♪ ♪ >> sean: that is all the time we have left this evening. as always, thank you for being with us. you make the show possible. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham is next. i'm dying to get your legal take either civilly or criminally on alec baldwin and do you believe he was coached tonight by his lawyers? >> laura: it seemed like -- well, it's unusual for alec baldwin to be a bad actor. it's actually a great actor. the acting wasn't convincing to me, so i think he's -- >> sean: you think he was coached and there was some acting involved in this? you don't think it was genuine? >> laura: it just seemed like it to me but only the legal proceedings that are going to follow will determine. he's going to be sued civilly

and we will see what happens on the criminal front. but civil lawsuits. lawyers are licking their chops over this case. >> sean: i think you're right. i know you've got a great show as always. take it away. >> laura: all right, hannity. i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. anthony found she has now spent the better part of 18 months promising the american people that normality is right around the corner but something he said last night reveals he hasn't really want this, never did. alex, band on twitter, not bad here, he's here to explain why we knew this all along. first, the covid warrior smites himself. that is the focus of tonight's angle. >> i'm not going to shut down the economy. i'm not going to shut down the country, i'm going to shut down the virus. >> laura: how is that going? shutting down the virus thing?

despite three free widely available vaccines, nearly 52,000 americans have died of covid and biden's first year in office. and while he didn't shut down the economy, his reckless agenda has flattened the curve on wage and gdp growth. inflation is soaring, that is eating up wages, the price of gas is climbing and millions of americans are out of the labor force because of vaccine mandates or bad unemployment checks. the only bright spots in biden's america are the bright red ones run by republican governors who knew early on that any response two but had to be carefully balanced against other things like economic, educational and basic liberty interests. >> florida, we have the lowest covid rate in the country. a lot of those places that have the high infections, they have mandates and they have passports

and all these things. we should not be imposing any type of mandates or restrictions on the american people. >> laura: it's clear what approach americans prefer. over the course of the pandemic thousands and thousands -- we don't even know the whole entire amount, have fled blue cities and states for redder pastors. california and new york have lost seats. and no one is going to convince me that glenn youngkin victory in virginia wasn't impart a rejection of school closures and mask mandates. people are over both. of course the biden white house refuses to see that they have a substantive problem on their hands at all. they think they can spend and spend their way out of bad poll numbers. it even after biden signed the so-called infrastructure bill into law, his numbers sunk to another new low.

a consult survey has biden at an abysmal 45%. it seems that every time we report on another dismal biden benchmark, the white house decides to send him out to deliver remarks that are both deadly boring and inconsequential. today it was more testing sites, free at home testing kits and stricter testing of international travelers. the most powerful man on the planet sounded like he was reading a press release written by some intern in the con shop. >> if you're wondering where to go again, visit vaccines.com. today i am announcing that we are going to launch hundreds of new family vaccination clinics across the country. these offer vaccinations for the whole family, one stop. get your booster shot when you are eligible. excuse me, we don't yet believe -- excuse me. >> laura: you're not excused.

of course on the covid front the constituency of the white house is really trying to serve as the press corps. from day one of the pandemic, the press has urged lockdown, school closures, mask mandates, any and all restrictions on our freedom. and now even as most americans have moved on from covid they are still pushing biden for more isolation of the unvaccinated. >> why not go further in the direction of mandates, given the potential risk? >> i would say that nothing is off the table, including domestic travel. >> why the hesitancy to require proof of vaccination for domestic travel? >> we do have those types of requirements on international travel. we will continue to look at those options. everything is on the table. >> laura: all actions are on the table, think about that. what the media really wants, and they've always wanted this, is for us to look like europe.

they love the high gas prices but that is not all. europe is quickly becoming its own covid police state. just yesterday the austrian government approved and extended 20 day nationwide lockdown because they work so well the first time. this comes after the announced compulsory vaccinations for all. meanwhile germany is imposing its own strict lockdowns for the unvaccinated and leadership they are want universal vaccinations. now with its dark history, germany's tactics would make the old fascists proud. and don't think for a second that whoever is winding up biden every morning wouldn't do the same here with all these controls, if they could. but thankfully america has a constitution that protects individual liberty. we have states that value freedom over false promises of safety and we have federal judges who are one by one halting biden's vaccine mandate. yet another court challenge was

