integrity of the elections. >> laura: so much more to come here appear the mob and the media lied to the country. this was the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in history. we will follow the truth, not the mob, let not your heart be troubled and never miss an episode. laura ingraham, awfully filthy they are tonight. >> laura: okay, a footnote 473, had to stop because i was getting so infuriated. the fact that i'm so glad you had carter page on tonight. your show was terrific, by the way. i believe carter page we were talking about a year ago, year and a half ago and he was, i mean, anyone who thinks carter page, god bless him is some russian accent running an operation, you don't even have basic judgment to be running a preschool let alone a high level agent at the fbi's complete

outrageous life was destroyed. he should get a lot of money for this. >> sean: told me to come on the show for an hour and three hours of my my radio show but do you think he will come? >> laura: i'm sure he will be right there and i will have brendan on my show the next night. >> sean: then i get klapper. >> laura: and i will see you with peter strzok and you will raise me a page. fantastic show tonight. we will see you tomorrow night. i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle." and of course busy washing but what else is happening? one big story and a total start to dissect with you with of course the best minds around. no one has done better reporting on the russian probe. then after mentioned byron in new york joins us in a moment on today's horowitz report. what needs to happen to ensure that these deep state abuses never occur again. former assistant fbi director chris swecker and ollie north are here appear they have the how to on how they should be

dealt with and any punishments that should be doled out and what must be put into place right away to prevent this from happening again. i'm serious. the more you dig into this and read it, the more infuriating it gets. plus, g.o.p. judiciary committees, brilliantly exposed nadler idiotic show on the hill today. two of the members tim buck and steve chapa along with steve steve scalise and trump 2020 reelection, i think it never looked better after the events f today victor davis hanson and mercedes schlapp will tell us why, but first, basic, fundamental and serious errors. that is the focus on tonight angle. now, if you walk by a tv today, you may have thought someone messed with your dvr appear that you are watching impeachment hearings from last week. judiciary committee jerry nettle described what could be

televised and be impure politicians questioning lawyers about stuff they were thinking and doing as they were doing an investigation of the ukraine impeachment investigation. but i have a question. where was the original inquisitor? the ultimate witness? well, he was nowhere to be found. beco where are they? >> i don't know, chief, i don't know. >> he was friends. >> friends. >> laura: adam schiff, he is like the kid that pulls the fire alarm and skipped out on the rest of the day at school. even without him today, there were a few amazing flash points at this sideshow hearing. >> at&t? >> i don't know maybe your chairman could be here to answer this. >> who found out if he was on those calls? be careful, you are under oath. i'm under oath, sir. >> answer the question. i will answer the question if you give me a second. how did you include in the

report? >> no, i'm not going to get into deliberations of the investigation. >> and that is the problem. >> i'm done with you for now. i'm done. >> laura: goldman turned a whiter shade of white. he looked like a ghost. that was as exciting as it gets but otherwise the judiciary committee run by the politically and ethically impaired. it if the ratings for fiona hill and no-name attorneys that actually worked for the committee. now come another issue, it is time to separate fact from fiction on the inspector general report. as predicted democrats hailing the release has a big release and vindication but don't believe that for a nanosecond. in fact, the report as i mentioned on "entity" devastating indictment of the fbi and intel gathering apparatus. it exposes the use and abuse of confidential human sources and excruciating detail.

i'm not kidding about footnote 473. in footnote after footnote the surveillance was being used to control a political presidential campaign, and the campaign, of course, scared every member of the d.c. establishment for what it stood for. now the report paint such a picture of the fbi's conduct in an opening to the trump campaign that even mbc chief legal reporter could not spend it otherwise. >> the fbi repeatedly screwed up at every level, failing to pay enough attention to potential problems with steele, feeling with the justice department and it says one point the fbi decided to sneak this fisa warrant even out being criticized later, the inspector general report said the fire is a gnomic fisa application was inaccurate, incomplete or unsupported. >> laura: other than that, it is perfect to destroyed people's

