this video where a mother in south africa was forced to throw her baby from a building after it was reportedly set on fire by looters. you can see her throwing her daughter to a crowd below. thankfully, both were able to escape unharmed. scary. unfortunately, that is all the time we have left. please set your dvr and never miss an episode. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham, big show tonight. >> laura: yeah, hannity, we are going to pick up where you left off with that horrific south africa story, because this portends trouble in the united states, when you have a full breakdown of law and order, do put it mildly, a lot of racial anxiety, so we're going to talk about that vehicle excellent show tonight. next, sean. that i am laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. every totally packed show tonight, so we are going to jump right in. the surge of distrust, that is the focus of tonight's "angle."

now, 50 years ago, a man who knew a little bit about america and its military warned us about the storm clouds gathering on the horizon. >> we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. we must never let this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. >> laura: former general and outgoing president dwight d. eisenhower saw the looming danger of a military that had grown so large and so powerful that it restrains far beyond its role and even risks the very values it is charged to uphold. now, i could no doubt see our troops as the selfless, dedicated, and brave people that they are, but what would you think about how our national

security establishment has ballooned? and about the billions of dollars lost annually, fraud and abuse that marks the pentagon. traditionally, our military has been one of the most trusted groups in the united states. but lately, that has been changing. in 2018, 70% of americans reported having a great deal of confidence in the military. three years later, it's down to 56%, with the largest dip among independents and republicans. so, why is this happening? now undoubtedly come our schools increasingly anti-american curricular are having some effect. then there is the entertainment industry in big tech, which are usually apologizing for america, that certainly does not inspire patriotism. but that is not the whole story. the fact of the matter is, americans know that despite trillions of spending, our military leadership hasn't won a major war outright since

world war ii. americans see the rise of china and they wonder why our politicians and our generals didn't see this coming a long time ago, and then prepare us for the reality that's coming. americans see heart-wrenching losses of american military and civilian personnel in iraq, but no victory there. they know that the best equipped, most advanced military in the world couldn't defeat the taliban in afghanistan after 20 years. now, i bet most do not know that we spent somewhere around $88 billion -- i bet it's more -- to train the afghan military and police forces. but how many times did our military commanders appear before congress and insist, insist, i tell you, that things are about to turn the corner there. but now that we are finally withdrawing our troops from afghanistan, we see the cold

hard truth: none of it works. the soldiers and airmen, reservists, they didn't fail us. their leadership did. of course, former president george w. bush believes biden's decision to pull out of america's longest war is premature. >> is it a mistake to withdraw -- >> you know, i think it is, yeah. because i think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad. >> laura: but it's also heartbreaking, he went on to say it's heartbreaking, not only because of the suffering we leave behind, but because we should've cut our losses there years ago. instead, more americans died, with hundreds of billions of dollars flushed down the drain. so, if these trends continue, it will have a terrible effect on military recruiting and funding. credibility will continue to wane, and the pentagon will have about the same competency ratings as, i don't know, right now, the cdc.

so think about this, china is preparing to take our ally taiwan down and aggressively promoting economic influence around the globe, but what keeps our top military leaders up at night? >> the job of the department of defense is to keep americans safe from our enemies, but we can't do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks. >> laura: biden state department is staffed by big thinkers who have downplayed china's brutal crackdown on human rights, as they decry our own track record here in the u.s. they even invited the u.n. to come in and grade their antiracism efforts. this is completely insane. but again, they are a bunch of self-loathing idiots. they are happiest when america is down on her knees, begging for approval and cooperation from europe and others.

our intelligence agencies also risk running into the same credibility buzz saw. remember obama's director of national intelligence, jim klapper, claimed they weren't monitoring domestic communications, and we found out they were. >> what i wanted to see is if you could give me a "yes" or "no" answer to the question, does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. >> laura: [laughs] and now, of course, using covid as a pretext, biden's white house is using a backdoor to get into your texts, as well, text messages. groups like the dnc are planning to engage fact-checkers and work with sms carriers about what they decide is misinformation about the vaccine.

