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president and north north kores kim jong un. i will also have an interview with the president after they meet. an exclusive interview. unfortunately, that is all the time we have left. we are not the destroy-trump media. let not your heart be troubled, the news continues. laura ingraham is in the swamp. >> laura: hannity, are you going to spend the next week, should we have your mail forwarded to vietnam? this is quite a truck you are making. >> sean: you've got burner phones because they want to hack into your real phones. no communication. why couldn't they do it in hawaii? next time you interview the president, why not hawaii? >> laura: i have another question: is your mma trainer coming with you? the guys that keep teaches you all of the moves? hannity take someone by the finger -- >> sean: my sensei, he can take ten guys out with his bare hands in seconds. he is tough. >> laura: let him settle these things. >> sean: thanks a lot a lot. >> laura: let the
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cabbage patch president from north korea, let him get trained by your sensei. >> sean: rockett mama showing up, no more rockets >> laura: great show tonight. >> sean: have a great show parents bill and i'm laura ingraham, and this is "the ingraham angle" from d.c. tonight. i want to start with a few questions. do you know how many legal and illegal immigrants have settled in this country over just the past 30 years? second question: why does the answer to the first question make democrats so giddy? ahead, "the ingraham angle" will take you inside the other battle that donald trump in the g.o.p. should be waging on immigration. plus, how much did the jussie smollett investigation cost the city of chicago so far? how many man-hours did police dedicate to it? and what might they have been working on instead? a "the ingraham angle" investigation has the answers ahead. and why are the u.s. and the u.k. even debating the issue of
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allowing isis brides back into our country? same british broadcaster piers morgan has thoughts on that debate, here live later on in the hour. you don't want to miss that. but first. ♪ wow, meet the candidates and if they are pretty pretty good. that is the focus of tonight's "angle." another day, another wacky liberal steps out of the 2020 field. it wasn't any real surprise when vermont socialist bernie sanders decided to formally enter the race. it is always stunning to hear what the muppet-like left he actually believes. >> you may recall in 2016, many of the ideas that i talked about it, medicare for all, raising the minimum wage, $15 an hour, making public colleges and universities tuition free, all of those ideas, it was all
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burning, they are so radical. you know what has happened over three years? all of those ideas and many more are now part of the political mainstream. >> laura: he's right about that peered with hillary out of the way, bernie thinks the second time's the charm. after all, he was socialist before socialism was cool. we 77-year-old trend-setter's policies on the gamut from government run health care to free college. to doubling the minimum wage from what it is today. all of this would be paid for by massive tax hikes. he also throws down the r word a lot. ♪ >> laura: yep, that is the one. >> we began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it is time to move that revolution forward and to make sure that a vision, those ideas,
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are implemented into policy. >> laura: i will translate for you: bernie is coming for your money, and there aren't enough billionaires to pay for the trillions in spending he has in mind. and he's not exactly being revolutionary with this tired trope. >> we have a president who is a pathological liar, and it gives me no pleasure to say that, but it is true. we have a president who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is a xenophobe, who is doing what no president in our lifetime but alas have come close to doing, trying to divide us up. >> laura: divide us up? well, xenophobic, racist -- did he cover them all? come on, bernie, that is not original. i'm telling you, it is a hell of a lot easier than explaining how he would do better trade deals than before or how he would keep us out of more delmore's offense before this kept us out of, or how he would grow the
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economy faster than trump. but, bernie will have to fend off challengers from decades younger and decidedly more diverse. kamala harris, cory booker -- while not, when are not defending the actor/fraud jussie smollett, andy green new deal. a booker is waving off concerns about cost, it will pay for itself. he says fighting climate change is kind of like defeating hitler, maybe the moon landing. >> there are a lot of people now who are -- practical, too expensive, all of this! if we use to govern our dreams that way, we would never have gone to the moon. we need to push the bounds of human potential, because that is our history. and when the planet has been in peril in the past, who came forward to save earth? from the scourge of nazis,
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totalitarian regimes? we came forward! >> laura: lofty rhetoric. for senator harris, she wants to do to america with the democratic party is doing today to california. what she lacks in sound fiscal ideas, i think she makes up for in smiles and laughs. at interesting times. >> the elephant in the room, we are not going to have any elephants in the room. [applause] >> what to eat? >> saying it is a modern-day lynching. sorry. [laughs] right? [laughs] >> laura: and let's not forget princess running left, elizabeth warren. she is going for the freeloader's boat, more
