we will always be independent. and we did for the truth. in the meantime, let not your hearts be troubled. laura ingraham straight ahead. laura, it was fun last night. thank you for having me on. >> laura: it was great. i think you were right when you, said on the show, don't even give airtime to all of the nasties and the critics of roche. and even some conservatives i should add -- i guess they are conservatives -- who didn't have the guts -- >> sean: the lincoln project? >> laura: people who don't have the guts to -- if they are going to take on rush limbaugh, take him on while he's still on the microphone. side swiping him and death -- i thought that was kind of stunning. >> one of the great things that has happened in my life is that whatever switch, and i know a lot of people have it, that really cares what people thatth

hate you think. i don't have that switch anymore. i don't read it, i don't pay attention to it, i don't deal twith it. >> but i care about my friends. friends, audience, and are great sponsors. great show as always. i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle." disturbing video shows california school board members mocking parents as just wanting their babysitters back. an outraged mother is here. the, who is populating biden administration? number three at the doj. and after the campaign trail, joe biden is now fully endorsing a study looking at reparations, the legendary bob floyd reacts to that. first, they don't care about you. that's the focus of tonight's

angle. in may 2019, that showed travel to the border town of del rio, texas, to document the growing illegal immigration crisis at the time. no record numbers of illegals, family units, and unaccompanied minors were flooding across the rio grande. soon afterwards, president trump tightened processing of a side leaves and refugee applications and he even struck historic agreements with mexico and central america to try to tackle the problem here. at the number of border crossers in turn dropped dramatically. but now, joe biden is in the process of reversing all of that progress. beyond creating a humanitarian nightmare, his policies will create more economic and security problems for an america that is already on the edge. simply put, biden is captive to

two constituencies. the left, that wants to remake our country with new more progressive voters. and the donor class, that once an endless supply of cheap labor. hardworking americans be damned. it listen to the pleas of the mayor of del rio. this is not a video you will see on any other network. >> mr. president i am pleading dead requesting to please put a halt to any measures regarding the lease of immigrants awaiting court dates. if you do send these individuals into our community, we will be forced to make a decision to leave them without resources under these dire circumstances. we may be a small town that is off of your radar, but b we are committed to 50,000 people who need your attention. we are requesting that you please listen and that you please come through. >> laura: there something that every american watching right now has to understand.

you are not a priority for the biden administration or congressional democrats. your safety, your job prospects, your kids going back to school, your mental health, your freedom. none of that is as important to the left as their desire to fundamentally transform america. and achieving this requires that they pass an amnesty bill as soon as possible, certainly before the next election. you kind of need to be replaced by new voters who will be more compliant when new restrictions are active. they need new voters who won't obsess about protecting second amendment rights or worry about the constitution at all. we are just learning now the details of the democrats knew amnesty bill supported by president biden of course that would grant citizenship to an untold number of illegal

immigrants living in the u.s. what will happen? this legislation creates an eight year pathin to citizenshi. it immediately grants green cards to farmworkers, tbs designees, and.gov recipients. ed expands the work visa lottery from 50,000 to 80,000 a year. and it exempts children and spouses from any visa cap number. it gives dependence green cards, it recaptures on the visas -- i love this one -- from previous years to clear backlog and eliminates country visa caps and takes the word "alien" out of the quote. creating refugee processing centers and central america. well, it gets worse and worse if you can believe it. basically, biden is going to cease deporting all but the most violent criminals. and border patrol officers will no longer be able to ban entry at our borders by those who had tialready been here illegally on

previous occasions. oh, goody. most americans aren't traveling out of the country due to covid stuff, illegals will be free to come and go, no questions asked. this legislation is sponsored by pro-open border senator who will call you a racist if you don't support his efforts. >> time and time again we have compromised too much and -- voices who refuse to accept the humanity to our country -- from john boehner to white nationalists to manipulative madman named donald trump that will always be those who stand against immigrants. >> laura: do you understand now? first of all, completely blurs the distinction between illegal and legal immigrants. you have to understand what he's