well, given the government's routine obfuscation on the monitoring of american citizens, it shouldn't be surprising that voters don't trust assurances made by intel or military chiefs today. because if they are not using the pandemic to justify stripping you of your freedom, they are going to lean on the events of january 6th. >> social media has become, in many ways, the key amplifier to domestic violent extremism, just as it had four maligned foreign influences. the same things that attract people to it for good reasons are also capable of causing all kinds of harms that we are entrusted with trying to protect the american people against. >> laura: who do we get to protect us from you, christopher? he makes my skin crawl. now, if americans of a certain political band start feeling unwelcome in their own country come if they are treated like potential domestic terrorists, why should they continue to

support increasing the pentagon or cia's every year? the fact that the u.s. military is teaching critical race theory at all is frankly all you need to know about how far the leadership there has fallen. >> on the issue of critical race theory, et cetera -- >> i do think it is important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded an end be widely read. i want to understand white rage. and i'm white. and i want to understand it. >> laura: i'm glad he clarified that he was white. does general milley believe that before joe biden became president, the military was filled with raging kkk members? was white rage a problem in the army when obama was president? and if so, why didn't millie speak out about it back then? i don't think these generals and the intelligence bigwigs have really thought any of this through. because once they abuse the public's trust, insult the

public, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to revealed that trust. think about it this way. if evangelical christians are other traditionalists just steered clear of military service because they don't want their sons or daughters to be subjected to left-wing hectoring or propaganda, or worse, just be labeled extremist because, i don't know, they don't support transgender is him or something, what then? what is the military going to do then? the reason conservatives have always respected the military is because they represented a certain american tradition. they didn't come across as political. but now, the left has its claws into the military, just as they had their claws into institutions of higher learning. hollywood. go down the line. so they want to turn our military just into, i don't know, another faculty lounge somewhere. right now, we have a national defense apparatus, the pentagon and intel agencies, that are spending inordinate time and

resources on satisfying the wokesters on the left and too little on the real threats bearing down on the united states, mostly from china. oh, let's not forget that their ties to big tech and giant military contractors are a huge ongoing problem. more on that in a moment. all republicans on the hill need to demand that our military leadership and intel officials returned to their proper roles and get out of politics. do some soul-searching, because you are doing a massive amount of damage to your really important institution. and then what happens? when america faces a serious challenge to our security? what happens when we need national unity to prevail? and that's the "angle." joining me now oratorical men who will take on two specific pieces of my "angle." colorado congressman ken buck and u.s. space force lieutenant colonel matthew lowe meyer. lieutenant colonel lowe meyer, let me start with you.

you are a walking, talking evidence of how this poisonous thinking could alienate members of the military, or would be members of the military. tell us. >> laura, thanks for having me. first i want to say i speak for myself and not for the defense department. you are absolutely right, that it's going to be difficult for both the american people, as well as our service members to maintain trust in this institution, the united states military, that has traditionally garnered a lot of trust from both our service members and the american people, if we continue to push political ideology that was intended to be divisive, and when i say that, i'm speaking about critical race theory. right now, our military service members who have been trained to be a political, they shoulder an unfair burden at the moment, and that is, it is difficult to remain apolitical in an

environment that is becoming hyper politicized. and people are very principled, who have joined our armed forces. they carry great deal about this country, and when their principles are under attack, they want to speak up, but when you speak up and you are labeled politically partisan for it, you face a very terrible dilemma that shouldn't exist in our armed forces. >> laura: congressman buck, you on another issue are demanding answers from the pentagon on something just as troubling as what we laid out in the "angle," and here, it is dod officials who seem to be playing footsie with big tech giant, mainly amazon. while they are negotiating billf dollars in government contracts. why should every american be alarmed by these entities acting in such a manner? >> every american should be alarmed, laura. the problem that we have is amazon is a monopoly and it is

trying to monopolize cloud contracts. the largest cloud contract in history was put out by the defense department and amazon had a former employee and a former consultant working for secretary mattis and secretary mattis met several times with jeff bezos, the president, chief executive officer of amazon, and now we find out in emails that have just been revealed that that relationship was far too cozy and really brings some very fundamental questions about government contracts and how a monopoly in the consumer cloud area is also trying to monopolize the government cloud area. it is so dangerous because we saw what happened to parlor. when these woke ceos want to punish a group that is actually treating conservatives fairly,

they can kick parler right off the platform. if we allow a monopoly like amazon to control the government cloud contracts, i think we will be in serious trouble. >> laura: it's so disturbing. lieutenant colonel, speaking of the wokeness issue, as an air air force academy professor was out there defending the critical race theory teachings in a "washington post" column, she wrote, "crt help students identify the structural racism and inequality that has been endemic in american society and provides methods for deconstructing oppressive beliefs." in other words, racism was ingrained in the system from the beginning and the military still struggles with these issues. matt, the air force, of course, isn't alone. i know you have heard from military men and women who are sharing their concerns, as well. your reaction to those comments? >> i'm surprised on a number of levels here. first off, i'm surprised that we've still got professors in