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taxpayer-funded freebies than any other candidate out there, and that is saying something. free health care, free college, that is so passe, why not for child care? >> it's going to be really expensive. this will be about four times what we have invested in our children, but that is exactly what we need to do. we can take child care and a whole lot more if we just ask, one-tenth of 1% to pay a fair share. >> laura: okay, wait, "fair share?" when you hear that, red flag pair that equals, basically, a tax rate that has to be at least around 75% to come close to covering all of her boondoggles. but it is an odd thing with warren, she needs the superrich, but she thinks they should be sidelined in american politics. >> billionaires and big
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corporations decided they wanted more of the pie, and they enlisted politicians shall cut them a fatter slice. i'm not taking applications from billionaires who want to run a super pac on my behalf! to protect their economic advantages, the rich and powerful have rigged our political systems, as well. >> laura: that aversion she shows there to money in politics, it sounds so altruistic. but it seems more like a marketing ploy than reality to me. so set another potential 2020 candidate, howard schultz. >> she came to see me a few years ago and asked for a contribution for her senate race. >> laura: [laughs] wow, that was yesterday. that was years ago. new york senator kirsten gillibrand, let's get to her, she is a former moderate turned #metoo crusader. she finds herself struggling for relevancy and compelling rhetoric. she even inadvertently admitted that there is indeed a crisis at the u.s. border.
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>> on immigration, there is a crisis going on at the border right now. we need to have proper asylum. a lot of these people are indigenous to this land. that boaters cutting them off. >> that is why the wall is so personal. >> laura: wait a second. first of all, awol is an inanimate object, kirsten at least she acknowledges the crisis at the border. oops. look, it is easy to laugh off this parade of liberals, but remember that the democrat party is becoming more, not last, radical. a recent gallup poll showed the majority of democrats identify as liberal for the very first time, jumping from 25% back in 1994 to 51% in 2017.
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in a climate like this, what does that mean? how does a candidate like minnesota senator amy klobuchar fit in? >> no medicare for all? >> it could be a possibility in the future. i'm looking at something that will work now. >> green new deal? >> i don't think we're going to get rid of entire industries in the u.s. could >> free college for all? >> i'm not for free four your college for all. if i was a magic genie and could give that to everyone and we could afford it, i would. >> laura: well, will she feel safe? if last night's rating for her town hall on cnn were any indication, it is unlikely. there doesn't seem to be a lot of excitement for a midwest democrats whose views are closer to bill clinton than bernie sanders. but what about the so-called dream ticket of biden and abeyta abeyta. the old guard plus the new kid with a chance to pick off texas. while, if he runs, he has to
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make lots of promises to the aoc crowd, meaning in the end, the result end up the same. my friends, it democrats win, they are coming to take your money. the money you have made in the strong economy. the money he worked really hard for. they want to blow it on pipedream policies that may sound kind of cool at a rally, but in practice, they never wor work. they just really love spending other people's money. >> dogs, doughnuts, and money. only money is better. you know why? because it don't make you fat and it don't poop all over the living room floor. there is only one thing i like better. other people's money. >> laura: and that is "dangle." joining me now with the reaction, monica crowley, washington time senior attendant
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colonist. dan bongino, fox news contributor. and brian markham of the socialist party's 2008 presidential candidate, he was way ahead of the turn. bernie has just announced he received 150,000 individual donations since he announced, so matter how crazy his ideas are, he seems pretty popular to me. >> yeah, i wonder if he is going to redistribute some of that cash to some of the other candidates. i heard elizabeth warren only did about 300,000 over the first 48 hours, so bernie should practice what he preaches. listen, laura, your monologue was spot on. there are rhetorical lanes in the democratic party right now running for the nomination for 2020. the radicals in the extreme radicals. they tried this before. remember they needed the democrat leadership council to get them back to the center? we've already been here. the problem is that this may appeal to a very passionate base of bernie brose and whatever,
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you will never win a general election running on hiking taxes, taking people's health care, taking over the education system. throw open borders and coming have absolutely no chance. >> laura: brian, do you feel a little over clamped about this socialist thing? you were a man ahead of your time back in 2008. now everyone is trying to ride on your coattails, including bernie sanders, i might add. >> they are really not socialists, they are just reformers of the capitalist system, but they are still within the traditional capitalist system. they are incremental entitlements from the government may help temporarily, but it is not going to be the systemic economic system change. >> laura: brian, if i get this straight, i want to make sure i get this straight, they are not socialist enough for the real socialists? is that where this is going? >> that is correct.
