a year -- it's never boring and we have more coming up. i want to wish you all a happy new year and to everyone watching, thank you for tuning in. stay right there, another one of your favorites is filling in tonight for laura ingraham. >> lisa: great job, great to see you -- happy new year. as tammy said, i'm lisa boothe in for laura ingraham and this is a special edition of "the ingraham angle" live from miami. is it time to blame the blue states? evidence now piling up that cuomo, gavin newsom, and other democrats failed to contain the copan crisis, then we talked to two new york city restaurant owners in danger of closing down for good because of blue state incompetence. and is joe biden about to surrender the country to china? gordon sheng breaks down how to stop china's plan to overtake the united states. plus it's been a banner year for

the liberal media, we'll explore all of the worst moments and there are a lot and we are about to say goodbye to 2020 but what should we look forward to in 2021? a stick for that. but first, is it time to blame the blue states? evidence now piling up that blue state governors failed in managing the coronavirus crisis, california now hitting a new one day covid death record, even a blue state practicing severe societal restrictions for months now, now five los angeles area hospitals made it clear internal disasters, and new data show even without california's surge, u.s. numbers would be declining, yet the blue state is about to double down on its seemingly ineffective stay-at-home orders. we got former trump 2020 strategic communicator communics director joined me now for

conversation on this. i want to start with you, we look at what's happening in california despite the strict lockdowns, despite the strict response to the coronavirus crisis, they are saying the surge, the high one day death toll in the state and this all happened as governor newsom is facing a recall effort, how much political pressure is he facing? >> i think is under a lot of clinical pressure. when you look at his own citizens, they are suffering not just from the coronavirus but the restaurants, the businesses that are shutting down. people without incomes, people who get to watch movie production companies go to work but they can't go to work. it's just a perfect example of california being another one of those liberal bastions, do as i say, not as i do because it's clearly not working. >> lisa: we've seen for the past few months the media has piled on republicans, republican governors and their response, i

remember back in april when georgia was reopening their economy and so was colorado, one a red state and the other a blue state yet with governor kemp, he's murdering georgia governors but we didn't get that for the blue states, what kind of bias are we seeing for the media on its coverage of the coronavirus? >> i think the three of us can agree seven months of the media touting cuomo and gavin newsom as the adults in the room on covid is the equivalent of suggesting baldwin should be the ambassador to spain. >> lisa: she might be under biden, who knows? [laughs] >> these two have proven you might not be able to give everybody hope but you certainly can put fear into them, not only those who are fearful of getting

covid not being able to get a vaccine and those who are genuinely concerned about their health but equally those restaurant owners and those waiters and waitresses and shopkeepers and their employees who are concerned their jobs are going to be gone. it's why you see ultimately folks voting with their feet and the two states that have led the migration out of their state is california and new york. most states, the two states with the most migration out, california and new york this year. >> lisa: right here i left new york to move to miami, i am testament to that. i want to get your response, joe biden has been taking some cheap shots at president trump's unprecedented vaccine rollout, he did this yesterday, listen to what he had to say. >> the trump administration's plan is falling far behind, as i

long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing where it should, we have only vaccinated a few million so far. if it continues to move as it is now it's going to take years, not months to vaccinate the american people. >> lisa: incoming chief of staff ron klain said they got lucky that h1n1 wasn't a huge mass casualty event, why does anyone on god's green earth think that joe biden can lead during a time of crisis. >> his entire covid plan was i could do what president trump already did and we could see that in transition where it's president trump and operation warp speed that got the vaccines approved that got the vaccines out there, we see millions of people have already been vaccinated and millions more on

the way. when you look at governor cuomo who thinks that addicts should be in a high priority list, governor desantis and governor abbott are out there saying no, first responders, people in our senior centers should be the first to get the virus. it's not the trump administration that is miss handling this, the democratic governors that are mishandling this and they will continue to do it. we've already seen joe biden is going to blame everything on trump even after he gets into the oval office. >> lisa: let's stay on this governor cuomo topic, he is now extending his newfound authority to cover distribution of the vaccine. he is recently announced that addicts in rehab are next to get the covid vaccine, but here's what happens with others such as doctors and health care providers decide they want to exercise their professional judgment and determine who should receive the vaccine.

