♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪♪ >> sean: that was awesome. congratulations to the islanders. that's all the time we have left. please set your dvr so you never miss an episode. in the meantime, let not your hearts be troubled. laura ingraham takes it from here. have a great night, see you tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. congressman byron donalds, a black republican, was denied entry into the congressional black caucus, if you can believe it. he's here with us and moments to respond. also withthe administration shirking its response to billy's at the border, texas governor greg abbott is stepping in. he has an announcement for us a little later on. but first, biden sabotages america. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." during the 2020 campaign, anytime biden was pressed on how

he would deal with the growing threat from china, he'd respond with the same "we are the world" refrain. >> president biden: folks, i'm restoring america's leadership on the world stage. i promise you i will repair our alliances. we need someone to take office this time around who on day 1 and stand on the world stage, command the respect of world leaders. we should be rallying our friends to take on china's abusive practices around the world. >> laura: working with our friends, are we? at the same time, the media of course were litmus paper trade president trump as a bull in a china shop was hated by every world leader and they sold biden as mr. foreign policy. it kind of a diplomatic superhero of sorts able to heal the world and get nations like germany and france to work with us on all the big issues. but now about six months into the biden administration, we see that once again this was another biden bait and switch.

come on, biden can't even get canada to open our border to the north and he's going to take on all of the e.u.? now, time and again we see that biden sabotages, rather than advances, america's interest. issues ranging from our energy needs to the china threat, he either projects abject weakness organ pushes policies that hurt american families, our economy, and national security. now, trump saw things as they really were. he understood that world leaders much like ceos are just nomadic generally going to act in their own interests unless they have to cut deals for their own survival. so america first wasn't just a slogan for trump, it was the cornerstone of every major domestic and foreign policy decision. in international affairs protecting our issues like trade and border security, it required are having leverage against reluctant allies and aggressive adversaries. now, read member the media and

globalist freak out when trump attended his first big nato summit? i do. they were enraged that he refused to play by the old establishment games of papering over all the differences with niceties. well, instead he used the occasion to put our friends on notice that america wouldn't be the sap anymore who picked up the check forever. it was time that member nations started living up to their obligations. >> nato members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations. this is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the united states. >> laura: of course in the media's eyes, an american president should never ask our allies to pay up. it's so gauche and threatening. >> it was an epic foreign policy fail, an easy layup missed by the united states. >> it seems like the phrase "leader of the free world" might be obsolete.

>> they are not getting along with any of their european allies. >> it's really striking, the degree of hostility that donald trump has against nato. >> nato is not like a golf club, there are no views, there are no [indiscernible]. >> laura: i forgot that jim. and these people are still upset about it. this was just a few hours ago. >> i covered the nato and the g7 with president trump and i said what does a normal summit look like and they said, low first it doesn't look like anything what you've experienced. there's the impulses of president trump, former president trump, the elbowing of leaders, the calling into question not what should be done in these organizations, but whether or not they should even exist. so european leaders were frankly scared, a lot of them were traumatized, trump was openly hostile and was so mean in some ways to our european allies. >> laura: so mean to our allies. putting your tax dollars to work, by the way. you see, folks at npr and

"the washington post" are never as happy when it american presidents shrink on the world stage and the global elites love it when american leaders apologize. heck, president obama's nobel prize within the equivalent of, i don't know, a participation trophy in global affairs. it was embarrassing both for the nobel committee and president obama. but i wouldn't be at all surprised if old joe got one before the term is out at this rate. it all depends on how much he gravels or caves on the world stage over the next four years so we will have to wait and see. biden sabotage, it reaches every part of the american landscape. in just months we went from energy independence to energy depressed. trump understood though that america was stronger and more powerful when we are less reliant on other countries for energy and when american families are more prosperous. on the other hand, democrats love high energy prices and they've always wanted us to pay

the same exorbitant prices at the pump that the europeans pay. why? why do they want this? because they want us to travel less and use less energy. they kind of prep for us all to be crammed into cities living in little apartments like many european families do. the climate change fanatics that biden stocked his administration with absolutely detest even the memory of $2 a gallon gasoline. especially when it's pumped into guy don't know, a ford f-150, black and country music with that really offensive thing called an american flag bumper sticker. that sends them over the edge. now, somehow, old joe thinks americans won't blame him that their cost of living is going up, as long as they are not rude to the europeans or end as long as he just spouts meaningless cliches. >> president biden: i will make it clear that the united states is back and democracies of the world

