i believe in second chances when sincere apologies are made, but it's you, the audience. you decide if an apology is sincere. nobody forces you to watch or listen to any show. we owe our careers to you. i can't thank you enough to give me this opportunity every day. thanks for watching every night. you decide. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham takes it from him. >> laura: hannity, we have a lot going on the vaccine mandates and so forth. we'll pick it up where you left off. thank you, my friend. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. breaking another day, another major court loss on the issue of vax mandates. hours ago, a federal district judge in louisiana halted a biden order that certain healthcare workers nationwide be vaccinated, this followed two other similar rulings by judges

in missouri and kentucky the past 48 hours. the supreme court will have the final say here. we have ken starr on this later in the hour. also fauci outs himself again as the omicron panic pusher goes nuts. we have our medicine cabinet on that. the congress woman that liberals love to hate, lauren bogart is here for the message of those trying to cancer her. first, the swamp stays home. that's the focus of tonight's angle. so if you live and work in a red state, you know, normal america, you may not realize that many federal employees haven't returned to work full time since the pandemic began. so federal buildings and those that house homeland security, hhs, transportation department have had a lot of vacant offices. the lights are on and literally almost no one is home.

now, this is a complete travesty. especially in midst an inflationary spinal, a supply chain crisis and a new covid variant that they're supposedly worried about. in the twisted liberal in mind, in-person work is scheduled for those that work in stores, baristas, janitors, airport personnel. the average federal worker apparently believes staying home is their right. now, way back in june in a story that got little play, we learned that the biden folks want to make this situation with at-homework permanent. the biden administration laid out a permanent work from home expansion that is likely to be cheered by my federal employees, 59% of whom were teleworking at the peak of remote work during the pandemic. now, this should be shocking to exactly no one. federal workers are biden's electoral bread and budder.

in 2020 aown, nearly 96% of donations from the american federation of government employees at the federal union and its members went to democrat. only 4% went to republicans. so in terms of actual dollars, the afge and its members donated 24 times more to democrats than to the gop. in other words, whatever federal workers want, they'll eventually get as long as a democrat is in the white house. in an opm survey from 2020 that was published earlier this year, federal workers gave the stay-at-home flexibility high marks. managers concluded that productivity did not suffer. okay. my question is, who is managing the managers? who is supervising them? this is like surveying high school students about whether they want to get more vacation days or not. duh. of course they want them. but don't worry. there's a lot of neeto tips

about how to use the government website called telework.gov. we're supposedly comforted by the fact that teleworkers and nonteleworkers are to be treated the same for promotions, job reviews and work requirements. oh, that's a relief. let's move along then. not quiet. no one believes that managers are as effective at monitoring the activities of employeeses that are not on site. even if we take it true that federal employees are just as efficient at home as in the office, why are we paying them d.c. area wages? that's what the biden team wants to do. opm's guidance tells agencies, teleworking employees that are still expected to commute twice

a pay period should be granted locality pay based on where their traditional work site is located. so if you travel twice in two weeks, you get big city play? that's a nice kickback. of course, the ugly truth is that this is all part of a larger biden administration plan to reset america. the telework website notes that we need to leverage the lessons learned from our work during the pandemic and reimagine how we work. oh, how nice. so in the old normal, remember that old normal? you actually got dressed, traveled to work and collaborated in person with colleagues. but their new normal is you say you're working but you're really in cancun sipping margaritas on zoom with your video screen off. build back better? sounds like build back lazier to me. but to the extent that biden is aware of any of this and he's probably not, he doesn't care if

civil servants at the energy department show up or not as long as they vote for him. >> you're patriots. you could have done a lot of things with your careers but you chose public service. i commend you for your honor, integrity. i have the utmost trust in your capabilities. >> a few weeks ago, biden released a memo that gives leeway to agency heads to expand the number of federal employees eligible for permanent remote work by calling it something else, of course. the document urges agencies to codify remote work as an alternative work arrangement. although opm stressed it should be considered on a case by case basis. why this obsession with telework? climate change fanatics love things like this like they love the lockdowns. fewer people on theed roads.

