we appreciate it. i wish we had another four hours. i mean, so much news. but all of this is coming, let not your heart be troubled. we'll never be the hate rage destroyed trump media and let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham is in the swamp tonight. >> laura: i thought of a new thing for you. hate trump, rage against melania, infuriating -- >> sean: the hate rage trump media mob. it flows. >> laura: want to put -- that want to put kids in cages. you have to do a whole last block -- >> sean: rush limbaugh says drivebyes. use that one. >> laura: great show. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. king woman ilhan omar as you'lly dismissing the atrocities of 9-11 and now she's claiming bigots are attacking her for it.

a heated debate on this ahead. plus, why was obama's intel czar, jim clapper, so quick to attack attorney general bill barr after he revealed that the trump team was spied upon? an ingram angle investigation ahead. and the fall of michael avenatti. the media shield add man that was on the wrong end of 36 federal indictments today. first, dems fail the vision test. that is the focus of tonight's angle. yesterday gave us a bird's eye view of how starkly different the president's priorities are from those of the democrats. now, yesterday the president headed to texas to focus on two important issues. first, illegal immigration and second the energy sector. he had a couple fund raisers.

in washington, congressional democrats worked open their agenda which was harassing bill barr about the mueller report and, well, this. there he is. the goofy house intel committee chair, adam schiff taking a selfie like a junior high school girl at the house democrat's retreat. look at that. in the background there are two trump hating elites from tinsel town. john legend and chrissy thiigen. >> it's laughing through the pain. but it's also important to balance that and be able to say where that true pain is. >> chrissy was ahead of the curve on making fun of donald trump. >> i was. thank you. >> she knew well-before a lot of america did that he was a joke

and a con man and a clown. i think she was making fun of him early, long before he thought about running for president. >> laura: very classy if not grammatical. i think he means pressient. but who is counting? in houston, donald trump was hanging out with a different crowd. visiting a union training center for operating engineers. the president signed a pair of orders that will cut red tape for companies seeking to build oil and gas pipelines. >> with incredible grit and talent and spirit, you lay the pipes that power our industries, you raise the beams that build our skyscrapers. and you are the men and women that get up every day and make this country run and frankly make this country great. you do a great job.

[cheers & applause] >> laura: now, it's funny, isn't it, how democrats are spending millions on campaign consultants and these retreat things they're doing and trying to attract more of the hard had voters that were with trump yesterday. but it's not a new slogan or a slick marketing campaign that blue collar voters want. what they want are policies that help business and put more money in their pockets. yesterday showed that trump isn't anti-union, by the way. he's pro worker. >> union training opportunities have given me a chance to better my operating engineer. making more money. building retirement. security. and having good healthcare. this opportunity at this international training center is going to pay my dividends. it has been a great experience. we appreciate what you've done, president trump, to grow this

industry. thank you. [cheers & applause] >> laura: that applause went on for quit awhile. i'll talk that hard-hatter, brandon cooper, and his co-workers over hollywood any day. i bet they're more fun. would nancy? >> i was reminiscing with chrissy and john on the way over when we won the house the first time, they were there and gauged on their way to italy to be married. went to italy. whether it was an event for us here, there and everywhere or at the democratic national convention or at the celebration of our victory. john legend and chrissy have been there for us. >> laura: now trump doesn't have to bug for applause. pelosi has to beg for applause. interesting. nothing says working class america like fawning over

celebrities turned self-appointed political pundits. >> mental health lies. it's been really hard for me to deal with this presidency. there's no other way to say it. i think it's possible to be really angry all the time. i think it's possible to constantly want to call out all the transgressions and all the lies. >> i've heard that people with anger issues seem to blame others for causing them. you can't find any joy in your life until trump is out of office? sounded like that. if that is true that is truly sad. it's frankly not our problem. back in texas, the president was speaking with real americans who had stories to tell that were truly sad. ranchers that described in vivid detail the bodies of illegal immigrants that they found on their property the past year.