lives and trigger and direct his country through nonsense for two years. although the horowitz inexplicably found no evidence of bias. the trump campaign come i will get to that later. he laid out at least, at least 17 major problems with the fbi's use of fisa warrant, fisa intelligence surveillance act warrants. now remember, the reason many of us said the entire mueller investigation itself would tantamount to be the fruit of the poisonous tree was because horowitz is now concluding that first warrant filed with the secret fisa court was almost entirely reliant on the discredited steele dossier. now i'm although that's not what the anti-trump coalition has been saying, of course, for the last two years. >> the steele dossier only made a very small part of what the fbi used to get permission to

survey carter page. >> the fbi only used a small part of the steele dossier. >> absolutely, mr. steele. an additional amount and the dossier was part of that, but was not all of it were a critical part of it. >> laura: complete lies. horowitz knows the receipt of steele election reporting on september 19, 2016 played a central and a central role. read it again, central in a central role for james comey and the fbi and department's decision to seek the pfizer ordered despite the fact that the fbi obtained information with significant questions about the reliability of the reporting. do you see what i'm saying? they knew that it was bogus or at least very weak yet they still went for it. the ig also found that the fbi failed to disclose that information, that quote was

inconsistent with her under a surgeon contained in the fisa application and resulted in inaccurate information being included in the application. okay. fisa what is he thinking tonight? and information that carter page had been working with the u.s. intel agency, likely the cia for years. that is what he gets rewarded with, an investigation after helping the cia for three years. so what happened? instead, that exonerating fact was edited out of an email by fbi lawyer kevin kleinsmith who also with peter strzok and lisa page, you know, taken off the russian pro once anti-trump biases were made public. now, i note you are probably asking what i've been asking myself all day. how could an impartial

investigator, you are the inspector general and lifetime goal to be an inspector general, looking at all of the facts, all the text messages, thick spoke with tori and the damning information -- exculpatory and e damning information with informant agents involved with "crossfire hurricane," how can you determine there was no political bias in the handling of the russian probe? it defies not just common sense, but the evidence has horowitz himself developed. nevertheless, horowitz gave democrats the talking point they craved. >> there was no treason, there was no conspiracy, no tapping of drums wires. the investigation was not a coup or a coup attempt. this confirms the predicate for the fbi's investigation was valid. >> there was no political bias, no political motive. it does not surprise me at all. that is the fbi i know and love. >> laura: the fbi you love?

was trolling for damaging information, trolling for sources, trolling for anything to fuel the pony russian theory that were clipped up long before the summer of 2016. democrats should not breathed a sigh of relief. u.s. attorney john durham publicly came out to contest his findings saying, based on the evidence collected to date, last month we advised the inspector general that we do not agree with the other reports conclusions as to the predication and how the fbi case was opened. attorney general bill barr disagreed with the conclusions and the inspector general report makes clear the fbi launched an intrusive investigation of u.s. presidential campaign based on the senate suspicion. that, in my mu and suppression with the steps taken. fbi misled the court and

exculpatory effects from their findings and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source. the bottom line. the forthcoming durum report which the attorney general has been assisting him on is far more comprehensive in scope. we are going to learn, i think, in the coming months. and despite the democratic talking points and the factual coverage today, this ig report has provided us with a partial view of the corruption at the fbi and the politicization of the deep state. what do we need to do now? we need to know the rest of the story sooner rather than later. so we can protect the elections and the candidates of 2020. and that is the "angle." joining me now john eastman, senior fellow at the claremont institute with bob barr, former house impeachment manager during the clinton era and byron york,

chief political respondent and fox news contributor with written credible reporting the last three years on all of these topics. john comella start with you. i find it remarkable that other networks are trying to spend this gnomic spin this as vindication for the keep state. keep deep state. >> i love the opening monologue but the one thing i would add to it inspector general horowitz did find political bias and we knew that already, peter strzok and lisa page. we already covered that. i don't find anything here to prove that there is rampant political bias to spy on the political campaign. that is nonsensical, but there was full of political bias in this report and in the prior one. and he just travels it under the rug. >> laura: well, and mr. barr, on this issue, we have people across the country listening to the lethal comments of democrats tonight.

