is no quid pro quo. the president has a duty to fully execute the laws. speak to the president was executing the laws. cannot interfere in the elections. and the only ones who did what he was saying, the bidens. the only time left we will never be the media mob, let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham. >> laura: hannah day, i loved watching this. what is the crime, james? i love james. >> sean: i love marion james. >> laura: it is corrupt. as i said, that is great. >> sean: laura, they did interfere in the elections. i thought democrats cared about that. oh, bidens 49-year-old son, no experience in ukraine energy. and the prosecutor investigating it, checkmate. >> laura: the best, hannity, they don't care at all about

hunter by it and getting all this money from ukraine, but they are upset that the trump ks were rich before they came in and still continue to get rich. okay. >> sean: unbelievable. >> laura: fantastic show, hannity, let that quit. i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" and a busy washington the clinton warren machine did everything in its power to shut down its book but tonight investigative reporter lee smith reveals what he found out about their role of the phony russian collision investigation that had been so put out and scared. plus president trump heads to chicago to boulder police and didn't delivered a message to the mayor and the police who transcended who refused to do the same. former chicago police said gary mccarthy and former nypd commissioner bernie kerrick have their own messages tonight. also, my b26 will come a little bit later and will examine trump

to blue state america is good not only for him, but why it is going to terrify the 2020 down? but first after weeks of that house, didn't need formal impeachment vote, nancy is bringing a resolution to the floor this week that would finally open up the proceedings to the public. after the fact. according to our own chad pergram reporting moments ago, republicans are now rejecting pelosi's call for a vote, saying no big surprises too little, too late. perhaps more importantly to what happen going forward, charles cooperman a top aide former national security advisor john bolton defied a congressional subpoena to testify today. he is asking a federal judge to resolve whether or not he has to listen to congress or to the white house, setting up a constitutional showdown on impeachment that many of us have been calling for. unsurprisingly, adam schiff

doesn't like being shown up. >> it is hard to say what other senior officials will do. i'm sure they will get instructions from the white house, and if they do and if they failed to appear, they will be building a very powerful case against the president for obstruction. we are not willing to allow the white house to engage us in a lengthy game in the courts. so we press forward. >> laura: joining me now, the former deputy assistant general and alan dershowitz a law professor and upcoming book "guilt by accusation," sean, we have wanted to see this court showdown, but what else does the white house need to be doing to fight impeachment at this point? >> a great question but first president trump needs to defend his office so that it is preserved for those who follow and we can't let the house get

away with conducting an impeachment. so what i would recommend he do is claim executive privilege, the right of all of his aides to refuse to testify and reveal the secrets that are discussed between them and the president so it allows for the best kinds of decisions possible. they also should refused to provide any documents to the house impeachment inquiry until the house not only boats whether to have an impeachment inquiry, that it's symbolic and agreed to have fair, open transparent process of the american people can judge for themselves if real evidence of any hike crime misdemeanor. >> laura: but that is too late now. john, that is too late. that cat is not out of the bag. the horse has left the barn. and that is just the veneer transparency after all of these witnesses testified. that is the concern here and to alan, i think the president is focused now on the right part of

the democratic case for impeachment, watch. >> i would rather go into the details of the case rather than process. process is wonderful. process is good, but i think you ought to look at the case in the the case is very simple. >> laura: allen as you follow that between hannity and james carville and he said what is the crime? carville started stumbling. there is no underlying crime and that transcript regardless of what all these people heard the conversation are now going to say to the committee. >> adam schiff, obstruction of congress but i want to warn my good friend john, he is runningf himself being charged with some obstruction. he is saying to the president, that the president ought to resist the subpoenas on part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice. adam schiff pulls a rope-a-dope. there is another word for it

called checks and balances, separation of powers. when a president refuses to comply with congress, the president doesn't get to resolve that issue, but congress doesn't get resolved that issue. the courts get to resulted. >> laura: good to. >> it is a very good thing. >> laura: right. >> the lawsuit is being brought and under the checks and balances. adam schiff should not be demeaning the system by calling it rope-a-dope. and i think absolutely this has to be decided by the courts. the courts may very well split the difference. they may say that some indications of executive power are proper and some are not, but congress doesn't get to unilaterally decide who testifies, who doesn't testify. in the face of claims of privilege. >> laura: they don't get to vacuum up every witness of the executive branch for political purposes any given day of the week. by the way come i want john yoo to respond to this with breaking news tonight. fox news has confirmed the white house national security