>> there's not going to be any politics at play as to who gets a vaccine, the executive order i'm going to sign today says a provider could be fined up to a million dollars and revocation of all state licenses. if you engage in fraud on this vaccine, we will remove your license to practice in the state of new york. >> lisa: this is the guy who early on in the pandemic mandated that nursing homes take in covid patients, is he really the one to figure out ho how the vaccine distribution should go down? >> the fact that andrew cuomo is writing a book on leadership in dealing with covid before we've actually conquered the pandemic is all we need to know about andrew cuomo's leadership style. mark hit on it and maybe it's a good following for most democrats in that biden is

following president trump's plan. perhaps the governors could look at a guy like ron desantis who has given floridians as much information as possible and let them determine how much quarantine they should do. you've got governors in nebraska and pete ricketts and kristi noem in south dakota that now have their unemployment rates below 3.5%, those are great examples and hopefully democratic governors will look at where success is occurring and decide they want to replicate it. >> lisa: absolutely. there's also the hypocrisy of all of this, what we have seen from so many of the left's leaders, let's take a trip down memory lane. >> i take my personal hygiene very seriously, i felt like i needed to have a haircut. >> i made a mistake in my apologize. we aren't telling people they can't eat but indeed, i made a

mistake. >> lisa: rules for the en the at for me. >> joe biden kamala harris spent the last few months attacking the virus questioning whether they would take it if approved under a trump administration but not the election is over, they are the ones who are saying it's a miracle and everyone should go out and get it. whatever benefits them politically but once the election is behind them, they get behind president trump and agree with that of her he's doing while criticizing him for doing it. >> lisa: 20 seconds before we got to go, close us out to. >> empathy is very important in politics, you have to be able to relate to the concerns people have and every one of those clips you showed our politicians who don't understand what americans are going through, hence why you see so many of the

democratic governor's approval ratings going down every month. >> lisa: they are just hypocrites and it's disgusting. gentlemen, thank you both. the covid pandemic death toll goes far beyond the loss of more than 340,000 americans, the tragedy is stacking up on those affected by lockdowns and other stay-at-home orders. if "the new york times" reporting that nursing home patients are dying of loneliness and doctors in california have been warning that suicides are also on the rise. doing to me now is the bay area trauma surgeon sounded the alarm on tragic consequences consequences of lockdowns. the entirety of the focus of this conversation has been lockdowns and addressing the public health crisis of covid. but aren't there other unintended health consequences here of these lockdowns? >> absolutely.

the lockdowns have caused tremendous social unrest. they are leading to significant people in people's lives, people are losing their insurance, we see mental health problems, increased suicides, increased drug overdoses, it's having a significant effect on these people and that's what got us to write a letter to the county and they did not really appreciate our questioning of their public health policies. >> lisa: why do you think it's not being discussed more in the media, why don't we hear this more? >> san francisco just released a thing showing there is three times more overdose deaths than there were covid deaths this year. covid was all over the news but

drug overdose is a true public health emergency and it's getting no attention. >> lisa: what are the long-term effects of all of this? >> they are impossible to calculate, our kids have been out of school for a whole year. how are they ever going to regain an entire year of their education? it's lost. those costs are incalculable. >> lisa: what about the mental health aspect of this for so many children across the count country? >> there's increasing suicides in children and young adults. the cdc just released a report earlier this month looking at excessive deaths and excessive deaths or something you can sort of way how much a pandemic is affecting society and what they found was pretty interesting. they found the greatest percentage increase in excessive