saying. belief in strong border enforcement, belief in the rule of law, belief that americans, not a legal immigrants, should be the number one priority of our government dead you are no rdifferent from a kkk grand wizard. anything to avoid that top issue for most americans. opening schools. because when pelosi is pressed on that issue, she is her usual rambling mass. >> the point to make on this is where there is a high incident of covid, most of those schools are virtual or hybrid anyway. and the vaccination might not make it actual anyway. there has to be a judgment made from the community as to how they go forward. >> laura: is she trying to conjure up the answer with the hand motions? i'll give you a translation of what old nancy said. since roughly 89% of students live in covid red zones, schools are out of session for in-persol

learning as far as i can tell, forever. and speaking of red zone scum of the cities hit hardest by covid, three of the top four are border towns. just a total coincidence i'm sure. at a time of mass unemployment with millions of american kids stuck in zoom hell, why would this be a priority for president biden?nt m and old biden used to before borders, remember? [indistinct] spew uncorrupted mexico?or those days are over. he's not talking about those problems. the goal is not to protect our borders, what he's talking about and that old video, but to open it.

it's so bad that started tomorrow, biden is going to use taxpayer money to begin physically retrieving the 25,000 migrants now living in mexico who were deported there by the trump administration pending their asylum hearing. but don't worry, i'm sure he's going to get a temperature check before they board the buses. and maybe even their first dose of'm covid vaccine. i understand some marketing that too. grandma can't get it, but illegall immigrants gun. there may be room for compromise on an immigration bill if there is there's any sense that democrats would take enforcement seriously. maybe they can show us for a couple of years that they will logged on the border and really enforce it. but we know they won't do that. it said this bill, like all the others that came before, will go

down in flames. democrats will turn off millions of already beleaguered voters and those voters will get to wonder why they ever voted for a party that never put them first. and that's the angle. joining me now is someone who knows this issue better than most, former white house senior advisor stephen miller. stephen, it's good to see you tonight. do you kind of the poster child, other than president trump himself, for the left outrage and bile directed toward any of us to believe in border enforcement first. what do americans need to understand about what they are doing right now that's going to change america as we know it? >> thank you, laura. i just had a chance to begin reading and studying the legislation that was introduced today with the full support of joe biden. it isat the most radical immigration bill ever written, ever drafted, ever submitted in

the history of this country. it is breathtaking. just a few examples, laura. under this bill, every single illegal alien in the country who merely submits an application tu the u.s. government, if they want to work they are work authorized immediately. just submitting the application, you are work authorized. furthermore, every employer in the country is immediately allowed to hire a legal aliens, even if they haven't submitted their application. in other words, you can hire one just on the wear that someday they may want to submit an application. because of the pandemic, americans can find jobs, illegal hiring is amnesty aid, legal work as amnesty would come this happens immediately day one. additionally, and this might be at the most insane thing of all, the legislation orders theld secretary of state to develop an application process to allow illegal aliens deported by the

trump administration. so from january 2017 to present day to allow them to apply for reentry and citizenship. >> laura: oh, my god! >> it's in the bill in the text. >> laura: it's not just the ones who were waiting in mexico pending their asylum applications, you are sane everyone who is deported? >> correct. >> laura: okay, i missed that. >> anybody who is living in the country for at least three years he was deported by donald trump can reapply. it orders the secretary of state to develop a process to mail those applications out to the 200 countries in the world to where illegal aliens are deported. this is a full-scale attack on the very idea of nationhood.ro if you were trying to write a bill to eliminate the concept of having a nation, this is the bill you would write. it allows criminals back into the country.

it says that as long as somebody has a need for family unity, their criminal conviction can be overlooked. even very serious felony convictions canei be overlooked and waived by the secretary and the name of family unity. >> laura: stephen, this is stunning information.ed reading the actual text of the bill. i want to make sure everyone understands, because people are very charitable and they want to give people a break. and i understand that. but this is not -- we are not talking about a couple of million people. we are not talking about 11su million illegals. the actual number of illegal immigrants is much higher. a new study says it'sgi as highs 19.8 million and it doesn't seem wto be slowing down. "the wall street journal" reported that more than 75,000 people were arrested in january, the most in any january in more than a decade. why isn't this on every single network and why do people keep saying 11 million people? that is like a 2006 number, stephen.

