tomorrow night and we will show you the question i asked. i got asked a question by the president at the press conference. i don't think fake news cnn liked that either. jason chaffetz will be the guest host as we head home. laura ingraham, you got into it with crazy jim acosta. what happened? >> laura: he was upset. i was getting ready cpac, my speech and eating breakfast. then i hear he is all upset because only you and the chinese and the russians got a question. then i'm reading wait a second, didn't like forbes or n.p.r. and a number of other outlets got questions but not poor jim acosta. we need to get a care package or something to him. bring the good seaweed, the dried seaweed you can get. elixirs maybe. he is having a hard time. >> sean: laura, we are talk show hosts. we do news. we do straight reporting, investigative reporting. even sports and cultural

issues and opinion. there are folks -- >> laura: horoscopes. i do horoscopes. >> sean: maybe on your radio show. good for you. i heard you gave a great speech at cpac. is that true? >> laura: it was a lot of fun. we had a good time. you have to tell jokes and get out. that is my view. tell a few jokes, get a few digs in, talk about how much you love america and get off the speech. you did a great job with the president. ewatched. >> sean: thank you. >> laura: get home safely. >> sean: thank you. we will. we are not leaving for another 20 hours and then another 26 hours but we'll be there eventually. >> laura: i can't wait to see your scooter ride home the whole way. >> sean: wow! >> laura: scooter. >> sean: listen, it might be a high-speed train built in ten years. >> laura: all right. thank you so much. i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. are the president's critics rooting for america's failure? my angle will answer that in moments. plus, she spent the last 24

hours being demeaned for her mere presence at michael cohen's hearing yesterday. tonight, trump, family friend lynne patton will be here responding to being told she is nothing more than a prop for the president. former governor chris christie is here. what are his take-aways from what happened yesterday in vietnam, with the summit and the cohen hearing. he will tell us. raymond royal will highlight hollywood's complete blind spot when it comes to jussie smollett. you will not believe what they are saying tonight in hollywood about smollett. but first, trump haters root against america. that is the focus of tonight's angle. you know the phrase "always wrong but never in doubt"? that pretty much sums up the partisan reporters, the democrats turned socialists and the never-trumpers who sit around talking to themselves. do you remember the predictions back when the president was calling kim

little rocket man and setting up his first north korean sum milt? >> he has to realize that we could be heading toward world war ii with the comments he is making. >> we are probably closer to an outright war with north korea than we have been in a long time. >> there is a coming war most likely. possibly a full blown war with an emerging nuclear power. >> laura: of course none of that happened. in fact the region arguably more peaceful and more stable since trump's engagement. and kim jong un stopped testing warheads and no longer making random threats to his neighbors. even as the president embarked on his second north korean summit traveling halfway across the mode, -- across the globe, his motives were impugned. >> are you worried because of what is happening here he may detract or make a bad decision

with kim jong un because he is trying to distract from cohens testimony? >> it is inconceivable to me that this is not going to be a huge distraction for him. >> the need to come up with something spectacular to overshadow what we will hear on capitol hill today. >> is he attempted to give too much or claim too much in order to obscure what is going on here in congress? >> laura: remember, those are the experts. clearly again, none of that happened. the president walked away from the deal with kim because he was unwilling to back off sanctions in exchange for only kind of partial denuclearization. it would have been a bad deal for you and me, for the whole region. >> president trump: they were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas we wanted but we couldn't give up all the sanctions for that. so we continue to work it. we'll see. we had to walk away from that particular suggestion. we had to walk away from that.

