slams into a cliff, really may -- mulling over. totaling the carpet the driver of the honda accord is somehow okay. thankfully survived the incident that could have been prevented. that is all the time we have. never miss an episode. in the meantime, let not your hearts be troubled. nor ingram, what is going on? >> laura: the good thing is to look on the bright side, he actually beat everyone else in that berkeley game. -- wordly game. you know what that is? >> sean: yes, i do. trevon i zoom he was texting and driving. >> sean: i used to try to do that. it does not work and i finally said never. i stop. i pull over. i get a little bit wiser. >> laura: the good thing is it is easy for you to the text in the back seat.

>> laura: actually, i -- >> i know you do. >> sean: you are like a sibling that never stopped caressing. >> laura: he drives himself. all right, sean took great show. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. the rise and fall of the ranch covid ends. that is the focus of tonight's angle. seen and says -- cnn says there's an undisclosed office romance. he should have been forced out for a different affair. ressa gate, the smearing of figures in the fearmongering. he did not just let with damaging lockdowns. they fought for them. >> a lot of people are frightened about this. it is far too early to look down

our guards right now. far too early for estates to be reopening. >> it seems premature and even dangerous to open the country. >> laura: jeff zucker send his audience a daily menu of fraudulent covid narrative. they complete repeated as gospel whatever fauci said, rarely questioning his logic or challenging his conclusions, relishing every contradict between him and president trump. >> reporter: dr. fauci is undercover of time magazine. 100 most influential people of 2020. he does amazing work. >> they are worried about you. i'm sure you are exhausted. they appreciate you taking your time. >> laura: and zucker oversaw cnn coverage and the doctors who

worked successfully using them with patients. republican governors who rejected the fauci mantra cast as anti-science kooks. >> they have caused more unneeded deaths in those two states than any immigrant ever has done. >> shame on the governor, who has interpreted covid problem interstate. >> laura: two years later, the general public is finally told that, what's next, the lockdowns that turned the plot upside down, work. states like california, new york, michigan catholic they kept their restrictions in place for far too long and did not do any better then those that opened up or state open along. of course, you did not need johns hopkins to do the study to know that lockdowns were a disaster because you were told the truth from the beginning. but if we wait for dr. fauci's seal of approval to reopen

america we may not have an america to reopen. at least not when we recognized. the schools could be shut down for years. it is catastrophic to our economy kept our children's education, mental health, and our safety. but cnn toughest branch davidians -- sold them by a public health sector that hated trump and left the idea of using covid to create a new normal. a medical superstate to control little people. so if -- of all of zucker's transactions, his hiring of anchors and contributors was among his worst. and of all the post-covid blowhards pushing lockdowns, one particular host really enjoyed his leading role. >> full. i know they want to be out

there. things will get worse. what are we rushing back to the? think about what you are so anxious to get back to in terms of normal and what you were going to lose that we have gained in this pandemic. okay? think about it. be careful what you wish for. the time with family, the time together, pictures of what we see in venice of clearwater and clearest guys that they are showing us all over the world. but i know we can't do nothing forever. but we can think about how to be together better. >> laura: of course, night after night, zucker cheered the team. chris and his governor brother andrew chewing over the pandemic fat and yakking it up as they were sending in fact, seniors back to their convalescent homes. the mission of zucker's grant -- branch davidians was to ignore or smear any medical opinion that question their cultish

outlooks. among them were doctors who offered the great declaration who premiered regularly on the angle. >> denying gravity. even if you have a vaccine, is built herd immunity that protects people against the viruses, lock down costs, even in the short and long-term, have longer health consequences. >> middle class parents can do higher tutoring. they don't have those options. they are the ones that are suffering that most. >> laura: they were right then but zucker sent out the zombie squad. >> jeff: i'm concerned that the president is being advised by people who speak for immunity. herd immunity is another word for mass murder. that is exactly what it is. >> laura: , naturally, they were all following the cues of branch davidians supreme leaders and unkempt friends of cnn.