>> time frozen 2006. this bill is so crazy, laura, that under its own terms -- if you came here on a student visa six months ago, you dropped out of school, you failed to show up in class, you violated the terms of your arrival, and you were supposed to go home and do didn't go home and you've been living here just for a few weeks even, you can get citizenship, full citizenship in this country. it also eliminates a law passed by bill clinton that establishes a waiting period for people who get green cards. that section of law is gone. and page after page after page. i'll give you another example. this bill establishes a $50,000 fine if a federal worker refers an application to law enforcement because they are concerned about what they see on

it. i can go on, and on, and on. >> laura: this is the republicans in the senate who have got to resist this. they've got to get ten, ten i believe to break the filibuster. this is a complete attack on our sovereignty, on our independence. stephen, thank you for joining us and giving us at least a glimpse into what is going on. and of course, texas is bearing the brunt of the legals surging the border. but compounding the problem isy, of course, the texans are now enduring ongoing power outages. democrats claiming it's their reliance on fossilof fuels, thas the problem. but is it right? joiningg me now is dan patrick. there's been debate, why is there so much confusion? >> first of all, some data has been -- it's really a myth.

we do not have 25% of renewables. on our best day in the summer, when the sun is out for 12 hours, maybe we can get up to 23%-24%. right now, the wind does not blow as much, about 12%. >> laura: hold on, ted cruz was on with hannity and he said that you guys got 25% -- i'm pretty sure -- 25% from wind. >> ted is my friend, i'm sorry, he's just not correct. >> laura: all right, i believe you. >> during the wintertime, because the sun is not out as much, we are counting at about 11%-12% during the last week. we were down to 2% because the turbines were frozen.

there is a lesson here. the lesson is we cannot go down this road of green energy, because right now we have almost everyone's power back. we had millions out to several ago, we had generation -- power generation out for almost everyone. and it's not wind and it's not gesolar. it is fossil fueled. it is clean burning coal. we do lead the country in wind, but it's not part of our everyday power use. >> laura: this is become a political lightning rod. one of the worst things to happen to texas. and beto o'rourke is taking to the airwaves to make this a political issue, not surprisingly. watch. >> texas, you have an example of what happens when the state is governed by those who do not believe in governments state leadership, state leadership that doesn't believe in climate

change. solar energy over performs. we have to take action on reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. >> laura: dan, what does he get wrong other than anything? >> he wants to take our guns and our fossil fuel. he has two fistfuls of what he wants to take from texas. look, we need a portfolio on america and taxes. that is fossil fuels. that is natural gas. we had this issue this week for a couple of reasons. one, an incredible freeze. 10 inches of snow in del rio. we have this overseeing group of private company and they told us, the leadership in the state last week, they were ready for this. so either the power generators that power our energy lied tore them or misled them, or if they misled us. because four days later, this past monday, he now says we werh just a few megawatts away from

the whole system going down. we will have an investigation beginning this week in the senate and as president of the senate as lieutenant governor, if he doesn't come to the floor without my signature on it, there is not a bill coming to the floor unless we know mandate -- we made recommendations ten years ago, we thought we were doing everything they said we were doing. obviously they have not. people are angry and they deserve to be angry. we are going to get to the answers, we are going to find out what went wrong, and we are going to fix it. no nonsense anymore. we are not going to let the lobbyists come in and defend. what i understand his people were cold and shivering and hungry, didn't have water, and they should have never happen. we were not prepared, we are not told the truth, and i'mnd not accepting it and i don't think

anyone in the legislature is going to accept it. >>he laura: and we will be following this next week as hearings begin. our prayers are with the people of texas. tough people, but this is hard to endure. dan, thank you for joining us tonight.he think teachers and school boards are doing everything they can to get kids back in school? well, not quite. a shocking new video shows california school board members mocking parents who have concerns about their kids not being in their classroom. one of the parents is here to respond, and i can't wait to hear what she has to say. stay there. ♪ ♪ beauty's age-defying formulas are what's kept supermodel cindy crawford looking so youthful for so long. look at cindy at age 31 and at 52. if you want to start looking younger right now, you need meaningful beauty supreme. created by dr. jean-louis sebagh. who has been hailed as an anti-aging guru.