announced today by oklahoma's governor on behalf of members of the national guard there who were objecting to the vaccine order for the u.s. military. and in new jersey state legislatures today did their own part in defining an order requiring they show proof of negative covid test or proof of vaccination. a number of them ended up walking right past state troopers into the house chamber. the officers eventually let them through, although we hear that the assembly democrats are still trying to figure out ways to physically remove these republicans, prevent them from voting. but the g.o.p. is on a roll there, almost winning the governorship in new jersey and remember, they flipped seven seats in the new jersey legislature. it was their most successful state legislative election in three decades. new jersey republicans need to keep fighting. most americans need to be conscientious objectors and just

say no. we need more review. and congressional republicans, right now, they need to make it crystal clear that they will use every legal means at their disposal to stop any future domestic controls on the unvaccinated. no travel bands, no vaccine passports, no more mask mandates. any such executive orders coming out of the white house are illegal and unconstitutional and we believe the court will rule as such. they should fight the stupid mandates for masks on planes as well, forcing these little toddlers to wear masks. it's total child abuse. the order is always and was ineffective and idiotic. of course biden extended it today until the spring. as i have said since the spring of 2020, if left up to the democrats and the media, we are never going to be free of masks and rolling lockdowns. no matter how many americans are vaccinated or already have had

covid. >> i wonder if i'm the only one who's going to wear a mask now even after the pandemic? >> no, i will. >> i'm just going to do it. it protects you from the flu and stuff. >> it's been really nice not having the flu for a couple years now. if i could go another year to have come at two years without the flu i will put that mask on on a plane whether i like it or not. >> there you go. >> it is so ridiculous. like all these people don't go mask lists when they think the cameras aren't rolling. hello, obama. real america has already gone on with life. whatever variance pop up next, they have moved on. at the sec college football championship in atlanta on saturday, about 85,000 people will be cheering and yelling mask lists for alabama and georgia. they are going to be having a great time. and thousands of churches across the united states will be singing their hearts out without masks.

because most of them know the truth, the red states got covid right. and biden is not really running the covid response anyway, a fact that the president let slip today in a lame attempt at humor. >> dr. fauci, i've seen him more than -- saying to my wife, president fauci. but all kidding aside, i am very proud. >> laura: your effort to defund the government, if they don't resend come of these mandates failed to appear but i think this vote is really significant for all these democrats essentially voted to fire line workers, military personnel et cetera, so how can they look at their constituents in the eye after this vote today given what it does to the regular working class people in

military folks that we need to desperately? >> you are exactly right that it was imperative we have this vote. we've got a federal government whose tentacles reach into every aspect of human existence and it is threatening right now to fire 45 million american workers. we needed to have a vote on whether we decide to fund that feature of government that is going to enforce this mandate. every senator needed to put his or her name on the line. tonight they had the opportunity to do so. i'm glad i stood with the workers of utah and of america. i think it's sad and frankly disgraceful that senator chuck schumer resisted this long, allowing us to even cast a vote on whether to defund those mandates. >> laura: biden's covid czar was on tv today lying about the effectiveness of these vaccine mandates, watch. >> vaccine mandate requirements work.

it's really important we implement the existing mandates. the best tool we have is vaccination and for those who are fully vaccinated to get boosted and take their protection level to the highest level yet. >> laura: senator lee, vaccine mandates have forced thousands of americans out of their jobs in a down economy, so how is this a success and is it a success? why in places like michigan where they have pushed these vaccines on their people, have had some of the biggest upticks in infections and hospitalizations? >> not only have they seen upticks but you also see in many instances a lot of the same people who might otherwise be persuadable to get the vaccine at some point are now more reluctant to get them and ever. why? because the government says you have to get it. if the government has so little confidence in their ability to make clear that people ought to get this that they have to force

it on people or fire them, it is going to cause a lot of people understandably do say maybe this isn't such a good thing. in fact it is the reaction i hear from a lot of people in any event. regardless of whether it is good or bad or even if you couldn't demonstrate, which you can't, that this is somehow having them positive physical impact on american health, it is still wrong. it is still immoral, it is still illegal and wildly unconstitutional. >> laura: we are going to examine the constitutionality question in our next segment but senator lee, you are an incredible lawyer in addition to an amazing senator, what is your take on whether, let's say they actually bow down to what the media wants and try to institute, because of omicron or some other variant, a domestic travel ban, do you think this supreme court would uphold such a ban? >> no, i don't, nor do i think they will uphold the employer

mandate either. these are some of the most egregious actses of presidential overreach since on april 12th o, president harry truman seized every steel mill in america. the supreme court knocked down that presidential overreach and it is going to do the same thing here. but it's going to take a few months which is why we need to defund this thing in the meantime. >> laura: thank you for pushing the vote and now we have everyone on the record. thank you for joining me now is jonathan turley, george washington university law professor and fox news contributor. i do want to get your reaction to the question i just asked senator lee. let's first start with the vaccine mandates that are in place now. we have a challenge now against the military vaccine mandate coming out of oklahoma tonight, we have the other vaccine mandate questions for health care workers. they are all going to end up at the supreme court, how did things look with the jacobson president was smallpox from all those years ago?

