censor content -- we don't. have a great weekend, we will see you bet here on monday -- let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham takes it over from here. ♪ >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington the night -- the cdc's stunning projection about the true covid case count could mean the virus is a lot less lethal than previously thought. former white house advisor dr. scott atlas is here to break down the data and what our leaders should be learning from it, plus what does "time" magazine's joint honor for joe and connolly really tell us? raymond arroyo unpacks it in friday follies. but first, last night we focused on how the media buried and dismissed the evidence, mostly publicly known of the biden families ties to china.

tonight we go a step further and ask how are these allegations ignored across many institutions that are supposed to be looking out for the best interest of us, the american people. we know that hunter biden got money, a lot of it -- from china. what we don't know is what he did for it and what he promised to do for it. we know the money was given to him because of course his political connections, not for his talent or his expertise of which he has none -- we know that the circumstances are so serious and so perplexing that hunter biden has been under investigation since 2018. after all we know publicly, we have to ask some questions -- where was the democratic party? the people who voted in the party's primary should have been allowed to have heard about these allegations, no more about

them -- it was obscene to have the democrat voters choose among a crowded primary field without having been made fully aware of the biden china situation. the fact is the party helped cover this all up because it believed that the biden was the strongest candidate they had to peel off some of trump's working class base. where their party's nominee is potentially compromised by the chinese, would that be important to them? you would think but in this circumstance, that was all beside the point. another question. where is congress? adam schiff and jerry nadler spent four years torturing the president with investigation, defamation, they smeared his family, they threatened his family, all based on nothing but conjecture, illegal surveillance, and a phony dossier.

through it all and including impeachment, they claim to care about ethics and restoring the people's trust in government -- they warned about foreign governments meddling in our election, how dangerous that was, now we know that was all a lie, don't we? they were never interested in that, they never cared about that -- the question about hunter is are we supposed to believe they were never briefed on this matter? given what we know now, or any of them angry about that fact? what about china's favorite congressman, eric swalwell who was forever accusing trump of being a russian agent -- remember, he's on the intel committee. these people are all frauds because they were willing to risk china having unknown levels of excellence in the white house to the biden family connection -- they didn't want to ask the question -- they didn't want this to come up. what about vice president biden himself?

he's never been asked a simple question, how did your family get so rich? what did your son do to become a multimillionaire? why did you bring your son on these overseas trips? when you did that, you never asked them about what he was doing when he was on his overseas trips, but his business in china or ukraine or anywhere else? how about joe's brother, what about him? remember, trump tried to ask these questions in the debate and was stonewalled, now we know why. biden owes the american people the truth. then there's the matter of the doj -- according to "the wall street journal," attorney general bill barr has known about a disparate set of investigations involving hunter biden since at least the spring. notice i said investigations, plural -- "the wall street journal" also reported that hunter is not just being investigated by the u.s. attorney's office in delaware,

he's also part of -- maybe not the target of the part of the investigations being conducted by federal prosecutors in manhattan which sources describe to the paper as an international financial investigation that is at least one year old. they kept the existence of the probes under wraps for months and resisted pressure from the g.o.p. to divulge any details. they even resisted calls from the president himself. >> we got to get the attorney general to act, he's got to act and he's got to act fast, he's got to appoint somebody. this is major corruption and this has to be known about before the election. >> laura: the doj points to its guidelines to justify not going public, it didn't want to be perceived as putting its finger on the scale during an election year -- given the fact that china is involved, meaning the chinese communist party, it's also reasonable to ask don't the voters deserve to know

what the federal prosecutors no? the establishment failed us, they failed us at every turn. the media, congressional leaders, the democratic party. no wonder 74 million americans voted for donald trump and they still don't believe the official outcome of this election. the american people, they deserve answers, better late than never. john and me now is james freeman, assisted editor of "the wall street journal" editorial page in fox news contributor and coauthor of the cost, trump, china, and the american revival. you say that even with a bye the book approach that bill barr pursued, it's going to sit poorly with a lot of people. >> as voters we never got the answer, people in our industry did not press the biden family

