what a week this has been. we will never be the destroy trump, hate media mob. let not your heart be troubled. we'll see you monday. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from a very busy washington. big news from the attorney general. despite democrat claims of a cover up, bill barr is now saying that the full report will be released in just weeks. another narrative of the left is dead.be we'll take you inside the mueller negotiations with donald trump's legal team. new details reveal why obstruction of justice was always going to be a nonstarter for the special counsel. plus, hate crime hoaxer, jesse smollett -- smollett is about to be celebrated. donna brazile will be attending and is here to debate.

particular, are leggings appropriate in church and who is the tallest politician. we begin with the mad media rush to find the elusive next scandal. the week began on a sombre note for our friends in the press. they had to deliver the terrible news that the president of the united states did not conspire with a foreign government to. steal an american election. >> attorney general william barr said the special counsel found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> they found no evidence that the russianeds and people with trump did not clude collude with the russians.>> >> there is an honest level of sadness and disappointment and disorientation. >> it looks like the dogs died. all of their dogs died. they are all depressed. in the aftermath of a two-year

nonstop hype machine, you might think they would take a moment and examine their errors, a a little introspection. little bit of thinking about what went wrong. aceverything that caused them to overreach. if you thought that? you would be wrong. now, they have moved on to cover all of the new trump scandal. the media claims that this ishi all about accountability but to the rest of us, their story choices are obvious. inflict as much pain on the president as possible, no matter how miniscule the story. you don't believe me? take a look at some of the new scandals that they are trying to cook up after the mueller tetdown. first, here is anderson cooper with an alert. >> much more breaking news tonight. up next, the president's nominee for interior secretary gets grilled about our report. the questions surrounding bern hart and the government shutdown, do you buy his reasoning as to why he did that? >> i understand he has a list of

all the people he is not supposed to have contact with. we also learned that he doesn't keep a schedule. his testimony he said he's met with all these environmental people. how does he know that if he doesn't keep a schedule. >> he doesn't keep a schedule oh, my gosh, arrest him. it gets better. still reeling from being exposed as a tinfoil hat wearer, rachel maddow has a new conspiracy to unravel. >> the trump administration actually has no plan to go back to the moon. part of the reason we know this is because mike pence admitted it in another awkward part of his speech. he was just going there to give them a speech. somebody told him, hey, maybe we could do that a couple minutes before he walked on to the stage. he hoped announcing it would make him look like jfk maybe? >> at least she didn't actually

call into question the moon landing. that's good. come on. t at the end of the day, nothing ever compares to your first love. what really got you going, the butterflies, the goosebumps struggling to catch your breath. to the left, mueller, trump and russia are the thing. they just can't quick russia. like clockwork, this is how they ended the week. >> the report is at least 300 pages long.or this story is as good as it is going to get for donald trump right now. we have mr. barr's version of what is criminal and what is not. maybe mr. mueller's assessment of the evidence suggests something else.ri >> they know there are bad things coming their way. mueller couldn't make a call on obstruction. there has to be evidence of wrongdoing that he was worried about, that has to be true even with russian interference. there has to be wrongdoing.

>> you would feel sorry for these folks if they hadn't done such damage to the president and the country. they were exposed as frauds and now they are wish casting in thu mueller report. they haven't learned anything. to believe the theories with all that we have just played, one must hold the following, that bill barr, long-time acquaintance of robert mueller and a george h.w. bushll republican, twisted the conclusions to favor trump in thepu report. further, one must believe that mueller, whose office came out to correct the media on another occasion, has chosen to sit on his hands and let barr apparently just get away with blatant lying to the public. to answer the conspiracy theorists, we thought we would invite some people on who understand how this works. joining me, former white water

deputy independent counsel, guy lewis, a former u.s. attorney who served with attorney general barr at the d.o.j. and johnba sail, former assistant special watergate prosecutor. guys, this big breaking news today was that barr is going to release the report. i guess the latest is mid-april or earlier. saul, what do you make of the freakout we saw from democrats and some of the media that barr was going to be, if not now hiding something. >> barr kind of reminds me a little bit of brare rabbit. throw me into the briar patch speaker pelosi. he made it clear all along that the four-page report or letter he wrote was just interim, that he was going to try to release as much as possible. now, of course, he said he is going to release about 400 pages. i believe, contrary to what the