[indiscernible] toughest challenges. >> laura: can even get the mic right there. if america was really back, as he said, we wouldn't see china brazenly signaling it was about to take taiwan. we wouldn't see a flood of humanity crossing our southern border. we certainly wouldn't be seeing opioid use skyrocketing. we wouldn't be seeing violent crime spiking and we wouldn't see a secretary of state so neutered on foreign policy that he's fumbled the embarrassing question on how the biden team wasn't able to stop germany's mega energy deal with russia in that pipeline. it totally undercuts america's national gas industry. the truth is biden has bent over backwards for germany and the e.u. and has gotten virtually nothing for it. zero. if other countries, even our friends, simply don't share many of our values. we have to understand this. so we could work with them on occasion, and we have some

things in common, but on big issues, we have very little in common. things like gun rights, even free-speech, military spending, and especially on the need to band together to keep china in check. >> it will push china to increase its strategy. it will push china to precisely diminish its corporation on the different agenda and i think [indiscernible]. >> laura: heck, the french would sell the louvre to china for the right price. the truth is, europe is perfectly content to play america off china and china off america. they'll make a lot of demands, but give us almost nothing back. dell free ride off our vaccine generosity as they hoard their own ppe like they did early on in the pandemic. you know it's bad though for biden when the press is starting

to write all these preemptive stories to manage people's expectations on how this whole trip will go. here's how axios framed it. they wrote "it's also not clear to what extent biden's top geopolitical priority, countering china, will be on the agenda." what? biden's whole campaign rested on the notion that he would persuade allies to support him on china. and he is going to brussels for a nato summit and it's not clear whether countering china is even on the agenda? how is that even possible? it's like kamala not going to the border. how is that not possible? how is biden's issue not really possible when dr. jill biden insisted that her husband had been cramming nonstop for his first big trip. >> i think he is so well prepared. you know, he's been studying for

weeks, working up to today. of course he knows most of the leaders that will be here and joe loves foreign policy. i think that we are bringing love from america. i think that this is a global conference and we are trying to bring unity across the globe. >> laura: unity? well, that jacket jill war is something my 16-year-old might get a target, but i don't think it's going to impress the chinese somehow. you know what xi jinping and the ccp do the love though? power and domination. if trump at the election, he would have had enormous economic leverage against the e.u. and he wouldn't have been able to make afraid use it. biden will not. let's never forget that biden and the democrats essentially agree with the european elites who think that american history is corrupt and is marred by fat

evil racists. going forward, republicans should make it very clear that any grand deals biden makes with europe over the next few years will be undone immediately when they get back into power, whether it's the minimum global tax rates or climate change, vaccine passports, global surveillance. all of that will be undone. their ideal world is one where the u.s. is kind of like gulliver, tied down by the [indiscernible] where the wto and other international bureaucracies have the power and american citizens just work a lot and take orders. are the europeans going to finally agree to fulfill their promises on defense spending? of course not. are they going to give us genuine practical efforts on the china problem? or just more empty words? i think we already know the answer on that. when the no, and no. it's just a political show. it's designed to make you think that biden is looking out for

our interests, but we will have to wait three more years to elect someone who will once again put america first, and that's the angle. joining me now is south carolina senator lindsey graham. good to see you tonight. the only thing that biden seems to be able to rally the world around is at this point just undermining america and talking about how we are all systemically racist. >> yeah. i mean, yeah, let's just be honest. the bad guys were afraid of trump. who is afraid of biden? you know, the europeans are talking about doing a trade deal with china as china dismantles hong kong's democracy and is engaging in against the uighurs. so this just blows my mind, they are talking about going back into the iranian nuclear deal even though iran hasn't changed its behavior at all. i can tell you one thing, the israelis miss a strong american president. the mexican president blamed

