crimes and several other states but they are all based here in los angeles. >> sean: chilling. trace gallagher in our west coast newsroom. thank you. thank you, as well, for being with us. it will never be the hate trump psychotic media mob. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham has some snippy comment, go ahead. hit me with.h. >> laura: no, no. i'm not saying that. s i'm actually -- i'm actually reacting to your -- the people who promised to leave america. screaming in the studio. it is so funny. >> sean: maybe i'm just old but love it or leave it is hardly new. the way people -- they've never heard that before. >> laura: hannity, who doesn't think trump would say that to like a swedish immigrant or a immigrant who was trashing the

foundersrs calling us all a bunch of racist? trump would say the same thing go back to australia. that's what he would say. >> sean: he would say it to you and me. your ratings are down, get out. >> laura: get out. you're dropping, hannity, you're done. >> sean: were not. don't go anywhere. never. >> laura: great show tonight. you take care. i'm laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle from a very busy washington, but the real action that happening whoum float don't make them a few hundred miles south of here in greensboro north carolina where president trump continue to try congresswoman ocasio-cortez tlaib, omar and partially to the larger democrat party. we will bring you all the highlights and what it all means in a moment with dan bongino and chris hahn. candace owens and more. plus, my angle tonight continues our narrative revealing a democrat and media establishment now in complete panic and meltdown mode after trump has turned the last 48- 72 hours

into a political reckoning. oh, boy, it's good. raymond arroyo is here to break down trump's stage technique what you're missing if you're just watching the highlights and why it works.wh plus he's going to reveal the latest iteration of american flag controversy. more people freaking out at the old red, white, and blue and anything close to it.lo but first. president trump came out swinging against aoc plus three and a boisterous campaign rally in north carolina tonight. the latest signal that he sees this as a winning issue ahead of him in 2020. >> republicans know that america is the greatest force for peacea and justice in the history of our world, but these left-wing ideologues see our nation as a force of evil. representative omar blamed the united states. [boos] for the terrorist attacks on our country. she looks down with contempt on the hardworking americans saying that ignorance is pervasive in

many parts of this country. and obviously and importantly omar has a history of launching vicious anti-semitic -- representative rashida tlaib. [boos] agreed with omar's characterization of 9/11 and said that members of congress who support israel forgot what country they represent. alexandria ocasio-cortez. cortez said that illegal immigrants are more american than any person who seeks to keep them out ever will be. can you believe that? that's what she's saying. she describes contemporary america -- that's you, that's me, that's all of us -- as garbage. garbage. we are garbage.

you remember deplorables, right? that sounds worse. so representative ayanna pressley -- is she related in any way to elvis? i don't know. who knows? she said we don't need any more brown faces that don't want to be brown voices. we don't need black faces that don't want to be a black voice and just this week -- can you imagine if i said that? it would be over, right? i have a suggestion for the are constantly trying to tear our country down. they never have anything good to say. that's why i say hey, if they don't like it, let them leave let them leave, right? let them leave. >> laura: if you couldn't hear, there was a moment in the middle of the president's remarks about the gang of four were a small section of the

back," a reference to the president 's original tweet on the issue. well, the media -- of course quick, this pavlovian response to frame the entire rally around this one section of the crowd's reaction. >> that's a crowd of americans being incited by the american president to chant "send her back" against an american congresswoman. >> the president standing before the all-white crowd -- almost all-white crowd, basking in the "send her back" chants about a nonwhite number of congress. >> stood as us echo, chant echo through a stadium tonight. >> laura: here not to respond dan bongino, former secret service agent, fox news contributor. chris hahn, host of the aggressive progressive podcast. all right, dan, this is what i'm reminded of tonight. they bash trump supporter's for

"lock her up" and is a trump is never going to lose. look at his never dwells in these horrible people screaming this rude thing. now they are doing the same over this send them back tonight. but are in the media and thean democrats missing how many americans feel about what they're told about the way they should think from these four elected officials? a >> there's always a double standard here. the governor of new york andrew cuomo made it crystal clear that conservatives weren't welcome in his state. he said that. where was the media outcry? the answer, nowhere. it was practically celebratory. we had, of course, ilhan omar with a history of openly anti-semitic things. where was, again, the media outcry there? it was minimal at best. if the democrats couldn't even get together a resolution where

