being with us. you make this show possible. we can't thank you enough. please remember to set your dvr so you never miss an episode. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham, freedom matters, takes it away. >> laura: you got it, you got it. >> sean: i have a hoodie, which i love. this is great for working out in. >> laura: awesome. >> sean: we have a little problem here. >> laura: you have the pink hat. >> sean: i got the pink hat. >> laura: isn't that cool? >> sean: i'm giving this to my daughter. i'm not -- >> laura: come on. >> sean: you want me to wear a pink hat when i work out, punching elbows, hitting, kicking? >> laura: how about this, camo hat. >> sean: do i have to wait another three weeks to get that one? >> laura: no, i'm sending you this. i'll exchange it. >> sean: i'll get video of me working out and throwing in punches and elbows and knees.

>> laura: what are you chris cuomo? video of you working out? by the way, hannity, you are going to look good in the freedom matters gear. it is all made in the usa. you have a lot of guests with hats on, i've noticed. is that a continuing trend? that's number one. >> sean: yeah. >> laura: you have a plot of hats. what was that show in the '70s when we were kids, the battle of the all-stars. remember, they had the sports competition. you have got weiner on. you have shiwa. >> sean: have you changed, are you a better person, are you ever going to do this again? i didn't think that was a hard question. >> laura: you are like barbara walters. it is a great tribute to you. >> sean: hit me. >> laura: they are telling me i have to go. it was an old home week with the old scandals. good to see you, my friend. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington.

we have a plot to get to. let's dive right in. speaking of freedom matters, the freedom problem, that's the focus of tonight's angle. now, back in may of 2020, just a few months into the pandemic, the u.n. high commissioner of human rights delivered what was actually a surprising warning. >> when we talk about human rights, because of a need like a natural cause or a pandemic like this one, it has to be, first of all, a clear need. it has to be proportionate to the need and it has to have a time. it cannot be forever. we have seen that some governments are using this to make even more shrink of their civic space. >> laura: three years later, with freedom convoys inspiring millions, officials who thought they would never be held accountable are growing more desperate. >> the emergencies act will be

used to strength then and support law enforcement agencies at all levels across the country. this is about keeping canadians safe. these tools include strengthening their ability to impose fines or imprisonment, financial institutions will be authorized or directed to render essential services to help address the situation by regulating and prohibiting the use of property to fund or support illegal blockades. >> laura: what would a soft, pretty man ever know about keeping anyone safe? not much. weak and ineffective leaders don't change course when they don't succeed. this was never about the virus. it was about creating a compliant public. a compliant public that was kind of primed to obey the next lockdown order, no questions

asked. the assault on our basic liberties have been wide dish-ranging, school closures denied children quality education. that was the freedom to learn. vax and mask mandates deprived us of our freedom to decide what we put into our own body. stay-at-home orders destroyed small businesses while large corporations thrived. that was our freedom to work. big tech censorship, youtube, twitter, facebook, acted as proxy for the government, our freedom of expression. anyone that didn't to you the fauci line, even treated physicians and renown researchers were threatened, maligned and some lost jobs calling something covid misinformation, gave the government carte blanche to trample on free impression. who will ever forget how democrat governors let you shop

together but not pray together? churches shuttered, our freedom to worship halted. the experts never thought that faith was essential but somehow they deemed that liquor stores were. so this anti-freedom coalition on the left even deployed intimidation squads and corporate and school settings with the goal of silencing employees and parents who spoke out. now, take this fascinating case of jennifer say. she was an elizabeth warren supporter from the bay area who was forced out of her high-profile job merely for speaking out against school closures and lockdowns. she then, president of levi straus, felt passionately about the need for in-person schooling. she wrote, i kept calling out hypocritical and unproven policies, met with the mayor's office and uprooted my entire life in california so that my

kindergartner could finally experience real school. jennifer in march of 2021, appeared on the angle. >> i have got to take care of my kid. i want to help all kids. i realize i'm very lucky that i can pick up and come here. i know not everyone has that opportunity. i will tell you, you know, families i know are scraping together everything they have to either go to private or move to a district or a state that's open. at the end of the day, our kids need to be in school. >> laura: she is a liberal. i'm a conseconservative. her comments were entirely reasonable. then she writes, that appearance on this show was the last straw. the head of diversity, equity, inclusion at company asked that i do an apology tour. i was told that the main complaint against me was that i was not a friend of the black community at levis. i was told to say that i am an imperfect ally. well, then, she said she refused

to do any of that. this woman was on track to be the ceo of a major company, a liberal with biracial children canceled by the corporate mob. think about that? the left is so freaked out now because their covid fortress of rules and edicts is collapsing before they had the chance to make their new normal permanent. they are so frantic they are trying to stigmatize the word freedom. in other words, your freedom kills people even when they are vaccinated. >> i love how people talk about personal freedom. if you are exercising personal freedom -- freedom, put someone else in jeopardy, their health in jeopardy, i don't consider that dealing with freedom. >> laura: the mocking of freedom has been a thing of biden's for a while now. >> two things that concern me, one are those that just try to make this a political issue.

