a row. we can't do it without you. thank you from the bottom of my heart. we will never be the media, we will always pursue truth and justice.i'm about to be made fu. the laura ingraham him is in the swamp in d.c. >> laura: it was very nostalgic looking at those -- >> sean: can you imagine that? >> laura: hannity, you are adorable. your cute little adorable -- you're adorable. >> sean: you want to pet the puppy, i got it. >> laura: it was the cutest -- all the girls in the studio look at that cute, you went from that to being on the scooter on the sidewalk. how did that happen? >> sean: i have no idea. we go through the heavier years, the skinnier years, by the way -- >> laura: you're skinny again, you're skinny. >> sean: training five days a week ever since. >> laura: skinny, you're skinny. hannity is skinny again.getting. >> sean: finally went on the

nj diet.could see this around te stomach, have to lose some weight. >> laura: hey, hannity, i'm going to make you a guest for one minute on my show. i just heard that this nut bagls trying to block trump. we been hearing they've been trying to block a trump from speaking on thursday. it's basically a free country but you know, signaling that something could go amiss in the city. this is where the left is, they are afraid of president trump speaking, they did this in chicago. remember, in last election, they tried to prevent him from going there. the president cannot be held. he's got to go to the cities all across the country. >> sean: they banned cops wearing the uniform. let me ask you, i think they are insane. for years, they have done nothing for we the people, nowth hunt. here's my question for you, and impeach, don't and impeach, i don't care what they do because i think they are showing the american people thee

american people voting. how do you think this ends? >> laura: i think it looks a crippled washington that is unable to do the people's business from infrastructure to usmca. those two things, it will be an enormous boost to our current economy. that the economy is 2% gdp, 1 and higher, it would be great for the economy. they won't do it because it's a win for trump are they will do it begrudgingly.that tells you o know about the democrats. >> sean: you, me, we are only the three people who would believe trump would win. can you imagine the night of election night, fox news projects donald j. trump has been reelected the 45th president of the united states. can you imagine, it will be worth it just for that. >> laura: the heads would be going like that. hannity, it was a great show tonight, again, those clips those were the greatest ever. i love those. >> sean: it so embarrassing. it's humiliating! >> laura: no, it was good.

you should have mayed those 2000 recount, remember on election night, was on like 9:00 p.m., i was on like four times you with that night, it was hilarious. >> i remember. >> great show. >> have a great night. i'm laura ingraham, from the "the ingraham angle," out of busy washington. we going to explain the nonsensical step there taking to conceal the identity of the whistle-blower and hide most ofe we'll also speak to experts who have been through the impeachment battle, what does it really mean, how does it go? plus, the nba siding with communist china. you are not going to miss this angle, you're not going to want to. what happened to free speech,thk but not their own member of

their management team that sent out the very mild tweets in favor of the protesters. the three democrats at the top of the 2020 nomination poll have run into some serious trouble. there are serious whispers about another hillary clinton run. i'm not kidding. we should be so lucky. but, first, we have the simple question tonight, just how improperly are the democrats handling this impeachment push? i want to take you back to what might be the most faithful decision of this entire charade. house speaker nancy pelosipittid reckless adam schiff in charge of this impeachment inquiry. >> i want to salute the sixth chairman, they've done a remarkable job.adam schiff is hh now, it is an intelligence matter now and it's focused in the intelligence committee. >> laura: well, now that decision is coming back to haunt her. just in time for halloween. from what our own katherine ishs

testimony happening friday, the collusion between the whistle-blower and schiff's committee could be far worse than we previously know. we told friday the whistle-blower did not disclose that he had met with schiff's staff before filing the complaint that sparked to the whole impeachment frenzy. they are now telling fox that the intel ig had no explanation for an 18-day periodbetween trul with the ukraine and the whistle blower filing his or her complaint on august 12. it is during that period that the whistle-blower contracted schiff to decide to go to the intel ig to file the complaint. sources are also saying the whistle-blower did not disclose to the ig any congressional contact that he or she may have had. so, here i'm going to remind you that adam schiff is the only one has the ability to