academia, but specifically at our service academies, who happen to believe in marxist trash like critical race theory. second, i'm surprised that i can be fired for political partisanship for exposing the marxist lineage of ideas behind critical race theory, for example, and opposing it, while on the other hand, others, both in uniform and who are permanent party professors at the air force academy, are able to speak in advocacy for the teaching and face no consequences. so, my question is, is it politically partisan or not? and you know, on the one hand, marxism is not a politically partisan issue. if you are american i do love your country, we should all unite around this common enemy that is seeking to undermine our traditional value, our founding documents, in fact, the documents which our service members swear an oath to defend. critical race theory seems to undo all of that because it is marxist. >> laura: should $1, congressman buck, of our tax

dollars go to teaching that trash in our military academy, yes or no? $1? >> no. >> laura: congressman, lieutenant colonel, thank you. now, speaking of powerful agencies and the defense's fear, my next guest, senator tom cotton, is investing any one of the biggest u.s. defense contractors out there using training material that promotes critical race theory. in a letter to the company's chairman and ceo, cotton writing in part, "title vi of the civil rights act ensures no person in the u.s. shall on the ground of race color or national origin be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." joining me now is senator tom cotton, member of the senate armed services committee. senator cotton, the defense industry is no different from any of these other big corporations that are under enormous pressure to bow down to the left on this, but how much

worse is it when you have tax dollars keeping a lot of these companies afloat to teach people to basically hate the country at its core? >> well, laura, this week it is raytheon. a few weeks ago, i had a similar exchange with lockheed martin. i suspect, if you probed in some of the other major defense contracts, you would find very similar to kinds of training materials. in fact, the raytheon ceo today wrote back and said raytheon is not conducting any training that most other major american corporations conduct. sadly, sadly, i think he's right about that. but that is not a defense of raytheon, that is an indictment of corporate america. it is one thing, with coca-cola does nonsense like this, and turns people off from their sugary beverages. is a whole different thing, though, if the companies, who are building the weapons and the equipment to keep our troops safe and defend our nation, get a lion's share of the revenues

from american taxpayers, are doing these things. >> laura: senator, i want to bring up something, of all the disturbing things that i've seen over the last three days, tony blinken, the secretary of state, is continuing this biden habit of either bashing america as a racist on the world stage, apologizing for america, implicitly here. he tweeted last night that responsible nations must not shrink from scrutiny of their human rights record, rather, they should be transparent with the intent to grow and do better. that is why i am announcing a formal invitation for u.n. special -- on contemporary formt the u.s. senator, we are inviting the u.n. to come into conduct some "investigation," afterwards they are going to trash us and equate us, trash us and give a pass, as usual, to countries like china.

>> yeah, totally pathetic, laura. tony blinken, like his boss joe biden, is sticking a "kick me" sign on uncle sam's back. they should tell that person to pack his bags and head straight to china where china is committing against religious and ethnic minorities. where they are engaged in a systematic sterilization of minority women so they can't reproduce. or, barring that, the systematic rape of them so they produce han chinese, to say nothing of what they have done to hong kong over the last year, or to christians who are simply trying to worship god in their homes throughout china. that is where the u.s. should be focusing on human rights abuses. they should not be coming to the united states, and it is disgraceful that joe biden and tony blinken have asked them to do so. >> laura: but senator, doesn't this have an actual effect on our national security, our secretary of state, by allowing this to happen on u.s. soil, with the u.n. and their track record on human rights, looking the other way on north korea and

cuba, and obviously with china, how does this help our national security, back to my "angle" theme? >> well, laura, it does not help us at all, you are right that the united nations often have nations like cuba and north korea sitting on their human rights council. that is simply another way to undermine the faith and the confidence that the american people have in our government that they are up to such nonsense. it is kind of like teaching critical race theory in the military, when you are telling our young soldiers that the most important thing about them is the color of their skin, that some races are inherently privileged and others are inherently victimized. well, that is not something that a lot of them raised their hand or took an oath to defend. >> laura: yeah -- >> shouldn't be surprised you have recruiting rates fall, and retention rates, well. >> laura: this is going to help come up big time, senator, thank you. we found out democrats don't care about and identify who they

are, and raymond arroyo brings heartbreaking news on, well, breaking news on the britney spears conservatorship case. plus, why did the white house bring a pop star to the briefing room? stay there.

