hannity.com we'll pick the best on monday. that's all the time we have left a lot of news, thank you for being with us as always, hope you have a great weekend, see you on monday saturday. -- on monday. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham, the "ingraham angle," live, tonight. government, off for business in washington, d.c., open for business. trump's former advisor roger stone was arrested during an unbelievably aggressive pre-dawn raid by the fbi. oh, i can't wait to talk about that. his attorney is going to join us live in a moment. the storming of stone's house, included 29 agents with guns drawn. 17 vehicles, and of course cnn was there to cover it. huh, wonder how they knew. looked like it was meant for, i don't know, ms13 kingpin or el

chopo, more than a 66-year-old political lifer. what do former fbi acts who carried out raids like this think about this obvious show of intimidation. they'll tell us tonight. the shutdown fight is over. about 40 minutes ago the government is officially open, the traffic will be back on monday. and it's clear trump did not come out on top. i won't spin it for you. while the democrats gloat, about a political victory, here's my question tonight. have they revealed that they care more about politics in 2020 than the people of our great country. we'll examine. but first. >> no experience under whatsoever i will bear false witness against the president nor will i make up lies to ease the pressure on myself. >> laura: former trump advisor roger stone looking like he just came off the golf course, coming out of the courtroom defiant, he will not testify against the

president after bob mueller sent a swarm of armed fbi agents to his house before the sun was up. now, stone remained resolute earlier with our own tucker carlson. >> i will not quit. i will not fold. i will not bend. i will not bear false witness against the president. i intend to fight. because this indictment is, is, is fabricated. >> laura: with me now is roger stone's lawyer, tyler nixon. tyler, thanks for being here, you have had a long day. i want to read from the indictment and get your reaction. a quote, after the july 22nd, 2016 release of stolen dnc e-mails by organization one, which we have learned is wikileaks, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases, and what other damaging information, organization one had regarding the clinton campaign. tyler, who directed that

campaign official? >> well, that's a mystery that i think remains to be seen and remains to be discovered. thanks for having me on, appreciate it, it's been a long day for sure. this witch hunt has been going on, has been taken to the extreme. and as we know, roger was carted off from his home, early raid, pre-daunl raid, in a manner that was -- pre-dawn raid that was reminiscent of a police state rather than a free republic. it was disgraceful. you and i share, i believe, the alma mater of her mueller, the university of virginia law school, i think mr. jefferson would be standing with mr. stone rather than robert mueller. it's hard to say, there's so much fabrication and so much insin u asian that -- insinuation that's gone on. i've known roger for years. this is just, really

kafke-esque, a lynch mob. >> laura: a lot of people watching fox tonight, they're worried. i mean, they're worried a friend of trump's arrested in a predaunl raid, ridiculous, i was a criminal defense attorney, case like this, you notify you, they would have called you up and said we're going to bring him n it would have been arranged no, big deal. if he was going to destroy documents he's had, like, two years to do it f that's what he wanted to do. patently absurd. all to put pressure on him. i've seen this tactic so many times in the past it's palt interestly obvious. we've -- patently obvious. on the facts of this, lying to congressional investigators, lying to any federal official, it's a process crime but also a crime. did your client commit a crime in answering questions about documents that he had in his possession that might have vinld kated -- indicated an intent to

facilitate russian interference in the election? >> absolutely not, laura. i mean, this has been hashed over by roger himself, over and over again. the bottom line, i reviewed his testimony, which by the way has been held secret in the intelligence committee, the bouls of the intelligence -- bouls of the intelligence committee since december of 2017, allowing them to mischaracterize the testimony and characterize mr. stone as having lied, purchase injured himself as -- perjuried himself as the case may be, still yet to be released. yet it was released to robert mueller. roger gave truth r truthful answers and accurate answers with the information he had at the time. in the interim time, there has been discovered materials, including a cell phone which contained texts, for example, with randy credico which exonerated roger. roger stated that randy was the