release the full transcripts from last week's hearing. so, ask yourself, why isn't he? joining me now is a man who played an integral part of the president bill clinton impeachment, bob barr, i remember it well, bob how badly is adam schiff's leadership damaging the credibility of this inquiry? >> well, when this whole thing started, laura, it was hard to imagine the credibility of the democrat effort against president trump could sink any lower. but give it to schiff, he has done that, it's gotten even worse. you know, it's really as if they set out a list of everything that they could think of that would undermine the credibility of their effort and they have stuck to that list to a t. >> laura: but the democrats are defending schiff, quite vociferously, one after the other let's watch. >> i think it's been productive adam schiff and the intelligencn

this. >> yet nancy pelosi and adam schiff alone with a very targeted narrow message for where they're going, the republicans are sort of all over the place. >> i think he is one of the most decent human beings i know and i think he is is playing straight. >> laura: well, they're circling the wagons around him, they know if some reason he takes a major hit with the public at large, his own credibility it's curtains for this impeachment inquiry. at least that's how it's going to play out among the american people. what are the pitfalls beyond schiff for this at this juncture? >> it's interesting because i'm reminded of the old tv cartoon show in the '80s called "the smurfs" where you had all these little blue people running

around and bumping into each other, and that's what it appears to be because speaker pelosi for all the fanfare that the left gives her she really does not have control of her caucus. she started out a few weeks ago as you remember, allowing nadler, the man who never smiles to take a crack at a faux-impeachment. that did not turned out too well.then she turns it over to schiff, and that turned out as a disaster, it's not only hurting the impeachment effort for them but it's really hurting the country and that is the bottom line here. this is a committee of the congress, and i was with the cia back when we formed both the house and the senate intelligence committees and through legislation back in the late '70s. what schiff has done to the house intelligence committee, which is supposed to be the most nonpartisan of committees, he has turned it into the most partisan and in so doing, is doing great damage to intelligence oversight for the united states. >> laura: yeah, but, bob, this is what nancy pelosi with deeply

somber tones last week, we are doing this soberly and judiciously, and quoting -- she's quoting james madison, throwing references for their federalist papers, she is trying to give it the air of impartiality. >> it's gravitas. >> laura: it's a somber tone she looks very pained, we don't want to do this, but we are compelled to do this. does that wash? >> it does not wash and the fact of the matter is that an impeachment inquiry or an inquiry of impeachment does not start because the speaker says it does. throwing around a magic wand.anf impeachment is a formal document, as you know, this is how the impeachment process was started back in 1998. as well as back in 1973, 1974 with nixon. it's a very formal document that places the responsibility where it should be and where the house rules require it to be and that

is the judiciary committee. but i think nancy pelosi is doing this sort of faux-impeachment inquiry because they realize that it might very well fall apart before and crumble before their very eyes and if there is no formal inquiry they can go back and say, well, we didn't really mean it anyway. >> laura: it's more of a media inquiry than anything else again, impeachment but not to -- coke zero, impeachment zero bob, their few people lindsey graham, i remember most days, great to have you on tonight. great to spend some time with you. >> thank you. >> laura: why are democrat so worried about ag bill barr's investigation of the 2016 election?why are they sweating ? perhaps this "new york times" headlines explains it. "the times" report that mr. barn access to foreign officials with

the i believe quire re, and the president has complied. they spoke to officials in britain, italy, and russia.acore department official. joining me now, former acting attorney general, matt whitaker matt, great to see it. should the democrats be concerned, is bill barr the type of person you know well? the person going all over the world for the world to make it look like this.-- for the fun ot look like it is serious? >> no, i think it's a very purposeful effort to take at john durham with him, introduce them, and looking at the inquiry, this is john, he's the person inducting it. please give everything as you can, and you can see with some of the folks on the media. you can see, they are worriedthr for for example. they're trying to discredit and suggesting that somehow it's a legitimate to look at why we even have this investigation. but you and i both know and a lot of american people know there's really no explanation ad into a criminal investigation of

the president. >> laura: this is a stunningly obvious to me, but just like the post mueller play book, the media mr. whitaker said, and discrediting barr's investigation, they have to do that by labeling, second timeate attorney general is jen, -- ge, but he's just like a random political pundit. >> we're in the world of attorney general william barr. >> he's jetting all around the world spending that time to focus on an investigation that is really only notable because it's a vehicle for the president to seek political revenge on his enemies. >> there trying to retroactively fit evidence to fit the conspiracy theory. >> laura: the worth "conspiracy theory" has been everywhere in the press. it's every where. >> it is, the left has been unified. throughout the last three years it's almost you want a 24 hours a new cycle and you could see they set up the talking points