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>> laura: you are not nationalizing entire industries beyond health care. nationalizing it all and really doing the thing that they really want. of the true anticapitalist. monica, that is probably the best news they have heard all day. brian is putting them in the middle, if you can figure that out. this is why i'm glad brian is on tonight. but there is a new sense of affection, is there not, for the ideas like universal health care? it sounds so nice, it is universal, who could be against that? you eventually run out of other people's money. >> i've been warning now for many years about the ascent of socialism on the left, and it was met with eye rolling at me for many years, and now here we are with the defining ideology of the democratic party. i have a column in "the washington times" coming later this week which talks about what the left does in terms of strategy and
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methodology. they throw these extremes out, like medicare for all or single-payer, or in the more recent case, the green new deal, and they don't expect it to be achieved overnight. in fact, they invite to the condemnation from people like dan and you and me because they want to pile on so they can expect a piecemeal, and they look reasonable. and they look moderate on the way to affecting their most radical policies. this is why we are in this position now. by the way, what does bernie sanders, who brought the party to the radical left, it was president obama. people forget they overlook that, barack obama is the one who move the democrats away from the party of bill clinton, and mount to a revolutionary party that has made people like alexandria ocasio-cortez possible. >> laura: those are really his roots in college and law school. that all of the books on obama's upbringing, that is more who he
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was. i have to go back to bernie, he was the man of the moment this past weekend. sanders, back in the day, even when he was getting into politics, even he knew that medicare for all was literally a bankrupt idea. let's watch. >> one of the things we understand and reinforced when we went to canada, expanded medicaid. everybody medicaid, we would be spending such an astronomical sum of money that we would bankrupt the nation. >> laura: so i don't know. maybe he has changed, too. he might've gotten medicaid mixed up with medicare, but he was pointing at canada on what was happening in canada. he is now, dan, he is saying -- look, i'm the real deal. all these other kids are trying to ride on my train, he wants to kick them off. he will be 79 when he is inaugurated. >> he's the real deal. the real deal means a socialist who just bought his third home?
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bernie is probably worth close to $1 million himself. the prototypical limousine liberal. bernie is onto something. you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free. and the problem your socialist and socialism in general, explain to me how people who have been in the airline industry their entire lives have a hard time sometimes turning a profit. experts in the industry, do you a government bureaucrat who spent, what, 15 years filling out a spreadsheet, trying to get paid overtime on a friday, is going to take over the airline industry and wanted? it is so absurd on its face, i can't socialists even dared to show their faces on tv without complete and total embarrassment. not only that, death and destruction, as well. that is just another nasty, negative externality of socialism. >> laura: tell us where socialism is working in the world, and where is it produced
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positive results for a wide range of citizens? >> first of all, what i am hearing so far as politics of fear, the red menace, the red fear, going to take everything away from us. >> laura: excuse me while i yawn. i asked you a question. where is socialism working, brian? don't sit back there and use your usual insult, it doesn't work. i'm asking you a serious question. where has it worked and where has it spread happiness and positivity at a higher standard of living for a broad range of citizenry? where? >> nowhere. it is nowhere in this world that socialism is working. >> laura: thank you! mike trout. >> the reason it isn't working is because the united states of america and other capitalist countries have undermined any efforts by legitimate democratically elected socialist to redistribute the wealth. it has radically changed the
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economic system. >> laura: what did you do for a living? did you ever have a job in the capitalist system? >> yeah, i worked in the private sector, hmos. until ronald reagan came along and he canceled the hmo act of 1973 and he turned it over to wall street, and the private sector, and then you ended up with a lot of billionaires, and consumers suffered. >> socialism doesn't work because freedom gets in the way, laura! that's his point, things like freedom get in the way! >> socialism for freedom and liberty and egalitarianism. >> laura: don't want to follow of the people with the real power, which is the upper echelon of any socialist government. and they have all of the perks, they have all of the benefits, and they make the decisions for the people appeared >> that's right. >> laura: that's not freedom,
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that's tyranny. >> doth not socialism. >> laura: monica, i will give you the final say. i'm glad brian is on, fairly mad the hmo thing didn't work out for him. god bless him. it was a bad deal with the hmo, so now all of us should suffer under a socialist system. >> the elite ruling class under communism, what you were referring to, is what vladimir lenin referred to as the vanguard, so in fact, historically, that is -- >> that is not socialism. >> that's number one. number two, the kids of today who are seduced by the idea of socialism only are seduced by the idea of "equality," but what they don't understand because human beings are inherently born with different strength and weaknesses, you can only have a quality at the barrel of a gun. so what they are not being taught is you can only have equality with a police state.