freedom, i have the freedom to kill you with my covid. come on. freedom. >> laura: never heard a president, never thought i would hear a president say something like that. the media picks it up and then repeats it with their own lame floorish. now, the message is to be afraid of those who want freedom. >> you have seen in candidates others are fearful of these protesters arguing for freedom. >> it is anti-government wrapped in this notion of freedom, whatever it means for these individuals. >> laura: freedom for the rest of you to do and speak your minds, no, they don't want that. here is the way the pragues at the cdc describe the word. it is malleable and a term that thrives among far right groups. no matter the rubbish they say or publish about in freedom quest spreading across the globe

now, the truth about what the powerful did these past two years is coming to the fore. it can't be that we live in a country where freedom only exists for the connected and wealthy who can go maskless at the super bowl as third graders sweat it out in n-95 masks and class in l.a. they will always feel justified when they take away your freedom or when they skirt the words. it is going to be the roads are dangerous, the climates are warming, the variants are coming. almost six years ago, it was that trump was running. they had to stop him. rules be dammed. the left didn't think twice when they locked the children out of schools. the clinton campaign didn't think twice when they deployed internet spies in an effort to destroy trump and nullify your vote. even though the ends for them always justify the means, we know what was going on. the press, they can too. they didn't cover the stories

that mattered. they covered them up. here is the good news. the anti-freedom coalition is unraveling. that's the angle. we'll have more on the potential criminal indictments coming from the durham bombshell later on in the show. check out this video of the freedom convoys in protest over the weekend from across the world. >> laura: liberty. spectacular sights to see. how significant is this given the sustained attacks on freedom here and abroad, the word freedom under assault. join can joining me is steven

miller and dinesh desousa. china is rising and america is faltering. canada is moving towards martial law. is the tide turning? >> i think it is. the reason it is turning is what people are looking for when they think about freedom is nothing more than the scope or the space to normalize their life. we are not talking about some exotic exercise of freedom. we are talking about things like going to work, getting your kid to school. this is freedom in the normal sense of the term in the same commonsensical sense that i am free to move my arm. biden and the left have stigmatized freedom in such a way that they are making the -- presenting the idea that it is somehow not freedom if it affects somebody else. all freedom affects somebody else. if a woman takes a job as

opposed to staying home, that affects the workforce. that affects her husband. that affects her children. it's not as if the normal exercise of predom doesn't have an impact on others. the real question is, does it hurt the rights of other people. if i swing my arm, it makes contact with your jaw, that is an unaccessible use of freedom. if i am going to a grocery store or a mall, somebody goes, you showing up without a mask unvaccinated, you are increasing my risk of covid. nobody is asking you to go to the mall. you can stay home. the idea one group gets to live their life and can force other people not to, this is the essence of the issue, i think. >> laura: steven, this is the chilling message from trudeau's deputy prime minister today. watch this. >> as of today, a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or

suspend an account without a court order if your truck is being used in these illegal blockades. your corporate accounts will be frozen. the insurance on your vehicle will be suspended. >> laura: steven, is this what canada does now? i thought it was what dictatorships do. >> i don't think any of us would have guessed that trudeau would have been doing his best impersonation of muesli any. that's where we are. a lot of us that have been paying attention and concerned about this for a while, is that modern leftism is only a hair's breath away from fascism. if you look at cancel culture, that's the left using corporate power to punish descent. it is a very short road from that to using state power to punish descent and political enemies.

you see the strong armed against the weak. administrators against helpless students. powerful ceos against wage earners. now, you see the leaders of countries against peaceful protesters. i think anybody who cherishes liberty and freedom and western civilization should be profoundly alarmed by what we are seeing unfold right now. >> laura: dinesh, this attack on the word freedom is a fascinating development. it is kind of a desperate play from the left, i think. if you are asking for freedom, this is a far right tactic. what? these people were the free speech people not so long ago. they believed they were about free love, free speech, free expression, artistic expression, teachers expression in classrooms. you couldn't touch it. you couldn't regulate it. now, they have turned the whole concept upside down because they are on the losing side of the argument. how long can this last? >> well, we see that the left is attacking freedom at both

prongs. we've talked about one, which is the idea of individual rights or individual libertys. that would be free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of conscious and so on. we haven't spoken about the other type of freedom the left is also attack. this is the freedom of local communities to be able to make decisions for themselves. so if you are looking for example at covid, obviously, covid may be spiking in certain places, not spiking in others. circumstances vary from one place to the other. why shouldn't people living in enter own local communities be able to make rules that are adapted to their own particular situation. biden seems to imply that you have to have a federal or a centralized approach to the problem, whereas, a second form of freedom would be the fro dom of local self-government. >> laura: thank god we had founders that understood the overreaching power of a federal government. we have state governors that are able to show the way for reopening. imagine if we didn't have those.

