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lanes down to two and a half particular than when you have a storm, none of that is movable so nothing flows. >> sean: he thinks he's going to be president. if he is, we are really screwed. that's all the time we have left this evening, this is not the hate trump media, let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham standing by for the ingraham angle. >> laura: don't you hate midtown manhattan? it's all the lounge chairs my people in the summer throwing trash everywhere and looking at themselves in the jumbotron, trying to get across town -- it takes an hour to get four block blocks. >> sean: it's a 40-mile-an-hour zone. they are right in the middle of the street and you've got to follow them for hours. >> laura: it used to be you could slow down town, it was
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easy -- bloomberg comes along and he's like i have a helicopter, i can get anywhere i want. it's not going to work. >> sean: honestly it's dangerous too. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington, we are going to get into the angle in just a few minutes, no one else is talking about it but president trump beating speaker pelosi at her own game. abruptly pulling the plug on her overseas trip and then he blamed it on the shutdown and this coming just one day after pelosi made a pathetic attempt to delay the president's state of the union address. here is chief national correspondent ed henry. >> pelosi officially grounded shortly after a return trip to christmas vacation in mere hours before her air force jet.
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the latest skirmish between these two leaders as you noticed yesterday, she was trying to delay the president's state of the union address, the secretary of homeland security said did not exist but she used all kinds of government security for unofficial trip to the war zone in afghanistan as well as other stops, there's a dispute about whether egypt is included, the speaker will be spending taxpayer money on security, hotels, cars, meals -- there was a bus full of lawmakers headed to the capital to meet that air force jet to take them overseas but pelosi's spokesperson tells us that the speaker wanted to thank our men and women in uniform. they say that's all this trip was about. the president brought that bus to a screeching halt. he wrote "due to the shutdown, i'm sorry to inform you your trip to brussels, egypt, afghanistan has been postponed, we will reschedule this
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excursion when the shutdown is over. democrat adam schiff who was supposed to be on the trip, he complained this was a fifth grade is stunned by the president but our colleague mike emanuel pressed pelosi on why she is not seeking a compromise. >> don't you have an obligation to be at the negotiating table? >> what negotiating table are we not at? at the last one was a set up, the president gave himself leverage to lead the room. >> president trump: while many democrats in the house and senate would like to make a deal, speaker pelosi will not let them negotiate. the party has been hijacked by the open borders fringe within the party. >> that white house aide insisting this was not tit-for-tat, the president just wanted pelosi to stay in d.c. to negotiate. the military aircraft has been put on hold but if pelosi wants to fly commercial, they will not stop her.
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>> laura: what does all this back and forth reveal about the media? this was the media just yesterday cheering nancy pelosi when she told trump to move his state of the union address. >> speaker pelosi playing hardball. >> speaker pelosi flexing her constitutional muscle. >> nancy pelosi is flexing her muscle today. >> she's got a phd in needling president trump. >> this is a move of exceptional cleverness and sadism in a way. >> this is political genius. >> she's showing she's in charg charge. >> laura: that could be the best montage of all time. this is the same liberal media when trump delayed pelosi's overseas trip as was well within him right, watch. >> the president has responded in sort of a childish way to the
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house speaker nancy pelosi. >> it's a classic example of trump over reacting. >> technically inept, strategically knit with it. >> laura: the only phrase that comes to mind is nanny nanny boo-boo. i like it when jake gets very serious, i like impartiality, both of them are flexing their muscles. that's what the branches of government do, they are all checking each other and trying to exert more power -- that's how it's always been. joining me now to answer the question of who was actually winning, byron york, chief political correspondent from the "washington examiner," joel rubin former debbie deputy secf state. pelosi and trump are playing the exact same game, each has
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different powers but who right now has the upper hand? >> in a memo nancy pelosi to the media, this is the best line i've heard all day from someone else -- "never trolled the king of trolls." they went out there thinking they could get away with this stunt and he called them on it and they look like fools to be perfectly honest. they have red faces, this is childish behavior, they got caught at what they're doing, they partied in puerto rico, she went off to hawaii for christmas -- they are making one misstep after one other -- this is serious business they are to stay there and get the job done. >> laura: i have a thought on this, it's really tough for people who don't get a paycheck, hard for people to deal with all of that uncertainty but as a political matter, i think this
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plays out a lot like obamacare in the end. the longer this debate goes on, the more we see whether it was the website crashing, keep the conversation going. then you start seeing people's real cards, you start seeing what they are playing with. i think jeff's point right there is on point -- if you really care about the people you would be at least in washington. we've got one more chance at this, let's try it again but he's here. >> he's been saying that's the whole time, christmas, new year's, now -- i think what you are seeing is democrats think they are winning. we have a number of polls come out that showed significantly larger numbers of americans blame president trump and republicans for the shutdown then blame democrats. believe me if it were the other way around or even equal, i do not think democrats would have been doing this, they are doing this because they think they have the public behind them and trump is going to be blamed