to explain all hunter biden kept collecting these multimillion dollar business arrangements for which he was manifestly unqualified overseas. i go back to a year ago this week when nancy pelosi and six democratic house committee chairs said they were bringing on impeachment against donald trump, they alleged no crimes but they said his offense was he asked a foreign government to examine the business dealings. i think any reasonable person who looks at his business dealings would say they ought to be examined. i think it might have been different, that senate trial might have -- obviously president trump was acquitted but i think it might've ended much sooner if people have known all of the details but obviously many people in the government knew about hundred biden's activities. >> laura: when you think about

the concern that i mentioned in the intro about foreign governments meddling in u.s. politics -- this was the constant refrain and it's a legitimate refrain, it's a concern. here we have the chinese government obviously green light in whatever business they were trying to throw his way to get tentacles into the united states government and we are just going to not ask questions -- if i were one of the democrats who ran against joe biden and those primaries, i would be infuriated. i guess they're all just going to stay silent. >> i guess you would hope that now with the election over, a lot of media folks if you look a safe moment to actually try and get answers to some of these questions. these bizarre foreign arrangements as they came to light and the bidens were questioned about them -- you

recall hunter would just step down, he wouldn't even bother to say i really am a ukrainian natural gas expert or i am an expert on chinese finance or real estate or whatever the big lucrative smelly deal of the week was that was disclosed. it's amazing when you think about the brazen quality of the biden influence peddling operation where at least the clintons used to pretend they were all about charity -- there's not even a pretense he here. the lucrative arrangement comes to light, questions are raised and the bidens stop doing it and say essentially they will never do it again but they did nothing wrong. >> laura: your son is tagging along on these trips and we are led to believe that they never discussed what he was doing? it's a joke, it is a complete joke and they smeared ivanka, jared, anyone connected with the

trump family which is assumed to be profiting off working for the government -- in fact they worked for the government had lost money if anything in many of their business interests because they serve the government -- the trumps probably got poorer working in the government and the bidens got a lot richer, how does that happen? i want to play this -- the president has been spot on on this -- back in september he pointed to the media for failing to pursue this story, watch. >> the sun didn't have a job, he had some big difficulties and all of a sudden he's making millions of dollars? as soon as his father becomes vice president -- we had a media that was fair, even just reasonable, this would be the biggest story for years and years and years, then you would really be entitled -- not these fake committees who give you fake awards. >> laura: just like mail in balloting, he was absolutely right.

>> you go back, go through some of this history in the book a year ago when the president would talk about hundred biden -- he would get cut off. cnn, msnbc if they were covering the event they would say this is inappropriate, we can't in good conscience show it to you -- chuck todd making a bizarre argument that somehow it wasn't constitutional for the president to be raising these questions. i'm glad you pointed out -- there is this media mantra that there is no wrongdoing alleged by joe biden, that it's hunter biden but no wrongdoing for joe biden but you're absolutely right, it is wrong when you are the vice president of the united states representing us in a foreign country to bring along relatives trailing behind you with their hands out who then go on in the case of ukraine to collect 50 grand a month, on a

board you have no business being on until people raise enough questions, you resign without an explanation of what value you possibly could have been adding. >> laura: i think we know what value he brought. he had to acknowledge that the name mattered in that interview he did. everyone knows what happened here but donald trump was castigated and they destroyed him for raising this issue. after they tried to destroy him on phony russian meddling that he was a russian agent. the media -- i don't know where they go to get their reputations back but i honestly don't think they can. your book is so important, thank you for joining us tonig tonight. faced with a prospect of a biden controlled doj, there are growing calls from top republican lawmakers for a special counsel to continue investigations of hunter's financial dealings. ohio congressman jim jordan is one of those lawmakers. you called for this back in

