with the vice president. have a great weekend. thanks for being with us. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham. every day is climate protest day, let's face it. we're broadcasting miles away from a place where a seattle police officer says he and dozens of others were exposed to dangerous toxins. that site was the site of a homeless encampment that they were charged with cleaning up. we'll bring you the details on that shocking story. and climate bill. they took to the streets across the country. so we sent an actual scientist in the middle of it with a camera. and it's friday. so of course, we have follies

for you. raymond arroyo is with me here on the climate hysteria an how it's harming the mental state of some young people. bizarre halloween costumes? i have a surprise for him that he doesn't know about. first -- >> did you discuss joe biden and his son or his family? >> it doesn't matter what i discussed. i will say this. somebody ought to look into joe biden's statement. it was disgraceful where he talked about billions of dollars that he's not giving to a certain country. unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. he wouldn't because he's a democrat. >> laura: the president earlier today responded to the suggestion but some resistance media that he was engaged in a round of collusion 2.0. after the president made those comments, two publications, the "wall street journal" and "the washington post" published new details of the whistle-blower complaint. they report that the president had a conversation with

ukrainian president where trump looked into corruption regarding joe biden's son, hunter. this apparently happened on a number of occasions. numerous outlets reported on the troubling biden family conflicts as well. but that of course wasn't the part of the story that the media and the left want to tell. they see this as an opportunity to whip the country into another anti-trump frenzy. >> it is illegal and i'll is clearly out said of the bounds of the president's article 2 presidential authorities. >> it certainly might breach the levels of the standards in the constitution about being high crimes and/or misdemeanors. >> what we see now emerging is a massive cover up effort by the white house and the department of justice to prevent the facts from coming to light. >> laura: how did we get here and what is the white house

saying tonight? for more, we go to ed henry in new york. ed? >> laura, i have new information tonight about that july phone call at the center of this entire controversy. details suggesting that democrats an pundits may be overreaching again. a senior official familiar with the transcript with the president and his counterpart said it's overblown to suggest there was any crime discussed. this top official adding the media better be careful with this. there's no there there. it's in the president's interest to put the transcript of the call out and show that there was no quid pro quo. let's go through the time line. may no9, "the new york times" ss that the president told him he would be willing to listen if a foreign government offered political dirt. july 25, the president has that call with the president of

ukraine. newly sworn in to office. august 12, the whistle-blower involved here files a complaint a couple weeks after the call. august 21, "the new york times" reports guliani is pushing to get ukraine to investigate biden. politco then reports the white house is slow-walking $250 million in aid to ukraine. that money was released on september 12. so the president today said in the oval office just like with justice kavanaugh, the media is going to wind up looking foolish. >> you've had a very bad week and this will be better than all of them. this is another one. keep playing it up because you're going to look bad. >> laura, as you mentioned, the breaking story from the "wall street journal" says the president did not mention foreign aid on the call. there was no quid pro quo for basically, you know, we'll give you aid if you open up this bye-bye -- joe biden

investigation. that's why the white house should release the call and show there's nothing here. >> laura: thanks, ed. joining me is speeder schwiezer and gregg jarrett, author of the forthcoming book "witch hunt." all right, peter. a lot bubbling up today and even tonight on this. now, you think that trump is right to question biden's dealings in the ukraine. but tonight what you're hearing is that, well, these conversations included -- an implicit quid pro quo or floating the idea of a quid pro quo. we know none of this. but that's where you watch the other networks and reading online. people saying he might not have said it but it was implicit because the issue of aid was also part of these general

conversations. >> yeah, look, laura, the underlying story involving hunter biden going around the world and collecting large payments from foreign governments and oligarchs. in the case of the ukraine, he's being paid $83,000 a month by a corrupt oligarch that run as company and he's supposed to be advising them on natural gas regulatory issues. he has no background in the ukraine, he has no background in energy or natural gas. so the with is, what is he being paid for? he's not being paid for his expertise. he has none. his father at this time is the point point on u.s. policy to ukraine. the same thing is playing, taking place halfway around the world in china. donald trump is right to ask the question and to ask that there be an investigation to see what hunter biden was being paid for. joe biden has offered no answers.

