call and they have repeatedly said the federal government maintains broad power over states when it comes to immigration policy. >> sean: thank you. we will never be the media mob. we seek the truth. laura ingraham. you had killer ratings last night. >> laura: we benefited from the democrat debate ending at 10:14. you know what it is? you are number one every night. occasionally a crumb is thrown my way. >> sean: i tried to be nice. i tried. you are like a younger sister. >> laura: it was fun and you had a great show. we are jam-packed tonight. have a great show. talk to you tomorrow. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle." the president addressed the nation on the coronavirus response a few short hours ago. senator tom cotton has been at the forefront of the conversation and he joins us. we are going to take you live to

south korea where u.s. military contractor explains what it's like living inside a country where the virus is spreading like wildfire. and also house minority leader kevin mccarthy, dan bongino, richard goodstein are here with reaction to last night's debate that does have democrat voters panicked. on the same day the trump administration scores a court victory against sanctuary city's, you sean talk about it. we bring you a report of how these reckless policies are endangering children in the communities that allow them. first, the pandemic party. that's the focus of tonight's angle. if you're worried about this part of the coronavirus, you're obviously not alone. it's unsettling to see doctors and what look like hazmat suits in china and people quarantined, hanging out of hotel windows and a lead.

of course your fellow airline passengers wearing face masks. yet more unsettling is something happening right here in the united states. it's not radical. it's political. democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponize suffering to improve their chances against trump in november. >> trump is incompetent. we are saying this in coronavirus. >> donald trump in general, not just with the coronavirus, but in general doesn't take important thing seriously. >> they are scared to death about the trump administration, they have no idea what they are doing. >> four words describe the administration's response to the coronavirus. towering and dangerous incompetence. >> laura: the president and his team gave us an important update on how they are bearing for any outbreaks, should they happen here. stick with the number one priority from our standpoint is that health and safety of amerin

people. the risk to the american people remains very low. we have the greatest experts in the world. really in the world right here. we are ready to adapt and we are ready to do whatever we have to. as the disease spreads, if it spreads. >> the trump administration is going to continue to be aggressively transparent. keeping the american people and the media apprised of the situation and what everyone can do. >> laura: perhaps they could have done this a week ago but the most important thing in the thing that matters to americans coast-to-coast is that this effort is highly organized, extremely thorough, and very well managed. but facts don't matter to the trump haters. they learn from they never let a crisis go to waste philosophy of rahm emanuel that many of them are frankly so sick with their anti-trump humor that they actually considered this virus apolitical godsend. finally they think they might have something that may stick to trump. let's face it.

they are really frustrated right now, the democrats. think about it. after mueller flopped, after the impeachment failed, after they constantly demonized trump as a racist, sexist and everything else you can think of, the economy and his approval numbers continue to grow. all they know how to do is stoke panic. what else do they really have at this point? i guess they have bernie's laundry list of freebies. free health care, pre-k, college, housing. it's all a fraud. no one takes any of it seriously. remember one reagan told us it's morning in america and trump vowed to make america great again and obama offered hope and change. third 120 democrats on the other hand are either hoping for misery or actually peddling it. none of the candidates have an answer to trump's booming economy so they pretend, as they did the last nights debate, that americans really aren't better off at all. >> we need a strong economy, and

to work worldwide on that economy. >> we all know unchecked capitalism has failed. >> for the ordinary american, things are not so good. >> laura: really, bernie? even with the gyrations, the stock market, every piece of economic data shows in middle america is doing much better than they did three years ago. not to mention that americans are the happiest they've been in decades. and that optimism is fueling more prosperity. just today we learned that the new home sales numbers hit a 12 year high last month. but again, remember, good news for you is bad news for the misery party. if you aren't sufficiently freaked out about the coronavirus, you should believe that at our core, america, we are just a racist, rotten country. >> there is racism in the criminal justice system. >> we have to deal with institutional racism. >> if i were black, my success

would've been a lot harder to achieve. >> there are seven white people on the stage talking about racial justice. >> i am the only pe person on te stage who believes in reparations for. >> sometimes i wake up and i think it's 1920, not 2020. >> if a criminal justice system that is broken and racist. >> laura: called him bad news bernie. it's a wonder after listening to that, marinate yourself and that for a while. it's a wonder that millions have emigrated here from all across the globe, many of the people of color. why would they do that, given how the decks are apparently stacked against all of them? terrible, rotten, racist country. you would've thought that the word would've gotten around by now. don't go there. they hate you. it's all pretty weird, though, don't you think? that such a racist society with the unemployment at record lows for african-americans, hispanic-americans, asian-americans? friends, it's frankly just -- i

