>> chicago mirror lori lightweight mercilessly booed by a group of union workers. take a look. [boos] >> that's all the time we have left. in the meantime, not let your heart be troubled, lori ingram introduces us to the puppy tonight. >> laura: hello. could you get a return so you can see the dog? i mean, this is -- speak out there's like a 10-second delay. i'll see it in a second. >> laura: this isn't really working if you can't see her. >> that is a cute dog. what's the dog's name? >> laura: is away. although you called her billy in a very gender confused manner the other day. >> i'm totally daft from radio.

please. >> laura: she is very sad over the gender confusion. >> that is a perfect dog for you, sure looks awesome. and very well behaved. >> laura: zoe, meet the world. but hannah ted hannity had a little dog named snowflake that was like a two-point conversion. anthony fauci i'm sure would have loved to have babysat your dog. >> i also have had to be a beast like bernese mountain dog's which i love, too. dogs are like members of the family. >> laura: it's a rescue from arkansas. >> i don't care if it's a purebred, it's a dog and dogs are often nice they are then ni. it's been getting yelled at now, we are talking too much about dogs. this is lauren graham from "the ingraham angle." joe biden is slum aw shucks

uniter but tonight my mini angle completely dismantles that one. plus a surprising anti-biden song has just knocked adele off the top of the charts and mayor pete gets his big break. raymond arroyo explains it in seen and unseen but first, arrogant bullying cowards, that's a focus of ties angle. now in 2009 when the tea party took off, so many americans were energized and that was the opposition to obamacare. the one good thing about the awful terrible pandemic is that the parents have the time to burrow into their children's schooling. and many were horrified about what they saw. and it wasn't so awful after

all. >> it will tear this country apart. >> it's is teaching kids how to hate each other. >> i want credible race theory, and talk to my kids in school does not mean i'm a racist. >> apparently school boards across america thought they could radically revamp course offerings from american history to literature and no one would notice. now parents and citizens alike see how activists promoting a deeply anti-american agenda have wormed their way into almost every facet of the educational experience. while parents should be upset about this, and their concerns are not political. parents are saying, and that's equity and inclusion amp police brutality, at where the saying

that in school they put more focus on george floyd than george washington. parents should be demanding answers because schools have become a minefield for democrats of course. and they took the side of school boards against the parents. after the school board association and pleaded for relief claiming its members were under siege, the department of justice snapped into action. i've never seen anything like it. in their own memo they warned of a disturbing spike in the harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school administrators and promised to take action if necessary. it sent a chilling message to moms and dads, pretty much anyone from coast-to-coast. and a firestorm then erupted and the school board pulled back and saw they had created a bit of a

ruckus. so they apologized for the description of violent harassing menaces. and presumably you wrote the memo because of the letter. the letter is disavowed now and you keep your memo going anyway. >> senator, i have the letter from an sba that you're referring to end it apologizes for language in the letter but it continues its concern about the safety of school officials and school staff. >> laura: okay. but the point wasn't to intimidate parents, why does the doj invoke a national security components? >> you are going to credit a task force that includes a national security division. what does the national security division have to do with parents at school boards? >> this is not again about parents at school boards, it's

about threats of violence. >> again this begs the question, why would the suddenly be a new federal matter? any threats or violence are already prosecutable under state law as well as federal law in some cases so why the need for a deal jake task force? >> how is that the department of justice was able to move so rapidly on a single letter from a special interest group that has now repudiated that letter, said it regret sending the letter and apologizes to its members for sending the letter? >> answer is when we get reports of violence and threats of violence we need to act swiftly. >> you didn't investigate the incidences cited in the letter. did you? >> i took the statement by the national association, when they said they were facing violence and threats of violence and when we saw in the news media reports. >> but you didn't invest the incidents in the letter, did you? >> this is an assessment step

and it comes before the investigations. speed when it come on. we all know what happened, presumably the white house let it be known that they needed this whole school controversy to quiet down and for parents to pipe down, dangling the possibility of fbi action gets parents, just attending school board meetings would be one way to get that done, or so they thought. this was all coordinated and it blew up spectacularly. >> are you aware of conversations between you are department of justice officials, white house officials and members of the school board association all cooperating together? >> i'm sure there were conversations with the white house, i have no idea whether there were conversations with the school board association. there is nothing wrong with there being those conversations and is nothing annual about the organization to suggest it was in any way partisan. >> laura: all those conservatives on school boards and associations.

