"hannity," and we're starting early. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham takes it away and the reason i'm going early is because laura has promised me a gift and a package and every date -- >> laura: is this [indiscernible]? okay, shawn, this is an advertisement for the u.s. postal service. i think we sent it snail mail just to do an experiment of how long it would take to get from washington, d.c., to parts unknown in new york. and as far as i can tell -- as far as i can tell it's never getting there, but it was sent and i have the actual time it was sent and from where it was sent. if we might have to document this. >> sean: can you give me a hint? i'd like to know what you sent. >> laura: things that work with your pastel. you like pastel. you're very confident in your -- >> sean: good grief. >> laura: your masculinity. so you like pastels buried

>> sean: my producer picks out my tie, i don't even pick it out. >> laura: how many buttons -- i've a question. wait, wait. i have a question. how many buttons tonight do you have? we can use it for the ratings, brutal out there, you are stripping. keep going. >> sean: taking off a tie is not stripping. >> laura: okay. each button really slowly. take the buttons off really slow -- i'm going to get in trouble. all right. >> sean: that's it. >> laura: i'm stopping! >> sean: see you tomorrow. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle." biden home alone. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." now, leave it to joe biden. one year into his presidency he's already made himself a lame duck. so he's paddling around by himself in his pond is now just a muddy puddle. and it's not just republican governors ignoring him, members

of his own party don't want him around either. >> would you like the president to come in campaign with you? >> this campaign in texas is knocking to be about joe biden, knuckling to be able to all trump, it's not quite to be about anybody outside of our state. >> does that mean you would prefer that he would not come? >> it means i'm focused on texas and on my fellow texans. >> laura: the stiffest of stiff arms game courtesy of stacey abrams, who refused to appear at biden's voting rights speech in atlanta. that's her big issue, by the way. we never did find out what scheduling conflict was. the truth is biden is human kryptonite for anyone hoping to win politically. even the dullest democrat knives in the drawer know that biden is clueless on stopping the biggest issue facing us now, which is inflation. i woke up this morning and listening to the news, i thought i was living in a 1979

time warp. >> the latest inflation number is out and it shows the biggest jump in prices in 40 years. >> the expectations were already very high and the reality was worse than expected. >> i don't see much relief at least in the next several months. >> laura: no relief in site. wait a second, i thought biden was going to promise us the d word. >> president biden: i'm going to stay on my message. i started off saying we have to restore the dignity and honor of the office and the soul of this country to gain respect in the country and around the world. >> laura: but there's no dignity in what his inept team has done to america. crippling covid mandates, racist appeals disguised as diversity and equity. millions of illegals and just for good measure, skyrocketing living costs. but don't worry, because when you're in a debt hole, you should borrow and spend more,

right? >> president biden: inflation is up. it's up, and coming from a family -- the fact is that if we are able to do the things i'm talking about here, it will bring down the cost for average families, bring down the cost for average families. in my build back better legislation, we can do that. there's a lot we can do to give families extra breathing room. we can do this. >> laura: absurd on its face. biden's plan to borrow or print and then spend more money, money that we don't have, will only stoke more inflation. now, this is all very obvious, it's kind of econ 101, which i think his top advisors apparently just slept through. >> we have historically strong economic growth. in january we see that real wages, after adjusting for inflation, were up. >> there is some light in this report under the hood. i expect inflation to come down significantly in 2022.

>> laura: consider the source. they're the same group who last year protected only short-term inflation. remember that? if biden had really wanted a healthy economy, he would have immediately ended all covid mandates, he would have opened everything up, and he would've told the nation it's time. he will do it like this. it's time to go back to work, including the federal government. got to go back to work, but he's not going to say that. instead he likes to pull what we call the biden and switch. >> president biden: i'm asking american people to mask up for the first hundred days. >> laura: 100 days of masking. right. well, if you were watching the angle, you would have known that when biden said 100 days of masking, he really meant 100 years of masking. soon americans were onto his little game though. they saw that florida and south dakota, which went virtually mask lists the entire

pandemic were no worse off than universally masked new york and illinois. in fact, floridians and south dakota's comedy even seemed happier, a lot happier than the mandate states. thus with the midterms are on the corner, it's not surprising that state mask mandates are dropping faster than liz oh posture is close. they can't afford to wait until biden sees the light on these mandates, especially when this woman runs the cdc. >> our guidance has not changed, continue to recommend universal masking in our schools. >> laura: although infuriating, this defiance is a huge gift to republicans. just look at biden's approval rating. a new cnn poll puts biden's overall approval at 41%, 58% disapprove. of those who disapprove, 56% said they approve of nothing. i repeat, nothing, that biden

