home meaning the rate was premeditated. the judge says nobody and i.c.e. has placed an inmate gratian detainer.he is accused of rapin, including an 11-year-old girl. >> we will never be the media mob. let not your heart be troubled.. snap hannity, that is just miles from here, with is aoc, tlaib, the squad, they are all for women's empowerment and rights, where the heck are they? in a city they live, we have just miles from here, brutal rapes, onene girl whose life has been shattered is too many in america. it is a travesty. >> at one point, all those that don't want to secure the border, we'll use their lodge he can, at what point if you were in a sanctuary city state you release a criminal and you don't send them back to thehe country from which they came from. >> how about the voters in montgomery. >> when do they get held

accountable forget aiding and abetting. >> the voters in montgomery county, maryland, start paying attention. they've got vote these people out of office. this is a scandal it makes may blood boil this is happening to innocent people. >> and less than 5% of people that are like this, we've got to vet everybody, then we get the 99% thatl want what we often tae for granted. you're right. >> sean, great show tonight. good to see you. i'm laura ingraham. i'm more angry and this is "the ingraham angle." very busy show tonight. the second installment of agreement on the road tonight. he will join us from south bend indiana, where he reveals the uneven record of mayor pete buttigieg. and also tonight former president barack obama is reentering the political fray.re victor davis hanson is here to

tell you what it all means. plus, dinesh desousa will explain why the 44th president's new $15 million mansion may be at risk. t and a woman claims that in a d.c. divorce court that congresswoman ilhan omar broke up her marriage.and the story jr tonight. we have all the latest details for you. but, first, the fairy tale party. that's the focus of tonight's angle. now, when you are a kid and your mom or your dad reads a bedtime story, it can all seem so real, right? you imagine a giant beanstalk reaching up to the sky and little jack is climbing it. you may have been scared that the wolf was going to huff and puff and blow your house down. i personally always looked under foot bridges for the troll and the three billy goats gruff.sca. but, eventually, we grow up and leave the fairy tales behind but not so with the never trumpers. they are still clinging to their fantasy, to the republican party

that no longer exists.and they e president enough, they will convince others to go along with the open worders, pro-china trade, pro-military outlook. now you may not know these people, they have zero constituency. republicans hate them and democrats are just using them.i. let me introduce them to you. the founding member of the party is failed magazine editor bill kristol who famously predicted this in 2003. >> whatever you can say aboutth, george bush is not fighting this like vietnam. whatever he fights, the whole history of vietnam. >> it may be. that's the danger of -- >> it is not going to happen. it is going to be a two-month war and not a years war. >> parkhill. >> he scoffed at the notion of donald trump winning the presidency, the nomination in 2015.

>> this trump thing is going on i gather and he's doing okay in the polls for a while but he's not going to be a nominee ngeither.so we'll be fine. >> laura: and now he claims to be a trump mind reader. >> i think he sees bad economic news coming and bad political news coming and that he's a demoralized guy. >> laura: hey, bill, 19-year high for consumer confidence, you might want to revise your remarks. in case you forgot this is a guy who thought a national review columnist could beat donald trump in the spring of 2016. he will do it all at the convention, it's going to be a big deal. and this was too much for tamika brezinski to take. >> bill crystal has got stop sort of -- i'm trying to this is of and and uncrass way of saying this. >> how about digging. >> he's been wrong.

sorry. >> unfortunately, the war pedestrian letter did not -- pedestrianler wouldn't listen, he kept playing and this political land of make-believe. and then, there is kristol's buddy, brett stevens. he regularly dishes out the nastiest bile about the president and his supporters. >> what we saw over the last few days is a president who is either mentally unwell or morally unfit. or maybe both.i don't know. you have behavior that is unprecedented in any history of the united states or, frankly, elsewhere. >> but, stevens himself is a pillar of stability? he is like a little, flimsy balloon. he popped the second he gets a little pinprick on twitter. >> yesterday a professor of george washington university described to me as abed bug or a

metaphorical bedbug. a so i wrote him a personal email. i also copied his provost on the note. people are upset about this ando intention what so ever to get anymore professional trouble, but managers should be aware of the way their people or professors or journalist interact with the rest of the world. >> laura: who died and made him the head of human resources? what a goofball.don't stop lyint want to get the guy in trouble, it wouldn't have worked. and have you ever heard of this woman? her name is jennifer rubin and she's described as a blogger for "the washington post." every syllable out of her mouth thoozes contempt toward president trump and any of you watching.id this woman of meager accomplishment wants us all to be banished from public life. >> what we should be doing is shunning these people.