they put her name in it condemning ilhan omar. and on the "locker up" chant it's interesting, from peasant actually spied on hillary clinton or try to lock her up, unlike the hass police state tyrant democrats and their police state allies that actually spied on president trump and actually locked up people for process crimes, so the media needs to spare us the outreach. i get it. some of the tweets could be worded differently and some of the language probably if you go back, he wouldck take it back. i get that. but seeing the president is a racist is straight up asinine. i'm sure chris is going to say that next, but he doesn't know what he's talking about, it's total nonsense. >> laura: i want to remind everybody that for all this conjured up outrage about lock her up or send them back, which is played reference to ayanna pressley saying if you are not a black and you don't think a certain way, you're not welcome. if you're not a muslim and youou don't think like a muslim you're not welcome. she went through a whole litany of people, not just the fourth -- none of them will welcome at the table.

so not trump is like the devil for an offhand comment that we've heard for decades. not just directed at immigrants but directed at people who seem. ungrateful. so i see the double standard regardless of whether you would -- >> here's the difference, when you're the president of the united states, or a leader of any type, you need to have grace. you need to be able to rise above. if you need to be able to bring people together. this president has failed at that. he has not shown grace. s he wants a divide. you should be bringing people together. and yes, that chant may have only been some people in the crowd but a real leader with real courage would have said stop, we are all americans, we are entitled to our opinions, i differ with them and let's go beat them in the court of public opinion. the problem he has is he can'te win on the issues, so he's going to drive a wedge wherever he can and this was horrible, what he said today. horrible, let me tell you. let me tell you it's going to

happen. let me tell you what's going to happen politically. in 2016 the obama coalition did not fully come out to support lily clinton. in fact, many black and latino voters who voted for obama did not vote in 2016, they are on fire tonight and they are to come out and avenge it and they're going to send him back to new york but is probably not going to have a lot of fun getting a table. >> laura: is an interesting thing and chris is venturing this prediction that were going to have 400,000 people more 4.4 million -- 4.4 million people more coming out to vote against their own economic interests. give up their 401(k), give up their wage increases, give up everything that they've gained in this economy, so chris and people like chris, the other democrats, feel better aboutboce their own consciences, because it's uncomfortable to go to parties with a president like this, i'm comfortable to go to europe because we are not respected. t i don't think americans give a rat's you know what about what the elites think about whether trump -- they don't care.

most people in the most recent polls don't believe the president is racist. too many do, but most don't. go ahead. >> are not going to get chris get away with that. chris and chris' party have charged everybody from grover cleveland to mitt romney with being a racist. that is garbage, that's a lie. chris knows it's a lie. listen, you don't like the president's attitude. --u >> hold on, dan. >> wait. i didn't interrupt you, right? let me finish my point. >> go ahead. >> the president of theth united states, if anything, has been an equal opportunity offender. he is a scruffy guy. i don't mind it. some people do. fine, make your case, but insisting that the president of the united states, the very definition of racism gauges people's character based on the melanin content of their skin it's the dumbest thing you could possibly sound cable news and i

believe in your heart that you know that -- >> i have a grandson -- i am a grandson of a german-jewish immigrant who fought for theed united states in world war ii and was told to go back to where he came from for his opinion until the day he died. italian-americans -- told the same thing and the people who are saying that to them were racist. >> i'm married to an immigrant slightly to go back.t spare me the lecture. >> america has some -- >> laura: okay. >> scares the hell out of most americans.s. >> laura: the one-upsmanship on my family was more fender than your friend. i get it, because with all comep from polish roots, you came from jewish roots, dan comes from his words, i get it. it's all complicated, but rightt now, no matter what anyone says it is a fact that we have the best economy of the last 50 plus years and what chris is saying is americans will turn out to

vote against their own interest because "new york times" and "washington post" says donald trump is a racist.ne i might be wrong, but i don't believe it. i don't think that's what the country -- i don't think they buy. we have to go. i know i had the last word. i don't like doing that but it was a great segment.t the four horsemen of then apocalypse aren't just looking for conformity. they're very serious, i take them seriously. i don't take them as flashes in the pan. a lot of people do. but i think they are claiming to be victims, a lot of people are saying them as the aggressors and soon as they get the slightest pushback they do revert to victim status. and they into attack mode labeling, as we just heard everyone in the process is racist. watch. >> when you say things like the speaker of the house is being disrespectful to women of color. >> i did not shave to say that she was disrespectful to women of color. i found some of the comments

disrespectful and that was my personal opinion and i did feel that singling out on the basis of one vote was creating an opening. >> laura: so she's creating an opening for the racists. that's where that one. the speaker of the house is really being disrespectful to these freshmen congresswomen. or is she treating them as congresswomen?in like you have four votes but guess what, you are not the majority, we are moving on. that's how congressmen and women are treated when they are not the dominant force within a party, period. they don't like that. and running enough to analyze founder of the blexit movement. candace, it gets heated, with language. what do you think that is doing to scratch at the democrats? why are they so upset?