hunter biden has lied repeatedly about this and proven by abc news and other outlets. these are the underlying questions. look at what the whistle-blower says. the underlying issue here involving corruption at the highest scale. my point is look, if people want to defend the bidens on this, get used to it. everybody in washington is going to start cashing in this way. >> laura: greg, focusing -- focusing just on the allegations that are being made without any specific information, which is typical of the media. here's joe biden's response today again trying to shift the narrative to trump's calls. what i just referred to, regarding biden's ukraine ties. watch. >> not one single credible outlet has given any credibility to his assertion, not one single one. so i have no comment except the

preside president. no so he says later, the president should release the transcript. he for got about the numerous reports regarding the story, including "new york times" wrote about biden, bloomberg has covered some of this. is biden saying the "new york times" isn't a credible source now for the underlying concerns about this conflict of interest, greg? >> these other liners, oblivious with what "the new york times" and the other news organizations have written about. you know, nobody in the media seems to be talking about the quid pro quo of joe biden. he was seen on camera bragging about how he gave the ukrainian government six hours to fire a prosecutor or he would withhold up to i think it was a billion dollars of american aid to ukraine. that's a quid pro quo. that's okay to the media.

but president trump makes a request or a demand to ukraine to investigate a corruption there that may be connected to an american political official, and with no quid pro quo and that is somehow, you know, an impeachable offense. this whistle-blower in my judgment is not a whistle-blower at all. forget the fact that he appears to be spying on an -- an american spy spying on the president listening in on conversations. but he doesn't qualify as a whistle-blower under the statute. the statute confines the urgent concern complaints to misconduct and maladministration and abuse of power in the intelligence community. the president is not a member of the intelligence community. in fact, they report to him. so i don't -- >> laura: the acting director, right? yeah, he took it as a

whistle-blower complaint. he made the decision to -- >> the inspector general took it as -- >> laura: well, he turned it over saying it was -- >> right. >> laura: -- substantial enough -- >> and the dni -- we learned through his legal counsel has written a letter saying the guy doesn't qualify as a whistle-blower because it's not within the intelligence community. so the media thinks you ignore that. >> laura: i want to read what the journal is reporting today indicated, peter. i want you to respond to this. he told them that he should work with mr. guliani on biden and people in washington want to know in the allegations are true or not. one of the people said mr. trump did not mention a provision of foreign aid to ukraine on the call said the person who didn't believe that mr. trump offered the ukrainian president any quid pro quo for his cooperation on any investigation. i imagine that was a white house

source that brought that to the journal today. everyone is trying to put their spin on this story. going back to my original question, peter. will or could this be a problem for the administration if the democrats sink their teeth into this and say you were whining and hillary and fusion gps. now it looks like you guys are doing you said they were doing during the 2016 campaign. >> no, i don't think so. we have to see what information comes out. the bottom line is the president of the united states can certainly request that a foreign leader investigate possible corruption or criminal conduct. i think you should have the u.s. department of justice working with the ukrainians. i wouldn't want the ukrainians investigating this by themselves. this is a country that has a long history mired in corruption. the way to do this, the u.s. department of justice should work with the ukrainians to investigate precisely what went on. what was hunter biden being paid

to do. not only in ukraine, but in china. you have this billion dollar private equity deal. $145,000 from -- >> laura: that's a lot of money. he made a lot of money, right? a lot of cash. >> he made a lot of money. yeah. he had no expertise in any of it. by the way, unlike the russia collusion, which was this theory, we know the money went there because we have the bank accounts. it was a criminal case involving hunter biden's business partner -- >> laura: it was -- this was a financial trail, not a phone dossier paid for by an opposition party. gregg jarrett, john solomon is reporting tonight that it was actually an official at the state department that urged guliani's follow up on this as well. >> that's right. i read that story. >> laura: and that was important tonight. he was on hannity discussing this. talk to that briefly. >> well, if guliani is acting on

