>> sean: if you live in pennsylvania michigan wisconsin minnesota if you live in arizona and nevada if you live in the cl district in maine and new hampshire, well, you will decide this election. you're the ultimate jury. set your dvr. never miss an episode. but not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham, whatever she says will decide the next election. you're getting your turkey fryer because you whined about it last night and embarrassed me on national tv so i go on for you today and it's in the mail. >> sean: number one, you promised me the fryer. four years ago. so i whined about it. no, i gently coaxed you into having a nonbiden senior moment and remembering the deep fryer. that's all i did. >> sean: i will admit i do not follow through but i'm good for my word and i am making it up this year. i will tell you how to cook your

first deep-fried turkey. >> laura: the first turkey we have to cook is biden and i'm going to do it in the angle. awesome show. have a good one. watch, get a glass of wine. i am laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. senator josh hawley has taken on twitter and facebook over there is censorship of a story pretty helpful to joan hunter biden. what's he doing and why does he say to tipping point. dr. scott atlas made huge waves last night on the angle calling out the so-called medical experts who are still advocating lockdowns. we have a really important thing for you on that to me. what is something that joe biden should probably stop talking about? of course, raymond arroyo reveals that in "seen and unseen." the third and final day of confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee amy coney barrett came to a merciful close

for democrats. once again they chose to spend hour upon hour embarrassing themselves with a number of failed attempts to either know, try to intimidate or trip up the judge. i would like to do these reviews because i know you have real lives and you're not watching this. let's start with blumenthal's pathetic attempt to entrap judge barrett. >> lawrence v texas which held that the government cannot criminalize gay and lesbian relationships. was it correctly decided. >> senator blumenthal, i can't give it a thumbs-up or thumbs down. >> forgive me for interrupting. my time. >> senator blumenthal, i can't give a yes or a no. >> laura: blumenthal was

unbearable. a higher power must have gotten involved. >> legislative activism from the bench and the kind of activism that i fear you will bring to the bench. >> laura: the microphone god's degree. blumenthal is a complete insufferable boar and not to mention she's the doppelgaenger of george mcfly from back to the future. do we have it? senator klobuchar trying to spin barrett's nomination as some corrupt bargain. >> did you have a general understanding that one of the president's campaign promises was to repeal the affordable care act when you were nominated? >> i'm aware of the president opposes the care act. you're suggesting that i have animists or that i cut a deal

with the president. that isn't what happened. >> laura: amy is mad she's not up there, she's not going to the court. another swing and a miss. hearing full of grandstanding, buffoonish senators and it wouldn't be complete without spartacus creating another another unserious spectacle. do you think it's wrong to separate children from their parents to deter immigrants from coming to the united states. >> it's been a matter of policy debate. >> we are debating things, basic questions of human rights. i'm sorry we can't have a simple affirmation of what i think most americans would agree on. >> laura: senator chris coons tried to tarnish the reputations of barrett and the late justice scalia. >> justice scalia's philosophy is significant but i also think you've made it clear that it's

largely your philosophy. if justice scalia had had his way we would be in a very different country with regards to gender discrimination. >> i hope you aren't suggesting that i don't have my own mind or that i couldn't think independently or that i would decide, let me see what justice scalia has set about this in the past. i assure you i have my own mind. >> laura: oh. funny, i didn't hear commentators on cnn or msnbc charge senator coons with mansplaining to judge barrett. why is that? i think senator marsha blackburn summed it up best. >> they projected stereotypes onto you. though stereotypes are what they think about us as women on the political right. and they enjoy being able to mock and to ridicule and to diminish and to demean. to them, it is political suppo

support. political support. it's the politics of destruction. >> laura: joining me as jonathan turley. robert done and former clerk to supreme court justice clarence thomas. this was nowhere near the level of abuse that kavanaugh got two years ago but they still had to get i in their jabs and try to make as and painful as possible. your reaction. >> she did very well. the questions that were asked of her weren't premised on getting an answer of any kind. she had continually citing the ginsberg ruling said she would not talk about future cases. that wasn't really the point. seemed like the democratic senators were really sort of making a case unrelated to the nominee. they were bringing up