internal e-mails so that the duo of francis collins and tony fauci were scrambling for a plan to smear the few doctors brave enough to stand up to them at the entire medical steps when. and one e-mail, collins wrote about the work of three french epidemiologists that seems to be getting a lot of attention. he then called for a quick and devastating publish takedown of its premises. fauci's network, covidians they gave them airtime. >> we should be implementing the public health measures. that we have been talk about for so long. >> laura: at a time of crisis when everyone needed the opportunity for a full and fair airing of the options, all of them that were available to us? zucker's cnn took opportunity to call for extreme lockdown measures that hurt american families and direct our economy.

they trashed scientists and doctors who wanted americans to hear the other side of the story. they launched ugly attacks against potential and his team who eventually helped obtain the very vaccines that cnn now celebrate. >> from beginning to the end for the zucker covidians saw the pandemic not as a tragedy to be management as an opportunity to be exploited. it is one of the most shameful periods in the history of american journalism. maybe just maybe post zucker cnn will begin to escape the cult it built. and that is the angle. join me now is dr. jay bhattacharya. i keep looking at those clips. i'm like, is that really octobe?

you have thoughts on cnn's role in pushing the smear of doctors, there question the lockdowns effectiveness. >> dr. bhattacharya: four days after we wrote the declaration, francis collins called for a devastating publish takedown. and the press started attacking us for smearing us, arguing that we wanted to let the virus -- what we wanted to do was protect the vulnerable and cnn i think has played a released malign role in this, in has created a very hostile climate for people like me to try to advocate for saint policies and what has happened is so many scientists stay in exile and, even though they have the same reservations that the authors of the declaration had. it has been a devastating time to be a scientist. it has been a devastating time to be here because the lockdowns have created so much damage.

i believe that there are many, many people who are now passed away deck should have survived this because of the harms of the lockdown. the evidence on the international data alone, in march of 2021, 228,000 children, that is what that you went estimated, died from starvation caused by the lockdowns in south asia. in the u.s., we just had a report that we talked over 100,000 people deaths from type two diabetes. catcher beeped management the lockdown, managing even basic care. you know, delayed cancer treatments and delete cancer screening, psychological harm, the school closures. >> laura: but dr. bhattacharya, isn't the role of journalist, especially from this story brand of cnn, isn't it their role to question and insist on data and

justification? transparency? on all of these things? and get at every turn, when we ask, when you ask for the data, the transparency, the justification, you are dismissed as antiscience mccourt you just are going to be responsible for the deaths of millions of people. it was immediate castigation. was that shocking to you, coming from jeff zucker's cnn? >> dr. bhattacharya: i was absolutely stunned. the idea that we have a novel virus, scientific consensus on what the right thing to do is get so much that we can suppress and sensor people who disagreed with us, the consensus, the idea of dr. fauci, that is absolutely amazing to me. what should have happen, a good deep conversation between scientists who agree to disagree. we could come to some conclusion. instead, we had media outlets like cnn essentially demonizing

anyone who disagreed with fauci, serving as a propaganda arm of dr. fauci. is what of the things where that like, i look back at it and i just cannot believe it actually happened. what should have happened, but i believe what happened in a place that i thought was america was free speech, free discussion. and discussion between scientists who -- treatment but dr. b, it is still happening. this is still going on and it continued today on cnn where now dr. peter hotels is using the misinformation description to tried to silence different points of view. watch. >> the biden and rescission has to realize that anti-science is a killer. it is not even this information. this is an anti-seismic empire and we need the justice

department. we got to figure this out and help those health and human services will not be able to figure this out on their own. >> laura: they want to shut down, call it disinformation. he was one of the biggest critics of the great barrington declaration. >> dr. bhattacharya: he wants to use the department of justice but he wants to criminalized scientific debate. stick about that for a moment. i think people who are competent in their ideas are not afraid of discussion and debate. what you have is a group of people, a small group of people, hotez is funded by fauci's group. i think you have a small group of people who have wanted to create an illusion of a scientific consensus that does not exist and did not exist. you pull the wool out of the eyes and the american people should demand better. >> laura: and they are doing now with the vaccine.