the president was so moved and so affected about the humanitarian problem at the border and all the pain that it caused local communities that he decided in a closed door event to bring the press in. >> i said what can i do for you folks to create more jobs? we start talking. the first person that said sir, we have many people dying coming across the border. we find dead people from guatemala, honduras, el salvador. you should cover it right. this has nothing to do with politics. this has nothing to do with campaigning our my campaign. totally unexpected i have you in here. >> laura: you see, we do have an empathetic president. he's actually trying to solve a real problem.

that are open borders are creating. he genuinely is interested in hearing from americans that are dealing with the fall-out of our failed border enforcement. every single day. pelosi, schiff and the entire open borders caucus, they prefer to pretend the crisis is not a crisis. hang out at the democratic retreat and go to your yoga sessions that leaves more time to hear from the real experts. >> donald trump treats everything like it's an episode of -- what is that movie? the village. where there's this wall and this -- these monsters to keep outside that we shouldn't talk to our we shouldn't have anything to do with because we're in this wall. >> laura: brilliant. yeah, that's why the president said the wall should have a big beautiful door, for people to come in legally. do they not remember that? while the democrats cater to the entertainment elites, it's not a

big surprise. obama did it, too. the president is working for the forgotten men and women of america. he hasn't accomplished everything he set out to do yet. we have huge problems bearing down on us still. this country is better by almost every measure under his leadership. certainly no reason to be so angry. the democrat's vision by contrast seems dark and mad. they're infuriated all the time. they see an america where racism and misogyny reigns supreme. >> if there's one world that women use more frequently, what would that word be? >> [bleep] you. [laughter] >> you're very good at this. i'm sorry. >> you're very good at this. >> laura: that's what our young girls need. just the message for those hard hats in texas. that's what they've been waiting

for, all the blue collar people. i think not. democrats better find a good eye doctor from their russian obsession to embrace of open borders to green lighting and fantacide. they keep failing the vision test for middle america. that's the angle. joining me now with reaction, steve scalise and texas lieutenant governor dan patrick that spent his day with president trump. steve scalise, i have a question for you. has the gop policy retreat ever centered on a celebrity telling you to curse more? >> no. what you saw there is such a contrast between why they fail so much and i thought it was inappropriate term you used because tomorrow marks the 100th day of nancy pelosi's speakership and defined by nothing but failure. failure to secure the border. failure to focus on lowering

healthcare costs. failure to end infantacide. i'm here in new york. all i've heard today is anger about what rep omar continues to do, to not only offend jewish people but now victims of 9-11 and their families. one thing after another. they continue to want to harass president trump and not deal with the real issues while president trump is not only meeting with blue collar workers but helping create more jobs. he's created more women-owned businesses, raise wages for families. that's what he's going to keep working on and that's what he was elected to do while they focus on trying to harass him and his family and not focus on the problems. >> laura: a dan patrick with the president all day yesterday. i was thinking of you. i've known you for years. you focus on a problem and try to get it solved like scalise does. these democrats today had a panel discussion -- yesterday

when it kicked off. it was called who are the people? that was the name of the panel discussion. they kicked it off. it was moderator hosted by a yale professor and a harvard professor. nothing against them. i went to an ivy league school. it's funny. you can't write that line. >> that's not exactly middle america. laura, when i was with the president all day yesterday, one of the things that struck me at both locations, first of all, when we were with the union workers, i said to a few people at the time, one man, donald trump, in just a few years has transformed the entire republican party to no longer be seen as the wealthy of the party or the elite but the party of the people. the hard-working americans. the left, the democrats have moved away from them as you have said about they're about to get a butt kicking in 2020. the people that were on that stage from the union yesterday, they love this president. when we drove in to crosby,

texas, it was like a fourth of july parade. thousands along the route. when we were in san antonio in the morning and the first person spoke up and said the president -- the president said what can we do for you, gene powell said we need to build the barrier. people talked about finding dead bodies on their property. i said to the president, mr. president, we have recovered over 1,000 dead bodies in texas since 2011 just out of nowhere, in the middle of nowhere. >> laura: he was stunned. >> we did the checking. 1,671 dead bodies have been recovered in texas near and along the border. women, children, old people. these are the most vulnerable people. the democrats say they care about people? these are the most vulnerableable. the drug cartels and the human