think about this. it's pathetic at this point. the democrats are coming up empty. the great american comeback is a fact. everyone who wants a job, wants to work, is benefiting. that's great news. it's happening because of president trump america first policy. that takes us back to where we started. the democrats latest desperate attempt to gain the political upperhand with nothing else has stuck. when all else fails, argue that we should just spend more money. >> this president has not invested like he should have at his budget. he tried to cut back on the cdc. >> he has defunded the centers for disease control, cdc. we don't have the organization that we need. >> increased the budget of the cdc. we increase the nih budget. if i were president today -- he wiped it all out. we did it. >> laura: oh, joe. actually the funding for the cdc

and nih during the trump administration is higher than it was during the obama-biden administration. congress has been kept fully apprised of the crisis with the first briefing held last month when the president called all of this a public health emergency. and he imposed travel restrictions on foreigners coming in from china. >> we should all be working together. she's trying to create a panic. nancy pelosi, she knows it's not true. all they are trying to do is get a political advantage. this isn't about political advantage. we are all trying to do the right thing. they shouldn't be saying this is terrible. president trump isn't asking for enough money. how stupid anything to say. >> laura: it's the time for calm, measured pragmatism, not panic and political opportunism by a party that's been buffeted by its own missteps and failed strategies. if they appear to be rooting for americans suffering and pain during an election year, i

promise you that the voters will put them in a political quarantine come november, and that's "the angle." joining me now dan bongino, former secret service agent. fox news contributor. also richard goodson, former clinton aide, democratic strategist and attorney. richard, why do democrats seem to love it when people are freaking out and making everybody else around the miserable? that's what it seemed like over the past 48 hours. >> i don't know a single democrat, anybody actually, who really is hoping that their neighbor comes down with the coronavirus so they can gloat about the fact that the trump administration didn't do enough. the concern of democrats is two things, one the public doesn't trust donald trump. that's on disputable if you look at every poll from the start to today of the trump administration. that raises concerns when he's trying to kind of assure the public, saying by april, this will be over and things like that. it just doesn't ring true.

secondly, when you attack science, use a sharpie to change her can have, when you say climate change -- >> laura: oh, my god. okay, richard. the stupid hurricane map. we are talking about the coronavirus. you are turning it into a political diatribe. that's why you guys are going to lose in november. you know our people don't believe? people don't believe nancy pelosi and shook tumor gave a rats you know what about coronavirus until this week. when impeachment went down the tubes and their poll numbers were flatlining in bernie is going to get the nomination, then they are freaking out because nothing else worked. so it's all -- oh, trump is wrong. can't trust trump. where were they last month when people were being affected in china? they were nowhere. they are there this week because everything else they've tried has bombed. that's why it matters. >> it's because he's antiscience. that's the problem. >> laura: dan bongino, antiscience from a party that think they baby born alive isn't a baby. it's a fetus that happened just appear.

who is antiscience? i'm angry. go ahead. >> richard comes with a party that think there's 7,600 genders. nothing richard said is actually true. he's pretty good at that. it's funny how i said that nobody on the democrat side is politicizing this. you must say -- >> think of the facts. >> actually refute -- richard, you don't have any facts. i can't stick to facts that you don't have. what did you say, democrats were in politicizing it? that's exactly what they are doing. we have the media -- can i finish my point? i didn't interrupt you. we had seen and complained about the lack of white males on the trump task force for this. we had nancy pelosi today openly attacked the president saying we should fund it as much as we did ebola. and then simultaneously, laura said, but we didn't spend all the ebola money and complaining about trump. we had "the washington post" and democrats, your party, complained that trump's travel ban, i'm sure he would've said the same thing a few months ago.