president trump and all of this sort of political divisivenes de issues that have gone into this election. much of the questioning i think was rather embarrassing. i thought the high point was dick durbin. i thought he did a very good job. in fact the exchanges between durbin and barrett were the most substantive of the hearing. they almost stumbled on that accidentally, but they actually hit substantive moments where cases were discussed. what was most interesting about the hearing was really when she talked about, or when she was allowed to talk about her views of the law. she gave a full throated endorsement of originalism. one of the most clear and unambiguous endorsements of originalism i have seen in a nominee. what's interesting is unlike many other nominees, she clearly means it. in fact, not since scalia have i seen a nominee that meant it

like she did. she is real live originalist. she also made very clear in these hearings that she does not believe that roe v. wade is so-called super precedent. that's very important. >> laura: robert, senator klobuchar at one point seemed to want to, well, she was inferring or implying i should say, implying that judge barrett got nominated because of her role in working for bush v gore as a young lawyer in the challenge to the 2000 election results. watch this exchange. >> any argue that bush v gore hurt the court's legitimacy. if you are confirmed, the supreme court will have not one, not to, but three justices who worked on behalf of the republican party in matters related to the bush v gore case. >> you're asking me whether i was nominated for this seat because i worked on bush versus

gore for a very brief period of time as a young associate. that doesn't make sense to me. >> laura: robert, senator klobuchar is a former prosecutor. but back to jonathan's point, these were for the most part lane questions. i might think durbin was as great as jonathan did. maybe a little bit at her but it's not exactly an all-star lineup to compare yourself t to. >> the question make sense given how much love from pants for bush, for bush's brother. we know the two of them are thick as thieves. that line of questioning was spot on. one of the interesting exchanges to me was with kamala harris where she was attacking judge barrett for ruling on behalf of corporations against employees. she was counting up statistics as to the ruled in favor of this constituency this many times in this one that many times. it was a perfect revelatory

moment of the differences in what judge barrett think she's doing when she sitting on the bench and what senator harris thinks she should be doing. i looked at those opinions. all judge barrett is doing is applying the federal arbitration act. it's a federal statute that requires judges to basically give deference to arbitration agreements. if senator harris doesn't like the outcome of, guess what. she sits in a branch congress that could repeal, amend, or replace the federal arbitration act. to sit in judgment of judge barrett for applying a federal statute that congress enacted is just insane. judge barrett is doing her job. sometimes employees win. sometimes corporations win. it shouldn't matter to the judge and it clearly doesn't matter to her. she follows the law and i think that's what the country's offer two days. >> laura: jonathan, a few friends of mine who aren't the biggest trump fans were messaging me esther's thing i wasn't expecting this type of judge toe

did. i don't know what they were expecting, some scary jurists or someone who is seeming to be to me gore wasn't informed. i don't know what they were expecting. i think she won over a lot of people who were very concerned. >> the polling shows that. she went up in the polls. more people are supporting her nomination. she is very, very good in these confirmation hearings. i think in many ways she is sort of a rocky balboa of nominees and that in her previous appellate confirmation, they threw everything they had at her. they hit her with everything. they really didn't leave a mark. it's interesting on this confirmation, they really stayed out of her reach. this was not someone that they expected they would be able to take down. what's unfortunate is that a lot of these cases were really best

representemisrepresented in a wi thought was grossly unfair. they brought up a case involving fetal remains, and abortion case. they kept hitting her with that case. the supreme court agreed with her position in that case. her position ultimately prevailed. an intellectual disconnect and i thought she was very diplomatic. instead of saying wait, wait, wait. you seem to be missing the second half of the story. >> laura: for all the law geeks out there, they also screwed up yesterday. they were trying to equate voting against accepting a case on banc with a federal court of appeal and ruling on the merits. this was from a lawyer. i can't remember which senator. like, you've got to be kidding me. this is stuff you learn second year of law school. we have to roll. thank you. we've got to roll. i'm sorry. jonathan and robert, thanks so

much. since there is zero doubt amy coney barrett is eminently qualified for the supreme court, biden's running mate today was relegated to just taking some pathetic, ineffective jabs. >> this hearing has done nothing to alleviate the concerns raised about why this nominee was chosen. to be candid, people are very scared. they are scared that allowing president trump to jam this confirmation through would roll back rights to generations. they are also deeply concerned about what this means for our nation's continued pursuit of the timeless principal equal justice under law. >> laura: that was a really compelling read. i'm concerned we have senators who can't speak off-the-cuff. here to respond to senator josh hawley. sits on the senate judiciary committee but was in the room while your colleague senator harris says that amy

coney barrett will be an affront to the principle of equal justice under the law. your response tonight. >> you know, first of all, in terms of sounding scared, i thought senator harris sounded scared and i can see why. amy coney barrett is one tough customer. she sat in there in that chair for 12 hours to different days, answered every question. there's a reason senator harris didn't want to show up in person. she didn't want to go toe-to-toe with judge barrett because it's clear who came out on top so the democrats, the democrats don't know what to do with this strong, independent woman of faith who is unabashedly pro-life and not backing down from her convictions. she carried the day the last two days. the only thing that is an affront is the democrats. they are an affront to this whole constitutional process. they tried to make a mockery of it. they lost. >> laura: senator hirono, for people who missed it, made this claim about judge barrett.