intermediary. >> laura: he denies that. didn't he tell -- >> credico has denied it all along. he has lied all along. there are texts that clearly show that, yes, he absolutely was discussing wikileaks. >> laura: they have that. let me ask you about this morning, i woke up way too early for having a late show and saw this thing blowing up. i see the agents in, there like banging on the door, like a tv show, banging on the door, "fbi," some one is going to pull out an uzi on them. i felt bad, it was pathetic. when they go in there, roger is in his bathrobe, pajamas. what happened then, tell me, they read him hills rights, obviously, what did they start going through? they were there for hours. pulling up floor boards, ceiling panels, going through hard drives obviously, what happened? >> i'm at a disadvantage not being on the ground in florida,

i haven't gotten these details, dealing with other aspects of the case. >> laura: you haven't gotten the details about what happened in your client's house? >> as far as i know they haven't been back to his house yet. they were still going through it. >> laura: i was wondering if they gave you any indication -- he hasn't been back to the house? news media all over the place. regular americans want to know, when the government comes after you, rightly or wrongly, what happens inside the house. i've seen it, they pick up everything, go through everything. but they were there for hours. tonight, how is your client doing? we saw him on tucker, how is he doing, feel like he's in legal jeopardy? alan dershowitz, i have to play this for you, tonight, he spoke about the possibility of flipping your client. let's watch. >> stone doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who's going to easily cooperate. but look, when you're facing long prison term, the most loyal of people turn to themselves and say, i have to look out for

myself first. cohen said he would never testify against trump, he would take bull let for him. you never know what's going to happen when the person is arrested for a myriad of crimes. >> laura: tyler, reaction. >> roger stone, he has said repeatedly that he would not bear false witness against the president under any circumstance. and that's what he could have to do -- would have to do to implicate the president. there is no russian collusion, there is no conspiracy with wikileaks, nothing that's been contrived out of thin air, in this witch hunt, this hoax is what it is. he would not do that. he's not michael cohen. roger stone, ironically as you know is really one of the most honest people that you'll find in politics, he's truthful about himself and what he does and who he is. >> laura: he's been around for a long time, a very interesting and colorful past. so do all of us.

but i have to, if you read his last book you learn more about his thinking, worried about his financial situation, you get paid, lawyers cost a loof money. tyler, you could have gone on any show tonight, we really, really appreciate you joining us. come back, this will be a saga that continues. appreciate it, get some sleep. >> thank you. >> laura: watching anatural sis of the stone arrest, man, i just -- analysis, i just saw a shocking lack of honest and objective analysis. even former dni, jim clapper, was making huge leaps with rank speculation. >> based on these series of communications that stone was having with senior trump campaign officials, often in advance of wikileaks releases, e-mails stolen by russia, what does that show to you, is that evidence in your view, of coordination between the trump campaign and russia? >> well, it does to me, i say

that, not as an attorney but just as a layman. i think clearly, it does show connection, coordination, synchronization, whatever you call it. >> laura: okay, nice try. nothing of the sort was indicated in the indictment. i mean, this is where people should not go on tv if they don't bother to read the indictment. baseless from former director of national intelligence. we might reremind you committed open perjury during the obama years and faced zero penalties. where is the justice. tonight we'll expose men like that and eld kate you, the viewer, along the way. we put together an unbelievable panel. the political and legal aspects and the law enforcement aspects regarding that elian gonzalez style raid on stone's house. phil wisen berg, former deck director of whitewater, byron

york for the political analysis, from the washington examiner, and fox news contributor. some one who's done more reporting than most people on the fafgts plan oat the russian investigation, saul. now, you read the indictment, tonight, what you just heard from one of roger stone's lawyers tells you what? >> well, he's acting like any good defense lawyer would act. i look at the indictment and obviously, if he really did, the strongest parts of the indictment are the allegations of lying directly to congress. the weakest part has to do with the so-called intimidation of one of the others who was testifying. i look at the indictment, all of these indictments that are for lying, it's not that lying isn't a serious crime, like you say, but in the grand scheme of things p you're looking at what is really being supposedly ultimately investigated, criminal conspiracy, there's a term of art in criminal defense

world for these kinds of charges. it's two words, the first word is chicken and the last word ends in "it." that's what most of these charges are like. for the people, look, it's not a gestapo raid, not an elian gonlz raid. >> laura: are you kidding me? >> it was an appropriate search. i heard roger stone say once they came in, and arrested him, they were very courteous. don't get me wrong, let's not compare to it the nazis. inappropriate search, and the people saying it was appropriate because they had a search warrant and he was going too destroy evidence, they could have searched him before the indictment. >> laura: right, that's the point i was making. >> like they did with manafort. point number two, he was released on $250,000 personal recognizance. i don't think the mueller people challenged that.