october, to the democrat leaders know about all of this pre-election? do they know what they needed to know what they needed to know or what they should have known? >> they should have, frankly so should the press. we had tony bobulinski who is an eyewitness to these events, he has emails, documents that show the big guy is joe biden and no one in the press does anything and no one in the justice department tells us that there's been a two-year investigation going on -- we called for it back then. the american people want to know what went on. as you said, you can sort of tell what happened here but we need to investigate it and the fact that we didn't know this when this important issue about a candidate for the highest office in the land before election day and as you rightly point out before the democrats made a decision in their primary -- the fact that we didn't know this is just wrong. >> laura: pete buttigieg,

they're going to try to send him over to china, if biden ultimately is inaugurated and isn't he upset about this? how about, like? she was in the running for 5 minutes, how about these other people? >> they would rather go with a compromise candidate than have bernie as the nominee -- the other thing that bothers me, you were so right. you can't tell me that no one in the media in october knew the justice department was investigating hunter biden. the time they were investigating the president over the last four years there was a leak after leak after leak but no one in the media knew this was actually happening? you know they did in the fact they didn't cover that, that is a huge story that he's been under investigation as you said for two years -- and that to me is another thing that is so

wrong about what took place in what the american people didn't understand that they would've liked to have known before they made the decision, before they went and voted on november 3rd. >> laura: by some accounts, 10% of the public might have voted the other way had they known about this to the fullest extent. the biden team is just not interested -- you will be shocked to hear in addressing this, according to fox news, nobody that was called on in the transition team weekly friday briefing asked about the hundred biden issue. it was a half dozen or so reporters called on asked about the vaccine diversity in the cabinet in contact with trump administration counterparts. has it to be called on to date. this is a gross application. >> it sure is, the president was right about this, you talk about things they called it right, male in balloting, the president

called it a long time ago -- it is so sad the way the mainstream press tries to operate in this country, the failure to do the hard work, get the story and present news, it's all democrat operatives instead of real journalism that is happening. it's not fair to the american people. >> laura: it isn't but you just made me think of something. think about how china views th this. if i'm them, if i was the ccp, it seems like the government is for sale. if biden ends up being president, there is no limit to what they can do. if you can buy off the vice president's son and get access when he was vice president in the media is not going to cover it, the democrats aren't upset about it -- they got to feel pretty good about that right now. >> it's scary come as you pointed out earlier when hunter biden is actually traveling on the taxpayer dime with former

vice president -- that is scary too, that was happening and deals were taking place on those same trips. it is a terrible situation, it's why we've called for a special counsel, why we did back in the fall, why it's so important that we get to the truth and find out what happened. i can't get past that someone in the media knew that the sky was under investigation earlier this fall and didn't write the story -- that is a huge story but they won't write the story because they are so beholden to the democrat side of things in democrat message instead of the truth for the american people. >> laura: trump called this on another occasion, watch. >> china owns sleepy joe, china owns him. these maniacs -- they always talk about russia, they never talk about china it's very interesting. it's always russia! >> laura: russia, russia, russia, when china has the largest standing army in the

world and is moving on all fronts including the south china sea, africa, south america, and in the u.s. government. >> you know what else is interesting when it comes to china and russia? dianne feinstein got a defensive briefing, eric swalwell got a defensive briefing but when it came to the russians, republicans don't get defensive briefings, they get set up. that was to set him up that was so they can leak the dossier and have the media run with that story -- that is the disparate treatment that we see from the comey fbi, another reason why i hope this durham report gets done soon and we hold some people accountable. >> laura: thank you so much for joining us tonight. the cdc just released new information regarding the total spread of covid in the united states. it's leading to another question -- could the estimated case fatality rate actually make it less deadly than the flu?

dr. scott atlases here to break it all down, next.