to everybody and they are all saying the same thing. one of the things of that i know is you don't hear anything about the mueller investigationas a bs impeachment inquiry it's all about the ukraine. you know how fast and furious it came on before they even the transcript that whistle-blower complaint, now they realize that complaint and they got the second whistle-blower that they don't want to put in front of the american people. the number one tenet of the american judicial that them is to confront the witnesses against you and that's exactly what they don't want to happen because they know these whistle-blowers will completely fold and we have all seen the evidence. we have seen the transcript and we know that there is no dirt there. a complete waste of time. >> laura: matt, how disturbed were you when, back to adam schiff for a moment, barr talked on this, bob, when we had adam schiff making up what was in the transcript, media lets him get away with it.oh, it was. when trump says something as a joke, oh, he's lying. trump is joking, poking the media, but when he says

something without all seriousness, they just let him get away with it. >> right, i have never seen a member of congress paraphrase a document. >> laura: and distort completely. >> and distort completely, make it look at the nefarious again the american people can see with their own eyes with what happened on the phone call and i don't know why we need sort of people to bring it to life.the last time they tried te an individual bring it to life, mueller, it completely blew up in the face and i can only imagine now when they have these interpretive recitations of transcripts in these whistle-blowers. >> laura: they do not want bill barr and john durham on this case. i mean, i know john durham just a little bit by reputation, i know barr well. those guys, they do not mess around. this is not like some political fantasy. these are serious men with a serious mission. and what happened to people ontt corruption and civil liberties

and votes being counted properly and the police not being used in a state means. that used to care about stuff like this. >> when i found, when i askedqug attorney general, i could not get any answers as to what was the substantiation. what with the predicate for this investigation. how did the president become a criminal target of the investigation. no one can give you the answerse answers from the department of justice, it's really going to have a credibility challenge there. >> laura: don't you miss? >> especially miss the media attention. >> laura: exactly, thank you so much freedom for all the obsession with trump's single phone call, with the ukraine conveniently glossing over their own shady history of doing their own business there. we all know about hunter biden's ties to the ukraine.what about s brother tony working on the ukrainian government p.r. campaign? at the clinton foundation took more money from the ukrainian services than any other country.

nancy pelosi's son, paul jr. also has ties to the ukraine and he served on the board of an energy company that reportedly did business there and the executive director, he traveledo promote u.s. soccer. joining me now, robert, former independent counsel, just like a homely care. you got whitaker, it looks like democrats have some explaining to do one of their own. what we know? >> it swampy. it's what the president has had all the long, it's what people elected him to contend with. and the swamp obviously is fighting back. i don't know how much we really know about it, obviously, that kick off for this will be john durham's investigation with the assistance of the attorney general and also the president's efforts the request of the attorney general to both declassify as necessary and also to contact foreign leaders and

to obtain foreign assistance in connection that investigation. it should come as no surprise to anyone for two reasons, one, the attorney general signaled he would do precisely this during his confirmation hearing. and second, this is what the ordinary process of the department of justice wereall a. founded on. we seek mutual legal assistance all the time. we know how that's done pursuant to treaty. i fully expect that before this is over, we will get to the bottom of the swamp. >> laura: they have to do what matt said, they have to discredit the attorney general of the united states. if they do not smear him, what are they left with? they are left with john durham and nobody knows john durham and durham is a very respected attorney. but it is not stop them from smearing him. >> three words are impeach, recuse, and/or malign. ultimately, as the former acting attorney general was suggesting, that the american people see

right through this. they're running out of committee chairman, by the way. >> laura: down with a handful. >> to contend with the president over this. >> laura: robert, first it was chris matthews and now another msnbc commentator with this liberal fantasy just over the weekend. >> you can impeach pence first the problem is donald trump then has to name his replacement. i think that maybe a deal could be struck where he was told if you don't make a replacement, nancy pelosi becomes the president. >> laura: talk about the fantasy impeachment. >> laura, i'd like to laugh except that this is so serious? is prettily irresponsible. this has got to stop. >> laura: again, this is the way they do business now. we do not do the people's business, we do the smearmachin.

we don't like trump, we've gott, and drive him out of restaurants. now they are trying not to intimidate him from going to speak in america cities, robert. the mayor of minneapolis trying to prevent trump from going to speak there on thursday. what does that tell you? >> and tells you the same thing which is also on the op-ed pages of the "new york times" this morning, they're scarcely talking about impeaching early and preaching often. if this does not work, they'll come up with the another basis and it will keep doing this for as long as president trump as president including into the second term if he is reelected and again, in the country's best interest, this is got to come to an end. >> laura: roberts, thank you so much, always great to see you. my angle will expose the rank hypocrisy of the ultra woke nba caving to the communist chinese.