smugglers have taken across the border, give them water and left them to die. that 1, 671, that's the skeletal remains that we found. there's thousands and thousands of people. so he called in the media. we said this is the story. you want a story? i'll take them through the no man's land. wele find some skeletons and show them the photographs. it really impacted the president. >> laura: julian castro was out there today. he had a different take. >> we're going to treat migrants like human beings. we have to choose between a border that is secure and compassion. he paints a picture of cities like el paso and maccallum and other border cities unsafe.

the truth is these are some of the safest cities in the entire country. >> laura: congressman scalise, we know how open borders has affected communities. some can absorb more people. when we have 150,000, approximately, that's what they're forecasting for april, in one month crossing illegally, that is just not fair to any community, near or around the border. >> it's not only unfair to communities across this country, what about the millions waiting to come here legally? the people that are following the rules? in every country, you can imagine from around the world, people that want to seek their piece -- >> laura: they don't care about them. >> they're waiting years. democrats that are open-border democrats want is the ability for just anybody to come across wherever they want without a system of laws. you look at the drugs. look at the human trafficking that is so real that dan talks about.

what he's doing to help highlight this and showing president some areas -- >> laura: you have hollywood celebrities lecturing us versus real americans that are doing the hard labor, the actual manual labor that keeps this economy going or people that are property owners dealing with livestock, who are saying this is what we're dealing with. these are human bodies we're finding every month of every year. because of this broken border. they're just like laughed at. this is not an emergency? castro saying we're not compassionate? this lunacy. >> most americans want a secure border. that's what this president is doing. he ran on it, got elected on it. they don't like that fact, but the american people sent him to do this job and he's carrying out. >> laura: democrats don't get it. thanks, gentlemen. we could have you on for the hour. so fascinating. we told you about how democrats are now realizing that they

might need these working class white americans to win again. but do visuals like last night help? joining me now to understand this, former dnc chair ed rendell. we got a huge response last time you came on and for good reason. you have a lot of common sense. lock at problems, look at situations and assess them. but the democrats, when was born, the democrats, this is the party of the little guy. they were working for the working people. now they're hobnobbing with the celebrities as a policy retreat. probably had them performing. but offering policy advice? is that politically advisable? >> no, it's not, laura. but you have to be fair. you're saying the democrats bring in these celebrities. if i recall, didn't president trump have kim kardshian in the oval office? they're not working class dudes.

>> laura: yeah. also -- i think that produceable tangible results, correct? >> kanye west? >> laura: i'm talking about kim kardshian and the criminal justice reform. that one woman, who is a big democrat, released from prison who has been an inspirational figure. i'm not wild about -- >> in the oval office? >> laura: i'm not wild about it, except for elvis and nixon. that was cool. when you bring them to a democrat retreat, governor, you know what i'm talking about. your first panel is called "who are the people." that was a panel discussion. who are the people. and what you spend your time salivating over is people viciously insulting donald trump? we get it. you don't like trump. you get it. what is next? >> yeah, and i think it's --

celebrities have a place, support candidates, help you raise money. if they care about an issue, as you said kim kardshian did, they can do that but they make no sense. i don't want to hear that donald trump is a compassionate president. is this the guy that threw paper towels out to hurricane victims in puerto rico? >> laura: are you kidding me? are you honestly saying that when the president that had an unbelievable reception when he was there, he was tossing out stuff -- he had a great reception in the center where he visited. i get what the left does. >> you didn't think it was demeaning? >> laura: that's -- again, i'm about to take back my comment that you were so pragmatic. the president has done more for the working people than the

democrats did in eight years under president obama. he's done more for the working people. you can take a snippet about complain about the paper towels. that doesn't prove jack about what this president has done. >> it shows a lack of compassion. you're saying he's compassionate. >> he's extremely compassionate. >> you -- >> laura: is that all you have? is the paper towels all you have? is that it? >> he promised us during the campaign that he would do a tax cut that would benefit the middle class. >> laura: so you don't think the middle class is better off than two years ago? they're not -- the economy is not doing better? >> the tax cut, 60% of the nation got less benefits from the tax cuts than the top 1%. that 60% has the working people you're talking about. >> laura: i think we should cut taxes again. you want to go on board again? i'm all for another tax cut. let's cut taxes and cut spending. >> i'm all for cutting taxes for