but when you in totality, look at the way that carter page and papadopoulos in human confidential human sources were used to attend meetings, to set up meetings with trump campaign officials, trolling, trolling all night long. that is what they were doing. when you finish and put the bay behind the boat can you hope you get something. and yet, the fbi throughout this report, we didn't ask him to gather that information. we weren't looking for them at one point, in a position for instance on their future immigration plan. it is bizarre. comments? >> it is bizarre and really truly frightening. what we have here, laura, is not a rogue special agent out there investigating something that he or she is not supposed to. what we have here are a very senior officials, not just senior officials, but they include senior lawyers with the

fbi who are conducting a secret investigation of a presidential candidate, a president-elect. so this is something that is in at the grassroots level. this is at the top of the fbi. and if anybody comes away with this, well, it is just a few rogue people there, then they are missing a very frightening picture. there needs to be some very serious reforms, not just at the fbi, but congress needs to take a very serious comprehensive look at changing the fisa system. >> laura: byron, this is what former cia director john durham said to congress about the steele dossier in 2017. watch. >> do you know if the bureau relied on the steele dossier as part of any court filings, applications, petitions, pleadings? i have no awareness. >> did the cei gnomic cia rely on it? it was not the basis for the

intelligence assessment that was done. >> laura: byron, lying to congress. >> this report is absolutely devastating for the dossier. look at the actual details. the dossier say there was a well developed conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia that had been going on for years. this report looks into the original source with two or three pieces removed, gave it to christopher steele. and there is absolutely nothing to it. it said to come i remember that the allocation carter page had t with a big wheel barrel and offered a bribe to get trump to drop the sanctions against russia, nothing they are. and it did say as you quoted earlier that the dossier played a central role. >> laura: but go back to brennan who is a paid contributor to another network. he knew that. >> he did appear there was something more complicated here. remember the intelligence community assessment, the thing

that looked into that although russia played or tried to play in the 2016 campaign. it was given to president obama and president-elect trump. there was a big debate according to this report between the fbi and the cia whether to include dossier information in fact, the caf gnomic cia didn't want to put in there so give brennan credit for that. james comey and andrew mccabe wanted to put the dossier information in the intelligence community assessment. it is an astonishing from astonishing indictment. >> laura: mccabe spoke out tonight, speaking of that, byron, listen to this, watch. >> it has been disgusting to watch how the president talks about all of us, how he basically degrades our organization, how he and the attorney general to some extent, have leveled all kinds of falses about the work we did. >> laura: what is disgusting how he led that agency along with comey. johnny's man, four people were

surveyed come we thought it was one or two at one point but four people were surveilled. >> george papadopoulos, michael flynn. >> laura: mena forte, paul manafort. >> paul manafort. and the allegations, the russians trying to make and roads into the presidential campaign and normally would have led to a defense briefing of the higher officials in the trump campaign so they could be on their guard. they deliberately chose not to do that because they were trying to entrap the campaign. and the notion that this ig report exonerates -- well we were a little afraid someone might release information. yeah that is utter nonsense. this is spying on the opposition political campaign. and mccabe, i'm sorry if you think that is calling it as it is but it is calling it is as it is. you spent on the political campaign and you want to be in jail for it. this is a travesty.

the worst scandal in american history. in this report here is a white wash of it but full of detail that a real prosecutor up in connecticut is going to be able to have a heyday with. >> laura: you know, this is something i didn't hear anybody discussed today. byron, i didn't realize this before, that peter strzok actually was the one to prepare the fbi aspect of the first offensive briefing, not offensive briefing but security briefing on august 17, 2017. so adi briefing but fbi aspect of that which michael flynn, trump and another camp and, but he does every investigation of the fbi. he actually did that but in the report, bob, oh, it was just like the hillary briefing. nothing special, but we can note this one but we didn't keep notes of the hillary briefing.