so he's no flight risk at all. and there's nothing in the indictment that says that he was destroying evidence. >> laura: okay. >> it's ridiculous some of these comments. >> laura: i mean, semantics aside, joe, i want your reaction to this. this is former cia director, your favorite person, joe, i can't believe you aren't having drinks tonight, john brennan, making predictions for the next two months. >> there was an extensive effort to try to influence the outcome. election, that involved the russians, that involved u.s. persons, and that may have gone to the very top of the trump campaign. i expect that within the next 60 days you will have a fair number of indictments. >> fair? >> fair number, significant number of indictments. >> laura: joe, he can read minds, too. >> well, john brennan was part of a conspiracy to frame donald

trump. he went to london, met with the nsa of the uk, arranged for false intelligence to be fed into the united states towns assist in acquiring false fisa warrants. what john brennan has to say really doesn't matter. laura, before we move away from it, i want to say that the rid this morning -- the raid this morning, to arrest roger stone, was one of the most vindictive, unprofessional actions ever conducted by the u.s. department of justice. bob mueller, all of his minions, chris ray, rod rosenstein, and the acting attorney general matt whitaker should be ashamed of themselves. it was absolutely unnecessary. it was done for vindictive reasons. it is the beginning of the final degradation of the fbi and the department of justice. and the fact that chris ray and rod rosenstein and whitaker allowed this to occur, because

they were aware of it, they did not stop it, they knew it was going to happen, it is an embarrassment to the department of justice, and it really, really makes it important that a very serious person take over the department, bill barr, so that people like chris ray can be held accountable. >> laura: 29 agents. i don't care if they baked cookies for stone. >> it is an embarrassment. >> laura: if they brewed coffee for stone once they got in there, it was show for cnn. it was total show. >>ed a less yent behavior. >> laura: 15 outposts they needed to cover? byron, no, you wrote a -- byron york, you say it's not what is in the indictment, they could have written that in three pages, it's what is not in the indictment. explain that, please. >> what's not in the indictment is an allegation that there was a conspiracy, between the trump campaign and russia to fix the 2016 election. that's just not there. the other thing that's really

not there, is evidence of any knowledge before hand, of roger stone, about what wikileaks was going to do. the most looked-at paragraph in the whole thing, the paragraph, on july 22nd, 2016, when the wikileaks disclosures happened, then the trump campaign got in touch with roger stone, said what's going on. this was after the fact. >> laura: but i have a question -- >> one more thing. suggests there was not a collusion scheme in place. and running when it happened. >> laura: i want to go to saul. when i hear byron describe, this i think to myself, big deal. like roger stone wanted to find of the, when was the next one coming. they were paying for russian-sourced false, phony, salacious information on donald trump that was sourced in russia. they were paying a u.s. firm to help disseminate it, including up to john mccain's office and

everyone else who had it. somehow this guy, roger stone, ends up arrested today, predawn? really? i mean, to me, it's crazy. >> lawyer, a i'm surprised at you, laura. i'm surprised at you. i don't see why you're not more excited about paragraph 12 of the indictment. i look on msnbc, and cnn, they're orgasmic over it. >> laura: that's the first time that word has been used on our show. and it is friday night. >> this is the paragraph that everybody is so excited about. because it talks about stone being directed or asked by senior member of the trump campaign to find out when the next release is going to be. look, it certainly, if true, is embarrassing to the trump campaign, perhaps. >> laura: i don't think so. who cares? >> but, but, but, think about what they're saying, they're saying that somebody in the trump campaign, if true, learned about this, there was plenty of

reporting about this, and they asked stone to find out when the next release is going to be. i'm sorry, but that alone is not any kind of a crime. and it certainly is not conspiracy to hack the electoral system or hack somebody's computer, or to accept benefits from the russian government. it just isn't. but it's the um teenlth indictment in the case where people come on like brennan and clapper, and say you will see a bunch of indictments in the next two weeks, and it's part of mueller's master plan to dribble out, it's all pampbt of the master plan to dribble out the indictments, dribble out the information. it is just, so far, not there. >> laura: i want to play for you -- >> laura? >> laura: go ahead, joe. >> laura, very, very important putting on top of what saul just said. every bit of behavior of roger stone and the other people named