they are pushing the same ideas and unproven the respect dr. bhattacharya, thank you very much, as always. >> a guy who served for ten years. i never thought that in the capital city, of the united states of america, would be somewhat controversial to open up a bark where everyone was a s there flannery, owner of that big board bark in dc. and the mayor has revoked his current line -- liquor license. the day after his appearance, queen thousand went one step further. she shut down the bar. >> i don't know when people ask me, what are you going to get on the other side of this. i don't know if for. and this place is supposed to be open. >> laura: there flannery, the owner of the bar is back with us exclusively, erica it is --

it does not surprise me sadly now in washington, dc but you -- your thoughts now that the part that you love and that you put so much blood, sweat, and tears into, not to speak of money, is closed. hotez i'm really excited. you know what i'm really sad for? all of mike brookins. they have been here for ten years, laura. they come to work. might cooktop was cooking food, he was here on that day we open. the bartender who was observing, nonalcoholic drinks, he has been here for nine and a half years. they want to be working. taking down here through the whole pandemic while everyone was staying in their has. they came down here and right-click so that is believe that that is part for me. >> laura: now, mayor bowser said she did not want to shut down your bar.

>> we don't want to shut anybody down to. we we want to give people support, advice, supplies, health, whatever they need. but we do need them to follow the regulations. >> laura: snowcapped did anyone shut her down the multiple times she violated her own mask mandate? eric, how much help did. and rescission give your business? but they shut you down completely. >> eric: yeah, they came down and they did some things to help. they came for random inspection. somebody who had willfully opened up the door and walked in with great that the service bartenders were not wearing masks picnicking in before they even did a follow-up inspection where i fixed every think that they were there and i have to report that shows everything that they asked me to fix. they already had the door, the door placard that they were going to put on to close us down. >> laura: eric, this point up what you say to other

restaurateurs and bar owners in dc that they are complying, they are asking for a vax card, people showed them their vaccine card and they go in and presumably they have a good time, becoming, a few thing there should be a period of resistance because we know restaurant reservations are down in dc? >> eric: a customer told meet the restaurant reservations were down 50% from 2020 and 2021. what do i say to them? they are not doing it anyways. everybody knows that but there are people who talk to me everyday and say, i get all of these places and nobody is doing it. amir abbas wanted to come. maybe not that mere but that city health administration decided that this was a place that they wanted to target. >> laura: and they wanted to make an example out of you. eric, maybe virginia for you. but fight on because i think ultimately they are going to break artist mandate nonsense.

best of luck to you, sir. and joe biden's supreme court. is in a complete state of chaos. they explain in moments.

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joe biden touches, his supreme court selection process is in shambles. candidate biden that he thought he was being really well and so, by nominating an african-american woman to the high court but he was also effectively discriminating against the vast majority of the adult population. and now now even liberal websites like slate think he has himself in a bond claiming that it backfired and needed sleep tokenized future nominees. politico is fretting about the fact that so many democratic consultants and insiders, stop talking about the nomination of an offramp to relocate kamala harris. skepticism about harris profitability to win a presidential race, and a desired desire to open the field to the other possible successes. and get -- given depth radical views, huge pressure it will be put on so-called moderate

democrats who are up for reelection this year. so date vote against biden's picked. if montanans want to protect their second amendment rights they better demand that senator block the plague. neither they nor the other moderates should leave anything biden promises about the qualifications of his high court point. >> president biden: i'm looking for a character with character as well as philosophy that is more one suggests that are -- constitution. >> laura: target given the fact that the entire left-wing legal establishment believes that the constitution has notes six meeting, it does not matter what nominee. >> professional experience is. anyone that biden picks will have to believe that the court is not bound by the plain language. and what does that mean?