deaths was in a 25-44-year-old age group. we keep hearing that this really affects old people. we know that the virus generally affects old people, but what are these other excessive deaths from? these excessive deaths have to be from things associated with the pandemic, like mental health, suicides, drug overdoses, people who lose health care because these are the working class people, they lose their jobs and lose their health care and people are afraid to go to the hospital, there's lots of reason for these excess of deaths outside of being killed by the virus. >> lisa: this is the first time i'm hearing some of those numbers and that response which saddens me because we should be talking about the totality of the coronavirus and the public health response and what that means for so many americans across the country. we are looking at places like new york and california that are

going down in the lock down mode again, do lockdowns work? >> that's highly questionable. as a surgeon, i evaluate risk every day. i need to be making sure that i'm going to make my patient better, not worse. if i recommend a surgery or something, some sort of treatment, you have to weigh the downsides to that treatment. we really feel like the county and even the state, their mandates are not really weighing the risks of the downsides of these lockdowns. >> lisa: the sad thing is i feel like when people do point these things out, they get condemned by the media, there's not room -- when you guys have been right about this, the media only listen to dr. fauci who keeps getting every single thing wrong yet somehow they are propped up as heroes when

they've gotten it all wrong. thank you for joining us, i learned a lot tonight. restaurant owners across the country are struggling right now as cities and states crackdown and push stricter lockdowns. in new york city, it's getting so bad one restaurant owner is s the government is playing russian bullet with his livelihood. he owns tribeca's kitchen and the owner of italian restaurant, i want -- my heart goes out, my condolences to your family, you lost your father to the coronavirus, he came over here at the age of 14 and started his first restaurant in 1989, why did he get to the restaurant industry and what did that mean to him? >> restaurants -- he came here with nothing, he didn't speak a word of english, he either

cleaned up debris at a construction site or he washed dishes and it's the drive to provide for your family and to grow and be something more than any chance you had anywhere else, the chance that you had as they were told in greece, when you get here you're going to see them, they had to make their own golden sheets and that's what they did, it's all been gone and taken away. back in his time when he first came here he didn't speak a word of english, by 24, 28, however old he was he opened his first place, that's unheard of now. now you have both parents working, barely making ends meet. the idea that the government can just come in and this has never happened before, that they can just come in and shut you down, what's going to happen the next time? this precedent that is set in this scenario is a disaster. he got into this industry because it meant putting smiles on people's faces and that what we do day in and day out.

what was happening at home, he goes into work and he smiles, than he used to come back home and collapse and that's what every restaurant owner does. the world sees the super social friendly person at the door, owner occupied family business, servers, boxers, everyone is taught and trained and feels happiness and it's supposed to radiate that to the world. and you go to restaurants because they give you an escape. >> lisa: and they do. it's a family affair for you and your family as well, family-owned, family manage, tell us about patsies and what it means to your family. >> my father, is 88 years old and he started when he was 12. his father start at the restaurant he was the first chef, my dad and myself, i'm the

third chef and it's really horrible. i really would like to submit to you that closing down restaurants may be actually contributing more to the spread of coronavirus as my friend andrea's just said, people want an escape, they want to get out, they want to go and have fun and you're locking people up in the living rooms. we have a government that says follow the science -- the science says the spread is 74% in living rooms and 1.4% in restaurants. it's one half of 1% and that's their own data. let people out of their living rooms -- let me tell you, living rooms are great, they are with your family but they are unregulated, there's no control, you can have a lot of people there. when someone walks into the restaurant, they've got to get their temperature taken, 6 feet apart, only certain number of people at the time, 25% plus we

had to put in 13 filters which is mandated by the government, i went one step further. i put in what's called active air technology, it cost me several thousand dollars. it's called bipolar ionization that actually kills the virus. this is the stuff they use in hospitals, the same system they use in hospitals. i submit to you that you actually may be contributing to the spread by having people stay home. this is my wife's saying, i've got to give her credit. >> lisa: i agree with that. i'm biased, though. you certainly have an interesting perspective, it's not only deeply personal having suffered great losses with covid, but also with your business suffering as a result of these government mandates and these government policies, how is it seeing both sides of the