so peter strzok he did not actually do it but prepare the outline how to approach, flynn,p and the unnamed official. did anybody find that odd peter strzok was responsible for that as well? >> clearly something is deeply remiss or was deeply remiss with the fbi during this entire period. and a very good question proposed to christopher wray as the current director of the fbi, rather than simply have him go on the tv show and say "well, things need to be done" this and in particular because the house won't do anything under the current leadership, but the senate really needs to bring him before the senate and probe very deeply into exactly what steps have been taken at the fbi to prevent this from happening. who has been prosecuted? who has been disciplined? and what mechanisms have you, christopher wray, already put in place to make sure this doesn't happen again? >> laura: i don't think he's

done anything. i mean, he had gone on tv saying, what has been said about the fbi. with all of these pages of damning information about what was done. i don't care what he said about political bias. this is disturbing what was done to the political campaign should never happen again. i know byron you are chomping at the bit and you want to get in on that but i have another question for you but go ahead. >> they use the briefing has an interrogation. >> laura: thank you, trolling. >> in january, trump tower, briefed him about some of the president-elect about the dossier. now, on these informants, we did learn remember when trey gowdy was saying there were transcripts of these informants and george papadopoulos or carter page? there were. they are quoted in here and it appears every time papadopoulos or paige said something exculpatory which was a lot. they were not involved in a conspiracy of russians. this information seems to get

lost in the fbi bureau. >> laura: did you see papadopoulos said at one point three four three come i think, he said something like, when he was asked by one of the confidential human sources about russia, he said come i think we should be wary of russia. i mean come every time they tried to track him, he basically said well, we are worried about everybody interfering in the election, the trainees, the iranians, everyone. >> the information did not make it to the fbi. >> laura: johnny, final thought. comey is blasting bill barr tonight. we haven't got into what bill barr said but real quick. >> final thought. let's look at this 30,000-foot level. most likely what is to end up here, completely reject the fisa warrant surveillance tech to as intelligence gathering tool pair that will work to the detriment of national security for decades to come. it is because they played politics with it in an overt way

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♪ >> laura: as pointed out in the "angle" the real reason the last three years, relate less than the last three years, trump needs to rein in these intel agencies from the oval office. it has to happen. there also needs to be some sort of monitor, something to keep the deep state from ever repeating what they did to this president. this ig system we currently have, it is always after-the-fact. they never want to look like they are being political so it is always playing it safe. joining me now chris, former fbi

director and lieutenant colonel oliver north, former nse director and author of the new book "the rightful man" it is fantastic. and the author of the book "the plot against the president," chris, as we noted. this report is just remarkable. the word devastating, i don't think captures it. i'm not spending but i actually read the whole thing. but did the horowitz go far enough? we know from the clinton email investigation and ig report he does a thorough investigation but turns to jelly when making the hard call. in this case, what he tries to do is dump on the workers of the fbi, which ig often do and let the executive level people escape dome escape. but the content of the report is terrifying. the abusive fisa i've ever seen and frankly the most serious abuse of the confidential human

source program that been christopher steele since "whitey" bulger. john durham knows a lot about that. and he's come into this with a lot of experience with that. i think we are going to see some very, very impactful action and i underscore the word action from durham and barr on this. >> laura: i want to go to you. this is part of the ig report. the information known to the manager or supervisor's and senior officials should have resulted in questions being raised regarding the reliability and this steele reporting and the fisa applications but did not. >> look, i know a little bit about fisa. when i was at the white house i asked to be monitor to come every telephone i had to come every email, the beginning of all of that. and i had to get permission all the way to the top to make sure that could happen. it saved me. at one point -- >> laura: consensual

monitoring. >> yes, indeed because i wanted to know i was not talking to this bad guys on my own hook. and not just by legislation, not just by the rules of what happens behind you, but it's also covered by a treaty. at one point, john pointed out the extra counterpart came to him secretly and said, you have a guy on your staff, liam good talking to the bad guys all over the place. and he said, would you like to meet him? of course, william good but the name of my passport and our adversaries. that treatment of a british ally coming because gchq with a counterpart for nsa relies on the goodwill and the good intentions of the people at fort meade. what you've got to date is a treaty, every one of those nations wondering what the heck. >> laura: what does that do? i think that is a good point. >> it is terribly disheartening to the american people and it should be. it'd there is also frightening