official from his name lieutenant colonel alexander, and impeachment investigators tomorrow in a statement that has been distributed to me for outlets that he twice reported objection to pain by the way but because he immigrated from ukraine when he was a child and, ukrainian officials sought advice from him how to deal with mr. giuliani though they communicated in english. now, wait a second, john. here we have a u.s. national security official who is advising ukraine while working inside the white house apparently against the president's interest and usually, they spoke in english. isn't that kind of an

interesting angle on this story? >> i find that astounding. in some people might call that espionage. but it doesn't actually seek to add any new facts to what we know. in terms of come i think alan reese is a good point, this is a high crime misdemeanor. whether you have one person or five people all saying we objected to what the president said, the president of ukraine, we have a transcript of the call. we can all make our judge. i don't see how this breaking news adds more facts to what we know about whether this isn't an impeachable offense or not. i think that is something the american people should decide rather than just the house. and that is the next election. >> i think the white house has to add to its team some constitutional specialists, people like john, who can make it clear. >> laura: or else. >> to make it clear that there is a difference between a reason

to promote against someone, crime which might be prosecuting somebody, and high crime, which is an impeachable offense. unless we keep those distinctions layer, we are violating the constitution. congress is not above the law. we can't make it up as we go along. hamilton in federal 65 said vote for impeachment should not be a long partisan lines. it should be the most votes in the house. >> laura: what is the point of election? exactly a long partisan lines. >> laura: there is no point of having election and we can just wait while one party is disgruntled. and then the peanut witnesses and holdover previous administration who don't like the current white house occupancy. that looks like what is happened here on some level, but gentlemen, don't both go into the white house, okay? any gas on the show. >> i'm independent. >> laura: we love having you on the show. the clintons do not want you to read and it's written by my next

guest, confidant cindy blumenthal reportedly threatening legal action to keep a bombshell new book by veteran journalist lee smith from hitting the shelves tomorrow. now a detailed deep state plot to undermine trump campaign and how congressman devin nunes in particular and covered it all and attacked for doing so. so why is clint so scared? a journalist and author of the plot against the president joins me now and also with this house until committee member congressman brad wenstrup who can talk about certain things in this book and cannot talk about other things but nevertheless we have a lot of ground to cover, lee, the ingraham angl the "thee threatened to sue you and said you made it all up, how do you respond? that is preposterous. >> laura: you are saying he's a liar. >> i'm saying that he wants the book to be stopped. >> laura: did he threaten to sue you? >> he threatened action against the publisher. >> laura: okay, so legal action.

offering -- >> documentation sent by his lawyers, not sent by his manservant or his ballet. so yes, it was taken seriously. he was concerned, of course for protecting his own reputation as well as that of the people of whom he has loyally served for a quarter of a century, mainly the clintons. the clintons are certainly right to be scared about certain things that i write about in the book. >> laura: one of the things i want to start with congressman, you can talk to this as well, they writes email which was written on january 20, 2017. we forget this happened. it recounted a conversation she had her, she was party to with joe biden and also with the president, comey and sally yates who will appear later in the saga appeared she was the deputy attorney general of the united states. and the meeting was about russian interference and the election. this is what she wrote in her

bio, january 20 come in two weeks later, obama began the conversation by his continued commitment to ensure every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement community by the book. the president stressed he is not asking about initiating or obstructing anything. from a law enforcement perspective he reiterated the law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would, by the book. nunez point was, why write a memo, cia memo to file in the last 20 moments of administration? it is very clear and i would agree on devin nunes. it is your last day of this is what you would right? you would only right that if you are trying to cover something up. you said and they are twice by the book, by the book. that is like the kid who'd tells to write a note for his parents i've been a good boy and the the principal calls an hour later. >> laura: and instrumental to secure the interview with michael flynn.