it means bye-bye, free speech. it is all misinformation now. wake up, senators lindsey graham and mitt romney. but there's a new department that could further complicate biden's plan. the terrible news that new mexico senator ray wuhan suffered a serious stroke. week which the senator a speedy and complete recovery and we offered prayers to put his family in a very challenging and difficult time. there's still the question of how this might affect the confirmation vote in a 50/50 defendant. joining me now is done gingerly law professor. professor turley, this is supposed to be kind of a slamdunk. but how is the situation involving. so one of the writes that the elect to applied to the constitution, as far as this nomination process goes. >> jonathan: well, what is astonishing is this is not just

unprecedented but unnecessary for the president of the state that he would not consider any other candidate based on their race or gender. he would only consider black females. you know, diversity issues have been raised by presidents in the past. but they have been a great as a sort of preferences, not exclusionary rules. indeed, the supreme court has declared exclusionary rules like this one to be unconstitutional or unlawful when applied to schools or businesses. and so you have this inherent conflict that he has created where this nominate will sit and hear arguments in two cases on the constitutionality of this type of exclusionary rule. but it does not mean that this could be reviewed or that his choice would be reversed. what is art is that many of the media outlets are saying, oh, of the presidents have done this. and that is just not true. they say that reagan did this

that when he appointed o'connor, reagan said he would give one of his first positions one of the vacancies to a woman. but the white house stressed that was not a guaranty. when o'connor was reckoned had a short list with a majority of men on it. trump, when he said he would be putting a woman on the supreme court had already spent months and months with a public shortlist that they have been venting, a front runner in the previous nomination. when he said he was going to put a woman on the court, it was days before he was going to announced her name. what these presidents did not do is they did not saint they would not consider anyone else beyond people with this race, this gender, and specified exclusionary threshold will. >> laura: yeah. i just want to get this point in, jonathan. it is not even popular, you know? if it is a political move, it is not probably.

a recent abc news poll found that 76% of americans want him to regard all nominees. so they don't want diversity to be the driving factor in a court pick. people are fine with nominee of any color. but that is the driving factor? above all else? i think that applies to a larger problem the democrats have with the issue of race. >> jonathan: it is also grossly unfair to the nominee. disc work for president biden's advantage. came up to him during a break in the presidential debate and said, you need to promise that you will appoint a black female and he turned around and said exactly like that. and i think a lot of people, i would a column for the next eight sort of unit. whoa! you are not -- you are stating an exclusionary rule. and, you know, he has stuck with

that. it is unfair to at nominees but there are people on the shortlist, african-american women on that shortlist that have stellar beckons but you can't disagree whether they have that right, you know, credential views. but it is unfair to them for the president to say, you are selected on this threshold exclusionary basis. and i think that was sort of an error that the president repeated only to do what his presidency those predecessors did. >> laura: yeah, another self-inflicted wound. it is great to see you. and joining me is senator tom cotton. shurmur was at the white house today over the cord piping it is obviously they are feeling some pressure to, but what are the state of things as you know them? >> senator cotton: he said he was going to nominate someone by the end of february. there's been shortlist that has

been published in a lot of different outlets. i don't know who is going to nominate. i'm less worried about the race or the sex of the nominee. i have seen now dozens of his nominees to lower courts and almost to a present, these are left-wing ideologues who believe that the constitution is always evolving, strangely, it is always evolving to left and to cater to the whims and the wishes of liberals at law schools and in big cities in the democratic party. so i have got pretty tempered expectations that joe biden is going to nominate anyone whom i can support orbit, most support because of the character interviews of the nominees he has put forth so far. >> laura: the point that i was making in that lead into this was that any of that number is coming, sure, they are all great people, nothing personal. but to be on that list, it is not just, you know, skin color. you have to believe that the constitution is malleable.

it is silly putty that can be stretched or moved and words don't really matter. the second amendment individual rights case, authored by justice scalia. there's no way they would greet with that. so anyone like montana senator chester or any of the so-called moderates, a kept a vote for that nominee is a vote to gut that second amendment. that is my point. and that is what those constituents in those states have to understand. >> senator cotton: i think that is almost certainly right, laura. the legal left in the america -- in america is not view the constitution that has a settled meaning. they view it as something that is always subject to change and that means that democrats who are up for reelection this year are going to have to answer for the views of this nominee. as you say and i suspect this

nominee is hostile to free speech rights of every american that rights of gun owners or any of the other cherished rights we have in this country under our constitution. >> laura: or religious liberty rights. i mean, let's say there's another "emergency" pictured they keep shutting down churches and other houses of worship? there's no wake those rights are going to survived the type of "analysis" because the constitution is always evolving." >> senator cotton: and that has been the history of the case, laura, almost every time any of the covid lockdown cases have come before the court, liberal justices on the court have always sided with these democratic governors and mayors consistently locked down our economy. closed schools, keep people in masks indefinitely. >> laura: senator cotton, we will be watching, especially some of your colleagues on the judiciary committee. thank you president biden's --

biden puts a one-man show on. and gaining steam. rimming ororo has it. "seen and unseen" is next.