>> it has been a remarkably bad run for the white house. they have racked up a number of losses in notably different areas. these are mandates related to federal contractors, also a mandate with regard to medicare, dealing with facilities, and of course, the big osha ruling. and all of those courts said that they don't see preliminary injunction stage of the clear for the government to do what it did. the fifth circuit cited biden's own chief of staff, ron klain, who really was really ill-advised when he cited or retweeted a statement that this was all a work around, that it acknowledged that they didn't have the constitutional authority to do this directly, so he retweeted that we found a workaround.

the fifth circuit cited that. courts don't take to work around in the constitution, they like to see direct authority. and many of the problems they've encountered has been an effort to avoid notice and comment. they use it as an emergency provision under osha that allowed them to skip that. another court found that to also be a problem in another mandate. there is a host of issues here that courts are flagging and they are really racking up quite a litany of losses. >> laura: one of the issues, professor, that much of this is being driven by things like tv doctors who were saying fairly outrageous things like this. >> are a major tool is vaccination, so the biden administration is doing everything it can within the power of the federal government. the problem is by constitutional design, the way madison and jefferson did this, there are limits to the reach of the federal government.

>> laura: they are really annoyed at the founders, they really don't like the fact that we have a constitutional republic. that annoys these people who want total medical control over individuals. >> it's rather ironic since the democrats, you know, really took donald trump to task and they believed he was acting unilaterally. this is an extraconstitutional move in some regard. keep in mind that with the cdc eviction moratorium in another area, the president acknowledged that he was told by his own white house counsel that that moratorium was likely unconstitutional. he acknowledged that most legal experts they spoke to said it was unconstitutional. they can only find one, apparently, who gave it a green light and he said we are going to go forward because by the time it takes them to strike this down we will get a lot of money out of the door. the courts made fast work of it

but there is this reckless attitude of the administration towards some of this litigation. these losses caused the executive branch. they are creating president not just against this president but future presidents. >> laura: on this domestic travel ban which they are clearly itching to impose on the unvaccinated, in your estimation, what's the likelihood that that would survive constitutional scrutiny? >> they have considerable authority in that area so it could end up a close question but i've got to tell you, corts are showing greater and greater skepticism. you have to make the case, you can't just simply say we have a new variant, the courts are now asking those questions they didn't ask at the beginning of the pandemic. they are saying show mean. >> laura: it's depriving individuals of their right to travel interstate is one of the

more stunning -- we have never heard of that in the united states, i don't believe. thank you. for 18 months anthony found she has promised they were all going to return to normal. right around the corner. but new video shows that he never really wanted that. alex is here with reaction moments. jeff's been to the bottom of the ocean. the tops of mountains. and wherever this guy runs off to. a life well lived should continue at home. with home instead care, older adults can stay home, safe, and happy. home instead. to us, it's personal.

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♪ ♪ >> if you are fully vaccinated you can start doing the things that you have stopped doing because of the pandemic. >> laura: if we succeed in this effort that americans will have taken a serious step towards returning to normal. >> if people follow the recommendations, what to do when traveling, and getting vaccinated and getting boosted, we can have a situation where you do continue to veer towards getting to some degree of normality. >> laura: some degree of normality. you've got to parse this sentence but the truth is they never liked field normal, they wanted to usher in the new normal and all of that was made clear in the last night's covid town hall on cnn. >> everyone is talking about what to do if you are unvaccinated or if you had a booster but what should someone do who has had all three shots

to protect themselves? >> what was just asked is very relevant. if you have to be in an indoor congregate setting in which you are unsure of what the vaccination status is of the people around you, wear a mask. >> laura: does that include nancy pelosi? here now is someone who hasn't been scared to tell the truth about the pandemic from the start. alex berenson, author of the new must read book, i love this book. congrats on the book. now this fauci comment and the mind-set from him, he's confirming what you and i have thought from the beginning, that this is a way of life now. this is the american way of life and masks and mandates are never going away until we have a change in leadership. >> you know, i think that might be true.

certainly there is no scientific rationale at this point for even distinguishing between vaccinated and unvaccinated people in terms of their ability to transmit this. we know vaccinated people can be walking around with very high loads of virus just like unvaccinated people. in riding it i got to see all the lies and misstatements from fauci and other public health people for two years and i understand better why everyone is so cynical. everyone who has been paying attention is so cynical about everything that comes out of this man's mouth, and everyone else who is telling us what to do. they've been wrong about practically everything from the beginning and it's increasingly clear that if we had done next to nothing we would be in exactly the same place we are now. we might even be in a better place. we might've actually reached herd immunity at this point. >> laura: if they actually believed in herd immunity. >> natural immunity too. >> laura: .