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when you start telling kids the truth about god, you will see those numbers start to turn on "socialism." >> laura: i'm glad brian came on pay maybe you can convince me there is a country where it worked well and not blame america. but it was a really interesting conversation. this is a big issue, and i think a lot of people i know gravitating toward that, maybe not understanding it completely paired thanks so much, guys. here's a question: do you know the actual numbers behind the legal and illegal immigration explosion in this country? let's say over the past 30, maybe the past 50 years? how about the next 30 or 50 years? we will bring you the truth next. plus, a liberal coalition of 16 states are suing the trump administration to block the president's national border security declaration. a constitutional expert will tell us why this should be a legal slam-dunk for president trump. one hour pickup order? got it. ran out of ink and i have a big meeting today.
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before liberal attorney general's took aim at president trump's latest move to get his wall funded by the conventional wisdom from commentators seems to settle on a simple conclusion, it is unconstitutional. but is it? here now is a true expert on the issue, john ekman, constitutional law professional. your response to those glib summations of the unconstitutionality of the president's move? >> if there hadn't a congressional statute that authorized what he was doing, but every president since 1976 has utilized, declaring a national emergency on the border that obama's own secretary, security declared when she was governor of arizona, i would give those argument more credibility. >> laura: let's put it up on the screen, the national emergencies act of '76, with respect to acts of congress during a period of a national emergency of any special or extraordinary power, the
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president is authorized, a population -- >> president obama declared a national emergency over the swine flu. president clinton for preventing people to send ships to cuba or financial try and know my transactions with. >> laura: back in 2005, governor richardson of new mexico, he declared a national -- an emergency of his state, and he said, basically, the declaration said the region had been devastated by the ravages and terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling, kidnapping, murder, destruction of property, and the death of livestock. extreme state of disrepair, protect the lives and property of new mexico purity was the governor then, so for him, that sounds like donald trump. >> i think some of president trump's statement quoted from the bad, it sure sounds like the exact same
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thing. >> laura: bizarre. you can find a district court judge, as we have seen in all these challenges to the president's temporary travel ban, you can find a district court judge to issue a nationwide injunction porting the president's policy, at least for a time. >> they brought the northern district of california, not a single judge appointed by a republican. quite frankly, the statute is not right. they are claiming -- >> laura: "right" meaning? >> sorry about that. it is premature. things that are supposed to happen that are going to cause harm to california have not happened and may not happen. >> laura: to all of you law students out there, it is not a right case or controversy, hence the court should step back if we had fair courts. >> the real question is when a nationwide injunction gets issued -- i don't doubt that it will -- how quickly the supreme court will block that
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injunction paired they are growing tired of single federal district judges in seattle or san francisco or someplace counter managing the president of the united states on dealing with national security. >> laura: don't you think the white house has to get on this, working with republicans in congress to put an end to the nationwide injunctions? they can circumscribe the jurisdiction of the lower courts. >> they can come i think this up report is about to do it, as well. >> laura: judge gort believed in that, god rest his soul, and he understood the damage being done by activist court. if trump has had to deal with this at every turn. >> is not just activist courts. we are dealing with a level of activism we haven't seen before, a large number of the judiciary seem to have joined a resistance movement against the result of the 2016 election paired >> laura: entertainment industries, and judges with their costumes. border security is vitally important, so come too, is something that doesn't get nearly enough attention when discussing america's immigration debate. the numbers behind what is going on.
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in the national review today but it was written that pew researchers has estimated sinces liberalized, they have added 72 million people to the u.s. population. the latest census bureau projections indicate that future immigration will add another 75 million by 2060. americans i'm a particularly trump voters, may not understand the ins and outs of immigration law, but they know in many parts of america now, there are so many immigrants with notice and incentive to learn english or adopt american culture. they are remaking the political balance by adding millions of new voters who are voting democratic by about 2-1. wow. victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institute. victor, can you tell us, 75% of immigrants are legal, so why aren't more people talking about the explosion of legal immigration in the country?
