you'll enjoy the interviews freight i appreciate it and i hope this christmas season we take time to pause and think those who aren't home for christmas who are serving in th military. the men and women overseas protecting the goodness of the united states of america. raymond arroyo is in tonight fo laura ingraham. raymond, we will leave it with you.ro >> thank you. i've got the full voice tonight so you don't have to double duty. this is the ingraham angle. the fda gave the green light to a pfizer pill to fight covid but why this one and not the other promising therapeutics including those speech on this show. the medicine cabinet ways in was

the war women sports continues as transfer earlier thomas continues to question the competition but one us swimming official has had enough and is leaving the sport. she joins us in an exclusive later in the hour. what are the most dangerous christmas songs to drive to and what to millennials think about fake christmas trees, seen and unseen with joe piscopo is moments away but first, if you listen closely this christmas owing to the omicron variant, many are demanding you and free american become kevin mcallister. [screaming] raymond: they want you to be home alone. no doubt covid 19 is still on the move and demands caution particularly for those with underlying conditions but it has mutated and weekend of class. as the inventor of the m rna platform said last week for

anyone who believes in god omicron looks like an early christmas gift, though more people are catching the variant the symptoms are mild. we know from south africa today those who contract omicron are at an 80% lower risk of hospitalization, 80%, and hospitalizations across the united states are down compared to the last covid surge. there is even a 70% lower risk of severe disease but you wouldn't know that from listening to the government health is ours who mean to ruin your christmas. >> importantly, consider gathering with family and friends who are also practicing similar proper prevention measures. covid 19 vaccines, especially when accompanied by booster dose are likely to protect against severe disease, hospitalization

and death but we know we will hear more about people who get infected who are vaccinated. >> the shot will likely protect you from omicron but fully vaccinated people will still get it. this is doctor malone. >> amazon blows right through the vaccines and the triple jet. omicron is very very infectious and the data are already in, the double and triple vaccination is not protecting you from omicron. >> a bentley doctor fauci is yet to get the memo on that one. he offered this bit of holiday cheer as you prepare to welcome family around the table for christmas. >> if someone in your families and vaccinated she asked them not to show up. >> i would do that. we are dealing with a serious

enough situation right now the if there's an unvaccinated person, i would say i'm very sorry but not this time, maybe another time when this is all over. >> when will that be. how many christmases do you think you have left with older relatives with their for time when the argument that been made that vaccinations protect people from catching covid. that's no longer the case with omicron. the people i know who have omicron are all triple vaccinated including 6 members of congress. what is regrettable is the demonization of people, family, especially the unvaccinated. all creates this fictitious notion that we should be panicked that aunt kathy is bringing a deadly pathogen in the house along with the christmas casserole but despite the mutated virus moving in, the right direction i might add, the demonization is getting worse. >> has gone into all the things to restrict the activities of

the unvaccinated. it is time to have a requirement for vaccination for domestic travel focused on restricting the unvaccinated for causing the prolonging of this pandemic for all. raymond: is there a vaccination for demonization of fellow citizens. even the world health organization chief today said blanket booster programs are likely to prolong the covid 19 pandemic, no country can boost its way out of the pandemic. try telling that the mayors of dc and chicago who are trumping this lump:a citizen stockings. >> some establishment will be required to verify 12 years old and older have received at least one dose of the covid 19 vaccine. >> you going to eat the muffin and said that laptop you got to

show proof of vaccination. raymond: give me your freedom for a season, i will fix it up and bring it back here. we've heard this line before. the la times today is ratcheting up the fear, advising those traveling for the holidays. upon landing ticket covid test right away, take another test two days later and have a home test ready for any visiting family members, the testing regime which does nothing to stop the disease does am up the panic and is at the heart of the biden solution. he is sending out half 1 billion covid tests to every home with you are alone or not, the assumption is we can test our way out of this crisis even biden doesn't believe this. today he wanted into a press event and i will but you see for yourself. >> did i get my test today?

