>> sean: karl rove not only new white boards but ricola. >> sean: we seek the truth and let not your heart be troubled.y laura ingraham is picking up the coverage from here. >> laura: thanks, sean. i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from new orleans tonight. president trump bringing down the stadium in phoenix, arizona. we will bring you expert analysis of all of the day's news with charlie hurt, mercedes schlapp will stop by, and congressman matt gaetz, dan bongino, chris hahn, and a lot b more. first, let's get back to the president, tonight, live in phoenix. >> president trump: has reached the lowest level in 71 years. soon-to-be historic. and veterans' unemployment has dropped to a record low. we are working on veterans. we are taking care of our

veterans like nobody has ever taken care of our veterans. the unemployment rate for disabled americans has reached the lowest level in history. workers without a high school diploma, you have a lot of them, they left high school. they said, oh, should have finished. they left. they can't go back. they left.. we've achieved the lowest unemployment rate, without a diploma, ever recorded in u.s. history. isn't that great? it's a great number. hispanic-americans right now, more than 500,000 own a home. more than 500,000 more own a home, and we have lifted 10 million people off of the welfare rolls. think of that.

10 million people have come off of the welfare rolls. and happily. not that we did anything -- they have jobs and they love it. and they are making much more money. and they love getting up and going to work, and if they don't like that job, they can get another one, because people are starting to get great employees right now. they are starving to get great employees. since my election, the net worth of the bottom half of wage earners has increased by 47%, three times faster than the increase for the top 1%. median income -- think of this. this is such a big deal. median household income reached the highest level in the history of our country. and under president bush, in

eight years, it went to $450 more. under president barack hussein obama. [boos]r under a period of eight years, it went to $975. under president donald j. trump -- did you ever hear of him? [applause] in only three years, including regulation cuts and tax cuts, because the other ones raised taxes, we cut taxes by a record amount. it went to $10,000 per family. [applause] a record. a record. that's why our consumer right now, our people, they are booming with cash, and that is one of the reasons our economy is doing so much better. china had the worst year in the

last 67 years. asia is doing poorly. europe is doing poorly. the united states is doing great. we are doing the best we've ever done. [applause] the best we've ever done. to lift up forgotten communities that need investment. and these are really communities that need it the most. we created opportunity zones. we worked with tim scott, the great senator from south carolina. his idea. he came in and saw me, i i said, let's give it a shot. you know, nothing has worked over the years, but this has really worked. in our jobs and investment are pouring into 168 newly designated opportunity zones right here in arizona alone. from apache to navajo and maricopa counties, we are supporting working families.

we are doing a job with paid family leave. we are doing something nobody has ever done to this extent, reducing the cost of child care and giving 40 million american families and average of $2,200 in their pocket thanks to the republican child tax credit. our historic regulatory reduction campaign is restoring american liberty and cutting through jobs, killing red tape like nobody has ever cut regulations before. we've ended the war on american energy, lowering utility bills, reducing prices at the pump, and eliminating our reliance on hostile foreign suppliers. for the first time, america is nowei energy independent.

such beautiful words. energy independent. we fought wars, we did everything we could. we used to take the straits and everybody else benefited. we would keep them clear so everybody else could take oil from the middle east. nobody paid us. now they are starting to pay us a lot of money, folks. they took advantage of us. but we have everything we need right now. we have made such progress in the last three years with pipelines, the keystone pipeline. keystone xl, i approved it. the dakota access pipeline. i approved it. 48,000 jobs. we are reversing decades of calamitous trade policies. the worst trade deals a human being has ever seen.

i said, who made these deals? the worst, stupidest deals i've ever seen. they were good for other nations. if you like other nations, that's great. but we are now putting america first. it's pretty simple. for years, washington politicians took money from lobbyists, global corporations, and really, the most corrupt special interests anybody has ever seen. to ship our jobs and our factories to other countries. we lost our taxes. we lost our workers. we lost our companies. and we did nothing about it. now we have done a lot about it because companies are pouring back in. america lost one in four manufacturing jobs following the twin disasters of nafta -- the worst deal ever made. worst trade deal ever made. and oneer that was almost as bad

and gave china an entrance into being a rocket shipad when they entered the world trade -- world trade, wto, one of the worst deals that we participated in this. by the way, we just won $7.5 billion in a lawsuit with wto. we weren't winning. we weren't winning anything, but they said -- i think this guy is going to pull out. they treated us so unfairly. we were always in the minority position. who the hell negotiated these deals? they look at us and say, look him if we are not treated fairly, we are gone. all of a sudden, we are winning all of these cases. but we just won 7.5 billion. 7.5 billion. did you know that, doug? 7.5 billion. but under this administration, the great betrayal is over. america is no longer for sale. america is no longer for sale.