biden for the spike in illegal immigration. we had 160% increase in illegal immigration in the last six months because biden doesn't know what he's doing on the border. >> laura: here's a big issue that biden thinks he can rally europe around. watch. >> president biden: 80 years ago the prime minister winston churchill and president frank roosevelt signed an agreement. today, we build on that commitment with a revitalized atlantic charter speaking directly to the key challenges of this century. cybersecurity, emerging technologies, global health, and climate change. >> laura: he talked about international rules-based order, quite different from what winston churchill was talking about all those years ago, senator. >> let me give you two examples. we've had two cyber attacks on our economy coming from russian

territory by russian organizations i think are giving a pass by the russian government. they are probably working together, to be honest with you, and you had growing evidence that the coronavirus came out of a lab in china, not nature and is biden asking the europeans to do anything to push back against russian cyber terrorism? is he even talking about what should we do to rein china in? no. of this is just all fluff and happy talk. i mr. trump. >> laura: senator, you argue in a near op-ed -- plato prominent role in trump's defeat in 2020 and the presidential race. explain. >> well, okay. in february 2020, 27 american scientists rode an op-ed saying that anybody who suggested the

coronavirus came out of a chinese lab is a right wing nuts, then later on, five other scientists said the same thing. why is that important? if, in fact, the coronavirus came out of the chinese lab like a lot of people suspected, people in america would be outraged and want somebody to take it to china. that would have been the biggest issue in the entire campaign, who can make china pay for infecting the world. secondly, by shutting down this legitimate question about where the coronavirus came from, they reinforced the idea that trump was a nut, so the scientists who signed that letter in february 2020, i've got a question for them. what evidence did you have two make you feel so strong there was no other alternative then it coming from nature? was this a political document or a scientific document? to dr. fauci. i'm not challenging science, i'm questioning the motive of the scientists who definitively said in february 2020 a lab leak was

the right wing conspiracy idea. well, why did they say -- they are tied to the wuhan lab. they have self-interest to shutdown that inquiry. i think it changed the 2020 election. >> laura: it obviously did. at 100% did. as did the dismissal of -- the of all these early treatments and just blowing them off saying they don't work, it turns out now -- this big study just published about hydroxychloroquine, 200% increase in survival if it's used with zinc and azithromycin. all these could have been saved, but dr. anthony fauci and the medical cartel, as we call them, dismissed it and trashed the motive of president trump and any of us who interviewed the top experts who said it worked. outrageous. people died. >> not only did people die, but anybody who suggested it may

have come from the lab in china and incompetence in the lab in china infected the entire world, they were written off as a right wing nut. tom cotton, president trump was a fight. i got a letter going to dr. fauci from myself and senator paul asking him about the op-ed piece of the two scientists who believed that the sequencing of the coronavirus proves almost positively that it came from an man-made laboratory experiment, not from nature. so how could they know so certain in 2020 of february, that the lab leak theory was a bunch of right wing propaganda when it seems to be more likely than not today? >> laura: do you think anthony fauci has the confidence of the american people and should be sitting in this position getting $400,000 a year, given everything we know not just on that issue but all these other medical issues? senator, do you really think he should be in that position today? >> i smell a rat.

this letter written by these scientists i think was designed to stop an inquiry because they actually had a relationship with the wuhan lab and if it had been a lab leak, trump would have been right and oh, my god, what would have happened if trump was right about the source of the virus? this doesn't past the smell test. i am not a scientist but i understand conflict of interest and i am going to ask until the cows come home how did you know for sure -- how did you exclude the lab leak theory, and why is it more prominent today than it was back then? >> laura: i think these emails came out, that's what happened and they knew they had to answer some questions. >> i think you're exactly right. >> laura: i said, senator, that the emails for fauci are what the blue dress was for clinton. taking a back to the old impeachment days. good to see you tonight. thank you for joining us. congressman byron donalds, an african-american republican, is

being denied entry into the congressional black caucus. what's worse? following up by an insulting interview on cnn. congressman donalds is here, he will respond to both in moments. my name is douglas. i'm a writer/director and i'm still working. in the kind of work that i do, you are surrounded by people who are all younger than you. i had to get help somewhere along the line to stay competitive. i discovered prevagen. i started taking it and after a period of time, my memory improved. it was a game-changer for me. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.