they justify work from home to promote the diversity, race and gender goals, if you can believe it. what a complete scam this is. so how many of these teleworkers are actually essential workers? here's my rule of thumb. if they haven't been in to the office for two years and have no plans to make it back in, how essential can they really be? it's so out of control that the biden white house doesn't even know how many of them are still working from home. >> looking at that set of the federal work force that was forced to suddenly telework, do you have any sense of what percentage of that group has come back to the office? >> i can't tell you the precise percentage of where we are. we're working with agencies on the reentry process. part of that is making sure that people are vaccinated. >> laura: the reentry process is ordering stuff on amazon prime. that's the reentry process. this is embarrassing.

given the number of court decisions going against those vaccine mandates he just referenced, i wouldn't count on any of that, sweetie. the irony here with covid's covid gravy train and fear mongering, many of the private sector companies are still struggling to get workers back in the office. wall street is in revolt. parents remain worried about transmitting the coronavirus to their children. suburban dwellers are chasing at the thoughts of long commutes. many people prefer remotely. serves the banks right for backing biden. total idiots. welcome to the new normal. where lazy meets entitled. there's certain narrow categories of work. i know what you're saying. certain narrow categories of

work have been were fine to be remotely. we know that. this was neverment to go to the federal government where the benefits are cushy and the job protection is guaranteed. america developed the world's most powerful economy by out innovating and outworking everyone else. we cannot phone it in and expect to preserve our standard of living. republicans in congress must demand real answers about what our bloated federal work force is up to other than orders for on doordash. that's the angle. joining me now, jim banks. from telework to proxy voting, this has to end at the federal level. you guys can stay at home and vote in your pajamas according to nancy pelosi. your response to this. >> laura, it's infuriating. right now we have a backlog of

182,000 claims at the v.a. for our veterans that are calling my office every day, frustrated with the bureaucracy. that backlog, by the way is caused bay the v.a. employees are working from home. social security offices all over the country that are closed. you have to do everything by mail because workers are working from home. you have a 12 to 18-week backlog for visa applications at the state department because of this mess. you can go on and on. i have constituents calling my office and say they still have not received their 2020 tax return from the irs because of this issue. at the end of the day, it's a matter of fairness. my brother works in the same factory my dad worked at. he goes to work every day and makes axles. he does pay taxes and his tax dollars are going to pay for federal government employees

that are making twice as much money, get twice as many vacation days. it's not public service if you're better off than everyone else around you. it's a scam. >> laura: they have to come back to work, they're nonessential hand should be phased out. don't you agree? if you can't drag yourself in the workplace but expect the amazon delivery guy to come to you every day, how is this fair to the american tax payer? >> it's not fair at all. to your point, laura, the example is being set by democrats in congress that just released the new congressional schedule for 2022 today earlier today. we will be in session fewer days next year than what we were in session this year. the least amount of days that members of congress will actually go to work in modern history. yet every member of congress will still get a paycheck for $174,000 a year, can vote by proxy. they never have to come to

washington d.c. this is the democrat example that they set for the american people and they're playing it out with federal employees as well. >> laura: i think congressman, most people in real america, they don't know this is happening. you drive by hhs or the transportation, these huge office buildings in d.c., i'd say about a third of the lights are on or a third of the offices seem like they're occupied, which lends -- leads to the next question. how many of these employees did why ever need in a federal government and why are they still working? they're not really working. that's the answer. >> it proves that point. proves it very, very well. when we get the majority back in the next election, hold us accountable for this. we have to dig in to this to look at how many federal government employees do we really need. actually study each department, department by department and determine how many of these

employees can be cut. the hard working american people that do have to go to a job every day, that actually do something, they actually work and create something, they're the ones that are footing the bill for those that have a job or stay at home and still get paid $100,000 or more. at the department of education, federal department of education, on average they make $100,000 a year. teachers make half of that on average around the country. these federal employees that work at the department of education, they don't teach kids how to read or write and making twice as much as teachers and now they stay home to do whatever job it is that they do from home. >> laura: i used to work at the department of education and transportation. i wondered what half the people were doing. congressman, we'll hold your feet to the fire when you take back majority. thank you. while democrats labor to keep