of course the national security advisor to the president and set up call with michael flynn later. >> this is important. i talk about this email in my book and if you look at the language that writes about the president, obama says to ascertain whether or not you can share russian related information would be in coming. once you break down that extremely bureaucratic and delicate language, she is saying, collect intelligence on the incoming trumpet team. that meeting is january 5th. what happens january 6th? january six, james comey goes to brief president-elect trump in the trump tower. >> laura: the next day he collects stomach travels to new york. >> collects information on the president-elect. >> laura: and rebuild the existence of the stuff, which sets a trigger to release to the press, which then goes to the professor, then leading to everything we know about the special counsel employment. this is like a puzzle that is

coming into focus. your book helps do this. just reading the excerpt you want to devour the whole thing. one thing that is very odd is this protodossier issue. explained this to our viewers why this is so important because everyone thinks someone wrote the dossier named christopher steele. >> right. >> laura: is that necessarily the case? first of all i want to thank the gentleman next to me for the deep digging he did to come up with some information for us. because it would appear, obviously, they should be the coffin in the mail for the russian. if this took lace within the fbi so from hillary clinton to infusion gps to the fbi's, where they actually wrote the dossier, no wonder christopher steele seems to know so little about it. it was like mueller and his interview, he didn't seem to know much about that either. so this is really huge, in my opinion, and i want to think this man for doing it. >> laura: so almost certainly

an author like the primary author of the protodossier. >> right, there are some documents i found which i describe in 2016 this is a month before the first steel report. this protodossier as i call it in the book, this describes opposition research and slipping into the trump ties to russia. it is the skeleton of what later became known as the steele dossier. the difference, the reason why this is so important is because it started talking about the trump ties to russia. the steele dossier had nothing to do with organized crime. it is laying the groundwork for a counterintelligence investigation. >> laura: the campaign. >> exactly. this is what the clintons are scared of. the way that i look at it is the clinton campaign caught the fbi to spy on the trump campaign. that was the point. that was the fisa warrant.

a spy warrant to get into the campaign to find an october surprise. >> laura: there is so much we can do literally an hour on this book. because when people really think they are teeth into the enormity of the intel communities work burrowing in with multiple intelligence assessments, one in november that was not out of the ordinary of around thanksgiving. you received it and then suddenly the new intel assessment in december which led the way to harassment of devin nunes and everything else that followed. that is a critical thing. i can't give away the whole book. we will have you back later in the week with a second level on this. congressman, thank you for your work. >> the more we get into this, the more rebilling it is. when we need john durham to do a fair assessment, think is much gentleman. in a moment, white president trump intro to the blue state america over the past 24 hours is a huge win.

byron york why they should terrify democrats.

♪ >> laura: the swamp blues america. that is the focus of tonight's "angle." now, it may have felt good for trump haters in the moment. >>now, he wasn't the first president to be booed at a major sporting event and he probably won't be the last. for millions of americans happily living outside of the beltway, the 15 or so seconds of disrespect merely confirms what they already thought about this town.

it took place teeming with lawyers, lobbyists, consultants and journalist. it was never going to treat trump fairly. now the president surely knew the reception he had received from the swamp venison, but he went anyway. to represent america at its greatest past time. and the snarky cell phone video that flew around twitter last night stirred a backlash. the left is so caught up in their own season hatred of the president that they don't realize the millions of americans, it felt like they were booing them. and they relished it. if trump was loved by the swamp, well, he would not deliver results for everyday americans. a visceral anger towards the president. the primary driving force behind much of what democrats say and do. and it has affected and in affected the entire 2020 field. >> he is an open avowed racist.

>> yes, he is a white supremacist. >> he has a man who cozies up to the white supremacist. >> he is an idiot. >> laura: wow! joe, i didn't know any of a idiot could advance policies to create the strongest economy in the world. i didn't know need it could preside over raising wages and lowest unemployment on record. by the way another record high today the first time since july. this was also easy to do, joe. why couldn't the genius barack obama and the number 2 managed to do it? >> perhaps some of my greatest strengths, guess would be -- greatest weakness, possible that i'm a little too often. [laughter] >> laura: democrats, of course, they cling to impeachment now because what the hell are they going to bank on? there is a lot of threading and

