now. he will be in this chair on monday. can't miss another episode of "hannity." he does give the best coverage on what's happening in washington, d.c.. thanks for watching. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. remember this scene? a conservative volunteer being beaten by a thug on campus. charges has now be hot. the victim is here to tell us his next step. plus, it was a call to arms on what might be the coming onslaught of socialism and it rocks cpac. plus, two friday favorites, tammy bruce and jeff are here to highlight the worst in media this week. and there's a lot of worse.

and raymond arroyo joins us. and a big question, is it time for men to start chest feeding their newborns? we'll explain. but first, the rise of socialism is trump's gain. that's the focus of tonight's angle. oh, things are cooking in america's socialist kitchen. the democrat primary season is almost a year away, be bernie sanders is already slated to nab the coverted endorsement of the democratic socialist of america. and yesterday, ocasio-cortez d read her party the riot act. she told them to either hop aboard the socialist train or get squished on the tracks.

>> she did stand up and argued to those moderates, look you can't do this, and there will essentially be some sort of track keeping. >> while others have laughed at aoc and her sister in socialism, i think they're the legitimate thought leaders of the democrat party. pelosi has been in congress for 31 years and has 2.3 million twitter followers. ocasio-cortez has been in congress for two months and has 3.3 million followers. the new socialists may be inexperienced, but they're bold, energetic and determined to shake up their establishment. now, i take them at their word. they want a complete transformation of american society that will require massive wealth confiscation, government takeover of certain

industries and an overthrow of the free market. it is bizarre that this is the democrat's answer. trump is presiding over the strongest economy in the world. and the timing of the socialist embrace is even more bizarre, given the fact that the same philosophy is in death throes around the world. europe's once dominant socialist parties are on life support. remember in 2017 we saw a devastating near wipeout of the socialist party in france. we saw crushing defeats of the social democrats in germany and the labor party in the netherlands. in italy, they imploded and opened the door to two populist

parties. in sweden, the refugee issue dominates politics and lost support leading to a hod -- hodgepodge there. in brazil, the workers party lost the presidential election to a right-wing populist. in venezuela, well, of course, that's a complete disaster on the verge of collapse. presumably, aoc and sanders are aware of these developments. is their argument going to be, don't worry, trust us, because all of those countries got socialism wrong, but we'll get socialism right? president trump has a phenomenal opportunity to continue the

conversation he started about socialism at the state of the union. and as larry kudlow said at cpac yesterday... >> join us to put socialism on trial and then convict it. >> and be the way, larry will be with us later in the hour. you do not want to miss this appearance. be conservatives, republicans, and president trump, they're not going to panic about it. this is a moment. we should relish this moment. they should spend the time to listen to and speak with young people, latinos, african-americans whom the left is targeting, because under socialist policies, they'll be the ones who will be hurt most. and aoc will just move on to their next con job. and that's the angle. joining me now with reaction is victor davis hanson. it is amazing when you do a real

cataloging of leftist movement or the socialism period in europe and around the world. it's basically in wipeout phase, and that's the go-to for aoc and of course old bernie sanders. >> yeah, i think part of it is true of all these movements throughout history, the french revolution. it's a holistic ideology, laura, where it involves all of your persona all the time 24/7. it's a joyless, without any mirth. and what happens is yesterday's radical becomes a conservative today as each iteration gets more radical. we have aoc being a barista a year ago.

and part of it is it's an irony that the united states has been so successful, it kind of pulls up the entire world company. it polices the world order, its military keeps the peace, and allows these other countries to experiment with socialism, otherwise they wouldn't have the capital or the ability. when you're hitting 3% gdp and you've got low unemployment and low interest in a high stock market, all of these people come out of the woodwork, and say, i would like to be a socialist. >> i want to play something that bernie sanders said about the nomenclature. let's watch.

>> we never use the word left. but the issues that we talk about, is it left to say that in this country we should have a minimum wage that is a living wage? is it left to say that everybody should have healthcare? is it left to say that we have to address the crisis of climate change. >> when you do this, you're really smart, be i the way. it's all wrapped in this morality play, even though this economy is a broad-based recovery, especially blue-collar workers finally having more opportunities because of trump's policies. >> the minimum wage is irrelevant now because people can't find workers and they're driving wages up, as it should be in an competitive economy that works. sanders is like a court jester. he can say all this stuff because he owns three homes, his wife did pretty well.