>> and accepting your nomination you describe justice scalia as your mentor. it's been mentioned many times. it appears that you may be even more to the right of justice scalia whom you described as a staunch conservative. >> laura: that was another all of the word o oliver wendell ho. i watch this, having clicked on the court and the privilege of knowing justice scalia quite well and of course justice thomas. i see these senators that they are and i think is this really the best the democrats can do? is hawaii really proud of mazie hirono? >> it was quite a performance by the senate democrats over these last two days trying to twist judge barrett's words, trying to make stuff out of whole cloth, attacking her for her faith. they said they wouldn't and they went right on ahead ended. centrally he attacked her for speaking to a group of christian law students.

imagine that. senator blumenthal, senator hirono attacked her for adhering to the provisions of her catholic faith. imagine that. there's only 65 million catholics in america. imagine a devout catholic, who would think this kind of stuff is just outrageous. they are going to lose. it's the bottom line. they are going to lose. judge barrett did not back down 1 inch. i couldn't be more proud to support her praise. you really quickly, senator, your reaction to that story from "the new york post" today. based on emails between hunter biden and burisma officials now among them was one from burisma executive who thanked he opportunity to meet your father and spend some time together." senator, this story stung from the very beginning. the aftermath is facebook and twitter sent it. anyone who shared it. you have spoken about the

immunity these companies get, what's going on. >> it's basically big tech versus democracy these tech companies want to rig an election. they want to control what we read. they want to control journalists in this country. they want to control the news. and we just can't let them that's why i will be inviting, asking facebook and twitter to come testify under oath to my subcommittee in the united states senate. the american people deserve answers. i've also asked a federal election committee to open an investigation. this looks like an in-kind campaign contribution to the biden campaign. i want to know what context did twitter and facebook and others have with the biden campaign when they decided to start censoring this "new york post" story on behalf of the bidens. this just stinks. it reeks. this is going to pull the lid off i think i'm just the surrounding big tech. >> laura: twitter ceo jack dorsey, senator, put out a statement saying "our

communication around our actions on "the new york post" article was not great. walking url shoring via tweet or dm with zero context as to why we are blocking, unacceptable." that's not saying that they are unblocking it. just saying that we knew to explain why we blocked it. >> it so insulting. i read that statement and i was insulted by it. it insults the intelligence of every single american citizen. we are not stupid. we can see the twitter rush to suppress the story, to censor it on behalf of the bidens, just like facebook rushed to do the same thing. yeah, the fix is in. they want to ring the election and use their monopoly power. we can't let them do that. >> laura: now, now. the senate has to act. the legislation has to move forward. senator, great to see you. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> laura: coming up, dr. scott alice dropped a bombshell last night about those who are still pushing these coronavirus

lockdowns. and he said they better be held accountable. my angle provides an important update in moments.

>> laura: biden and the covid experts expose. that's the focus of tonight's

angle. when you think about it, joe biden really only has one argument for his presidency that even attempts at cutting through. and it would be that he is better at handling covid. well, tonight his running mate made the case on rachel maddow. >> we must trust a scientist, leave them to do their work, leave them to guide our decisions and our policies. joe cares deeply about science and he is knowledgeable. he is fascinated. he's interested. he's engaged in what science can do and must do to help the american people. >> laura: oh, he likes reading science. she's reading notes. there are a number of countries in europe that listened to those same scientists who advocated widespread lockdowns and the results in europe are a spectacular disaster. if you care about daily cases, the u.k. has soared past the