the travel ban was racist and it was terrible which looks like it saved us right now in this coronavirus. spare me the democrat nonsense talking points please. this is garbage. you know your party is in a wrench right now you know they are taking advantage of this thing sadly for political reasons. you know it. come on. take your medicine. >> laura: i want to ask about what the democrats would do given what we are facing. we're going to get into this with kevin mccarthy and was happening politically right now but let's say we want to take the approach that the korean citizens want. the south korean citizens are clamoring for a travel lockdown from china. i would say to the democrats, are you willing to one up trump on travel ban? that's what would really calm this thing down. if you really stop to travel from the most affected province of china but you have to extended to almost all of china, would democrats be in favor of that? or richard, what they say that was scapegoating an entire country? >> this is what i mean about

being antiscience. yes, i understand people in korea are scared about the neighbors from china coming in. but this is now not unique to china. it's a worldwide pandemic. every continent but antarctica has people that are suffering with coronavirus. are we going to have a travel ban from italy? are we going to have a travel ban -- from brazil? >> laura: from northern italy where we have the ski towns, absolutely. they are not able to fly into other parts of europe. europe is freaking out now because of the transit from northern italy into france. people in france are saying why are we doing this you think? it's not going to work out with us on a health basis. dan bongino, i think a lot of people are re-examining a lot of things right now. given this health situation, and so it's great to say goodbye to globalization, globalism but when something like this happens, people say the nation-state isn't a bad idea after all. >> notice what richard did. he can't concede a common sense

point that a potentially deadly virus -- we don't know how deadly yet to be fair. entering the country clearly from china. he can't concede the point that trumps travel ban was a huge tactical since it is in mitigating the effects. what do you want, a travel ban all over the world? you didn't say that and i didn't say that. with the trump administrator wants to do his worst probability that this would come from in certain countries. china the probability is high. maybe we should look at a travel ban. with democrats to do richard has level six trump derangement system. you can't get past the fact. >> your hero rush limbaugh says this is the common cold. that is the science that we have calling the shots into the common cold. >> laura: we have to roll. we have to get kevin mccarthy. spirited conversation, we appreciate it. president trump and his team laid out a fairly painstaking detail today they're prep for a possible virus outbreak in the united states. that was not good enough for the party of pain and misery.

>> what she is doing is late, too late. hopefully we can make up for the loss of time. >> create a czar who knows what he is doing or she is doing. it should be a public health expert. ask for the right amount of money. >> laura: i am buying him bifocals. house minority leader kevin mccarthy joins us. congressman, the right amount of money turned out to be $8.5 billion, schumer suggested in a written request this morning. are they just throwing money at this problem? >> it seems like schumer is just playing politics. we had the head appropriations by republicans or democrats to walk through and see what we need? the president was out there today. i've been to numerous meetings at the white house, bicameral, bipartisan, walking through long before anybody was talking about this and we have been preparing for this. when republicans were the majority of the last four or

five years, we've increased nih and cdc funding almost 40%. you know we created? infectious disease rapid response fund p republicans created that wondering if this day would ever come. so we have been preparing. we have the best health care in the world. >> laura: should the messaging have hit sooner? should this press conference have happened three weeks ago? would that have gotten -- all the stuff was in place already but people need to hear it and when they hear it they say okay, now i get it. >> you know it's interesting. if you are an elected official you will go to your fourth meeting on this in the entire congress. everybody together. they have been hearing about it. >> laura: they weren't talking about it until this week. am i right or wrong? they weren't talking about it in these feverish terms. >> the democrats were talking anything about it. they try to criticize the president when he shut the planes down from china from coming into the country. >> laura: that's my point. they are not going to go further than trump. >> all they are trying to look at. they are one of those teachers that you have that wants to put

a red mark on your paper incident telling what you're doing right. the president has been preparing for this. the challenges what did china do? started in november and they never told us. we tried to send scientists and doctors and they wouldn't allow it. >> laura: way too positive on president xi in my view, and how he's handled it. we have to do happy talk to keep china diplomacy going? >> we put our cdc and china copied our cdc, call it that, between our scientist they work together. it's a leadership and i think what xi has been doing is trying to make sure that the media is pushed down instead of spending the time -- you can't believe any numbers. >> laura: it could be bigger than what they are saying. >> the concern is what it goes to other places, that's become . >> laura: the president riding high after a failed impeachment conviction, mueller bomb. they said a recession was going to happen. nothing happened. the economy vitals are very strong. do democrats see it as their