workers couch surfing, they empower irs agents to monitor your bank accounts. >> can you tell the american people today, secretary yellen, whether you still support any form of the irs bank reporting requirements for the purpose of targeting essentially every single working american at minimum wage or higher? do you still support that or not? >> i do support it. i think it's important that the irs have visibility in to opaque income streams. >> laura: now what aunt bee means by visibility is letting irs agents look at your bank accounts of $10,000 or more. it is a lot of money until you realize that is only $833 a month. here with me now, j.d. vance, ohio senate candidate. j.d., they want their mitts and their eyes on everything that

the average american is doing. that is clear by this move. she's not even trying to hide it. >> yeah, that's right. think about this. they say it's about monitoring billionaires. why do you need 87,000 people to monitor billionaires. you need 87,000 people to monitor the daily financial activities of normal middle class americans. if we learned anything the past ten months in the biden administration is that they're totally willing to use the federal government as a weapon against normal americans. think about the nonviolent protesters that are still in preson thanks to corrupt prosecutors at the federal level. why would we give the federal government more power to monitor, to control, to harass normal americans? that's what this is about. anybody that is being honest with the american people would admit that. >> laura: now, this is a massive issue of privacy, surveillance,

a massing government power and authority over regular class americans. it's not targeting rich people. what do you think the real goal is, j.d., behind this? the real goal. >> well, it's important to remember once you to you they are power on, you can't turn it off. the real goal is to create a massive enforcement bureaucracy that can go after americans. if you give the irs this new enforcement power with all the agents to back it up, you can have them harassing people that are going about their normal lives. transacting in normal business. maybe you buy a firearm and the irs comes after you. maybe you support a political candidate that the irs doesn't like. we know from the obama administration that the irs was actively targeting conservatives and talking about blowing up that entire program on a massive scale and never turning the clock back on that power. it's a really dangerous precedent to set.

>> laura: then they know what you're spending your money on presumably as well. we do they have any right to any of this? where are the real liberals jumping up and down on this? great to see you, j.d. as i mentioned just hours ago, a federal judge issued a halt to the biden administration's vaccine mandate. we'll get into more of that with ken starr coming up. but we have a lot more tonight and that is regarding, well, breaking news. looks like chris cuomo will have more time on his hands for that weight room. cnn sidelined him temporarily and it's not for his abysmal ratings. turns out the allegations is that he was coaching his big bro, disgraced former new york governor, andrew cuomo, during his sexual harassment scandals and it's alleged that cuomo help dig up dirt on his brother's accusers. well, whatever the truth is here

and we'll find out after years of throwing stones at donald trump and other innocent people questioning their morality, cuomo has seen his own glass house shatter. we're still hoping for selfishly for the quo bro show reunion perhaps on qvc. up next, dr. fauci is still claiming ignorance on the natural immunity to covid. and with a winter covid surge seemingly in the works, red staves waver or stay the course of freedom over safety. mississippi governor reeves has a message next.

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>> what do you say to people that i had covid there forei'm an acommunicate -- immune from covid? >> when you get infected and recover, you have a degree of protection that is substantial. the question is what is the durability of that. if you do get a vaccine, the level of your protection goes way, way up. >> laura: apparently dr. fauci

is conveniently ignoring what his own employer has said about natural immunity in january. the nih funded a ground breaking study that found that the immune system of 95% of the people that recovered from covid had durable memories of the virus after eight months of infection. the evidence got stronger has time has gone on. act of october, 135 studies established that natural immunity was equal to or stronger than the vaccines. joining me now dr. peter mccullough. what game is fauci playing on natural immunity and why? >> the burden of proof lies on those that think that second infection is possible. you know, there's no cases or case series of documented severe second infections. i mean documented by pcr, low cycle threshold confirmed by