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the senate hearing that trump was in fact spied on during the campaign, the unhinged response was swift. i think the most telling reaction though was from former obama director of the national intelligence jim clapper what he said. >> rather disappointed that the attorney general would say such a thing. we're focusing on this circus about, you know, whether or not somebody was spying on the campaign. spying has a term i have never liked. i never liked that term being applied to me. it's a cajortive team. >> laura: why would clapper be so defensive about this term? maybe because the document said that he spread the document around like it was a note in class. after denying that suggestion,

clapper subsequently acknowledged discussing the dossier with cnn journalist jake tapper and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic. now, is it because he recklessly claimed that trump was a puppet of vladimir putin? >> this past weekend is an example of what he's doing to the president. >> laura: is this because this is a sensitive subject for him? remember, this is the man that lied to congress against mass surveillance on american citizens. now he's used as a credible source to discuss elicit spying on a presidential campaign? that's rich. joining me now is john yu and professor at u.c. berkeley and ken starr, a former whitewater

independent counsel. ken, this looks like a new battle brewing between the obama intel folks and the new trump doj team. >> well, there seems to be hyper sensitivity, laura. here's my take. i'm being precient or whatever that word was. >> laura: nice pick-up, ken. >> here's my take. bill barr knows something, laura. he knows something. he said, i have a concern, and i believe i have a basis for that concern. anyone that knows bill bar knows he doesn't just say things. he thinks about them and he's careful about what he says and i think if bill barr says i think there's a basis for my concern, he doesn't say what it is. he said i'm not going to say what it is. that is a stay tuned, america.

>> laura: john, there was -- staying on the clapper for a moment. way to play a flashback and something he said about this whole deal. let's watch. i think we have it. we have it -- >> the other thing, i started to look into trump's ties to russia in the summer of 2016. he said it's spying, bigger than waterga watergate. so was the fbi spying on trump's campaign? >> no, they were not. i can't speak specifically, allison, to what the fbi did. >> laura: do you think that this guy is in any way a credible source of intelligence information at this point? one story then and another story now. >> it's ridiculous for him to say it's not spying. if president trump ordered clapper's e-mails and phone

calls to be secretly read by agents, he would be the first one accusing the president spying on him. of course the government is spying on the trump campaign. we shouldn't be upset if it's called spying or not. what we should be upset is the red line that the justice department and the intelligence agencies under obama, include manager clapper, authorized its use on a presidential campaign. that is a red line that had never been crossed since water gate. that's we have the courts and the fisa statutes. so i agree with judge starr. if the attorney general mentioned that this was going on, i would be worried if i were clapper about the changing stories and worried if i was were some of the officials in the obama, doj, cia that were misusing the authorities to supply on a presidential campaign. >> laura: and the thing in the media today is about the fact

that bill barr said he thinks there was spying on the campaign. that's what they were all upset about. how dare he say what he thinks before they did an investigation? how dare -- he's a puppet of trump. jo scarborough is trashing him again. they're demeaning a man with an impeccable record. >> it's a very classic overreaction. it's also unfair. i was very pleased to see the way james comey soft pedalled this. here's another key take-away from what bill barr said as opposed to the characterizations and the somewhat hysterical reaction. that is he did not say anything to suggest that the fbi as an institution was implicated or corrupted. he did said there appears to be a problem with the former leadership. there we have it.