those days are over. [applause] and two generations of politicians came and went promising to replace nafta. how many times have you heard "we are going to replace nafta?" probably the number onere reasoi ran for office. are we glad i ran for office? [applause] it was funny, i was watching -- i find it fascinating, i'm watching them come in,-- watch s much as i could of the stuff. you don't love it, you are not going to do it really well. and the crazy "new york times," which was a dead newspaper when i ran, a month before i ran, i held up a "new york times," it'r like what you get thrown in your face at a supermarket. it was like a thing, it just, like, flew away. there was nothing. and now, it is doing very well.

but you know what? someday, we won't be here, and when we are not, those papers are in big trouble. a deads thing was newspaper. but i was watching, and they had an article this weekend about people that spent their own money and how they are doing. they have mini mike has spent $411 million. and it's a question mark, how is he -- i will tell you how he's going to do, he's probably not going to get the democratic nomination, that is how he is going to do. but mini mike, $411 million. and they had this idiot, steyer, we call him impeachment steyer. how did that work out, steyer? he spent $210 million, got one-third of 1% inte iowa. and in new hampshire, he did much better, got less than 3%. guy is there for 250 million,

steyer, you jerk? of him. i turn on every time for years, i'm turning on -- impeach him! they don't even know why. they never say why. they don't have any reason. impeach the president! this guy spent a fortune on the stuff. so it worked out pretty good. so then i go and i looked, so it has mini mike, question marks. i can give youin the answer, but right now, they have to have a question marks. and then they go down and had other people, some of them like that, ross perot, who honestly,o it was a tough day for bush when he joined the campaign. because clinton didn't win, ross perot took away 19% of the vote. didn't clinton got 41% or 43%? give me a break. that'sli okay, whatever. than ross perot spent like 100 million, which is probably

double if you bring it up to today's dollars. and then they have different people, a friend of mine,s who ran, steve forbes, he ran twice, and he was in for a lot. and then they had donald trump. now this is your own money. so this is your own money. and i said i spend a lot of money on my primaries, we will see how the hell we do. it's amazing, once you win, when he comes in pretty fast. what is that all about? in the middle, they had trump, and then they had four or five that were behind me. a lot of money spent. loss, loss, loss, loss, loss. but in the middle, they had donald trump. ended it in say 500 million and it didn't say 250, like this steyer guy. it said 70 million of my ownt money. i spent 70. and it said "donald trump won the presidency of the united states."an

>> laura: we are going to get back to the rally in justt a moment, but first i want to get the reaction from charlie hurt, "washington times" opinion editor, and fox news contributor mercedes schlapp, trump 2020 campaign senior advisor, and dan bongino, former secret service agent and fox news contributor. all right, panel, here was trump earlier about what he thinks is going on in today's democratic party. >> washington democrats keep on losing their minds. they hate the fact that we are winning, we are winning big. we are winning, waiting, winning.in that is why millions of registered democrat voters are leaving their party to join our movement. >> laura: charlie, trump is holding this massive rally tonight, another one,, and democrats, at their debate, are just ripping each other to shreds. it's a feeding frenzy on bloomberg. the moderates -- so-called moderates -- going after the progressives.

where does the stand now? where is this race tonight? >> it really is a feeding frenzy on mike bloomberg, but it's also a feeding frenzy on bernie sanders, who remains in the strongest position on the democratic side to get the nomination. in the entire democratic establishment, and just about everybody on that stage, wants to prevent him from getting the nomination. and to me, the most important thing out of the debate tonight, what was the first words out of mike bloomberg's mouth, coming directly from him, not some paid-for advertising, but coming airectly out of his mouth during the campaign, and that is that bernie sanders will never beat donald trump. that is an astonishing indictment of the democrats' number one front-runner for the nomination, spoken by the guy that they hope will be the party's savior. also, the other thing -- don't forget, bloomberg and sanders, neither one of them -- bloomber, has been a republican, and just