antigen testing on two or more cases. with that type of a rigor, it's -- what we have is a situation. it's clear dr. alexander summarized over 135 studies demonstrating natural immunities were robust, completed and durable. it's one and done. people recover. they don't need to prove their immunity. they can go on in life without getting covid-19 a second time. >> laura: the chief medical officer of moderna is not surprisingly using the omicron variant's emergence to looks like pump up his stock price. watch. >> i don't think it's likely that there will be no protection from these vaccines against omicron. but we may see waning of it. the question could become will we need to have boosting. my professional been is that we will need it as a regular thing

each winter. >> laura: we need it or does moderna need it? what is the evidence of any of this? >> the omicron -- the b 11529 variant has 30 mutations. the domain has been changed with ten mutations there. it's not going to be as infectious. the early reports from dr. fantini in france indicates the transmissibility index of the omicron variant is far less than delta. so it doesn't look like it's going to be a dominant strain. i think it will be like the lambda and the epsilon variants described in the most recent year of covid-19. it will be a minor variant. i wouldn't be looking for it wrapping up on new vaccines or

boosters to try to target this variant until we have more data. >> laura: but they're doing that. i believe a number of vaccine manufacturers are on the hunt for the vaccine for this variant. but won't it be the case that this variant will have moved -- we moved on to another variant by the time the next one comes out? seems like it's a constant game of musical chairs here with the vaccine. >> well, we have 99% delta. our current vaccines are not keyed against delta. so they're having a terrible time in getting control. we're starting another delta peak right now. it's premature to jump on this variant until we have a chance to see. the initial read is low trans missability. by the way, this arose of those vaccinated travelers across botswana. so this is an evolution mistake that role within the vaccinated. >> laura: so the bottom line is

going back to button up the natural immunity question. when dr. fauci session we don't know about the durability of natural immunity, we do know. it's as durable or stronger than the vaccine, correct? >> it's more durable. the vaccine is coated against one protein. natural immunity has anti-bodies of 27 proteins. this is durable. the sars covid 2 homolgous. this is one and done. we need to remove the fear over americans and the world about getting the infection over and over again. if it was possible, laura, we would have seen millions and millions of bona fide second cases of people on the ventilator and it's not happening. >> laura: thanks, dr. mccullough. with that omicron variant

circulating the group, big cities are going back to the mandate mindset. new york city cancelled surgeries in fear of the omicron. even before the omicron showed up, santa cruz issued an indoor mask mandate for private homes. what remains to be seen how red states will react to the variant. will they stay the course and protect liberty? joining me now, kate reeves. governor, will these blue state governors and would-be tyrant mayors ever get it or is this their new addiction? >> well, laura, they're going to issue to do lock downs and mandates for as long as they can maintain control. because if you think about it,

the national democrat party believes decision making. we believe in the individual and telling the people the truth and let them make the decision for themselves. the democrat party believes in centralized decision making. they want to do it in d.c. if they can't do it, they're happy to do it in the governor's office or mayor's office or other areas. one thing that is clear about this new variant, we don't have nearly enough data right now to really surmise anything. so some of these decision being mate lead you to the only thing that you can come to, is they just want to have more control over individuals' lives. >> laura: red states have already gone back to normal. you guys have been back to normal a long time, this is from today's "washington post." we're never going back to normal. personally i don't think i will ever get on a plane without wearing a mask said a democratic

strategist working closely with biden during the 2008 presidential campaign. governor reeves, we see it in the washington d.c. area with people walking on trails, driving by themselves with masks on, two and three masks on, sometimes a face shield and a mask. they want this to be the normal for the foreseeable future or forever. so how do red state governors expand the liberty movement while this other nonsense is going on? >> we have to be steadfast in our beliefs. obviously you know this very well. you and i have talked many times. i've been attacked by everyone across america that believes in taking away our individual freedoms because i've had the willingness and the intestinal fortitude to stand up and say in our state, in mississippi, we're going to protect individual individual liberties and freedom. we're going to give our individual mississippians the truth. that is one of the problems that

you've talked about in this show. why can't the leaders in the country, why can't the biden administration tell americans the truth and let them make their own decisions rather than fear mongering and doing other things? that's one of the challenges in this debate. you look at the institutions like the nih, the cdc. some of the leaders in those organizations. they have changed their position so often that it's gotten very, very difficult. a lot of people quit listening to them because they question their credibility. in other states, certainly states across the southeast and where we have republican governors, we've tried to tell people the truth. we try to be honest with them and tell them where the cases are going, where the hospitalizations are going, what we were doing to combat the challenges. in our state and many other across the country that are lead