behalf of the united states state department as essentially an emissary to go over there and try to mend fences with them and engage in better relations, he's not acting in some capacity to get them to engage in a quid pro quo to go after joe biden. he's doing something entirely different. he's on assignment for the united states government. again, the media pay notice attention to things like that. >> laura: greg and peter, thanks so much. the other big story of the day, climate activists took to the streets across the country and sought wall to wall coverage, all major networks covered this and got me thinking. why doesn't the march for life get the same attention? is there any comparison? let's take crowd size. fox news producers estimated there were a few thousand in the nation's capitol today. the march for life back in january, 300,000. according to some estimates. i go usually.

there's hundreds of thousands every year. so what are the goals though of the climate enthusiasts? if you believe the 2020 democrats, population control has to be one of the measures considered. >> its about resources. so yeah, i think we should be active again with international agencies. we need to be involved in the united nations family planning efforts around the-week-old. >> i think especially in poor countries around the world where women don't want to have large numbers of babies, where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have. something that i very strongly support. >> laura: what are the goals of the pro life movement? defend the life of every human being from conception until natural death. how about the differences in tactics? climate activists demand you give up modern amenitities that made our lives better.

>> cattle is very energy consuming and energy expensive. if you project forward on what we need to do to reduce emissions, you'd want to modify americans' diets over time. >> laura: pro lifers are following real science following the origins of life and insisting every one recognize the right to life. you look closely, climate activists seek the dehumanization of the person. if these fear mongers have their way, population control will have to be in force for the good of the environment. one man was brave enough to wander into the mass of activists today. he's an actual seentist. gregory wrightstone is from the heartland institute and the author of "inconvenient facts." we're going to show the audience some footage that you got today. moments that surprised you.

let's start with the age of the participants. in this video, you can see kids, of course, holding politically charged signs. don't mess with our momma. i mean, is anything wrong with that? they're not profane signs. what do you make of it? >> yeah, i tell you what i saw today is rampant abuse -- wouldn't be child abuse, but exploitation of children to promote this alarmist agenda. we had speakers today that ranged from 5 years old to 18. all of them had about the same message. we had 12 years before the world was over. they would each list a list of what i call climate apocalypse events, droughts, floods, fires, all of those things. all very similar. all of them promoted getting off of fossil fuels in the next 20

or 30 years. all of them believes strongly that we can replace our electricity with wind and solar and it's not possible. it's just not possible. >> laura: and you also came across a group that calls themselves the extinction rebellion. i guess their founder calls for the overthrow of governments. >> this is going to happen. if you want it to stop happening, you have to stop using fossil fuels. to stop that, you have to rebel against the government. >> you have to bring down the regimes in the world simultaneously and replace them. >> laura: that guy's group gives us actually one of the sponsors that is climate strike. so gregory, why are we allowing children to skip school and listen to that radical? how is this going to make their schooling better on that daily basis? >> well, they can stay at home

and go to school and be indoctrinated or go here and be indoctrinated. the pittsburgh mayor, the closest thing to a socialist mayor said he would sign excuses for my children that skipped school for that day. one of the big things i saw today is the close relationship between socialism and the activists. might have been 50% of the signs were linking socialism or anti-capitalism to this green new deal and what they're trying to get through. one of the signs i saw said "system change, not climate change". >> laura: we have sound illustrating this point. let's watch. >> capitalism is a system that will put profits first. >> only a few corporations are responsible for the vast

majority of carbon emissions. we need to be taking those under public control. >> laura: he looks a little old for an elementary school student. they think more government is going to solve climate problems. they're speaking in these -- like bumper sticker repeat. it's really their parents and, you know, their schooling. i think their schooling delivered them to these protests. it's not their fault. this is what is being taught. >> it is. i talked to a student at the university of pittsburgh major in environmental studies. i asked her point blank, i said, do you -- are you ever exposed to anything that is contrary to this notion of manmade catastrophic warming. she said no. there's a 97% consensus. i tell you one thing that stood out to me is you have to forgive me but the ignorance of the adults there. they just didn't know many of the basic facts that are