changed his party registration in recent years. bernie sanders is still not a democrat, he is a socialist democrat. it's astonishing. >> laura: mercedes, when i noticed tonight, looking at the tale of two scenes, trump rallying this massive crowd and what is happening at the debate, it was anat attempt by mayor pee to try to take out bernie, and warren's sole purpose was to go after bloomberg. warren's takedown of bloomberg reminded me of what chris christie did to marco rubio in 2016. remember that debate? it was brutal. bloomberg did not come across well tonight, and bernie did answer the point. but you've got to say, he had the philosophy, and he is rolling with it. >> there is no question, i think the host of the moderators really went straight into asking the tough questions to bloomberg on the women issue, on the nondisclosure agreements. i mean, he was purely on defense

tonight. and it was very clear that warren and bidenen and buttigie, they know that they need to take out bloomberg to even have a fighting chance. i mean, you are having these bloomberg strategists come out and basically say, he stopped biden, buttigieg, and klobuchar in the race, that is going to give bernie a big lead. i got to tell you, the democrats aree doing the work for us republicans. they are the ones thatin are trying to take each other down, while you have the disgruntled democrats saying wait a second, i don't want to be part of this, i'm going to go to the trump rally. and ido think that you are seeig the president unifying, not only the party, but even thosede disgruntled democrats that don't want to be part of this show, this circus you are seeing on the democrats' side. >> laura: dan, watching what they were doing at their debate, and thinking about what the argument is, the argument is, let us come in and save you from a booming economy.

we are going to save you from this great economy, dan. it does not fly. i don't think. >> it's very funny. and it's a terrific point. it's very difficult to win a national election on running on what you are not for, rather than what you are for. if you are going to run on something, say we are not for this, then it better be something bad. i want to get out of this war, i want to get out of this recession. as you just accurately stated, your campaign -- i want to get out of this great economy and growth rates we haven't seen inn 8 to 10 years. it just doesn't work. it's antithetical to what seems to win, it's just doesn't work. but one thing on bloomberg, going back to the debates tonight, this was a disaster for bloomberg, no question, elizabeth warren went right for him. she is probably lobbying for a vp ticket withrr bernie. she has a hit on bloomberg from the beginning. but remember, candidates don't exit presidential elections because they don't have votes.

they exit because they don't have dollars. and that is not a problem for bloomberg, so i wouldn't write off bloomberg, it was a bad night, i don't think anyone denies that, but he has the money to state them is as long as he wants, and with the field being so weak, i wouldn't write him off. >> laura: oh, absolutely not. charlie, the president tonight went right at this point that he has raised before about the democrat establishment trying to take out what really is the energy in the party that resides clearly with bernie sanders. he went right at that tonight. watch. >> they just came out withut a poll a little while ago, mini mike was at 15, and crazy bernie was at 31. that's a lot. and mini mike just spent 500 million, but, but, the dnc is going to take it away from bernie again. and that's okay, because we don't care who the hell it is, we are going to win.

we are going to win. we have to. >> laura: charlie, are they going to be ableau to take it fm bernie this time? i think bernie sanders looks, without a doubt, the strongest wion that stage. warren looks like she is vying for attorney general, may be, in a warranted administration, not the vp slot, but sanders had answer. at least he has the philosophy, it's a socialist philosophy. the others, i don't know what their philosophyhy is or what their arguments are. he actually has a philosophy, and people can generally follow it. >> absolutely. he believes in something. and the rest of them believe in whatever it takes to get elected. elizabeth warren will say whatever it takes to get elected. most of the time, when she opens her mouth, she is saying something that is not truth. michaels bloomberg literally wil say or do anything. for how many years -- for 15sa years he defended stop and frisk as a way of saving black lives. and now he is apologizing for a

program that he told us for so long saves black lives? it's kind of amazing to try to wrap your brain around it.ou but i also think, one of the things of a donald trump, donald trump has such an amazing instinct for an enemy's weakness, and he goes right to it when he starts talking about the dnc trying to take away the nomination from bernie sanders again. because they are doing everything they,rs people here n washington, democrats in cawashington, are encouraging elizabeth warren to stay in the race as long as possible because they believe that she is siphoning votes awayst from bernie sanders, and that gives -- if they can get enough delegates away from bernie to get michael bloomberg up and running, then he can run off and win it.p but i have to say, with this tonight, i wouldn't be s surprised if joe biden doesn't blow everybody away and do really well in south carolina. >> laura: that's a great e point. actually, biden had a couple of