by republicans, we recognize that we had to make sure that -- first of all, we're never going to eliminate all transmission. that is not a viable goal. >> laura: you have to protect our way of life, governor reeves. have to put it bluntly. otherwise, what is the point of this? >> this country was founded on those principles, laura. >> laura: governor reeves, the new normal is not the american way. at least how they're describing it. thanks. we'll check back soon. congresswoman lauren boebert is the only thing that some of the media and democrats and her own party care about right now. she's here to discuss her comments about congresswoman omar and her best way to respond going forward to her critics. stay there.

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elevator with one of my staffers. he and write leaving the capitol. i see a capitol police officer running hurriedly to the elevator. i see it all over my face. i looked and i left and there she is, ilhan omar. i said well, she doesn't have a backpack. we should be fine. >> laura: the emergence of that video she seemed to be a joke, although insensitive, sent the media to total meltdown mode. >> boebert displayed her bigotry and comments of ilhan omar. >> a normal sayings of xenophobia by the republican party has been going on for 20 years. >> it's a garbage comment from a garbage politician. >> she can be censured. she should be stripped of her committees. >> laura: they always want to cancel people. congress woman boebert called to

apologize to come woman omar yesterday. come woman omar refused to take her apology and she ended the call. congress woman, other than the part about her hanging up on you, is any part of what she said there true? >> look, laura, i called to speak with her directly about me reflecting on my comments about her. i made a public statement. but she didn't want to hear what i had to say. in her press release, really was like it was drafted before the phone call even had took place. omar and the left don't want an apology. they want public humiliation. they want to cancel me that is not going to happen. laura, i want to say this to you and millions. i won't be cancelled.

why know why cnn and the left want to focus on these distractions. they have no winning issues to talk about. democrats can't talk about sky rocketing inflation or the invasion at our southern border, they can't talk about the americans still stranded in afghanistan. they can't talk about the supply chain shortages, work force shortages or gas shortages. why? because they caused every one of them. democrat policies have failed. one party order for one year and they're failing everythingle american. so they'll focus on ilhan's outrage rather than the outrage of the american people that have suffocating under biden's failed regime. >> laura: isn't it important then that -- look, we all say things that are a little outrageous every now and then. so you're young. you just arrived in washington. but they're going to come after you because they think you're a

threat. you're an america first conservative. they don't like you. you'll never win accolades from the elites. they hate you. you can't give them a bat to hit you over the head did, which you did with those comments. do you recognize that? >> i think my statement reflects exactly that. i didn't apologize to appease ilhan or the left or nancy pelosi or anyone else. i did that because i'm here to be a good congress woman for the people that sent me here to be their voice. the people that sent -- sent me to secure their freedoms. they know that i'll defend israel and support our police unlike others that call israelis terrorists and want to dismantle the police. i'll keep your right to keep and bare arms unlike ilhan omar supports the government coming to your door and confiscating guns. i believe that life is the most precious gift from god. others like ilhan have voted for

abortion even after a child is born. i support law and order. she supporting ending cash bail and putting more people on the streets like the psycho in waukesha, wisconsin. these policies are dangerous. the policies that i disagree with ilhan omar are dangerous. her policies attack our allies and support terrorists. >> laura: i have an idea. congress woman, i have an idea. why don't you challenge her to a debate? >> i would love a debate. >> laura: on this show. we'll do it on this show. >> right here on the show. that would be fantastic. >> laura: i'll step aside. >> these are the dangerous policies that are crippling our nation. it's disheartening to see someone that hates america serving in the united states of representatives.