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congressional black caucus was envisioned as a biracial alliance of black lawmakers. guess how many black republicans are in the group today? zero. it's not for a lack of trying. for months, congressman byron donalds has inquired about joining but the cbc won't give them an answer. one cbc source says the group is actively blocking his membership. but don't worry, there's a consolation prize. a patronizing interview with cnn's cheerful morning crew. >> do you think that your defense of a person that said things like that might be incongruent with the mission of the cbc? >> first of all, whatever the president said in the past has nothing to do with this discussion at all. >> you've defended -- you've defended him. >> please don't cut me off. i have not cut you off. please do not do that to me. thank you. as a black man in america, i'm allowed to have my own thoughts in who i choose to support and who i choose not to support. >> laura: four to congressman

byron donalds joins me now. congressman, the cbc 'his actions are bad enough, but then to have the media try to justify it by implying that you don't have the right to disagree with the prevailing wisdom, political wisdom of the congressional black caucus. it's amazing. >> completely amazing but i'm not surprised. the media has been covering for the democrats for quite some time so when they try to bring a president trump and the things that he has said as justification, i found it to be outrageous. last time i was -- i've made it in america as a black man. i graduated college as a black man, i raise my son is a black man. i came into the house of congress as a black man. so i don't know what donald trump or joe biden or frankly anybody else has to do with the cdc and myself, but like i said earlier, they asked me if i wanted to join -- i was a member of the legislative black caucus when i was in

florida's legislature for four years, so i've been through this before. it was much more congenial in florida but i'm in washington now so we will see how it goes from here. >> laura: you ever run into like eleanor holmes norton or any of the other members of the cbc and chitchat about this in the halls? do you ever talk to each other? >> that's the funny thing. i've talked to a lot of the members whether we are on the floor or in the speakers lobby and in passing and they say hey would you join the cbc and i said yeah, i was in the legislative black caucus when i was in the florida legislature. for me, it's about making sure that conservative ideals are actually being discussed in the room at the table. i know that a lot of members of the cbc will not agree with me and i'm not going to agree with them, but it's about actually having the conversation that the left always says they want to have. i'm prepared to have it, i'm ready to sit down and discuss it but apparently they don't want to discuss it with me. if >> laura: do you think

they're worried that if you entered these meetings, taking part in the meetings, that you might convince a few people to consider issues a little differently from a different point of view, or they don't want anyone outside of their fold, you know, knowing what they discuss? it's got to be one of those two things. i mean, you don't seem to be a very threatening person. you kind of just want your views heard i imagine. >> i really don't know. i've got to leave that up to them. i think the thing that has really kind of been weird about this whole situation is that you have a member say something off the record to a reporter and a reporter ran with it. to me, we are all members of congress, we go on tv shows all the time, we debate each other's in committees so i don't see where we can't have this conversation just in front of each other and that we go from there and part our ways if that's what the decision is. but i don't think it's really about me convincing any of them, although i'm pretty smart and i make a good argument so i think that would probably happen.

i think that is more a matter of they are accustomed to things -- i don't know if i caused problems for them or not but it's really about all of black america and all of america being exposed to all ideas and ideologies across the political spectrum, not just one. >> laura: when you listen to comments from people like maxine waters, remember she was inciting violence during the summer riots, they don't really think that you are authentically black. i mean, your skin color is black but to them, you are not authentic and when you go online, watch some of the speeches, some of the radicals, for them, you don't really count. they use phrases like uncle tom. maybe not to your face, but look, i worked for justice thomas. that's what they did to him. they still do to him. >> yeah, that part frankly, it just sucks. i've never had anybody bring that to my face. i actually will respect somebody if they would say it's in my face, but they don't. they prefer to say on twitter or