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whatever happens. >> laura: this is nancy pelosi standing by her point on the state of the union. >> we are saying let's get a date when government is open, let's pay the employees -- he thinks it's okay to not pay people who do work, i don't. >> laura: she's not denying him a platform, come on. the state of the union thing, he's going to deliver the state of the union whether it's the house or the senate but that was nancy pelosi doing what she can do to score political points. and get the media today they come along and say this is petty and petulant of the president -- isn't it whose ox is being gore gored? >> it's a battle royale right now, nancy pelosi is setting the frame for discussion and donald trump pushed back very aggressively and effectively. this doesn't make anybody look good. we have a shut down, we need there to be a negotiation. there needs to be a deal, pelosi
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is winning on certain points and democrats are in a strong position but this kind of tit-for-tat make washington looks bad. >> laura: i'm going to get to who is benefiting from this because the media are playing in helping shape public opinion as well. an interesting poking out today which shocked a lot of people on the latino vote in latino supporters. among latinos, the president's approval has jumped 19 points during the shutdown. what's that all about? we don't know but it kills this narrative that when you are for border enforcement, you're going to lose latino voters. dan patrick found that wasn't true, lieutenant governor greg abbott very tough on the border -- they had 41-42% of the latino vote and their numbers still stay about the same. the media is getting that wrong. this is "the washington post" yesterday on pelosi. in the two weeks since she
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reclaimed the speaker's gavel, she has moved aggressively to leverage her decades of experience to needle, belittle, and undercut trump with swipes at his confidence and even his masculinity. imagine if it was going after someone's been femininity. it was a big buildup of nancy and political and "the washington post," you saw that montage of these reporters with their scowls and john heilman looks like he lost his best friend, that big stern face and furrowed brow and it's just so transparent. i'm enjoying it, because it's so transparent what they are doing. >> this is exactly -- this is one of the reasons why donald trump is in the white house and the first place. the american people have seen this kind of game playing going on for years and they hate it. they want something done and he is sticking by his guns and he is doing it. not to go unnoticed here when
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these members of congress are in congress, what's protecting them? walls. i used to work there years ago, there were no walls, you could walk anywhere, park your car, none of that is possible. they are every one of them protected by walls. the hypocrisy is mind-boggling. >> laura: last night on "the angle," i highlighted the pernicious progressive push by some bad actors on the left. tonight we want to shine a light on the media, specifically prominent editorial pages providing cover for some of the more french ideas. in "the new york times," an opinion piece titled "there's nothing wrong with open borders borders," why a democrats should make the case for expanded immigration. "impeach donald trump, starting the process will reign in the president who is undermining
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american and bring into debate his fitness for office to congress where it belongs." does this editorial cover help your partner? people hate the media, especially the objective media. >> there is two kinds of media, there's a reporting media and opinion media. the open borders argument has no space right now in the democratic party for good reaso reason. >> laura: i think there's some space. >> they are trying to create that space and say look, we need to expand the conversation but that his policy from the media. >> laura: trump wants a wall, they won't even meet. they are adjourning until february. >> huge majorities of americans favor border security, that's all the democrats are saying. they say they are in favor of it because americans actually do
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want it. also on the atlantic piece, this is the world's least surprising magazine article. they've been talking about this for a long time, everybody on the left has been talking about it for a long time, the idea that it would make some impact that it was courageous to call for the president's impeachment -- it's nuts. >> there appealing to their bas base. >> the base that we pointed out last night, it's moving everybody to the left. you have a few moderates, steny hoyer and a few others but not many. they are all going to have to kiss alexandria ocasio-cortez's ring. in one way or another they're going to kiss the ring and she's only been in town for seven day days. i have a prediction, if trump gives the state of the union in front of members of congress, will the democrats go, and will -- if they go, will they
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turn their backs? >> yeah, they will turn their backs, they will make a scene. they know the cameras are there. yes they will. >> i think some well but the party isn't open borders. >> laura: you don't want them to. coming up, with the immense power bestowed upon nine unelected justices, is it fair now for some citizens to expect their full participation? a can't-miss "angle" next. my new podcast just dropped, we've got to michelle malkin talking with me about toxic femininity and how facebook is trying to silence pro-lifers and what mlk would say today about the cultural landscape. subscribe now at podcast one.com. en and honest
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>> laura: questions of life and viability at the high court, that's the focus of tonight's angle. in 1973, the supreme court in roe v. wade struck down state laws banning abortions and liberals them thought that would settle the issue.