controlling the climate or driving the climate. >> laura: greg, this is a religion. these are people looking for belonging. this is the climate club. i'm a conversationist. i love the outdoors. we should be good stewards of the environment. i don't like the plastic. i'm with that, but this is -- this today was way beyond climate and environment and conservation and about anti-capitalism, anti-free market, for all of these other causes that dovetailed to the radicalization of american politician. if you think it's about saving the whales? huh-uh. it was about a lot more than that. gregory, thank you so much. in a moment, "the ingraham angle" got exclusive footage from the homeless encampments here in seattle. we have that video when we return.

>> laura: i'm hear in seattle tonight. i can tell you from walking the streets earlier today, a lot of great people, exuberant people because of the climate protest. but the homelessness crisis here is a heart breaker.

driving from the airport, taking a tour, you see a city in some places on the brink. they're american citizens and they're suffering. the seattle times said a seattle police officer a signed to clean up home letleless camps said he getting sick because of the pollution in the sites. so we sent our photographer to the streets of seattle to see what the officers and residents are encountering here daily. the results will shock you. >> definitely something that i wish we would pay more attention to. a lot of times you'll meet people all around downtown seattle here. people walk past homeless veterans and other homeless as if they're invisible. >> i don't have a problem with the mentality and give them a safer place. but it needs to be managed well

if that's the case. even then, you can only like serve so much of the population. >> i take the train in every day. on my train route here, seeing the amount of homeless every day, i see needles, people struggling. there's people trying to solve it. there's housing going up. there's a building going up that will have room for women and children that are displaced. but i think there's people trying to solve it. i don't know what the right answer is. it's easy to ship them out and say not in my back yard. i don't know that that is the right answer. >> things won't change. real change won't change unless as a whole we realize that more and chip in as much as we can personally to hopefully bring about a real change. >> laura: joining me, jeffery lord and author of the book "swamp wars." jeffery, what we saw today is

not all that different from what we've reported on in venice beach and l.a., downtown l.a., malibu. we see it in san francisco. the trump administration is now getting involved on the epa level. that's how dangerous this is. now you have police officers apparently getting sick. they're concerned about bringing the diseases home to their families at night. what is your reaction to this? this beautiful city of seattle. a gorgeous part of the country here. this is just a heart break. >> it's shocking, laura. if the toxins were found in the puget sound in seattle, all of these people in the streets today would be outraged. but no, no, no, it came from a homeless encampment. so they didn't want to do anything about it. i saw a picture. they have an office in manhattan. outside the office was a woman nicely dressed with a bike and a lovely dog and a basket. lovingly wrapped.

a few feet away from her in the middle of manhattan with a poor soul sleeping on cardboard. his belongings all around him. they said they care more about dogs than they do about people. that is the problem. >> laura: you know what is amazing, there's a bit of an emerging -- a loss of patience on the part of seattle residents. never thought that would happen. that's how bad it's gotten. city journal reported on this earlier this year. 53% of seattle voters support a zero tolerance policy on homeless encampments. 62% say the problem is getting worse because the city wastes money on being inefficient and not accountable for how the money is spent. goes on and on. a brewing rebellion here. it's the homeless activists. it's like the homeless industrial complex they call it. fighting against the residents and the businesses that say we

got to clear this out. this is dangerous. >> this is the governing philosophy of liberalism. they have this problem because it's been going on for decades. >> laura: thanks. up next, the impact of climate change on young people and a pair of beloved tv billions of mouths.