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♪ ♪ >> laura: you all know this. some teachers haven't set foot inside a classroom to teach kids who were there in the classroom

for nearly a year. and some are still refusing to do so. many parents are at a breakingme point and many children are left distraught and are just not learning. so our school boards listening? one california school district, the answer is decidedly know. in a videoconference recorded by a parent, school board members in oakley, california, were caught insulting when they thought no one was listening. >> [bleep] me, if you call me out i'm going to [bleep] you out. sorry, that's just me. >> they want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back. >> we have a meeting open to the public right now. >> that's what laura just said. >> laura: joining us now is a school district parent with a 6-year-old daughter in the school system.

actually, what did you think when you first saw that video? at one point one of the participants said this was private, right? so they thought nobody was listening. apparently, people like you are ipjust sitting around wanting to smoke pot and you don't really care about your kids, you just want a babysitter. >> apparently. and that's far't from the truth. i know i speak for many of my good friends around me that we want the best for our children and for a lot of our children, distance learning is just not conducive. it is stressful. a lot of crying, a lot of hair pulling, a lot of attitude. it is not the best form to be learning. we are doing our best, the teachers are doing their best. but at the end of the day, it is not school. >> laura: one school board trustee thinks that it's the

parents who are the offensive ones for wanting the kids back in the classroom. watch. >> i forget that there's real people at the other side of the letters they are writing. yes, we are real community members. we have kids or know kids who have gone to the school. >> laura: now we do. and it's not what is best for kids and their families. >> no, i agree. >> laura: these are elected officials, so they are mocking parents when they think no one is listening. they are saying parents just want babysitters. they are saying they just want to sit home and smoke pot. and they are supposed to represent the interests of the kids in the district, the students. but they sound like they are representing the interests of themselves or people who just don't want to go back into the classroom for whatever reason. even if vaccines areds availabl.

>> right, that's the perceived image. i think that's why a lot of, not just me, but a lot of other moms and dads are so appalled at>> this. we thought they had our backs. we thought they were advocates as much as we were for our children. after yesterday, the laughing and genuine insincerity, it really makes me question what their true motives are. i don't know. i don't know what made them think that they felt that comfortable i to make those kins of comments. >> laura: imagine what else they'vebl said. i bet this happens a lot across the country. >> i'm>> sure. >> laura: with teachers -- we love teachers. we have a lot of teachers in my

family, we love great teachers in america. they are so important to our children and we support them. >> as do we. with the distance learning, the teachers are in our home every day. >> laura: by the way, i just want to chime in as the district superintendent issued an apology saying the comments were not typical and more and partly noto what the community should expect, i'm truly sorry for what took place. but we had a school board members say "i'm going to [bleep] you up [bleep] word." should that person remain on the board? >> i'm not going to be the one to hold people's fate in my hands. i don't want that kind of power. but i also don't want that type of person dictating my child'soi education. so i am a proud mama bear and she got me riled up, so unfortunately she's going to have to see what comes of that. if it's at the cost of her job, i'm not going to be the one to have them answer to that.

>> laura: ashley, i appreciate it. i'll be the one to call for it. someone who speaks that way about parents who are worried about their kids not learning should go into a different line ofre work. i'm sure there's other jobs where you can be a rapper or something, whatever -- a fun career doing that.of >> agreed. >> laura: ashley, thank you so much.g, best of luck. speaking of reopening schools, it is clear that the only expert team biden is listening to on this issue aren't scientists, mubut the union. >> they believe teachers should be prioritized for receiving the vaccination along with other front-line workers. >> the states are making decisions where they will be on sthe list.