and it's the same for all of these candidates. they all say they're socialists. they make fun of capitalism with the understanding that they have a malibu estate if you're a hollywood star. that's how it works. but the only difference is now that apparently a lot of people take this seriously because we have been so successful and created the greatest level of affluence and prosperity, we didn't take the time to explain how it all happened. >> yeah, lazy in educating. >> and we haven't stood up to them either. >> laura: i want to ask you -- yeah, challenge them, put it on trial, as larry kudlow said. i completely agree with you. we'll get into that later on in the show. as you know, victor, the democracy dies in the darkness, or at least at 5:15 pm on a friday, because that's when the

washington post posted an editor's note to coverage of the covington kid's debacle from february. he's suing the post for $250 million. tonight the post saying, quote, subsequent reporting. an additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that story. that is a weak editor's note. do you agree? >> yeah, i think i do. and it shows you the value of deterrence. if someone had done that in the george zimmerman trial, if there had been consequences for making things up, we would see this type of reaction. that's what you need to happen.

you have to have consequences for lying and for fantasies and fabrications. >> got to take them to court and make them pay. thank you so much. and tonight there's finally an arrest in that brutal attack on a conservative volunteer on the campus of uc-berkeley. february 19th hayden williams went to recruit conservative students and this was the response. [bleep] >> well, it took police ten days to arrest this man, who's clearly identifiable to anyone who knows him. 28-year-old zachary greenberg faces assault and battery charges. here now is that victim and his attorney. hayden, how are you doing? >> i've been better but i'm recovering and all right. >> you can look at me. that's all right. you don't do a lot of tv. we appreciate you joining us. anyone who's been punched in the face, it hurts.

why did it take so long to find this guy? >> well, i think due process was being followed, which i appreciate that as a constitutional conservative myself. i'm grateful that the police did their job and found this guy, but i remain disappointed with uc-berkeley and the fact that they allowed such a culture of intolerance and violence towards conservative viewpoints to grow and thrive. >> it was an attempt to say, don't try this again. you've represented a lot of people who have been treated terribly just for their viewpoints. >> the next step is now that he's been arrested, the investigation will get turned over to the prosecutors office. the bail is said for one count of felony assault with great bodily harm. you can see he has a bruise on his face two weeks after the fact. in previous incidents on the

campus, they've been pled out apprehe and the felony charges are dismissed and no charge is served. that's my concern right now. >> are you going to file a civil suit? >> we don't want to get in the way of the criminal process. i think that's really number one. number two, he appears to be somebody who has a history at uc-berkeley, somebody who has worked for the campus for a period of months and also audited classes there. and as hayden said, it is common for these antifa type thugs to float around, menace people, throw punches. my clients at uc-berkeley have experienced this many times. >> is this going to stop you from being involved? >> this is only emboldening me. >> well, maybe take a little

taekwondo. you got hit in the face. >> this guy is twice the size of hayden >> a little roundhouse kick to the side of the head. but it's meant to intimidate. this is meant to tell any conservative across the country, don't try this again because what happened to this young man is going to happen to you. imagine if it's a young woman who wanted to be on campus. thank you for being here. we really appreciate it and i'm glad you're okay. coming up, the worst media offenders of the week, "the ingraham angle" has got its eyes on you. kudlow wants socialism to be put of trial. he joins us later in the hour to start.

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democrats so casually throw around charges of racism. >> i don't think the president sees black people as fully human. i don't think he sees us as having agency, intelligence. there's always some subtle suggestion that black people need to catch up. >> >> laura: and then the godfather of anti-racism had to put his two sense in. >> spike lee said do the right thing in 2020 and the president says he's talking race, he's a racist. he didn't even mention race. they're obsessed with race because that's who they are. >> >> laura: now, tammy, sharpton have any credibility

with talking about someone being too obsessed with race. >> yeah, exactly. we did see an example of racism i think that nobody is calling this out when representative tlaib called patton a prop. it tends to be used against women of color, is this nature of women being something other than human, a little less than human. that was in front of the world. this is an extraordinary dynamic. it's of course also projection considering the fact that there's one president who's done extraordinary work for all communities of color as he lifts up this economy. i don't think al sharpton can claim that. >> sharpton, whom i have on tape and published this years ago, where he's calling a politician the n word, and he's using this

in public. >> laura: what politician? >> it was david benkins. it's just appalling stuff. he does this all of the time. it's anti-semitic. >> laura: how can we take this seriously? second on the list, listen to what msnbc's donnie is -- >> it's easy to forget that now. if impeachment starts to happen, even if he loses an election, whatever you think this guy is capable of doing to create a civil war, i'm not speaking in hyperbo hyperbole. >> they thought that if donald trump lost the election, he was going to do all sorts of things.

