i hop on the scooter, with somebody, and i just went on the sidewalk. we got here on time. definitely interesting. chaotic. we'll be here for this historic week from hanoi, vietnam, kim jong-un and the president. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham is standing by. >> laura: hannity, let me just say [ laughter ] >> laura: my earrings are falling off i'm laughing so hard here. let me just say that little moped, can we call it a moped and you? >> sean: they call it scooters. everyone has it. there are no motor cycles. only scooters. >> laura: you look at door able, precious. and i think you have a second career as a traffic reporter. i mean you got all the intersections down, and you should be in a helicopter, well hanoi avenue is looking really safe today. i've never seen anything like this. >> sean: my staff said, you've got to air this. >> laura: i love how you have fox news alert, hannity on a

moped. >> sean: it's a scooter, that's what they call them scooters. >> laura: i just have such a great -- you were a little too close for comfort on that last shot. alright hannity great show. stay safe there >> sean: i'm glad it cracked you up. >> laura: it did. i lost my aergdz. hannity, thanks so much. i'm sorry, i am going to dine out on that for a long time. i'm laura ingraham, this is the "ingraham angle" from washington tonight. how are the grievances pursued by spike lee, alexandria ocasio-cortez and jussie smollett related? my angle tackles all of that in just moments. plus a california school district told a student she couldn't wear make america great again apparel. now she's fighting back. high schooler maddie mueller is here to tell us how and why. also tonight is adam schiff moving the goal post on the mueller conclusions? house minority leader kevin

mccarthy is here with reaction. raymond arroyo just got back from l.a. he's going to tell us why the oscars had a little bump in the road last night. a little up from the year before but a little bump in the road and why the back lash over the best picture winner could have severe cultural implications? no. be sure to stick around for that. first, spike lee and the politics of me. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." of tonight's okay. what do spike lee, aoc, jussie smollett and ill-mannered teens tell us about modern day liberalism? answer, a heck of a lot. now let's start with spike lee. the director is worth millions. he's done really well. over 30 years he's nominated five times for an academy award. until last night he had never won an oscar. he took home the award for adapting the screen play for his

movie blackkklansman. rather than showing humility and gratitude, he spiked the moment with a tiresome political diatribe the 2020 presidential election is around the corner. [ applause ] let's all mobilize. let's all be on the right side of history. make the moral choice between love versus hate. let's do the right thing! [ applause ] you knew i had to get that in there. >> laura: number one, lame that after all l these years he couldn't memorize his lines. number two, lame that he couldn't accept the honor without gratuitous cursing which you couldn't hear because the oscars had to "bleep" him. number three disagreeing with your political vision doesn't make you immoral or a bad person. like i said before, liberals are angry sometimes even when they should be happy. most are off the charles in tolerant and judgmental of

people who don't think like they do. lee just like his latest film suffers from a deficit of subtle at this and grace. perhaps not surprisingly, the president couldn't resist lobbing a post oscars response, tweeting: response, tweeting, be nice if spike lee could read his notes or not have to use notes at all doing a racist hit on your president who has done more for african-americans and lowest unemployment in history and tax cuts beyond politics, which shouldn't have been a part of hollywood's big night any way, spike lee's performance lacks some grace. i think to regular people he came across as kind of brat i, rude, self absorbed, he go go test masquerading as a brilliant social justice warrior. the old spike lee, you have to go back 30, 35 years was at least cutting edge. should we judge him for old

movie lines, like this one ik describing a girl he had relations with what do you want to know? i thought these a freak. you know, freaky deaky. you asked why i continue to see her? i look like a retard? i'm not crazy. >> laura: well but this craziness goes beyond spike lee. it's the same arrogant self the important thinking that propelled empire star jussie smollett into believing he could stage an anti maga host and then conclude he would emerge as a hero. making a seen and casting yourself as a wounded mart irrelevant is what these elites do best. when you're on the right side of history it's your duty to start a national conversation and inject yourself into the middle of it. facts? they're irrelevant, kind of passe. as the famed political philosopher alexandria ocasio-cortez once observed: there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely

factually and tem man tick cli correct than about being morally right. >> laura: well like most of today's social justice warriors aoc truly believes she is always morally right. that notion entitles her to be one of the leaders of not the me too movement, but the me, me, me movement. she's been on the job for exactly two months! and you would swear her green new deal is the second declaration of the independence i just introduced green new deal two weeks ago. it's creating all of this conversation. why? because no one else has even tried. people are like, it's unrealistic, it's vague, it doesn't address this little minute thing. i'm like, you try. [ laughter ] you do it. 'cuz you're not. 'cuz you're not. so until you do it, i'm the boss that's right how about that? >> laura: oh no you didn't!