>> laura: we exposed the big cultural stores and we turn to fox news contributor raymond arroyo. but i didn't have event to day for biden. >> raymond: well, he is reviving what he calls the cancer moon shocked that he launched about six years ago. this is an attempt to find some think of unity that he can run on and maybe let those poll numbers. but he resorted to enacting little dramatic scenes with himself in between the requisite consumption. >> president biden: patients don't want to ship their data. they don't want to hear to put data. sometimes you all don't want to share. but you know, -- all i need to

do anything, give me this. six more months to see the baby born. you know, when i put together the cancer moonshot, when the found out i had nasa and a lot of other agencies look to me, like, what is that matter with you? i said, guess what. nasa knows more about radiation than all of you. >> raymond: nasa also knows better than their moon shot and cancer in the same phrase, laura. this is not working. i don't know if he thinks politically this is help. if biden is really interested in cutting that cancer death rate, he should have been more proactive getting those hospitals to treat and cure for cancer patients. there's a study that found that one in seven cancer patients missed their surgeries due to the covid lockdown and the left cancer moonshot we spent $1.8 billion uncut laura, it did not move that death rate at all. >> laura: now, the lockdowns

regular checkups for a whole variety of diseases. we don't know how many lives were lost because of the lockdowns. maybe never. but we know no -- we won't know for decades for sure. >> raymond: today, as you know, is groundhog day. see if the groundhog sees its shadow. it is a little different in dc. each year, punxsutawney joe looks out. if he sees his shadow and return to basement, we will have six more months of inflation. it looks like he did see his shadow, laura. >> laura: you are so bad. >> raymond: punxsutawney, lots of time for wordle and the olympics back at the white house. >> i think of that cute little groundhog and i think, i well,, is anthony fauci going to come out and see his shadow and

there's six more months of covid restrictions? no, six more years mommy. we launched a not one-minute campaign to encourage people to skip even watching the jenna seidel olympics -- genocide olympics. >> raymond: even bob costas has called out the olympic committee. >> the ioc deserves all of the disdain and disgust that comes their way for going back to china yet again. they were in beijing in 2008. they go to associate in 2018 -- sochi in 2018. >> raymond: athletes from at least two western countries are planning to boycott the opening ceremonies in beijing. students that are urging these

athletes to extend with the persecuted, the phone congress as well as the tibetans. this is a thing i think we are going to see jane steam. but a lot of these athletes are being warned by the ioc not to make a statement. they don't want any controversy. >> laura: now, i think, you know, the speed skaters are going to skate right back to their hotels and right back to this rink because you can't go anywhere. it is basically all in luck out there. you can even have your parents or family members, no spectators. >> raymond: laura, did you see this video today? this is a belgian olympian, she tested covid-positive. they took her to an undisclosed location. so she put this video up and they've took her to the olympic video. this is scary. before we go, i normally don't support boycotts. but i came across a tiktok video by a doctor that had me saying, not one committed.

>> vaccinate! vaccinate! vaccinate! >> it is me. >> who is that girl talking about vaccines? >> it is me! it is me! all right! all right! all right! >> raymond: laura, we have to ban all of these vaccines, jingles, problems, minor theatrics. healthcare professionals who warn us about something other than vaccines. >> laura: you heard of poetry, you know, slam slam poetry because poetry slam. this is a poetry jab. this is silly. it is the super bowl halftime show. raiment, thank you. right now, you have heard of jeff zucker's sudden departure. you have not heard the stories from the inside. in moments, we speak to two

former contributors about the larger rot inside that network.