>> laura: now you would think that the president would be praised by the media. even maybe some democrats if they were fair. pragmatic response. right? of course not. he defied expectations and acted in the best interest of the country. but as expected in of the pen dits -- pundits masquerading as journalists gloated and ran away. >> he staked his presidency on something that is much more difficult than reality tv. this is not something wrapped up in the season of the "apprentice." >> laura: send me a memo when "apprentice" analogies are eretired. getting old, isn't it, jim? the house speaker was delighted to pile on. >> i guess it took two meetingers if him to realize -- meetings to realize that kim jong un is not on the level. he was a big winner kim jong un in getting to sit face to face with the most powerful

person in the world, the president of the united states. >> laura: so the president is damned if he does, if he does make a deal because it would all have been a distraction from cohen, right? and damned if he doesn't because he claims to be a deal-maker but he didn't bring home a deal. the critiques are sun serious, unsurprising and in a sad way unpatriotic. these people are hoping for a failure on the world stage to say see, we told you so. making progress with a brutal regime of a dictator won't happen overnight. it's extremely difficult. but it really is good news that america is talking to kim and the north koreans. it's certainly better than being on the brink of war. but the amazing thing about liberals is their capacity to flame out and quickly pivot because they said trump would destroy the economy and we

have today the healthiest economy in the g7. they said manufacturing would not come back. well, the u.s. economy added 284,000 manufacturing jobs in 2018. the most in 21 years. so; of course, hearing that the media just yawns or ignores it altogether or they will claim obama deserves the credit. yeah, right. have no fear. the liberals have a new narrative. when the news is too good or their prognostication fail to materialize, they simply write a new narrative. so now they are putting all their hopes in the great trump slayer michael cohen. >> this will be the opening act. what you saw today -- i still think russia will be a sidebar to this -- is a peek inside the criminal enterprise. >> this is just the beginning of what i think is a very serious and probably

impeachable offense. >> this is the first unofficial hearing of the impeachment process. whether you want to call it that or not, that is what history will show this. >> laura: you see the glow that chuck todd had when he said that? i mean this group is so regularly wrong on so many issues. regularly failing to read the history of this administration. the policies and the goals. or even worse they foresee it's coming altogether. why should we listen to any of them now? particularly when the president is making a positive difference? historically for america and security frankly of the globe where north korea is concerned. they refuse to acknowledge it for a reason. because acknowledging trump successes would mean acknowledging their own failures. and rooting against america is always the wrong strategy. that is the angle. all right. joining me now for reaction, syndicated columnist michelle malkin. we never have her in studio.

great to see her. former dnc communication director alice miranda. and michelle, i want to start with you. you think folks are happy. they were predicting doom and gloom, nuclear war. trump says the deal is not good walks away and he is blamed for that, too. >> it doesn't matter if it's trade or the environment or nukes. you said it in the opening. trump is damned if he deals and he is damned if he doesn't. it says a lot about the in particular the beltway press. 24 hours ago when he was boarding the plane they thought he was going to give away the store. when he walks away, why didn't you give away the store? right? you cannot understand and appreciate the beltway press unless you understand the people don't perceive themselves as american citizens first. they are citizenning of the world. so any deal that benefits of america is something they will be against. we live in the bizarre-o world. if he is too soft, they consider him too soft they

will yell. if he acts aggressively, they will yell as well. you can never satisfy the people. that is what i you know walking away is the best thing he could have done here. >> laura: gordon, you have interesting insight. i want everyone to understand about how this was good for the relationship with china and how it puts them in a box. what i? >> it certainly takes the chinese ruler and nerves him. he needs a trade deal with the yates for a number of reasons. the economy is probably contracting and he is blamed for the, quote/unquote, "trade war." now trump has shown him look, he might walk away. i think the chinese felt that trump was going to make concessions, that he was under a lot of domestic pressure from the financial services industry and others to give in to china. and now trump is showing them, look i don't care what you think. i'm not pulleyed. i can -- i'm not bullied. i can walk away. i think chinese are in a panic. >> laura: louis, when we think about how difficult the situation is. madeleine albright tried,

hillary went over there in 2010. many administrations have tried to make progress. none of them have really. we at least are talking to north korea. why from the democrat per pecktive, they are -- perspective, what i are all about love and peace, so why aren't they rooting for that? >> we all about a denuclearized korean peninsula. there is no disagreement there. there was progress in the clinton administration but we have seen -- >> laura: but they haven't been testing. they are talking. it's better on a brink of nuclear war which is what joe scarborough and the crowd was saying a year ago. >> what is concern and robert made the case, since april they have been flouting the sanctions and actively just basically poking fun at the united states. >> laura: what are we supposed to do? we can only do our sanctions, right? >> they are not, the sancts