of course it's not partisan, it's all just a coincidence that school boards are overwhelmingly liberal. and what about this underlying evidence? is there really a growing national threat posed against the school boards? committee chair dick durbin was reaching for anything. >> those who argue at school board meetings across america are not more dangerous or more violent than the past. i went on i just typed in this morning, school board violence on one of the search engines, page after pages coming up. >> laura: 24 years in the senate ladies and gentlemen, and he is just and entering terms into search engines and proclaiming it so. another argument for term limits. this is all too much. if glenn youngkin wins the virginia gubernatorial race, it will be because he focuses so much on the travesty unfolding on the education issue in

loudoun county. rape and school bathrooms and coverups and the parents who dared to ask questions even the family of the victims. meanwhile democratic candidate terry mcauliffe is flailing. >> i'm sick of them talking about these issues of critical race theory, we do not teach critical race theory here in virginia. it has never been taught. >> this is what ms-13, the republicans used for governor northam. they tried to find a divisive tactic. >> laura: that's pathetic. mcauliffe is to bought off by the teachers unions to see that this goes way beyond glenn youngkin. this is about parents discovering in many cases for the first time the truth about a growing socialist monopoly in education. the angle worn, warned you about

this. black lives matter black lives matter zealots have influenced and school districts like fairfax county and their goal is to turn your kids into hard-core activists by remaking education from top to bottom. >> i would watch hours of the school board meetings and it's horrifying what we are seeing. it's a big business. it's pedagogue's and cultural marxism, implicit bias training, the colonizing syllabi and this extremism is like a cult. >> laura: and now that many of us are on to them, progressive school boards and districts across america are freaking out. do they change the reticle cores or do they just try to discourage parental involvement on all these hot button issues. the mankato, minnesota, school board chores, chose the latter. >> it's a business meeting of the school board, not a meeting that belongs to the public. each speaker is asked to state his or her name for the record

and failure to do so will result in the individual not being allowed to speak. participants are prohibited from calling out or addressing any individual school board or school district staff member. >> laura: do you understand what she said? if a parents concern is not on her agenda, i guess the controversy or concern didn't happen, it's like magic and it just goes away. it seems like there's another school board that needs be replaced. taxpaying parents, and any politician stands in the way of this legitimate exercise of parental rights and any bureaucrat who uses procedural gimmicks to insulate himself from criticism should be tossed from office as soon as possible. this spells political defeat and countless democrats who believe they are above reproach as long

as they are woke. and that's the angle. joining me now is it utah senator mike lee who was at today's hearing with the attorney general merrick garland, and senator leahy, it was fascinating to watch this unfold. could garland cite any specific instance or pattern of threats or intimidation against school boards that would necessitate or justify this level of federal engagement? >> not even a single one. he couldn't identify a single threat of violence basically acknowledged that he couldn't. nor could he explain to my satisfaction or that of anyone why is this needed to be a federal investigation. most crimes as you know occur in violation of a state law and most criminal prosecutions occur under state law in state court systems. i asked him to identify with the basis for federal icing this, he

couldn't, he wouldn't, he didn't. why? is weaponizing the department of justice were blatantly partisan political purposes. it was distressing, discouraging and wrong. >> laura: here's senator cory booker pressing garlanded to make a connection somehow between parent protests and domestic terror. watch. >> domestic terrorism in the united states. as a been more from overseas, radical terrorists since 9/11 or more from homegrown terrorists and most of them being right wing extremists? which has been greater since 9/11? >> i want to be careful about that. >> have there been threats and violence against schools in the united states of america? >> there have been, yes. they come from domestic groups. >> laura: could there be anything more vague quest to mark again it begs the question, why is this a federal matter when state law covers any violence or threats of violence?