what we rely on. we don't have enough antennas in the air to pick up everything. and what these guys did. i'm talking specifically about comey and brennan, i wouldn't trust those guys if they told me the sun was going to rise in the east in the morning. chris is absolutely right. this will not stop at some lower-level person. this has to be taking these guys. >> laura: oliver is right, there has to be consequences later. the leaking of brett kavanaugh, nothing happened. every time there is abuse of power, there has to be repercussions, but you don't see it. >> i believe that mr. durham and mr. barr's statement gives a forte that we hope the beginning of accountability. i will say one thing. people who are going to pay for this are going to be americans. remember, the fisa program designed to keep americans safe from terrorism. of course we are still vulnerable to terrorist activity

as we have seen most recently in the united states. the fact is by abusing these programs to spy on political opponents, twos found the trump campaign to benefit the clinton campaign, this will make all americans less safe. that is the catastrophic story behind this very devastating report today. >> laura: we were focused on domestic politics, but chris, we have an fbi director right now, mr. christopher wray who is still depending what happened. and just watch what he says. >> the inspector general did not find political bias or improper motivation impacting the opening of the investigation or the decision to use certain investigative rules during the investigations. >> including fisa. >> laura: does that disturb you that's his take away? >> i didn't see that press conference, but i did see a letter he wrote to the inspector general laying out about eight things the fbi was going to do, including revamping

fisa, including setting out protocols for defensive briefings, which i think is a huge misconduct issue on the part of the fbi executives and not doing defensive leaking. so we did lay things out for the ig. but he tried to come i think the ig going back to the ig report, i think he tried to exonerate the executives, but at the same time, he points out that peter strzok and lisa page were going around the chain of command and reporting directly to mccabe everything that was going on. and the ig said that was a situation him where they were basically spies for mccabe in the investigation. what christopher wray is trying to do is take the investigation dynamic, that is, headquarters actually investigating cases, not field offices out of the fbi's repertoire. in other words, investigations will be conducted in the field,

not by headquarters. >> laura: ali, at one point the text message we were laughing about it is funny, obama wanted to be kept up-to-date on on what is happening. and everybody is forgetting that. >> it goes all the way to the top. look, the attitude was pervasive and that there is nothing wrong with a spear there is nothing wrong with this, probing into an opposition, political campaign for president of the united states. the very thought of that has got to be disheartening to every american vote. i would suggest that it's got to come out of hand durham will undertake an as long as he thinks he can pursue it, holding accountable the people who have authorized this. they did it in a memo or email or just on one-on-one conversation, the leaders of the organizations, the cia, the fbi, sadly tarnished by all that went on in this entire thing. that is the bigger point of this

report from horowitz. >> laura: lee, we had comey on cnn tonight and his big take away is about the reputation of the fbi. none of us think that happened. watched. >> a word that two years of lies will work. that we won't be able to get the fbi's reputation back where this country needs to know the truth about it. that people will have internalized blatant lies. how did the fbi get that back? >> laura: how do they get it back? close it out for us. >> he asked one good question, how did the fbi get it back? part of this will be mr. durham and mr. barr holding them accountable. because it's not for the fbi. americans are not worried about implications but americans are worried about whether they will have their rights respected. that is the issue. >> laura: i think americans are worried whether they will vote for someone or some operation inside the current administration that is trying to disenfranchise them and nullify their vote.

that is what people are worried about. it will happen again. that is why a lot of people are still in power. gentlemen, fantastic conversation. thank you so much. coming up if you thought today's impeachment hearings were a joke, wait until you hear the breaking news tonight on the articles of impeachment that the democrats intend to produce tomorrow morning. as they say there is no abuse of power at the fbi. congressman, they join me with reaction next memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.

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♪ >> we are going to ignore the rules. i have witnesses to ask some questions. gentlemen, how many other rules are you just going to disregard? >> that is not a point. >> let's slow down a bit here. let's slow down a bit here. >> you don't interrupt either one of the chairman. >> bang it harder. it doesn't make the point that you are doing it right.