moments tonight, mercedes, that were pretty strong for biden. he didn't have any major flubs or faux pas. he did pretty well, for biden, and meanwhile, bloomberg -- tell me if you agree with this. watching him, it feels like he is trying to hold court. he's not even looking at the other person talking to him, he just looks straight ahead with no facial expression talking about the nondisclosure agreement. to me, i just came across flat and entitled, and trump doesn't come across that way. he has that engaging personality, and if you rub some people the wrong way, he has an engaging personality. w bloomberg has a flat line personality. >> as president trump always said when he was a candidate, he was always center stage, and he never left the center stage. and i think that was always really brilliantr about donald trump, and he would address whether it was low-energy jeb or lil' marco, he knew how to getwh under the candidates -- under their skin, and yet be able to deliver a

very simple and strong message to the american people, and it worked. i think, for the democrats, their message is -- again, bernie has the message of socialism, where he wants to take america. it's very clear. all the other candidates are vying for some sort of attention. biden is trying to connect with obama again. bloomberg is trying to attach himself to president obama. it's just not working. they are getting into trivial fights on stage, and is not resonating to the bigger message of what they want to do to america, which is -- other than increased taxes and push forth a very extreme agenda, which is not goingthth to sell to major america. >> laura: at one point tonight, and this -- it tells me how small the issues have become the democrats. they were beating up poor old amy klobuchar over forgetting lopez obrador's name, she felt obligated to try to say every

central american leaders name and say it with an accent or something, and i felt bad. i mean, i think she can learn people's names. maybe she should know, okay, fine, but it wasn't exactly like she forgot names of u.s. cabinet secretaries. she is a smart person, but even that was a slice and dice moment tonight for the democrats. >> yeah, i mean, it goes to show how low the bar has been set for the democrats. think about biden. they couldn't remember the name down in mexico, biden doesn't even know what state he is an. he's like "welcome to idaho." sir, you are in iowa. it starts with a i. how low the bar is, because amy klobuchar has a klo-mentum or whatever the hashtag is out there. they have to kneecap her to get her out of the way, but the field is a bust, and one thing quick about sanders in this debate, you know, this gets said a lot about sanders about his authenticity. i think you're confusing -- he's not authentic.

he is a fraud. he's consistent. there is a difference. he is a fraud. this is a millionaire -- a documented millionaire -- who rails against the evils of being a millionaire. he is absolutely not an authentic candidate. he's consistent, but he is consistently a fraud, and we should never forget that. >> laura: the president, the president is talking about bernie now. let's check it out. >> president trump: his health care takeover -- think of this. 180 million americans are going to lose health care coverage under this plan. but if you don't mind, i'm not going to criticize it tonight. let them keep going, and i'll start talking about it about two weeks out from the election, okay? because i don't want them to change. please don't change. same with the green new deal, i don't want to talk about a dud tonight. i don't want to talk about it. you know, ial came up with the name pocahontas too early. but fortunately, she has self-destructed any way. did you ever see a phony like

that? she is a phony! she lost because she couldn't keep it straight on her own heritage. she said she was an indian. i said, i have more indian blood in me than you have, and i have none. she said, oh, and she panicked. she panicked! and she had a test. you know the result. 1/124. i think i win the bat. somewhere along the line, i think i win. no, she -- i did it too early. i would have saved it. but i guess it was effective. she is essentially gone. while the socialist democrats are trying to destroy american health care and your security, my administration is protecting your social security, your medicare, and is fighting to give you great health care, and that is what we are getting. right.s

one of the big secrets that democrats won't let us say it, they want to keep that as quiet as possible. look what they gave you, the worst health care, and what we've done, we've gotten rid of things that nobody could believe that were so bad for you. everybody was happy. we are defending your right to keep your doctor and plan of your choice. we are making health care better and much, much cheaper, while premiums more than doubled in the last five years before i took office. we are not offering plans that are up to 60% less expensive than they were, and it's better health care. a lot of people don't know this. people don't know this. they think that is their issue. it's not, they failed on health care. we are protecting people with pre-existing conditions, and we always will. and by the way, we are trying to get rid of obamacare, but we are managing it incredibly, but we are trying to get rid so we can give you a great health care plan and protect pre-existing

conditions. remember that. >> laura: now on the issue that the present was just mentioning there, the real fight that has emerged now is bernie sanders versus bloomberg. >> today, we say to mayor bloomberg. [boos] we are a democracy, not an oligarchy. you are not going to buy this election.ra >> laura: now, of course, bloomberg on stage for the first time tonight in a debate setting, but not before his campaign issued this dire warning. the fact is, if the state of this race remain status quo, bernie is likely to open up a delegate lead that seems nearly impossible to overcome. i don't think many people understand the dire circumstances here, bloomberg's camp says. it looks like team bloomie may have been watching aca recent