they lost the election and invented the whole trump/russia collusion. this is what they do. this is who they are. and it's part and parcel to everything we've been talking about, socialism, et cetera. >> laura: they're deeply unhappy people. for all the people with all this money, man, they're unhappy people. at cpac everybody is having a great time. this is the best the economy's been in decades. these are the good ol' days. >> they're miserable. this is what the left always does as well. they rely on divisions, on keeping people away from each other. it's the only thing that guarantees votes is to make people afraid. it's effectively a cold war at this point, turning hot when you deal with hate crimes, et cetera, but the american people recognize this and the president's remaining steady appreheand that's helpful as well. >> when he doesn't get his way,

he embarrasses himself because president trump didn't call on him in a press conference. and he again took a swipe at the president's reality tv past. >> he was selecting journalists at random from the other side of the room. at times he was calling on reporters, russian state media, chinese state media. he didn't want to answer questions about cohen. the president staked a lot of his presidency on something much more difficult than reality tv. this is not something that can be wrapped up in a season of the apprentice. >> laura: but, look, he's upset. the president did call on npr, washington post, but just didn't call on him. >> right, right. and the thing that got me, you mentioned this, you ran through by name the media outlets that were called on by the president, and he goes after you as if you

never said this. and i'm thinking, jim, go to the video tape please. pay attention. >> laura: i'm an analyst, a commentator, a host. he's actually posing as a journalist and he gets in the way of maybe he could do some good reports. he has no sense of humor. and most people don't like him as far as i can tell. >> it's the ultimate reality television show, presenting something that's fake and pretending that it's real. but nobody, nobody went to hanoi to answer questions about the circus of cohen. that's not why they were there. >> they like him, best that i could see. i liked him when i was there. truly -- >> laura: but he's become more self-obsessed, hasn't he? he wasn't this self-obsessed a few years ago? i don't know what's going on. >> it seems like trump

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>> laura: well, it's friday, and that means it's time for friday follies. tonight's theme -- interrupting business as usual. joining us now with all the details, raymond arroyo, best-selling author of the brand-new book. there were a few high-profile examples of reporters getting more than they bargained for in the field. >> at the canadian broadcasting

corporation, a reporter was live at a comedy club when actor boyd banks approached. watch. >> they're hoping this town hall will stop this transition, but things are getting a little awkward out here, so i'm going to pass it back to you. >> what a jerk. he nibbled on his ear. he now has come out with a statement. >> laura: can't you immediately defend yourself. >> i would think you can pop this guy in the mouth. he said he needs treatment for his mental health issues. this happens for more frequently than people are aware. he claim that is he's guilty for everything and, like smollett, he has mental health issues. that's the convenient go-to. >> laura: basic manners issues. >> some picked up things they never intend.

he was posted outside the cohen hearing room and an unaware young man didn't know he was live on tv. >> actually winning the job. and you can sit there and say, yeah, but this is an uncredible witness because he had been saying one thing just a few months ago. [laughter] >> oh, my gosh. >> laura: i can hear a friend of mine saying, americans eat in public like this. >> awful, awful. but, laura, sadly, too many people think that reporters are playthings. they see them on tv. so they either relax around them or think they can do these silly things. my hero when it comes to hazing in the field and dealing with this is our own mike tobin. >> ten seconds later, the second explosion goes off. please don't do that.

where he dropped his knapsack. [laughter] >> i love the double hand. please don't do that, without missing a beat. >> laura: he's strong. if anyone comes up you and touches you, you can do a quick elbow. >> once they touch you. >> laura: no, no, no. >> jennifer lawrence stars in a new film called "unbreaking america." it is a celebrity psa that is supposed to acquaint the audience with the corruption in the government and what can we do about it. >> how do we unrig this system? i'm obsessed with this idea. nearly half of american voters are registered as independents. but it all adds up to this vast ring of influence over our elected leaders. it's a corrupt system in which we the people have near zero

influence over our government. that is sad. that is not the country i feel like i grew up in. >> what country do you think you grew up? >> laura: she's only 28 years old. watergate was in the '70s. >> she's advocating an anti-corruption bill. they want automatic voter registration and at-home voting. and they would like to overthrow the electoral college. the corruption act is actually in itself a corruption. >> laura: she said there's a silver lining in that playbook. >> it looks like an american hustle.