yes i did, when i walked in here. i haven't gotten the result yet. >> wait a minute. baron mind he had been exposed to a staffer with covid just days before. he was coughing like a tv victim yesterday and yet he walks among reporters before he has the test results. was the death point of the covid test if you are not going to wait for the result. dc what is happening here? biden is telling you to take grandma and grandpa away from your christmas tree but he is free to call on everybody heedless of test results, he had a concert in the white house, no mask and as we head into christmas we need to take a breath and remember what this is about. threats to our lives have already existed during this time. even that first christmas a

jealous king, sent his troops out to destroy the christ child. he would not have his power challenged. the child won, the light pierced the darkness and let the world up for 2000 years, it is a light that still shines, the season of hope. of time to renew our faith in god and love our families and neighbors. of virus particularly one is because omicron should not keep us from that light or each other. at the end of the movie home alone kevin mcallister about what the bad guys and was reunited with his family. i hope that's the way this christmas ends for all of us. gather together in family and faith and unity, but for those who insist on stoking fear and demanding a safe space is bubblewrap in your home alone i

have some suggestions. god bless them, every one, and give them light in the new year. joining me is newt gingrich, former house speaker and fox news contributor. moments ago biden did an interview with abc news, he said this about running into thousand 24. >> you plan to run for reelection? >> president biden: yes. if i help i'm in now, if i'm in good health, i would run again. >> if that means a rematch against donald trump? >> you're trying to tempt me now? sure. why would i not run against donald trump? that would increase the prospect of running. >> with his polls in the dump into his obvious decline, should biden be so confident about his chances against trump? >> in all honesty what choice does he have? you can't go out there and say i'm doing so badly and my administration is so stupid i think i will quit three years

from now. is already in many ways deeply weakened and joe manzo which and we condemn a little more last week. the economy is weakening again, covid is weakening him, the border is weakening and. go down the list. for him to not pretend that he is a, excited and wants to keep doing things, he's in a box, he has no real choice. the question for the american people that the democratic party is, you really believe president biden given this performance in his first year is likely to get reelected? he is already weaker than jimmy carter was at this stage and carter went down to the worst electoral college defeat of any incumbent president in modern history. we will see what happens next year.

i suspect kevin mccarthy will be speaker and mitch mcconnell will be majority leader when the dust settles and then we will see how those years ago. i fully expect biden to not run again. i think the democratic party would be in a state of shock if he did. i think kamala harris is weaker than biden. the latest rumor i heard is hillary is going to run and it would say a lot about the chaos of america if hillary clinton reemerged one more time. >> that helped proviso, if my health is not what it is today, he's looking for the exits or the party will push them toward but i want to move on. california governor gavin newsom is shifting the goalposts on what it means to be fully vaccinated. watch this. being fully vaccinated is not enough with this new variant and we believe it is important to extend this requirement to getting that third dose, to

getting boosted. it is the wise move, to make sure we don't have staffing shortages. >> staffing shortages? in places like new york more than 37,000 healthcare workers were fired over vaccine mandates. how does this help hospital care or staffing? >> historians are going to look back and say the establishment worldwide mismanaged this entire crisis on a scale we haven't seen since world war i. you have madness, no other word for it, this is madness. why would you fire people who have no indication they are sick, people taking care hospitals, nursing homes, emergency centers. the cure of the evs is turned out to be worse than the disease and particularly with this new variant which according to some reports may have had one person die, we are not sure they died

with it but may not have died from it. on the whole planet. what you have is what so many call panic porn, people who are desperate for the next excuse to be panic stricken to have control over your life. let's be clear this is gavin newsom and similar politicians who want to come for you and this is their excuse for that control. raymond: merry christmas, hope you have a great holiday. remember when kamala harris said the delta and omicron variants caught them totally by surprise? that was embarrassing enough but fauci contradicted her. it is clear no one is on the same page. i give you biden tonight. >> how did you get it wrong? >> president biden: nobody saw it coming, nobody in the whole world saw it coming. raymond: joining me as j d

vance, ohio senate candidate and tom bevan, cofounder of real clear politics. is anyone in the biden administration on the same page? >> apparently not. who saw it coming? anyone who recognizes this is a seasonal respiratory virus, gets that in late fall and early winter and we've seen this two full seasons where it gets worse, the biden folks were unprepared for it. raymond: the new poll shows biden's approval rating among independents is only at 29%, don't we a points from one week ago. he is bleeding independents, how does he think he can run again? >> he has to say he's running again. he can't make himself a lame-duck a year into his administration but i don't think anybody believes he's going to do that. the problem biden has two problems, he promised to get covid and control, he hasn't

done that and two, inflation, we are in the holiday season and people around and see in their everyday lives skyrocketing prices of gas, food and the like and the administration hasn't come up with a good response how to tackle that issue, the number one issue in the minds of americans right now. raymond: the supreme court will hear oral arguments challenging the vaccine mandates, businesses and healthcare workers. this is big and it is happening in two weeks. what impact could this have on him and the democratic party politically? >> it would be embarrassing for biden for the vaccine mandate to get overturned it might be a good thing for his administration because it is so politically unpopular and driving short-term supply chain problems we have across the country. even 30%, 40% of truckers in the midst of a supply crisis saying they will quit their job of the mandate doesn't get overturned. we've got to stop this mandate.