"ingraham angle." >> the democratsec got think abt this, they created this monster of radicalism, now the chickens are coming home to roost. they are going to beat bernie sanders, who has been a phenomenal retail politician, they need to stand unitedtonighn candidate, before super tuesday. >> laura: none of them are dropping out, not yet. joining me now is congressman matt gaetz at chris hahn, former aide to senator chuck schumer, host of the aggressive progressive podcast. chris, what bloomberg's people seem to be saying is it is now bernie's race to lose. is that true? >> yeah, i mean, look, he is leading in the polls. he has a head of steam coming on limited source of cash coming from small donors who give on a monthly basis. he is pulling in about $25 to $30 million a month. he's got all of the momentum right now, and this debate has been wild, i don't know if you've been watching it.

i have been watching it. elizabeth warren is doing really well. i think that hurt the bernie sanders, both in nevada,l of course, a third of the voters have already voted in nevada, but it hurts them in south carolina. joe biden might get a boost out of this because bloomberg doesn't look as strong in this debate. i think it is far from over, but it is correct, you are correct last week, i'm sitting right across from you and you said it, you were correct last week, if bernie is not stopped soon, he will have enough delegates to be the nominee. we might differ whether that is a good or a bad thing.he i thought trump was never going to be elected president that he became a nominee, and i was wrong. so i wouldn't count bernie sanders out. >> laura: i'm not counting him out at all if your wife said from the beginning i think he has a philosophy. it's geared towards more socialist philosophy, but it is a philosophy that people can follow, and okay, he wants to nationalize health care, he wants to have a lot more government control over certain industries. obviously, bloomberg is not in that camp at all. he wants to go to a more global list, back to obama eraom econoc

policy, and be more engaged with china. that is what he wants to do. but that is just not going to fly. i do think that is going to fly ha today's democrat party. congressman gaetz, very interesting to look at some of the polls after a lot of money has been poured into this race by bloomberg, a lot of polls come out recently, but the abc news "washington post" poll shows that bernie sanders is up about where donald trump was this time, around 2016, in the low 30s, 32%. biden is at 17. bloomberg is 14. klobuchar and buttigieg below double digits there. that is pretty representative of the polls out there. what is the stand to come in your mind? the president is clearly worried at the establishment and the dnc is going to try to steal it from bernie. i guess he prefers to run against a bernie. >> it is hard not to discount the fact that third place cost so much. bloomberg spent half a billion dollars and still finds himself with the bronze medal in that

poll. this is bernie sanders' party. he has the largest crowds, the most donors, got in the most votes, and he is likely going to be the person running against president trump. michael bloomberg got torched tonight by elizabeth warren. the questions she asked about whether or not he would release women from their nondisclosure agreements, that was absolutely devastating. bloombergm had no answer. and if bloomberg alienates african-americans and women, and the aquarium starts to become very small for him to be fishing in, in the democratic party. i guess my question, laura, is how are we sleeping on bernie? bernie probably would have won time if theyst hadn't stolen it from him for hillary, and now he is rolling. if he wins south carolina, chris, don't you think, if bernie wins south carolina, go ahead and get the fat lady to start singing because this race is over. if bernie wins --d >> laura: go ahead. >> if bernie wins south carolina, you are correct, congressman, i really agree with you, but if he wins

south carolina, head of steam going to super tuesday. i don't count out bloomberg on super tuesday pulling in a lot of delegates. the question is, can anybody get the 1900 plus delegates you're going to need to have a majority of the convention? if bernie is close, he's going to be the nominee. wherever the nominee is is going to have to unify the party. bernie is going to have to look to somebody to his right within the party. to bring on the ticket, to unify the party.he if he doesn't do that, trump willll get reelected. all the talk about him being a socialist, all he wants to do is provide health care to people. i don't see him -- >> laura: that's all? >> that's not all! >> when you talk about p cuba -- >> laura: hold on. en>> people talk to me about wht i said -- >> laura: first of all, the president said tonight at the rally, he hasn't even started talkinght about what bernie's policies are going to do.