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>> laura: the communist full court press, that's the focus of tonight's angle. during the nfl colin kaepernick kneeling controversy, prominent nba players came to his defense and supported his efforts. the nba also supported the golden state warriors in 2018 when the league jams announced they would make the ceremonial trip to the white house as long as trump was an office. >> politics have always been a part of the players lives, and in fact this lead, our owners feel comfortable exposing their political point of view. >> laura: we learned over the weekend, the nba's supposed love of free expression has its limits. the fire storm started on friday

when houston rockets general manager daniel morey tweeted this. "fight for freedom, stand with hong kong." this drew the ire of the chinese communist regime. it hit the nba where it really hurts. the pocketbook. spending millions of dollars worth of franchise business, beijing banned the houston rockets games from chinese tv. the rockets owner and the nba got the message and quickly groveled to their chinese masters, moving to censor his tweets. rocket player, james harden, who was in tokyo for a team practice, begged the chinese for forgiveness. >> we apoligize, you know, we love china, we love playing there, and we appreciate them the fan base we love everything they are about.

>> laura: everything they are about. really? morey he dutifully obeyed and deleted the pro hong kong tweet. he even issued a apology, "i did not intend my tweet to cause any offense to rocket fans and friends of mine in china. i would hope that those who are upset will know that offending or misunderstanding them was not my intention." the most despicable reaction came from the nba itself. the league put out to apologies. one in english calling the tweet "regrettable" and another shameless statement in chinese reading they were extremely disappointed the inappropriate marks made by houston rocket general manager daryl morey. standing with the persecuted people of hong kong is inappropriate? they should wear any criticism of the chinese regime as a badge of honor, but no can do.

you know what, i also think it's funny to look back 18 months or go to self-righteous pompous comments of nba coaches who have no trouble trashing president trump and even his voters i think the spurs head coach,an, gregg popovich. >> i wonder what the people think about who voted for him where their line is. where is the morality and the decency kick in, one wonders what is in their heads. our country is an embarrassment to the world. >> laura: no, you're an embarrassment, gregg, you have the audacity to lecture us onmos standing with one of the most repressive regimes in the world? are you kidding me? did he speak out today and support? no, i don't think so.

still waiting for that. no, speaking to players of-- toe of the players tweeted outside a pretty bland critique, a pretty bland critique of them one of the most horrific dictatorships on the planet, suddenly there's crickets chirping everywhere. >> it's a difficult time, we all know the situation.we all know e the source is, where the division comes from, because it is so obvious now it's boring, the bar has been lowered so far. >> laura: yeah. quite pathetic. the bar sure has been lowered when the nba stands more unequivocally for the hammer and sickle than it does the red white and blue. or is it just all about money? remember, this is the same league that moved the 2017 nba all-star game out of charlotte north carolina, over a state that prevented transgender from using whatever bathrooms they wanted. apparently, that was too much for the nba, but china?

stifling free speech brutalizing political dissidents, christians, muslims there, reeducation camps. apparently that's all fine. we love what they are all about. if the nba wanted to use games as a tool of social change, wouldn't it be appropriate to cancel the games in china given their horrendous human rights record? the persecution? imprisonments? of dissidents and anyone really who speaks their conscience and perhaps against the brutal ruling regime? wouldn't that be a nice change? >> i never imagined this could happen in the 21st century. innocent people subjected to cuffs on their hands, shackled black hoods over their heads.