are not enforced. so the reality is we are rooting for him to succeed here but he has put himself in a difficult situation when he stands next to a dictator. and warmbier question, defers to him. >> laura: i'm glad you brought that up. michelle, i want to talk about this. i don't know why the president felt the need to react the way he did on otto warmbier. i think this happened under obama, remember. warmbier was taken hostage under obama. i don't know if he didn't want to -- he wanted a deal, he didn't want to insult them at the moment. i don't know but it was kind of a -- again, they seize on that, so it's otto warmbier, otto warmbier. i understand it's important. of course it's horrific. but what does it really have to do with the larger question here about whether we can ever get to a peaceful situation? >> i can't get into his mind. but the plain fact is that this happened under obama and it was trump that helped bring otto warmbier back. it was the left that mocked

otto warmbier because they had the idea that since he was some goofy jock from america that the whole thing was a joke. people forget that context. i think the bottom line here is, though, as you were saying, that the sanctions have been cheated for so long. that is what i he walked away. what did north korea want? they wanted us to lift the sanctions before, right? this is so much like, you know, kind of like amnesty before enforcement. it's the same rock. >> laura: i think that this cohen on the other side split screen of north korea. that was lame to tell you the truth. they didn't have to do that. the president reacted to that tonight with sean hannity. let's watch. trump the fact they held it today where i'm working on something that is important for the world, not only our country but the world was inappropriate. the democrats, the hatred is so incredible. they couldn't help themselves.

that's the way it is. >> laura: we had other networks last night as kim and trump came out to start their conversation they weren't covering it. we had kim answering a question from the press only fox news was covering this. they weren't even running with it on the other networks. >> it's worse than inappropriate. politics should stop at the water's edge. the president is there on a critical mission for all americans, they should have held the hearing next week. because they could have delayed it a couple of days. instead what they did, they undercut president trump's bargaining position with kim jong un because kim is looking at that saying look this president is wounded. >> laura: he thought wrong, though? kim thought that trump maybe was weakened because of the cohen. maybe, who knows? but president was not weakened. the president said we are not doing this deal. >> that is important. what this has done it has told the north koreans their narrative about trump is wrong. as i mentioned it's the same with the chinese. now i'm sure they are rethinking the way they look at the president of the united

states. >> laura: china has been manipulating this, too. kim making four trips to china. we have no idea what the undercurrent of china is in the negotiations with north korea as well. >> also you have kim probably seeing xi jinping on the way back to pyongyang as the reporting has been. this is really bad. the chinese are now on the other side. >> of course. joe biden, one second, joe biden spoke out today. we want to get to this and have you react. let's watch. >> we coddle dictators. you cannot think of anyone who has thrown their arms around or chosen the word of dictated and thugs over even our own intelligence communities. the love affair, love letters with kim jong un. our national reputation is being tarnished. >> of course, obama's apology tour, michelle, and hillary getting the translation button wrong with lavrav.

>> a lot of chutzpah from joe biden. of course, the people that brought us the pallets of cash and the iran nuke deal. >> i'm glad you brought up the iran nuke deal. this is one of the problems with the actual negotiations taking place. trump's negotiators were willing now that it has been reported, they were willing to give north korea a pass on full transparency. >> laura: that was totally wrong. the white house came out yesterday and said the report by nbc, we reported this last night at 9:12, im, that was completely false. another example of fake news. demonstrated that -- luis, stop the nonsense. it's wrong because the president walked away -- luis, talking over me. we talked about this last night. the ground is tilled. we put it to bed. the white house said it was false and nbc reported a false narrative yesterday. that is why the president walked away from the table. don't repeat falsehood on the show.