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>> i think it is because they feel it is an advantage to a particular agenda. we are the only -- multiracial country that has worked since rome, it's worked on integration and intermarriage, that can only happen when immigration is legal -- legal immigration is measured and meritocratic, so people are immersed with people who speak english from different ethnic backgrounds and assimilate. the democrats used to believe that. they passed border security measures all the time, but i think what has happened, don't you think they discovered their agenda doesn't win 51% of the electorate anymore? >> laura: bingo! >> radical demographic changes, california, one out of every four residents was not born in the united states, it tends to make a predictable voter profile, especially when they come in such numbers, they are not diverse. they cross the border and vote in predictive --
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>> laura: we don't have a public school system like it was 50 years ago, frankly, where people learned about the greatness of america, i didn't debate about whether the pledge was racist. it is a very different situation with the way kids are educated today, which leads to lots of problems. but victor, i want to stand the political issue for a moment. let's look at the map, i think we have a graphic of california's orange county. this was reagan country come up with the graphic up, please. 2016, you see what the vote looks like. by 2018, well, the g.o.p. got wiped out. it is blue. you saw a few blue areas, districts, but now it is all blue. that happened across california, at least along the coast, victor, which again, it was all reagan country, pete wilson, reagan, fairly moderate democrats, and now it is a super
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democrat majority, and people are still fleeing the state. >> well, yeah, when you have 10 million of california's 40 million residents not born in the united states and told by the host that we don't have the melting pot, we prefer the salad bowl, then they self identify by their ethnic rubric rather than the content of their character. it is very strange because if we get down to the essence of all of this, barack obama basically redefined affirmative action, which was really designed for 12% of the population the no md historic discrimination under jim crow into diversity, which meant class didn't matter, ongoing bias didn't matter, all you had to be was nonwhite. that expanded the pool to 100 million americans, one-third of the country, all of a sudden said i'm part of a minority and i'm going to vote accordingly.
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>> laura: it was smart of the democrats. cynical but smart, demographically, 100,000 voter margin in florida. texas, beto came close to beating ted cruz come if it weren't for trump's visit, ted cruz probably would've lost in texas. sorry you don't want to hear that, that is the truth. texas, florida, they pick off one of those states. what happens to the republicans? >> they are in trouble because under the old paradigms, if your name was giuliani or pelosi, it didn't matter because you were going to assimilate or integrate, intermarry, couldn't predict what your political allegiance was going to be. immigration -- >> laura: melting pot. >> yeah, the democrats got smart and thought open borders is a way to flip the red states blue, and they did it with california,
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new mexico, colorado. >> laura: they are doing it with illegal immigration. >> legal and illegal. >> laura: soon illegal, but people have to understand, we give 1.2 million green cards out every year. every time this is up for a poll, gallup polls, people either want legal immigration reduced or they wanted to stay the same. they do not want a flood of people coming in to keep wages stagnant. they want rising wages in the country, which is what the business community sadly doesn't want to. victor, thank you so much, we appreciate it. coming up, the lawyers for the covington catholic student have filed a massive lawsuit, and who they are targeting ahead. plus, how much did the smollett hoax cost the police, and in turn, the city of chicago? a former chicago cop is outraged, he is here to tell us what they police force is feeling tonight. coming up.
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catholic student nick sandmann, his lawyers filed their first lawsuit on his behalf against "the washington post." it to tune of $250 million, in both compensatory and punitive damages. the complaint argued the newspaper falsely gave the impression that the 115-pound a 16-year-old engaged in acts of racism by swarming philips, blocking his exit from the students, and otherwise engaging in racist misconduct. that "the post" ignored basic journalistic standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented bias against president donald j. trouble by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the president. the dollar amount had relevant, $250 million was the exact price jeff bezos paid for "the washington post." back when he bought it in 2013. nicholas sandmann's lawyers
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close their method with the following, "this is only the beginning." and up next, boy, how much did the smollett case cost the city of chicago? not just monetarily, but resources that could have been better served out in the community? total cost of man-hours committed will not come out unless smollett is actually charged, we are told they went well beyond what a comparable investigation of this sort would require, normally. what about the actual crime committed since smollett made his claim? these are the stats the police shared with us today. from genera 28, the day before the alleged smollett incident, through fiber 17th, chicago reported 22 murders, 134 instances of criminal sexual assault, threaded 42 robberies, 88 instances of aggravated battery. what about the backlog of unsolved murders in the city? back in 2000, the city sought 41% of murders that occurred that year.