>> every day they tossed us a little bread and water, and every day they would interrogate 15 or 20 of us with unbearable brutality. >> laura: as long as the nba gets its franchise fees, okay by them. this is a barbaric regime. this is a dictatorship that controls how many children couples could have forced sterilization and abortion on women. are those endangered lives worthy of a protest or just saying, you know, money is good but we cannot do it anymore. or really cancel games over bathroom signage controversy. the nba is quick to virtue signal when it costs them nothing, but the moment their chinese overlords balk, they cower in the corner. shut down acriticism, china's--. china's treatment of the rockets as a warning shot to every professional sports team and any american business doing business

in china. play by their roles or you will be punished. just today, china scrubbed all social media references and access to the show "south park" in their country. this the day after the show dared to criticize china'smass e programs. >> i am a proud member of the communist party. the party is more important than the individual. >> laura: reaction to the ban, south park create ors issued ths mock apology. "like the nba, we welcome the chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts. we too love money more than freedom and democracy. xi doesn't look just like winnie the pooh at all. long live the great communist party of china! may this autumn's sorghum harvest be bountiful! we good now, china?"that's the . i stand by what we said before we should gradually but seriously disentangle

american interests from chinese interests until they completely reform their ways. american brands, american companies are engaged in a demonic bargain.in china. remember in the '80s, when campus activistspusht industry to boycott suit africa, because apartheid in south africa. banners hung out of dorm windows all over campus. but it wasn't a lot of money to be made in south africa, not really. and the value of billions in china is more important the precious value of free expression in the nba freeze they cherished? next time, when they try to virtue signal civil rights, we are going to ask them why when they had the chance to stand for universal values of free speech, free exercise of religion, free assembly, they decided to cave to the communists. that is the angle.

joining me now reaction, is victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. victor, is there going to be a day of reckoning for the league, corporations that do this perpetual genuflecting to china? selecting? >> i think there is, first glance they are hypocrites because they are lions at home and cats abroad, but their consistent income other against freedom and therefore big money whether it is showing indifference to hong kong orcat. here at home, trashing laws or second amendments at thewhite h, but i don't think it sustainable because their attendance is sort of like the nfl. it's not going to grow on the--e sport, it is not going to grow

on the interior of america, and it's maxed out on the coast and the woke young audience. what they are saying is, given international sports and we are going to look for chinese viewers and european viewers and we were to make the necessary political adjustments to get that cash and profit. it reminds me of another point that i think is the subtext of the whole issue and that is, the greatest achievements of donald trump's first administration his tenure so far has been at the 11th hour that he woke america up. that the chinese were so insidious on wall street and silicon valley and professional sports, they were really from the interior of the united states, destroying our own freedom of choice and he was the first person to call of the bipartisan establishment to say you know what, this cannot go on.if it goes on it, is going to destroy the country. and i think, at the 11th hour, we are starting to wake up and it's really distasteful to see all these people like lebron james and all these lecturers on virtue to be so cowardly and have no virtue when

it comes to real life and death and existential issues like the chinese and the way they treat people well. they do not treat people well.tf money, but they don't treat people well. >> laura: this guy, this morey guy, you know, the other member of management, the fact that he has to, it looked like a hostage tape, he had to apologize, he is a hostage, to big money in the big investment in china and all their supposed belief in human rights and civil rights and youd everyone watching knows it. >> it's reeducation. they have to go to a reeducation camp. >> laura: that's where he is great if that's the nba's reeducation camp, that's what we why we have you on. victor, i got to get your thoughts on president trump's move to withdrawing u.s. forces from a section in syria and

allowing turkey to move in. politicians on both sides of the aisle are calling this a bad move.endangerers our kurdish al, they've done so much for us. he's going to pull out troops out of syria and the use of fourth from 2001 sponsored by tom daschel in september 18th. 2001, still authorizing military force in the middle east which i'm not wild about. what about our kurd allies? they put everything on the line for us in our mission. >> we're trying to put a square on the circle.qskurds are not os but they are other funds. so we are at a dilemma where everybody is shooting each other and yes, every time we thoughts in the last 20 or 30 years they've been on our side so i

think what we need to do is find a way that's not antithetical to trumps agenda were not going to the optional no-win, no-lose endless wars. looking to protect people that have helped us. i think we can do that, but the problem is that we in the united states are pledged to help independent people, the greeks, the armenians, the israelis, the poles, the kurds, those in difficult geographies we always have and the ironies is throughout history they've often been targeted by whom? the turks. yet, come to their aid when it's not in the cost-benefit analysis, i think trump can find a way. mike pompeo had great success in greece in reestablishing. i think that's what he's going to have to work on. >> laura: it's probably a lot more complicated than people think it is right now. >> it t is. >> again, he said he's going to pull us out of these wars.

he's doing what he said he's going to do, people voted for that. if congress wants to have another use of military force authorization, they better be voting. that means the squad, aoc, they tlaib, they should all have to vote for this. don't dine out on 2001, that's a long time ago, victor. they get so much for joining us tonight, that hillary clinton preparing for a third white house run? here, a potential wild card developing when we come back.