>> laura: in the united kingdom, there's a young woman trying to shake parenting up with her new chest feeding kit so men can breastfeed their off spring. >> six weeks before the birth, they start taking a drug. i designed this first as an particularly that it occurs in men. and the main cause of that is the feeling of being left out. >> laura, the kit comes with a breast pump for men and a compression shirt, actually a bra for the guys. there are two rounds of drugs needed to induce, they think, lactation. here's the problem. a man has, according to this, b-cup breasts he could achieve using this protocol. what man wants to have that? he's going to run around in a compression shirt. i'm sorry. >> laura: you're very

intolerant. >> they claim men felt left out of the parenting process. bathe with your child, walk with your child, you are the parent. give me a break. i was offended by this story. >> laura: i did this in 2005 or '06 on my radio show. >> yours is about men who spontaneously lactated. >> laura: men who have wet shirts. they're telling me i've got to get out of this segment. it was a speech that sent shock waves through the entire 2020 democratic field. up next, kudlow joins me to expand on his powerful anti-socialism denunciation. people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it.

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>> i ask you to join president trump and me and the rest, to put socialism on trial and convict it. tax the rich, tax the wealth. wealthy successful people don't pay their fair share. i'm hearing that again. i thought i put that to bed 30 years ago. >> laura: it's like freddy krueger. it just keeps coming back. larry kudlow not only brought the house down at cpac but sent

a warning shot to the democrats. mock as you may, but a new poll finds that nearly two-thirds of registered voters believe that the democratic party support socialism. here now to expand on that message, larry kudlow himself. nice job. >> thank you. appreciate it very much. >> laura: you worked for reagan. i worked for reagan right out of college. and i can't believe this is how the democrats are answering this booming economy with, let's do socialism. why do they do this? why is this the path they're taking? >> well, they've been moving left. it's an odd story, i agree with you. you think they might learn from our success. i was watching a very dear friend who was an obama economist. even he's defending this stuff. it's wrong. it's funny. at the very moment when things

were turning up the last couple of years and the new set of policies of tax cuts and deregulations and opening up energy, and 3% growth and men and women buying small businesses again, they come along with this. it's an act of desperation. it's not going to work. my message is a simple one. we have to put socialism on trial. we have to challenge it. we have to rebut it. we have to put pencil to paper to show what it's going to do to the economy. we have to deal with the moral dimensions of it. and then we must convict socialism. and we should not wait. do not let this fester. let's get going right now and let's do it in a way that's serious. this is a teachable moment. that is our task ahead. it's not just about the election. it's about the whole future of

the country. >> laura: i want to get into what i think president trump could do from now through the 2020 election to try to convince people who might not know about all the wonders of capitalism about why they're going down the wrong path. i want to talk about that in a moment. but it want to share something that one of your dear friends said today. he said, a significant number of voters, including a majority of voters under 30, say they approve of socialism. what americans actually want is what the rest of the world call social democracy, a market economy, but a strong social safety net. they want us to look like denmark or norway, not venezuela. do you care to take that on? >> i do, because i heard this in

the campaign from senator sanders a couple of years ago. what's so interesting, if you go back and look, denmark, norway, sweden, holland have all pulled back from this great social democracy they talk about because they weren't growing. they cut back on regulations. they're now growing. the countries that used to be behind the iron curtain, let's take poland as a perfect example, they're running free-market economies. on the other side, cuba, venezuela, iran, they are using the old soviet-style model. i'm not suggesting that any of these democrats are wanting to consciously go back to the soviet union. that's not my point. my point is, however, when you start talking about a centrally plan and centrally owned --

>> laura: state-owned enterprises. >> it could be. can i just get my trump quote in here? socialism promises prosperity but it delivers poverty. >> laura: but it's wealth and equality. and it's being packaged in this beautiful, beautiful presentation of fairness. it's going to be back to the why is it fair that he's making $598 million. it's back to that. and in college, as you and i know, they're being spoon-fed this drivel about social democracies, even though they're being wiped out across europe. >> top 10% pay 70%. the bottom 50% of taxpayers i

don't pay any taxes. when you live in a prosperous time, those arguments will fail because it's a poverty trap. but we have to make that case. we have to say, look, you want this green new deal, so that means you can't travel, can't get in a car or an airplane. >> laura: storytelling is always problematic for people normally comfortable with charts, decimal points, and numbers. >> you're not going to be able to run the family farm because of regulations. >> laura: you're sticking around for another segment. that never happens. stay there. allergies with sinus congestion and pressure? you won't find relief here. go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritin-d. while the leading allergy spray only relieves 6 symptoms, claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d relieves more.