she's like if 25 -- 29 years old? she's like the boss of congress? and it's like totally, it must be nice p what she lacks in experience, she's excited. it's kind of good she's in there, in the mix. she lacks perspective but she makes up for all of it in ego and confidence. got to give her that. but her demands, they seem familiar ♪ i want the world ♪ i want the whole world ♪ i want to lock it all up in my pocket ♪ it's my bar of chocolate. get it to me now! >> laura: combined with her i want it now mentality is a by product of the everyone gets a trophy era in which she was raised. coddled kids grow up to be entitled adults. who needs manners and decorum when you've just been rewarded for speaking your truth. you always have to hit your chest when you say. that speaking your truth,

wherever and whenever you want. when adults indulge youngsters, we get shallow think errs. by the way, this entire notion of speaking your truth is goofy, because it presupposes that there really is no objective truth. your truth isn't necessarily the truth. and it's probably just your opinion. and you're entitled to have it. but until you've lived, fallen and failed, it's probably fairly uninformed, even if it's entertaining and highly energetic. you're entitled to speak all you like, of course, first amendment, everybody is entitled to an opinion. but no one is obligated to listen to you. whether you're a director, tv actor or the it girl, none of it matters. that goes for rude middle school and high school students who are coached to get in the face of adults on capitol hill. just like talk to them like they're their condition tem pore rare ris, instagram buddies.

on friday senator dine feinstein was confronted by a group of aoc mini mes, lobbying for the green new deal in her office scientists have said that we have twelve years to turn this around well it's not gonna get turned around in ten years. what we can do is -- >> if this doesn't get turned around in ten years you're looking at the faces of the people that are going to be living with. the government is supposed to be for the people, by the people i've been doing this for 30 years. i know what i'm doing. you come in here, and you say it has to be my way or the highway. i don't respond to that. i know what i'm doing. so, you know, maybe people should listen a little bit we're the people who voted you. you're supposed to listen to us. that's your -- your job how old are you? >> i'm 16. i didn't vote well you didn't vote for me.

>> laura: this may have been feinstein's finest hour. she's forced today deal with immature militant act visits that her party is churning out by the thousands. activists who usually confront and try to embarrass republicans. the blame the isn't with the nf kids. they're the students. it's with their parents, or is that their teacher? let's face it, if there was no cell phones recording every word how many would even be there? so many people today, they crave attention. they want to have their moment. i understand. and spike lee, and aoc, and these activist tots should take note. making a scene may feel good but it's no substitute for accomplishment or hard work, whether a liberal, conservative or something in between, try listening to the opposing view and then sharpening your argument. hair rasing people isn't a talent. it's just lazy. and in the end, lazy is just

boring. and it rarely wins. and that's the "angle." a talent. it's joining me now with reaction in washington david azerrad, and democratic strata jik moan technique presley. david i want to start with you. you the spent a lot of time studying identity politics and think the left has, i'm sick of the phrase weaponized. but they're using race relations in a very pointed way it say the least of the examples you listed the one i found most disturbing was the jussie smollett one. had he pulled off his hoax the consequences would have been dramatic for america. you could have had race riots. after all it's a hate crime.cr kamala harris says this is a modern day lynching.

we all remember what happened in ferguson with michael brown. in order to advance his pathetic little career he made the slander us accusation that thankfully has been diffused but could have exploded. >> laura: monique spike lee has enormous amount of talent. i like the old spike lee stuff, it's kind of funny. but the oscars are just another example of i think hollywood yoa canning off half of america. and immediately they're cast on to the ash heap of you're bad people because you like trump or you're more conservative or you're not a liberal. for the life of me i don't get. that it's not entertaining. it's utterly predictable and it's conformist. it's the opposite of non-conformist in hollywood. it would be somebody up there saying i call bs on all of you right i don't recall him mentioning president trump >> laura: come on, you're smart monique i don't recall. >> laura: you don't think he was