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what can only be called a challenging news cycle. it is an incredible loss. jeff is a remarkable person. >> is quickly cleared of vision for this network that will be missed. >> laura: awkward. not only that details of the office romance known for years. it was a poorly common knowledge. so the sucker lieutenant involved is a woman named allison. it is not really important at this point. she served as the director for former governor andrew cuomo and they were instrumental in securing the cuomo on cuomo interviewed during covid. seen and was and is full of unethically politically correct

monsters. i have jeff and andre. jeffrey, they spent years peddling lies to defame within trump and his supporters over at cnn. so the fact that they were passing judgment on him on the fraudulent russiagate scam wall the conflict of interests teaming at the network your thoughts tonight? >> jeff: laura, first of all, in a contest between donald trump and jeff zucker and cnn, donald trump won without any question here. as of this day. i once asked him in 2014 when he was a private citizen if he ran for president, what he take on the media which has been historically entered. and on he went. yes, he would take them on. he was not going to put up with this. this in their attempts resulted

in the hold. news situation. secondly, jeff, i went back and dipped into ted turner's memoirs. he is the founder of cnn and he quite specifically exist in his memoirs that he thought that media of the day and this is circa late 1970s was biased. he mentions walter cronkite specifically and he said he wanted a just the facts mankind of journalism. moving cnn in the opposite direction and i obviously benefited from that. i was a commentator. i was a trump guy on cnn. which, of course, lead eventually to my dismissal. and certainly, by the admissions of cnn's reliable sources and brian stelter, i find this very fascinating, note less than former anchor and fired a chris cuomo is out to burn seen and down to the graham. wow. that is pretty incredible here.

they got a whole lot of problems over there, not the least of which is sort of sabotaging the image of the mainstream media as being impartial. >> laura: i don't think anyone is going to look at cnn, with any memory of all of this. going to look at cnn for the same again because of what they did during covid and what they did to donald trump and all of the complex network drilling. andre, interestingly, ted turner back in 2018 made an interesting comment about that network he founded. >> i think speaking with politics a little too much. it would do better to have a more balanced agenda. but that is, you know, just one person's opinion. >> laura: andre, is that a valid opinion, especially in light of what has happened, and obviously, not telling the truth about a whole variety of issues.

>> andre: absolutely. but if you go back, zucker and the fourth prior president trump, babe ruth friends. they had worked together on the president's tv show in ten when the president, then candidate, got into this race, one of the reasons i was hard as i was one of the statewide officeholders to endorse the president and they did not just hire myself and jeffrey there was kayleigh mcenany, rick santorum, they went out and found people that supported the president and their ratings went up. they had a lovefest. if you look back at when the president did not even attend the debate in iowa, he went to the a college. i went to it and held a rally and cnn followed him and they made a large profit and a large following over following the president. they have become bigger and bigger the tractor of his message and distorting his

message. i think it came to put demise. but this has been an ongoing love-hate test that started back in 2016 and when they quit having the president to beat on, use to' numbers plummet because they don't have anything. they don't have a cause with the current demonstration to get excited about. so the one thing that kept their ratings was president trump. >> laura: that is gone. yes or no answers only. will cnn learn from this and become better jeffrey, yes or no? >> jeff: yes, with new ownership. >> laura: andre, yes or no? >> andre: yes. >> laura: wow, you are both optimistic. i hope you are right. gentlemen, thank you. ended up next, the covid chyrons that controlled public schools will not stop terrorizing your children. a shocking last fight next.

>> laura: loudoun county school outrage is continuing.

a principal threatening kids who return to school unmasked. >> your children will be held in and in school restriction situation. it's important that i point out they are not allowed on campus or on loudoun county public school property starting tomorrow it will be considered trespassing. >> laura: that's a misdemeanor. $2500 fine. ♪ ♪ >> greg: this part of the week is almost over for me. i am almost done. it's wednesday. stop clapping. they'll do whatever i say. happy wednesday, everyone. not if you're whoopi goldberg, a.k.a. karen johnson. who knew whoopi was a karen. i thought it was only for white