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>> laura: when democrats say they care about protecting minority rights, well, they are lying. the only ones they really care about are the ones who vote democrat. for instance, there, those illegally crossing the u.s.-mexico border wearing "biden please let us in" shirts, come on. but what about those with legitimate asylum claims like the millions of humans living under an oppressive regime? i will let secretary mayorkas tell you. >> allow me to be clear. if you take to the sea, you will not come to the united states. any migrant intercepted at sea, regardless of their nationality, will not be permitted to enter the united states. >> laura: now, could the real issue be that cuban-americans overwhelmingly support republican ideas?

you bet. and it's not just cubans. haitian americans are increasingly being denied minority status because of their ability to succeed at the highest levels of american society. next guest has just written a book that posits asian-americans prove that critical race theory cannot be true. joining us now is the author of "an inconvenient minority: the attack on asian-american excellence and the fight for meritocracy." kenny, your reaction to this emoting, constant emoting over the last few days in washington about the need to protect of minority rights, the texas representative, as they fled here proclaiming they are the only real safeguards left of minority voting rights, and you say? >> i'd say asian-americans are the inconvenient minority, because they come here to this

country with nothing, no special privileges, and as i argued in my book "an inconvenient minority," they still succeed in this country. they disprove critical race theory and they shed light -- you know, harvard discriminates against asian-americans. that is how successful they are. that is how successful they have become. >> laura: well, when you look at the controversy around education today, in washington, d.c., area, in fairfax county, there is a really high performing school, and that high-performing school, science, technology, the very big asian population in the school, enrollment, well, they want to change the standards of the school so merit does not really rule the day anymore. they want to make it so the merit doesn't really count. what does that tell you? and how does that hurt a minority here in the united states? >> well, it hurts

asian-americans because now asian-americans, you know, can't -- even though they work hard, they are not treated on the basis of their hard work. you know, laura, the theme of your show was national security, and i say this is a national security issue because you need -- if you want to compete with china in the tech wars, you need the best and brightest to go to the best schools. we have these elite schools now, like harvard, abdicating their responsibility to admit the best and brightest, just because of their race. imagine not only how unfair that is, but how that is detrimental to our national security and our technology interests. >> laura: they will actually invite actual chinese from china to come to harvard. that is not a problem. it is just the asians here in this country who are loyal to america. i hope we see some changing asian voting, i think that has been surprising to a lot of people over the years, but we will see, and congrats on the book. all right, race has infected the debate over voting rights laws

all across the country and has also revealed the ignorance of democrat leaders and the chattering class carrying the water. now, most see the text democrats fleeing texas as a joke, the left sees it as a story. >> 1867, frederick douglass appealed to congress in 2021, texas legislature came to washington, d.c. >> mlk was an activist. john lewis was an activist. sojourner truth was an activist. there is nothing wrong with activism to push the levers of power to do the right thing, and i think that is what texas democrats and civil rights leaders are calling for. >> the threat to have you all arrested when you return to texas and supposedly to track you down like the fugitive slave act. >> laura: joining me now,

founder of -- cynthia, we played some of kamala last night at the end of the show, but i'm interested in your thoughts on her specifically invoking frederick douglass in this little drama. >> looked, laura, i know i am not here to be speechless, but i have to tell you i am speechless and i have been speechless all day about this because to compare frederick douglass to the bozos that left their job in texas to serve the people that elected them, to them, as if they are some threat to the nation because all the texas legislature wants to do is pass a voting security bill. they want to protect the rights that frederick douglass and people like him died for, for all of us to have the right to vote, for our voice to be heard through the voting process fairly. the problem here is so complex and multilevel thought my head

has been blowing up all day. frederick douglass said -- and it is one of my favorite quotes -- "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation's honest truthful and virtuous. there is nothing honest about what these democrat elected officials are doing. there is nothing truthful about what any of them are doing, and there's nothing virtuous about this. you cannot turn this into a voting rights act. by the way, the voting rights act of 1965 was strongly opposed by democrats, and they have been fighting it and hiding behind what has been really going on since slavery, to be honest with you, since slavery ended. this isn't a race issue. this is an issue of -- i want to go to a poll, i want to give my i.d., because guess what, i am not dead, i am alive. i want to vote legally. i want you to know i voted legally and i want you to know what my vote said. anyone who loves america wants this. anyone who is running from this issue wants to protect their right to operate outside the law and to steal our vote and to

throw elections, and it is that simple, and i don't know how americans aren't up in arms, and in a civil war over this, which biden thinks it is the worst thing since the civil war, which is a joke. >> laura: you hear people like al sharpton and others claim that having a poll watchers who can actually see what is happening when they are counting the votes, that that means they don't want you to vote, when you can't even -- it is not even allowed under the rules to get close to people voting, but you can watch the process unfold from a meaningful distance, but that means you don't want people to vote, and we are supposed to listen to al sharpton after all these years of fraud from him? what? it's insane! >> right, but you know, we have been blessed with a myriad of horrible black leadership for years, and i don't understand -- it's like -- black people, we know, we can talk about it as african-americans, but when anyone else talks about it, it's a problem, and the reality is i don't know what we are hiding.