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>> the truth is, the state of the trump economy is failing america's middle class. >> when you hear the stock market's doing great, wall street's fine, main street not so much, that's a very select group who are benefitting. >> despite what president trump says, this is not a hot economy. >> laura: back with me, white house economic advisor larry

kudlow. larry, this is like candy to a baby. this is so easy, but go ahead, larry. >> we just scored 3.1% growth. that is the best performance in 13, 15 years. on the issue of the rich and so forth, this is a blue-collar recovery. actually, my pal heather long, she absolutely did it. this is a blue-collar recovery. it's the best job performance in the blue collars. they are also -- their wages are rising faster than white-collar wages. do not tell me this is just a rich person's economy. it is absolutely not. this is what we saw with reagan and continued in the '90s more or less but we haven't seen in it 20 years. >> laura: people are now getting their boats completely refitted

ten years ago it was too expensive. this guy said, it trickles down to me. >> people who have been out of the labor force are coming back. >> laura: they're selling snake oil. i'm going to be honest. it's a lie. what they're saying is a lie. and let's go to the point. paul on november 9th, 2016, president wins the election, s histor historic, and he predict as global recession. fast forward two weeks ago, he's basically saying a version of the same thing, over the next two years that we're going to deal with a recession. it is doom and gloom. we're the happy party now. we're like, we can do anything. they are the doom and gloomers, period. >> growth and prosperity and

jobs bring happiness. i think the democrats are making a political mistake. they're dealing with an environment of recession. we're now moving into a new environment of prosperity. look, this debate, socialism, capitalism, this is freedom and opportunity versus statism >> laura: and control. >> and regulation and control. governments don't produce anything. governments should be there as a safety net for the poor. let me make this point. governments don't produce. what trump has done, he has ended the war on success, he has ended the war on businesses. he has restored incentives. so, you work the extra hour, you make the extra investment. >> laura: you get to keep it. we still have a problem. my idea is that the president and a couple of friends of mine were thinking about this. the president gives a series of historic speeches on the tenet

of this pro-growth economic revival miracle speeches for all those young people not getting that education. >> this is a teachable moment. i love that because i think it needs to be done seriously. >> laura: and not as a rally. as a serious, serious talk. >> if you're in your 20's and you're not a socialist, you have no heart. if you're in your 30's and you have no capitalist, you have no mind. these kids are moving into the workforce. they're not working and they will learn about incentives and reward and opportunity and freedom. you're right. the results will show. but i don't want to make it just about a political election. >> laura: it's about the country. this is about what's good for the country. freedom and prosperity versus control and picking your pocket

to give money to others. >> life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. we have that freedom and we must keep it, and america will remain great. >> laura: who said you don't work late, larry kudlow? we'll be back with tonight's twitter smackdown. (woman) candace, two minutes. too late for lunch. starkist saves the day. sweet and spicy tuna in a pouch! smart choice, charlie. (charlie) no drain, no pain. just tear, eat... and go! try all of my tuna, salmon and chicken pouches.

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>> laura: it's time for tonight's twitter smackdown. ♪ >> laura: okay. i have to set the stage for this one. back in october, raymond did a friday follies segment talking about the brett kavanaugh admission that he likes beer. then he tied it into a study on injury-inducing selfies. here's how this segment ended. >> just to bring it all

together, laura, the whole segment. we'll take a selfie. you ready? okay. smile. do we have it? wait. >> laura: go to the edge. go to the edge. the aclu used to care about the rights of accused. >> it's still funny. >> laura: he wasn't hurt. it was a thing called a joke. so, imagine my surprise today when i received this tweet from john v. every time i think of laura, i think of the guy that fell off his chair. i think it's who fell off his chair, but that's okay. and she went straight into the next story. otherwise, thinking i'm heartless. you can't make this up. liberals used to be fun. now they're all tied up by their speech police, thought police. it's called humor. that's all the time we have tonight. [laughs] so funny.

>> don't come near me, ingraham. don't come near me. >> laura: all right. that's all the time we have tonight. shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team take it from here. oh, please. >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. democrats go public, vowing to take all steps necessary to seize president trump's tax returns in a wide-ranging multicommittee investigation. plus, an exclusive report from the editor of a website that says it's seen the glowing book proposal cohen pitched last year. what was in it? it's reported to be in direct contradiction to his testimony. and the president said he was misinterpreted about his comments. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night". i'm shannon bream in