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>> laura: it's friday. it's time for friday follies. some bizarre halloween costumes and morning tv turns desperate. joining us with details, raymond arroyo. today tens of thousands of kids across the country got a get out of school free card by going to the climate protest. exciting for them. what is really going on? >> there's a hysteria emerging among the young. it's so bad, these young people are literally having breakdowns. this is jamie margoin. she's a teen climate activist. here she is on capitol hill this week. listen. >> everyone that will wake up to me after this testimony that says i have a bright future ahead of me will be lying to me. it doesn't matter how talented we are, the work we put in. the reality is my generation is committed to a planet that is

collapsing. >> it's so bad, the american psychological association is called eco anxiety. they truly believe the world is coming to an end because of climate change. the show "big little lies" captured this mania. >> what possesses two idiots like your receive to teach 8-year-olds that the planet is doomed? >> it's all over the news. >> it's our jobs to be constructive so they can process it. >> good for you. you deconstructed my little girl into a coma. >> it's so bad, laura, a 18-year-old, emma limb, she launched a climate movement called no future, no children. she she's i will only have children if i know i can keep them safe. what could of a mother would i be if i brought a baby into a

world that i couldn't make sure they were safe. the desperation and the depression among the young. this is all because of media changing the terminology. >> laura: it's also trying to soften up children to be young adults that believe it's okay to turn over your freedom, individual liberty to a greater good of government control. that's what it about. >> and your ability to have a family. >> laura: your basic freedom. this is all for individual freedom and pro choice. but they don't think there's a choice. you shouldn't have a choice. whether to have a child now. >> a very dark future. it's cruel. the guardian newspaper changed their terminology from climate change to climate emergency and climate breakdown. so they're ratcheting up the language. it's sending these kids to psychologists. they're having breakdowns. >> laura: i hope their parents and the adults are all happy.

every halloween though, we discovered bizarre costumes that are not allowed anymore. you found a pair that take the cake. >> you might call this the pbs sexy halloween collection. it's called nicest neighborhoods. it's a spoof of mr. rogers, zip-up sweater and pants. if you go to do a sexy pbs take-off, the public might tolerate a sexy judy. but now a trashy bob ross costume. even the famous deceased painter is not safe. >> i loved his painting. >> no one, laura, no thing is sacred. that i will tart up and trash up beloved figures. what did he do to anybody? >> this is not making sense. mr. rogers? he's been off the air how long? >> let me be your neighbor is taken to a new level. >> has he ever dressed up as an

indian or cowboy? >> no. you saw me. i was the joker. you did wear white face. very ritzy. >> the obama community is up in arms. >> laura: if you're an eskimo, in an igloo -- one year my kids walked around in an igloo. just wearing an igloo could be cultural inappropriate. salt and pepper shakers. >> i hope they stop it. >> laura: we have one last fully. do you know what today is? oh, my gosh. ♪ we couldn't let this go without celebrating your birthday. >> oh, no. >> laura: make a wish. >> okay. that the segment ends fast. >> laura: oh, make a wish. >> okay. i got it. >> laura: and this, raymond,

through the smoke -- >> the haze. >> laura: is for you. watch. ♪ >> do you know the skill it takes to train that? i'm going to climb into the ceiling like top cruise. >> laura: the suspected, our arroyo. also caught on camera getting intimate with an intercom. >> i don't know about you, laura, but i've never -- that was not me. we're not going to do a toe-off here. i'm going to go get tucker to sign one. when a prostate falls in a

forest, can he get up again? two gentlemen over there. mr. bitle and mr. billingsworth. my attorneys. this is sad. makes he want to drink. >> laura: this is a very, very, very happy birthday for raymond. he doesn't age. he doesn't go into the sunday. if you want to know why he doesn't age -- >> jeans, jeans and stay out of the sun. >> laura: happy birthday. coming up, next time you take one of those generic drugs your doctors prescribed for you, think about where it came from, where it was made and the elements that went into it. a shocking story involving china when we come back.