equation shaped your viewpoint? >> i save us all the time, it's personal, it's business, it's professional, i deal with hundreds of restaurants. this is what i've done my whole career. here i am, i lose my dad -- i have a choice. do i focus on money and make outgoing deliveries and what do i do in a year or do i actually figure out what is going to be the best thing i invest a ton of money in the market when nobody else is doing it. beautiful store, beautiful story, new vision, reinventing what it means to be a diner. >> lisa: we are running short on time so i want to get sal in here before we got to go. about 30 seconds, what's your message to governmen governor c. >> i don't want to blame anyone in particular, i understand you have a very difficult situation. but i submit to you, please follow the science as i just

said. 1.4% for restaurants and bars, 74% living room spread, i think we have the track record to show that this would not cause harm. let people go out, there's nothing for people to do, they need to get out of the house. they need to enjoy themselves, celebrate, we are social people. >> lisa: you're a lot nicer than me because i will fully blame governor cuomo, governor cuomo, you're to blame and you're a terrible governor. thank you both for joining me come i appreciate your insight. coming up, the worst media offenders of the year, "the ingraham angle" has got its eyes on you become a video you don't want to miss is next.

>> you could have given every american a million dollars. >> could have given each american $1 million and had lunch money left over. >> standing next to the guy you're going to beat.

what am i saying? big mistake. >> lisa: it's really, really easy to become numb about liberal media bias and a 2020 proves to be no different. "the ingraham angle" is keeping track of the worst offenders of the year, joining me know as former cnn commentator jeff lord and accuracy in media president adam goodlett. of the liberal media finally revealed its true colors literally weeping on election night. >> telling the truth matters, being a good person matters. >> i don't know why i'm crying so much. >> i didn't expect to be so overwhelmed. i almost can't talk right now, because of the emotion. >> lisa: i think one of the best things that happened over the past four years is the liberal media has been forced to drop this cloak of fake objectivity, we all see them for

the partisans they are. >> that's right, i think there is serious rot that has come to underlie the national liberal media, mainstream media -- whatever you want to call it. all of their standards are gone with the wind. this in a way may be one of president trump's biggest services to america. decades ago, there are stories in the kennedy days, i've gone back and read my history of reporters cheering for a john f. kennedy in the 1960 election and saying they all felt they were soldiers on the way to the new frontier with j jfk. the only difference now is it's out there, everybody sees it, there is a real rot there and i think they've got to do some serious soul-searching about this. not that that will happen. >> lisa: what does that mean for the media? now that everyone sees them for the partisans that they are.

>> i thought they did a good job because an absence of professional football, we needed to see cheerleaders and these guys were openly cheerleaders for joe biden all fall. >> lisa: i'm envisioning jim acosta jim acosta in a cheerleading outfit right now. it's not a pretty sight, i need to get it out of my head. remember how liberal media honored a terrorist because trump killed him. >> he was a national hero. >> a heroic figure, personally very brave. >> smart, charismatic, ruthless. if he was no ordinary general period of his power made iranians proud to. >> lisa: taking out a top terrorist is a good thing in my book. >> let's remember when the media thought it was a good thing when the president was barack obama and he took out usama bin laden and frankly good for him.

they all cheered him on, if anybody else does something it's good. it's shameful and damaging their own reputation. >> lisa: president trump has said if i cure cancer i will still get criticized over it but he probably would. >> he absolutely would, this case is morally outrageous, this is serious. they claim trump is beholden to the religious right, they celebrated a religious monster in iran, they claimed he was against muslims because of his travel ban while at the same time look at how iran treats the muslims, look at how their allies in the communist chinese government treat the muslims, their actions are obnoxious and this is why the american people do not trust them. >> lisa: when the liberal media couldn't admit the floyd protests weren't exactly peaceful.