>> north koreans came out and said something different -- >> so now you are -- [overtalk] >> let's talk about -- >> you don't know why we know who is telling the truth? trump has told 8,000 lies. >> d.n.c. send you that? are you still at the d.n.c. there? i love it. panel, great to have you on. by the way, she was told her appearance at the cohen hearing yesterday looked like she was a "slave" on the auction block. trump family friend lynne patton will respond to that vitriol. plus, congressman mark meadows who brought her there is facing criticism. they will both join us next. not this john smith. or this john smith. or any of the other hundreds of john smiths that are humana medicare advantage members. no, it's this john smith. who we paired with a humana team member to help address his own specific health needs. at humana, we take a personal approach to your health, to provide care that's just as unique as you are.

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check in from afar with remote access, ♪ and have professional monitoring backing you up with xfinity home. demo in an xfinity store. call, or go online today. >> laura: it was the moment from yesterday's hearing that revealed a lot about today's democratic party. to rebut michael cohen's continued and fraudulent claims of racism against president trump, congressman mark meadows invited family friend lynne patton to the hearing. here is how it went down. >> do you know lynne patton? >> yes, i do. >> i'm responsible for lynne patton joining the trump organization and the job she currently holds. >> well, i'm glad you acknowledge that because you made some very demeaning comments about the president that miss patton doesn't agree with.

in fact, it has to do with your claim of racism. she says that as a daughter of a man born in birmingham, alabama, that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was racist. >> to make a note, mr. chairman, just because someone has a person of color, a black person working for them does not mean they aren't racist. the fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee is alone racist in itself. >> mr. chairman, i ask that her words be taken down -- >> i we -- i reclaim my time -- >> mr. chairman. >> would you like to rephrase that statement? >> just because someone has a person of color, black person does not mean they aren't racist. >> miss tlaib, you are not intending to call mr. meadows a racist, is that right?

>> no, do not call mr. meadows a racist. >> laura: wow! joining us now is lynne patton who didn't get a chance to respond yesterday but does tonight. lynne, first, great to see you. >> always great to be here. >> laura: how did that moment feel to you? >> well, you know, laura, for me, the only prop in that room as sean hannity just said was michael cohen for the democratic party. i was never there to represent my entire race. i was there to represent one man. one man who has done more for the black community than the last probably three presidents combined. not only has he just created urban council funneling $100 million of capital to the opportunity zones, urban and the rural communities but he has given more money to the historically black colleges and the universities than the last administration, given more money to public housing than the obama administration.

he has given -- than the last administration. he just passed a prison reform bill in three decades. >> none of it matters to the left. because actual facts and evidence and progress and success counternarrative to them. they just say he is a terrible person and will tank the economy. and start world war ii. all they have racism, racism, cohen, racism. i want you to react to a few comments that were made about your appearance yesterday. the first one or msnbc. let's watch. >> to bring a block woman out and have her -- black woman out and have her stand like she was on auction block. you couldn't swear her in, she couldn't talk. there is a siz wall. exhibit "a" we have a back person her. she can't tell you what she thinks, will tell you how she feels and that will prove that trump is not a racist. >> laura: you are a slave on the auction block, lynne?

really? >> it's really actually kind of sand pathetic. i was so fired up this morning. the only race card was played in the room were the folks on the house democrat committee that basically are taking the word of a self-confessed purgerer and criminally convicted white man over the testimony and experience of a highly educated black woman who rose up through the ranks of one of the most competitive real estate companies in the world. to speak before 25 million people in front of the republican national convention. and now works for one of the most successful administrations in history. you know, people count -- they tout all these things but a black woman stood there and said trump is not racist. he has empowered more women in the trump organization. >> laura: but you are a

threat to them. your very presence at the hearing -- it's great that congressman meadows brought you. it bugs them because they took them off the narrative. they hate when it happens. by the way, cnn also came in and they basically -- you went from being a slave on the auction box to being a wedding planner. let's watch. >> you are going to pick someone like lynne patton who is basically the wedding planner for eric trump with no experience whatsoever working at h.u.d. that is who you trot out? the personal assistant of the family to say e is not racist? >> first of all, it's unfortunate. there are glorified bloggers that are posing and journalists. if they took the time to not be lazy and google eric trump's real wedding planner they would see 2014 article long before the president even won that was an interview with