has done while in office. this fast and dramatic slide down what it's plain why mcconnell is not totally comfortable just telling republican governors to ignore altogether the biden administration's guidance on how to spend that infrastructure money they're going to get buried in other words, ditch the bike lanes, fix the bridges. and how happy are manchin and sinema that they didn't buckle on that voting rights bill now? pelosi's media bullies turned up the pressure campaign on them, but the senators resisted. and then they were trashed by the left. they didn't care, but they obviously made the right call. as for the other senators bill themselves as reasonable moderates come up who have never spoken out, they're desperately trying to play catch up now. >> the national democratic brand and i think in rural america generally -- it's because quite frankly we don't show up, we are not willing to go places we are

not wanted and answer questions. i honestly don't think the democratic party could be a majority party unless we start getting to america a lot more. >> laura: you think, john? it's a little late. where were you last spring, last summer and last fall? does he think montanans are stupid? they know if only when they see one. they tuned out biden and they are going to tune out him as well. but the abandonment of biden isn't just happening on the homefront of course. our allies are also moving on from it just recently french president emmanuel macron decided to bypass the bumbling biden altogether and then go on to have his own meeting with vladimir putin to defuse the ukraine situation. it's obvious what happened here. european leaders saw biden as a problem, not a solution, kind of a bowl and a china shop -- a biden in a china shop. it felt they had to rush into

de-escalate. how embarrassing for america getting briefed and ordered around by the french. but not anymore embarrassing then america being left in the dust by the chinese. hunter biden, our overall trade deficit ballooned to an all-time high. this is shocking. $859 billion. that's a 27% increase from the year before. president biden might not know how to make americans happy, but the chinese, they got to love him, because the trade deficit with china grew 14.5% for the full year to $355 billion, reversing the decline that followed then-president donald trump's policies aimed at reducing the deficit with tariffs and purchase targets buried by the way, biden's team was to get rid of all the tariffs too. this is as despicable as it is heartbreaking. all because we have a president

that no one trusts or respects to stand up for the average american. president xi knows that biden is easily rolled, or just easily ignored altogether. ditto with his military men. secretary austin general milley, for whom i don't think china or probably putin have much respect for. to them, woke is a joke in the u.s. military sadly under this leadership, great men and women, are pushed to go woke. so democrats, they made a terrible choice in joe biden. his hologram campaign has become hologram presidency. and when he does appear in public, i put appear," he has no presence, he has no credibility, and he has little influence. given all this, maybe he should just stay home alone for the next three years and let nancy run things for a while. on second thought -- and that's

"the angle." joining us now, john maclachlan, ceo of mcglocklin associates and trump 2020 poster. and mark penn, democratic posterior and former clinton strategist. mark, someone who has polled a lot for the democrats over the years, is there anything joe biden can do now to stop the bleed of public approval, which i've never seen anything in my lifetime -- have been around for a long time in washington, longer than i like to admit. what can he do? >> well, this is a pretty dire situation right now. of course he could change the staff, reverse the policies, come up with a state of the union that -- may be part and those people who were nonviolent from january 6th and only prosecute violent violence and he could really reach out and try to unite the country, but these are all steps that he has no intention of doing and there's no evidence whatsoever that he's been willing to make

even the slightest pivot as bill clinton did after the 1994 congressional election. >> laura: yeah, mark suggests a move to the middle, but, john, there is no indication given this refusal, to drop mandates, covid mandates went -- you know, i called the angled biden home alone because everyone is moving on. it's like is not even there. but rochelle walensky, and fauci, they are holding onto these mandates with a death grip. they don't want to let them go. >> it's about government control. what's crazy about this -- by the way, the poll date -- you quoted is cnn poll. in 2020, we kept on saying those polls are skewed, they under polled republicans, trump voters, and guess what? chris cuomo who attacked us, said our polls were wrong, et cetera, and we were saying the election was close, he's wrong, he's gone, your ratings are up and i tell you what, our

polls, right now the voters say 60% say joe biden should be tested cognitively and he should be made public. that's how bad it's gotten. most americans think this guy doesn't have the capacity to run the country, and guess what? the rest of the world knows it. this is really scary right now and his job disapproval, it's 57%. that's a ton of votes for republicans to get, including 22% of the biden voters now think they disapprove of him. 22% democrats, 25% liberals, 25% african americans, 50% of the hispanics, and ford 5% of urban voters, the democrat party is cracking up. the democrat party that mark penn knew doesn't exist right now. they are heading for the exits. this is unbelievable. >> laura: mark, his approval started really i think cratering with the image of those planes