>> it's not. that's the whole point and i actually thank cory booker for framing this appropriately. maybe one could justify this if one were convinced that parents showing up to school board meetings to discuss as neighbors and local constituents were concerned with how their children were being educated in public schools. if you could identify them as a domestic terrorist network, then yes. that would perhaps be appropriate to get the department of justice involved. and of course you can't because that's absurd. the entire exercise today was absurd. i've never seen anyone take so much time in order to explain something that should have been dismissed with, we screwed up. we screwed up badly. i'm sorry. that would make it okay, but it makes it that much more inexcusable that he would come and spend hours with us trying to defend at utterly indefensible.

>> laura: he said repeatedly that there is no partisan basis for his determination, that this was not partisan and he absolutely believed a spirited exchange of ideas as covered and had some want to intimidate parents from going to school board meetings. he did say that over and over again but you are not buying it. >> yes. if you believe that, i've got a bridge somewhere to sell you. i mean it, the fact that there was this quick of a turnaround, and an indication of something that went terribly wrong. for days or five at the most, submitted it on a wednesday, just over a week and they responded. as a member of that senate judiciary committee i submit request for information all the time in my oversight capacity. i feel lucky, i feel blessed if i get it in two or three months or if i get an answer at all. >> laura: how many times is that a four day turnaround?

but somehow the national school board association does. somehow -- >> they manage it. and they had been bragging publicly that they had been working with white house staff for weeks. he needs to apologize and this is inexcusable. this can ever happen. >> laura: senator, thank you. speaking of what's going on in virginia, he's now trying to fight back against this idea that he doesn't care about school safety with flashy new mailers. the timing was awkward, and also because of what the daily wires look rosy act as reporting, his story reports that his former law firm, when he reportedly reported some income from his on behalf of the school that covered up one of the cases where a student was brutally

assaulted. they are battling a young woman who was repeatedly on the fairfax middle school campus, she was slashed with a knife and penetrated and then lucas, his response would be i imagine the word former should count. it's former law firm and its no longer associated with it. is that valid? >> from what we understood it, he left to run for governor. this law firm has been essentially doing the dirty work of school systems ever since they were on the wrong side of brown versus board in the 1950s. they hired him in 2019 and paid him over a quarter million dollars a year and since that time in 2019, fairfax county public schools has paid hunting ,huntington andrews.

they do it to fight parents, they do to fight kids who allege they were wronged in schools by the action or inaction of school system officials. and so he says he supports the educational establishment, that's what he needs. and they are trying to get this poor girl as you described it, it's worse that the allegations, it's worse than allowed in case. just last month they were trying to get that case tossed out of court on the procedural basis involving the girl's desire be anonymous which i think we can all understand why our victim would want to be anonymous. >> laura: another case involves another student in fairfax county alleging she was harassed by another student. now the jury i guess didn't hold the school board is responsible but here's how the fourth circuit court of appeals ruled. the jury found that smith had harassed dough and that the harassment had been severe.

the fourth circuit concludes that no evidence in the record supports the jury's conclusion, that the school board lacked actual notice of smith's alleged sexual harassment of dough. what else can you tell us about that case particularly? >> this case is actually really important because terry mcauliffe's former law firm is working with the school board association to try to take this case to the supreme court and the reason they take this case in particular is because they are trying to change the interpretation of title ix instead of precedent which would apply to schools all over the country in a way that's much more favorable to administrators and less favorable to the kids and victims. what they want is not a reasonable person standard, a reasonable person would think, and by a trained school official which is kind of funny if you think about it. they actually cite a case as president where the principal was repeatedly informed her that a teacher was a child molester and then she was told that a kid

was sitting on his lap and she said it's probably just innocent, like a father son type thing. their argument was that lady wasn't held responsible because in her mind she was naive but she wasn't being a reasonable person. but in her trained judgment, she didn't act. >> laura: i think this is one of the only good things about the pandemic which is horrific, parents did have a chance to look over the shoulder as kids are online. you are doing what? you are doing what? and i think the schools are freaking out because they thought they could do this with impunity and in secrecy. and it's not happening. so look at your reporting has been indispensable, thank you so much and keep up the great work. in moments, my mini angle completely dismantles the myth of show the unifier. what this must mean for republican candidates going forward.