we need to be calling all of these guys -- we need to have great issue with the leadership that we have, and i've got to tell you, the writing is on the wall in texas. whatever these bozos decide to go back and do their job, i hope the people that voted for them -- >> laura: vote them out. yeah, vote them out. cynthia, great to see you tonight. when you are not speechless after all. all right, and coming up, me knobs are outcome and wait until you see what political heavyweights made the cup. plus, the white house drafting a pop singer for a purpose. raymond arroyo has it, "seen and unseen" next.

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enemies. they looked more like the wokeys. >> puzzling nominees, outstanding voice-over performance, julie andrews and seth macfarlane made the cut, but so did that renowned character actress stacey abrams. she was nominated for a one minute and 7-second voice-over in a "blackish" episode where she stretched incredibly, playing herself. >> i'm so happy to be talking to you today about mail-in voting. >> what? i thought we were talking about my campaign. >> running for office is a lot of work, mostly fund-raising. you will need community support. >> that will be enough? >> definitely not. >> i was looking for more of a pep talk. >> you've lost weight, we need everyone to vote early. the important thing is to make sure your voice is heard. >> i don't understand how this could be considered a performance, laura. she is just saying what she always says, which begs the

question, what is driving this nomination? abrams, who lost georgia's governor's race, also was nominated for an academy award for her documentary on voting. i mean, politics should never be the leading value here, laura. it should be talent. that is what the audience expects, the academy should feel the same way. you were robbed, laura ingraham. remember, you performed on "the simpsons" and actually played the character of a therapist. do you remember this? >> laura: oh, no. >> you thought our only option was the breakup. >> i never said that. if i told people they didn't belong together they shouldn't be together, i would be out of a job. >> i must have dreamed that, too. >> why don't you tell us more about that dream? >> marge and i have been completed he turned around by ed. >> i think you are going to have to do a little more, homer. [laughter] >> laura: oh, my god, that was so bad. >> i think they thought you were

dr. laura ingraham. anyway, stacey abrams wasn't the only me nominee, in addition to getting awards for limiting their family size, prince harry and meghan markle were also nominated for their tell-all interview with oprah winfrey, i kid you not. they got the nod for outstanding hosted nonfiction series. now, given the pushback from the royals, i'm not sure you can call this nonfiction, but this is only the beginning. markel's executive producing an animated series for nestle, celebrating great women in history. you can be sure queen elizabeth will probably not be part of that series. >> laura: i thought the stacey abrams' voice was computer generated. i didn't even think that was actually her speaking, that is why i was so shocked she got the non. she sounded like a computer speaking. >> yeah, you got more airtime on "the simpsons," just for the record. and laura, the white house is starting to a young pop star to try to encourage teens to get the covid vaccination.

olivia rodrigo came to the white house to meet with biden at fauci and to record some psa's. given biden's resistance to voter i.d.s, i was surprised he invited someone so comfortable with drivers licenses. >> hey, i'm olivia rodrigo. doesn't matter -- get the vaccine, yourself, your friends, your family. [laughter] >> laura: i can't even hear it. >> yeah, they should get -- could somebody get a microphone in her face? according to the cdc, 38% of people 12-29 are not vaccinated, and look, laura, with the stories of the young men's hearts and flaming and below hospitalizations and load deaths among young people, of course they aren't getting vaccinated, so i think it will take more than miss driver's license their to get -- >> laura: she is an adorable gi, and a global pop star, but there is some breaking news on the

britney spears conservatorship front. today, there were a series of three britney rallies in d.c. and l.a. >> mm-hmm. [chanting] >> they must be very happy, laura, at the hearing today, the judge allowed britney to choose her own attorney, this after she spent millions on her court-appointed attorney, but the big news is her plea to the court, she said over the phone, "i would like to charge my father with conservatorship abuse." "i want to press charges against my father today." look, this is clearly the beginning of the end of this conservatorship, and after the millions of her own money that has been used to keep her in this lockdown, maybe it is time. she, tonight, instagramed herself doing cartwheels, so she is very happy, but it is strange she wants to keep the personal conservatorship in place. that is odd. >> laura: oh, well, that is