leaving afghanistan, the bodies falling off -- you know, that clip was just released from nbc. he was asked about that fall out. watch. >> and investigative report that's come out about the lead up to the withdrawal from afghanistan. interviewed many military officials and officers who said the administration ignored the handwriting on the wall. >> president biden: no. no. that's not what i was told. >> are you rejecting the conclusions -- >> yes, i am. >> not true? >> president biden: i'm rejecting them. >> laura: mark, i guess he's rejecting his own military leadership. i'm kind of rejecting them for other reasons. i mean, this -- they keep sending him out to do speeches or press conferences or interviews and every time they do, his numbers go down further. i've never seen anything like this. >> well, look, there was a biden honeymoon. i think it fell apart during the summer with afghanistan.

people said, well, is he really competent, and now you're in a winter of discontent in which inflation, the economy, immigration, crime, the virus, all of these issues seem out of control the president in the white house don't seem in control of any of them and that was capped off today with 7.5% inflation. this is a dire situation if you're in the white house. i have seen something like this before. it does happen to presidents, but they've got to act, they got to lead, and we have not seen anything right now that is a recognition of these kinds of numbers and the kind of attitudes and discontent we see in america right now. >> laura: john, really quickly, shuffling the deck chairs of the staff at the white house, let's say ron klain, steve donna chief of staff, see they drop a couple others. if that going to change the sentiment here? >> no. he needs to go back to the trump

policies. biden didn't have a honeymoon, he was given a growing economy by president trump and then the trump vaccines and guess what, he blew it. he decided to increase government spending, the economy, 63% of americans now think the economy is getting worse. they can't go to the supermarket without sticker shock. he has to say -- you know what, he has to go do what quentin did. when the era of big government is over biden needs to say the year of big government socialism is over and totally reverse the policies he's got. he might as well call up donald trump and say -- trump is beating and 49-44 in the polls. he's beating his vice president 51-40. he off the just say to donald trump, why don't you just come back and be president and fix the country, because it was pretty good before i messed it up. >> laura: maybe have trump come back to the oval office, give some advice, why not. it's not going to hurt. gentlemen, thank you. it's obvious to everything a person in the country right now that inflation -- it's not temporary, nor is it slowing down. well, obvious to most people.

>> back in july you said inflation was going to be temporary. i think a lot of americans are wondering what your definition of temporary is. >> president biden: well, you're being a wise guy with me. the reason for the inflation is the supply chains were cut off. it's hard to be able to taper off as we go through this year. >> laura: and while biden makes empty promises about inflation, tapering off, small businesses are getting clobbered. my next guest has experienced this firsthand. here with me now is mary josephine, manager and owner of rocco's pastry shop in new york city. i wanted to talk to a small business owner tonight, not a politician, about this. because people have to understand how it affects just the possibility of a business surviving today. how hard is it been? >> you know, it's funny because a couple weeks ago -- it's

probably been only about three weeks, i decided to raise the prices. i felt very guilty that we needed to raise things by a dollar. thinking that, you know, the customers won't know this, but it will help us a little bit, help us with the uptick in the employees. i'd like to give my employees a raise and i realize yesterday for the day before that, this is clearly not enough. you know, i don't know what joe biden is doing, i don't know what he's looking at. i don't know if he's the administration, i don't know who's behind him. but this is a sad, sad state of affairs when i decided to raise my prices and it didn't make a difference. >> laura: the worker shortage is a huge issue for small businesses and restaurants. the national restaurant association found that roughly half of the restaurant operators expect that recruiting and retaining workers will be the biggest challenge this year.