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>> laura: dividing by then, that's the focus of my mini angle. because we think about it every day as president, what can we do to pull this country together come up with this country forward, try to heed all the divisions that we've had and i

think we've had some progress in that regard. that something of president is very focused on. >> laura: it what a load of bull from the bidens chief of staff. the president has been in the office for nine months and in that time has he done anything to appeal to the 74 million people that voted for donald trump? think about this, just last night, terry mcauliffe in virginia, rather than making affirmative positive case for mcauliffe, he just returns to that january 6 addiction. >> president biden: you've had the courage on the wisdom that affects a very extremism. extremism can come in many forms. it can come in the range driven to assault the capital. they could, and a smile and a fleece vest.

>> laura: the never trumpers wasted a lot of breath, and is akin to a capital rider. but the truth is our prudent loudmouth bully and who can forget that one of his regular attacks took place in virginia back in 2012. >> president biden: romney wants -- he said in the first 100 days that he would let the big banks write their own rule comic rules. unchain wall street. they are going to put you all back in chains. >> laura: and it isn't just politicians that he is comfortable exploiting out, even regular americans can be among wrong side of his gross defamatory smears. >> president biden: you are a lying dog faced pony soldier,

you said you were about now i'm going to be honest with you. >> here's the deal. >> laura: we warned you. we warned you long ago that bidens hole on the candidate of unity and empathy, a lot of people did buy it. those who didn't compromise the vast majority of the opposition party at least, so the question becomes, what kind of message does it send to voters that even moderate republicans like glenn youngkin. biden hasn't thought any of this through and neither has any of these other handlers or puppeteers. this will have terrible implications down the road. it will be donald trump is that paul at fault but rather the politicians that he held the mirror up to. and that is the mini angle.

joining me now is j.d. vance, author of hillbilly ellijay. j.d., if biden is just going to kind of responded with a smear for a euro a domestic terrorist or bulging veins charlottesville, it's a whole litany of the horrific. what should g.o.p. candidates take away from this going forward? >> i think biden has been one of the wrist demagogues, and i frankly think that republican candidates should take away then understanding of how the democrats now to politics. it's not about disagreeing with somebody, they are trying to turn half of the country into second-class citizens from the back's mandates to attorney general garland going after her parents of domestic terrorists. they are trying to make it impossible to live a normal life if you think the way that we think and if you act to the way that we act. that's politics in a totally

different way and republicans have to respond to it. they have to wake up with what's going on. >> laura: we played that clip of biden going after brown, commit romney, but it doesn't matter. it could be you, it could be susan collins, if she didn't go the right way. it doesn't matter. if you are not in lockstep with the far left on whatever their agenda item is of the day than you are fair game and that's what the never trumpers never understood. they thought somehow they were going to be in to the solutions and they would be working across the aisle with the democrats. they are just left out. laughed at. they are all left at the hysterically. >> the at best the people that cozy up to the left will be treated as heat useful idiots. there is this concede that a lot of republicans have that if they try to be the good republicans, if they tried to be the nice

republicans, then they will get off with a free pass and it may be even get things done with the democrats. but the democrats are in a zero-sum political war. the only time they will ever make nice with the republicans is when a republican is being useful to them. if they are being useful to the democrat than they are not being useful to the movement or the country. >> laura: and they are betraying the movement, and there's a piece, i believe it was on axios, the republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana who came on this show and it debated me about that infrastructure bill and try to say that i was kind of naive or pessimistic for thinking that the democrats were just going to play, all these republicans and ran through the reconciliation and infrastructure at the same time in tandem. that's not going to happen, he just kind of laughed and said it was condescending and now he's complaining, it looks like they are not playing fair.