>> laura: msnbc, this guy, erwin, chief medical analyst there, he doesn't see covid going away for a long, long time. >> those who are wishing, myself included, for a soon ending to this catastrophic pandemic, i'm afraid we're just going to have to be waiting a while. i don't see where this is going to go away in the next two or three years. we have to prepare ourselves for the long haul. >> laura: all the red states pretty much know it is endemic, lately but they've learned to live with it and they are moving on. they are not cowering in the corner masking, wearing three masks. >> all these people were the same people telling you if you just rolled up your sleeves and got two shots. the date it was great last year, the vaccines were going to end this. he could do in our people saying the vaccines would end the pandemic and for them now, they were lying when they said they didn't say that, it is all on the record.

again, it is just astonishing to me. it was astonishing and remains astonishing in writing this book, about school closures, lockdowns, tests -- now about vaccines. >> laura: speaking about the school closure issue, you might not have seen this but posted tonight in "the washington post," if there was a section called "duh" this is what it might be, this car is remote schooling linger. the joys of being back in prison and collide with the trauma and setbacks brought on by the pandemic and virtual schooling. no kidding, you destroyed kids, you destroyed them. >> you and i were telling them that. >> laura: we got totally hammered for it. >> that is right, we wanted to kill kids, we wanted to kill teachers. it was all nonsense, it was all political, to her donald trump. that story, your producer sent me that story and i was reading it a few minutes ago, it is a

tragic story. >> laura: heartbreaking. >> it is tragic and it can never happen again. i wrote this book because i wanted people to have this down so we don't make these mistakes again. >> laura: never again answer many of those children are minorities or lower income kids who already have difficulty and now they have to deal with this. that is all on the democrats. alex, congrats on this book. everybody go out and get it. "pandemia." alex berenson. sadly this covert hysteria has hit the g.o.p. too. earlier this week 80 house republicans voted with democrats to pass something called the immunization infrastructure modernization act. if this is signed into law and i'm sure it will be, this would help fund a federal vaccination database. now does that level of intrusion sound like something republican should be supporting? one of the republicans who did vote against this, byron donalds

joins me now. proponents of this bill say all the info will be kept private, so no worries there, right? >> yeah right. i don't think the federal government should have this kind of information at all and it's been crystal clear throughout the years that there are leaks, hacks, this information gets out in the last thing we need is some administration like this administration, doesn't even care about the constitution or the law, targeting americans and leaking information about who is vaccinated and who is not. it's none of their business. that is why i voted no and frankly by the entire republican conference should have voted no. >> laura: what is going on? what is this database presumably going to be used for? >> this is the whole thing. the democrats that sponsored that this is where they can keep all the records together so they can get through future pandemics but again that is not the role of the federal government. they are ignoring the declaration and the constitution when it comes to this stuff.

>> laura: could also be a way to have a national database on the unvaccinated? who are the unvaccinated, where do they live, and specifically come ultimately if it gets into the wrong hands, the wrong party, surveilled them, punish them, isolate them? >> that is my point, we should never even allow such a thing. my hope as it goes nowhere in the senate. not to mention they want to spend $400 million to create this thing and we are already spending more money than we even have. we shouldn't be spending more money to do something that frankly goes against the health privacy of every american. it's not the business of congress who is vaccinated and who is not. >> laura: congressman, this is so shocking that 80 republicans voted for this. sounds like there's a lot of primary challenges going to be under way on that topic. thank you. and a well-known l.a. philanthropist was just murdered in her beverly hills home, showing even the most elite neighborhoods there are not safe from the ongoing crime waves. trace gallagher brings the

report before the head of the l.a. police union tells us why this is happening. you don't want to miss this.