montage you played of the democratic speakers, i believe the report is going to help president trump, from what i've been able to decide. for example, it is going to show all of the notes and information and evidence they turned over and the witnesses they made available to bob mueller on thed obstruction and collusion questions. i think they are wrong across the board here. >> guy, i want to go to you. joe scarborough over at msnbc was one of these people. the reason we are playing these soundbites, is because we think it is important for the american people to know who is giving them repeatedly fals information or false prognostications. >> you are trying to defend the indefensible. hiding behind donald kohn while trying to keep from the americae

people the mueller report.ue they set themselves up to look like fools every single day. >> laura: guy, you know barr really well without using the word fool to describe the a for mentioned host of the morning show.re >> laura, it is almost hard for me to listen to that with a straight face.ra this is a guy, an attorney general, former attorney general, current attorney general, who is straight as an arrow. we worked with him. i worked with him when we were trying noriega down here in miami. that guy, as the attorney general, was super engaged crossed ts, dotted is, cared deeply about making sure we did things right and proper. he followed the law.

he followed the facts. the guy was everything that you could want in an attorney general. to suggest -- here is what really is hard for me to believe. to put out a straightforward no-nonsense letter, which he read it.se it was so no-lawyer. it said, basically, let me quote from the mueller report, there is no evidence of collusion. not there is weak evidence. the evidence is questionable. some could read it one way or another way. there is no evidence, zero evidence. having been a prosecutor for a long time, i cannot think of a grand jury investigation that i conducted that went on for two years and i concluded at the end of that investigation that there was no evidence, zero evidence. >> john, i want to go to you because we are learning more

about the internal struggle special counsel desperately wanted to get trump in an interview. they wanted -- they were thinking of subpoenaing him. they wanted testimony from trump. they couldn't get anything on obstruction. there was a back and forth and a former lawyer, john dowd, for trump, is speaking out for thewd first time since the end of the mueller investigation. he spoke with byron york in a new podcast. he took us inside the back ande forth on this deal with trying to interview the president. >> he said, john, i need to know what was in the president's hand. you already do. you knew in real time. >> laura: what you are worried about, he did it on camera. what are you worried about? they were never going to get trump to be interviewed.

>> laura, i was on your show and i said, why isn't the president entitled to the presumption of innocence. i recognize it is not a court of law. 36 hours we get, as guy referred to, no collusion. regarding a statement from the president, let me say something and i would ask guy to confirm this, when somebody's conduct ic being looked at, whether you want to call them a subject or whatever the lawyer's terminology is, prosecutors conduct every single day thorough investigations. they leave no stone unturned. they conclude their investigation oneto way or the other.un they indict or they don't indict without a statement from theey person they are investigating. rudy giuliani, i will disclose he is my friend. he said on one show a few months ago, although the president said he had no problem giving them a statement, it would be over rudy's dead body. he did a heck of a job and so did jay secalo than a lot of the critics.

they gather evidence of corrupt intent through surrounding circumstances. they never get the statement of a subject. this is all just a red herring. >> laura: it is. i think it is fascinating. dowd also recalled what he had told the special counsel's office when mueller's team threatened, and i'll have sol g' on this, threatened to subpoena trump. let's listen. >> i said, go ahead. i want to hear what you tell the court as your basis to do it when you don't have a crime. sou've just told me this guy doesn't have any exposure. what are you going to tell a u.s. district judge? we are going to move to quash this thing.. jay and his team were ready to do it. we were ready to do it if you want to do it. he dropped it and then he backed off. he said, don't get upset.

>> sol, you have been on the other side of this. did the president's team not play this brilliantly?en it seems like they did to me. they said go ahead and balked in the special counsel's office. >> they knew the law. i was on your show several times back during this period. i said if i were advising the president, i would not have him go in and talk to bob mueller. i also discussed the espy case which is the controlling law in the d.c. circuit which dowd discussed which said you can't just come in and subpoena the president. you have to make a predicate showing.nd one thing dowd reveals, which is very important in that interview with byron, is that part of the espy test is you first have to show there is a serious crime. >> laura: right. >> mueller had just come in and said at least with respect to the president, there is no crime. i thought that there was a real chance that he would lose