talking about it? i do recall everybody who was in the place screaming and clapping and hooping i was screaming up and down and clapping and hooping at home. >> laura: that's a representative audience. really? representative of whom? i represent people like me, whatever that means. >> laura: yeah he's had a 30 year career. he won an oscar after those 30 years. he deserved it well before. that i think he gets to use his time whatever way he wants w >> laura: i'm not saying he doesn't. we have the right to criticize it then i have the right to defend. t what i'm saying in defense is, i found his statements accurate and poignant and i was a little surprised laura i have to admit whenna you were talking about h lacking subtle at this and grace. >> laura: literally that was the most predictable, i could have written that for him i think you mentioned something about people who are coddled when they're youngsters. >> laura: yes. i talked about the other people there

the occupant of the white house? who are we talking about? >> laura: we're talking about the generation that believes ng that if someone disagrees with you, they're a bad person. i wouldn't say -- spike lee and i disagree on stuff. i wouldn't say he's a bad person. we disagree. big deal that's popular right now, isn't it? >> laura: how is that interesting? i'm gonna envelope it and say we as a country elected someone whom if you do not agree with him you're a bad person. there is no subtle at this. >> laura: who said that? he says it. >> laura: he says i'm the all the people boo you, bad, bad, sad. >> laura: leo you were just with him. monique says donald trump thinks you're a bad person if you don't agree with him. now you just were with him. there was over subscribed 300 plus after american leaders and activists are around the country. a lot of people didn't see what happened. a lot of people saw the oscars. monique is right, everyone in that room, probably 90% democrat, liberal democrat or

the other ones too afraid to say anything different. they all love t of course they love, they're in hollywood. what did you see about this president that might be a different take from what monique just said? we know for a fact that spike lee was alluding to the president when he said love versus hate because he said in 2020 we're going to make sure you go out and vote for love versus hate. but i like to say, if the democrats represent 90% of black communities right now, we're in poverty, being shot and poorly miss educated. is that love or hate? i don't understand how under this president he has dropped black unemployment to the lowest it's ever been. our poverty under this president is lower than it's ever been. still above the national average but lower than it's ever been. i don't understand the illusion that spike lee continues to make when he says the president is spewing hate or love. i see it from the other side. if the a black conservative stood in front of a room of all

white people and did the exact same thing that spike lee it d. they would have said i was chucking and jiving and cooning. but because he's part of the liberal elite he's able to stand up there in front of the entire word and get collapse and he asked questions in front of a on something you room of people that are rich and famous and makes it understand that he understands black america or the polite of the people. plight of the people. >> laura: let's go to what rk stacey abreu rams says. he wrote in foreign affairs: mer an expanded identity conscious politic politics.she wrote in foreign a: the truth of the matter is the exact opposite >> laura: why? m by nature we're tribal animals. we go with our own.

it's not natural for human beings to get along with people that don't look like us, don't worship the same god. meaning we're distrustful of people who look different, worship differently. we should emphasize unity. civic friendship. we're all americans. the diversity part will take care of itself. don't emphasize divisiveness. emphasize unity i 100% agree with you david. >> laura: monique your reaction to that. there is something about, people say trump is dividing us. gosh it seems like there are a lot of people dividing america now along gender, racial, what is your preference? i'm just trying to get through the day, frankly you and me both. raise my kids while i do it. i don't completely disagree. here is what i think. identity politics can save us as much as people think it can

divide us. i identify with someone who looks like me it's not the same thing as saying i hate what is different from me. s there doesn't have to be at this vis sieveness, we don't have to embrace that in order to embrace the fact there's something good about me in the skin i'm in >> laura: i agree, i think it's great i like the skin you're n when we're talking about identity politics, the message can't be silos that don't talk to each other. it can be silos, you've got yours i've got mine. what do we have in common? >> laura: i agree with you. that's like no one wants to say that on cable news. i actually think leo there is something we agree on. i can never understand what it's like to be an african-american woman. i can't understand, i can't put my shoes in someone else. i don't look down on people because of the skin color. i really don't. we might disagree on things. that's okay. what i don't like is when people say because you're not that, you have privilege and you need to