on instagram. you get cute little means that i ignore those people. what i have sound dull my conversations with black democrats, we actually just have a good conversation so when this came up in the media, and it came up from left-wing media, when it popped up, it kind of surprised me i was like "we are here already"? but that's okay, let's just take care of business right here and there. when it comes to people in the radical left, especially when it comes to white liberals who try to make me seem like i'm not black enough for them, i tell them to walk a mile in my shoes, talk to my mom, who still lives in brooklyn, new york, today. >> laura: congressman, thank you for standing up and thank you for just being a voice of reason. everyone should be able to have a conversation across party lines every now and then. congressman, thank you. and in their desperate attempt to cling to power, democrats are once again turning to machine politics. illinois democrats think they found a new voter base for their corrupt designs. reason inmates. illinois lawmakers consumed

pickup legislation to restore voting rights to convicted criminals who are still serving jail time. of course they obviously see inmates as a captive audience as they can harvest ballots, vacuum upvotes, you know how it goes. but that's not all. just days ago governor j.b. pritzker gave democrats another tool to ensure ill-gotten dominance, signing and explicitly partisan redistricting bill that heavily favors democrats. of course there was also something old j.b. promised not to do. he promised not to do it while running for governor. joining me now is jason hill, professor of philosophy at depaul university, author of the forthcoming book, "what do white americans owe black people? racial justice in the age of black oppression. jason, thanks for joining us. this is kind of nothing new under the sun in a way because we've seen this type of machine politics, but really this has gone back more than a hundred years, but voting rights for inmates, still behind bars? that's a whole new level of

corruption. >> well, laura, it violates illinois constitution, first of all, and the illinois constitution is premised on the idea that when you violate other people's rights, you evict yourself from [indiscernible] of certain rights. the right to vote is not a constitutional right but we know what is behind this move. that is, those in prison were going to be granted the right to vote, who will of course vote for the left, who is giving them this right, and on release, the left will have a coercive monopoly on that sort of demographic, so this is more than corrupt, this is just a well-thought-out strategy and at a particular demographic group in the population, kind of in violation of the illinois constitution. >> laura: don't you think for the left and the democrats they are looking at the hispanic vote? and i think they are seeing that their previous calculations, that they were all going to be overwhelmingly democrat, not necessarily working out for them.

so i think they have to -- they have to go back to the race well, it's got to be racism 24/7, dangling the reparations issue as well. they have to stoke that kind of anger and resentment among various racial groups to solidify the black vote. i think they are frantic about what happened to the hispanic vote for them may happen in pockets at least to the black vote. >> yes, we saw in texas that the hispanic productions didn't really play out as people thought they would have played out, so they have to sort of play a divisive race war and especially with the reparations movement, i really think that these people are out to launch a civil war in this country with the reparations movement, because since the 1964 civil rights act which granted them equality before the law and the reforming of programs that follow, the various contracts issued to minorities, that whole reparations movement, laura, is moot. it's a nonissue. >> laura: jason, we have to go, but thank you him and happy

birthday! you share a birthday with one of my sons, so happy birthday to you. great to see you. go eat some cake. fed up with the excusable inaction coming from the white house, texas governor greg abbott is taking border measures into his own hand. the governor joins us from the border for the big announcement. stay there. nal eye institute did 20 years of clinical studies on a formula only found in preservision. if it were my vision, i'd ask my doctor about preservision. it's the most studied eye vitamin brand. if it were my vision, i'd look into preservision. only preservision areds2 contains the exact nutrient formula recommended by the nei to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. i have amd. it is my vision so my plan includes preservision.

it would be cool to ride a horse on the moon. ♪ ♪ >> laura: border agents stopped more than 180,000 people illegally crossing our southern border. so far this fiscal year, about 930,000 migrants have been caught trying to enter the country, mostly in areas without a fence or border wall. this fact, and biden's other to utter incompetence or unwillingness to solve this crisis has my next guest, texas governor greg abbott, taking his matters into his own hands. >> i will announce next make the

plan for the state of texas to begin building the border wall in the state of texas. >> laura: governor abbott joins me now from the del rio sector of our border where "the ingraham angle" reported a few years ago. governor, how will you get this wall built without the help of the federal government? >> laura, texas will build it ourselves. however, tonight is not the night to announce those details. those details about building a wall will be made next week. we've been through the process however of analyzing what it will take, the steps that are needed, the legal processes that are required. we believe that we can do it in a multistep process. >> laura: governor -- >> to make a fine point on it, we have to build a border. i've been down here talking to the people in the rio grande valley and the way they are being overrun is reprehensible, it's disastrous what the biden administration has done.