>> our founding fathers very wisely understood human nature and understood how dangerous it was when leaders accrue power to rule over you. >> laura: yes. >> they do not lightly let it go. the fact that we have capitulated and normalized forcing toddlers to wear masks all day long. we have normalized firing people for not getting vaccinated and we have normized canceling people for having conservative thoughts. it leads to a very dark road. americans must reclaim our heritage as a free nation and quickly. >> laura: gentlemen, thank you. great to see you. miles from our nation's capitol, the petty tyrant running montgomery county, maryland, is ramping up the war on freedom. county executive, mark elrich, is still pushing for vaccine pass ports despite the county refusing to vote on them and despite covid positivity rates falling below metrics. he is openly defying governor

larry hogan's call to end forced masking in schools. >> we made movements throughout this pandemic where he lightened things up and other people were lightening things up. almost every time he did that, our numbers jumped back up. i think it would serve us all better if he was a little bit more patient about it and got us at least into the moderate transmission range. >> laura: here now is a montgomery county parent who has been calling out elrich from the beginning on this, phil kurpin, president of the committee to unleash prosperity. a lot of county execs have abused their powers over the last two years. this character, mark elrich, really takes the cake. why does someone like him continue to get elected given what's happened to that community? >> well, he was sort of an accidental county executive in that he won his primary by a handful of votes in a multi-candidate field. this is a really good example of

people not necessarily paying as much attention to local races as they should. county like montgomery county is over 1 million people, bigger than six or seven states, an enormous jurisdiction. a race like that ought to be viewed like a governor's race, a very high-stakes race. it is typically not, especially in a place like this where people are concerned about national politics. we have a broader focus than what's happening locally. this guy kind of squeaked in. he became one of the worst covid yan petty tyrant ns the entire country. he has his deputy saying they still want to do the vaccine passport, restaurant mandate thing. we'll shelf it for now but next variant, we are going to bring it right back out, ready to go on that. he has been horrendous, every step of the way. he has no curiosity to actually understand what any of thee numbers mean. he says, we should have cdc moderate transmission. it means 50 cases per 100,000

population per week is the standard cdc invented in the spring of 2020. >> laura: all you business owners in liberal montgomery county, all you parents and kids, the fancy schools there, how is it working out for you? is this what you want? i guess that's what they want. i have to say, i talk to so many parents from that community that are just horrified. this is where we have got to get local people to step up and challenge him and run against him. whether you are a democrat or republican, moderate common sense policies. i think that's what people are asking for finally. >> yeah. i hope we see a turnover in that position and turnover in all the county council seats as well, which are up. just casualness with which they turn people's lives upside down, for a while last year, youth sports were exempt from the masks and then suddenly they weren't, no reason, explanation,

logic or science. somebody felt like it. kids were running around playing games with masks on. they make these decisions based on nothing. they told us we would be unmasked at 80% vaccinated and then 85% and then they made it up. >> laura: phil, we have to go. i don't think al rich is out there playing a lot of touch'. good to see you, phil. it turns out the obama administration wasn't alone in spying on the trump campaign. former director of national intelligence, john ratcliff, is here in moments on the shocking filing in the john durham probe. stay there. (vo) what makes my heart beat? having everything i want in the place i love. jamaica. heartbeat of the world. let's go!

>> there has been no transition from when i won. i won that election. if you look at crooked hillary clinton, if you look at all of the different people, there was no transition, because they came after me trying to do a coo. they came after me spying on may campaign, started on the day before i won. >> laura: a bombshell new firing alleges that the clinton campaign paid a tech company to is your repetitiously monitor computer servers at trump tower and in the executive office of the president. the goal was to mine the servers for dirt and use it to peddle

the phoney russian inclusion narrative, that's what they did. the clinton campaign attorney, michael sussman, fed this garbage to the fbi in 2016 and an unnamed agency in 2017. joining me now is john ratcliff, former director of national intel. john, a plot of the documents that you declassified point to what we learned in this durham filing. explain. >> well, laura, when i became the director of national intelligence, the first thing i said was, look, i would like to citi all of the intelligence we have on trump russia inclusion. the answer was, well, we don't have any. not a little bit but we don't have any. that's why jim comey and john brennan and james clapper went all pressed under oath, is there evidence of trump russia inclusion, they all said, no, there isn't. what i found was interesting