>> they are upset because they are more or less seeing the exact same thing -- i feel like i have deja vu watching this. the entire audience is all being racist. everyone who chanted that is racist. there's no -- he thinks that every black person is going to wake up and magically vote democrat because of that chant that's insulting to black people to think that we are so foolish as you said that we would vote against our own self-interest. we are doing amazing under this- economy. it's very clear what this meant. it simply meant if you do not like this country and you don't like america, you are welcome to leave. obviously the president is not looking to deport ilhan omar okay? anybody was taking it that seriously is completely misleading culture right now. they are going to be upset when trump wins by a large margin in 2020. >> laura: i think the exclusion and intolerance is so often today on the left if you're a muslim reformer on the left, you're not an authentic -e

candace is not authentically black. as a woman, i'm not really being true to the female gender because i don't buy into all their tropes. that to me is very intolerant but they see it as their moral right. if you don't agree, they will shame you, they will try to drive you out of business and public life. trump sees that, i think. i could be wrong. but i don't think so. i think these polls are going to get into than excitement my excitement. >> is a muslim reformer, i see this behavior all the time. identity politics has become the gateway drug for radicalization so this gang -- it's not a squad, these are gangs of extremists. they are replicating the radical behavior that we've seen in other walks of life right now. the philosophy being unless you completely agree with everything we say, we are going to be completely intolerant towardss you and it also goes towards extremist behavior in that they

are soft towards isis. we have a muslim congresswoman right now who cannot disavow al qaeda. ilhan omar cannot disavow al qaeda. there's a problem with that so when trump from says go back, go back and come back. might you personally is it's a common sense message message. you probably don't belong here and so if you have a congresswoman who cannot disavow al qaeda, you don't belong in congress and you don't belong in america. >> laura: i've got to get a reaction from both of you about what congresswoman omar says about being an american. watch. >> something i get criticizeddom for all the time -- it's not what you think so don't guess. it is that i am anti-american because i criticize the united states. as an immigrant, i probably love this country more than anyone that is naturally born. >> laura: candace. >> i can't think of a single comment -- you can feel free to

correct me -- that any of them have set positive about america or americans. they're here asking for radicale reform on the basis that this country is fundamentally irredeemable. that is the message. what's problematic about the way they are conveying their messages, they are actually falling into really bad stereotypes of what it means to be a person of color in this country. a really bad stereotype about black americans is that we are gang bangers and ignorant and we threaten people and we are violent. we have ayanna pressley tweeting to kellyanne conway hi, becky remember that racist pejorative that the media roundly ignored? hi, becky. imagine if you called. but with the media response be to that. he said keep my name out your atuth. think about this, congresswoman speaking about like that. it's republicans and democrats coming together to try and comee up with something to make americans feel like we can work towards a solution is country. these women are doing the opposite. >> laura: they believe america is an evil, racist, corrupt country at its core and it must

be completely remade. >> that's correct. >> laura: in a new image. i want to show this, ladies. a surge in a number of americans believe democrats are playing the race card against trump for political gain. how much longer before the race card loses its meaning? >> it's already lost complete meaning. these are women poor pushing muslims like myself into an ideological concentration campmp where we don't want to be. when we look at the solutions for radicalization, ilhan omar is a failed american experiment. she should have an integrated -- >> laura: why do you say she's not american. >> she's not. >> laura: she is american she's an american citizen. >> but she does not share the american values. >> to support excellence and to disavow terror ideologies. if she can do that, it's a problem. we look at the community, how did that smaller community failed to integrate? i think we failed. radicalization, preventing extremism program and wiggling

and we teach communities how to spot signs of radicalism. >> laura: she doesn't talk about the persecution of christians in the middle east either, which is a huge problem that was addressed in part today at the state department. phenomenal panel, as always both of you. my angle in moments explains how the last 48 hours have thrown a democrat and media apparatus into a full-blown panic. stay there.u, family, call newday usa.eed monr