>> i think we should be vaccinating teachers. we should move them up in the hierarchy. >> laura: remembered they told us to listen to the science, so why are they ignoring their savior? u >> i think to say that you are not going to open up schools until every single one of the teachers gets vaccinated, namely making -- i don't think we can go there. >> laura: is anyone confused yet? senior fellow joins us now, victor. today, ron klain blamed trump for schools still being closed. these people have no shame and they know this is a devastating political blow to them even in places that you just saw like your home state of california. >> absolutely. for over a year, he keeps saying that -- science is never subtle. it is a fluid s phenomenon. if we collated everything in the w.h.o. has cited in the last 12 months, it's a maze of contradictions and adaptations and corrections. now science shows that it's probably better to get the

schools open and to get the economy moving. we are going to save lives by doing that. but joe biden weaponize this issue and he appealed to his base, the teachers unions, andt. the so-called suburban zoom crowd who wanted it to be locked down. hedo thought the narrative would hurt trump by saying we were going to lock us down, but we have to stay locked down. it's a lose-lose situation. is that now the science really is -- we are getting new data. it shows that about 100 million americans according to the cdc have some sort of immunity to exposure. another 60 are vaccinated, may be 50 million under the age of 15 and are not going to get

serious cases. we are inching up to the point where we may be approaching another month or some type of immunity that's going to force biden to act. even the scientists in the minority now are not going to be tenable. >> laura: victor, let me jump in really quickly. i think that we are at the point thatnt until the voters say no o lockdowns by voting these people out of office, they are going to still keep as much power and control over people as possible. that capitaler funds is not comg down, the troops aren't leaving d.c., do you agree with that that we are going to have to vote these people out because this is too much power they don't want to give it up? >> i do. i'mle getting a little scared, because when you see the data that we are seen, the drops in cases, due to this hugeve vaccination -- and the virus itself and what are they going to do with that data and truth? they're going to have to double down and use more authority, resort to more coercion. the science disappoints them every day. that's what i'm worried about. they are on the wrong side of the science and that's a changing environment that is antithetical. and they are not compromising. >> laura: the virus is not cooperating with their agenda of control. >> no, it's not.

it looks like what's happening with the vaccine as well. victor, thank you so much. who is joe biden staffing his administration with? we investigate is number three pick who is worldview on crime, race, and climate should worrynt you. "the ingraham angle" investigates next. >> as associate attorney general, the number three job in rathe department, i nominate. to assure our justice is even more fair and more equal. >> laura: so who is vanita gupta? "the ingraham angle" investigates next. ♪ m

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>> laura: in other words, no law enforcement. >> the response that we are seen on the streets right now is not proportionate, it is not safe, it is a demonstration of military force that is so beyond what is happening on the street. >> laura: but apparently she loves the military response right now in d.c. where there is no threat. but will she at least use this to protect the first amendment? she personally met with the ceo of facebook and twitter out of the election to convince them to crackst down on so-called

disinformation. that move led to the banning of speech that was deemed harmful. but perhaps most revealing ofst miss gupta is this exchange from last summer. >> do you think that all americans a racist? >> i think we all have biased coming aside t do. i think we are an amazing country that strives to be better every single day. >> laura: nice try, but we all know that america will never be good enough for radicals like her. joining me now. you know, the left really does think we are an evil, awful, racist country. but those people usually aren't in a top leader position in the justice department. what is ahead with her? >> yeah, it's very clear just because obama had holder as his wingmen, but i biden is bringing in some really radical figures

into the justice department. now, what is scary about this is that not the liberalism of vanita gupta, but the willingness to turn the police agencies of government into weaponized agencies against political opponents. that is not liberalism, that is actually il-liberalism.nt she targets people against her and his able to look away when it's people on her side. she is part of that coordinated action on the left to shut down and criminalize opponents. that is what makes her truly scary person. >> laura: i want to skip something to when she was describing what she wanted to do when she got into the justice

department. watch. >> now is the time to ensure that our economic system works for everyone. we will harness all of the justice department's levers for civil rights, justice, and police reform, climate justice, so much more. >> laura: climate justice, abolishing the police. all of the levers of government -- back to what ganesh said, a liberal moves one and all. >> looks like they are using the levers of government to dismantle the government. i think most americans would agree that one of the core functions of the government is to keep us safe. and this is what happens. it's part of the trend we have seen of prosecutors who are really public defenders dismantle injustice in our country.y. t this is going to be the highest level of doj official who has these radical views and her experience in the government shows she knows how to work that