opportunity, their heck of a job brownie moment? their moment to say aha. >> they would seize any moment. compare this when ebola was here in president obama was in office. you have republican majority working together, not playing politics. these are -- this is people's health. it's not the time to play politics. schumer went out and picked a number out of the air just to try to go after the president and for nancy pelosi to say that after the president has been preparing for this, they are trying to get -- >> laura: has she been talking to the president about this one this one-on-one? >> i don't -- you'd have to ask the president. we had the administration giving us briefings. we are going into our fourth one this week. >> laura: i had to get your reaction to last night's debate. the democrats are employing no new talking point against bernie and one of them even takes a shot at you. watch. >> it adds up to four more years of donald trump, kevin mccarthy a speaker of the house and the inability to get the senate into democratic hands. the time has come for us to stop acting like the presidency is

the only office that matters. >> laura: "the new york times" actually asked speaker pelosi about this today and here's what she told them. are you comfortable with bernie sanders the top of the ticket? pelosi said yeah. reporter said you were he will jeopardize your majority? pelosi says no. congressman, should she be worried? >> she should be worried because what they have done in congress is literally nothing and they should be worried about all the success the president has. she's not worried about bernie sanders because she's already surrendered to the socialists. more than half of them have the was pondered medicare for all. this is a party that would rather commend communism then defend democracy. >> laura: last year when the president said we will never be a socialist country. you stood up. the democrats were like, i'm not sure if i should sit or stand. [laughs] >> we only need 18 seats with a majority so the answer is yes. they want to find -- we have some of the best ever. >> laura: you have a big recruit class. >> we need to take the house.com if they really want to see a new majority.

they can make it happen. >> laura: congressman, great to seo. president trump firing back at democrats in the media for trying to stoke a mass panic over the coronavirus. senator tom cotton and moments on that and own the american living in south korea tells us of the spooky streets, what it looks like on the front lines of the pandemic. don't move. >> man: what's my safelite story? i spend a lot of time in my truck. it's my livelihood. ♪ rock music >> man: so i'm not taking any chances when something happens to it. so when my windshield cracked...

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>> at what point would you consider loosening the travel restrictions? >> at a point or we don't have a problem. it's what saved us. had i not made a decision very early on to not take people from certain area, we would be talking about many more people infected. i was criticized by the democrats. they called me a racist because i made that decision, if you can believe that one.

>> laura: excellent, excellent point. trump was absolutely right to impose travel restrictions on china. especially since we really can't trust the information they are giving us on the outbreak in the first place. it's a little confusing watching the media asking about loosening restrictions. he is if he does and if he doesn't. american people are smarter than this. they see through it. joining me now as senator cott senator cotton, asking very common sense questions about this. weeks before senators from the other party started piling on. senator, what else needs to be done to safeguard against the virus? and frankly the chinese misinformation about it. >> hey, laura. thanks for having me on. i think the president's message tonight was exactly right. we are prepared for the worst but we are doing every thing we can to prevent it. nothing is inevitable. either the president nor i will tolerate the kind of defeatism you hear from some quarters that

there is nothing we can do to try to stop outbreaks in the united states or at least contain outbreaks. of course there's a big difference between having one case and having 100 cases in a community. i know the president is very focused, from my conversations with him, on getting testing kits out to all 50 states we don't have a bottleneck at the headquarters of the cdc in atlanta. i think that's the one thing we can do right now that would help us either identify a potential outbreak and contain it if there is one. >> laura: senator, media clearly and democrats are trying to create a rift between the president and the centers for disease control. the president address that directly today. >> have you seen evidence that cdc is trying to hurt you? >> i don't think the cdc has. they've been working really well. they are professional. i think they are beyond that. they wanted to go away. they want to do it with as little disruption and they don't want to lose life. i see their way they are working. these people behind me.

and others that are in the other room. they are incredible people. no, i don't see that at all. >> laura: senator cotton, you have this working group. they have been briefing congress. they've been working round-the-clock on this virus and i guess you could say they could've come out a week ago and said the same thing a week ago. that's fine. if that's the big criticism, fine. but come on. does this ring hollow from the media and the democrats now? >> very much so, laura. i can tell you this working group that you saw tonight on tv has been meeting every slow day for more than a month. when i first began focusing on this matter in early to mid-january, i was speaking to administration officials as they were going into these meetings and coming out of them as well. as the president has pointed out, one reason why we have the time now to try to control outbreaks, try to get testing kits out to the 50 states, it's because he took decisive action last month to shutdown travel from china. what happened at the time?