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46 years later, the country is still torn apart about abortion. tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of mostly young people will converge on washington for the march for life, they braved the snow and usually frigid temperatures year after year after year to speak for those who have no voice. the unborn. according to a new marist poll, 75% of americans say they would limit abortion to at most the first three months of pregnancy, that includes 6 of 10 of those who self identify as pro-choice as well is six in ten democrats. that means the supreme court is actually out of sync with most americans on that issue, not that any of that matters. we've given so much power to the supreme court to run roughshod over the will of the people and the states, it's become a super governmental force. our framers never intended that unelected judges would have
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power over politics in our culture like this because it's a question addressed time and again by really smart minds. like the great justice antonin scalia. >> regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my point is the constitution does not say anything about it. it leaves it up to democratic choice. >> laura: the decisions have not been left up to the people. the left has long relied on the courts to advance a radical transformation of american society on criminal justice, issues like marriage and public justice, criminal justice reform but now that the balance of the high court is shifting, the stakes could not be higher. this is part of the recent supreme court battles have gotten so ugly and contentious in recent years. seeing the difference between
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justice scalia's confirmation hearing in 1986 and justice kavanaugh 32 years later. >> would you like to introduce your family? you've got a lot of children. >> they were a lot of trouble to get dressed up and come downtow downtown. >> this is only possible when judges are committed to the rule of law. >> i would support a broad congressional mandate that is not unconstitutionally overbroa overbroad. [chanting "shut it down"] >> laura: we've all gotten used to the circus of the confirmation hearings have become. a packed hearing room with outburst from protesters. >> my side of the aisle call for regular order and i think we ought to proceed in regular order, there will be plenty of opportunities to respond to the questions that the minority has
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legitimately raising, and we will -- >> mr. chairman under regular order, may i ask a point of order? >> laura: check out the hearing room during scalia's confirmation -- that's during his confirmation, look at all the empty seats behind him! this is a couple hours in. i relived the whole thing. even justice ruth bader ginsburg admitted that judicial confirmations were never this ugly. >> how would you compare the process that you went through with what's going on today? >> the way it was was right, the way it is is wrong.
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>> laura: she was confirmed overwhelmingly in 1993 by a vote of 93-6, scalia was confirmed by a vote of 98-0. the two had completely different in most issues judicial philosophies but they were really close, really good friends and as a family friend of the skull he scalias, i spet new year's eve with them. all these years later, the court is a collegial place, the justices get along, they like each other but because so many on the outside have become so reliant on the court, another potential vacancy comes up and it has all the activists on edg edge. politico just published a piece titled what happened if ruth bader ginsburg remains too sick to work? in just the past two months, the justice has suffered three
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fractured ribs and had a pair of cancerous nodules removed from her long. this is as we all know not her first bout of cancer. she has beaten it before and her doctors say they expect her to return to the bench next month. the justice is buoyed by america's prayers and well wishes and she seems to have enjoyed the near mythic status bestowed upon her by the left. >> she's fierce and fabulous and she still got it. >> i want to see what your workout is, let's get fully ripped and exploded, let's get stupid strong. >> let's go. >> she is one of my role models. >> she's become such an icon. >> would you mind signing this copy? you're the closest thing to a superhero i know. >> laura: movies, documentaries, books, children's books and let's face it, cynics say this was smartly designed to set the cultural narrative
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early. should the time come make it more difficult for president trump to appoint someone to replace her with a judicial conservative, a temperament that is obviously judicially conservative even if that pick is another woman. any time a sitting justice especially at an advanced age is in declining health, it raises serious questions, that's why people write these articles. i remember watching the announcement closely when justice thurgood marshall handled his retirement back in june of 1991. >> the medical facts, what's wrong with your? >> what's wrong with me? i'm old! i'm getting old and coming apar apart. >> laura: remember how democrats made a big deal about president trump's health, they
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endlessly questioned his stamina and mental acuity, white house physician ronnie johnson reported the president was in excellent health, people didn't believe it. now some are asking if it was appropriate to ask questions about the physical condition of the president and his fitness for office, is it also appropriate to ask similar questions about supreme court justices, beyond ruth bader ginsburg -- all of them. everything from immigration to obamacare's contraceptive rules, the stakes are really high now. we all wish that justice is long and happy lives but do americans have the right to be reassured that 28-year-old law clerks aren't exercising undue influence especially when the court has outsized powers over matters of life and death? questions, and that's the angle. all of us are hoping and praying for justice ginsburg recovery, she's an amazing person and her
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return to the bench is anticipated and her law clerks miss her very much. that said, the power of the court makes these conversations necessary, you saw justice thurgood marshall taking on these questions that she wasn't uncomfortable. i laughed so hard, you probably remember it as well. i'm delighted you are here. by the way, alex sawyer from the washington times, you've been covering this. i want to go to you first. it's uncomfortable, we all hope we are going to get old, we all hope we are going to have good health -- it's tough. >> it's tough as a reporter too. >> laura: she has fought back all of these diseases, she's done her work out -- unbelievable. i marvel at it. there are increasing reports, if you don't show up for two months, then what happens?