the real wedding planner in "people" magazine. these people are internet parrots. if i cared what overpaid pundit 9 and internet trolls said i would have stopped getting out of bed three years ago. the opinion means nothing. like the president, we are moving forward. >> laura: lynne, i had a chance meet you once a long time ago at trump tower. but you are someone who is not going to be silenced. you are not intimidating. if you are a conservative woman, and you support conservative ideas, you support trump, you are not real woman in their eyes. unacceptable. >> there is no place for us. >> laura: up sellable. thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. lynne patton. >> thank you so much. >> laura: for -- she wasn't the only one who came under fire yesterday. >> republican congressman mark

meadows brought a special guest, lynne patton. a trump administration official. as if she were a live prop. trotting her out in an attempt to prove that this president couldn't possibly be a racist. i have a black friend, prop. a black employee. prop. c'mon, y'all. >> laura: c'mon, y'all. >> listen, we can talk about this all night long. there has been a lot of headlines today. i think that the bottom line is this. in congress, what we need to do is seek the truth. the truth is that cohen was given 30-minute opening statement by the democrats. that i don't remember. i have been on the oversight committee for over six years now. there has never been an opening testimony of 30 minutes. then closing of another ten minutes. >> laura: do you think someone helped him with the

testimony? >> i think davis wrote the testimony when you look at it. it was a combination of some of michael cohen's personal knowledge and then a whole lot of things that have been reported pulled into that. really designed to try to damage the president. we have seen that over and over again. here is the interesting thing. jim jordan and i have put forth a letter today citing six ways that michael cohen has contradicted himself. and perhaps committed perjury. so we committed that and we sent that to the new attorney general for criminal referral to have them look at it. >> laura: what specifically? >> we have done reporting on this. just one claim he never wanted to work at the white house. it's been refuted over and over. i was refuted while well were in the hearing. now i think john solomon has between nine and a dozen -- >> laura: but he also refuted collusion.

he said a lot of things that were positive to the president. >> yeah. >> laura: against the narrative of the left. i didn't see him do the whole phone call with donald jr. >> the phone call, if you look at it -- >> laura: i think the republicans are a bit of -- it's a pickle with cohen. some things you said you want to say see, he said this. other occasions, he is lying about that. >> we can. you know that yesterday was his greatest attempt to do as much damage hes could -- as he could. >> laura: this is by a pac. big-time payback to trump. >> he came in and said i'm a new man and all of that. he should tell the southern district of new york that. they asked him to cooperate and he refused to do that. if you look at that, if you -- >> aren't they still working with him? >> they put in there that it was very, very strong wording that he is just not cooperating.

>> laura: were you hugging the congresswoman tlaib? >> we are all about being civil. >> she was outrage. you are being kind. her comments were outrageous. >> we are in a civil society. that separates us from the other nations is a civil society. i felt compelled to offer a hand of friendship and say if there was anything i did, it didn't come from my heart. she hugged me. and certainly we looked at moving forward to hopefully work. >> laura: that is good. the word "racist" is thrown around too casually. >> fortunately for me i know i'm not a racist. >> laura: but even that, that is so defensive. when they call you a racist, you're the racist for bringing up race. the president's record should stand on his own. i was driving in chicago and he said something -- >> we all say hurtful things. it's more important reconcile. >> laura: congressman, i'm