in the indictment, and the trump people, with the exception of the allegations of stone for lying obstruction, all of the other behavior is perfectly legal. it doesn't matter if the trump people wanted to know when the next one was going to hit. >> laura: why is that a crime? >> that is a legal question. that is a legal question. you can do that, it's called political intelligence. >> laura: it's oppo research. the clintons did that. >> nothing in the indictment about any of the people involved in the trump campaign or roger stone or person number one or person number two is illegal except the lying. i think they're done with me. >> laura: i want to play something, byron, rick tyler today on msnbc. it's important, peep aim cross the country, in the kitchen, making dinner for their kids, oh, my god, this is terrible. i dealt with this as a criminal defense lawyer, reading these indictments, the people are

freaking out about it. everything has to be put in context. then you have the leap from never-trumpers, like rick. >> donald trump is a political con man whose showmanship has caught up to him. it shouldn't be surprised that roger stone has been indicted for perjury. he's a practitioner in the political dark arts, known for dirty tricks, and i think a lifetime of this shtick has finally caught up with him. >> laura: apparently shtick is the federal crime. i didn't know that. that's analysis on television today. >> stone did make problems for himself in this way, he bragged about all sorts of things, suggested he had been in touch with julian assange when he hadn't, but he said it publicly. after saying that publicly, he goes in front of the house and

they ask him about his public statements. except this time he's under oath. maybe he doesn't till the truth about the whole thing, he is certainly accused of lying about it. i was his own bragging that got him into trouble. >> laura: never brag. >> good idea. >> laura: very quickly, saul, will there be another big high-profile indictment coming out of mueller's office or as david french said, this a sign it has to wrap up? >> i have no idea but there's something no one is talking about, what a democratic town and trump-hating town d.c. is, and that's where roger stone is going to be tried in front of a jury of his alleged peers. and we should never forget that. it's a bad town for republican defendants. >> laura: excellent point, joe knows that. >> ask scooter libby. >> laura: bingo, had to get pardoned because of what happened to him. now, analysis anywhere else on television today. thank you.

coming up as american citizens shouldn't we be asking a few more questions about the heavy-handed tactics used by the fbi and mule they are morning? those who approved them. do you believe what cnn said, they were doing good reporting and that's why they were there with the camera. the only fast, powerful heartburn relief, plus melatonin so you can fall asleep quickly. oh, what a relief it is!

♪ [ dobaxter.ng ] it's bedtime. peace of mind should never be out of reach. [ voice command beep ] xfinity home. xfinity home connects you to total home security you can control from anywhere on any device. and it protects you with 24/7 professional monitoring. i guess we're sleeping here tonight. xfinity home. simple. easy. awesome. call, go online or demo in an xfinity store today. >> at the crack of dawn, 29 fbi

agents arrived at my home with 17 vehicles with their lights flashing. when they could simply have contacted my attorney and i would have been more than willing to surrender voluntarily. they terrorized my wife, my dogs. >> laura: 66-year-old man charged with nonviolent crime, who they've been investigating for more than a year, gets his house swarmed by fbi agents who had their long guns drawn. is that really what he deserved? they treated a self-described political trickster like he was a big mafia kingpin or something. let's get one thing out of the way. the predaunl raid was meant as a show of force. it was meant to intimidate a potential with it against the. united states. our next guest ran the unabomber raid and said that even in that case the agents didn't draw their guns until he resisted.

also with me is john, former fbi special agent. terry, should we as american citizens just kind of brush this off and say it's all above board, everybody checked the boxes and all of the right people approved it, is this normal? >> no, we shouldn't brush it off. all of those people that approved it, i hope if a couple of days are on their way out, looking for other jobs. let me tell you a story, it's the contrast between this story and the arrest of the un a bormer that put meat in what i'm trying to tell you. back on april 3, 1996, we had two fbi agents and national park forest service agent walk about a mile off of a road in the mountains of montana, approach the 10x12 wooden cabin, and knock on the door. no one was around them, there were no cars, no one else, they were there to arrest or take out