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♪ >> laura: the democrats in panic town. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." when elite thought leader and "new york times" columnist tom friedman is panicked about the aoc plus three affect, you know the democrats are in trouble. friedman sounded a warning about the freshman upstart's revolution under the title "trump is going to get reelected, isn't he"? this is what he writes. "please spare me the revolution. it can wait. win the presidency, hold the house, narrow the spread of the senate. a lot of good things can still be accomplished.a no, you say, the left wants a revolution now. okay. i will give the left a revolution now. four more years of donald trump." as we've been explaining throughout the week, trump brilliantly drew out the most

radical extremists in the democrat party and then he lured the entire leadership to align with them.m. in her efforts to show how loyal she was too aoc plus three, speaker pelosi even overstepped house rules of decorum when she said --- >> every single member of this institution, democratic and republican, should join us in condemning the president's racist tweets. >> i was going to see if she would like to rephrase that comment. >> i have cleared my remarks with the parliamentarian before i read them. >> laura: it turns out that wasn't true. fed up with the farce congressman emmanuel cleaver abandoned the chair and f steny hoyer had to admit that pelosi's comments were, in fact out of order. even after though, her attempt to mollify aoc plus three with that outburst and the resolution condemning the tweet, nancy still keeps getting hammered by

the upstarts. continuing their summer revolution tour, the squad visited cbs to diss their elder once again. >> are you speaking to nancy pelosi? >> our teams are in communication. >> shouldn't it be a face-to-face? >> i agree. >> shouldn't be face-to-face? >> i'm very protective.. with all due respect, she doesn't need protection. i want to know if you are -- not the speaker. >> every right to sit down with her at any moment, any time with any of us. >> she is speaker of the house. she can ask for a meeting to sit down with us for clarification. apt on the racial justice work in our country for a long time. acknowledging the fact that we are women of color. >> laura: gayle king probably thought that r kelly interview was easier. crafty pelosi. in the first female speaker of the house, she should have known

better. if you cannot negotiate with "the squad." you give them an inch, they will take the party and then the country. it's their way and if they don't get their way they're going to call you a racist and they're going to burn the entire party down. what friedman's warning about. it's a mistake though for the squad to think that their high name i.d. translates into votes or that trump supporters will now somehow take their toxic charges of racism as gospel. on the contrary, aoc plus threee are huge turnoff to millions of americans, not because of their race or ethnicity, no. but because of their views. check out this focus group that just appeared on cnn. >> these eight republican women from dallas don't see anything wrong with president trump telling four democratic congressman women to go back where they came from. >> he was saying if they hate america so much, because what we are seeing out of them and

hearing out of them, they hate america. if it's so bad, there's a lot of places they can go. >> i'm a brown skinned woman. i am a legal immigrant. i agree with you. >> not at all. >> it's a demonstration of how their ideology spills over even though their americans now. they are not acting american. >> on by the president said what he said because all they're doing is they are inciting hatred and division, and that's not what our country is about. it's not about that at all. >> with the president does with some of his own comments? 's own racist comments? >> he didn't say anything about color. >> him he loves people from hispanics to black people, all across the board. >> laura: in my life, i have never seen a focus group where the core respondent is so

unhappy with the results that she begins to debate the panelists. >> how can you call them racist? >> these congressmen who saidow that they ran for congress ran for office because theyan explicitly love this country you're saying that's a lie. you're saying they hate this country?ex >> yes. >> they are very manipulative tr accuse instead of extracting the truth. when you say don't you think is racist, you're choosing that. if you're choosing him. >> i'm not accusing, i'm asking you. >> it has nothing to do with the real issue. it has nothing to do with the premise of the issues here. >> why do you keep bringing it up? >> do you think it's just a coincidence that these fouro congresswomen thought the president is going after, none of them are white? >> i don't think it matters. it's idiotic.