and the big argument tonight is we are going to come in and we are going to improve the economy? i didn't hear that from anybody, that the economy is actually going to improve under democrat policies. i didn't hear that argument made one time tonight. over on the other network. because they know they can't make that argument. so now what they arew doing, chris, is there trying to say, well, this actually is a pretty good economy, but it is obama's economy. the economy had gone south, i don't think obama would be saying it is his south-driven economy. he would say oh, that is trump's deal. but obama's economy, that is as good as it gets for them on the economic front, chris. >> you know, the president does not tell the truth about what he inherited. he says he inherited a mess. the economy was rising when he came into office. he doesn't tell the truth about health care. he is out there fighting against pre-existing conditions and the court, protecting people with them. che has no plan. he's done nothing to improve health care in this country. the democratic trying to figure

out a plan to do it. yes come the economy is strong right now, to benefit the president, he should be running away with the selection. his own actions is why he is not running away with the election. >> laura: every poll show the president's approval rating is at an all-time t high. add another five-point into that, matt gaetz. >> the record people give the president credit for the economy, and you need a greater proof than the fact that you asked chris a question about the economy, and he responded with a health care answer, because we see wages rising. we see gdp growing. we see americansg. with higher consumer confidence and businesses making more capital investments. these didn't just happen because of the leap year. these are the consequences of the president's policies, deregulation agenda --ea >> obama's policies. >> where was obama during his administration when he was blaming bush? when things aren't going -- >> the foundation to grow, baby. we all know who made that for this economy.

we know, matt, you are smart enough to know. >> laura: i'm going to be hitting this issue tomorrow night, but let me close this conversation about the economy with this line, okay? if the economy was so great at the end of obama's term in 2016, why didn't hillary run on the economy? and why didn't hillary win on the economy? all right, gentlemen, thanks so much. and what about the health debate? the health debate, what are we talking about? it is brewing between bloomberg and bernie. plus, i fact-checked a lie that president obama, as i have been saying, has been talking about now for years. my "angle," if we can get to it with all of this breaking news, coming up. don't go away. ♪ healthmarkets compares your current plan with

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now is the time to update your coverage or enroll for the first time. call healthmarkets now. call the number on your screen >> laura: get the defibrillators ready. the bernie sanders-mike bloomberg campaigns are locked in a heart pounding debate. over which of the 78-year-old candidates is most at risk of going into cardiac arrest. it all started today when sanders' press secretary said this. >> what you are seeing right now is really reminiscent of some of the kind of smear, kind of skepticism campaigns that have been brought against a lot of different candidates in the past. it's really telling, given that none of the same concern is being demonstrated for michael bloomberg, same age as bernie sanders, suffered heart attacksde in the past. >> laura: that sent bloomberg's henchmen on the attack. >> that is a lie. bernie sanders had a heart attack in las vegas mere months ago.

so they are going toto employ te sort of techniques that the trump campaign has used it to try to lies and innuendo that certainly aren't true. >> laura: joining me now is dr. luiza petre, board-certified cardiologist. dr. petre, bernie says he is healthy and ready for the rigors of the campaign trail, his doctor has said as much, but should the voters believe him? >> hi, laura. you bring a very valid point here. look, they are in their 70s. candidates, sanders and bloomberg, and both have a history of heart attacks. and the question is, we really want a president that's fit for ntthe office. having a history of heart attacks would disqualify someone for this job. it's a very stressful job. it's the most important position in the united states, and we want someone who is really healthy. talking about a heart attack and the risk of cardiac death, as you mentioned, becomes veryry hd

to predict at this point. both basically have the same risk, the same age, both -- >> laura: dr. petre, i want to jump in for a moment, because tonight, they discussed this, and bernie said, we both have two's dense, i think he meant we both have stents. it's a procedure done about a million times a year, so we release to the full report of that heart attack. second of all, be released my full 29 years in the capital medical history. we released reports from two leading vermont cardiologist who described my situation, and he says he is able to handle the job. was this ageism that people are practicing here at the 78-year-old? biden is 78. he's had some health issues in the past, as well, not heart related. you can kind of see where this is going. this is ageist. >> as a cardiologist, i can say

nowadays, having a heart attack is not a big burden on survival. i have patients who have bypass surgery and live 30 years after that. these candidates have access to the best medical care in this country, so i don't think it would be a major burdenth to qualify or disqualify them for being candidates for the president. >> laura: probably best to release all of your records to put everybody's minds at ease. dr. petre, thanknk you so much. and now, obama didn't build that. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." now i don't know about you, but as i mentioned earlier, i've had enough of the pathetic attempts by democrats to try to take credit for president trump's booming economy. now, it's a lie that former president obama has been peddling now for three years. >> the longest streak of job creation in american history, by far.on a streak that still continues,