of the cabin at the time so we could search it, didn't have any arrest warrant, take out of that cabin the most wanted terrorist at the time in america. so that's what they went to do. they were told when they did that, it was part of our plan and part of the request of the fbi director and certainly theodore kaczynski's brother, do everything you can to get him out of that cabin safely. they used a ruse. they had the national forest service officer knock on the door,ca sirn ski answered it. -- kaczynski answered it. they stepped back, there was a short conversation, thenca sirn ski started to go back into the cabin to get his coat. he thought the fbi agents, because of what the forest service officer represented, were representatives of a mining company. he went to get his coat, they pulled him out the door, there was a struggle because then he realized something is wrong. only then did max nole take out his service weapon and hold it up at kaczynski and say the gig

is up. >> laura: that's the way it's supposed to go. it's chaushs. -- it's cautious. you don't want to create a situation that's dangerous. they said today, i was hearing dribs and drabs, the way it was carried out ensured that everything was done safely. john, you watched it, we all watched it early in the morning, cnn was also miraculously there to roll on it. they try to claim it was all just good reporting. i guess we can never know. but it all seemed really heavy-handed. only thing i could think of was elian gonzalez when they had the guns pointed at that poor kid. >> the fbi has ways of doing search warrants and they trained to do it the same way every time. the real issue here is the public needs to know that the fbi doesn't decide we're going to go out and execute a search warrant. it's a white collar arrest. that's a decision have how this

subject is going to be arrested, made by the prosecutor n this case robert mueller. most white collar cases, they're asked to come in the office, call is made to their attorney to turn themselves in. it's very rare and some one instructed the fbi to go out and do in this morning. >> laura: well, it's meant as a show of power. we have power over you. we mean business. roger shows up in his pajamas. probably caught off guard, maybe a little groggy, maybe they feel like they have some advantage in asking you questions. i find it all absurd and obscene. i don't care if you're republican or democrat, allen dershowitz said it well, he said any civil libertarian should be concerned by what he or she saw in that video. and if the aclu was worth its salt they would be upset tonight.

terry? >> absolutely. >> laura: or john. >> well, go ahead, terry. >> i couldn't agree with them more. i think that it's just terrible what has happened. and i think when you couple what happened this morning with the idea that after these two years we still don't know how the democratic party essentially corrupted the top level of the fbi, and i am convinced that is what has happened here, we still don't know the answers of who and where and what. we know that 10 fbi officials are gone. that's all you need to know. we need to know that and we need to know if we want to go to sleep tonight and know our civil liberties are being protected. >> laura: people who spla smash blackberries were never arrested, never charged, or given in expligs it or implies it immunity. thank you, guys. the raid this morning revealed another troubling reality, different outcomes for powerful

versus the powerless? stone's charged with making false statements and obstruction, which is what obama fbi and cia leaders did on multiple occasions. why the one-way street, where's the prosecution? here to tell us more, senior fellow of the hoover institution, i know he's been chomping at the bit, focusing on this all day. victor davis hanson. victor, to see john brennan, and clapper today, out there talking about this, it's like, the pot calling the kettle black, all of the old sayings came to mind. i thought about my mother, she always had the right saying. come on. >> yeah, well i think what gets everybody, i don't know roger stone when what he did or did not do. doesn't matter, the questions, the quality under the law. cut to the quick, laura, had he been james comey and gone into a sworn testimony before congress and 245 times said he didn't know or he didn't remember, he wouldn't be indicted.

if he had been the deputy director andrew mccabe and said he was misunderstood he wouldn't have been indicted. had he been james clapper and said he gave the least untruthful answers, lied under oath to congress he wouldn't have been indicted. had he been john brennan, on two occasions lying under oath to congress and then said the cia doesn't lie, he wouldn't have been indicted. robert mueller, whether he knows it or not, his legacy, two justice. people connected and there's people who are not connected but useful for a prosecutor's agenda. i don't think any of us want to live in a america like that. it's disgusting. >> laura: when you saw the analysis on television today, which i tortured myself in watching, what do you think about the state of the news media today. even practicing attorneys, who they know better, they know that an indictment, it's like a garbage pail, they throw