i don't care how it happens, act of congress, shutting down the government, the supreme court pushing back against this, we need people back to work and that is hard to do when you have government bureaucrats and multinational corporations conspiring to force the vaccine mandate on people. it is insane and it has to stop, i don't care how it stops. >> they say they are confident and have the moral and political authority to do so. cnn is sounding the alarm heading into 2022 with this headline. we got a problem here. low morale and redistricting, the retirement issue, 23 members of the democratic house, caucus, have announced they will not seek reelection, the sentiment inside the caucus is that even more departures are likely. seems like everybody is jumping this shipment soon pelosi will be back as minority leader.

>> a lot of democrats see the writing on the wall and don't want to be part of the minority come november which is where things as stands right now, the democrats are up against it historically speaking trends are not in their favor and on top of that inflation and covid, the two biggest issues on the minds of americans democrats are not dealing with, they will be held responsible for because they hold all the power in washington in congress and the white house. a lot of democrats are thinking about their options in the future and deciding now might be the time to walk away. raymond: it is clear this pattern is continuing. this is the result of lousy policies forced on people who don't want them and the pain is hitting the people. >> exactly right and you can do one of 2 things, admit that you were wrong and go the other direction or you can demonize half the country and that is the most disappointing part of the

biden covid response. they talk to the rest of the country, they talk to people who don't want to comply with the vaccine mandate like they are sewer rats. what did president biden campaign on in the rallies with nine people in a yard standing with circles painted around them, the whole idea was return to normalcy. i don't think i've ever seen an american leader talk about half of this country like they were vermin like president biden does, you see the white house again and again and what we need more than any change of direction on covid is for the president to show a little respect to the country he allegedly governs. >> look like they will double down here, the progressive caucus is pushing on him so hard. i thank you for your insight. merry christmas. the fda has given the nod to a new covid drug. you've been hearing about it all day but why do some pink it could cause mutations? are medicine cabinet

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>> ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to "the ingraham angle." in the early days of covid, it show was the first to tell you raymond: welcome back to the in the agreement. emily early days of covid this show was the first to tell you about promising therapeutic like hydroxychloroquine, study after study as well as prominent medical scientists attested to the drug's effectiveness against covid but the medical establishment dismissed and blacklisted any doctor who swore by it. they employed the same strategy against other potential life-saving drugs opting instead to push vaccines, masks, and lockdowns, two years later the fda has cleared the way for an anti-covid pill from pfizer and the agency is poised to greenlight another from merck but what took so long and are these drugs all they promised? joining is doctor harvey rish,

epidemiology professor at the yale school of public health and doctor stephen smith of the smith center for infectious diseases at urban health, doctor smith, the government is committed to buying hundreds of thousands of courses of these medications the cost between $500, and $700 a course. are these new antivirals the silver bullet in your estimation? >> i hope, i doubt it but i wish they were. i would use anything if i thought it was work, handcuffed what we can use it different hospitals but the drug worked, the data that showed, the analysis is in three days, the trial was set up so people with symptoms in less than five days. don't know why they didn't explain the data for the whole group. this was a modified analysis. doctor rich can explain that

further. it shows it was 89% effective. there was also an interesting stat that those that were positive with evidence of infection that didn't know that, if you had prior infection you weren't allowed, people who were not 0 positive -- >> do you believe the fda may have manipulated the data to force this out the door and approve it? >> it's not clear they did. there is some question about the merck drug and the data exceeding sensitivity of the tests when they made artificial

data instead but the other problem with these drugs. the one that hasn't been approved yet, the review committee voted it down. they had misgivings because this drug makes the virus mutate like crazy and it creates viral strains across the country and the world, dangerous medication. raymond: the drug that is poised to be approved and some share your opinion. and other doctors is much the same thing. >> it causes the virus to mutate. it creates mutations. for a few days they should virus. i'm very worried that drug has potential to significantly accelerate the rate of variation in this virus and therefore the pandemic. >> after the state was released france canceled an order for

this merck drug, is that something you should be worried about? >> if it moves forward we should but we all along hide the fact that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been suppressed because of state studies. raymond: where are the study for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, you've been talking about this for two years. >> if you look at stuff that's gone through the fda, monoclonals and mild efficacy, they are insistent in their own study, you have to have big pharma behind you or your left by the curb and it is stunning and i'm a person who makes his living on prescribing small molecules by big pharma. my job is infectious disease doctor but i'm stunned by this that there is no drug that has come through that doesn't have backing of big pharma to look at