>> laura: i actually cannot believe that cnn allowed that to go on air. you noticed one of the panelists said basically you're accusing us. that's how so many americans across the country feel, that when a charge of racism is lobbed at the president so casually, it's actually being lobbed at them too and that's with that panel really demonstrated. but surely "the squad"'s impassioned views about separating families and all the talks of the kids in cages surely that resonates across the country, right? it doesn't look like it. today a political morning consult poll survey shows that a majority of americans favor trump's sweeping deportation rates. imagine what those numbers would be if the press were actually doing an objective job in reporting on the border crisis it would probably be more like 70% grade but still, it's a

majority. now back to poor nancy. she's not only having to deal with the four congressman of the apocalypse, she now has another radical to deal with, enter congressman al green and his articles of impeachment. >> donald john trump president of the united states is unfit to be president, unfit to represent the american values of decency and morality. respectability and civility honesty and propriety, repubability and integrity. >> laura: at her weekly pressure, speaker pelosi was extremely awkward on the tight rope. >> he cares very much about our constitution and our country. so as i say, with all respect in the world for him, we have six committees that are working

on following the facts in terms of any abuse of power. that is a serious path that we are on. not that mr. green is not serious.po but we will deal with that on the floor. >> laura: and they did deal with that. the impeachment attempt went down spectacularly. the house rejected it. 332-95. but merely entertaining this is music to trump's ears. polls show a majority of americans don't want the country dragged through impeachment and pelosi's inability to manage the most radical elements of herer caucus has only strengthened once again, the president's hand. a 50% in the daily tracking poll up four points since the controversy began. the president reacted this way. new poll. one of the most accurate in predicting the 2016 election has yet to announce the trump

numbers have recently gone up four-point, 50%.-p thank you to the vicious young socialist women. america will never buy your act. the president is correct. people are smart enough to know that the aoc plus three agenda is dangerous. if a democrat should, god forbid, win the presidency these people will have an outsized influence on their policies. the economy will tank. discontent and misery will follow. then you'll see a much more potent populist figure rise up a figure that might make trump look like a pussycat. and that's the "angle." up next, raymond arroyo breaks down the objects and language of the president at tonight's rally. plus, he will expose the weather hysteria pushed by the media for what reason? stay there. for what reason? stay

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stage. tell us. >> i did. this could be spoken of as then first real rally of 2020. he was on his game. pay attention to the language the president used. watch. >> could you imagine what it could have been if we didn't have the witch hunt, if we didn't have the [bleep]. tonight i have a suggestion for the hate filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down. they never have anything good to say. that's why i say, hey, if they don't like it, let them lead let them leave. if they don't love it, tell them to leave it. >> you know, laura, he's speaking the language of the people. the profanity there, i'm not wild about all the profanity but you go to a bar, you go to a coffeehouse, you go to a restaurant, this is how america talks. >> laura: my surrogate dad hi, chuck, living in california would say, laura, i don't care

for that language. >> this is how america speaks. he's blunt and that's how he cuts through. it's feisty, it's a little salty around the edges and rough, and people -- listen to the peoplecu in that room. they were explosive in their affection for what he was sayin. tonight and there was a revealing moment when the president had to deal with a protester. >> he goes home now to mommy and he gets reprimanded and that's the end. sorry, mommy. >> [laughs] no one uses humor -- cutting ridicule. he uses the moment. but that shows you he's so in the moment that he's able to kind of turn. he gets all the attention to the protester, he whips up the crowd and uses it. >> laura: paul ryan, for instance.

giving a speech to 25 people okay? >> security. security.eo security. >> let's say a prayer for him. >> i've got to share. there's another moment. the president uses a move, he employs it throughout the rally i call it the trump turn back. it's actually a theatrical convention. he does it all the time spontaneously. it's very effective. there are a few performers that have used this at the height point of their performance. the crowd urges them back like this guy. watch. ♪ >> and he staggers back to the microphone to continue. the only two people i've known who have done this -- james brown and judy garland in the middle of a number would turn away and then turned back to finish the number. this is what trump does.he it builds excitement. >> laura: what's he doing next?in >> he owns the room. >> laura: obama -- he actually

kind of on the stage. but trump has this kind of -- like a prizefighter. then he turns back around the people go crazy. i've never seen anything like b it. >> obama dominated a theater trump dominates an arena. i ran home to new orleans preparing to evacuate, watching some of the national coverage of hurricane barry. some of the networks swore new orleans was finished. >> rain, rain, life-threatening rain. >> it's a massive storm in size that could overwhelm the pumps in new orleans. >> the forecasts are dire in these locations. >> the flooding again the big problem and that's why people have to really heed those evacuation orders. >> plug the mississippi river lots of levees that are going to be challenged. >> i'm all for warning people particularly in these low-lying errors -- i lost a house in