>> laura: to juicy jerry nadler platform the gavel? they need to bring in a new one. believe it or not, that was not the circus. it was the house judiciary chair, the second impeachment hearing on the hill today. but that mockery of justice was only just beginning. we are now learning the democrats intend to file -- i'm sorry i'm laughing -- i know it is serious but i don't take any of these people seriously. two of the articles of impeachment, abuse of a power and this is what we see the fbi did to trump and obstruction of congress. wait, do they go to court to get a subpoena? no, they didn't. joining me now, steve scalise, buck and steve chap it. great to see all of you, congressman steve scalise, i went to the tv and set my watch, a bunch of politicians and lawyers interviewing committee lawyers. i've never seen anything like this. your take away. >> the witness literally gets up

from the table, runs over and ask another witness questions. people, they are turning this off. they are turning this out because i think they realize this is all about nancy pelosi holding onto power. they know donald trump has done a good job. 260,000 new jobs last month. they don't want this president to get reelected. they can't beat him on merit so they have to go down the road of impeachment. that is a farce, and embarrassment with a have been doing. >> laura: congressman, what happened to bribery? wasn't it bribery, extortion, they were throwing everything out against the wall but that's all gone now. >> it is absurd. the democrats are bound and determined to impeach this president since inaugurated and maybe even prior to it in operation. you had one democrat, for example, the knowledge they had to impeach him or he might be reelected. it's all politics. it is a shame because it's been for the country. there were so many other things

not getting done like 60,000 people who died of overdose as last year. let's do something about that or the southern borders. >> laura: the drug prices, my insurance went up 8% this year. congressman buck, obstruction of congress, now my law school education was not as good as all of this, but they didn't go to court to force a subpoena. how can this be obstruction of congress when the white house basically said we don't recognize this sham and we will not participate. they didn't go to court to get a degree. >> it is not obstruction at all. in fact, what is interesting to me come on one hand chairman schiff and chairman nadler refused to turn anything over and when president trump claims a privilege that is obstruction. they instructed our inquiry and ability to gather information to bring up proof, yet president trump does that legitimately and secretary of state, those are privileged. the chief of staff but somehow

he has all obstructing. they don't go to court to challenge that privilege, they just charge him with obstruction. >> laura: congressman, if anybody is guilty of obstruction of congress, it is adam schiff. i mean i guess if you are congress -- but he has obstructed your ability to put on defensive witnesses, despite they claiming they would. >> he said he would bring the whistle-blower and going back to the mueller investigation more than circumstantial evidence. he never had any because there wasn't any. really when you talk about something, it is an abuse of power. he found out later he was spying on members of the press, members of congress. we don't know who else. i've heard reports up to 3500 pages of telephone records that adam schiff is sitting on. he only selectively released it against his political opponents, against a concerned reporter. why isn't the press outrage the way he is spying on members of

the press? their sources come all of their private information. it is at risk. the fisa court itself is at risk when you talk about the abuses of power we saw from the fbi. >> laura: why don't you show yours, congressman schiff. congressman steve tabet, this got crazy with this back and forth between matt gaetz and coleman, the attorney's question his tweets in the past about the steele dossier. there were only a few moments that got my attention and this is one of them. >> do you regret this tweet? circum- i would be happy to put this investigation up with any nonpartisan investigation. i want to know if you regret the tweet? do you regret it? i hope you read the evidence. >> you either regret or -- >> laura: for tweets have nothing in the dossier. congressman chabot and that is the guy they are putting on today. >> it is amazing. this hearing was pretty

incredible. the thing that bothers me though is that impeachment is becoming to retain. they have lowered the bar here. we had one impeachment and about 200 years. now in less than 50 years, this will be the third one. my concern is every time you have a president that is a different party from the house, we are going to see impeachments more and more common. that is very damaging to the country, far too divisive. >> laura: congressman buck heard a lot of things that we heard are impeachable. but congressman greene has now said slavery is part of impeachable offenses, let's watch. >> we are moving forward and cautious in a primitive way. which is what is expected. if we don't include some of the things that are important to people of color, we have to deal with slavery. slavery was the thing that put all of what president trump has done lately into motion. >> laura: congressman bob, care to comment on that one?