u.s. the e.u.'s close. check out our case fatality rate compared to the e.u. and the u.k. on the trajectory of deaths, who is doing better? well, we are. we are down 37% but europe deaths are skyrocketing. up 493%. 402% of the u.k. given all this, and with the w.h.o. was warning about how locke lockdowns are hurting the poor, one might think europe ses the folly of its own covid response, right? no. they are instituting more lockdowns. can you believe it? certainly our experts, the one that kamala was talking about, they recognize what's happening. surely they do. well, what is dr. anthony fauci saying? mostly he's worrying about those of you who refused to skip your normal thanksgiving with family and friends. >> you may have to bite the bullet and sacrifice that social

gathering, unless you're pretty certain that the people that you're dealing with are not infected. >> laura: i'll have the turkey, stuffing, and the side of antibodies please. come on. some of this is simple. a thing called fars law tells us we can't hide from a virus that has a natural ebb and flow and the obvious conclusion from the european experience is that lockdowns only delay the inevitable. a few months ago, the airheads in the media were freaking out about the sun belt covid surge. remember that? well, look at them now. here's texas. arizona. look at florida. wow. last night, white house covid advisor scott atlas appearing on "the angle" offered a brutal assessment of the public health commentary it. he didn't name names but he didn't have to. >> history will record the faces

of the public health expertise as some of the most sinful, egregious, epic failures in the history of public policy. honestly some people a crime against humanity. these people should be held accountable to what they said. >> laura: of course he's talking about every single public health expert who told us that lockdowns work. they also told us that europe had a better approach and that vaccines are the only way to get back to normal. >> if you're talking about getting back to a degree of normality which resembles where we were prior to covid, it's going to be well into 2021. maybe even towards the end of 2021. get ready for a really tough time this winter. get ready to hunker down. we are still going to have a lot of death and disease between now and the end of the year. >> laura: reviled by the same people last spring, we now see that sweden had the right

approach. the u.s. led by trump was a close second. if current trends continue, we'll end up having fewer cases than europe and a far better economy than the eurozone as well. trump has pushed therapeutics. as a former patient in a high-risk group himself, he showed us he recovered within ten days. great therapeutics behind himself. but he showed us with his own actions that we need to get back to work even during a pandemic. unless you're a regular "angle" viewer, you may not know the real truth and that's frightening. america is growing in the right direction on the stats that matter. while case numbers may be going up because we are testing a million people a day. deaths are down. while case numbers are up because we are testing all that, we have to remember cnn doesn't know the truth. not a single state in this country is heading in the

right direction with coronavirus infections. >> we do this every day. orange and red are bad. this is horrific. this is a horrific map. >> there's no green state on that entire map. >> small household gatherings are a growing source of coronavirus bread. >> laura: what's the chance that none of these people have gone to a dinner party without masks in the past six months? zero. public health officials like dr. fauci have a duty to consider the unintended consequences of the pandemic response but they rarely if ever do. hundreds of scientists have signed on the great barrington declaration against lockdowns and for a return to common sense anti-covid measures. the last thing democrats want to hear are these four words. go back to work. speak we've known for some time that scott atlas and the body language from the white house has been that they are supportive of the idea of herd immunity.

>> they are inflicting their idea of herd immunity on the country. >> this is the embodiment to me of antiscience. >> laura: the science, now that's funny. there was never any real science behind covid lockdowns and the evidence that all of our mask wearing works is also murky to say the least. a new cdc study shows that the majority of those infected with covid-19 always wore masks. oops. oh, wait. that might be why joe wore not one but two masks yesterday when visiting florida. tomorrow it will be three masks. by election day, i don't know, maybe he will have 20 overlapping masks on his face. does that make you all feel safe? and that's the angle. joining me now, dr. harvey risch, professor of epidemiology at the old school of medicine. beyond lockdowns, you say that the experts who have run our response, running the european

response, or are killing americans in other ways. explain. >> good evening, laura. i think it's taken a very high toll on people out of work, people limited in their economic opportunities, having to pay bills and rent and mortgages and so on and not being able to do that. it's taken a toll on their mental health as well. the inability to seek medical attention that they would otherwise have had to get for other diseases is very important component of the cost of lockdown. >> laura: well, there is a moment from dr. william haseltine lately where he is pooh-poohing along with a lot of experts who i'm sure make a lot of money being along the boards, pooh-poohing the idea of acquiring or herd immunity. watch. >> herd immunity is another word for mass murder. that's exactly what it is. if you allow this virus to spread as they are advocating. we are looking at 2 million to

6 million americans dead. not just this year but every year. the reason for that is that there is no such thing as herd immunity. >> laura: any response to that? i'm not sure what he's wearing. is that the "star trek" enterprise outfit? whatever. >> i don't know how he can say that honestly. people do have some degree of immunity that lasts for at least a few months of not quite a bit longer. we know that herd immunity does not have to be 80% or 90%. there was a paper in science a few months ago that showed that with communities the way they normally mix, people and communities, herd immunity can be obtained in the 40% to 50% range. herd immunity is what's going to save the country from an end deming pandemic. >> laura: a doctor from columbia university wants fauci and company to resign. here's why.