i love america. that's the difference here. i would accept that debate to be here on your show with congress woman ilhan omar. she held a press conference about this tonight. here's a little tease. >> we cannot pretend that this hate speech from leading politicians doesn't have real consequences. the truth is that anti-muslim hate is on the rise here at home an and around the world. >> laura: she was elected to congress, congress woman boebert. your response to this, are you anti-muslim? >> oh, absolutely not. i apologize to the muslim community. even omar brought up a man that was calling with death threats. i believe that that man needs to be found by capitol police and held accountable just like the men that have called with death threats against my family, against my staff, my restaurant, all in the past few days. they need to be found and held

accountable. you know how that will happen? by our brave law enforcement officers that i fully support and who ilhan has disparaged and worked to defund. i certainly do not criticize anyone's religion or faith. that is exactly why i released my statement. >> laura: congress woman boebert, one would thing given what is happening in minneapolis and the rising crime, murder rates, everything that is happening in minneapolis post george floyd, one would think that ilhan omar would focus on that especially after the defund the police thing went down in flames in the referendum. but you're the focus of ilhan omar. that's convenient. >> because her policies are failed. even minnesota is seeing that. that's why we see the defund the police movement go away. we do need our law enforcement officers --

>> laura: gone down in flames. congress woman boebert, we have to run. we appreciate your clearing things up and coming on the show. that debate would be fun. democratic senators are now threatening the supreme court over roe and biden's vaccine mandates hit another wall. ken starr weighing in next. new vazalore is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewer ulcers than plain aspirin. vazalore is designed to help protect... releasing aspirin after it leaves your stomach... where it is absorbed to give you the benefits of life saving aspirin... to help prevent another heart attack or stroke. heart protection with your stomach in mind. try new liquid-filled vazalore. aspirin made amazing!

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>> i hope the supreme court is listening to the people of the united states. i think if you want to see a revolution, go ahead. outlaw roe v. wade. >> laura: a moderate democrat threatening revolution. forget those nasty comments. we hope the supreme court is listening to us, not to her. why? if a 6-3 conservative supreme court isn't enough to overturn roe, the entire conservative legal movement will have been in vane. that's what i'm saying tonight. joining me now, ken starr, former independent counsel and appellate court judge. in your view, how many originalists are there really on the supreme court? >> i think -- we may disagree. i think there's six. i do. i think john roberts, the chief justice is an incrementalist. so there's times when some of us get frustrated with the way he votes but i think there's six.

so tomorrow's case, which brings up roe v. wade is a huge test. maybe i'm wrong. >> laura: well, we have four decades plus after roe. we've had lots of fancy dinners hosted by the federalist society. millions of dollars donated to the federalist society. a lot of great people involved. again, six republican appointees on this court. yet you and i are sitting here wondering whether they're going to vote to confirm the idea that our founders in the constitution believed it was a constitutional right to end life as we know it in the womb that is staggering if that's what any of those six turn out to believe. >> well, i doubt that any of the six believe that at all. the question then becomes if you

think row v wade as a judge, you took an oath to uphold the contusion of the united states. so if you think that roe v. wade is wrongly decided and as justice kavanaugh has put it in describing what kind of wrong decisions deserve to be overruled, if you agree, you should in fact vote to overrule. but what is as you well no is guarding against that is the idea of the court's precedence have to be taken very seriously. that's where you sit. it's a half century of law and are we going to disrupt that. it's an enormous judgment call for three of the justices. so this may be one of those 3-3-3 splits that we saw so frequently in justice barrett's first term. >> laura: that's where it goes, i don't know -- i don't have any words. i want to get to something i

mentioned at the top. another federal judge blocked joe biden's vaccine mandate. these losses over the mandates keep piling up. how does biden's legal team -- can't all be this out of it. how did they think this was going to past legal muster? >> hope springs eternal, i guess. they're having to scramble, for example, in this case and the judge's 34-page opinion today was very strong first on constitutional power, does the agency have the power under the statute. one of the things it shows that the government could have handle differently is hey, it took you two months. >> laura: it's not an emergency. >> yeah. and you should have -- >> laura: ken, i'm sorry to cut you off. we got the point. stay with us.

first it was a hair salon now she is mass was at a major even people at the event are wearing masks barco the mask is army. remember it is america now and forever. >> happy tuesday. though all is not well at cnn. we have more at the fake news factory for two he is wearing his favorite pair of pants.