joe biden accused him of being xenophobic idioms chinese. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi were too busy trying to impeach him at the time. so it's very disappointing, as the president said, to see the other party trying to politicize this matter when it's something we should be working together on. when they criticized the president, really what they are doing is criticizing his advisors from public health agencies like the cdc and the fda. they are not criticizing him. they are criticizing those advisors. he of course is making sure everyone's on top of it and is being as aggressive as they can be but that's the democrats that to the democrats are really criticizing when they attack the president. >> laura: donna shalala, former hhs secretary under bill clinton said this. >> here's a president that's been firing scientists and weakening the scientific infrastructure of this country. now speaking on this disease? he should leave it the scientists and the heads of the public health agencies.

the last thing you want is the president of the united states talking about science. >> laura: tell us, donna. senator, thoughts. >> a lot of these scientists have been around for decades and doing great work. ultimately these are policy questions and we elect a president to make policy decisions along with our elected representatives in congress. >> laura: senator, thanks much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. the center of the spread of the coronavirus has the military on high alert. officials have already confirmed one soldier stationed in south korea has contracted the disease and more than 1200 have been infected in south korea, up from just 51 people last week. last week there were 51. now there are 1200. just to give you a sense of how fast this could explode, there are now 59 americans with confirmed cases. so what is it like living in a country with a highest number of cases outside china? we are joined by steve, retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel who has lived in south korea for 30

years. steve, good to see you. even the studio you are broadcasting from with us tonight, i understand asked you to wear a mask until you appeared on our air. wild. what's it like there? >> well, that's pretty standard. this is a very serious thing. it's greatly disturbed korean life here since it exploded last week. if i could just take a minute and explain it for your viewers back in the united states. daegu is a town about the size of kansas city. i am a missouri guy so i like to use kansas city as a reference. imagine everybody in kansas city being told to stay home and stay off the streets and you have nothing but completely empty streets. with maybe a piece of trash floating here or there. that's the way it is in daegu and here in seoul, it's a little better.

you still have people but most people have stayed home. when they go out, they wear masks. it's how we have to deal with the situation here. >> laura: the issue of china and the close trade relationship that south korea has with china is a matter of great concern. given the absolute bond that both countries have with each other economically. what are the thoughts on how that is all going to be affected by this infection rate? >> i would tell you that that has affected this rate because the south koreans probably should've started blocking chinese earlier than they did. but instead, the disease was allowed to get in. if i can correct your fingers a little bit. it's up to 1600 now. we had almost 400 overnight, with 12 deaths. >> laura: those are the most recent ones we had. it's not surprising. i understand president moon is

under a huge amount of criticism for not stopping all travel from china and that there is a big push from the people and many scientists even signed letters saying we've got to stop the inputs into the country because that's what's exploded this disease. correct? >> yes, that's exactly correct. over 800,000 people have signed a petition wanting to impeach president moon. >> laura: well, it's about time we thought about all this really seriously because if you aren't coming in who are from infected areas, you're going to have a lot slower spread of this disease. it's just common sense. steve, thank you so much. stay safe there. we wish you all the best. up ahead, one d.c. suburbs decision to become a sanctuary for illegals has made it a magnet for crime and now it is spilling into neighboring counties. a local sheriff response. in "ingraham angle" exclusive with the new doj unit that's

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own backyard. the d.c. suburb of montgomery county, maryland, just a few miles from where we are broadcasting tonight. in the span of just two months in 2019, the county saw at least nine illegal aliens arrested for rate and sex abuse crimes, many of them against children. this week we saw perhaps the most disturbing case yet. two high school students age 19 and 20, yes, you read that right, heard that right, were arrested and charged with raping to code different 11-year-old girls. there are 20-year-old is a salvadoran national who is living here illegally. so what's a 20-year-old man, illegal alien, doing enrolled in a public high school paid for by the tax dollars obviously? maryland law requires that all residents up to the age of 21 get free public education for

high school, including illegal aliens. if you are a maryland resident, maybe just think about calling your representatives, esquire tax dollars are going towards this. that would be a good idea. my next guest says montgomery county has been a hotbed of illegal alien crime and now it's bleeding into hi his county. frederick county. joining me now is chuck jenkins, sheriff of frederick county maryland. sheriff, what's your message tonight to the people watching all of this thinking it's just one county. >> you know what, this has been affecting every county for year. prior to them declaring century status, we were seeing the criminal element, the criminal illegal aliens come up from montgomery and pg counties, bleed into frederick county. we've been dealing with crime. >> laura: i want to put this up on the screens of people understand the scope of what were talking about. there are ten illegals who were arrested for sexual assault from july to november of 2019. here are their names. this is during this span, when the montgomery county executive