apologize. what the heck? i didn't do anything. that's what i think is getting in people's craw. they don't like that aspect of it. the differences and coming together, i think that's all positive. leo, close it out out also with identity politics you have black lives matter who will march when a black boy is shot by a white police officer. but who won't march when black kids are being shot every single day. it goes into the feminist movement where they will march for gay marriage, march for anything feminine but not for a masculine movement. they would be against that for sure, right? it can continue to divide us. i don't think we should be doing it. i think we should all be americans. we're american first. we should be talking about the policies that better affect us as americans living in america. >> laura: the content of our character a men. >> laura: thank you so much. coming up, defending the first against radical people on the left trying to alter the past

and the present? first a world war one cross memorial under siege. i'll debate one of the people suing to take it down. second a teen challenging her school district after she is banned from wearing a maga hat. she will be here and tell us how she's fighting back how does being a patriot and trying to show pride in your country, how is that inappropriate? showing pride webut some of us turn outhose dreams...... into action... the bookers. the doers. the 'hit that confirmation button and let's go!'- ers! because bookers know that the perfect place to stay... is right there for the booking. be a booker at booking.com the world's #1 choice for booking accommodations.

. >> laura: tonight in our defending the first series we bring you two stories of injustice. in moments we'll talk exclusively to a high school student who is fighting back tonight after her school district banned her from wearing a maga hat at school. first this 100 year old memorial honoring veterans who died during world war i is under siege. its fate is before the supreme court of the united states. some liberals want the memorial, naturally torn down it gives the impression that no jews are welcome in the city of bladensburg. it presents bladensburg as though it were a christian enclave >> laura: an appeals court in 2017 ruled the memorial unconstitutional. on wednesday supporters of the cross have another chance to

save it when the supreme court justices decide the case. the group arguing for the removal of the memorial. sara, what would make your group happy? and what do you want to replace this memorial with? so we certainly support the opinion of the fourth circuit judge. >> laura: i bet you do the earlier decision which found there were three great options here. the memorial could be reshaped, removed or reassigned. we would be happy with any of those. i'm a spokesperson. our plaintiffs in this case are three local residents who are perturbed by the cross. it's an object true sieve memorial. >> laura: why is it object true at this? what happens to them physically? like they see that cross, and do they like -- what happens? do they have physical, you know symptoms? i mean emotional distress? what is it. the cross is object true sieve. it affects their every day lives

>> laura: i'm asking you how. you keep saying. that i'm not trying to be tough. i know you go on t.v. all the time. i'm not trying to be -- they drive by and they like, oh my god the government is establishing religion and i'm going to have to bow down on my knees and pray to god. do they think that? it's a symbol of exclusion and discrimination. >> laura: the cross itself, i have a cross, if i took this out right now and had this, would you want me to put that back in my blouse? of course not. i want you to be free to express -- >> laura: so the people who are honoring these fallen heroes, they can't be free to express what they believe, and was embodied at the time by those who lost their lives? this cross was rededicated in 1985 to honor all veterans of all wars. it's simply silly to think all veterans of all wars are christian. a cross only relates christian values

>> laura: do you also believe the crosses at national accept terry's insured be removed? a cross on an individual grave stone doesn't represent a government endorsement -- >> laura: that could really affect somebody. if you drive by gw parkway you see a lot of crosses. that could cause an accident. you could drive right off the road if you saw those crosses. that could be personally really debilitating, couldn't it? those are crosses of individual religious. >> laura: it doesn't matter. you just said the symbol discriminates. those were your words about 60 seconds ago. that's a national -- that's the most prominent accept tear ri in the united states to honor the war dead i'm saying the government of bladensburg mahershala is discriminatory in nature when they're representing all veterans, it's impossible to do. >> laura: when you work for the

human any of the association do you have to say you don't believe in anything? did you grow up with a faith or what happened? i grew up in a non-religious household. my parents were incredibly supportive of my exploring different religious faith and traditions. >> laura: i'm curious, were you raised in any faith or just not raised in a faith? i was raised to explore other faith but my house hold didn't have a faith. i've attended a number of christian services, jewish services, i've had lessons of faith explained it me my friends and been taught many tenants of faith and i sincerely support people's attempts. >> laura: it's the outward manifestation on anything that is city, town, or federally owned? like if there was a -- let's say arlington accept me terry has a cross etched on its sign but it's on the sign approaching