angst amongst the democrats with the next presidential election. of course there is uncertainty. the front runner joe biden is literally putting people to sleep. according to the ap in a recent iowa event, one elderly man sitting in the back of the room fell asleep as the former vice president shared his vision for america's future. in an unusually harsh tone for nearly 45 minutes without taking questions. really? that is so surprising. >> how could being feeling good about raising a child in a neighborhood where the water is polluted because made of wood or been there since 1960? >> laura: oh, we are back. so sorry. it seem like the perfect place for a little nap on the set. this is just pathetic! now, the truth is i would be worried too if i were a democrat. if the guys at the top of the

pole could not swing an endorsement from the man he served with for eight years. the most revered democrat on the planet. did he offer to endorse you? i asked him not to and he said okay. i think he thinks it is better for me. i have know what doubt when i am a nominee he will come out for me. >> laura: okay come at this point i feel sorry for him. democrats are in freak out mode. plan b elizabeth warren princess running scared after "the new york times" took after the self-proclaimed anticorporate crusader for representing big businesses in court. no wonder when iowa democratic officials told the associated press, nobody knows what to do, they are all afraid, there is a lot of anxiety. you bet. especially since the trump campaign just announced it is fund-raising hole for the last quarter. a staggering $125 million. but this whole beating trump thing was supposed to be a lot easier.

♪ even with the impeachment travesty, bubbling around him with a president is on the move. he took his message to the bluest of blue chicago today to find protesters threaded -- threats who want to make ends coming. the law enforcement who had been vilified by the left coast to the east coast. >> you risk your lives and you save countless of people that you don't know, people you have never met. you have no idea how much the people of this country love you and respect you. >> laura: it was a great event. we will have more on it later, lori lightfoot and eddie johnson would need for and meet president today. but again, trump is doing important work on criminal justice reform and he is

supporting the men and women in blue. if the democrats took a good game of bipartisanship don't give a rats you know what about it. they don't want to give him the visual at the even meeting to help pathetic for them. now, if i were he, i would spend more time in places like new york, new england, and on the west coast. i would show the people that the press is lying about him, that he is president of all the citizens of america and care about each and every one of them. lord knows california has suffered enough under super majority democrat leadership. people are flying high taxes, homeless issue and now millions going without power during the e fires. and that brings us back to the world series. i was lucky enough to attend game four with my son and i thought about what i would say to him if we had been at last night's game when trump and the booing happened. i think it would go something like this. you know when your little

brother doesn't get his way or you beat him in a swim race, well, they are just mad because they can't beat trump. and that is the "angle." joining me now with reaction new york chief political correspondent, fox news contributor and frank luntz, what message that trump does these blue state events? >> he is confident and that the election in more places than up for grabs and 2016, and i'm looking at minnesota, looking at the battle, he's opening there and clean and all of this is the democrats are breaking their promises. it is very frustrating. he said they would fix health care, and they didn't. they said they would fix the infrastructure, they didn't. they said that we would fix border security -- >> laura: so they decided not to keep doing it. >> what have they done in the 1d the house? nothing. more subpoenas than legislation

signed. >> laura: environ what about this traveling to chicago, they wouldn't meet with them, lightfoot would not meet the police did tenth -- superintendent. he's got a lot of accolades from both sides of the aisle and localities but what's going on? >> and the thing is to refight the battle in the places he did win. if you remember in 2016, he had a simple path to victory that was really hard, but it was simple which he had to win all the states met romney had one and then florida, ohio and pennsylvania. he did that and through in michigan and wisconsin too. he needs to go to michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania owe a lot. >> laura: there is something to this what he is doing here. and it is really cool. they want to quarantine him off and he has to go to the battleground states, byron is right. they want to corn him off and we are going to protest you. i think there's a lot of people and sacramento, oakland and places in new mexico, other

parts of the country, my own home state of connecticut and they are hurting they are, but i think a lot of people want to hear what he has to say. i think it is bold, the reagan campaign last week in the 1980 election, i think it was in the bronx. i'm pretty sure. the bronx or queens. that is america. why just limit yourself to read state or blue state? go to all the stage again and hit the ones that you want to. >> he honestly should have started this a year ago, 18 months ago. for the first two years of the administration, he only went to states you won maybe one or two exceptions. this is late in the game. we are only a year away from the election. >> laura: it's not late in the game, what are you talking about it's late in the game? he thought he was going to lose in 2016. >> on national television, he said he was back in the race. the president of "cbs news" and the president of cbs -- asking me. i'm not getting paid for him, but accurate, we owe that.