mark ehrlich signed that executive order barring i.c.e. agents were actually going to the court houses to arrest these people. meanwhile we get the laundry list of individuals raping, in many cases, young minors. speak we have seen gain crime. we've seen machete killings. we have seen rape and sexual assault. i've been 30 years and frederick county. >> laura: let's go back 30 years because that's about the time i moved to this area. that's about the time i moved here. 1987 pretty much right after college. it was a different place. speak it was a different role. absolutely. frederick county is still largely rural county, population 250,000 people we never saw the problems with the gang crimes, the colonel element that has bled over from the hotbeds of illegal aliens and pg in montgomery county. >> laura: the pupil of frederick county, the law advising taxpayers who work hard and try to send their kids to public schools, where they electing these people.

why are people getting elected in the state house? >> i don't understand that. i was in annapolis today fighting century state bills that may come into play this year. it's lunacy. absolute lunacy. >> laura: what do you say to the average american watching in middle america tonight watching this and feeling helpless? they feel helpless like they can't -- if they are living in a blue county, they feel helpless. >> they do. they need to put pressure on their elected officials, local legislators, congressmen, local sheriffs and chiefs of police. in frederick county, we work with i.c.e. and we cooperate. >> laura: you are helping them. >> we arrest, detain, deport criminal aliens. over 12 years we have deported 1563, including 110 criminal gang members. our streets are fairly safe. >> laura: have ever seen machete killings, ms-13? >> never heard of them 30 years ago. >> laura: had about 20 years ago? >> not 20.

in the past ten to 12 years we've really seen the influence of this violence. remember this. the populations coming to this country are from the most violent countries on the face the planet. >> laura: the best of the brightest. we are getting the best of the brightest, sheriff. thank you for what you're doing. stay safe and thank you. speaking of illegal alien criminals the trump administration is creating a special unit within the doj to denaturalize foreign-born individuals who lied about their criminal pasts in order to get citizenship in this country. the fraudsters that they are going after include not only serious criminals like sex offenders but also terrorists. and war criminals. given the massive spike in referral to the doj for these types of cases, this new task force is absolutely necessary. joining me now exclusively from mexico city's john bash, u.s. attorney for the western district of texas. john, what can you tell us tonight about this new doj unit? we were dealing with county issue just outside of washington, d.c., which is

troubling. tell us about this new unit. >> thank you, laura, for having me on. this new unit addresses exactly the kind of issue you were just talking about. people who molest children, terrorists, we have stood up a unit of 20 to 30 attorneys who are going to work civil denaturalization cases. when someone lies in the process of trying to get naturalized to be a citizen, usually about their criminal past, nevertheless they obtain citizenship, we can go and after the fact and strip them of citizenship so long as the judge agrees. we have been doing that. we have step that up 200% in the last three years. it's getting to the point where we are getting enough referrals that it's time to stand up, stand alone unit and so we have 20 to 30 lawyers dedicated to bringing justice to victims of child molestation, victims of terrorism, war crimes and so forth. >> laura: john, i want to read for you what the aclu is saying about this tonight. reacting to your new task force. "the trump administration

announced a new unit that aims to strip americans of their citizenship, despite the previous lies trump now confirms what we've known for years. his estimated campaign against black and brown people extends to u.s. absence." that really what's going on here, john? or willy-nilly going after people of color and stripping them of their citizenship for no reason? >> that's an outrageous statement that really impugns the integrity of the career attorneys ideal day at work on these issues. this is about people that never should've been naturalized, never should've been american citizens in the first case. i will give you a couple examples. we denaturalize to vulcan -- balkan war criminals. we denaturalize to my home state of texas a man who was molesting a 17-year-old girl who was a family member and didn't disclose it on his naturalization application. i would like for the aclu or anyone else to confront the actual facts of these cases and explain why someone who has been

molesting children and lies about it should not be denaturalize. >> laura: we are almost out of time but i did a little immigration law in my old days. just because you have a green card doesn't mean it's a free pass that you can stay in the united states forever. you can get denaturalized if you've lied in the process. if you've committed fraud in the process. that's u.s. law. the aclu might not like u.s. law but that's the way it is. i don't know what they want. the question of how these people ever became citizens in the first place, i imagine a lot of them are from chain migration, correct? >> well, they come all different ways. some are people who might've lied about being a family member but a lot of people come here as refugees but then lie about the fact that the very conflict that they are fleeing from, they were the war criminal in that conflict. and the other thing the aclu leaves out is we've -- we have to prove almost beyond reasonable doubt would judge her satisfaction that this person never should've been any u.s. citizen. there's all sorts of procedural

protections in place to avoid discrimination. >> laura: you have a high hurdle to clear. john, thank you for what you're doing. we really appreciate you joining us exclusively tonight. the postdebate polls are in. democrat voters are not feeling good about the candidates that they have to pick from. pollster scott and of going to tell us why next.