shunning and shaming these people which is a statement of moral indignation that these people are not fit for polite society. we have to collectively, in essence, burned on the republican party. we have to level them. because there are survivors, if there are people that weather this storm, and they will do it again. >> laura: her talk of bringingng burning it down and urging that potential survivors be eliminated, and trumps rhetoric? that incites violence? it's shameful. but one of t my favorite characters in the never trumper nonfiction series is this fellow named max boot. he bears an uncanny resemblance to max headroom. which one is cuter? now before trump got elected, he kind of just seemed like a goofy huckster whose comedy was stuck in the year 2004. but boot claims the g.o.p. has suffered a complete moral and intellectual collapse. by smearing c everyone whose skn happens to be white, who voted

for trump, boot calls them a bunch of white supremacists. what this sorry but kind of hilarious lot doesn't really understand is that their fairy tale house already burned down. in 2008 and in 2012 when they lost the presidency twice to obama. then trump comes in and he builds a new party that drew in people from the obama camp and voted for him the first time. people hadn't voted for him for ahi while. they recognize that obama and the end would cash out once he left office, the little people be damned. but the never-trump fantasy, i was thinking about it today it's kind of like a bad romance novel but without any of the hunky characters. you just want it to be over. and that's the angle, part one. joining me now is johnmclaughlip

campaign pollster, and tom devon from clear rally politics. now you have pulled for president trump since his first run, how does this so-called smart set on the fairy tale land, but that view of what he had and what a real republican is, that's over.ni don't think g back. >> no, they've lost touch. you mentioned they lost the 2008 and 2012 race for barack obama and he went on to raise health care rates, lose their health care, tax them, lose their jobs and put their kids at risk in far-off lands that we couldn't went these wars. donald trump ran on a message of change. and that strategy was to light up the rust belt in the sun belt of america.we brought w

voters. we had a record 139 millionvotee he ran on change. he ran against the republican establishment in the d.c. establishment. and to this day he will win reelection because he is bringing change to washington.tt him to continue to feet for change america, and that's how we won and that's how we will win again.n. >> laura: and the old bushings, and there are a lot of them, and he was irritated by trump from the first moment.some writing on the wall. nbc's nicole wallace was irritated by trump in the finning because he took down george bush, she is now comparing him to this monarch. >> good morning, it is new york and we woke up to mad king george at the world g7 and the

sticking rebuke to replace him in 2020 all growing signs of his policy schizophrenia on trade china may be plunging the world into a global economic crisis. >> it is is undistinguishable from any leftist host, but why is this vitriol and condemnatory language coming from this never trumper set?in >> i was trying to think if there was any sort of president for this, where you have this group of folks repudiate the party in such a way. there is a very small group. you mentioned a few of them but there was a pollll that came out utcently that showed only 2% of republicans want to trump removed from office.that's whats want it to, so you have the small group of dead enders, and they seem to occupy these occupy these megaphones and platforms in places like cable news and major media outlets.like the "washington pod

"the new york times" ." so they have these outsized voice, where they are spewing this language.the irony, too, p, outside of other issues you mentioned like trade and foreign policy has done a lot of conservative things on taxes and deregulatio. but these folks, they hate him so much, they feel such a moral outrage -- >> laura: tom, i think with some of these guys, they do want open borders and open markets.the olt journal" line on that many, many years ago they've kind of forgotten they've says, but they are, for that, but i do think you hit it, ego and pride. it's hard, i've done mine on some of the cheerleading i did from the iraq war. i look back on it and i did this many years ago, but it didn't work. we need to rethink the way we do things. i don't think they seem capable

of it, and -- john, do you think at this point that it matters? they are just kind of shrieking into windmills. >> they don't matter. on our polls we've been testing every moment, the republican primary and dump is getting well over 80% of the vote. it could be minus one, within the margin of error. the republican party and the conservative movement is totally rock solidws you've mentioned. part the reason is he's outside of the establishment, and he is succeeding.ag he's making measure stronger. >> and bevin said, that reality it doesn't matter if he's the most pro-life, the best economy, the best judges, doesn't matter. knowledge of that matters but their ego matters. thank you for joining us tonight.