president trump had adequately secured our border. he had to "remain in mexico" policy, he began building the border wall and now suddenly all of that disappeared and as you highlighted, it fled to a dramatic increase in the number of people crossing the border but it's not just on the company minors, its people were causing great damage and harm to the residents right here in del rio as while his people up and down the border. i've introduced janet a multitude of actions that texas is taking, including the fact that texas passed a budget adding more than a billion dollars for border security in the state, which is a good start, but laura, also announced that texas is going to begin increasing arrests that are going to be made, arresting people coming across the border, arresting people for trespassing and because i declared it a disaster that elevates the penalty, ensuring the people that we arrest were trespassing, they will be serving time in jail. we're going to take this very seriously, we're going to do everything possible to secure our border, including building a border wall.

if >> laura: governor abbott, at some point, i think we all have to ask ourselves as americans, is this a willful refusal to do what we know works? i mean, kamala harris a couple days ago said there's no quick fix, it's a complex issue, those are the root problems, go to central america, give them more money but we actually know what works but they refused to do those things. given that, do you believe that this is purposeful on the part of the administration, allowing this many people to come into our country? >> i feel certain that it is willful, it is purposeful. it's wanton disregard for the border laws, for the immigration laws, for the border communities, for candidly anybody in the united states of america. the biden administration has abandoned the border, any pretense of border security, any pretense of enforcing our immigration laws. they've laughed it off just the

exact same way that the vice president laughed it off in our interview the other day, and so it is a joke to the biden administration, but we are not taking it as a joke in texas. we are going to step up and respond the way we must respond to secure the sovereignty our state, to prevent the invasion that's taken place in front of our very own eyes. >> laura: and governor, speaking of laughing it off, as you described, the vice president continues to embrace her role overseeing the border. this was a cringeworthy dodge tonight to her. watch. >> upset i'm going to go to the border. >> when you going to the border, vice president? >> the administration has asked -- i'm not finished. i said i'm going to the border. >> laura: she gets very snippy there. she's had, what, 80 something days, and she hasn't visited -- she hasn't visited any part ofi.

she gets very uncomfortable and she kind of blows it off and insinuates that the reporter has an agenda. by the way, i believe that was the [indiscernible] reporter. >> so they completely don't care about the border at all and they try to brush it aside as much as they possibly can. they ignore it, they haven't come here, they don't want to talk to us or do anything for us. they are fighting us every step of the way. in fact the biden administration is now suing me because of actions i'm trying to take to better secure the state of texas, to try to crack down on people coming across the border. they are fighting against texas 'has efforts to secure our own border. >> laura: governor, thank you for stepping up, and the people of texas are spending an enormous amount of their tax dollars to try to secure their state, but that money should ultimately come from the federal government in court and i'm sure you're looking at all those avenues, but thank you for joining us tonight, we are going to be following this obviously,

as we always have. >> thank you, laura. >> laura: specific bad actors are whipping up fear over another january 6th in a craven attempt to line their own pockets. we are going to expose one and then speak to matt walsh and chris bedford next.

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♪ ♪ >> laura: as the pandemic in january 6th have shown us, keeping americans scared and compliant isn't just about accruing power. the fact is, fear pays. few people know that better than former bush 43 dhs secretary. of course he profits optimistic securities, industrial complex, if you want to call it that. he sits on the boards of giant defense firms and runs his own consulting company that specializes in security, particularly cybersecurity. so why should any of us be surprised when he pops up on msnbc today stoking fears about domestic extremism on the web and another pending attack? >> i think -- not just a look at the capitol police, but in all the elements of government that have led up to this and to determine who instigated, financed it and what was available to the various