>> laura: what if i told you that the true number of covid cases in the u.s. may be orders of magnitude higher than what

has been officially recorded. the cdc estimates that only one in seven covid infections were actually counted between february and september. during that time, the cdc says there's as many as 53 million cases, 45 million of which were symptomatic. but it's december now and given today's caseloads, the total number of infections could be as high as 118 million? we are not mathematicians here at "the ingraham angle" but that would put the fatality rate at covid at roughly 0.2% if you get it. which is markedly less then the flu. joining me now is dr. scott atlas, former white house covid advisor -- dr. atlas, this is something that you and this show have been talking about for many months now, what we need to

know? >> thanks for having me -- this isn't news if people have been following the science, even the cdc months and months ago wrote that number of people with infection is between six and 20 times, most people said about ten times of reported cases. the early zero positivity studies i people at stanford and has been validated all over the world. the reality is probably tenfold the number of infections as originally thought or even recorded and that means as you are alluding to the infection fatality rate is really very low for people who are young. it's only for those people who are old, particularly over 70

with comorbidities where it's a very high, much higher than seasonal flu. >> laura: if you listen to the tv medical doctors, you would think that young americans were dropping like flies from this. >> it's not just certain people that are getting sick. children, babies, adolescents, young men, young women -- all ages, all people are literally dying from this virus. >> laura: something i just looked up in this state of maryland right outside of d.c., there have been 4,400 viruses related deaths. of those, four were between ages zero and 19. we don't know the underlying conditions of the individuals, it's horrifically awful that anyone would die, especially a young person but to listen to these tv doctors, you would think oh, my gosh, if you go to school you're going to die of

covid -- it's just a lie. >> it's incorrect -- i'm not sure i would use the word lie, i think it's ignorance. >> laura: i will. >> okay. the reality is data showed early on, we're talking about spring time and the cdc reports it as such that people under 20 -- i think the number is 99.996% survive -- it's very rare -- this disease is very, very low risk for people who are young, children, and it's less risky than the flu. that is for those young people -- for children, that's proven, this is not new data. in fact the reality is as i've been saying, as other people have been saying for months but were vilified for it, there is no reason that children should not be in person schools, the

allegation is they don't spread that frequently -- that's the facts, that's the data. >> laura: they are pushing for vaccines -- vaccine trials for children in the spring. a lot of parents are worried your kids aren't going to get into a public school unless they have a vaccine for a virus and that they have an infinitesimal chance of getting ill from. >> i think there's got to be some logic and common sense in this vaccine issue. you would have to think it through if you are a parent if you want your child vaccinated for an illness that they have extremely low risk from and they don't even frequently spread the illness. you have to wonder is it worth the risk of the vaccine for you to have your child vaccinated.

to me in a free country, that is a parent's decision. >> laura: we didn't have time for it but bill gates apparently thinks we aren't getting back to normal until 2022 -- that's a separate issue. up next, a bizarre and oddly rendition of the grinch, raymond arroyo explains it all.

>> this is a fox news alert. they could development in the fight against coronavirus, the food and drug administration just authorizing pfizer's covid-19 vaccine for emergency use. this mean the first americans can get the vaccine within days -- front line workers, medical personnel, seniors will be the first in line to get the vaccine. federal officials said the initial shipment of 6.4 million doses will leave warehouses within 24 hours -- the u.s. supreme court ejecting a lawsuit backed by president trump to overturn the 2020 election

results, it is the high court's second order this week denying the g.o.p. request that it get involved in the outcome. justices also turned away an appeal from pennsylvania republicans on tuesday, the electoral college will meet on monday to certify the results. now back to "the ingraham angle." >> laura: it's friday and that means it's time for you know what, friday follies. for that we go to author of the spider who saved christmas, raymond arroyo. some seem determined to ruin christmas this year but nbc staged a live musical version of the perfect cartoon of how the grinch stole christmas, how did it go? >> this was one of the most bizarre, perverted, sicko adaptations of the story i've ever seen.

matthew morrison's acting choices were not fit for family consumption -- watch. >> i hate your couch. i'm one-of-a-kind. there is no one like me. does that make me lonely being one-of-a-kind? that makes me free. >> there were moans and groans, jokes and trump impersonations, morrison said his grinch was inspired by joaquin phoenix performance as the joker, that is not a family film. the casual viewer might have thought they were watching hustle and flow, viewers were mortified. they wrote on twitter i'm literally going to need to see my therapist after watching matthew morrison put so much