katrina.in this kind of alarmism, this is really malpractice. the storm hit 160 miles to our west of new orleans. low-lying areas certainly flooded, it was terrible forly those people, but new orleans was not in this grave danger. when some of the media began to put a political spin on it, i really got angry. >> the gulf coast may well need the federal government's help after this storm. a government which, under donald trump, is doing everything it can to deny even the existence of climate change. >> we have no idea what's coming. the sea level is rising. that's not a climate model. denial is not sustainable. >> this is ridiculous. laura, it was a tropical storm. katrina was a cat five. with the wind -- it could destroy everything. remember, new orleans did not flood because of katrina. new orleans flooded because of a broken levy that then leaked the water into the city. that's what happened. >> laura: have to tell everybody that rebecca raymond's beautiful, gorgeous m

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♪ ♪ >> and i have to say this, and i will say it just once. what happened to me with this witch hunt should never be allowed to happen to another president of the united states. never, ever again. >> laura: a president slamming the now-resolved mueller probe tonight. there was a moderate togh another major setback for the resistance that got lost in the shuffle. federal prosecutors in new york and had an investigation into hush money payments made by the president's home to my former attorney michael cohen. this means it's unlikely that other trump associates will bess charged.

remember the media gleefully proclaimed that this could destroy trump's presidency. >> michael cohen may be far more of a serious threat to the presidency than robert mueller. >> i think that this case now t poses as much political and legal threat in jeopardy to the president and may be more than the mueller investigation. >> michael cohen might have a treasure trove for fbi investigators and lawyers. >> he said i'm putting all my money on how i'm going to bring down trump. >> laura: let's leave the analysis to the real lawyers. here now to discuss, former deputy and independent counsel fox news contributor along with former deputy assistant attorney general john yoo. john, how significant was this ending of the investigation into these "hush money payments" made by cohen. >> as you made clear in your lead in and may remember that opponents to president trump ore putting all their eggs in the basket of investigating the trump organization and trump's activities before he was

president, trump's private dealings, all these things that were turning to because of the mueller report looked like it wasn't going to show that it i wasn't any obstruction -- i'm sorry, that there wasn't anyoo cooperation or coordination with russia. so the fact that it all relied on the testimony of this person who is now a convicted perjurer should've told everybody that hf was not the person to place all your eggs on. secondly, the idea that this campaign finance violation was such a stretch, it really was not true to the law that was at stake here. i thought back at the time that was happening this was going to collapse. it ultimately did, but as you t said, the media doesn't care anymore. they are trying to move on to impeachment which of fights with these congresswomen because this was in the end of a legal loser and a lot of people in the time should have gotten up and said it wasn't going to work. >> laura: they do try to shapet public opinion the way they predict development.

will ultimately bring down the president. really since 2015 when he got into the race. but when you have lanny davis out there today and he says wise michael cohen the only guy to go to jail?bu he admitted his crimes. that amounts to zip in the end doesn't it? t >> that's true, because you always have to look at the credibility of your witnesses. that particular thing that lanny said amounts to zip and that's been a big problem that took us a while to realize. it's relevant to the whole question of the obstruction portion of mueller's probe as well. when you talk about how strong the evidence is of alleged obstruction. anything that relies on a michael cohen is very weak. any prosecutor looking at a case about whether or not you want to prosecute has to look at the credibility of your chief witness and whatever little shred of credibility he had left was destroyed with his house testimony, with lanny davis

sitting behind him and doing nothing to try to salvage the situation. >> laura: let's take a listen now to the president's response to that failed attempt to move an impeachment resolution today on the house floor. watch. >> the united states house of representatives has overwhelmingly voted to kill the most ridiculous project i've ever been involved in, the resolution -- how stupid is that -- on impeachment. >> laura: well, john, is there any point to this besides political theater? this is a total loser for the democrats. the public don't want and impeachment saga to unfold, but nancy pelosi is in a trick box here because she has to kind of mollify those folks on the left of her party who really want blood and they think his comments and the tweet, that amounts to an impeachable offense, but what is impeachment reserved for?