>> laura: i will say, frank. >> the first two years he did not go to these places. it is good that he's going there now because he's president of all of america. >> laura: i think the economy has been in the economy for all of america, new england needs a break, california is suffering horribly from badly a great moment to go in there and make inroads. but it will make -- >> and nothing has to do to not just in terms of states but constituencies he needs to work on them. you remember that trump did slightly better with hispanic voters than met romney. >> laura: he will do much bigger. >> the way you improve is you show up. you go where hispanic voters live. >> laura: my friend said he will win new mexico. the illegal immigration issue under covered by the press in new mexico is huge for hispanic legal american voters. they think it is huge. by the way i want to play cnn historian backed into the president getting booed at national stadium. let's watch.

>> one of the president that the president has to be as president of all americans. so you should be, you should hope the president can go into a public space that has not been vetted or curated, and get respect or show respect. i think this is the issue with someone who comes in to try to destroy being presidential. >> laura: okay, that is well written for historians, destroyed being presidential. nice going there, frank. >> that was the same thing as hillary clinton declaring half of america are deplorables. the fact is, they should hold those plans accountable who don't booed the president. you may disagree with him. you may think he's not what you wanted, but you don't boo him, you show respect. i will tell you something for this event will have an impact. >> laura: it is huge a campaign for trump. it is a great moment to be booed in washington, d.c. i'm sorry, he still an outsider three years later. i love it. >> washington, d.c., 90 plus percent for hillary clinton and 4% for donald trump in 2016

election. suburban maryland, northern virginia, look, this is the same thing with the trump inauguration. you make such a big deal about the crowd and not being as big as barack obama's crowd, but a lot of barack obama's crowd was local. and people from maryland, virginia and the city who came they are. i was covering the inauguration for trump it was people who had flown in from across the country. >> laura: this is a fluke. this is a swamp. consultants, lawyers, big corporate lobbyist, god bless them. $2,000 tickets and regular folks not going to the world series for the most part. big money at the world series, big money. >> one more thing, there has been among the resistance they desire no one associated with trump can have peace in washington. remember people have been harassed. >> laura: he defied that last night. >> and other places. >> laura: excellent point and he divide that. keep doing it, mr. president.

thank you both for being on tonight. president trump takes a stand for law-enforcement chicago as we said the mayor and the police chief protested the parents. what leadership. two heavy hitters, gary mccarthy of the chicago pd and bernie kerrick former nypd commission both here to respond.

>> the strongest supporter of law enforcement that this profession has ever seen, the president of the united states, donald j. trump. >> mr. president, thank you for your support. law enforcement especially in this day and age, that is no small thing. you are our biggest supporter of border patrol. we know in this day we need all the support and help we can get. so we really appreciate what you do. >> laura: while law enforcement she prays the president today in chicago, there was no welcome mat rolled out by the leaders of that

liberal city. still a teacher strike going on there. chicago police superintendent eddie johnson refused to attend the president's speech with an international association of cheap of bullies being held in a city and he doesn't go when the president as they are. classy. democrat mayor lori lightfoot responded by tweeting, how sweet. no surprise donald trump brought insulting, ignorant but found to chicago. luckily in this city, we know the truth. that is funny. joining me now, gary mccarthy superintendent of the chicago pd, bernie kerrick -- gary, what do you have to say to city leaders who boycotted the president of the united states today? >> well, laura, the way i look at it, first of all i can tell you what i would do. i would never disrespect the president just like i would not disrespect any other human being. if you don't agree with the policies and if you don't like the man, you need to respect the office. for instance, i met with present obama on a couple of occasions and quite honestly the