and that's a focus of my angle part two. dory you even remember this guy? edwin mcmullen was the never trumper's last hail mary candidate. remember he got gobs of media attention despite the fact that he never stood a chance of defeating trump back in the spring of 2016? well, for 2020, they found a new savior. radio host joe walsh. >> i'm going to hit donald trump, i'm going to punch him in the face every single day. i'm running because he's unfit. somebody needs to step up, and there needs to be an alternative. >> laura: what an inspiring message. that's right. former illinois congressman joe walsh is who the never trumper movement, if you can call it that, has been waiting for. as long as you ignore that he called obama a muslim, used the n-word on twitter and may have owed his wife a mere $117,000 in

child support. but, don't worry, walsh is self-aware. or is he? >> i wouldn't call myself araci, i've said racist things on twitter, there's no doubt about it. >> oops. but none of that matters. they are still desperately hyping the impossible. >> the combination of joe walsh and bill weld and maybe someone else ding him a little bit in a new hampshire primary, sure. >> could they cause problems for the president cork they weaken him, certainly. >> no matter how small they are and whether they can beat you or not, it become as real irritant and a problem known couple bent want to have that -- no incumbent wants to have that. >> laura: could lollipops grow on trees?could the road be pave?

none of you are convinced yet? that's what they said at 88%. telling "the new york times," he has a different appeal than bill wells.that's 2-points fewer than george w. bush right after anyone from 9/11. they say he has a different look than bill weld, they say he has the ability to speak with he had voters that i don't have. hey bill, you probably would have a better shot with this joe walsh e from the eagles. now with all the hype, they ared

self-serving the never-trumpers are. let yourself market marinade is for a second. these folks are willing to sacrifice their own dry say, i told you so -- their own country to say, i told you so. so they lose a supreme court all the federal courts and the economy gradually in upperhand they lose it all so they can have their little moment.so theo what, big days of open adventures, culture walls, open borders, et cetera, et cetera. anti-trump grifters are completely out of touch with reality.6 they're kind of like y of the tooth faresy, except there is no money under your pillow in the morning, just disappointment because another trump victory is coming. and that's the angle part two. here to respond, herman kane 2016 republican presidential candidate.now, herman,

great to see you. >> thank you. >> first, bill wells which is like back to the 90s, and then joe walsh. how many more of theseny pretenders will the media glom onto to promote? >> they will glom onto anybody whoo is willing to cast aspersions on donald trump. i will sum up this joe walsh, not the one from the eagles, the one who wants to challenge trump in one word, publicity. the squad, aoc, and all of these other liberals, i'm sorry lunatics, the more outrageous things that they say, the more likely they are to be on tv. so when joe walsh comes along and is going to challenge trump the liberals are going, yay, we have somebody else that we

can put in front of the camera. it's for publicity, its own self publicity because he has seenthd the others. the more outrageous, the more likely they are to the publicity. >> laura: they are the first people to scream foul or go after their f livelihood.if thee phrase they can hone in on and some dweeb in his basement cuts it. they say they're going to punch the president in the face? no i problem. there you are going to burn it down, kill off all the survivors -- i'm basically paraphrasing what jennifer rubin said. if any 6 us said that, you don't work again. >> you are not going to bring down 164 million republican voters, you are simply not. that made it delusional what you showed earlier, absolutely delusional. she talks about playing nice.