>> this is mostly a protest, it is not generally speaking unru unruly. >> destroying property which can be replaced is not violence, any reasonable person would say we shouldn't be destroying other people's property but these are not reasonable times. >> lisa: this sums up the media to me, mostly peaceful as fires raged in the background. >> what is always interesting to me is they don't care you can see it. it's right there, happening right in front of your own eyes and yet they are going to try to tell you up is down and down is up in the american people just no longer believe it, they no longer have credibility. that's a big problem in a democratic society. >> lisa: don't believe your lying eyes. >> this was peak or well, this is the worst we've saw all year,

our activists sent thousands of emails to "the new york times," "washington post" asking them why they wouldn't call it a riot and then they actually got political cover from their allies at the oxford english dictionary who in the midst of this redefined the word riot so that these sorts of things one to be included. if it's obnoxiously outrageous. >> there was no social distancing at these things either. >> lisa: they would say it was for a better because according to a lot of people in the medical field as well, remember how the u.s. post office -- service, rather, was going to rig the election for trump. >> a hiring freeze, massive reorganization of top postal service leaders led by a postmaster general, is this an attempt to don't make it appear the election?

>> by tampering with the postal service he's putting his knee on the neck of american democracy. >> lisa: there's never accountability for anything with the media. >> they get to say whatever they want and they're never going to be held to account for it. that's why conservative media, rush limbaugh and all sorts of others came to be precise because of this. >> lisa: to ever get to a point where people wake up and realize their ways or is that wishful thinking? >> we've gotten there, if you look at the pew research surveys, the media, particularly not very popular anymore. in this narrative, this conspiracy was sold ridiculous, it had to be written by one of their friends in hollywood. the only conspiracy with the postal service is the notion they had any business having the federal government delivering mail in the year 2020. we've got ups, we've got fedex, we got email, the notion these

guys are good at delivering parcels, that's a ridiculous conspiracy. >> lisa: this one makes me so mad. the liberal media buried in the hunter biden investigation even saying that it was russian disinformation. speak of the business dealings of joe biden's son hunter are connected to an ongoing disinformation efforts. >> you called this a classic example of the right-wing media machine. >> this is an example of the steve bannon giving a tip to "the new york post" reporter. >> rudy giuliani is a russian asset. >> he is cooperating. >> lisa: the media who lied about the russia hoax for years who blame to russia on swing the 2016 election, actively working to sway the 2020 election in joe biden's favor. >> part of that hunter biden

story is they want to ignore any and all ties of the bidens to china. this is going to have a serious impact if, in fact, joe biden takes the oath of office as president, what is going to be our china policy? what is our relationship and they are going to play hide the ball on this. this is a left-wing media machine playing hide and seek with national security, it's not good. >> lisa: the media research center did a survey on this, biden voters in swing states and found that 45% were unaware of the hunter biden story and i believe it was 9.4% would have changed their boat had they have known, but that was the intent of the media all along. >> they said they didn't cover it because they didn't believe the emails were real. the emails were made widely available, we were offered accuracy in media, "the new york times," "the washington post," they refuse to look at the emails.

they didn't want to damage any of their potential allies running for office, they need to stop pretending their journalists and acknowledge their activists. >> lisa: on top of all of that, softball questions. >> how can you assure americans that belief will comment comes soon. >> u.s. the most interesting questions. >> you announce some key members of your cabinet today, a very experienced group, a very diverse group, clearly you are trying to send a message, can you articulate what that message is? >> lisa: joe biden, why are you so awesome, that's basically what we got from the media. >> my favorite was a deal like vanilla or chocolate ice cream. >> lisa: that was real, you're not making it up. >> i'm not making that up.