everything into it to make it look worse. this thing could have been done in 4 1/2 pages. even with the accusations against them. they had to pile the verbiage in. it's meant to impress everybody. >> you know, it's funny, the government is copying the media's idea that they have the person then they have to find the crime. the government is doing, robert mueller, starts out with just like the media does, trump is guilty but he has to find the crime. he goes out and leverages all of these subordinates. you investigate the crime, the media investigates the crime, then they find out who did it. we're under the whole ideology of the bolsheviks. this is where we r it's disgusting. media and the deep state mueller, cia, they have merged. it's a fusion, really scary. that's the stuff of

authoritarian distoepian novels. >> laura: star chambers it's wild. victor, really appreciate you coming on with us tonight. i've been dieing to catch up with you on that, and the shut down we'll deal with that another day. as democrats whoop and holler did they improve the lives of any americans in the long run? we'll examine that next. you control your blood sugar

around the clock. and with a $0 copay, that's something to groove about. ♪let's groove tonight. toujeo® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. it contains 3 times as much insulin in 1 milliliter as standard insulin. don't use toujeo® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you're allergic to insulin. get medical help right away if you have a serious allergic reaction such as body rash, or trouble breathing. don't reuse needles, or share insulin pens. the most common side effect is low blood sugar,

which can be life-threatening. it may cause shaking, sweating, fast heartbeat, and blurred vision. check your blood sugar levels daily. injection site reactions may occur. don't change your dose of insulin without talking to your doctor. tell your doctor about all your medicines and medical conditions. check insulin label each time you inject. taking tzds with insulins like toujeo® may cause heart failure that can lead to death. toujeo®, ask your doctor. ♪let's groove tonight.

>> there should never be a reason to shut down government. i'm sald it's taken this long. >> working people throughout america empathize with the federal workers and were aghast at what the president was doing to them. hopefully now the president has learned his lesson. >> laura: how patronizing. he could have opened up the government 15 times, decided not to. what lessons should americans take from this, chuck? look, we should admit it, trump did lose the shutdown fight over the wall. but he made an effort to find a middle ground. also stand up for american security first. and can the same be said for chuck and nancy, contrast to what the left says. it was not a trump vanity project, it was an effort to push for something that his own border patrol agents on the ground tell him we must have. come, on let's face it, the democrats going along with just politically embarrass the president. i said this weeks ago. they wanted the shutdown to

continue as long as possible to exert the maximum pain on the american people to hurt trump. that was the plan. it wasn't to make a single american's life safer or better, that wasn't the democrats' goal. shouldn't that be one of the main takeaways instead simple political winner, political loser? here fox news contributor sarah carter who recently spent a week at the border, wisconsin congressman sean duffy, joins us as well. sean, the congressman, sorry, dems came out and they said they won't even negotiate with trump while the government is open for the next three weeks. so, are we headed for the declaration of a national emergency? >> so, i hope not, laura. but what we all saw was chuck and nancy doing their end zone dance, spiking the football. this was a big win for the crazy nut job leftist social interests in the democratic party that have taken over the house. what i see happening, donald trump looks like the adult in the room.

i'll willing to compromise, negotiate, put offers on the table. now give us a reset for three weeks to see if we can come to the table and negotiate again f nancy still says no, i think we're going to be set up for another shutdown, laura. but i think what would have to happen, donald trump can't be the only one fighting this fight. nancy pelosi sets the calendar. you reported she's been off to hawaii, democrats from puerto rico, take trip to europe. as border security guys aren't getting paid, tsa agents aren't getting paid she's traveling the world. only way to get something done, pain inflicted on members of congress. instead of going to your home district and have fun in puerto rico, make them stay in d.c. over the weekend, miss their families, don't see their spouses. they will get an droo agreement. and the problem is the republican leadership didn't fight this fight at all, left it to donald trump. we have to fight as a team together. >> laura: i have said this from the beginning, sarah carter,

trump is like carrying this party on his back half the time. duffy is awesome, a few, mark meadows, tom cotton is great on the border. it's really hard to do this, undercut by paul ryan from the beginning, they didn't do it in the first 1900 days. and we're not going -- in the first 100 days. i have to play something, msnbc, i was driving in my car, flipped on sirius xm and checked this out, i wanted to hear what they were doing, in the gloat machine world. >> we talk about the president, and saying that the president way to get him not to do something, or to do something is to tell him not to do something. that's what happens with your 4-year-old. >> my 4-year-old, exactly how it works. but that is in some ways how this president works. he doesn't like to be told no. >> laura: and he's an a.p. reporter, i believe. but he's not a commentator, i believe he's a.p. >> the media isn't reporting the truth to the american people. i don't think this was a total