well, republicans are trying to play nice. they are the ones that are playing nice with that kind of rhetoric and all that rhetoric does is to ensure that they get on tv while somebody writes an article that quotes them or something like that. >> laura: or, herman, they get a fancy perch had "new york times" and they become a house conservative. there's nothing conservative about these people, they long gave up their conservative credentials. by the way, john kasich, hewas e didn't even show up for the national convention. he was a governor of this state when it was in cleveland.didn'to that. he's now mouthing off about how he was the first one to really doubt trump. watch. i >> i call him out more than anybody, and i have been doing it. >> i know you have. >> i didn't have like a changeoi used to support him and now i

don't. i suspected this from the beginning, that this would be disruptive to our country and disruptive to our allies and it's been precisely that. i don't want to say i told you so. >> laura: but herman -- >> it's real simple. can we say sour grapes? and, secondly, alle the accusations by joe walsh and others against trump are simply not true.period. not true. >> laura: herman, it's always great to see you. come back soon. >> thank you. >> coming up, barack obama is back on the political scene, but why now? and why is his new mansion at risk?dinesh diazos has that next

>> laura: former president obama is getting back into the community organizing with a new project that's exciting called, redistricting you. starting in 2021, they will send redistricting experts to trainao combater partisan gerrymandering after the after the 2020 census. but the group behind a new initiative is called allontheline.org, which itself is affiliated with a group shared by former ag eric holdere i'm sure people are making a lot of money here, consultants. furthermore, all on the line has

a list of 10 priority states it's targeting and you can see it right here on the map. north carolina, arizona florida, michigan, ohio pennsylvania, texas and wisconsin.trump won mean of thos in 2016 and only lost in colorado by less than 5%. is this really just a campaign to help the democrats and hurt republicans? joining us now is victor davish, and dinesh desousa,author and film . what your take on obama, a couple hundred million dollars later in the coffers for him are now getting back into politics is that what it is? >> yeah, i think he feels his brand has been tarnished and he has to go back to the preorganizing origins, the acorn era.the reason is, donald trump has systematically with a pen and phone and

executive order methodologythats undoing his entire agenda. the icon of the obama administration is a very unimpressive joe biden and you have this spectacle of the democratic primary candidates running almost against the obama legacy. you add all that up and then of the optics of a green woke socialist spending $25 millionon the seacoast, at a time that he warned us that the seas would be rising and that you've made enough money at some point not to profit anymore, to spread the wealth and you didn't build that, you can't restore that circle. he's trying to get back and restore the obama of 2008 i suppose. >> laura: dinesh, he was clearly smarting after the 2016 election result, it all got blown away that night. i would have loved to have seen his face like a time lapse photo. soel now this. this kind of seems like a weakmm

all that impressive to me. tebut he knows if trump gets reelected all these never trumpers, it's done for the foreseeable future. >> 2016 was a repudiation of obama.even more than repudiatiof hillary. with obama, this whole notion that he somehow is trying to restore procedural fairness, it worked in 2004 and worked in 2008, and it's been a declining credibility issue ever since. the funny thing about the mansion in martha's vineyard i think it is that it really exposes the hollow rhetoric behind all thiss climate change. it shows that obama himself knows it's nonsense because of he believed a word of it, if he thought that the oceans wereie going to rise and his property was going to go underwater, he would not have made the investment. and property values would have plunged. so the buyers know it's not true, the sellers know it's not true, the real estate agents know it's not true and nobodybe.

so this cpi mat change is a never, neverland of rhetoric and you can see that even obama's actions can't be in sync with that. >> laura: that's a great point. on the screenhe side-by-side what they are projecting for the house and what will happen with the water levels and so forth. climate central says that what the obama martha's vineyard home is in the extreme scenario. can we m put up that shot?do we? there it is. there we go. you can kind of see it. now what it looks like now, so you can see how theow water movs into the land area.it's kind of. you can see the shaded area that's his house underwater.you. but it's ridiculous. it's again, do as i say and not as i do. they are all going to suffer but obama will be up there counting his netflix cash in edgartownwid

time. >> yeah, i think it's more like medieval penance.the more he cas out organizing the more he can stay in martha's vineyard and square that empossible circle. but on the gerrymandering thing notice he's not going to california or massachusetts.he'. it's kind of an atonement again because remember when he was president, he not only lost the house, the senate and the6 supr0 state offices and those are precisely the people who will redistrict according to the new census. so he is more culpable than any democrat of getting himself in a dilemma that he says he's going to try to get out of right now.h irony and hypocrisy. >> laura: it is -- these are the same people, i'm sure that they are nice people, i don'tkne