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in 2009, only 30% of murders were solved. by 2017, just a 17% of murders were solved. they have to focus all of their resources on fixing that. joining us now is someone with intimate knowledge of that force, former chicago officer dimitri roberts. dimitri, what is the feeling among the chicago pd, do you think, now, with everything that has happened? all the man-hours taken away? >> i can tell you, someone who is bent on the streets many a night and worked similar cases, it is frustrating when you have a situation like this where, at a minimum, you would expect the victim to cooperate fully and willingly in such a high-profile case, one has brought national media attention. and that is just not happening. the officers i've spoke with are extremely frustrated with what is going on, but more so as we talk about on several occasions, it is taking critical resources off the streets. >> laura: we are told he is not cooperating with police. his lawyer is like, he is being
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victimized by these allegations all over again, kind of blaming the police. he is not going to talk. how do they get him to talk? are you going to subpoena him? >> i mean, it depends, but i don't know if they are going to waste additional resources with going through subpoenas and the judicial process to get him to talk further. about what obviously, at this point, seems to be some false statements that have been made. >> laura: you think? >> and events we have already uncovered to be untrue. i don't know they are going to waste my precious resources -- >> laura: grand jury charge him for a felony or nothing? >> they could do that, but in most cases, the backlog of incidents in chicago, this will unfortunately fall by the wayside out of the new cycle. not something i agree with, but the fact of what is probably going to happen. >> laura: that is outrageous. but look at all of the unsolved murders. the people going to keep doing these fake hoaxes if they can get away with it?
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if they can get away with what he seems to have done here? wow. >> i think that is why we have to bring attention to these things. we have to talk about them in the national media, and we really have to shed light on situations where people are taking such egregious crimes like hate crimes, a very heated political climate in this country, bringing issues and taking away advocacy around things that should be advocated. >> laura: carty beyond instagram, she said i don't want to completely blame him becausen chicago are racist. that genius, cardi b, as they might try to frame him and look like he is a liar. as the chicago pd racist, dimitri? >> absolutely not. i served my community very well, and most of the officers are doing the same thing. i'm not saying there aren't some bad apples, but i think cardi b is speaking a little out of ignorance, and she needs to give more credit to the officers that she may have to call up in an instance where she is going to
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need some help yourself. >> laura: dimitri, thanks so much for your great analysis. up next, isis brides are regretting their real decisions to leave home for the terror paradise of syria. the left-wing media is pushing their sob stories in the united states and in the u.k. sane british broadcaster piers morgan is here with live reaction. stay there.[m but he's not using it. and he has subscriptions to a music service he doesn't listen to and five streaming video services he doesn't watch. this is jerry learning that he's still paying for this stuff he's not using. he's seeing his recurring payments in control tower in the wells fargo mobile app. this is jerry canceling a few things. booyah. this is jerry appreciating the people who made this possible. oh look, there they are. (team member) this is wells fargo.