one scandal i haven't been on top of, raymond, but i know that you are on all the important stories -- >> i am watching it closely for you. >> laura: thank you, raymond. it is good to see you tonight. and south africa deteriorates into chaos and a nagging question lingers: could it happen here? south african native larry logan will be here next with a warning. stay there. might just - vomit. if these statements describe you, and you've been diagnosed with gastroparesis, you might qualify for a clinical study that tests a new study medication for nausea and the symptoms of gastroparesis. qualified participants will receive study related care and study medication at no charge. please visit gp vandastudy.com, that is g-p-v-a-n-d-a-s-t-u-d-y.com. or call (833) 933-9332 to see if you qualify. sponsored by vanda pharmaceuticals.

♪ ♪ >> laura: what is happening in south africa? things have deteriorated, total chaos, looting, violence has consumed the country for the better part of the last week, so what is driving all of this? well, there are a lot of theories out there. some are just saying it is politics, that it all started when the former south african president jacob zuma started a 15 month long prison sentence for contempt of court. now, zuma supporters believe he is a victim of a political which hunt. second, the theory is that draconian covid lockdowns are

partially to blame. south africa's economy was hit by the deepest recession on record. citizens came to resist the officials keeping them shot in. there were protests. and finally, the theory that there is a lot of resentment that comes along with racial reorganization. the south african national congress postapartheid has tried to write old wrongs by redistributing wealth and land. does that sound eerily similar to something like the reparations push here? joining me now is south african native lara logan, host of fox nation's "lara logan has no agenda." lara come a lot of americans are not aware what is happening right now in south africa. i have been lucky enough to travel there many times, and i've seen this kind of deterioration over the last, really, 10-12 years, maybe longer, 15 years since i've been going there. what do we need to know about this? >> well, many south africans are

just shocked at the speed with which this is spreading, laura, and it is worst in two provinces, one is the home province of the former president jacob zuma, and i have been speaking to people they are, food is running low, this has been going on for five days, and the stores are burning down, there is no milk, no bread, and people are not allowed to have any fuel for their cars, so this is a particularly distressing situation for many, many people, so many killed at this point, people are asking, where is the police, where is the army? and while they are going to deploy more soldiers, there are very worrying reports of this becoming a racial element being introduced into this, there is a community just outside of where jacob zuma is from, and there have been a number of reports that are fanning the flames of racial tension and violence there. and what you start to see is some of the echoes of critical

race theory and the woke agenda that have proliferated all over the world. we are paying the price now for big tech and facebook and all these people who are able to really set the agenda in any country that they want, and where people can spread this message and spread this divisive politics. and south africa is no exception. >> laura: so, there is a marxist element at play here, in other words. >> well, you know, obama's ambassador to south africa, when obama's term ended and he came home, he became the president of the open society foundation, george soros' foundation -- yeah. i know. but when he was in south africa, he was very vocal about reparations. he was one of the people who was pushing and encouraging publicly for the south african government to take land away from white people, particularly white farmers. 30,000 white farmers in

south africa feed those people and they feed other people across southern africa, so when you take that land away and it is not used to farm anymore, you start your people. people saw that in neighboring zimbabwe, so there is a radical element at play here and nobody can tell, at this point, it's impossible to say how much this is involved, but south african media has very quickly turned to looking at who is driving this, and whether there is -- there are other forces, and you know, there are eerily similar echoes here. there is a whole ideology that goes along with open society in all of these groups about joining a moment into a mass movement or revolution and that is what many people are looking for. >> laura: lara, thank you for that, we are not going to hear that anywhere else. and china is hiding a smelly secret. "the last flush" explains.

>> laura: raw sewage discharged from more than 200 chinese fish fishing vessels in

the south china sea. it is so epic, you can see all that poop from outer space. we are hearing rumors that the political -- is that really written? we are children. don't forget to set your dvr and "gutfeld!" is next. >> greg: what you got for me? >> got you a different suit, a different high, help you out. make you not look like you are selling something. >> what are you talking about? >> you look like an ice cream salesman. >> really? i want the booth by the window and not in the back, what are you talking about? [laughter] >> okay, i wish i had my keys, i would throw them at you. >> greg: they should take that act on the road. and then leave it there. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