department of justice funded his administration was probably the worst enemy of policing in 200 years in this country. and they have helped create the environment we are suffering today. so i would never disrespect the president's office. i was raised differently. and you would never see me do that. second of all, i would try to stay out of the politics. if you look back at my career, whether it was in new york with cory booker or chicago with -- i stayed out of the politics and focused on doing my job. that is the problem with chicago. everything here is about the politics. it's not about the performance. you mentioned the teacher strike, that is a perfect example. the tcu and nci you are in the pocket of tony. the mayoral election to lori lightfoot and as a result, i feel, this is my own personal opinion, that that strike was going to happen to embarrass lori lightfoot as much as they could. >> laura: the parents, friends

of mine who are republican by any stretch are beyond fed up with the way chicago is run. >> it's all politics. >> laura: a wonderful city, a beautiful city but bernie, we have watch this movie before. we know how it ends. it never ends well for the police when they don't have leadership that supports them. and we have a leader in this white house who loves law enforcement and supports law enforcement. and in troubled times, that makes a big difference. and you know, we sort of attack police officers and branding them as one thing or another, who the heck is going to go become a police officer today? >> listen, the policy at second-best, the police chief you just listen to, this is the strongest supporter of police probably in the history of the country. and there would be no better person for the mayor of chicago than the superintendent to talk to about getting federal resources and assistance in chicago to help them with

vibrant crime and murder rates. but they didn't do that. they didn't take that opportunity because this mayor, mayor lightfoot, just two weeks ago called ice members racist. she said their policies were racist. she has called chicago a sanctuary city. we went. >> it is a responsible, dangerous, a detriment to communities, she should be helping chicago, not hurting it and by them not being there and creating relationship with the president it is the worst thing they could do. >> laura: it is more about her in her political bona fide to the left than what's good for the people of chicago. it's good to have a decent working relationship with a president even if it is a president from a different party. gary worked with obama administration and we didn't agree with a lot but you have to interface. that is the way it is. i want to play something that president trump said today about, well, referencing afghanistan versus chicago. watch. >> all over the world, they are

talking about chicago. afghanistan is a safe place by comparison. [laughter] it is true. police officers of chicago are entitled to police superintendent who has their backs and knows what he is doing. >> laura: scary, when i was in chicago about a month, doing a special dam on the south side, i spoke to a lot of police officers and it was interesting across backgrounds, culturally diverse group of folks. they all, i mean, the stories they told me, i could have done two hours on with the police were telling me about what happen politically to the police day in and day out. >> well, you know what, laura, with the simplest darkest example is if you compare the fact that 2013-2014 we had record lows in the city as far as the murder rate goes under my tenure and then 2013, 2014, 2015 last years of superintendent afr

the fall out the political event with mcdonald. there have been 638 murders in the city over the last three years than the previous three years. so if anybody thinks what we are doing politically with the city is making progress, i don't think so. i think what we are doing is reckoning at the heart of what makes a safe city. and at the end of the day, we will not succeed until we make the city safe. >> laura: and bernie, to the people who need policing the most, they are the ones who are most poorly served by this highly anti-law enforcement attitude atmosphere fostered by so many on the left. >> laura, terry and i both worked for mayor giuliani the ne one thing to the entire country. nobody wants to live, work, go to school in a place they are not safe. where mothers have to put their babies and the bathtubs to protect them from random gunfire. that is what's going on in

chicago. it is a detriment to the community. what they are doing, and for them not to be there today to really, you know, be there with the president and get his support, i just think it is outrageous. >> laura: well, they actually would have found out they could have worked with him on a bunch of issues to help chicago. but they put that before the people. gentlemen, thank you so much, to come in with incredible experience in law enforcement. we salute your service as well to the cities into the country at large. coming up, how do you become a sympathetic terrorist? you die, just like president trump. some media reaction -- reaction to abu bakr al-baghdadi is shameful and that is coming nex. for a limited time, get two complete pairs for $49. really. visionworks. see the difference.