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>> laura: china has a plan. make countries overly reliant on their products and exploit that for global political control. i'm not just talking about steel or mining, plastics. no, no. experts are warning that the u.s. is becoming too reliant on china for our medicine. >> no doubt that they would consider weaponizing their dominance of the pharmaceuticals market if they felt that that would give them an advantage over us strategically. >> laura: the fda is estimating

that 80% of the active ingredients found in some of our most common medicines come from other countries. and the biggest supplier of all? china. joining me now is rosemary gibson, author of "china rx." i confess. i've been following the china quest for global domination for 25 years or so. ever since the wto debate, all that. >> sure. >> laura: but i did not know the extent to which we're dependent in our country on communist china for basic elements of our medicines. tell us. >> if your child has an ear infection -- >> laura: which mine has had many times. >> if you have given them antibiotic, it comes from china. if you went to the dentist and gotten antibiotic, it comes from

china. the anthrax attacks. the anniversary is coming up soon. where did we get the medicine from to treat anthrax exposure? the ingredients come from china. >> laura: how does this make sense on any level? we're dealing with china cheating on every major precept of the world trade organization rules for going on for years. they steal our intellectual property, stole 50 million personnel files and that big data breach. now this. so the fda has issued multiple recalls of this generic medicine, a blood pressure drug. >> yes. millions of americans were taking that medicine and turns out it had a cancer causing impurity in it used to make rocket fuel. this went to our veterans, went to our military. we've got to gain control back over our medicine. >> laura: so the way we deal with this is to bring back manufacturing to the united states or only allow

manufacturing in the countries whose processes we trust. to we go in there and inspect the plants in china or are -- >> the fda inspects the plants. the problem they're facing is that they're having to approve products to come into this country even though they don't meet our standards. why? because they're concerned about a shortage in this country. that's how dependent we are on china. >> laura: why is it that we don't manufacture more here? explain how that happens. >> the generic drugs are chinaer. china cheats. they cheat on trade. they cheated in gaining control over our antibiotics. that's how they have a choke hold. they drove out the u.s., european and indian producers of our antibiotics. that's why your get is getting antibiotic from china. >> laura: you don't need to fire a shot. not saying that they wouldn't. wouldn't be in their interest

right now, to have a -- a devastating effect on america's health. well-being. across the board, from children to the elderly, middle age. it's not just antibiotics. let's put up a scroll of the drugs that are actually covered by this concern of china manufacture. it's a lot. therapy drugs. i took them once. fantastic. maybe that's why so much energy. it's rocket fuel. >> yeah, you don't have to fire a missile to take america down. withhold their medicines. >> laura: how do consumers here in the united states know if what they're using is at least in part manufactured in china? >> they don't. >> laura: there's no way for us to know. >> there's no way to know. you can try to find out. there's legislation to put on the label where it comes from. that was killed. >> laura: we need to bring the manufacturing back to the united

states, period. >> we need to diversify. it's like your portfolio. you want to diversify. don't put all of your eggs? one basket. >> laura: this makes me uncomfortable. i've been studying china for many years. i never focused on this aspect. you taught us something tonight. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> laura: absolutely. up next, an "the ingraham angle" exclusive. inside the indiana women's prison where second chances are just the beginning. a program putting inmates to work on the inside so they get hired on the outside and stay out of trouble up next.

>> the boldest criminal justice reform package in united states history. >> we have a problem. our criminal justice system is broken. >> this system as a whole is a cancer on the soul of our country and hurting every single american. >> laura: as the race for 2020 ramps up, criminal justice reform has taken center stage. president trump, you know, the one who actually they brand as racist? he's taken major steps to fixing the system. this summer he unveiled the second chance act.

it's a program that encourages employers to hire formerly incarcerated individuals. one nonprofit has been on this mission for years. it's called the last mile. it just expanded to indiana. the first class of women just graduated. i had an opportunity to speak with them about what this meant to them, their future and their desire never to go back to prison again. >> you four and soon to be in others all over the state of indiana are proving that indiana is a state that works for all. congratulations, i can't wait. the best is yet to come. >> i got an understanding of what it was they were doing. i would be a fool to miss this opportunity. >> i wanted to create a space

for you. >> what do you think you learned about yourself in this program? >> i really excel in academia. i had an addiction problem most of my adult life. i had been sober 6 1/2 years. my dad got lung cancer. i took care of him for 1 1/2 years until he died. when he died i kind of -- i can't explain it. i don't like to blame that because that's not his fault but hit me on an emotional level. so i turned to what i knew would numb me. long story short, here i am. >> when do you get out? >> i will receive my bachelor's