no, i have no idea how president trump is responsible for slavery. >> laura: and if that surprises any of you? >> not at all. congressman greene so we expect to have more hearings. >> he also said you don't need impeachable offense to impeach a president and most importantly he said if we don't impeach president trump he will get reelected. it's not about impeachable offenses, it is about the fact they are scared he will get reelected because president trump has done a good job. >> laura: congressman, thank you. great to see you all tonight. coming up despite the left best efforts, it is thriving politically. he was in a great mood last week. how can trump turn labeled his darkest hour into votes? mercedes schlapp have the answer next. [ indistinct chatter ]

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♪ >> there is no question they are picturing this is a dark tape for the president. >> it was a really dark day for the white house. >> a very bad day and a bad week for president trump. >> the worst day for this president ever. >> laura: okay, those were the last few months. so dramatic. weren't you so worried? i wasn't. bad days for trump never came. the really bad days for the media though. really bad days for comey, brennan and the rest of the pete despite finding no political bias. senior fellow at hoover and mercedes schlapp, the senior advisor of trump 2020. mercedes, the democrats really can't see how this is all helping trump, but i can tell you all of the message i was getting from friends and associates across the country, people are giddy. they think that the democrats are out of gas. >> when you see those media pieces and for example they say

the dark hour. they have been talking since the president became president. and really, the democrat party and the media. they were trying and praying they could sell narrative of impeachment, laura. they have failed. and especially these polls, basically saying wait a second. let's get the policy issues resolved. let's get to nca and pennsylvania, and michigan as opposed to what we are seeing right now which is they are not buying it. once these hearings came out publicly, it fell flat. >> laura: and we will put up a couple of swing state polls. wisconsin, this came out, trump over biden, trump over warren. trump up, up, up here at michigan, pennsylvania, i mean these are devastating polls. we will put them up. so all the talk, victor, is trump the only adult in their room which i loved your piece.

what is this all settling in as for you? >> i think most people are completely bored by the nadle nadler/schiff impeachment and they are terrified by the horowitz report and more terrified when we hear the durum/barr account. and they are encouraged by the trump economy. you put all those three things together, there is a sinking feeling among progressives that election will not be decided with the upper west -- upper west side and though state your reference, the swing states of the midwest. trump is doing well when impeachment is doing poorly and to prove in the pudding, laura this week when trump opposing doing so poorly, he is pretty calm. talking about the economy and letting nancy pelosi say, don't mess with me. i'm catholic. joe biden sang you're a blank liar. an ex-marine calling him fat or

falling asleep. or adam down minding his own colleagues. they are melting down. for the first time i can see, trump is smiling and saying i like this. >> laura: he doesn't want this to end up back. i think you are 100% right. let me just say mercedes and victor, the white house parties last week, they have a number of parties throughout the holiday season. if trump and milani were in a brilliant mood and i don't think i've seen this on election nigh. they were thrilled, mercedes. >> you know the president thrives when chaos surrounding the democrats. he thrives when they are trying to beat him up because he always wins. that is the problem. >> laura: it is just that, policy working. >> he has stayed focused on the policies while at the same time beating up on the democrats. he will not get away but this impeachment. you know what, he was right. the ig report shows that comey has abused his power as an fbi

leader. >> laura: yeah, but they deny it. he denies that of course. >> it was an abuse of power. >> laura: victor, do you think the deep state actors brennan and comey will we hear about their misdeeds from durham? >> yeah because of their own actions. they are pulling pelosi and bidens. but this thing also overseas, we saw the nato reaction, you have this group of people and trump is basically, why am i worried? >> laura: he's loving it. i'm sorry to cut you off victor, we have a whole hour.in thank you both for being withsa er. when we come back to my new personal bodyguard for trump? >> do you think this is nothing to worry about? us, with most ine a safelite repair is no cost to you.

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help? i will do it for free! >> laura: the ufc champion, thank you. that could save some taxpayer money. that's all the time. shannon bream takes it from here. >> shannon: it's monday, let's do this. >> laura: have a great show. >> shannon: we have a fox news alert. finally official, house democrats are preparing to roll out their impeachment articles an hour from now. abuse of power and obstruction of congress, may be more expected tomorrow morning. what about bribery and extortion? we'll find out. breaking tonight, u.s. attorney john durham forging ahead with his investigation. publicly breaking allegiant cars the inspector general. he says the origins of the russia investigation were legit, but also outlines numerous twits