them disappear. was out in months, distraught, pfizer drug was developed first to fight sars one, that's where it came from. why took two years to get from there to the shelf, this drug, two years to develop, i don't know, might be a legitimate time period but you have vaccine out so quickly and it takes two years to get the drug off the shelf for clinical trial. raymond: we talked about novavax, they have new data showing it is effective against omicron, they can't get the time of day at the fda. >> don't think they want to, australia, the eu, several countries, it is really bizarre, we've given $1.6 billion. raymond: in operation warp speed. before i go, the army at walter

reed has developed their own vaccine, not himrna technology but additional vaccine. is this something we should keep our eye on. might this move faster since it was developed within the government? >> it hasn't gone through the phase 2 and 3 human trials yet, that will take some time. another 9 months to a year before we know anything about it even at warp speed. it is hopeful but we've got to make do with what we have now. >> thank you, merry christmas to both of you. president biden announced he was mobilizing the troops was either going to the border, to china? know. >> i directed the pentagon to mobilize an additional 1000 troops to be deployed to help staff local hospitals and expand capacity. that is 1000 military doctors, nurses and medics who have already started moving medical

teams. they have already landed in wisconsin and indiana this week. >> joining me now is retired brigadier general don baldock. you say this is going to harm our troops. how so? >> president biden and the biden administration have mishandled covid, they mishandle be omicron response, their policies are causing a shortage in hospitals, overcrowding and the emergency rooms, shortage of test kits, failed to forecast and do these things so mobilizing the military to do this, one, is expensive, two, interferes with

their training schedules, interferes with family programs, interferes with a whole bunch of things and they don't have the time and money and resources to be doing that. they should be focused on the primary mission and that is protecting our nation from enemies foreign and domestic and that's not being done. the vice president admittedly said we didn't see this coming. they don't even have a plan and mobilizing 1000 troops to throw at a problem that they could change their policies tomorrow at 6 the shortages and 6 the overcrowding in the emergency room that not have to use our troops and these are the same troops in the same units that we use over and over again. this is a bad idea pushing the military easy button is expensive, interferes with military morale, discipline and training and more importantly it does not solve the problem and we are here to solve the problem and i'm running for senate in new hampshire against maggie hassan, she's doing absolutely nothing, she's in analysis paralysis, just following locked

arm with these bad policies and bad decisions and the mess we have now is just as much her mess as it is president biden's. >> the military's vaccine mandate has been challenged in court. one of the attorneys representing resistant troops tells the times it appears to be blatant religious discrimination, when the military is now conceded publicly and in court filings, they have approved multiple numerous medical and administrative exemptions but yet refuse to approve any religious accommodations. how is this impacting the morale of troops and what of religious exemptions in the military? >> it is impacting it significantly and i know i reviewed a number of religious exemptions from servicemembers that served under my command at various times in my career and

these are devout military service members who have sound and valid religious beliefs and their religious beliefs are not being, the department of defense is not addressing them properly. this is a failure of leadership once again, effective leadership in the department of defense. i don't agree with the vaccine mandate for the military, there's no operational requirements for it. we send our servicemembers into numbers of areas with viral threats, one of the most people in africa, we don't give them shots. there is no operational threat for this and i disagree with this mandate. i think it is wrong, we are punishing our service members that have served well and long and we've got to stop that. raymond: i've heard from sources that the department of defense recruited lawyers to try to knock down these religious exemptions among our troops, that is insidious particularly

during christmas. what is the most dangerous christmas song to belt out while driving? this answer may shock you. seen and unseen with a special celebrity guest is up next. stay there.

>> time for our "seen and unseen" segment where time for seen and unseen where we expose the cultural stories of the day. we have a special guest, comedian and radio host, host of the feast of the 7 fishes, our pal joe piscopo, merry christmas. this time of year you like to

build out those christmas tunes in your car but be warned, an irish insurance company put together a list of the most dangerous christmas tunes to listen to, the more beats per minute a song has the more prone it is to make a christmas crash. with that in mind i will run through the top three with you. first we have a song i find quite addictive by a friend of mine. ♪♪ police navidad ♪♪ celleyes the number god. raymond: how is that a dangerous song? >> that was on the list? did they put that -- that is ridiculous. that is ridiculous.