energy into the grinch. another wrote, matthew morrison is being in the grinch, it's a choice, a good one? no -- i agree, not a good one, horrible. >> laura: it makes me want to toss the roast beef in my stomach right now. >> it shows you, there is this adolescents in america were creative sink they need to take tales of innocence and inject their adult perspective and projected their neuroses. it's their sexuality and ideas. >> laura: it was pathetic, it was pathetic. it is one of the greatest ever cartoons of all time, my favorite of all time and they ruined it. this week in the winter governor andrew cuomo and at times guardian of the year anthony fauci consider the weighty problems of the day. >> put us together, we are the

modern-day did nero and pacino, you can be which one ever, you can be robert de niro or al pacino -- who do you want to be? which one do you want to be? >> i love them both. if i pick one i don't want to hurt the feelings of the other. >> i thought we could help the good doctor. it turns out al pacino has already auditioned for the role of andrew cuomo in dick tracy, watch. >> have you know sense of pride in what you do, no sense of duty? no sense of destiny? i'm looking for generals, what do i got was mike what soldiers? >> and robert de niro may have already played dr. fauci in the movie the intern. >> under your intern. >> i'm glad to see the humor in this. >> be hard not to. >> that must be the scene where

he appears at the biden transition on the first day of work? you just know some agents right now are packaging the pacino, robert de niro covid hero movie as we speak? >> laura: what are they going to do when this has all finally passed? what are the democrats going to do when you finally trump -- if he's out of the picture, off the stage -- they cling to this, they cling to covid, they cling to donald trump. >> i promise you if that covid hero movie gets off the ground, rosie o'donnell will be playing donald trump, bet on it. >> laura: perhaps no less absurd, "time" magazine named its person of the year in a big tv event. times editor in chief wrote changing the american story, showing the forces of empathy greater than the theories of division, for sharing a division of healing in a grieving world,

they are the persons of the year. >> they called them the person of the year, they are setting them up as two people and depicting them as a single person. maybe they are trying to tell us something between a criminal investigation of the biden family and the reports about dianne feinstein's alleged cognitive decline, she is the oldest sitting member of the senate. there are now calls for her to step down. perhaps it should not surprise us that the person of the year might well be just kamala harris before long. >> laura: you are saying because they are calling his cognitive situation into question, they are now going to leapfrog why biden can't remember the name of his cabinet? >> i'm looking at all of this, i'm watching all the pieces, the biden family under investigation, the questions about cognitive ability, no one

could be losing it more publicly than joe biden. >> laura: i think obama knows that -- i don't know if i buy that. we will see if your theory is your correct one, i think it's perfect to have biden there unless it becomes inconvenient. have a great weekend. as governor cuomo once again moves to ban any indoor dining, what does the science actually say? do we have a report. plus ceo explains why his company awarded aoc employee of the month -- stay there.

>> laura: have you ever wondered what the scientific findings are that actually support shutting down restaurants because of covid, even outdoor seating areas like we see in warm weather climate spirit to justify these draconian measures, l.a. county officials point the 12 studies, none of which actually analyze outdoor dining. further when they finally looked at the real world data they found just 4% of all covid cases were tied to bars and restaurants and that includes

indoors. this isn't just a california problem, roughly 70% of u.s. restaurants have permanently closed since march. that is over 110,000 businesses that no longer exists. over half of all restaurants in the state may not survive the pandemic, that is a huge concern for my next guest, restaurant tour ed hendy, owner of the fabulous taste of texas restaurant in houston. you have been in business for decades, one of the most well-known restaurants in all of the united states, tell us about the experience in texas, you can't be suffering in the restaurant business. >> first of all thanks for having us on, this is something we need to share with your viewers.

it's been a long year, currently a restaurant is down about 33% in sales, we don't make 33% of sales as profit spirit and we employ about 190 people including seven single moms. we are one of the lucky ones that has been surviving to this point and doing pretty well compared to the rest of the industry. it's a concern for us and as you said a moment ago, this junk science that they are using to justify restaurant capacity restrictions which is bring out 110,000 restaurant closures and counting has got to stop. >> laura: what is amazing about this and i know this because you told us -- the things that you have to do, the hoops that you jump through to keep your restaurant safe are extremely costly. you have done them, from masks to plexiglass the temperature checks, to everything you have done.