>> it's a political loser but there's a more important constitutional lesson behind impeachment. if democrats -- if critics of the president really believed all the rhetoric that they are flinging his way, that he's unfit for office, that he's committed crimes, that he's committed obstruction, and the constitution's primary tool to actually constrain a president who would really be guilty of those things, is impeachment. so if a majority of the house of representatives -- the majority of democrats are voting against impeachment, then they should stop with the rhetoric accusing the president of committing these alleged crimes, because they themselves won't use the tool that the constitution gives them to correct any of those abuses of power. >> laura: and earlier today the house voted to hold bill barr, the attorney general and commerce secretary ross and criminal contempt over that push to add a citizenship question to

the census. will anything come of this? a >> right, bill barr is going to recommend indicting himself. i don't think so. nothing happens with criminal contempt unless the attorney general authorizes the justice department to prosecute. that's another thing i don't understand.on they could -- congress could have held them in civil contempt, gone into district court and try to get a declaratory judgment, but i guess that wouldn't have been as exciting, or they were afraid maybe that they were going to lose. instead, they've done something that's entirely symbolic, will have no effect whatsoever. they just think it will, i guess, be effective politically but actually if they had taken it into court -- if they had taken a lot of thesy things to court, if they had taken don mcgahn to court much earlier, if they had subpoenaed him on day one -- >> laura: much different. >> but they don't -- i don't understand. they don't want to do the stuff. >> laura: they don't really believe in the probably underlying legitimacy of their

claims but they like the political benefit they think they're getting, although i don't think it's there. up next, the real-life action hero taking on the mexican drug cartel. next. d debt and lower their payments by $600 every month.

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we just picked up his monsters and where? los angeles. sanctuary city. >> laura: president trump talking about that shocking news out of california, the arrest of 22 ms-13 gang members for this unspeakably evil murders of seven people. prosecutors say they hackedsp their victims to death with machetes. these gang member operated in an area of southern california san fernando valley, sending a massive influx of young man from central america to that area. in fact, 19 of the 22 defendants entered the u.s. illegallys within the past 3-4 years. the good news is one real-life action hero is taking on the outlaws exploiting our porous border. mark lamb, just north of the mexican border and he's taking

on the drug traffickersxi including the infamous former el chapo cartel. and on patrol he rocks in ar-15 and did i mention his ringtone is a g.i. joe theme? here now, mark lamb. all right, sheriff. >> thanks for having me, laura. >> laura: what does it take to police border areas right now given what we are seeing? >> it's a lot of work. thank goodness we have a president who is standing behinl law enforcement, first and foremost, and that is supporting us in our fight on this border. my guys are going out every day and we are not even right on the border. we are going out every day with our aviation unit and our guys and we are getting anywhere from 5-10 apprehensions. that's crazy. in this heat, they are still pumping them through, and that's the cartel.. they are abusing people, they are bringing drugs into our community and affecting our children.ha it is not an easy battle but we have good men and women out there doing it every day because

they want to protect what we know is this great country america. >> laura: sheriff, to hear some of the democrats especially aoc plus three, the four women who have gotten a lot of attention lately, they had a lot of the democratic 2020 conjunct on my candidates, they believed in criminalizing border crossing is more humane and more of a compassionate american response. your reaction? >> that's ludicrous. that's ludicrous. why don't they ask the angel families who have lost family members or all those people across this country who have been victims of crimes from people who entered this country illegally. i've challenged congressmen and women and senators to come down come to the border, come to my county, i will show you around. i will show you so you can decide for yourself. none of them come. a few republican congressmen have come. zero of the democrats have come. so the left wants to keep talking about it, but they're not willing to do anything about it. i'm glad they have enough time to go smoking and joking in the

corner and trying to impeach our president when they have so much work to do in congress. what we need them to do is pick up the lunch pail, get back to congress, and get some common sense solutions and get them to help us on the ground. >> laura: we need asylum from to stop the fan was coming across, the judges who don't overrule the executive authority on this issue. >> absolutely. >> laura: sheriff, thank you for doing what you're doing keep it up and stay safe out there, my friend. >> thanks for having me god bless. >> laura: absolutely. tonight's last bite, trump's message about congresswoman omar.

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president left for north carolina he mentioned this a big story you may have missed about congresswoman omar.

he said there is a lot of talk that she is married to her brother. i know nothing about this how they mock the president for bringing this up but we will not. he mentioned something that is a little bit uncomfortable but why no curious media follows up on immigration fraud charges or accusations we'll take her word for it but the president never gets that benefit of the tao and mike emanuel takes it from here. mike: a fox news alert. the squad taking on each progressive congresswoman is this a ticket to electoral success? speaker pelosi about singling out women of color - - color the day after the president