mueller, if he took it to court. it would certainly take a lot of time. i think it was exactly the right strategy.ly if i could point something else out, it is not just -- dowd made an earlier statement. they gave them hundreds of pages of contemporaneous notes from don mcgahn to the lady's name annie donaldson, contemporaneous notes of the president. mcgahn discussing the case. they handed all of that over to mueller. that's very strong evidence of intent. i would rather have contemporaneous notes of what the president said than what he is thinking about a year later. >> laura: bingo. i am so glad you raised that sol. thank you so much, panel, all of you, fantastic as always. >> laura: now, the refrain from the media and democrats about the crisis at our border has been eerily consistent the past

few weeks. >> there is no crisis at the border. >> illegal immigration is at historical lows. there is no crisis at the border. >> where is the crisis at the border? >> it is preposterous, frankly chuck. that's the first question the president is going to have to answer. where is the emergency? >> laura: oh, my gosh, a level of idiocy. it is dangerous. let's hear from the customs commissioner. >> i briefed the media and testified in congress that our immigration system was at the breaking point. that breaking point has arrived this week at our border. on monday and tuesday, we started the day with over 12,000 migrants in our custody. as of this morning, that number was 13,400. a high number for us is 4,000. a crisis level is 6,000.

>> laura: now, perhaps more troubling for the first time in more than a decade, cbp is forced to release migrants into the u.s. because of overcrowding. joining me now, tom holman former acting director of i.c.e. and current fox news contributor. tom, you and i have been hitting this issue. it is a derogation of duty on the part of congress. the president is trying to raise the alarm. congress refuses to change the law. >> we have to remember something, the men and women on the border patrol, they don't want to release these people. these people enter the country illegally. they want to hold them to citi t judge. the ninth circuit has tide their hands on that. the democrats refuse to accept this as a national crisis. the border patrol is in a tough spot. the men and women are doing a very difficult job. >> laura: they only have 3,000 beds for family units.

i think they took in 40,000 over the last two months. >> i read some news articles some of the democratic leaders are saying the trump administration is making this worse than it is to try to raise awareness. >> 14,000 family units come in 3,000 beds. do the math. most of them are being released. democrats are saying the administration isn't prepared. they refuse to fund i.c.e. the number of beds and give border patrol one position on the fy 18 or 19 budget. they have shut down this administration. >> laura: it is open borders that's what we have sadly. jay johnson, obama's secretary of dhs, said it is a crisis today. >> it is. >> laura: anyone saying it is not a crisis, you are lying just as you are lying about the mueller report.

what can be done? you mentioned the president can ordered to everybody who has an outstanding order of deportation, find them, get them out of the country. that's one thing. >> i did when i was director of i.c.e. i can go out there and people had due process at the taxpayer's expense. a federal judge ordered them removed. if they don't mean anything there is no integrity. remove them. i did it 3 1/2 years ago and it resulted in a decrease in crossings. >> tom holman, we appreciate youre clarity on this. >> laura: hate crime hoaxer jussie smollett is going to be praised. a big announcement ahead. you don't want to miss this one. stay there. >> tech: at safelite autoglass,

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state's attorney's office to unexpectedly drop all charges against jussie smollett in the hate crime hoax. tonight, we have learned that jussie may still get his day in court. rahm emanuel is demanding the actor pay the city $130,000 to recoup the cost of the fraudulent investigation. tmz reporting that smollett's team says they will not comply setting up a showdown in civil court. joining me now, fox 32 anchor and reporter rafer weigel. he has been on this story from the very beginning. from what you are hearing, is there any chance that the chicago cops or the mayor let this case go? >> absolutely not. you have to look at the theater that rahm emanuel is getting out of this. i understand he is upset with kim foxx. there are a lot of people looking at rahm with a bit of a side eye. he has raised his profile by beating the drum against

smollett. there is a municipal code that says you can sue. if they don't pay him for $130,000. that's just for the overtimeou not just cost of the investigation. they can sue him for three times that amount. rahm is getting a lot of political mileage. when you think about a case that became so politicized, so polarized politically, racially captured the attention of the entire world and somehow it got hijacked into a discussion about corruption. only in the city of chicago would that happen. >> laura: $130,000 is a lot of money to most people.f it is a huge amount of money. to a guy who makes an enormous amount of money in the entertainment industry, it is to him not that much in the scheme of things. i'm kind of wondering why he wouldn't just writech the check.