the fbi is you know is filled with men and women of integrity. they deserve better leadership. they're getting it. we have an attorney general that is frankly going to clean house. >> laura: i love it, this question applies to both of you. both of you, ken starr, was at pepperdine, baylor. i talked about this yesterday. the left to both of you is trying to make former trump officials into pariahs. they'll never be able to work again. they have petitions urging ceos and universities not to give them jobs. this is what msnbc's chris hayes said last night. >> we have lived through a george w. bush administration and when someone like john yoo wrote a legal memo that facilitated the u.s. implementing torture, which is a war crime. john yoo is at berkeley of all

places. john yoo dodging through drum singles on his way to class. >> laura: john, your response. >> i didn't see that. thanks for bringing it to my attention. i got to say nobody told me that one of the perks of being in the government would being second guessed by some pipsqueak at msmbc. the serious point is, we're sending men and women to afghanistan, some to die, to stop a future terrorist attack. i wanted to do my small part as a lawyer, to make sure that they had the tools at their disposal to stop the next attack. that's what we did in the bush administration and there were no other successful attacks. the obama administration stopped these policies and we've had a litany of attacks. >> laura: they never want people to work again. they never want people to be

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>> laura: the democratic three stooges are at it again. there's a three-step process to this strategy. step one, make an outrageously

offensive statement. >> care was founded after 911. they recognize that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. >> laura: forget for a moment that care was founded in 1994, not after 9-11. the casual way she describes the horror of 9-11 is deplorable. here's where we get to step 2 avoiding any responsibility. >> people get -- come after minorities for things that they say, they might insinuate. >> laura: finally, step three. have your allies then back you up, wing women to push back the backlash and then claim it's all because of bigotry. >> this is just pure racist acts by many of those hateful acts because she speaks truth.

>> this is an incitement of violence against progressive women of color. >> i don't know what she's talking about. joining me is the co-founder of the muslim reform mover, and virginia state candidate. can you defend what congressman omar said and what do you make of the arguments of some of her colleagues? >> what she said was callous and insensitive. i have to tell you as a muslim that has grown up in america, what she said is typical. it's typical of what we hear in our living ram and mosques. denial of tragedies that are expressed because of an extremist interpretation of islam. what is happening now is you all are getting to see it in prime time. you're getting to live what we endure every day with denials, turning of the table, the victim

card. we as muslim reformers are on the hit list of the organizations that folks like rasheeda talib and ilhan omar are racing money for. the council of islamic relations are not founded after 9-11 but the agenda to push a victimization of muslims did start at 9-11 because they didn't want to deal with the extremism. >> laura: radicalization. 9-11, some people did something. we have a lot of americans dead. i was here in washington. i saw the pentagon in flames. >> i wouldn't say to my colleague if she's going to mosques and hanging out with extremisms, she couldn't do that. what she was clearly saying, when we talk about civil liberty being taken away, there's people -- the nypd spied on

american muslims without a warrant. i didn't interrupt you. let me finish. >> laura: i have one question -- >> a very important day. 22 years ago, my brother graduated from the u.s. marine corps boot camp. he was in the marines when 9-11 happened. i remember calling him horrified of what might happen. he said i'm here to serve my country. i'm an american, a muslim, and -- >> laura: you're saying the right things. that doesn't excuse. that's a great story. [talking over each other]. >> laura: we have to be quick here. >> despite the fact that he was in the u.s. marines, he was profiled, taken off planes and questioned -- >> laura: i don't -- >> i don't need to go to a mosque to see the denial. we have it here.

>> i'm not denial. it was a terrorist attack. perfect terrorism. >> it does not in any way to mean holy war or commit terrorist -- >> when people kill christians -- >> you're turning your back on me. >> laura: why are you turning your back. >> i don't want to talk to you. >> when people are killing christians and jews of any faith, the koran says you're allowed to defend -- the koran commands you -- >> like al-quaida justified the killing of americans on 9-11 -- >> they were terrorists. nothing jihad about that. >> laura: i have to play a video. >> that was terrorism. >> you deny jihad -- you're the problem. >> laura: this is important. new video of ilhan omar mocking americans, being anxious over al-quaida. >> when i was in college, i took a terrorism class.