nice people. but they go flying to their conventions in their g5's and they fly in the beluga caviar and they are wailing about the latest horrible story.amazon ist none of it squares with the way they live their own lives, none of it. >> the truth of it is nothing is happening that's that unusual in the amazon. even all these pictures on social media of amazon burning most of them are lifted from earlier years going back as far as 2000.so what's really going e -- >> laura: there are some pretty bad fires there. >> i'm just saying that they are no different than the fires that have occurred in previous timese earth. the earth is not going to run out of oxygen. what i'm objecting to is the apocalypse and the alarmism. here's the point i want to make. while the people are saying all this about climatehe change, the real appeal of it, none of us know if the earth is getting hotter or colder, nor do they care.what they care about is the

green new deal is the muggeling mechanism for a socialist agenda [absolutely. >> if you look at the agenda, the basic income and medicare for all and raising the minimum wage and none of this has anything to do with climate change. but since we can't have the old marxist revolution, they're not revolting, we have toappeal, the do it. >> laura: thank you so much. coming up, raymond arroyo on the road tells the real story of mayor pete's record in south bend. but what to his constituents think? and does he have what it takes to be the next president? a can't miss exclusive anglehe . >> i can't see him standing toe-to-toe with putin and or some chinese leaders.

>> laura: a new installment in our raymond on the road series tonight. raymond arroyo in south bend, indiana, now the home of mayor pete buttigieg. but what does the mayor's real record look like from the ground? >> from the looks of things you might look like i'm in st. louis or detroit but actually i'm only a few miles from the golden dome of notre dame. welcome to mayor pete's south bend, indiana. a place where the local population here, 25% of them live beneath the poverty line and crime has risen to the 20-year highs with violent

isassaults exceeding by 173% the national average. and, there are lots of abandoned homes here. "usa today" recently described south bend as one of the most dangerous cities in america. they say it's double the national and state average for assaults.at why? what's happening here? >> we have a mirror that is more concerned about politics right now than he is about public safety in our own city. it's infuriating. >> because of some of the rhetoric that mayor pete employs here at home and nationally, has it made it more difficult for you to do your job? >> absolutely. now the public sees us as villains.there see police offics someone who wants to hurt them, not help them. and morale is at an all-time low as far as i'm concerned. i've been a police officer here

for 27 years and this is the lowest i've ever seen it. it's mainly due to the mayor's lack of public support for our officers. >> tell us about the eric logan case.part of the national press. >> more than ten officers have been shot at since that shooting. >> to what do you attribute that? >>ha we attribute that to the racism remarks that mayor pete has been spewing and demoralizing our police department and the public. the public is unafraid to approach us. >> do you feel safe in south bend? >> not at all. >> i i can't wait to get out.i's every night. >> i feel like i'm on gaillardia. >> i'm okay s with where i'm not but there's stuff that goes on downtown and other areas that needs to be addressed. >> do you go downtown in south bend? >> sometimes i do, it's a lot of fighting. >> i don't d go downtown.especi. i don't care for it, i don't like it. my 15-year-old doesn't like to be out alone at night. >> is there homeless problem? >> absolutely. i'm sure you saw it driving over

here. they are all over the city. >> 25% live below the poverty level. >> given what you witnessed ande here, is he ready to assume national office? >> i don't believe so. my message to the mayor is to drop the politics and be a bleader for the city that he swore to be a leader for. >> and then there is mayor pete's record on abortion. in 2018, the women's care center, a pro-life crisis pregnancy center wanted to open up a facility next to that building.the brown building the. the city council approved their permit but mayor pete vetoed it. >> we purchased a building that needed to be rezoned, we brought it to the city council that approved the zoning, it was vetoed. the owner of the property here where we stand acrosss the stret contacted us and offered us his property. so we built here and here we are serving women on the west side of south bend.

justice demands that every woman in this community has theand eve country has the exactly populated in life. the afternoon, but mayor pete has instigated investments downtown. there is some new construction. the studebaker factory here was a recently turned into a tech hub. but the question is can the residence afford to live in these new high-rises? >> i have two children, 24 and 25, i don't think they could afford to live in some of those spaces. >> i'm currently trying to get out of sound bend, currently. i don't see a lot of opportunity in the city. >> i definitely think it's for those who have money rather than the residence. >> is mayor pete ready? >> absolutely not. >> why not? >> i see him as an opportunist.