>> that would be admission of guilt. i think right now it is a lot of posturing and a lot of ego. jussie smollett feels that he won. let's be honest. he did win as the gentlemen who you had on earlier, kim foxx did not just drop the charges. she essentially tried to make this case go away. she sealed the court order. the other day, they tried to expunge the record and erase it completely. in order to do that, they would have to unseal the case record and reporters like myself and our freedom of information act request would be granted and everybody would see the evidence police had on smollett and they didn't want that. that's why that is notyb happening. >> laura: i know there is a protest planned.di the police union put out the posting last night and we put it up on our show, 11:00 a.m. on monday against kim foxx, forst what they believe is the

besmirching of the police in chicago and complete disrespect for the work they did and the effort they put into this, the man hours, et cetera. what do you expect to happen there? >> i expect it to be a pretty big protest. the reason we are still talking about this, laura, the fallout you and i talked on tuesday. what we saw was uncharted territory.kiy. look at what happened with the nationalaw district attorney's association, the illinois, ipba also slamming kim foxx. i don't mean slamming. they sliced and diced and just really took her to task for what she did. this woman has ruined herself politically and professionally and is right now, she is political kryptonite. we are still trying to figure out why. we are scratching our heads. i've talk today a couple of people that cover politics here long-time journalists and people inside city hall. the thinking is that kim foxx may have compromised herself in some way so badly that she had to make this case go away. c

so whatever it is that she didn't want coming out was probably, actually worse than the outcome that happened to her now. it is hard to imagine there being anything worse than that. don't think we have heard the last of this.hi this is an investigation into corruption or potential corruption, i should say. >> laura: it seems like it is changing by the day. we will check back with you later. at this hour, smollett is hanging out in hollywood ahead of naacp report where he is nominated as an supporting actor in a drama. they are condemning this and demanding the ncaa drop the nomination. co-chair, horace cooper, went after the group on our show on wednesday. >> he is proving privilege isn'n about your race or gender. people who are elites, like these hollywood types, they are able to come in.

there is a divide in america. it is between main street and these elites. it is about time that people recognize what's really going on. it starts with the naacp. >> laura: joining me now brand new fox news contributor, donna brazile. it is great to have you on. should jussie still be nominated? >> first of all, i got you this shirt, laura. i hope to bring it back to you next week. everybody is excited to be here at the naacp image award. this is the 50th anniversary. i'm excited to be here. my colleagues and i, you have talked about our book, for colored girls who consider politics. we are up for two awards tonight. >> laura: donna, i get that. we are proud of you for that. what about jussie. that was a nice dodge. we are not proud of jussie.

what's going on with him faking a crime and getting a big nomination? what's going on there? >> he received the nomination before he faked his crime,ible. as you know, i have had so many. emotions about the fact that perhaps he was a victim of a homophobic racist attack. >> laura: you still believe that? >> laura, you have known me for a long time. i am so baffled, upset and baffled. i'm baffled because, you know, i know kim. she is someone who does her homework. she knows how to prosecute crimes. >> laura: this is a disaster. >> this is a high-profile mess. everyone. >> laura: donna, donna, it is not enough to say, just as my friend, we have gone out to dinner. that's ridiculous.

we have a situation. if this were a white guy who said that two black guys approached him and screamed cracker and smashed him over the head and put something around his neck and poured something on him, the country would be protests everywhere that this guy needs to get the book thrown at him and i would be leading the protest. anyone who fakes a hate crime does a real disservice to those that are truly the victims of hate crimes. if the shoe was on the other foot, they would be going crazy on all fronts. that's the deal. >> as someone who understands the hatred and vitriol that's out there, i get it. i expressed the same thing on the bill maher show. this is a serious offense. we still don't know a lot. we don't know anything about the

two guys. owas seeing this morning that they might have had on ski masks or white face. i have never even heard of that. >> laura: donna, donna -- >> this has been a tough week. mercury is in retrograde. michael avonnati and now jussie smollett. >> laura: are you actually telling me that you believe what jussie's lawyer went on tv in front of the cameras, on "the view" or something. she comes out and says, we saw a video once of them in white face, because there was a video online at one point of them in white face. she magically infers that they could have been in white face that night with no video evidence of that whatsoever. if this is a big question mark jussie should say, unseal the records. if he was saying, unseal the records, i want to defend myself, that would be different.