does that match with what you've been experiencing? >> we just personally put an ad out on instagram basically saying -- for those of you that know new york city, we have to have our employees be vaccinated in order to work. we basically put out an ad that said, you know, regardless of vaccination status, we don't care if you're vaccinated, would love to hire you. it wasn't just about the vaccine, it's simply because we cannot get employees to work. we cannot staff are two locations. this is new york city. we can't staff, we can't -- we are struggling and between the president and his new mayor, i just don't know what to say anymore. i mean, i just can't believe that i am a desperate person on national media saying that the country is a collection, collapsing comments getting out of control, we don't have leadership at the top, we don't

have leadership in our city, and we are here fending for ourselves in what's supposed to be the greatest country in the universe. >> laura: i mean, this is criminal. we've gone from a booming economy, the china virus, all that happens, the closures, the lockdowns, ridiculously long, and the people who want to work, you, are the ones who have to pay -- you know, you have to pay the most. that is not -- that is not the america that we know. >> it's not. i'd rather pay my employees then pay myself at this point because without them, i'm nothing. so i mean, it's not even -- you can't even capture anybody to stay with you. i mean, and then if you're paying them, you're not paying them enough for what's going on in the country. i think they said inflation is at 7.5%. i mean, i dare say that it's much more than that. >> laura: it's much higher.

>> i order take out the other night for a family of three, it was $125. i was shocked at what i was experiencing as a business owner that should be able to afford that. now imagine not being able to cook at home and you're working at 15 to $20 an hour having to do that. it's just unsustainable and shame on the country for allowing this to happen. >> laura: i hope new yorkers -- i hope new england, i hope all the people who voted for these policies are waking up. it's not about politics, and you gave us a lot of it's on. we wish you and rocco's the best in these difficult times, thank you. and the biden administration is so fanatical about this idea of remaking america that they are flagrantly harming our security and targeting everyday americans as potential terror threats. we are going to explain how they're doing this through a few select agencies. stay there.

♪ ♪ >> laura: the biden dhs today leaked a new threat bulletin to select media outlets painting any american truckers who opposed biden's mandates as a

possible domestic extremist threat. of course. that has come after the agency on monday released a bulletin sounding the alarm on the proliferation of false or misleading narratives. what does that mean? dhs of course doesn't say. they don't want to actually give you facts, which is why the center to advance security is demanding that dhs turn over records showing how they make these determinations. as dhs conjures up phony threats, the pentagon embraces a real one. the dod actually tweeted something yesterday that goes like this. news, diversity, equity, and inclusion are necessities in the u.s. military. now, this had a lot of people extremely concerned, but not the pentagon. >> this argument of wokeness in the military. i was in the military for 30 years and i can tell you things like diversity and inclusion, that makes us a better military because it brings to the fore somebody else's lived experiences might actually make

a smart on the battlefield. >> laura: is he criticizing his 30 years in the military? joining us now, dennis desousa, conservative commentator, and stephen miller, founder of the america first legal and former trump senior advisor. the real threat to this country that they're trying to map out for us are the people of this country who are now overwhelmingly rejecting biden's agenda, so does that mean the 58% to disapprove, they are all potential domestic terror threats at this point? >> what i find really remarkable is that there seems to be an embedded point of view inside the biden administration that america has now somehow become under biden a one-party state, what i mean by that is with the one-party state goes a one perspective, a party line in thinking about issues. so if you fall outside the party

line, don't just want to ostracize you or the platform you or excommunicate you. they want to actually brand you an enemy of the state. they are very far from this point of view becoming established or consolidated, but if it is, just think what a short step it is to essentially start locking people up, setting up camps, basically treating people as if they deserve to be somehow shut down because they represent a danger to the country national security. but this seems to be to operating premise of the biden administration and you see it in a number of areas, including dhs. >> laura: stephen, this is why so many of the elites love china, because china doesn't have to do this whole listen to the people stuff. a small minority of people make all the decisions for everyone else, and if they don't like it, they are dealt with. it's a weird disturbing parallel

here even with the dhs and the dod is saying now. >> america's leftist elites are envious of the chinese system and the ability it provides them to control the population. what is truly terrifying right now, laura, is that the left has gained control of the security state. in other words, between doj, within it, the fbi, cia, as well as of course the department of homeland security, they're able to use this security apparatus to police speech and to police thoughts they disagree with and if this sounds like it's too hard to believe, ask yourself how many innocent people were jailed as a result of the russia collusion hoax? how many people were given unequal legal treatment as a result of that? they are advancing the idea that law enforcement can be used for expressly political purposes.