yeah. these are the people who were electing the office, and yet they don't seem to know politics, j.d. >> that's absolutely right and all of us were saying three or four months ago that if you give them this bipartisan win on the infrastructure packages then you will waive the bipartisan flag with one hand and shove it down your throat with the other. and that's what they are doing, they got their big political win and they are taking all the things they promised wouldn't be in the infrastructure bill, they just put it in the reconciliation package. they got played and the republicans that played along with the stuff got played. luckily, hopefully they listen to us next time. >> laura: j.d., thank you. what does the best-selling song on itunes and tell us about the american electorate? then there's new guidance on what kid should be wearing on halloween. raymond arroyo explains that on

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>> laura: it's time for the seen and unseen segment where we express the cultural differences of the day. now raymond, the producer said you had a question for me. >> we do indeed. what is the top earning movie in the world right now? >> laura: i have no idea. >> box office topper. >> laura: i don't know. i don't know any of the movies, i don't go to the movies. >> it's called the battle of lake shane jinnah. it's a chinese propaganda film and it's based on a korean war of battle in 1950 and so far it has made $808 million. and it includes a spunky chinese group of soldiers who battle and defeat the americans. even though the battle was considered a failure at the time the chinese regime now says it was not a failure.

and remember when we made movies like that, sergeant york, "saving private ryan," we may have forgotten but the chinese, they haven't. they are rounding up critics by the way who are calling them out on this film. >> laura: have we gotten a movie review from bron james, as he chimed in with his view of the film? >> or any of the studios. they don't say anything about china, they won't even put china in the movies anymore because they don't want to offend or lose that market place. but don't worry, while the chinese are giving people there movies filled with patriotism and masculinity, we give them a chance to serial killers of jamie lee curtis and a documentary on mayor pete. >> we spent so much of your life hiding who you truly were. >> made pete promise that we would have fun.

>> this is the only chance you will ever get to vote for a maltese american left-handed war veteran. >> this is an amazing thing we are saying. we are the only country that takes the losers unmixed documentaries about them. where is the jeb bush documentary, i'd like to know? amazon, get on that. we are learning the wrong lessons from china. we are learning the lesson from that grand eyes and can lie and the regime and excluding any other voice, and which is patriotism and male leadership which may not be a bad thing to sugar citizens. the chinese are clearly preparing culturally for something. >> we don't need to group makeup great stories of heroism or bravery, the history is filled with them. meanwhile, what's this piece from the anti-defamation league

advising kids on what costumes to wear this halloween? >> yes. the adl are saying costumes can involve cultural appropriation. in fact they should avoid dressing as native americans. i guess the nuns, priests and rabbis did not make the cut apparently. then there's this guidance. "many children are attracted to traditional gendered costumes. when that is the case is best not to reinforce that these are the only appropriate options available. be mindful, you may have students who feel excluded and marginalized by overly gendered way hollowing costumes are marketed. they can't dress as a cowboy,

and i guess they can dress as a rocks and polar bears. >> i remember one year, we were like 13 or 14, we just dress up as bombs, you know the bum outfit, like any rag you had around the house and some charcoal. what you can't do that anymore because you can't call people bombs. >> the adl close that out. they said do not dress as hobos are bones because you are making fun of the poor. you have two selections, rocks or polar bears. and there may be no white comic halloween at the white house. the administration has announced the bidens will not be celebrating the holiday as other presidents have handing out candy. biden is headed to europe to the g20, he will be meeting with the

pope and he will be dressed for the season is the faithful cow tonic a catholic. >> laura: so he met with pelosi and now he will go for biden. maybe there is a pull aside, cut that other stuff out. do you think that could happen? >> i don't think they will ever get onto those moral issues. >> laura: who cares about those other issues of life. all right. at turnabout is fair play, what is the number one downloaded single on itunes? >> i would have said a dell maybe. is it something else? >> it's rapper bryson gray's a new timely tune. ♪ ♪ >> okay, this is the let's go brandon song, it's been number

one since sunday. and, i was almost right. and i guess it's probably a good thing that biden is headed to europe. i don't think let's go brandon is topping the european charts just yet. but it's early in the week. the one i think that other song needs to work on the choreography. they need to spruce up the video a little bit, but that is wild. and she's been everywhere. >> she should get royalties on this. >> laura: as a left seems dead set on keeping up to $550 billion of climate change, it's worth asking. our climate activists actually to blame for the global and

energy crisis? and we present some compelling evidence, next.

