consequences for such vitriolic homophobia, love you but you are way off base on this. no word from the academy on if they are considering a reinstatement but the show will go on as planned on february february 24th. >> raymond: joining me now to react is actor antonio sabbagh go jr. and megan alexander. what is ellen degeneres about, what's the game?

i thought maybe the academy awards are conspiring to rehabilitate kevin hart because they are out of options they don't have a host. >> regardless, words like second chances, forgiveness, words we don't often hear in our culture it sounds an awful lot like the gospel to me. i encourage everyone to watch this interview in a twitter and sound bite culture it was refreshing, it reminded me of oprah's interview, he got that long conversation with somebody, i think there may be too much heated conversation here. if that is the case i believe the oscars have an opportunity to go in a fresh direction. if it doesn't end up being kevin hart and ellen is making a big push here, i say connect with middle america, connect with the average person. we've long said hollywood is out of touch and i would make the case that you have some people that could work -- how about chris pratt?

a box office star and somebody who talks openly about his faith, may be reese witherspoon who feels like the girl next door and someone we could be friends with, they have a viewership problem regardless and i think this is an opportunity for them to take a look at who could bring back those middle america viewers. >> raymond: i remember when we were growing up, it was bob hope and johnny carson, these were figures we didn't know what their politics were, maybe chris pratt isn't a bad idea, what do you think of that? >> i appreciate what ellen has done and kevin is a good comedian, he made mistakes we all make mistakes, at some point you have to ask for forgiveness and move on. i want to focus on positives, focus on bringing hollywood together and this is a good chance to do so. we have to do a lot of work but we'll see what happens. >> raymond: i'm concerned as we watch this, it seems we are conscripting comedy and what

comedians can discuss. you can't talk about lgbt people, you can't talk about italians, pretty soon there will only be able to discuss cats and dmv lines. >> they can do whatever they want, but anytime we don't agree with democrats in hollywood, all hell breaks loose. people like george clooney, come together let's help the people of this country and bring hollywood together. we have a lot of work to do and we can start right now. >> raymond: i want to play this for you, hollywood has a hate-hate relationship with the president but actress sandra oh was saying i'm not interested in talking about trump at all. what i'm interested in is pointing to actual real change, i want to focus on that because

people can pooh-pooh hollywood all they want but we also make culture. as hollywood finally realizing the divisive politics is not working? >> i do think this is a step in the right direction, a lot of people say celebrate the art and entertainment, give us on escap escape. i would encourage her to take a cue from carrie underwood and brad paisley, they had not one political joke, not one controversial subject on that stage, viewers loved it. celebrate movies like black panther that are breaking box office records with $1.3 billion, focus on the art and entertainment. >> i agree 100%, we have to bring the young community, bring them together. 2018 is gone, let's move forwar forward, peace and to bring the

country together. >> raymond: arts, film, theater, music this once brought us together -- we need that glue is a culture again. coming up, a media meltdown, wise someone so obsessed with this video of alexandria ocasio-cortez, and a speaker nancy none and thou then and n. amazon prime video is now on xfinity x1.

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>> raymond: many in the media are melting down over newly unearthed video of everyone's new favorite congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. what's the big deal? she was in college and a girl has to dance. ♪

>> raymond: joining me now is candace owens and kathy a rule, publisher of catalina magazine, your reaction to this -- i will start with you, this seemed to my eye to people who know the breakfast club, i recognize the dance the minute i saw it, what's the problem here? >> i don't think anyone is saying there's a problem, it's just went viral because she's a public figure and she is dancing terribly and it's something people laugh at. it's totally harmless, i don't think there's anything wrong here. they keep continually infant to lysing her in the media, pretending she is a 13-year-old girl who is constantly under attack by the bogeyman who are out to get her and want to ban dancing, that's patently false. she constantly under attack because of her poor ideas, she is pushing and socialism, ideas

that were perpetuated by lenin and stalin, not because she's dancing. >> raymond: have to show you this, kamala harris did a little dance to offset the criticism. there she is including cortez herself, she did her own spoof of this. is this a nonstory? >> in the beginning they said she was a nitwit, they did come against her. the g.o.p. was saying she was a nitwit. there were people, conservatives saying she was a nitwit. that was the term that they use used. now they are saying she's adorable, the more they watch i it, >> and our prefer her on "dancing with the stars" ." i don't mind it i think it's fun and playful.

i want to get your thoughts on this, this float appeared in the new year's day parade and it has a lot of people triggered, you can see why. it has a sign saying border detention center with a nearly naked adult in one case and a child in a cowboy hat in the other. your reaction to this. >> i read the article surrounding this and it's a noncontroversy, it points to the same thing as last year -- welcome to 2019 where everything is racist and sexist and everyone needs to be offended at that return. we have to stop this, we are killing comedy and killing humor, that's a problem because that's really the glue and the fabric that keeps americans together such divisive times. a couple of decades ago we would all be making fun of each other you would see chris rock at a stand up and he would make fun of me for being black and he would make fun of kathy for being cuban and we would all laugh together and walked out feeling better about

ourselves -- we can't do that anymore. i think that's something we are missing. >> raymond: i wish i could bring don rickles back from the dead, he would be the perfect academy award host. >> you have to know how to do it, i think it was tasteless and offensive. maybe they are not racist but it appears to be racist, they didn't do it well. chris rock, funny. it was not funny, it was offensive and wrong and as a hispanic, totally inappropriate. >> raymond: i have to get both of your reactions to this, be careful. be careful who you meet on dating sites, at least make sure you have no data limits on your phone. a phoenix woman sent 159,000 text messages to a man she went on one date with, just one. love at first sight may be. these weren't all lovely messages, she said i would make

sushi out of your kidneys -- is this overkill? >> this is definitely on the creepier side of stories that i've read recently. i definitely stay away from online dating, i see too many kooky stories and i think this is the birth of the internet era that we are in, people get fascinated and hoped in this poor gentleman is really in it, i'm going to send him some luck tonight. >> raymond: don't you worry about the anonymity of the dating world? you don't know what you're countering. i'm so happy i married 25 years ago. i'm happy. >> you look good. thank goodness for the #metoo movement, people are talking

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♪ >> raymond: you know what time it is, it's time for the last bite. utah senator orrin hatch left capitol hill after 42 years in the senate, here's how he decided to say goodbye. ♪ >> may god bless the senate and bless the united states of america. with that mr. president, i yield the floor. >> raymond: it's time for all of us to say goodbye too, i'm raymond arroyo in for laura ingraham and you can preorder a copy of my forthcoming book for kids of all

ages, it's called will wilder the amulet of power, it's a fun adventure for the whole family and one of the few middle grade books with the family goes on the adventure and you can enjoy it together. published in late february, shannon bream is next. >> shannon: welcome to fox news at night, i'm shannon bream in washington and this is a fox news alert. no end in sight for the partial government shutdown come out president trump says it could last months or more than a year, the president also said he's considering declaring a national emergency in order to get the border wall built with or without congress. mike pence posts the next round of discussions tomorrow, will those negotiations be more fruitful? it's all happening against the backdrop of new leadership promising bipartisanship. democrats are calling for the president to be impeached now. how will house speaker nancy pelosi manage her mem