that bulletin should be taken with utmost seriousness about all americans who treasure their civil liberties. we are heading down a very dark path. >> laura: and to stevens point, the ap just drop this bombshell a few moments ago, the cia has a secret undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about americans. two democrats on the senate income committee said late tonight a secret undisclosed data repository. what? what are we talking about here? enemies of the state? i guess. >> well, i think this is very scary because as you know, laura, the fbi is the domestic police operation inside the united states and the main domain of the cia is abroad. the cia is not supposed to be conducting elaborate intelligence operations within the united states, and so what you seem to have here is a rogue

agency, either an agency gone rogue or an agency operating with the sanction of the biden administration to sort of turn its lenses away from islamic radicals abroad, or chinese subversives and focus really within the united states and that would be a very scary turn. >> laura: stephen, a lot of us have bemoaned our previous support for this patriot act, i'd have. but this began after 9/11. there's a bipartisan push to do something and protect the country, a noble impulse, but this is now everything that civil libertarians worried about back in 2001, 2002, 2003. here we are now collecting data on the american people, what, because they disagree with them? >> to his point, the cia's mandate is overseas. and we saw the same thing happen

repeatedly in recent years where spy agencies that are supposed to be investigating foreign enemies and foreign terrorists are investigating americans. and let me tell you something. when you have the department of justice and merrick garland trading parents concerned about critical race theory as domestic terrorists, when you have the department of homeland security accusing people of spreading what they call disinformation, what you and i would call common sense, of being potential terrorists, we should take this all very seriously. at the same time, our citizens are literally being killed by the drugs pouring across our border by actual foreign criminal organizations in this administration is aiding and abetting that lethal import into our country while targeting our citizens. this government is truly persecuting innocent americans while facilitating foreign lawbreaking. that is morally reprehensible.

>> laura: it's happening on a daily basis and the cia i'm sure is going to say -- gobbling up this information. it's just incidental. they are not after the americans, but they are incidentally gathering information when they do their investigations of overseas threats. that's what they always say, but i don't think they have any credibility after what they did to trump. >> well, i think these agencies feel a sense of immunity because they never seem to be able to be held to account. and if we put this in the broader context we see a process in which aliens come in other words, people who are foreign to the united states, are being treated as citizens, or being given the rights of citizens allowed to come into the to open the country. meanwhile, citizens are treated as aliens and that would make sense of what the cia is doing. it's essentially literally alienated in the literal sense of the term ordinary american citizens and it's treating them like foreign operatives who are

legitimate targets of spying by the cia. >> laura: that is a disturbing way to sum it up. gentlemen, great to see both of you. in queue. in moments we are going to introduce a new feature in "the ingraham angle." i love this where we bring fox news digital originals to air. the first installment will take you to new mexico were educators there are proposing sweeping changes to introduce racial and social identity lessons to students as young as kindergartners. stay there.

♪ ♪ >> laura: the democrat-controlled state of new mexico is considering new standards that would completely what we used to think of american social studies classes. since the current standards don't address the increasingly diverse perspectives and histories of the peoples of new mexico, the state education department says that these

racially charged lesson plans are necessary for all students, so kindergartners. if they would learn about identity groups. third-graders? they have to sit through cultural identity lectures and high schoolers, oh, no, you're going to have to tackle privilege and systemic inequity. what's worse, if there can be worse is the toxic curriculum is endorsed by local religious leaders. >> in the same way you wouldn't had a calculus textbook to a kindergartner, but you would teach them their numbers, because otherwise when i get the high school they are going to be really lost. likewise, you know, you give kids tools when they are very small to build the foundation that enables them to have the skills and the tools they need to engage more difficult or nuanced material as they age. >> laura: i bet they are busting down the door to get into that church. but most parents, especially among minorities, a poor this

twisted greenwashing. >> i send my child to school to be taught math, reading, writing, not race. i'm the one who has the credentials to teach my children how to treat other people. >> when i started to understand what it was, it frightens me because i have two children of color and i've always taught them that this is america. whether you fail or succeed has nothing to do with the color of your skin. but everything to do with how hard you're willing to work. and this is antithesis -- the end to antithesis of that. >> laura: i'm sharing. i'm cheering her new mexico schools are just so far ahead at this moment, so position for success that they can afford to focus on other aspects of learning, right? >> we are 51st in education in the state and they go and lay out standards that are not

designed to fight our literacy issues, not designed to fight our mass issues or our writing issues, they are designed to divide kids and it makes no sense. >> laura: keep the kids gnome and dom. it only makes sense when you realize this isn't about education at all, never has been, it's about indoctrination, that people hate america, and you know what's truly frightening? we live in a world where it isn't too far-fetched to imagine the department of education they're factoring in the prevalence of racial teaching into school rankings at some point. for more on this story and other fox news digital originals, visit foxnews.com. and from one side of the country to the other, in washington, d.c., it isn't just public schools that are refusing to take parents complaints seriously, but parochial ones as well. the archdiocese of d.c. has ignored all complaints, calls, emails, otherwise, about insane