by the way. thanks, obama. when you hear all this talk about economic miracles right now, remember who started it. >> laura: of course, obama's media acolytes, they just echo his empty claim. >> trump's greatest accomplishment is not screwing up barack obama's economy. >> 10% less in job creation. >> did he do any of thoseno this for the economy? no, he is benefiting from barack t obama's economy. >> by just about any measure, barack obama's economy was much stronger. >> laura: [laughs]y every measure? really, joe? i have a novel idea tonight, let's introduce a concept called "facts" into this equation. first of all, obama benefited from the natural recovery associated with a terrible recession. but even then, economic growth ground to a halt by the end of

his presidency. it shrunk to a measly 1.6% during his last year in office. in 2016, the unemployment rate stood at 4.7%. and real middle-class wage growth was flat. business sentiment was relatively low, probably as a consequence of the $900 billion worth of regulatory red tape from the obama administration. consumer confidence was flagging, as well, and the dow was sitting just above 18,000 on the eve of the 2016 election. but we all remember, that all change the night trump was elected. >> we will embark upon a project of national growth and renewal. i will harness the creative talents of our people, and we will call upon the best and brightest to leverage their tremendous talent to the benefit of all. >> laura: and he made good on that promise. a business sentimentau immediaty spiked. consumer confidence skyrocketed almost immediate and hit another 15 year high last week.

and the dow sorted. it's now nearly 30,000 points -- nearly double what it was before trump's election. that's great news for the millions of americans with 401(k)s and iras, and then, of course, there was the tax cuts. >> we have cut taxes, taken care of regulations, cut more than any other president in the history of our country, and we did that in three years instead of eight years. remember, the tax cut was the biggest tax cut in the history of our country. >> laura: it turns out that the money americans kept, which pelosi derided as crumbs, it boosted our economy beyond what anybody expected, or as "the new york times" put it, a wave of optimism has swept over american business leaders, and it is beginning to translate into the sort of investment and new plants, equipment, and factory updates that bolsters economic grow, spurs job creation and may finally raise wages significantly. and it worked, right?

unemployment is now near an all-time low, and the benefits of this are being felt far and wide. >> the unemployment rate has reached record lows, all-time, never lower than what it is right now. >> laura: some democrats just can't accept these amazing jobs numbers. >> i'm saying that the african-american unemployment is not the lowest it's ever been, unless you count slavery. we were fully employed during slavery. >> laura: what are you even supposed to say to that? the fact is, the unprecedented prosperity we are seeing today is the opposite of what the so-called economic experts predicted back in 2016. >> in the event donald wins, i have no doubt in my mind the market tanks. >> you will see a market crash of historic proportion.

>> if trump becomes president and implement all of his proposed policies, the u.s. economy could takesh a $1 trilln hit. >> laura: [laughs] i mean, how are any of those people still working after thosi predictions? well, instead of calamity, we all know we are living in the best economy in decades, and most americans know whom to thank.ll a new gallup poll, as we mentioned earlier, found 62% credit trump with the booming economy, compared to just 51% who said this because of obama. no wonder democrats are trying to steal the economic limelight. i was thinking about this tonight, if i were a democrat, and i was looking at all these numbers, the charts, graphs, and just the facts about wages going up for the lower income americans, the middle income americans, i would want to take credit for all of that, as well. what else are you going to say to us? and that is w the "angle." and up ahead, trump is taking on the pollsters.

and he is showing, well, is this something we can really believe? on other head-to-head survey shows that his approval rating is actually at a record high.er mark penn, tom bevan break it all down, next.