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♪ >> there were executions. >> i was okay with it. it is a bad thing for all of the people trying to get me back. >> i thought i was doing things correctly, and when i came here and i saw everything with my own eyes, i realized i made a big mistake. >> laura: but she was for the beheadings. media outlets have simultaneously painted a sympathetic picture of these terrorist brides, now yearning for their homelands. do they honestly want us to feel bad for these women? one of the women you just heard from, alabama native hoda muthana, it is not just happening here, the u.k. is dealing with the same problem. piers morgan, editor at large for "the dailymail.com," you
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said of one of these brides looking to come back to the u.k., that she should rot in hell. tell us how you really feel. i see her glib response to a question about beheadings, and i can't even believe we are having this conversation. >> it's extraordinary, isn't it, that we're even debating this? this is a woman who goes over there, mary's and isis terrorist, supports and isis terrorist, breeds with the nicest terrorist, for all intents and purposes herself, and isis terrorist, isn't she? she is supporting the isis movement, the caliphate, the desire to take over the world with their barbarism, and she witnesses beheadings and appears to think that is a good time. i tell you what, i don't agree that that is a good time. beheadings are despicable, medieval, barbaric, and everyone involved in that kind of behavior has to be made
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accountable. as we've just discovered in britain, thank god, tonight, the british undersecretary, the equivalent of homeland security chief in britain, has revoked her citizenship in a case of the isis wife who came from britain. she wouldn't be allowed back in the country without a massive legal fight. i hope america takes exactly the same views of the american isis wife. by the way, didn't marry one isis terrorist, she married three of them. three isis terrorist. i'm sorry, laura, but to me, this is completely and utterly nuts. anyone in america or britain who thinks you should come back. >> laura: come back and spend all of his money litigating their case so some court appointed attorney for the taxpayers have to pay for, argues some cockamamie idea about how she was over there, you know that is what they would argue. leo should revoke their citizenship, as welfare they shouldn't be able to come back here. you want to be taken care of in the middle east where you are probably not going to get the aclu representing you, that was
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her decision. piers, i want to play another snippet from the alabama isis bride, and you will -- you won't believe it. let's watch. >> may be therapy lessons, a process that will ensure that we never do this again. >> laura: piers, she is saying she could reform herself through therapy lessons, invariably the american taxpayers will have to pay for that, too. >> let's be very clear, this is the same woman who, on social media three or four years ago, beseeched every muslim in america to rise up and spill american blood. she particularly wanted to do it using drugs to spill american blood. two years later, that is exactly what somebody did in new york, a radicalized islamist in new york got into a truck and mowed down and killed a number of innocent people. she was crying out for this to happen. that blood was spilled. and now she wants to say, hey,
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i'm sorry, i know that the isis dream in syria is over. i know that my isis terrorist husbands have now been killed, and i want to come home because i am now a reformed character. i'm not buying any of it. she was very severely radicalized, which is why she was out there, why she stayed out there, why she had the three isis terrorist husbands, and i think she remains a very clear and present danger to americans and to american lives. >> laura: and kids, they'll have kids. the kids come back and go to american schools, et cetera, et cetera. i have to ask you, you are out in l.a., about the jussie smollett hoax. you already get the sense that the entertainment that has gone quiet for the most part, so why are all of the hollywood activists who rushed into condemn this attack, where are they? where is ellen page? where is she? >> let's be clear, laura, they rushed in for one reason, this
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looks like the absolutely perfect storm anti-trump story, didn't it? it was a couple of guys, a couple of white guys wearing "make america great again" hats, who had launched a deliberate and savage attack on a gay, black actor, and had done so because they were pro-trump. that was the whole narrative that jussie smollett had told everybody. he's been on national television to reinforce this. he's given a very clear account of this appalling, racist, homophobic attack. the only problem is it looks like -- i hesitate to jump in with complete certainty here, because it has been a crazy story, changing almost by the hour -- but i think most rational people looking at the story now have come to the conclusion that it is a load of old hogwash. this guy has probably invented the story. if that is true, it is hard to
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imagine -- >> laura: where are the hollywood types? >> i tell you where they are. they want this to disappear. they want this to have never happened, because the moment it looked like it was what jussie smollett told us, they came, no, no, no, this is the worst thing ever. i would never happened, move on. >> laura: that is how it always works, when the facts become inconvenient. piers, thanks so much good have fun on the left coast. we will be right back with my twitter smack down of the day or night. just next. this is the story of john smith.
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>> laura: it is time for my twitter smack down of the day. earlier tonight, i retweeted a piece about a judge allowing a lawsuit to move forward for those who would like to move former president obama's presidential library center in chicago. nona and responded "you are a bitter, nasty woman." aren't people on twitter so nice? of my response to nona, sweet,
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another activist with facts and stops and spirit her bio says she was playing politics at age 10, i'm glad i was outside playing kickball at 10, not politics. that's all we have tonight, refer nona. a new podcast dropped today, shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team take it all from here. >> shannon: laura, thank you very much. we begin tonight with a fox news alert. launching the second presidential run, senator bernie sanders threatening to upend a democratic race that was supposed to be intersectional come about color, about youth, about gender. also breaking tonight, news on jussie smollett, why the cook county state attorney is recusing herself from the case. a reporter at the heart of the story is here live with the latest. president trump denies new allegations that he in a properly meddled in a federal investigation as claimed in "the new york times." the president calling it fake news. that is not all. hello and welcome to "fox news
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