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>> like the politico article, i thought it was interesting when i took a look at that, they start talking about the mental capabilities fading and i thought and connection, is that fair? is that a leap a journalist should make at this point in time? there hasn't been any indication that she isn't coherent. >> laura: once the last time she was seen in public? >> i believe it was when she was going to have her surgery. i think npr reported that she did vote from the hospital, whether or not they were going to lift -- i think the trump administration had gone straight to court. >> laura: it's kind of an uncomfortable conversation only because the court really has taken on such a prominent position, gone into areas where mostly it was a state legislatures or the federal government and really thorny issues. you have activists on both sides
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saying who is going to be up next? she's not retired yet, what about this? >> the more the court expands into every area of american society, the bigger ticket item it becomes. we are all praying for her, she's got the best medical care you can get. there are really important issues in the other courts, we now have more vacancies than when trump took office, 90 judges that need to be renominated. we've seen bullying, smear campaigns, obstruction from democrats -- this is a problem going throughout the system now that we need to be working on. >> she meant to edit smear campaigns, i don't want to put words in your mouth. >> laura: should supreme court justices -- this has been written about before, this is nothing unique -- should they have to maintain a certain level of health, mental acuity in order to be on the court?
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all the stories of justices going back to less hundred 50 years who could not function who were on severely medicated -- law clerks doing a lot of the work. i clerked for justice thomas and we've heard all the stories about other justices. should there be some type of concern? >> sure, there should be that concern, these are lifetime appointments, there is no litmus tests in regards to mental acuity, but the other thing that preserves all of this, if she is incapacitated, the court goes on if it's an even number or an odd number, it goes on. >> laura: if you don't show up, this is uncharted territory, she is never missed oral argument, she's a bulldog on these issues. she organizes, she knows it, a terrific writer, she doesn't miss oral argument, never has. >> there were vacancies when
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justice scalia passed away. >> laura: again, we have these big cases coming up, she has not retired. what if she doesn't show up for the next oral arguments in the next? we hope she does but what if she doesn't? >> there's a broader question whether she can vote from home and work from home, a lot of that has changed. i do think they need to stay in great health and obviously mental acuity but at the same time with a lifetime appointmen appointment -- >> laura: hugo black and said the justices do not actually come into the court and participate put huge burdens on the rest of the court, it's not just about you come at some point, that's what thurgood marshall said. he was asked a question about when he decided to retire. >> when did you make the final decision to retire? >> i don't have the slightest
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idea. >> laura: the whole place burst out laughing. but he thought it was time for him to go. he was funny, he was holding court there but he was like i'm getting old. i kind of like that idea of going out on top, you go out on top and you get the press, i think that's kind of cool. >> i think it's a value proposition, and i adding value to the job? >> laura: if you're not showing up at oral arguments and participate in, how you vote? >> you don't want to go to the office, that's even worse -- it's time for you to retire. >> laura: this is going to be a bruising confirmation battle, the young people are getting notorious rbg tattoos, the books, the movies -- sandra day o'connor didn't get the books -- did she get all of those? not quite as much.