♪ >> laura: all right, joining me now mark penn and strategist, tom bevan cofounder and president of real clear politics. tom, two weeks ago gallup also was looking at the head-to-head when it found trumps approval without a record high. now today, emerson had plus 4 on approval and todayay the presidt was complaining about head-to-head. so some good news for the

president for sure, but on the head-to-head to, they say he's losing to pretty much every hcandidate. does he have a point here? >> i think he does. you have to take these national head-to-head matchups with a grain of salt particularly because we don't know where thee democrats will be. ultimately comes down to a binary choice between i president trump and somodelse. the strength is "wall street journal" had him at anl all-time high as well. all-time high, 46% in disapproval rating down to 50 now, the lowest it has been since right after he took office. so very, very strong approval numbers across the board for trump. >> laura: all right, when you look at this rally tonight, you look at the size of it, the scope of it come again the people waiting outside, mark penn, versus the democrats, the debate ripping each other to shreds, going after bloomberg,

going after bernie. where does this race stand tonight? set asidede the polls, mark, you have been following politics i don't want to say how long mom work but a long time. where does it stand? >> look, i will not forget about the polls because i do believe in them. when trump was in the low 40s, probably he was not going to be elected, 48, 47 and above, he is more likelyel than not and i dot look at the head-to-head right now, president trumps strong support has been growing. impeachment was a major mistake. we won't really know where this race stands until the democrats have a candidate as opposed to a primary. it doesn't matter that they are tearing each other apart. the republicans did that in the past. the race will be joined. but the president's approval absolutely critical. this range gives him a better even better chance of winning. >> laura: tom there is a new

poll that shows what qualities are registered voters, so look at these numbers. 57% identified a heart attack, 57% said socialist, 53% said old candidates. these were issues that concerned them, to be clear. but the democrats are about to elect bernie perhaps. picked bernie. and they said someone over the age of 75, what do you make of that? >> yeah come as bernie said in the debate, this is all part of -- who's leading that poll? he was by a lot. so there is no question, there are some concerns, voiced concerns about things like that bemetimes, but right now in terms of democratic primary, bernie has surged not only nationally but in nevada, closing the gap in south carolina, well position on super tuesday. particularly california. so despite concerns that some votersrs may have about him beig a socialist and being old and

having had a heart attack, he is right now the sort of surging front runner of the democratic party. and it is the ability to stop him. >> laura:ra mark, here is a headline from national reviews, bernie sanders, mainstream democrats. he writes "he has considered the most electable candidate. it will be hard to run a stop bernie movement based on radical, dangerous ally and the democrats comes confirm him the mainstream of their party. mark is thatio an accurate description of what happened to the democrat party t especiallyn the era of trump? >> welcome i do think the democratic party and the voters are taking a a turn to the left, no question. look, sanders has actually liked on personality. where sanders is on issues, medicare for all is a loser because of the $52 trillion cost. green new deal, same thing.

so he's got problems on issues. he's way out of the mainstream. i wonder if an independent candidate will not get into the race if he gets the democratic nomination and really shut politics up. >> laura: thomas, pretty funny to watch these never trumpers screaming about bernie sanders. i mean, they are out there wailing on sanders, wait a [laughter] what did you expect? ect was going to happen? >> i mean they are fully joined with the democratic establishment against bernie sanders andnd looking for someone to try to bring down donald trump. the problem is that, again, he's now over 30% in two polls and never been at 30% in the national race and out over 30%. so he's e expanding in the fiel. meanwhile, the moderates and the party if you want to call them with bloomberg getting in at this debate tonight all muddling

around, nobody seems like interested in getting out anytime soon. that is a great scenario for bernie sanders to win the nomination if they can't consolidate behind one single moderate candidate. >> laura: i remember back in 2016, bloomberg gave a commencement speech and he went right after bernie kind of faux populism. and promising all of this free stuff. invariably, they will be eaten by the people to whom they promised this free stuff because it is not possible. so you think of that. you can imagine that is what trump is going to say if it ends up being bernie versus trump. it sounds good to come up in the real world, it doesn't add up. the numbers don't add up add up. >> i think the trump and white house have been running against socialism for months now. i think that would be the dream candidate to have an actual socialist win the democratic nomination. look, no question sanders has momentum, but can you get over 50%?

we don't know that yet. remember, they are rewarded proportionately and we could have a brokered convention. >> laura: i cannot wait. >> we will wait to decide then. >> laura: this will be so much fun. it is about time they nominated the person who captures the heart and soul of this party. tom and mark, thank you so much. that is all the time we have. the time we he time we >> the fox news election alert, stunning night in american politics with the democratic feel going for the jugular on each other in terms we have not seen, straight out of the gate a battle on stage between factions of the democratic party straining to the breaking point from the far left of the limousine liberals to the heartland democrats. michael bloomberg and bernie sanders taking a shot after shot, a battle over who can beat donald trump in november. contrast that with a keep america great rally in phoenix where the president made his case for reelection.