loss for president trump. i think president trump is clearly making a statement. the american people know exactly what president trump wants now. he has made that clear. i want border security. i want to secure our country, that's my first mission as commander in chief. the democrats, what are they doing? what is their goal with this? they don't have one, except to corner trump, to make him look bad. they are the 4-year-olds in this. the american people are going to see through this. i believe on february 15, if they don't come to a resolution on this, that the president will declare a national emergency. i believe that that is a move that he can make. >> laura: and the lawyers there are checking the boxes. let's examine the number being examined, 5.7 billion. did you all know there are 12 high priority government programs that each have improper payments of over $2 billion a year? by the way, the total tab of improper payments the government

engages in, roughly $100 billion. we don't have the number next to each, but i came across this, on a government website. this is definitive, factual. they have the money, sean, they don't want to spend the money, correct? >> definitely, you're crossing a t there. democrats, this isn't about the money, they'll spend money all day long on any project. this is about defeating donald trump, you talked about the whole time. this is about, what we believe, in securing the border, dealing with drugs coming into the country, dealing with human traffickers, criminals and terrorists who want to gain access to the country. we're fighting for america and they're fighting against donald trump. it's not about money, it's about winning the fight in 2020 in the presidential election. >> laura: why doesn't he declare a national emergency today, we have 10,000 people approaching the border, trucked up now, we have t.b., weird diseases in the united states, polio, no one is reporting enough on that, what is going. >> i think he wanted to give it time. obviously.

trump was well aware that he would be in a big fight declaring a national emergency. he would be up against a lot. reassessing how that is going to happen is what they're doing right now. i think that's why he's pushing for the february 15 to give an opportunity. you're 100% right, i was at the border, spent most of my career covering the u.s.-mexico border as well. this has been a problem for decades, a crisis for decades. for the first time, we have a president that is willing to do something, for the first time we have president that isn't just making statements that, isn't creating theater, he's out there on the border, he's been there seven times. seven times since his presidency. out on the border, listening to federal agents, knows what they need. he wants to help. >> laura: but he can't do it alone, we have concluded that. duffy, we will have you back next week. sarah, thank you, it's friday. we have to have some fun, right, it's been a long week. coming up, a gym that will not let you work of the if you are

wearing a certain type of clothing. what could be on it? you can take a guess. then, rbg action figure. i kid you not. raymond, arroyo, of course. amazon prime video is now on xfinity x1.

so when you say words like... show me best of prime video into this... you'll see awesome stuff like this. discover prime originals like the emmy-winning the marvelous mrs. maisel... tom clancy's jack ryan... and the man in the high castle. all in the same place as your live tv. its all included with your amazon prime membership. that's how xfinity makes tv... simple. easy. awesome.

>> laura: time for friday follies. a man can't wear a mitt cal t-shirt to the gym -- political t-shirt? the most unexpected lego character of all is unveiled. joining us is raymond arroyo, "new york times" best selling author. raymond, a veteran in missouri was forbidden to wear what? >> a t slirt. now, we're -- t shirt. you've been reporting on this all week. the covington kids called out for wearing the maga hats. staff sergeant jake talbott said he was working out at the gym wearing his t-shirt that says 2016 trump for president. >> laura: he's behind. >> the owner approached him. >> i was working out, when i was

starting, the owner, liz, came up and said that my trump shirt i had on was offensive, i needed to remove to it work out there. it's like racing. >> he said he's worn the shirt several times before and it's never been a problem. the owner of the gym responded in a now deleted facebook post, sheath i'm deeply saddened by the amount of hate this event has garnered. >> laura: event? >> i will personally continue to defend my stance for tolerance and against hate, no matter the financial consequence. i don't believe our gym should be a political forum for anyone, i want everyone to feel safe and comfortable there. >> laura: wait second, okay. does this mean all political messages at this particular gym, have to be checked at the door? that's going to be interesting. so now your free speech rights and ability to believe whatever you believe has got to be checked at the gym was you're a conservative -- because you're a conservative.