>> i have an op-ed coming out tomorrow morning that will be calling for fauci and five of his colleagues to step down before the election. unhinged and caused incredible problems, unavoidable deaths among people who could have survived if we've been doing things the right way from the beginning of the crisis. >> laura: doctor, you likely think fauci and redfield should resign for other reasons, i imagine. >> correct. blaming the president when the fda caused the deaths is really hypocritical and absurd. >> laura: we also don't know how many excess deaths there are. in denver they found out her doctor that there were an access number of individuals dying at home from heart attacks in the two weeks following their really strict lockdown. people were just refusing to

notice their own signs of pain or not wanting to act on it. there are all sorts of ripple effects from these lockdowns that i never hear dr. fauci talk about ever. >> that's correct. that's all going on. >> laura: dr. rich, thank you so much. i've ahead, joe biden loses his grip on reality and comes to the defense of his favorite campaign surrogate. raymond arroyo explains. "seen and unseen" next. now, simparica trio simplifies protection.

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listen. >> we do not find an answer to alzheimer's in the next 19 years, every single solitary bed that exists the united states of america now will be occupied by an alzheimer's patient. >> laura: okay. >> the alzheimer's foundation. they project 11 million people to be stricken with alzheimer's dementia in 20 years. are there only 11 million beds in the united states? there are nearly 5 million hotel rooms. why is the president responsible for doing what scientists and researchers can't? this is the problem with politicizing a disease, making it a campaign issue which we have seen over and over again in this campaign. >> laura: is always falls flat. when trump runs an ad quoting dr. fauci accurately i might add and saluting the

administration's handling of covid, biden rushes in to defend his surrogate fauci. >> he's running a national ad quoting dr. fauci out of context. even after fauci said that, he didn't say that about the president, trump ad campaign said they were going to continue to use the ad knowing, knowing it was a lie. can any of you ever remember anything like that in a presidential campaign with a mainstream candidate? >> laura, can you ever remember a mainstream candidate lying in a presidential campaign about, say, his background or his son hunter, promising access to his vp dad? >> i don't know what he was doing. i know he was on the board. i found out he was on the board after he was on the board and that was it. it's not a conflict of interest. there's been no indication of any conflict of interest.

i'm a hard coal miner, anthracite coal, scranton, pennsylvania. hbcus. i got started out of an hbcu. delaware state. >> for the record, laura, biden was never a coal miner. he never attended a historically black university, delaware state or otherwise. once "the new york post" released those emails from hunter biden showing that joe biden met with ukrainian energy officials before lobbying to fire the ukrainian prosecut prosecutor, biden today shut down courage at public events announcing a lid before 10:00 a.m. this man has more lids than tupperware. i've never seen anything like it. >> laura: that's good. that's good. it might be hard for people to understand the whole groove thing but let's just say graft okay. the biden family and gripped. before we go. before we go, raymond, you have a picture book out.

>> i do indeed. it's called "the spider who saved christmas." coming out tomorrow. >> laura: where did it come from? where did it come from. that's an interesting title. >> remnants of this title are all around us every christmas. it's the tinsel in trees. the remnant of the story. somehow we have forgotten the story itself. it's an old legend that goes back centuries. it's about a spider who encounters mary and joseph and the baby jesus in the middle of the christmas story and i thought it's uplifting for families. it also teaches us that you can find hope and even the darkest places. sometimes that hope comes from very common things and even frightening things at times. tens of loved it. it's a great conversation starter the holidays. i think people are going to love it. >> laura: we have haven't even had halloween and it's already christmas basically got to

mention. it's out there. >> laura: i'm afraid of spiders. he will always say there's a spider on you and ice cream. i'm terrified of spiders but the book is fabulous. you can get to amazon, barnes & noble. still ahead, what did the democrats focus? what does it tell us about the future of the democratic party? candace owens is here. you're kidding me. who better to get reaction on that next (fisherman vo) how do i register to vote? hmm!.. hmm!.. hmm!.. (woman on porch vo) can we vote by mail here? (grandma vo) you'll be safe, right? (daughter vo) yes! (four girls vo) the polls! voted! (grandma vo) go out and vote! it's so important! (man at poll vo) woo! (grandma vo) it's the most important thing you can do!