>> if he decides to come to the naacp, i don't know. i'm not buying his ride.my if he decides to come and he goes on that red carpet, he better have something to say. he is diverting attention awaye from all the great people that are up for awards and diverting attention from a mayoral race on tuesday and all of the kids and adults who have been murdered in chicago and we have not heard k about that. you remember, laura, you and i are almost the same age. you are a few months younger. who is counting. i'm going to try to look good on that red carpet. >> laura: whatever. >> i am going to be a fox woman. 24 years ago, laura, if you recall, o.j. got away with

quote, unquote, he got away if this is due process, we need to hear about the process. i am baffled. >> laura: the mayor and the police chief don't think it is due process nor do most police or prosecutors i have talked about. donna, you have fun at the naacp awards. i want this t-shirt and i want it signed by spike lee. his wife went to law school with me. tell him i said hi. >> they come in black and white. i bought you black, because i know you. god bless you. >> god bless you too, boo. >> laura: start placing your bets. we have some news on the royal baby name. is it time for women to lose the leggings? a college mom thinks so and things get ugly on campus. that and a lot more with raymond arroyo next.

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fighting for your right to wear leggings. a brand-new scandal. the worlds tallest politician. jamie with all the details. what is the big fuss about girl wearing leggings and a mom upse at notre dame. >> at the university of notre dame. mother of one of the students wrote a letter to the editor r of the newspaper. she suggested that young women should rethink wearing leggings particularly at mass. she says they are an unforgivig garment. i wonder why no one thinks it is strange that the fashion industry has caused women to expose their nether regions in this way. they said, you are trying to tell us. she said, you have a choice and you should rethink this.

they had a leggings pride day organized by a group that has no recognition by the university. it exploded. my question is, most people don't look good in leggings. i don't care who you are. i will say that for men in biker shorts. most people look like mashed potatoes in a hefty bag. >> laura: even men, conan o'brien found that out. i have to say, why isn't that mom able to express her truth? everyone said this, is my truth this is my choice. okay. it is a mother's right to say you know something, i have two teenage sons. we don't need to be looking at your midriffs and every crevice in your behind, as beautiful as you are. >> if you have a long sweater that's okay.

>> if you're at the gym working out, that's okay. >> yoga pants have become a fashion choice. >> laura: banish the term athleisurewear. >> just when you thought it was safe to go back to the mall, aar fashion house called 41 project has just unveiled what they call janties, denim panties. in the french, they would call it day-long chafing. why would you put that on? >> laura: the description says you can wear it under or over pants. now, do you wear that over leggings? >> i wouldn't wear it at all. this is uncomfortable. >> laura: the best is lululemon charged $100 for spandex. >> in england, book makers are all a flutter over the name of the new royal baby, meghan

markle and prince harry's child. >> they are betting diana, 10-1 red hot favorite and then have a look at arthur. that is, without a doubt, the best batch of all the boys names. >> laura: arthur? >> markle says they have planned on raising their child as gender neutral, pat, avery, dana, drew lane, lee, alex, andy, carson charlie, or rowen. >> laura: since when is drew -- >> drew barrymore.e. >> laura: i think you have to move beyond any name to just numbers now. a number have a story. >> laura: speaking of gender neutrality. the first genderless voice appeared this week. it is attempting to replace the gender specific voices, very

limiting for siri and alexa. >> hi, i'm q. think of me like siri or alexa but neither male or female. >> laura: that's like a fried egg. >> they claim voices like siri or alexa are reinforcing binaryy gender choices and this would break that stereotype in ai. >> laura: that reminded me of "the voice" in that old matthew broderick movie "the war games." >> nobody saw that movie. >> laura: yes, they did. >> guiness book of world records counselman from brooklyn as the world's tallest politician. >> we are here to bring honor to someone who has brought politics to new heights. >> the whole process took two years. as a man over 50, i thought osteoporosis would set in and i would lose the record.

>> others claim they are taller. there is the mayor of warnsville heights, he claims to be 7 feet. yao ming is a delegate and he is 7'6". he may well be the tallest politician inmi the world, laur. >> laura: i always think of coach seating. >> why are they fighting over this? >> laura: we will send your family some of the janties. the worst media offenders of the week much "the ingraham angle" has its eyes on you. the tape you don't want to miss next. you.