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felt more nervous about their candidates after the date. during a myth, scott, pollster and editor at large and doug schoen. bloomberg 2020 campaign poster. scott, why, pray tell, the democrats panicked after that amazing evening of thoughtful conversation and repartee? >> you know it really did remind me of a nice dinner salon where you debated seriously the issues of the day until they all started screaming at each other. 69% of democrats who watch that debate said that what they saw was that the candidates were all criticizing each other rather than talking about president trump. beyond that, there's a dynamic in play. bernie sanders versus the not the bernie sanders team. the sanders team is really upset that everybody isn't falling in line behind their leader. the rest of them are saying why can't somebody stand up? a week ago you were saying it's going to be bloomberg, mike bloomberg is going to be the

guy. two debate performances, he's not there. >> laura: no, no. i said it was going to be bernie. >> you said bernie and bloomberg were the two. >> laura: yeah. i stand by that. >> bernie and biden. >> laura: we'll see. biden is out of money. >> if michael bloomberg -- >> laura: i've got to get to doug. bloomberg, let's say we going to south carolina and the polls are right, biden wins. ernie comes in second. where does that leave bloomberg and the moderate lane? does he get pushed out of the moderate lane by biden? >> i think south carolina is going to be very close. whoever wins, i don't think with super tuesday three days away, it's going to have a demonstrative effect on that contest. i think the mayor is in very good shape and all the 14 or so states. that being said, i worry that bernie sanders is so far left, so far outside the mainstream

for this country as a front runner, the real problem is stopping him. he's unapologetic support for te cubans, his belief that every program needs to be enacted for free tuition, student loan elimination, medicare for all. without a price tag. to me, it's completely crazy. i can understand why people are nervous. i'm nervous too. we do this is what biden said today, scott, on msnbc, about the possibility of a bernie revolution. >> we have created jobs for people. people know me. my entire career has been wrapped up in dealing with civil rights and civil liberties. i don't expect anything. i plan to earn the vote. i am here to act. i am here to earn the folks. i intend to win south carolina. americans aren't looking for

revolution. they are looking for progress. they are looking for "tell me how you're going to help me with my health care. how are you going to make me savory?" he's not going to come anywhere near generating the young folks that barack did in 2008. there is no evidence. >> laura: are they not ready for that yet? the great socialist promise? >> the american people are not ready for bernie sanders. it's a little late for some of the more moderate, centrist candidates in the democratic party to be turning their attention to sanders. i think he's clearly different runner. but if he becomes the nominee of the democratic party, assuming the economy holds up, it looks like it would probably be a good night for republicans. there's a real good chance that the political left will be come irrelevant for a generation. >> laura: gentlemen, thank you so much. coming up, a hilarious trump moment from tonight's briefing. reminded us of a moment from a previous interview. the last bite explains when we return.

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>> i do it a lot anyway, as you probably heard. when somebody sneezes. i tried to bail out as much as possible when they are sneezing. >> laura: the hilarious moment from today served as the inspiration for tonight's last bite. think back to june when a certain abc anchor interviewed trump. >> at some point i hope they get it. it's a fantastic financial statement. it's a fantastic financial

statement. let's do that over. he is coughing in the middle of my answer. i don't like that. if you're going to cough, please leave the room. >> laura: [laughs] they piled on trump for that. so mean. that's all the time we have tonight. shannon bream and the fox news that night team take it from here. i'm not sneezing. not going to come into your studio. disinfectant wipes. >> i've got the disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer travel size. >> laura: have a great show. >> shannon: we begin with the fox news alert. the fight against coronavirus continues around the world tonight. the trump administration goes public with its plan if an outbreak occurs here in the u.s. as democrats debate gun control, at least five people are dead following a shooting in the milwaukee. we have a lab report from the scene. plus, the countdown is on to the south: a primary is voters take