dangerous -- if you listen to a song. raymond: number 2 is this one. ♪♪ all i want for christmas is you ♪♪ >> the amount of combat song is played and surprise were not all piled up on the freeway. what is your guess for the number one most dangerous song of christmas? >> i think i cheated a little bit. in high school. frosty the snowman, am i right? >> behold the treacherous song. ♪♪ frosty the snowman ♪♪ is a very trailblazer ♪♪ he was made of snow but the

children know -- raymond: the most dangerous song of christmas is the sinatra song christmas memories, the line when they say, i remember the faces of the children who now have children of their own because i'm always crying at that, that is not what i want to hear. >> that is what i love about you. that is beautiful from mister sinatra. you are right on the money. not frosty. not dangerous, just not dangerous. >> none of the songs are dangerous. it's a silly study. that brings us to another debate, laura and i have an annual real versus fake christmas tree debate. the younger crowd is taking laura's side. according to survey from trees.com 71% of millennials say having a real tree significantly affects their ability to enjoy the holiday. 84% would be upset with her parents for switching to a fake

christmas tree. where do you fall in the great christmas tree debate? >> of i don't offend you but i speak to you from out in the boondocks of new jersey where we, ready for this? cut down our own tree, we cussed down our tree. i go out, you go to a tree farm and there are all these trees set up and they go which one are you picking out and have your kid cut it down as you watch. my son would be first and you bring it -- listen, you bring it home, it has spiders in it, you put it up, that is a man's way to do it. raymond: i like to unpack it and know there are no vermin in the trees. i wonder how many are cleaning the needles and water the tree for mom and dad. on this christmas tragedy there is a perennial christmas

tradition of children visiting center that has been practiced for generations. macy's has announced that in new york's and the socially distanced office in a statement macy's says will visit center in his office and be seated opposite center's desk, young children who are not able to be seated to require an adult to seat them? this is ridiculous. what kind of photo with santa is that at the office? >> it is true but honestly as a father with 5 children. and a small daughter, to sit on some strange guy's with the beard at a mask on his vocal creepy at this point. what would you like for christmas? that president biden whispered, what would you like for christmas, a little creepy for me. so i don't mind the office thing. maybe award shot, maybe with the elves around.

raymond: nowhere with the biden stamp near my kids, merry christmas to you. we will see you in the new year. women's competitive swimming hasn't taken over by a biological man and my next guest, you assuming official says enough is enough, she's leaving the sport and is here to tell us why. stay there.

>> ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to "the ingraham angle." for weeks this show has been covering the tension in women's raymond: for weeks but so has covered the tension in women's swimming, the sport is dominated by leah thomas, a transgender swimmer from the university of pennsylvania. thomas is a biological male who has been breaking record after record. thomas's advantage is so obvious the editor in chief of the top swimming magazine compared to dopeing. parents, swimmers, fans, even teammates are enraged and so is my next guest. joining you cynthia moment, former national usa swimming official. i say former because you just left the sport days ago. why did you quit? >> bodies swim against bodies,

gender identities don't swim. leah is a man swimming against women. there is no problem with we go to swim but we are should swim against leah and not against women. men swim 8 to 12% faster than women, men have larger lung capacity, skeletons, circulatory systems, hard and nothing leah did by taking a year off to take the testosterone suppression drug, that does not change leah's body so every time leah jumps into the pool it is a man competing against women. this is grossly unfair. 's records are now approaching that of missy franklin, he is going to be wiping out women's olympic records and it is not right for women swimmers and certainly horrible for little girls, they don't matter. >> is what we a thomas thinks of the ncaa guidelines. listen to this.

>> i think the guidelines they are very good and do a very good job promoting inclusivity while keeping competition all integrity going. raymond: does this preserve competitive integrity? >> absolutely not. it is placing women who can never compete with a man at a gross disadvantage by basically putting -- calling this person a female competitor, he is not. it is his body that will always be different and always be faster as a competitive swimmer. this great illusion that somehow

because he feels he is a female that he can be a female swimmer this is grossly unfair to all the women who have worked so hard. women biologically will never be faster than men. katie legacy is faster than a lot of guys that there are guys who will beat her. it is just biology. bodies swim against bodies. raymond: thanks for being here, for leaving the sport over this and educating us about this. i hope the league takes notice and make some adjustments. the white house -- the white house has enlisted another music group to push vaccines, the last bite explains. stay there.

>> raymond: we now know that vaccines have little if any effect on preventing sections from omicron but don't tell raymond: vaccines have if any effect on preventing infection from omicron but don't tell the white house's tonic. ♪♪

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