arlington. let's just say for arguments sake that existed. would your association think that was tantamount to an establishment clause violation? our founders would have thought that was an establishment of religion? would they believe that, i would like to talk about the establishment clause issue that is at play here. >> laura: it's now we get to -- like 50 years ago if you would have told people that people would be arguing over the cross, 20 years ago probably wouldn't have thought. we have to go from here to in god we trust on the coins. obviously doing the pledge of allegiance, people don't want to stand for that. you say the slippery slope arguments, we've actually slipped down the slope. i think that's why people are concerned. whether you're christian or not anything, jewish, or muslim, it seems the manifestation of public faith is what gets groups like yours and it's really oh oh it affects you deeply it's the government

endorsement of that faith. >> laura: you think this is the establishment of religion? it's establishing a religion under the first amendment? i don't care what the lemon versus kurtz man test is. i could argue that all day. do you think that's tantamount to the government establishing relationships a government spending money to maintain a specific religious symbol and no others is clearly a vile 14r5igs we appreciate it sara. thank you for coming on. now to a high school student in california who is taking on her school after being told she can't we're a maga hat to class. maggie mueller says she was trying to show her pride in her country. the clovis unified school district is telling the "ingraham angle" that mueller could not we're t wear the hat because it wasn't a hat from a dress code or school club or

activity. well now with me is maddie mueller want maddie, your school says the rules about hats are clear want i'm in a big one for hats indoors period. i don't like hats indoors. i think if your he'll at a baseball game or in the sun -- hats indoors, i don't care what hat it is, i'm in a big fan of it. this says this has nothing to go do with stifling your political beliefs. do you agree with that? i would have to say i wholeheartedly disagree. >> what evidence do you have that the school is discriminating against your political belief? currently on campus as of today i checked today, i saw four hillary clinton t-shirts, one obama shirt, a bernie sanders hat and about seven lgbtq rainbow flag hats on campus today. >> laura: were they in classrooms? yes. >> laura: okay. well they were.

>> laura: that's pretty good evidence. okay. so it looks like, if that's accurate, and i don't have any reason not to believe you. if that's accurate then people can kind of wear what they want to wear, i see kids coming out of school they're wearing short shorts and my mother would have freaked out. they wear lots of stuff including hats. i see political symbols on shirts. kids are encouraged to be kind of mini activists. which is not howie grew up. if you're at a conservative activist then you're kind of a hater. that's how the dominant culture sees you. why did you want to kind of pick this fight? which is pretty brave to do at most probably public schools in the country? thank you. i chose to pick this particular battle because i ended up at the beginning of the first semester getting an internship with devin nunes and david valdejo during

their midterms and that's when i discovered my true passion for politics. i realized the school system seemed to be trapped under the government's thumb about what they're supposed to, you know, teach, what's acceptable, what's acceptable to force down our throats in a sense. and i realized that it's not always the truth. so i chose that as a conservative, raised in a family that, my family was made through adoption. so i was born into the pro-life army. i just decided that did i felt like someone needed today take a stand. someone needed today stand up not just for clovis north or cloe sieve but nationwide for the conservative and christianity that's going on, on campuses. >> laura: a federal judge or a judge said the following, we'll put it up on screen about maga hats:

oliver wagner said. that your hat could provoke people to violence. so i imagine that gets thrown on the list of reasons why this hat, and they claim it's not political, but this hat is a problem actually. yeah, actually, that -- until the judge said it -- had never been brought to my attention. >> laura: wow! are you gonna keep wearing the hat? yeah. i haven't been, just because i know that it's a big issue right now. but i did order a black one, and i intend to try to we're wear it on campus, because black is one of our school colors. i'm gonna try it. in fact today. >> laura: maybe you just -- maga, you can't say maga either. maybe have a silhouette of trump. i don't know what

in fact today -- sorry, today i went in to school and i had, i guarantee i'm the only student, but i had to get my support the blue sweatshirt approved. i had to get all of my sweatshirts and shirts approved through the office before i can wear them. >> laura: you look pretty edgy, you look like if real trouble at school! [ laughter ] >> laura: it's interesting we'll be following. that's ale non-conformist here on the "ingraham angle." we really appreciate it. coming up why do nancy pelosi and adam schiff seem to be squirming in their leadership positions? house minority leader kevin mccarthy is here to tell us.