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>> laura: it's easy to become numb to media bias. "the ingraham angle" is keeping track of the worst offenders each week. joining me now are david harfani, a senior editor and d brian russell, tv host and media critic. let's begin with the obvious. the trump russia collusion hoax.

not only did the big media fail completely this week but some say it is as bad as it was with wmd and the iraq reporting. amazingly, the week began with the media defending themselves. let's watch. >> what would you have had media do over the past two years when donald trump lied throughout the 2016 campaign about his contacts with russia? >> that's what hundreds of journalists have been doing trying to solve pieces of this trump russia puzzle. speculation has value too. it helps open our eyes and minds to what's possible. >> the media and press has done one of the great reporting jobs in the history. >> laura: by the end of the week, they took to lashing out with cheap shots. >> they don't know what point we started actually feeling sorry for him. he looked so sad and weak up there.

he is swinging wildly. he is just disgusting to look at. he is obese. i wish we could put that picture of him from behind. he is one of the repulsive physically looking human beings i have seen. >> laura: the road to credibility isn't paved with insults, right? >> they are a manifestation of frustration on their part.. they spent two years perpetuating this crazy story that didn't work out for them in any way. >> laura: we are crazy now. the people that are actually pointing out, you were wrong and you weren't just wrong, you accused the president basically, of treason on a regular basis. >> it is not media bias. .edia bias, we have. we know how to deal with that. this is something far beyond that. they tried to overturn an election, helping the democratic party overturn an election. >> laura: brian, over at cnn they were doing the best they could, i guess. we were doing yo manman's work

and speculation is part of journalist or whatever it was he said. if the shoe was on the other foot and obama had been accused of treason, literally treason wow. i can't imagine what the response of the media would havg been it it was conservative media doing that. >> yes. speculation has value. i'll engage in some speculation. i speculate that those guys are colluding with democrats to manipulate the outcome of the 2020 election. how is that for value and speculation? what about this fat shaming of the president? i thought fat shaming was a big no-no on the left. if that's all they have got left, then i would say the fat lady has sung on this whole trump russia bogus scandal. the opera is over. the good guy won. these guys ought to be shamed for fat shaming. t >> laura: they have no shame. let's move on to physical

threats against the president. >> if the bully gets close, i'll punch the bully in the mouth. >> just like that? >> just like that. >> let's take a look at jim acosta's face. this is the face of a reporter for cnn smirking when the governor of puerto rico said he wanted to punch trump in the face. what do you think of that smug look? not that we thought acosta was objective. >> whether it is joe biden saying he wishes he could have taken the president out behind the school house and beaten him up in high school or this guy saying he wants to punch the president in his mouth. i ask myself, who is hearing that thinking, that's my team. that's the team i want to root for. now, i know at least one person jim acosta. he probably has bobbleheads of these guys in his office.

>> laura: they do seem to be grasping for a new russian collusion, something. okay. it has to be the inauguration or it's puerto rico. it's like throwing spaghettir against the wall. it always slides down. >> if anyone had said that about hillary clinton or obama, we would have a national discussion dabout violence. you are right. that's why they are clamoring to see the report. they can't wait to latch on to so redacted part or some sentence to pretend they were right the whole time. you can't spend two years doing this and say we were wrong and move on. they are all in and there is no way out. >> laura: finally, the msnbc spin on the smollett shocker this week. >> here, you have a police department that is known for lying and covering up and yet they were outraged at the fact that jussie smollett may have lied and may have covered something up.

the irony was there. >> laura: brian, it is the police department that did all this investigation for 1,000 hours. i guess it's their fault there. >> as the son of the cop i am my dad was a career law enforcement officer, this just makes me angry for all the good cops that are out on the streetl of chicago tonight, which is almost all of them, to take the narcissistic, self-entitled sociopathic waist waste of time that smollett pulled and try to turn it into an indictment of the cops shows how anti-cop msnbc's legal analyst really is. >> laura: stetler doubled down on that idea saying we don't know what happened. >> this is the same thing with trump and russia, a media that wants to believe things and does. they don't show enough skepticism at the very least. >> laura: david, brian, thank you so much. great to see you. coming up, i have an exciting announcement for you.

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