every time the professor said al-quaida, he sort of like -- his shoulders went up. al-quaida. you don't say america with an intensity. you don't say england with an intensity. you don't say the army with an intensity. >> laura: because the army didn't try to knock down -- you -- you can't defend that. >> i don't need to. she can speak for herself. if we're going to get anywhere, we need dialogue. the "new york post" taking out a full page ad -- >> laura: here's your something. i love this. i love this coverage. >> the sheer fact that she -- >> laura: there's your something. she referred to it as some people did something. when my friends died in new york, they died here, it was very personal. she's laughing. she's laughing about al-quaida. >> an american --

>> the problem is -- >> why are you mocking me -- >> do i not exist here? are you doing the same kind of a denial -- >> you can talk to me. >> laura: we're out of time. >> we're happy to have rasheed talib and omar do it. they're the problem. and the ability to own up to the problems with -- >> laura: i want to celebrate the fact that your brother is in the marine corps because i love the marines. i don't care where you're from and what your faith is, i love that. >> and i'm a proud american. >> laura: god bless. you're a proud american and i'm a proud christian. you won't do it. she shouldn't do it. >> we agree about civil liberties -- >> we don't agree. >> if you want to watch the full clip -- >> laura: i wouldn't get that -- >> you agree -- >> it's offensive. >> laura: i have a provocative

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>> laura: i have a question tonight. why isn't a full-on disengagement from china a smart approach for this country? stay with me here. are they not thieves of american ingenuity? the latest report, the cost to the u.s. economy from counterfeit goods, pirated software and the theft of trade secrets could be as high as $600 billion annually. does china not pose a significant natural threat to the country? china is mining intelligence from an estimated 23 million records of american federal workers, including intelligence and security personnel stolen in the opm cyber attacks.

does chain not strong arm american businesses? according to axios, china forced u.s. companies to create joint ventures to do business there's. american corporations do that, handing over half of their companies to state controlled communist chinese partners, this rest two examples of something the u.s. deals with daily. why are we not doing more to isolate china as we did with the ussr? why are american companies willing to sell out the long-term security and safety of their fellow citizens for a quick buck? by the way, 800,000 muslims in reeducation champs in china. reports are crematoriums are being built near these reeducation camps. christian churches being levelled. one of the biggest cathedrals in all of china smashed down by a cherry picker. this is unconscionable.

up next, gordon chang on whether this type of disengagement is a this type of disengagement is a serious policy

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>> laura: so i asked this question again. why isn't a full-on disengagement from china a smart and realistic approach given

everything we know that they're doing on a humanitarian basis, economic and national security. here's gordon chang. what about this idea of treating china the way that reagan treated the soviet union. broke them, didn't it? >> i'd did. we're funding our own destruction. china is using the profits of trade to expand its military and the senior military officers boast about killing americans. twice in december, the pla officers talked about unprovoked attacks on the u.s. navy in the global commons. in the second of those attacks, december 20th, a rear admiral said let's use our missiles by sinking two aircraft carriers? i don't understand why we trade with this country. we have to protect ourselves.

>> laura: i remember in the 80s, i was in college, a big divestment from south africa movement. it ended up having an effect on a lot of companies, pulled out because of apartheid. tell us very quickly how on a scale china compares to what was happening as horrific as it was, the sheer numbers of those oppressed in china today? >> you talk about the reeducation centers. they're building crematoriums to dispose of the bodies. they're spread from the northwest of china to the southwest and accompanying an unprecedented attack on christians and a new attack on buddhists. this is an attack on all people of faith in china, this is horrific. this reminds me of germany. >> laura: you used the phrase

the third reicht of the 21st century. >> you have the chinese state using eugenics. they're taking human genes and putting them in monkeys. this is unprecedented since the 30s and 40s. you go through the list. this is an attack on all that is decent in the world. >> and apple, microsoft setting up there, texas instruments. this is a -- i think we'll look back and say we didn't we disengage sooner? thanks, gordon for your perspective. coming up, the rise and fall of coming up, the rise and fall of michael avenatti is tonight's you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase sensimist relieves all your worst symptoms,

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