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is it going to be worse than kavanaugh? >> we've seen so much bullying at the lower court nominees, imagine what is prepping here, she herself has talked about she thinks people should be treated better even if they are a different perspective than she is, i would hope out of respect for her own perspective, that's the process worthy of justice ginsburg. if you really think she's such a model, let's take her word for it and try to be more civilized. >> laura: she didn't like that that, scalia 98-0, she got confirmed 98-6. it was fun to watch the old confirmation. i want to bring back the pipe. he answered questions, let's just play -- this is for fun. do we have another moment during the confirmation hearing when he
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was asked about an issue that was relevant to the issue tomorrow? >> i would find it very difficult i was saying in that article to strike down a provision on the basis of substantive due process. >> laura: the larger question was about abortion, the 14th amendment? its two layers. >> why was no one there? that's amazing compared to what it is today. >> laura: the most fun thing about that is in the background, you john podesta, young, they were sitting behind and kennedy, mitch mcconnell is really young, it's wild.
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i say? what about that bizarre gillette ad, what was that about? is it stealing if you take your kids cell phone away? plus january turns into januhairy -- joining us now is raymond arroyo. gillette is facing a little bit of backlash for this ad. >> it's been going on far too long. you can't laugh it off. >> what i actually think she's trying to say. >> making the same old excuses. >> boys will be boys. boys will be boys. >> but some things finally changed. >> men need to hold other men accountable. >> to say the right things, to act the right way.
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because the boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow. >> blended selling razors turn into a scolding of men? this is the worst at a man can watch. a lot of people saw the ad, they copied and had sent it around, in 2011, gillette learned that 30% of their customers were women who use the men's razors. with beards making a comeback, guys aren't buying the razors like they once did but women might so they devised this "men need to change" campaign to attract the ladies. it feminize as men and the director was a woman named kim, she directed films on toxic masculinity and celebrating female genitalia -- compare that add to the original "the best a man could get" ad from 1989. >> ♪ you're looking good,
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you've come so far ♪ ♪ we know how to make the most of who you are ♪ ♪ fathers and sons, it's what we've always done ♪ ♪ the best a man can get >> laura: you can't show traditional marriage at all. >> the best a man can get is married with children, mentoring your son. the new version of this is man is a was, you are bad and the line of the guys the barbecue pit in toning, will be boys -- imagine a summer with a bunch of ladies barefoot and naked -- barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. people would be offended, a lot of people would be offended by the stereotype.
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>> laura: they think that women are attracted to the apple guy, or the verizon guy. i'm sure there are sweet people but i don't think so and we asked the twentysomethings out here which ad they like better, they like the original ad. >> laura: i ask young guys in my circle, most of them wanted to take a razor and slit their throats after watching. they were selling masculinity to men and women. watch these ads we found. >> i don't need some fancy cologne to tell me i'm a man. i use skin bracer, it smells great, confidence is very, don't you think? >> i dare you to knock this off, i dare you to compare anybody's batteries to power cell, you can't. go on, i dare you.
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>> the tough guy -- women were attracted to him, men want to be like that. i love jack palance. >> laura: advertisers trying to feminize men. >> in a different direction, last week feminists launched campaigns to raise awareness of what they called the oppressiveness of traditional gender norms and they want to advocate body positivity, they encouraged women to grow up there body hair throughout the munch the month of januhairy. this is why petticoats and long skirts -- this is nasty. i have to tell you. i guess the idea is to make women to unappealing as possible to men and vice versa, that is what the dynamic is here. why would you do this to
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yourself? >> laura: i remember in college it was a big deal when you would travel overseas that in france and russia, that women didn't shave, it was a cultural thing, they didn't shave. but people were grossed out by it. >> is it legal to take your child's phone away? in south euclid, ohio, cops were called when a teammate this cal call. >> my father took property which was was a phone that doesn't belong to him. >> the cops showed up and they let their body cams on. >> she's a juvenile, i don't want her to have it. >> it's not his property, it's mine. >> guess what? everything that you own belongs to your mother and your father, they don't want you to have it, you don't have it, having a phone is not a right, it's a privilege, okay? you don't need a cell phone.
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>> laura: you want your phone back? start listening to your parents. the police have so much on their hands and now they are having to give life advice. >> he took the phone from his daughter and he's worried about the apps or she's hiding things from him, he doesn't want that going on. >> laura: there's an interesting image that showed up, the march for life is tomorrow, the center stone is the capitol rotunda at the capital, what does that look like? >> it looks like a eucharistic host, you can see across. i've never seen that before, people are saying it's a sign, we'll see. european leaders lob insults to president trump over a supposedly cozy relationship to putin, we asked this question, who is really engaging in russian collusion?