god bless peter doocy from fox out there trying to ask serious questions and they don't want to do it. if we are going to be going through this for the next four years in the media is going to have to be held to account. as i say, there is a serious rot underlying the media when it acts like this and it's not go good. >> are we going to get any tough questions from the media to joe biden? >> we are certainly not, it's rare that we see biden engage with the media, trump might have been adversarial with the media but at least he talked to them. biden largely ignores them and as you showed he gets softballs when he pays them the briefest amount of attention, that's why we need to do investigative journalism to hold the media accountable and hold these politicians accountable. >> there so much criticism of president trump and his outlook on the media and as you just pointed out, joe biden won't even talk to the media, he doesn't give them the time, he doesn't answer their questions -- they are all

hypocrites, thank you so much and happy new year to you both. coming up, we are going to make a few new year predictions, unfortunately not all of them are good. standing by with what we might see in 2021.

♪ [chanting] [cheers and applause] >> lisa: it all seems so nice last year until it wasn't, who could have imagined all the 2020 would bring last new year's eve? while it's certainly great to say goodbye, should we look forward to 2021? joining us now is ben weingarten, senior contributor at "the federalist" and a senior columnist at townhall.com and

author of "crisis." after calls from the left to defund the police, new data and analysis show a jump -- i'm good to start with you, who could've predicted especially when you look at places in new york city you would cut a billion dollars from a budget, you get rid of your plainclothes police unit that this would happen. >> i'm shocked, shocked that embracing criminality and taking resources away from the people who lock bad people up would turn out bad. what is interesting is these people did not learn the lesson wheof the 80s and 90s when democrats lost big because they were soft on crime in the suburban moms who were upset that trump tweeted mean things and went into the voting booth and voted for the people who are

going to keep their sons and daughters safe. >> lisa: we see some of the proponents of groups like black lives matter pushing for defund the police but they are saying they are trying to help black americans but they are the ones, minority communities are the ones were disproportionately impacted by decreased police presence, why are they pushing for these policies when it actually hurts minorities? >> ultimately the results of the policies end up being disastrous for the very communities that the proponents of these policies claim to care the most about. that's the way leftism always works about the intentions are always great, the outcomes are disastrous. what you see just like in war and competitions between states where appeasement begets further aggression, you see the exact same thing when the police are taken off the streets, it's a guarantee of further lawlessness and it hurts most of the most vulnerable americans among us and that's a disaster for all of

society. >> lisa: the left's policies always defy logic and reason and i want to get your guys take on this as well the acting customs and border patrol commissioner tweeted about the international agreement made in the last four years, he said demonstrate the trump administration's unwavering effort to secure america's borders from illegal entry by working closely with regional partners, without these agreements we will likely see waves of illegal entries similar to 2019. our collaborative approach will protect the american homeland from uncontrolled mass migration. this is something that president trump really never got credit for. he used things like the threat of terrorism on mexico to get them to stic step up to the plan illegal immigration in the work to. >> it sure did and that's what we need to do, you're not a country if you don't control your borders. i married an immigrant, a legal

immigrant to the united states who came here to find freedom from cuba but if you're going to come to america, if you want to be american by choice and i think it's great to be american by choice but you need an invitation. it's not too much to ask. a tsunami of illegal immigrants does nothing but disrupt and cause economic and social upheaval. that's why no country lets its borders be wide open except us. >> it's also completely unfair to people who are waiting in line and try to do things the right way to come here to the united states. >> of course, the very people who are actually deserving and actually ascribe to our values and principles and want to contribute to this country are the ones who want to suffer the most of the consequence of it and joe biden in terms of rhetoric and personnel has indicated a "return to normalc normalcy," ultimately it's

because of the promise of amnesty the democrats cherish the opportunity to pursue. >> lisa: it also hurts working-class voters who the left purports to care about but they don't. will we also see a continued push toward socialism senator david perdue had this to say about the two critical races in georgia. >> people realize what's at stake, where the last line of defense against the democratic onslaught in this socialist agenda. if we hold these two seats in republican hands, we can block what these democrats are trying to do and protect what president trump is trying to accomplish. >> lisa: the real fear here is the fact that democrats will blow up the filibuster and then they are able to advance serious left-wing policies. >> that will be disastrous, as it has been in literally every place it was tried.