coming up why do nancy pelosi

. >> laura: we have an update tonight on the jussie smollett hate crime hoax investigation. smollett has a new defense tonight. tmz reporting the $3500 paid the

nigerian brothers to carry out the attack was actually for training sessions, five weeks of training but they threw in the nutrition plan at least according to the memo the line on the check he gave them. chychrun pd eddie johnson says there's even more evidence that disputes smollett's defense there's a lot more evidence that hasn't been presented yet that does not support the version that he gave. there's still a lot of physical evidence, video evidence and testimony that just simply doesn't support his version of what happened. >> laura: meanwhile smollett's empire costar terrence howard is coming to the hoaxters defense, writing go on instagram, quote: smollett has been written out of the last two episodes of empire. today a judge said he's allowed to travel out-of-state to meet with his lawyers while he's out on bond on these federal disorder erri

disorderly conduct are thes charges. he's due back in court next month. democrats are forcing a vote tomorrow. house speaker nancy pelosi tonight said well it's their solemn duty. all members as i say have taken the oath of office. we would be delinquent in our duties if we did not resist, if we did not fight back to over turn the president's declaration. >> laura: this comes nearly -- after nearly two dozen former republican members of congress, most i've never heard of, penned an open letter to gop law makers urging them to terminate the national emergency. kevin mccarthy, congressman your reaction? i read that letter, too, from those republicans, i didn't know hardly any of them. i had to look them up 12347 they're in the witness protection program. i think there's only a few that are under 75, god bless them, no

matter how old you are, you're valuable i didn't know any of them. >> laura: who are these people? what's interesting, go back to 2005, when the federal government wasn't solving the border program there were two democrat governors along the border that called an emergency. napolitano who became dhs secretary and richardson, they said because the federal government wasn't acting along the border, they needed to act. it's worse today than it was then. >> laura: by the way napolitano was part of another letter today that she signed with your old pal john kerry, and other national security experts, mostly obama people, and another of this whole thing is wrong, it's a wrong approach, wrong headed. but also you know just saying the president's national security strategy here -- the president has the legal authority to do this. 60,000 people a month are being picked up illegally.

we have the most liberal immigration policy in the world. >> laura: 11.1 million a year, which most people want reduced or to stay the same take immigration out of it. how many people are dying from the drugs coming across? how many kids are being human trafficked? >> laura: that's an exaggeration. you hear. that where are the social justice warriors. were you at the oscars admit? no. >> laura: i saw you i didn't even watch them. >> laura: you looked real good next to glenn close. bernie sanders was at a town hall and he spoke about the national emergency. let's watch in my political judgment donald trump is not going to get the wall. [ applause ] i think it really is outrageous. by the way there are a number of republicans who feel the same way. that it really speaks to his authoritarian goals, to somehow decide this is a national

emergency that he's calling in order to build the wall. >> laura: vermont has a big opioid problem. a lot of my -- i'm from the new england states every state has a problem. >> laura: all suffering what is interesting he says the president is not going to build this wall. this wall is already being built. we appropriated for it to be built. the president is going to get the full 200 miles that the experts said we need on the barriers to have the border secured. that's what the president said he would do. he has a responsibility to have done it. >> laura: we should have done the immigration agenda the first 100 days we should have done it at the beginning. healthcare we should have waited, get that right. dealing with the healthcare with the senate rules was difficult. you couldn't write the bill you wanted to write. >> laura: i want to get your thoughts. house intel chair adam schiff steams to be flailing a little bit as it relates to this russian investigation.

last week he said it might be tough to prove collusion after saying collusion, collusion, collusion, now he's saying he might go after mueller if the report isn't made public we will obviously subpoena the report. we will bring bob mueller in to testify before congress. we'll take it to court if necessary. and in the end, i think the department understands they're gonna have to make this public remember what we're dealing with here. this is a man who said before this all started he had evidence to prove it, right? he's the modern day joe mccarthy. never produced anything. what's more concerning to me has now proven that he met with glenn simpson in aspen. fusion gps who nellie ohr, bruce ohr's wife worked for. i have a number of questions for schiff. how many meetings did he have? what did they talk about? why did he fight so hard for us not to find out who paid for this fusion gps? that it was the democratic party? did you know he fought to make

sure that we had to go to court. >> laura: he didn't want that out because it runs back to the democrats and hillary when glenn simpson came before the committee he asked him, what should we look at? taking ideas from him, where should we go with this investigation? >> laura: scandal if he holds himself to the same level that he held devin nunes for, he should recuse himself. he needs to move off this case. >> laura: we're going to talk to you later about what happened over in the senate with the infant protection act. thank you for joining us tonight, we really appreciate it. get your black tie on, grab your champagne, our own raymond arroyo is back from l.a., he says the oscars don't mean what they once did. the back lash over the best picture winner could have wide implications. you're not going to believe this. stay there. with all that usaa offers