♪ ♪ >> laura: police have arrested the suspect in a brazen murder of a prominent l.a. resident who was shot and killed in her beverly hills home yesterday. fox breaking news correspondent trace gallagher is live in our l.a. newsroom with all the latest. >> the motive remains unknown. jackie abbott was a well-known philanthropist, democratic activist and while the circumstances are a bit vage or suspected killer has a long history of violent felonies. at two thursday wednesday morning they were called to her neighborhood where police found her suffering a gunshot wound. they got into her home by shattering a glass door and shot

her with an ar-15 rifle. here's the beverly hills police chief. watch. >> for the beverly hills community, let me reassure you this is one of the most protracted and patrolled cities in the world. crime will not be tolerated here. let this be a message to anyone thinking of meeting a crime in beverly hills, you will be caught and brought to justice. >> the family have also asked that justice be served but in california that it's a tall order and the suspect in the killing is a prime example. 29-year-old ariel mainer has been a career criminal his entire adult life and yet he continued to walk free. in june of 2010 he was charged with robbery and struck a plea deal for a lesser offense. six months later he was arrested for assault. prosecutors drop to the case for insufficient evidence. two years later the d.a.'s office again denied to prosecute a burglary case. two years after that he was finally convicted of felony robbery and sentenced to five years. he served four and when he got

out he was almost immediately arrested again for felony robbery. under california's three strikes law he should have been sentenced to nine years and would still be in prison. instead he got for two years and ended up serving even less. laura? >> laura: absolutely shocking, thank you. my next guest has seen firsthand the shocking crime wave sweeping l.a. amy mcbride, director of the l.a. protective league. jamie, a number of friends in l.a. knew jacqueline very well. but i think in beverly hills, malibu, ritzy area, georgetown, washington. people think because they are rich they are protected. but how safe are these people in any of these neighborhoods when we have district attorneys like george gascon in l.a. who keep this revolving door of crime going? >> let's not forget the

criminals don't know when the city lines stop and start. i've worked all over the city of los angeles and my 31 years of law enforcement and i have seen firsthand. i used to track criminals down into the cities of beverly hills and all over the places they are trying to commit their crimes. people like george gascon, they are helping the criminals. there is no such thing as helping the victim. in fact they almost want you to feel it's your fault to be a victim. let's not forget, the aclu, this is the back of goods they sold years back with george gascon, who cowrote -- 47 and they made it sound like this is a good thing because all this stuff is happening is racist, sending people to jail so long, it was a bag of goods. that is why we created our protective league, the police union and san francisco police union created a national database which tracks the aclu, how they help violent criminals succeed in not going to jail.

if you go to it it is aclu --watch.com. you can click on your state and read real-time information and watch what aclu is doing. nobody's going to jail. i heard the interview saying that they are safe and i know he wishes that but nobody can guarantee your safety. right now in california it is so violent. let's not forget this year more police officers have been killed by gunfire than in any other year. >> laura: they all went after the three strikes law, which if i remember is if you have been convicted of three serious or violent felonies you are going to jail 25 to life, correct? but they all came after that law in california. it was passed in 1994 but the aclu, all of the defendant rights groups, they trashed it as unfair and vicious and un-american, et cetera, et cetera.

>> writes. and what they did, you heard about the guy stealing the slice of pizza and going to jail for life. that was their poster child they put up there but what they didn't say is his violent history before he stole the slice of pizza that sent him to jail for life. in order to get to that point he had to have a series of violent felony convictions and that is what they didn't say. all they said was he stole a slice of pizza and went to jail for life. that is how they got people on board to not go for that law, it's ridiculous. >> laura: i want to play something that happened in the white house briefing room today. this is our own peter doocy asking a question of jen psaki about why crime is exploding. watch. >> when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go loot a store, cbs, nordstrom, home depot went all the shelves are clean, do you think that is because of the pandemic? >> i think the root cause and a lot of communities as the

pandemic, yes. >> laura: is the pandemic really what is driving up crime? >> no, not at all. in fact when they talk about the nobel for example they say that as a poverty thing, it is not fair to people who are poor. i don't see people doing smash and grab their grocery stores. you're not going into albertine's getting milk and bread. what they are doing is going to louis vuitton stores, they are going to high-end stores, jewelry stores and they are looting. just recently, a day or two ago in hayward, california, up north, there was a group of people doing a flash mob smash and grab and one of the officers was able to stop one of the cars and in the car they had a fully loaded assault rifle with two drums fully loaded. these are violent criminals but again, nobody's allowed to take them to jail and if they do go to jail they are going to get released. mind you, jacqueline, terrible tragedy but i'm telling you right now, with george gascon is

the los angeles district attorney, when there is a crime like this generally's special circumstances and they can say life in prison or serious time or even the death penalty. george gascon made it clear that nobody will get these enhancements. >> laura: they are not going to get enhanced punishment. california voted for gavin newsom. they voted against the recall and they are going to get a lot of bad things happening on the other side. thank you, great to see you. why doesn't anyone like kamala harris? comedian adam corolla has some thoughts plus details on his new comedy special. stay there.