>> donald trump himself is the distance. >> he's unfit and he's a clear and present danger to this country. >> you have a president that's acting like a global gangster. it work of the american people isn't getting done. everybody is doubtful, everybody is questioning, they do not trust at the states government any longer. >> laura: the so-called experts are predicting again trumps downfall in 2020. the top three democratic presidential candidates are struggling. look at this headline. joe biden donors gather emergency closed-door meeting as campaign loses steam. another big concern, biden came forth and fund-raising for the third quarter behind mayor pete. then there is the not-so-secret plan to keep from warren at establishing the nomination.

in an unnamed major democrat donor, wall street, excuse me telling "the washington post," if she's the nominee, we can't vote for her or trump, and will sit out the auction. well, bernie sanders, he had a heart attack last week. that's raising serious questions about his health and overall physical fitness for office. all of that combined, plushick'y clinton's new media tour, she's everywhere. raising serious questions if she actually is going to make a third run at the white house. yes, we are serious. joining me now, conservative author, filmmaker, and liberal radio host of the "left coast news". ethan. are you concerned about the top three democrats struggling so much now that even democrats are seriously pondering this hillary 2020 idea? >> i'm not as worried as other people would like to make it out to be, but here's the deal. there are issues, there's no question about it. joe biden has lost some momentum, there are people within the democratic party, the

more moderates who aren't interested in elizabeth warren and i really think bernie's chance was in 2016. if so, there are opportunities here, i just don't think it's hillary clinton. i think that people who are under that age of 51, there's a great dark horse in this race completely underrated and that's beto o'rourke.i think he is the. >> laura: are you kidding me? >> may wore pete is popular. >> he is a personal connection to be -- >> laura: really. >> because people are connecting. >> laura: beto o'rourke on china today i like what he said about nba and china today.that's only basp paved the way to china. sorry, but what about this hillary clinton, she feels like she got robbed, she feels that over and overagain on the trail. >> there's no question that

hillary would love to get her way into the oval office. if i just do not think it's going to happen. it is true that the three democrats in the lead are all faltering in different ways. biden, i mean, the bumbling, the stumbling, then the corruptionif anything shows an t hearing, it's shown on the racket that biden has been happily running in china, also in the ukraine of course, elizabeth warren is stiff as a board. i can't even imagine her getting into the mud with the greatest mud wrestler of all time donald trump, so for these reasons, it's a look of other people, but beto really? i don't think hillary clinton could even suffer a second loss. i do not even know what that would do it to her psyche. >> laura: elizabeth warren's elaborate tall tales are catching up to her. at last week we were the first on television to expose one of them.

back in 2007, she said she quit her teaching job, ethan, because she did not have enough credentials. then, more than a decade later this is her story. >> teaching the special kids is a calling.back in those days, iu didn't get invited back. >> laura: they obtained documents from the riverdale board of education to prove warren's contract was renewed for a second year. and that she resigned from teaching a little more than two months later. so, ethan, that media conveniently ignoring this story. the narrative that she is telling is false. similar to the narrative regarding her ancestry that was very attractive being native american as she is, or she said she was, but this seems like a little bit of a pattern here. >> that's a regrettable unforced error on the part of the brilliant senator warren who i

disagree with dinesh on the course of this, i think she would be phenomenal at the base with president trump as with vice president joe biden, and bernie would do quite well as well. but, unforced errors are always regrettable, and she really is brilliant, she's a great professor, she is brilliant on the debate stage but unforced errors really are going to catch up if she continues to make these. it's not helping her case to overtake vice president biden. >> laura: so, biden, let's talk about biden, why does warren have to make up stories about her life, dinesh, she just naturally so brilliant and debates. she's never been nipped in the debate by anybody. >> this is part of the problem is that her narrative is the narrative of our privileged white women who is not content with having the female card to play in affirmative action and having to play the native american card so she can

be a twofer, not just a woman but a woman of color and so described in the review and other places like that.she usesn unforced error, #*b these were cutting moves that she made to manage her career. it's embarrassing to her now and so she's trying to recreate the fictional narrative sort of abraham lincoln style of having grown up in the log cabin having been persecuted all along the way. i think this is not unforced error, but this is ultimately to create a fake narrative about who she is. >> laura: gentlemen, thank you so much tonight. coming up, think about this now. democrats are attempting to remove a duly elected president of the united states. while not cooperating with republicans.they're holding head closed doors and refusing to release testimonies and transcripts. why is nobody calling them out? ed we will in moments.