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>> laura: president trump proudly announced yesterday that abu bakr al-baghdadi that murderous zealots with isis died during a rated syria by u.s. special. this is welcome news to most americans but just a chance to go after the president. some said the language the president used was to rough. >> one part of the president's remark that did bother me was continual piling off of humiliation. a long trail of him actually finally releasing details, explicit details, some of which echoed frankly the crudeness he would often expect him to and from isis. >> laura: describing baghdadi as whimpering is the exact type of language he should have used. well, then the critique became "how dare he not tell nancy." >> i thought it extraordinary that he had not after the operation was over spoken to the speaker of the house.

we are so broken down. as far as we know, he has not notified any democrats. >> laura: may be if they all want siri serial leakers, he would have. somewhere downplaying baghdadi significance. >> i wasn't this cause of death of almost 3,000 people in the united states. and i think from a standpoint of symbolism and importance to the contrary, taking down usama bin laden had a lot more meaning than this. >> laura: my god, he can barely speak. and finally my favorite critique of the baghdadi take down russia. >> what role did russia play in the operational? >> laura: oh, my goodness. yes, al, that was the big depression. he is an insignificant figure of the baghdadi, let's leave it at that. they have shown time and again the left does not care about what they claim they cares much about with the syria pullout defeating isis. defeating trump is a far more

laudable goal. and there is another refrain following this raid, one summed up by richard hollis in "the new york times" saying the following "it cannot happen without u.s. forces on the ground pulled out. the conditions that made the operation possible may not exist in the future. joining me now is joe kent, retired special forces, warrant officer and a gold star husband whose killed fighting isis in syria earlier this year, joe, thank you for being here. and i can say for all of our viewers, we are so sorry for your loss of your wife. you just heard me mention what richard hollis said that operations like this will not be possible now unless we maintaina significant or footprint in the country, your reaction. >> thank you for having me on. that is absolutely false. we will be able to strike at isis especially in syria considering the fact the

military bases in turkey and in iraq and every single neighboring country to turkey. excuse me, too syria supports the war against isis. we will not have issues with counterterrorism raids or air strikes. >> laura: were you shocked at the reaction from so many on the left to this news? this was significant news. and point by point by point, downplay it, downplay it, trashing the commander in chief. >> yeah, i was. this is a great day yesterday for america. abu bakr al-baghdadi ran one of the most evil organizations we have known in history. he is also significant because as an actor took over two separate countries without the support of any external countries. so taking him out was a great success for our nation. so i was pretty surprised to see folks chime in for partisan reasons. i think a lot of the big reasons why they did is because trump was able to launch that raid

without us having a permanent basis in syria because we are beginning to withdraw. there was an agenda obviously, trump has an agenda to keep us deeply entrenched in these conflicts. it seems to be forever and ever. >> laura: point is rub there? is it the military compliant -- complex, spend a lot of, what your view on that? >> my view is president trump has returned leadership to the united states they are too military. the commander in chief is to direct the military at the will of the people. that is what we elect him to do and not just give the military a blank check. giving the military a blank check, you overburden the military. the military is a foreign policy but not the only tool. the three residents come obama, turn to the military for everything in terms of foreign policy in the middle east and counterterrorism. president trump has used the

full scope of national power. he uses the economic strength to negotiate with all of the actors and make people pay their fair share. and he's trying to limit the amount of folks that we have on the ground because he has truly assessed all we have done the last 18 years is having a carbon footprint and continues to lose. that rubs a lot of folks the wrong way just because it is n new. >> laura: joe, your family and me personally paved a heart-wrenching sacrifice and we are preachy -- i appreciate your work tonight, incredibly well said, a picture of your wife. our prayers go out to you and the entire family and thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you very much for having me. >> laura: important words that everybody needs to hear, the unsung hero of the baghdadi commission.

pico the military working dog performed tremendous services in a variety of situations. slightly wounded and fully

recovering. but the dog is still returning to duty. >> laura: reports the dogs name is conan. if so, good dog, conan. so cute. that is all the time we have tonight. shannon bream the "fox news @ night" night team take it from here. shannon, a person with a puppy. >> shannon: you are a dog personals also. we already left the dogs but it's out in the stratosphere. >> laura: have a great choke machine end. >> shannon: thank you. we began with a fox news alert. to my inside the special forces raid that killed america's most wanted terrorist isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi dead and terrorist organization number 2, abu bakr al-baghdadi successor is dead because of a desperate military raid. former cia director james and commander lieutenant general jerry on deck to weigh in. also tonight