elements -- intelligence community in advance that couldn't be used to prevent it or to mitigate it? >> how active do you think the threat to our democracy still is? >> this is in fact a very serious challenge to our democracy. >> laura: joining me now, matt walsh and chris bedford. chris, i'm looking at the website now just during the commercial break. cybersecurity risk management, manage cyber risk and security, learn to assess systems from the mind-set of an adversary, priority, threat prevention and detection. makes an enormous amount of money off the very thing he is warning against and it's obviously inflating the risk post-january 6th. unbelievable. >> this is a whole mystery that's been built. when i was just beginning as a young reporter at the end of the bush of administration, i was at

a speech from major conservative think tank, then-director, he was talking but a new technology he was unveiling that would allow tsa agents to scan americans and get their naked image and put it in front of a tsa agent to see every single aspect of them and determine if they were an al qaeda agent. at the end of that speech, the entire audience stood up and cheered and applauded. all that is to say that over the last 20 years this complex has been feeding and feeding and getting bigger and bigger and who's been standing in the way of it? you have a lot of leaders of the g.o.p. as well as a lot of leaders from the democratic party that are entirely in favor of this. the fear gets them votes, it makes people money. it means power here in washington, d.c. we look at what's the difference between january 6th and the hundreds of riots that actually killed dozens of people across this country. january 6th is a useful tool for that fear and that power so he's gonna make a lot of money on that. >> laura: when you look at his

website. it just all of the security industrial complex that they make millions and millions of dollars off of the very thing he's commenting on on television, yet he doesn't reveal that when he appears. he's just an objective analyst saying this is a real problem and we should do something about it, it's all president trump's fault. he didn't say that but it was implied in the questioning. your reaction to this? i guess we shouldn't be surprised. >> not surprised, but obviously he's got his grafts going so he's got money to make off of it. the media does as well, stoking fear about this. my question is if this is a huge threat posed by these right wing quote unquote "insurrectionist," then why do you have to lie about it? we were told it was an armed insurrection. now we find out, well, not really. we were told it was a deadly insurrection, the owner person was killed was ashley babbitt killed by capitol police officer. all of these lies, if this is a real danger we are under, kind of like a hate crime thing, we

are told that all these hate crimes haven't -- we always get the hate crime -- the hoax hate crimes. why do you have to hoax it if it's a real epidemic? that's my confusion. >> laura: they pedal fear -- the virus, there's a lot of people for people to be worried about it -- reasons for people to be worried about it but there's a lot of treatments for the virus too but when you stoke the fear, other people on the other side can make a lot of money. you can't discount any of that. i got to get to this shocking story. human events has uncovered a deleted archive of tweets belonging to a military commander, commander of the 18 infantry fighting eagles ran a private woke left-wing twitter account. what's more, he reportedly said at a military function that if you're white, you're part of the problem. if you're a white male, you are part of the problem. chris. why should republicans keep voting for this woke defense

industrial complex given how it's working against classic and traditional american values and just fairness? >> this is a major problem because what the system seeks to do is divide us by race and it's extremely successful in that. we've seen what it's done in our cities and our communities, to our police, to our politicians and to have that level of distrust and division in our military is the opposite of what makes a cohesive fighting force and needs to be tackled now. >> laura: gentlemen, thank you. and what is the biggest threat facing america? biden and his generals can't agree. the last bite explains.

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[crunch] >> laura: former defense secretary robert gates said biden have been wrong about every national security issue. joe's losing streak continues. >> to know what the joint chiefs told us the greatest threat facing america was? global warming. >> climate change the threat but the president is looking at it

at a much broader angle than i am. i'm looking at it from a strictly military standpoint and from a strictly military standpoint, i am putting china and russia up there. >> laura: it's not climate change, joe. that's all the time we have to fight. set your dvr for "the ingraham angle" every night. freedom mattered. made in the usa. go to lauraingraham.com for a great charity. greg gutfeld takes it from here. >> in october, you were on zoom call with your colleagues from the "new yorker" magazine. everyone took a break for several minutes during which time you were caught masturbating on camera. you are fired after 27 years. you sense that have been on leave from cnn. do i have that right? speaker you've got it right, sad to say. >> greg: both hands on the desk, jeffrey.