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>> laura: at the president of mars activism, the energy of

young people who are advocating for what they believe in. and the changes that he agrees to be made and that's history by the united states. including targeted manufacturing credits that will help with domestic supply chains for solar, onshore and offshore wind, and we are talking about a historic effort to make critical investments in environmental justice. >> laura: and tax credits for weather-stripping. nationwide the price of gas is up to seven year high because of the skyrocketing oil prices brought about by shrinking supply. that's a biden's fault. but in solution, earmarked $500 billion for climate programs in the reconciliation bill now. so how are more handouts for solar wind and electric end up lowering energy prices? my next guest points out it's

largely because of insane climate policies and the activism going along with it that we are facing an energy crisis. joining us now is michael shellenberger, and why environmental alarmism hurts us all. michael, explain this link in the activism in the place that we find ourselves now. >> gasoline and petroleum prices have been rising over the last decade and investment in oil and gas exploration is down by half of what it was ten years ago. it has risen but it's a combination of both shareholder activist campaigns that put pressure on the big oil and gas companies in the united states to really slow down or even stop the amount of oil and gas drilling that they were doing an explanation and it's also the heavy subsidies for renewables

felt that we weren't making the adjustments to the united states that we needed to make. we had a lot of oil and gas, it's an amazing technological revolution but we are leaving it there because we have made those investments and as a result, we now see biden pleading with opec to increase oil production. >> laura: it's so embarrassing and prudent is laughing all the way. china is building on these coal plants and i think even germany is relying again on coal, given the energy shortage they are facing this winter. so who wins here? >> obviously the people who made the investments in oil and gas are doing very well so certainly russia is doing well, the saudis will work out well, basically everybody in opec and everybody outside of the united states and outside of western europe, you are absolutely right. china and india are facing blackouts and have had to reopen cold minds and waved environmental regulations and it's a global market for oil and

gas. if united states have been making investments that we should have been making five years ago instead of letting the investments drop by half, by the way we are at 25% less investment that we need to keep oil prices down where we were. so if we were doing what we should've been doing, developing this incredible asset that we have, we would be seeing a significant continuation of the transition from coal to natural gas which of course is half as carbon intensive. we will go to united nations climate talks in a couple of weeks and basically at the same time that he's demanding that we use a lot more oil than abroad. >> laura: it's unilateral energy disarmament. we are just unilaterally giving up the greatest assets which is our freedom and energy supply which has huge repercussions. we have had outside influence

pushing for a global reset of capitalism. how important has that been as we move forward? >> we have pushed for renewables, and it's a big financial interest, black rock and other subtle banks. we see obviously big industrial renewable energy companies and really the desire for europe and the world economic forum to push for power over global economies and finally it's a religious impulse. you have to keep in mind, we've been told for ten years that solar and wind are cheaper than existing electricity and now they are proposing that. >> sorry to cut you off but it's all going to be made in china. we've been looking to some old clips and it turns out we could see into the future a little bit, next.

>> laura: et al. years ago, while celebrating mardi gras, the increment angle inadvertently predicted the future. >> you must wear a mask. it's actually against the law not to wear a mask. put them on, here we go. >> laura: now we know where dr. fauci got the idea for the mandate. thanks, raymond. greg gutfeld takes it all from here. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> it's a glorious wednesday, or as cat calls it, two days from vodka. i kid, she's never gone two days without vodka. before we get to the news however, it's time for -- musical physical >> announcer: greg seven jokes.