100 years ago the people in russia created the first socialist nation were figuring out a lot of people seem to be getting shot by the government, this is not so great. how can these people go an entire century were 100 million bodies have been piled up by socialists and communists and all the rest of the marxists, how can they go on to do it? they never learn, it's all about power, there is no good intention. these people are garbage and we have to fight them to the last period of >> lisa: real quick before we got to go. >> the democrats take these two seats, there's a guarantee of socialism in this country because you have d.c. and puerto rico statehood, you have socialized medicine, you have the evisceration of the vote integrity, it's a recipe for calamity for america. >> lisa: joe biden is not a moderate. thank you both come appreciate it. while biden is begging for word

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health systems everywhere, undermining our ability to defeat covid-19. as we compete with china, our position is much stronger. if we build coalitions with like-minded partners and allies. > lisa: europe and china are going it alone signing a new investment treaty, this report says china will overtake the united states to become the largest economy five years earlier than expected. here with us tonight is gordon chang, senior fellow and author of the great u.s.-china tech war. thanks so much for joining us tonight, what do you make of that let china five years earlier will come at the top of the food chain economically? >> i don't believe it, part of the reason is china's numbers are false. what i'm really concerned about, the chinese economy is fragile and vulnerable but what i'm concerned about is that biden will rescue it.

big box retailers are canceling their orders with u.s. producers and placing those orders with china and they are doing that because they believe biden will cancel president trump's section 301 tariffs that were meant to be a remedy for theft of u.s. intellectual property. with the smart money in the u.s. is doing is saying look, we are going to go after u.s. manufacturing, cut it to pieces because we want to make our things in china. this is how the big money is thinking that biden will handle the u.s. >> lisa: what does that mean for the united states? >> it really means our manufacturing sector is going to be gutted even further when it doesn't have to be. all the big-box retailers are rushing to china, they started doing that on november 4th, the day after the election and they are continuing to do it now as they cancel u.s. manufacturers.

that means we're going to have more gutted communities, more fentanyl, more hopelessness, and this doesn't have to be. president trump's tariffs were a great thing for u.s. manufacturing and i would hope that president biden would actually continue that. >> lisa: we saw on election night when china's currency, people thought president trump might pull it off, it took a nosedive, the kind of tells the story, doesn't it? >> it certainly does because it shows with the financial markets thought indeed around asia, there was a lot of despair when it became apparent that trump might not be reelected. that shows what people in the region think. biden talks about all of these coalitions but the real coalition builder is president trump. he built the quad, he operationalized that, united states, japan, australia, and india and he also built coalitions on the other side of

asia in the middle east which were meant to contain iran and china. if you want to talk about who was building coalitions, that was president trump. >> lisa: why do you think you didn't get any credit for that? >> i don't know but he certainly should have come if you look at the reality of what is happening, president trump did a great job in containing china with our partners on both ends of asia. >> lisa: now we have someone whose son is doing business with the chinese government or at least companies tied to it so it's a mess. coming up, silicon valley bringing you a creepy new year's party, that's the last bite coming up next. it's

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>> lisa: what better way to close out the year than a creepy dance party. thanks for watching this special edition of "the ingraham angle," that's all the time we have tonight -- have a happy new year. ♪ >> good evening, i'm bret baier, breaking tonight,at the senate has taken the first steps to override the president's veto of the national defense authorization act, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell singh today the senate will stay on the defense bill until it's completed one way or another, he also slammed efforts to approve the $2,000 direct payments by unanimous consent, calling out senators chuck schumer and bernie sanders in a fiery floor speech today. i'll get reaction from the independent senator from vermont bernie sanders on the show later tonight.