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the u.s. ambassador to germany enjoins joins us exclusively to explain. that's the power of one a day.
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>> there's a question in a sizable chunk of america whether donald trump is working on behalf of russia. >> whose side is the president
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on? >> he spouts putin's allies. >> he wants to give russia every item on its most fantastical international wish list. putin has a president of the united states who performs backflips on command. >> laura: is that a common refrain? why is the president warning european leaders with sanctions over a proposed russian pipeline project? we've talked about this a lot on radio now on the podcast and tv. the project would make much of europe especially germany dependent on russian gas. why would he stand in the way of russian having a huge infusion of cash? joining me now exclusively u.s. ambassador to germany is jet-lagged, great to see you in person. what part of this story are the american people not getting if they are immersed in that kind
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of media? >> look at the facts in this president has been very tough on the russians. at the same time it's a dual track approach, beginning to be the trump doctrine which is this dual track. we are going to base our policy in reality but also offer the ability to be idealistic if you change your behavior, maybe we can have some sort of talk. look at the facts, we've been very tough on russia, the president has been extremely clear that this gas pipeline from russia going into europe is the wrong idea and the president is with most of the european union, the european parliament. there is 18 european countries that have stood up to say we don't think more russian gas in europe or germany is the right way to go. we want a diversification polic
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policy. the president's standing with the european union. >> laura: the president is getting hammered day after day after day, mueller and all that. you see the president being tarred with he's not for nato because he is a businessman and he wants to support nato but he wants other countries to pay their fair share. today i know a lot of ambassadors are in town, he was at the pentagon and he talked about nato, let's watch. >> president trump: we cannot be the fools, we are going to be with nato 100%. you have to pay minimum numbers, look at what we pay, it's massively higher than that. countries are now stepping up and they can well afford to.
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>> laura: we have that congressman gregory meeks from new york going on television and saying this. >> he probably didn't know what nato is but now, he has devalued nato and the e.u. to such a degree it is possible to me he will have this back to a conversation with vladimir puti vladimir putin. >> laura: you've got to be kidding me. this is rank speculation, cnn reporters are nodding, good point. >> the president is strengthening nato. we've had the same policy that countries should be racing and meeting the nato commitment of 2%, they have ignored us for a very long time. president obama had the same policy, raise your spending,
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they ignored us. now, countries are beginning to raise their spending. i would argue the person who tries to reform multilateral organizations is the one who cares the most about them. rather than ignore them and let them drift, let them not deal with today's threats, let them have members that don't pay their bills, if you allow that to happen i would argue that you don't care about those agencies. when you do the hard work of engaging and trying to reform agencies exactly how the president is doing it, then i think there is an argument to be made that he is the one who cares more about nato because he wants it to work better. it clearly needs reforming. >> laura: what is it like for you as ambassador to germany, one of the most important ambassadorial positions, you had quite a splash right in the beginning when you first assumed the position.
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german media goes after ambassador ric grenell, trumps ambassador finds few friends in germany, he attempted to interfere in domestic politics he has since become politically isolated in the german capital. do i need to come visit your? >> i think there's a very good argument to be made that president obama was wildly popular in germany. but the german government killed his -- they didn't return the prison guard, he tipped the trade deal, the prison guard who was living here, the obama administration asked for a very long time to have them returned. we have been asking for a very long time for defense spending to be raised and the pipeline which was all started under president obama, i think the tough talk from president trump is working. >> laura: they liked a weaker
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united states, they love him because he global superstar, pop star for them but they loved a weaker united states it wasn't going to challenge. >> we want a stronger relationship, that means reforming it and pushing. >> laura: i'm glad you're there and i'm glad that you stopped by and thank you for fighting jet-lagged to be here. ric grenell, an important day for the media tomorrow but are they covering it? stay there.
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thousands will descend on washington for the pro-life march, the longest march in u.s. history, it's going to get just a little article in "the washington post" but that's okay, they are standing for those who scanned speak for themselves, the most defenseless among us and it's amazing. young people showing up where all with you. new poll finding millennials are not in lockstep with democrats on abortion, 41% said they wanted roe vs. wade overturned, seven and ten said they support limits. five months of pregnancy and funding government abortions, -- that's all the time we have, shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team take it from here. >> shannon: we begin tonight with a fox news alert, could it be a super shut down? could there be problems securing super bowl liii and if so will that be enough to move

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