i don't agree with anything on this platform. >> i agree with mayor pete and aywhat he stands for. >> i can't see him standing toe-to-toe with putin and/or other leaders. what he's done with the city, he hasn't really changed too much. >> laura: it raymond arroyo joins me now. terrific reporting there. what's your impression of south bend? i've only been there a couple times because of football games or whatever over there at notre dame. butre at least the people youina scientific study or anything, but they said it doesn't seem like he's doing his job at home let alone for the country. >> a lot of these people really like mayor pete.they think's ar, they give him credit. beennew art center has refurbished but the streets are empty. this is a daylong approach to the area, it looks like it's abandoned or a ghost town. on the other side, they say they feel unsafe.they're worried abo,

they're worried about violent assaults. not only hear about in the neighborhood. he saw the homeless problem weu. that's in the woods and here in south bend. the head of the police union there, harvey mills, shared more information with us about the drug unit being shrunken by mayor pete as well as traffic enforcement. we have more to share with you later in the show. they sent us a statement, the city of south bend.we've been ir pete's campaign we will share later in the show. >> fantastic. raymond, thank you so much. we will be back later in the show as raymond said for more on that. but don't miss. a woman claims in d.c. divorce court the congresswoman ilhan omar broke up her family. and we have more details on that tonight, stay there.

>> laura: ilhan omar's verified social media's statusai congresswoman has largely insulated her from legacy media criticism. and thatci tonight's breaking ns seems to be an example of this.a bombshell story on this divorce filing from a d.c. mother alleged her political consultant husband admitted to having an affair ith omar and that he made a

"shocking declaration of love"f. he's now reporting that omar's campaign dispersed tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses to the company owned by him. omar denied even dating anyone in an interview today.apart fron msnbc.com, the other news outlets are quiet on this here to weigh in, matt schlapp.s piling up. the squad fancy themselves kind of at least cultural arbiters of our time but this is a littlecu. >> ilhan omar is curious to me, to use that phrase. i can't quite figure out her philosophy in life, is she is

like this modern feminist, or if she someone that has religious views that take her to another place. i can't figure it out but all i know is, if a republican congressman had been funneling a bunch of money to their lover, i think we would be reading abouts a misappropriation of funds to say the very least. >> laura: her office is saying no relationship but it looks like "the daily caller" has some of the documents. >> right, we're not going to believe it until we actually have facts, but i just can't believe myself that my really good friends onie the right are takig exception with a woman. if it is all true, having an some affair, while one is married and the other is married.i mean, this is the kind of stuff that for the past couple of years we've been saying through congressmen and senators and even presidents, it doesn't matter. >> laura: consultant/lover, that's a problem. that's an ethical problem.

>> even when there is money on the line it seems like we're saying, eh, not that big of a problem until now. so he's a legitimate consultant. we know that. he has a legitimate company, an- >> and he has legitimate wife and legitimate child. >> i'm trying my best not to talk about the current president of the united states who had a legitimate wife and unborn child because what we were told by my good friend on the right is, eh, or my good friend like reverend graham. >> laura: no grandstanding. no grandstanding. >> that's not grandstanding. >> it is because we're talking about money going to your consultant. >>su if it's taxpayer money, ite and illegal way, that is the problem. it is sanctioned by the fdc.