covid restrictions at catholic schools, so parents have taken matters into their own hands. one of those parents, sheila dugan. she joins me now. sheila, you weren't itching to get involved in activism, but you did because it bothered you and your family so much. what are some of the restrictions that your kids are still facing two years in? >> thank you, laura, you're right. i wasn't planning on doing this. but i think it's important that we start to say that the archdiocese in washington has had the authority since last summer to implement its own policies related to masking and other covid protocols in the state of maryland, where they have schools in five separate counties. in the district of columbia, they are under much further draconian measures from the mayor's office, but we know the archdiocese has been willing to take the mayor to the mat in the

past. last december they file fired a lawsuit when she tried to restrict the number of people who go to church, and they have not shown a willingness on behalf of their students or parents to go to the mayor and advocate on behalf of their parishioners and their parents. and their students, most importantly. and last summer we got a very large group of parents, hundreds and hundreds of people signed a letter to the archbishop, cardinal gregory, begging for normalcy, and mask choice. in the response to it felt completely -- fell completely on deaf ears and alarmingly, though one of the major takeaways that came out of the letter was that the diocese appeared to be entertaining this idea that vaccinated students could take their masks off. >> laura: i'm going to take -- >> unvaccinated students could not. is that what we're doing?

are we going to have a two-tier system in our catholic schools? >> laura: the vaccinated kids versus the unvaccinated. that's what the catholic church is all about. huge liberal. it doesn't surprise me that he did everything you're saying. >> laura, our children are suffering, and you've got kindergartners in silver spring who are told when they're eating lunch, don't look to the left, don't look to the right, it got to look straight ahead because you don't want to get your germs on your friends. you've got hands -- >> laura: we've got to go. we've got -- we got to roll. we get it. d.c., maryland, nightmares. keep it up, keep advocating, don't relent. they should have never closed the church is either, that was another mistake. sheila, thank you. there is something very strange going on with america's favorite punching bags, beto o'rourke, we will explain in a minute.

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♪ ♪ >> hell yes we are going to take your ar-15, or ak-47. >> are you in fact in favor of gun confiscation? >> yes. when it comes to ar-15s and ak-47s. >> we are going to buy that

every single one of those weapons, get them off the streets come out of our homes! >> laura: but almost overnight it seems he went from gun grabber to gun enthusiast. >> are not interested in taking anything for anyone. what i want to make sure we do is defend the second amendment. i want to make sure we protect our fellow texans far better than we are doing right now. >> laura: back in 2019 when he made those original remarks that he was going to take your guns, an arizona gun store owner had a nifty idea. he was going to put ar-15s and other rifles on sale under a discount called the beto special. naturally it sold out in hours. that man, owner of alpha dog firearms, joins us now. i had to bring you on because i saw that clip of him. he's practically running the nra at this point. should we believe him? he wants to protect the second amendment. >> you know, there's two actual enemies of firearms, one is rust

and the other is politicians, so i don't believe anything he has to say forever. [indiscernible] knows ar-15s. >> laura: the big point initially, like i'm coming for them, do you think he really knows what an error 15 is? like what it actually is? >> no, i think a lot of people who -- politicians who talk about guns really have no idea what they're talking about, they just know what their handlers say, and then that's how you get these terms of ghost guns and assault rifles, there's no such thing as assault rifle. but yet it's thrown everywhere you go. you know air -- it actually stands for armor right, a phoenix-based company, the first person to come up with an ar-15, so model 15 somehow became the assault rifle and, you know, people like to use scary words for things they don't fully understand and if they can drive -- if they can drive up,

you know, fear and panic and do it that way, they're going to do it. >> laura: given the crime increase that we've seen in the country, especially metropolitan areas, i know there's been a big increase in gun purchases by law-abiding americans of all cultures and backgrounds for personal safety, are you seeing that same trend? very quickly. >> yeah. yeah. the pandemic really taught us one thing and the first thing is that people care about gun safety. gun sales from 2020 actually skyrocketed and the people who bought those guns were, you know, law-abiding citizens and it wasn't just a republican democrat thing. it was everybody. so yeah, it absolutely happened. >> laura: we had to bring it -- we had to bring you up after that turnaround on the guns. enqueue for being with us. and what did joe biden and justin trudeau have in common?

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>> laura: what was justin trudeau's reaction when one of his fiercest critics spoke in

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