♪ ♪ >> laura: something interesting happened this morning aboard air force 2. 11 months into his first term and the joe biden cabinet secretary was asked this. >> it's 2021 and the whole point of campaigns and elections are when they go well, you get to govern. and we are squarely focused on the job at hand. >> laura: that is a nonanswer. this is hilarious for a few reasons. not the least of which is that the d.c. press corps has already written joe biden's political obituary. but also because they are skipping right over biden

current vp. so what is wrong with kamala? for starters, no one seems to like her peers she has a 28% approval rating with the public and the people who work with her seem not to be able to stand her either. with the advisor that top advisor simone sanders is leaving, kamala has lost four senior aides and just the last month. our next guest saw harris up close as a resident of california and she was ag of course there until last year. adam corolla is a comedian and host of the brand-new show "truth yeller" and podcast are extraordinary. i want to get your new special in a moment but first, what is up with kamala? >> if you are going to be a politician or used car salesman you either have to be good or likable and kamala is 0 for 2. she is the least charismatic person on the planet, and i don't think she's very bright.

i mean, this is biden's fault, obviously. if he's going to do an affirmative action hire for the vice president of the united states, you sort of get what you got. i mean, he said i want a woman of color, he got a woman of color. he should have found a good woman of color. he didn't get that. and now we are all stuck with her. >> laura: adam, i know you are a big fan of gavin newsom, especially his handling of covid. now the daily mail is reporting that days after extending the state of emergency in california he jetted off to a mexican resort town and stayed in a $25,000 per night villa owned by russian oligarchs. are you surprised? >> i have a saying, disappoint disappointers never disappoint and that is all gavin newsom does is disappoint. he's very consistent in his

disappointments. the thing about newsom. i don't know if you know this but there was no power in my house or my sister's house on thanksgiving. not because there was a fire but because the electrical grid was so weak they had to shut it down so it wouldn't cause a fire. gavin newsom is hobnobbing in mexico and we are high and dry in a blackout in southern california, and by the way, when larry elder ran against him, larry elder ran on getting the power grid back up and running and all gavin newsom did was focus on race. in the people of california are so stupid that they vote for the guy who never stops talking about racism. meanwhile the power grid is falling apart. >> laura: and smash and grab all over the state as well. i've got to show a clip from the debut of your new comedy series, i'm so excited with "the daily wire." the first episode features your old friend jay leno. >> this is the biggest audience,

last year you couldn't go to bars, restaurants, he had to keep 6 feet away from women. every guy, they looked like harvey weinstein. i see dr. fauci every night on the news and he says the same thing, coronavirus is a war, we've got to fight it like a war. it's the only war in history where when the war is overcome all the soldiers are fatter. >> laura: i watch that and said, not only did we miss jay leno every night on television but there's a reason he was the last one to get really nice ratings on television. >> it's great to be doing and up specials on "the daily wire." hollywood is hollywood, netflix is netflix, hbo is hbo, but they didn't count on other entities popping up and creating voices for people like myself. god bless people like jay leno for putting friendship on

partisan -- so there are two that are up now and we've got four more to do. >> laura: at its best comedy never really was political. they were equal opportunity offenders. everyone was fair game. the specials are not political at all, they are just funny, but in a way, maybe just being funny is political, in 2021, because somehow you have to denounce the right in order to get more applause than you do laughter. i think comedians are going for applause rather than laughter now and that is a big mistake. >> laura: i can't wait to watch all your episodes. how many do you have in the can already? >> two are in the can come available at thedailywire.com. >> laura: thank you for coming on, we can't reach. a short while ago on another network, stacey abrams polls and an egregious lie. we will tell you about.

>> laura: stacey abrams let

loose with this walker. >> on the 16th of november when i acknowledged i had not become the governor, i did not challenge the outcome of the election unlike some recent folks did. >> laura: what? did she know we have the videotape? get your freedom matters gear and your free ornament at lauraingraham.com. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> greg: happy thursday, everyone. it's beginning to look a lot like christmas. we are getting signs of snow that for once isn't under cat's nose. nothing says the holiday spirit like boarded up storefronts