was levers. she played a central role in the outcome of the election last year by helping the big tech companies justify censorship of speech that criticized how our elections are being run. see you can only imagine how the government is going to be weaponized against the critics of the government. >> laura: to that point -- >> in every way, contrary to what the job is supposed to be. >> laura: to that point, thisve is what she said about voting. this was lastwh year. watch. >> we need expanded vote by mail with things like prepaid postage stamps, you saw the attacks on the u.s. postal service that were causing delays. suspending online voter legislation. we need to be fighting disinformation.

>> laura: is there any doubt in your mind that they will use these concerns to push for universal mail-in ballots as a federal issue? >> no doubt at all. in some ways, i'm almost in admiration for the aggression that these democrats and leftists show in pushing their cause. just pushing this with the attorney general barr who appeared before a democratic committee just a few months ago. they basically were accusing him, the trump administration, of weaponize in the justice department.ik he said something like well, can you name a single democrat i'm going after, give me one case, and they couldn't and he couldn't either. so he was using this as a demonstration of the trump esadministrations fairness. we create not only the actuality, but the appearance of

fairness. >> laura: all right, thank you so much. after hesitating during the campaign, president biden is now leaning into the idea of reparations. the legendary bob woodson reacts to that next. ♪ ♪ y bob woodson reacts

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♪ ♪ >> laura: president biden is backing a study of reparations for black americans as congressional democrats advance a bill to do just that. now they are making outlandish claims. to speak reparation proposals have been submitted before the covid-19 pandemic narrowing the wealth gap in the states overall population that could have been reduced from anywhere from 31-68%. >> laura: i thought there was science? according to one statement, it

will be somewhere between $10-$12 trillion. joining me now, bob woodson. aside from the price tag in a country with -- 20 or 25 trillion in debt -- what does it say about joe biden that he is allowing this to percolate? >> i think the whole issue is a massive destruction. even getting into the details of it. who pays? what about the five tribes, the trail of tears. they were free blacks who owned. the nigerians and other africans who came here, 3.5 million of them hearing that their incomes are better than whites. it's just a distraction. we don't have to deal with the fundamental, real challenges facing blackns america today. >> laura: said the democrats like to hold this issue out as m karis -- they know they're not

going to deliver it. but it's a way to avoid the other problems. >> they don't have to deal with the black on black crowd. they don't have to answer why is racism where the primary barrier facing blacks? why have low income blacks suffered these inequities in these cities, all of these black run democratic cities over the past 50 years? where blacks have been -- why are blacks million in institutions run by their own people? in the fact that proposition 16 in california has been rejected in a liberal state like california, they are rejecting an affirmative action. so where is the market for this?

i think it's a distraction so they don't have to deal with the fundamental challenges facing it. and that is the self-inflicted wounds that are occurring in america today. but we are doing -- we have to have solutions, solutions cannot be found through transactions like reparations. it's going to be found by investing in institutions and individuals within those communities. it's more cultural than it is economic. >> laura: i could not agree with you more. freshman congresswoman cori bush offered a defense of this reparations bill. watch. >> the violence my family withstood from one generation to the next, it was structural, it was political. the federal government must account for its ongoing role in perpetuating, supporting, and upholding white supremacy.al >> laura: bob, there's a lot of white supremacy language being thrown around.

is this a federal government upholding white supremacy? >> you know, laura. i honestly prefer old-fashioned bigots. because they were obvious in their opposition. it is clear that there intention was to hurt us. what they are communicating to blacks is that we don't have the capacity or a debility be agents of our own uplifts. that's a more insidious form of racism is to assume that we don't have the capacity to achieve. when whites were at their worst, blacks were at their best. we own hotels, we had our own railroads. and chicago we had 731 black owned business. >> laura: bob, we have to run.

but we are going to have you back soon. fascinating conversation. when we come back, chris cuomo's last bite. ♪ ♪

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