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>> i do not want to go the white house. i have offered jobs. >> you know i don't lie. >> there is a chance he'll be asked. >> would you go? >> 100%. >> laura: well, that is just one of the little white lies that cohen told in yesterday's hearing. but does it discredit his entire testimony? some of the things he said about no collusion, actually helpful to trump. so where does it leave us all? michael cohen testifying behind closed doors today on capitol hill. joining me now with answers, chris christie, the former governor of new jersey, author of a new book "let me finish." trump, kushner, new jersey, in your face politics. governor, thank you for being here. in your opinion, what is the

most important take-away for president trump from yesterday's hearing? >> the fact that michael cohen said there were multiple reasons for payment to stormy daniels, that support's the president view he had one reason. that was to protect his wife from that. michael cohen saying the lying to the first lady seems to back that up. secondly, he said the president didn't direct him to lie. somehow he understood code word or signals. no one believes someone is a purgeerer and a thief and will convict him of reading code words. cohen said there was no collusion. my frustration yesterday was that nobody on the republican side depended on the president on the merits, on the substance. after two or three congressmen

on our side saying cohen is a liar and thief. i get it. now get to the stuff you were talking about which was there was good part of his testimony. that we should be trumpeting and hitting back on to get the record clearly for the american people. i think congress failed miserably on that yesterday. >> laura: you know what i always say? in these high-stakes hearing it would be better if the congressmen had more humility, better if they brought in a professional prosecutor, somebody who does it every day. or former prosecutor. every day. that is how you run it. trey gowdy, i love them all, but unless you do it every day all the time you get rusty. >> no doubt. >> laura: politics get in the way. they missed the opportunities on that. >> birthright, they not only missed -- you got it both right. they missed it. and politics get in the way. we all want the bite that they think will be on the news of

them raising voices or yelling and screaming. in the end some of the better points made, were made quietly. and thoughtfully. i think we would have been better off if we had people on our side doing more than that. we had some cohen bashing stuff. of course. he earned it. but we didn't do as much as we did. we should have got to the substance. >> did you know him? i only met him a few times. i didn't much about him. did you have interactions with him? >> briefly. similar to you. i would see him in trump tower when i was there and say hello. i don't think i was ever in a meeting with michael cohen. >> laura: it goes back to the people you hire. it's very important to get the hires right. i think we have all done that, hired people, that was a mistake. in the end out was a bad hire. in the end, jeff sessions not the right person for attorney general. >> i know.

he was a bad hire. bad hire. there was a number of bad hires early on. in this administration. that is what we talk about in the book that it crippled the president's ability to be more effective than he has been. to me that is the thing he has got, that he started to turn around in second half of the second term but needs to do more of it. >> governor, we will get in the southern district of new york, some of the comments where the land mines might be for the administration and more including the wanton use of the race card against this president and the administration. you have known the president for a long time. chris christie will stay with us over the break. don't go away. i wanted more from my copd medicine... ...that's why i've got the power of 1-2-3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved 3-in-1 copd treatment. ♪ trelegy. the power of 1-2-3 ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy

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is there any other wrongdoing or all legal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump we haven't yet discussed today? >> yes and again, those are part of the investigation. that is currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> laura: chris christie, former governor of new jersey. governor, you said the sdny is going to try to indict the president when he leaves office. on what grounds? >> no. that is what i said that is the investigation he should be most concerned about for him and the people around him. because they have no limit to what they can look at, laura. the sdny is not like robert mueller who is restricted to

just look at russia and russia-related items. they can look at anything they want to look at. they have two tour guides. what i said is they can't indict the president until he leaves office because there is a clear justice department ruling that says sitting presidents cannot be indicted. i don't think there could be any way u.s. attorney in the southern district would try to violate the rule. if they did, bill barr would stop them. >> laura: i think nbc trying to characterize your comments. i will move on to a story that just broke tonight about jared kushner's security clearance, governor christie. there was a report that we will put up on the screen. this is "new york times." president trump order the chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner top secret security clearance last year overruling the flag from intel officials. the disclose sure of the memo contradicts statement by the president who told the "new york times" he had no role in the son-in-law receiving clearance. kushner's legal team responded saying in 2018 the white house

and the security clearance officials affirmed mr. kushner's security clearance was handled in the regular process with no pressure from anyone. that was conveyed to the media at the time. et cetera. your reaction to this? >> listen, if true, it's bad. it's bad in this respect. this is what i write about in the book, laura. having family in the administration is a very tough thing to deal with. because now when jared kushner was not getting his security clearance, it's much more difficult for a president who is also a father-in-law to be objective about his son-in-law and his daughter. the president is the president had the right to give security clearance to whoever he wanted to. but just say that is what you did. don't say you had nothing to do with it. ivanka went on television and said that her father played no role in her security clearance or her husband's.