>> how can you say you are striking a blow for tolerance by telling a guy you can't wear that, are you offending people. >> laura: joe biden has been teasing that he might make a run for the white house. [laughing] or maybe a slow jog to the white house in 2020. but now his bipartisanship, his previous bipartisanship is come bag to be bite him in the radical new era. >> uncle joe is making a run for the presidency. but critics are pouncing on him, in a "new york times" piece, entitled "joe biden's paid speech buoyed the gop in midwest battle grounds." it's revealed, get this, biden praised a republican congressman, fred upton, as one of the finest guys i've ever worked with so help me god. some on the left are saying this is a disqualifier for the democratic nomination, the former veep is taking it seriously. >> i get in trouble, i read in the "new york times" that one of

my problems is if i were to run for president, i like republicans. okay, well bless me father for i have sinned. >> laura: if he were a little bit younger, i would say he would already, everyone else might as well forget about it and not run. he's long in the tooth. but that's why he's a threat. because he could get some independent voters with that message. >> right. >> laura: and the left is so stupid, though. >> aop and kamala harris and bernie, joe biden looks practically republican, they have pushed him out of the party. >> laura: what if i reveal that what he said to me? >> do it, go ahead. >> laura: gods's honest truth, ingraham, of all. right wingers you're my favorite. >> i saw every moment of it. >> laura: jay carney was his press secretary, he looked like he would die. >> sweating in the corner. >> laura: finally, a new lego in town, my son is going to be very

excited, familiar face. >> now, laura, this is more of the blind partisanship continued. the trailer of the lego movie 2. the latest character appears at the end, watch for her. >> everyone sit down. ♪ >> batman. >> superman. >> a new ruth bader ginsberg. >> laura: you have got to be kidding me! >> the leg owe lego movie takes place in the imagination of the boy's sister, where her heros spring to life. the side by side of the real ruth bader. these are going to be on sale, you will be able to buy this, the action figure. >> laura: that's a terrible rendition. i spent time with her that, looks more like john paul stevens. that's horrible. >> gloves and all for $20, i

think they'd like the real ruth bader to have a guarantee like that. they are doing multiple incarnation in lego3, we'll show you those. this may look familiar. the laura ingraham lego. laura in space. this one really, this likeness is amazing. >> laura: that's horrible. >> this is my favorite. >> laura: what do i have in my hand? >> those are your eyes and lips. >> laura: that's terrifying. i should go on a diet. >> don't go wait in line, folks. >> laura: that gavel that ruth bader had, the game of whack-a-mole with lego. stay there, we'll be right back. ♪ hey, saved you a seat.

this round is on me. hey, can you spot me? come on in! find your place, today, with silver sneakers... included with many medicare plans. call the number on the screen now or visit getsilversneakers.com

since you're heading off to dad... i just got a zerowater. but we've always used brita. it's two stage-filter... doesn't compare to zerowater's 5-stage. this meter shows how much stuff, or dissolved solids, gets left behind. our tap water is 220.

brita? 110... seriously? but zerowater- let me guess. zero? yup, that's how i know it is the purest-tasting water. i need to find the receipt for that. oh yeah, you do.

>> laura: all right, a lot of you have listened to my radio show for years. 17 years to be exact. but the new podcast is awesome, okay, if you haven't heard it, it's easy. go to podcast1.com or go to itunes podcast app, the purple thing on your phone, and find it there. or download the podcast1app. it's america where we are, where we're going, you're going to laugh, learn, at the same time. and you can subscribe, you'll love it. have a wonderful weekend after a busy week. hope you have time with your friends and family. take time to be grateful that you live in the greatest country

on the face of the planet, we are blessed to be here. shannon bream and the fox news at night team take it from here. >> shannon: i'm shannon bream, in washington, this is a fox news alert. the partial government shutdown is officially over for now. president trump signed the temporary solution moments ago, and there is no wall funding in it. later tonight, there is chatter that a pathway to citizenship could be on the table for dreamers in future negotiations. was the president's retreat a tactical mood or did he may? michelle malkin is here to weigh in. and roger stone will be arraigned next week. the whirlwind day for the informal trump advisor beginning with a police raid in full assault gear busting into his house and ending with tucker carlson. we tell what you his charges do