degree in december and that makes me an immediate release. i hear there's no such thing as an immediate release but they have ten days to process my paperwork. >> laura: how excited are you? >> i'm excited and anxious. >> laura: tell us why. >> i've been locked up over seven years. everything has changed. i left with small children. i'm going home to adults. the life that i had before coming is completely demolished and gone. the relationships that i had before coming are very fragmented. need to be repaired or rebuilt. so i'm just stepping out of prison as a clean slate. that's nerve racking. it's not stepping to the familiar but the unknown. >> laura: how has this helped you with those skills, your communication skills, your honesty? we're all broken, all of us. but you know, you went through your thing. we've all gone through something. that is really important.

i just think that that realization that you just expressed is important. people watching this will have a different view of incarcerated people. >> that's good. when we're thinking about incarcerated people, they're people. everybody is one bad choice away from incarceration. most people don't make them, but more and more we're seeing they do. and if why put them in a box forever, we're not allowing them to change and grow. >> laura: how important is it for you to succeed out there for those still here that you will leave behind? >> it's really important to me because i feel like it's important to give back. because i feel like it's important to give back even throughout my time here. i made it a point to teach classes and do other things that allowed me the opportunity to to help others that were in the beginning of their process. so i know that my success is

going to have a huge impact on the women coming in the future. i'm the pilot program. so all eyes are on the people in the pilot program to see if they succeed. is this a 0% recidivism rate. it's very important to me to be successful so number 1, they know they can be successful and number 2 so that society knows these programs are worth investing in. >> i'm here to offer you an opportunity for the next big thing. >> laura: what did it feel like today? you had all of these people in the room, elected officials, business leaders. what was that like? >> breathtaking really. speechless almost. i've been waiting for this day. i love opportunities like this. any time it presents itself, i'm going to grab it. it's a great day. >> laura: how do you feel about yourself and your own trajectory, how you started here, the day you walked in till today. >> amazing.

some days i felt like i wasn't going to be able to make it. but we all have those days. i made it. i feel like i believed in the process. it took me here. >> to those that say you can't rehabilitate people. shouldn't be putting money in prison. we should put it in schools and people that haven't broken the law, people just starting out in life. what do you say to them? >> there's only one way to rehabilitate people is to give them an opportunity. if you put them in prison and don't give them an opportunity to succeed, they won't succeed. they don't know how. we need an example like the last mile. i feel like it's easy to fall into the environment around you. but as long as you have something like the last mile and you're grounding, you're humble and your only goal is to become a better person and to make it home, i advise a lot of people to work on their self. work on their inner self.

you came in here by yourself. you're leaving as a better person. >> laura: what is the hardest thing here besides being away from family and friends? >> the hardest thing is forgiveness. forgiveness for myself. if i don't forgive myself,ly always stay stuck in the past. i can't begin a new journey without letting go of the past and starting a brighter future. >> laura: what is the biggest misconception that people on the outside have of women on the inside. from what you've experienced. >> the biggest misconception for me is that they believe that we do nothing in here at all. just do our time but as long as people keep providing us the opportunity to become the women that we are led to be before we

made a mistake, i think a lot of misconceptions will change. we're not just inmates. we're trying to better ourselves. we need help. >> laura: what is your dream when you get out? >> to have my own start-up company. >> laura: how confident that you'll hit it and do well? >> 99.9%. >> laura: that's good. we'll have more of that powerful story coming up in the weeks ahead. stay there. my final thoughts on this wild week next. these are real people,

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the "the ingraham angle" staff for you working hard to bring you angles that you don't hear anywhere else. have a wonderful weekend. fly your flag and shannon bream and the fox news at night team take it from here. >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. new information tonight against that phone call that reportedly inspired a whistle-blower to complain about president trump. it's a member of the intelligence community we're told reportedly involved a request from the president that his counterpart in ukraine investigate allegations concerning democratic frontrunner joe biden and his son. the president and former vice president firing back as the democrat frontrunner is forced to face old allegations with his son and the possibility of a new inst