if this times report is correct -- >> laura: she might not have knowledge of any of it. she doesn't necessarily have to know about it. >> then just say you don't know. say you don't know. don't affirmatively say he had no role. the fact is that the problem here is that, you know, if in fact the memos exist as was reported in the story from john kelly and don mcgahn, this make what is the president said not true and what ivanka said not true. when they didn't have to. just say listen, i decide who gets security clearance, i'm the president. i trust them. i need them. i want them. i'm giving it to them. end of discussion. >> laura: yeah. we all commit unforced errors in our lives. it's unforced error. >> that is my point. >> laura: if the reporting is accurate. i'll also say kushner, i know for a fact he had an incredible role in the mexico trade deal. he is trying to do something extraordinary in the middle east. very difficult obviously.

she is trying to do something extraordinary and expanding women's opportunities. family member, not family members; i think people need to be judged on their results. but it does put people in difficult positions. >> laura: it -- >> it makes it hard. that is why we haven't had family members in position. now what will happen -- one thing from cohen yesterday, now the house will subpoena them. frankly for a house overnight committee that they have jobs, in the administration. >> yeah. >> they are subject to the subpoenas. where eric thought he would not be. >> laura: they will salivate at the opportunity. no doubt. governor christie, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. up next, why is hollywood still defending jussie smollett? raymond arroyo is here with up to the minute details on what is happening. don't go away. feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin

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>> laura: wait until you hear how the hollywood reporter is attempting tonight to excuse jussie smollett's conduct in chicago. joining us now with the details. raymond arroyo fox news contributor. "new york times" with a new and best-selling book. what is the rationale for defending smollett? >> under the headline i'm about to break, jussie smollett, pressure of the

blood fame. they dug all a 2018 billboard interview with smollett where he says i admit i'm jealous, i admit i'm insecure and i'm not good at certain things. then in a comment didn't get much attention at the time. smollett suggested that the pressure might be catching up to him. he said, "i'm in my 30s and i'm trying my best to learn that i can't bend anymore. i'm about to break." the upshot here is the pressure of fames got the best of this guy and he snapped and faked or possibly faked the attack. ellen page is defending him. >> she is the worst of all. >> she is still saying i had to reason to doubt jussie. she says it raised the issue -- >> she blamed mike pence. she said mike pence inspired the attack. shameful. >> now tyler perry weighing in. watch this. >> he is adamant he is telling the truth. everybody i know that i know says he is not the type of person to do that. he is so convincing in the

story i'm hoping and standing with him, hoping that it turns out in his favor. >> why is he hoping that the actor endured a racist, homophobic attack. i love me some tyler perry. i love him. he brings hope to people and lifts people. >> i like him, too. that is disappointing. >> to hear that is so disappointing. remember also it was the police superintendent, eddie johnson in chicago who said, "smollett took advantage of the pain and the anger of racism to promote his career." this is not racism. >> we don't want racial attacks, or hoax or racial attacks. tyler perry is retiring madea. >> the latest we get is nigerian brothers, theying to pin it on them saying that he

mistook them. >> and he wrote the $3,500 for the five workout sessions? good workout sessions. >> i don't want workouts like that. you'll find me at the madea family funeral. >> laura: is that what it is called? >> maybe smollett should have been at the madea family funeral. >> laura: the left doesn't like it. >> and spike lee attacked him saying that it's racial stereotyping and now they are going after "green book." they don't like to bring people together. that is wrong. we need narrative of the brotherhood and unity. >> laura: stay there. my special guest at cpac is tonight's last bite. iate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. it was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey would say "oh we can't beat usaa" we're the webber family. we're the tenney's

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