>> laura: when they weren't fearmongering over cordwood, senate dems were trying to hook amy coney barrett with loaded racial questions. >> racial disparity still exists. do you agree. >> do you agree that voter suppression or discrimination in voting currently exist? >> does the president have the authority to unilaterally denying the right to vote to any person based on their race? >> laura: georgetown should ask dick durbin for his law degree back. senator booker leve leveled pers the most disgusting of all charges. >> when i look at a justice, it

seems like the fixes in, is going to serve on the supreme court and hasn't taken steps to understand the pervasiveness, the facts, the truth about cases of race that are going to come before you. >> laura: the winner for best male actor in a continuing drama goes to spartacus. joining me now, candace owens. author of "black out." candace, i want you to react to spartacus. he was trying to conjure up all this emotion. i think he's a frustrated thespian. >> it's remarkable to see him. you're correct. this is the "i am spartacus" guider event brett kavanaugh. it always seems like "days of our lives." laura, i hope you understand, with me coming on the show her my heart is in talking about these issues. he's not even a good actor.

it's ridiculous they keep asking these questions. what they are trying to examine her on is her emotionality. that's the last thing americans should want in a supreme court justice. we don't want emotionality. we want rationality. we want to know she can apply the law. there's an implication that she might be a racist. that seems with the democratic attack is. they want to paint someone is a racist if they're conservative. she has two black children. it's falling flat. i will say they're not landing any hits on her. she is strong. every time they attempt to attack her on something and it seems meaningless, i think it helps our side and it makes him look very, very bad. >> laura: they were just flailing all day long. it got tedious to watch but it was enjoyable. candace, i want to get to this. the media apparently wants everyone to believe that now if

you have to wait in the line to vote your basically living in the new jim crow era. >> 11 hours to vote in the united states of america. let's use plain english and call it what it is. voter suppression. >> would you wait ten hours to vote? it creates a big risk of de facto suppression. >> voter suppression tactics being used in texas, forcing people, oftentimes black and brown people, to stand in line for three, four, and five hours. >> laura: wanted having to wait in a line become a civil rights violation? >> we are the most overprivileged people that have ever lived. the fact that it's a discussion or debate. the same people who wait 20 hours in the line on black friday for a black screen tv. these are the people we are talking about. now it's a great injustice in america. forget the flatscreen tv. it's a great injustice if we have to wait in line to vote. in my being oppressed on sundays

when i have to wait at trader joe's and the line is wrapped all the way around? have i've been oppressed my entire life at the dmv? wheeling and aligned is voter suppression. it takes a little bit of patience. it's plainly ridiculous. they are trying to feed a narrative that somehow we are trying to stop people from voting. do you want to know why half the lines are so long? covid-19 restrictions. they keep showing these aerial images. we have to be 6 feet apart. it contributes to this madness. also it's important to point out this is early voting. this is optional. you can go back another day. all of it is madness but that's what the left is about, emotionality in madness. >> laura: i have to get your thoughts on this really important story tonight from the hollywood reporter. okay. jussie smollett is to make a feature directorial debut.

didn't he make his debut when he directed that hate crime hoax? >> that was his first producti production. this speaks to the corruption and the protection that surround him. could you imagine if a white person fakes their own hate crime. the amount of people and the hoops they have to jump through, he should be canceled and we should hear from him again. in my opinion, jussie smollett should be in prison for what he did. he went to foster a narrative that there were race issues and pay people to do it. he gets another chance. he gets to be a director. >> laura: unbelievable. rewarding failure. great to see you. still ahead, trump turns up the heat in iowa. the last bite.

>> laura: trump was on fire in des moines but it was this moment that turned up the heat. >> should i take off the tide? i don't know.

maybe yes. [cheers and applause] joe, that feel so much better. >> laura: was like a tom jones moment. i'm dating myself by saying that. that's all the time we have tonight. shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team take it all from here. shannon. >> shannon: i got the reference. luckily it was just a tie. >> laura: have a good one. >> shannon: thank you. there's been almost no coverage tonight by anybody but fox of the story appearing in "the new york post" claiming to reveal emails from a ukrainian businessman to former vice president's on biden's hunter. a circle of influence peddling.