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>> ♪ ♪ ♪ . >> laura: while tinsel town is celebrating the fact that this year's broadcast beat 2018's ratings, it still had the second smallest audience for the awards in history. that's largely due to the fact that the night celebrates people and films most americans have never seen. just back from l.a. with all the details is raymond arroyo, fox news contributor, new york times best selling author of the brand

new book will wilder and the amulet of power. raymond why do you think the oscars lost so much cultural importance because they no longer speak to the american people. these are films that aside from maybe two, only appealed to people in hollywood. as i wrote in the piece at fox news today, the old billy wilder line seems more true now than ever. remember sunset boulevard, nora desmond says i am big, it's the pictures that got small. there are no stars that ignite the american people and neither appeared last night. the winner illustrates this disconnect perfectly. it was for the film period end of sentence. this is the film maker, rayka zehtabchi i'm not trying because i'm on my period or anything.

i can't believe a film about menstruation just won an oscar. know that you are empowering women all over the world to fight for men central equality lawyer remarks i don't know about you but i'm still scratching my head, what is menstrual equality? america must gasp when they heard that. >> laura: okay. well other i am not going to ask you that. let's move on from that to barba barbara try sand, your favorite she rose to introduce spike lee's movie blackkklansman. notice how she frames this movie it has everything a great film should have. it was so real. so funny. and yet so horrifying. because it was based on the truth. it's an unflinching look at race relations in america. back in the 1970s, feels that then. bur it is just as relevant today.

that is so ridiculous as if we've made know racial progress. >> laura: nothing changed, nothing has gotten better. i do love the che guevara black beanie, that was a classic very fetching. >> laura: the film green book about a white italian manual who drives a black i an any of the across the country, spike lee was not happy yeah, no. he walked out in the middle of the thing and they had to send him back to his seat. he later said every time somebody drives somebody else, i lose. he lost to driving miss daisy 20 years ago. the reason they're all so upset and the reason this is important is because there's a huge back lash now against the film, against green book. and it's because there's a cultural battle over which narrative of race relations is going to win out, okay? critics are attacking green book and saying it's too fantastical

to have a white man and black man who become friends, that's simplifying. watch a movie that purports to be about race, should provide something a little bit more tough minded than this very retrograde, comforting feel good story people just really thought they were getting kind of the after school special version of race relations by this movie. and they just thought i'm tired of seeing these pictures about race being whom among thighs did and white washed. >> laura, green book is about unity and these two men who disagreed and came from two different worlds coming together despite their race. nick who wrote "the story" about his father who was the driver, the actor has been talking about this for weeks, this unity is under attack because hollywood would like us to be at each other's throats because of the color of our skin. that's a no winner.

i'm glad green book took the prize here. >> laura: glenn close should have won. that was a rob i agree. >> laura: is that what you wore to the oscars? that black undertaker suit? no, this is what i'm wearing to my mardi gras ball tonight. mardi gras is in full swing. >> laura: mardi gras, you had to get it in. you tricked me happy mardi gras. >> laura: we'll be right back. last bite. ose dreams... into action... .. be a booker at booking.com the world's #1 choice for booking accommodations.

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make sure we bring all of that to you, that is all we have tonight. shannon bream and the fox news at night here, are you upset you didn't make that long trip? >> jetlagged is not always agree with us but duty calls. we are here. thank you so much. fox news alert, will kim jong-il and give donald trump he is after by giving up his nukes? the president is on his way to that second summer with a north korean leader is peace on the korean peninsula hangs in the balance. democrats block that amendment requiring doctors, babies born alive after a failed abortion, the president calling it one of the most shocking votes in the history of our country. trains athletes scoring big wins creating strange bedfellows as conservatives team