like this it could be switched off and suddenly you're down to about 25% capacity. >> we don't have any control over it and the capacity percentage is what restricts our sales which is everything. the gloves and the masks and all we are doing it america is doing, we accept that cost and it's been significant and cost us a lot of money. the problem is there is no science that justifies a restriction of capacity. >> laura: when you think about how important a mom and pop restaurant is whether they are smaller establishments or bigger restaurants like yours, they really have such an important role in neighborhoods and communities and rural areas, that is in many ways the lifeblood of social life, of coming together outside of church. >> it is, also we are the first job that young kids have.

we are employing somewhere between 15 and 20,000 people since we started and we have seven single moms who work for us. we provide for our kids an income. they go on to careers, all the way up to management and into ownership, it has been good for them. if we also do scholarships for our kids to make sure they aren't borrowing money to go to college so they graduate from college debt free -- that's a big part of what they do. >> laura: it's a family of customers, a family of employees and at some point you have to trust people that just make decisions based on their own risk profiles and thank you so much. forcibly closing restaurants and other businesses, it's not just hurting the owners like edd hendee but we also need to think about what it's doing to the people. he talked about all of those young people, their first job,

the way they first learned about business and as blue state tyrants lock down huge parts of the country, workers are getting squeezed even harder. my next guest says american workers are losing a lot and not more than their paychecks? a lot more than their paycheck. they are losing their freedom. joining me now is robert, goya foods ceo. governors like gavin newsom, cuomo, destroying the greatest economy on earth. for many first-time workers, they feel at times like their spirit, their entrepreneurial desire to make a living has just been crushed. >> thank you, laura -- we have been blessed as a company and as a family of workers from all walks of life who have worked courageously and it stayed open as an essential business. we have the blessing to stay

open as essential. however, they are decimated, crushing so many businesses, the small businesses because they are easy to crush. >> laura: you gave alexandria ocasio-cortez employee of the month award i laughed so hard! it was a little holiday fun because of the boycott that she backed backfired and ended up -- ended up not working. i have so much goya foods products in my pantry come on good have to invite you and your entire extended family over for many meals, i will never get through how much goya foods i have right now. >> i have a big family, be careful. we were attacked and that was supported by the council culture, we were attacked by many people and at the same time, we were supported by ivanka, the president, and that support, supporting the hispanic

community, supporting all communities really led to a movement that said we are not going to attack a company that's trying to do good and trying to love and build -- we need to become the united states of america, not that divided states of america and i think we are becoming the divided socialist states of america and we can't let that happen. >> laura: god help us. if you have been such an important voice in corporate america, in the food industry this year against the canceled culture and you've always had such an incredible positive attitude, it's infectious in a good way. i just want to say thank you so much and have a merry christmas to you and your family. >> we live in the greatest country on earth and are so blessed. >> laura: a few days ago we told you about a michigan lawmaker who urged her fellow soldiers to make trump supporter's pay. you won't believe who is now rushing to her defense come up

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>> this is just a warning to you trumpeters, trumpers be careful, walk lately. for those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it, make them pay. >> laura: after these this comments from critic state rep cynthia johnson, stripped her of her committee assignments. but wait, someone is also coming to her rescue. >> i think that removing her from her committee i was far. truly. i've reached out and asked if he incoming house leadership to reconsider that. >> laura: can you believe tha that? the next time you hear witless whitmire pine about the taking

the temperature down, remember, she is full of it. she has locked down all common sense. imagine if a republican had said anything like that. that's all the time we have, shannon bream and the fabulous fox news at 19, take it all from here. have a great weekend. ♪ hi>> shannon: hello and welcome to fox news at night, i'm shannon bream and washington. a breaking tonight, the food and drug administration granted emergency approval of the covid-19 vaccine at literally any moment by the server will begin distribution of the first vaccine in the united states. marc siegel standing by live to tell is how it works, plus he's going to answer questions about what the vaccine affects the dna infertility. clears the way for millions date