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>> i would to make sure that there's nothing i do to jeopardize the whistle-blower in any way. >> the risk of the whistle-blower is retaliation. >> the one that was adam schiff and why he favors keeping the whistle-blower's name secret. what is there room for secrecy there relying on the anonymouspe president of the united states. they tell all their hearings about trumps ukraine call.everyd doors, so what are they hiding? former fbi assistant director byron, you been writing about this. and why was the democrats going to such great lengths to keep this whistle-blower's name and identity secret? >> first of all, there been two hearing so far in this ukraine investigation. last week, both in secret. there's supposed to be one tomorrow, they're supposed to be another one later this week and they're going to be secret as well. we don't have any transcripts only thing we know about what was said is what has been leaked.

now, democrats have said we have to be secret because we have to protect the identity of the whistle-blower. there has been a new report in "the washington post" saying that they're considering maybe if they have the whistle-blower testify, it will be a remote location. >> laura: let's put that up on the screen, okay. these are the measures that democrats are willing to take. put the whistle-blower in a separate location away from the capital. this is like on the state of the union with the vice president of the cabinets. the camera that distorts the face and changes the voice. sit behind the screen and the partition. very dramatic how they're revealing him on the screen, this audio only testimony. it's like a reveal, byron that's freaky. >> if you look at the law on this, the whistle-blower protection act, it says that the inspector general shall not disclose the name of the whistle-blower unless he determines that the disclosure

is unavoidable in the course of the investigation. >> laura: chris, you been around the block, you know this inside out. adam schiff is in control of the transcript. really, and control of this process. not knowing who this person is and maybe another whistle-blower, or pseudo whistleblower, i don't even know if if they would be counting as it was but they're called whistle-blowers. what about it? >> we have to acknowledge why we are here. of the criminal justice system under bill barr has been removed as a political weapon. so no longer can the criminal justice system be used for political gain here. so, now, while they are left with is the impeachment process. even an impeachment processes has to have some sort of due process. adam schiff, a risible sort of captain ahab from the herman

melvin novel "moby dick," and due process confront the accuser sprayed accusers. and it looks like one of those third world countries or some dictatorship like in china russia, iran, north korea. we are better than this. >> laura: this is a deep state whistle-blower revenge from the outside. i mean, again, we will find out more, but it sure looks like that. they got barr on there, cleaning it up, you got durham, and then you suddenly have the detailed leak from the cia hanging out at the white house here from other people listening. this is just outrageous that this is even allowed to happen. i put those calls in a locked box somewhere, too, given that what was going down to the white house. >> that's all very clever, you can something that's very sacrosanct in our society, the whistle-blower, now they're using that process in a very cynical way. and now, defaulting to impeachment which is an entirely

political process. i come at it from someone with experience in the criminal justice system, and it was abhorrent by myself and my colleagues, and my former colleagues as well, that the fbi was politicized. so, now we see them moving away from that and getting into another area. >> laura: it's a last straw for them. but, jamie raskin commented from desperate. desperate. delaware is calling this all desperate. >> this cannot go on this way. i mean, it's impossible to believe that the democrats will be able to run and impeachmentte president. >> laura: maryland. >> proposed to him remove that president on the basis of secret information. to say to the american people, the president has to be removed we cannot tell you why, but we have got good reasons. you need to trust us on this. i just will not work, at some point, very soon, we are going to have to hear what these witnesses are saying. >> laura: byron, great to have you both on tonight, thank you

so much. and coming up, what's more annoying to a democratic presidential candidate than truth? i will reveal what's bugging them in tonight's last bite, next.

>> time for the last bite. what is bugging you tonight? >> the reality is this decision. >> even republicans have been

revealed defenders of the president. is crazy statement by donald trump. >> a bipartisan solution? >> it was like a trump inspired insect drone better than her dance. that is all-time we have tonight. shannon bream and the fox news at 19 have it all. >> doesn't matter how hard you concentrate when something like that is buzzing around your face. none in studio here tonight. we are starting with a fox news alert, donald trump with his america first policymaking the controversial decision to pull us troops back from northern syria as a second. comes forward claiming to have first-hand knowledge of the ukrainian phone call. he released details