>> i believe is against dnc rules. >> well they certainly found out according to the investigation that it wasn't determined by the investigation. >> are really going to keep investigating these things for two, three, four or five years? >>es not when we already know te facts why would we. >> i think, look, i'm someone who doesn't dismiss these four women. i think they've been incredibly savvy and in their own way very smart, how they've dealt with social media. they have a platform and i eappen to disagree with it but boy, they are out there advocatingng for what they belie in. eagain, it's not what i believe in. >> it's -- their morality is-- >> it dependings what you mean on morality. their morality is green jobs and green economy and --

>> when we looked at gillibrand and the way she called out -- you were the one who said let process to be process and you are the person who always said let personal be personal. >> laura: i defended franken. i think frank got a raw deal. on this other stuffn that's happening, we have beto -- this is beto tripling down on the third trimester abortion issue.. >> you are out of town and someone asked you specifically about third trimester abortions and you said, that's a decision left up to the mother. i was born september 8, 1989, and i want to know if you think on september 7, 1989, my life had no value. >> of course i don't think that. you referenced my answer in ohio and it remains the same. that's a decision for the woman to make. >> it's a problem with that pro-choice mentality, your life

has value but you don't have any legal standing. it's what the country did for a hundred yearshu on a whole array of issues when it didn't affirm the fact that a human being has didn't have rights. >> laura: we are out of time but thank you>> for being here. coming up, the radical ninth circuit court just ruled that the state of idaho must provide transgender surgery to an inmate who is convicted of a sex crime against an underaged victim. that is not a joke. the governor of idaho is here exclusively to tell us how he's going to fight back. from the couldn't be prouders

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>> laura: the ninth circuit court of appeals playing political activist once again ruling last week that idaho must pay for the gender reassignment surgery of a criminally convicted individual who sexually abused a 15-year-old boy. now the court said idaho's refusal to fund the inmate violated adre edmo, that's the name, the eighth amendment's cruel and unusual punishment protection.governor, i rememberf clerking on the court, every time the 9th circuit came out with a decision, we rolled our

eyes. what are you going to do next? >> there have been twoth other courts that have ruled opposite and we appealed this to the ninth circuit and we will appeal it again. we just heartily disagree, it's a bad precedent and it will be expensive, and it's contrary to the health of professionals that we've had reviewing inmate edmo's record and all the things about the inmate. it's just contrary to good practices, and it's another example of activist courts getting in the middle of something and creating a precedent that's going to be expensive for the taxpayers of idaho and potentially all the taxpayers of the united states. >> laura: it's a complete scam. it is the inmate -- was the inmate born a woman? i confess, i can't tell from this. born a woman or born a man? >> born a man.

>> and wants to transition for gender reassignment surgery but convicted of sexually abusing a little boy, correct? so this would be part of -- i'm sure, never to go on to sexually abuse anyone again, i'm sure. but i think people watching across the country see these kind of stories and they feel helpless because unelected judges, they like tenure on the court, what happened to my country, and i think people really feel like they've lost the culture and and it's a sense of helplessness and sadness at the same time. >> as i said, there are two other federal courts that ruled in very similar cases the opposite way. so we are hopeful that justice will prevail and the taxpayers

in idaho and other states will not be forced to paid for what we see as a procedure that our health care professionals say not necessary. >> laura: governor, this will end up at the supreme court because of the circuit split.wes closely. thank you very much for the update. when we come back, raymond arroyo will be with us. reaction from mayor pete's campaign and the city of south bend. stay there. ..

>> laura: still trying to get over that previous segment, and we are back with >> friends get over the previous segment we are back with raymond on the road. have you heard from the city of south bend after your visit there today and mayor pete's campaign kick you >> they have already responded to the segment we played a little while ago and said public

safety, communications director, public safety is a top priority, we are continuing to work hard to reduce violence and make south bend a safer city for all residents, talk about the group violence initiative to reduce gang violence. what they don't address and we will be reporting on this friday, mayor pete, those units, that has had a serious impact on these streets and the safety of the people. we will get to all that and we have our venice beach report on homelessness surrounding residents in venice beach, that is on thursday's show. >> what a busy week, raymond on the road and he has his own graphic. that is all the time -- i love it, the sneakers.

all the time we have tonight. we have more on tomorrow's podcast, podcastone.com and we will have a report from venice beach. i've seen a little bit of it, it is while. shannon bream has the latest and they take it from here. >> it is a busy night, thank you very much and we begin with a fox news alert. the war against the opioid epidemic heats up. another pharmaceutical company reportedly in the mix negotiating a multibillion-dollar settlement. will billions solve the problem. joining us with what it means, china is using the addiction epidemic as the weapon against america. puerto rico facing another major challenge the residents bracing for tropical storm dorian, it has been two