that i didn't know as a member of congress. we had a lot of intelligence of fake trump russia collusion. we had information that hillary clinton had a plan to create this narrative, false trump russia connection. that is the notes i declassified, john brennan's handwritten notes that showed he briefed president biden and vice-president biden about that plan. in addition to those declassified documents, i gave john durham thousands of other documents that are still classified that detail what that plan was. these public filings are starting to be -- john durham is starting to reveal to the public what some of the details of that plan specifically were. >> laura: john, did they also withhold that briefing or those details if you can say this from then candidate trump in august of 2016, if my memory serves me correct? >> your memory is absolutely

correct. as a candidate, donald trump received a briefing and, in fact, the agents that were investigating him under this false trump russia narrative didn't disclose that they weren't investigating him and none of this information was shared. the public found out about this when i declassified in september of 2020. john brennan's handwritten notes. think that that, laura. i was on the judiciary committee, the intelligence committee. no member of congress was aware of this intelligence until i declassified it. when i did, they said, no, it is russian disinformation. now, john durham is putting it in federal criminal pleadings and charging people. it is very real. this was very real. the public is starting to find out what the details are. >> laura: john, just very quickly, when we can't trust our national intelligence agencies

to look out for our interests without political gainsmanship, trickery, cheating, criminality, where does that leave us as a country today? set aside trump, if you can for a moment. just on that? >> well, i think that's why this is so important, is when you have the right people in and folks are willing to declassify the information to hold agencies accountable, the people can have that trust. unfortunately, what you have, there are a lot of bureaucrats that protect the cia and fbi for the sake of protecting them even when they don't stand up for the values they are supposed to represent, instead of when they do fall and falter, coming out clean and being honest with the american people. that's what we should do. that's what i did. that's what good leadership demands. we don't have that right now. we didn't have it in 2016. >> laura: john, thank you for declassifying what you did. we really appreciate your insights tonight. thank you.

joining me now is saul wisen burg, former deputy, independent counsel and former assistant u.s. attorney, saul, great to see you. why was the filing, this filing in particular legally significant in your eyes? >> well, the reason why, one of the reasons why it is a bombshell is because durham hasn't been leaking unlike some other famous prosecutors. so there has been no hint that this was there. so that's number one. number two, it shows why susman was lying or allegedly lying, according to mr. durham. remember, the argument has been in the press by the defenders of michael sussman, oh, this was a mistake, hell, everyone knew that sussman and perkins couhy had done work for the campaign. this was a specific question he

was asked. he was there at the fbi talk to the general counsel about supposedly a crime committed by the trump campaign. he was asked, who are you here for? are you here as a good citizen or are you here representing a particular client? he said, no. he said, no a couple of months later to agency two, i think we know who that is. the bombshell that durham laid out shows why. it gives a motive for why sussman was doing it. as john said, as john ratcliff just said, because if he didn't lie, it would reveal the wide ranging conspiracy going on. i don't know if it is a criminal conspiracy but a conspiracy going on involving the clinton campaign to, number one, feed lies to the fbi about trump and, then, number two, leak to the press that the fbi is investigating this. that's exactly what they did with the alpha bank server allegations, which were not true

and that is what sussmann was there at the fbi. >> laura: saul, really quickly in a few seconds, are we running into a statue of limitations issue here in a possible criminal probe given the time frame and how much time is left? >> that's a great question. it would look like on the surface we might be. durham has been working very, very hard and there is a wealth of things he is doing that we don't know anything about. there could be further lie that is were told to clean up the messes you talked about when clinton didn't win, when trump won, oh, my god, we have a mess to clean up. there could be all kind of things that went on that durham is still looking at. so it is hard to tell when all you have is what's on the surface there and you have got a good prosecutor who isn't leaking. >> laura: saul, that is an excellent point. we don't want leaky prosecutors

but we often have them. great to see you, saul. we have a nostalgia trip and the bidens back to the future, ramon arroyo tells us why in seen and unseen next.

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>> laura: it's time for our seen and unseen segment with raymond arroyo. raymond, there was kind of a recurring theme i noticed at the super bowl. maybe you did too. even in today's headlines, some may have missed. >> yes, laura. it is called cultural regurgitation, where the country seems to be on a carousel of nostalgia. in this case, of the halftime show. it is kind of typical to go back and bring out the old acts. my group was not so much the elder hip-hop performers but the way nbc tried to sell them. >> for the first time ever, hip-hop and rap take center stage, literally music's biggest

stage is getting set as i stand right next to snoop dogg and doctor dray. we have seen mary j. blige and emi'm enwalk in here. >> everybody from prince, ella fitzgerald and bruno mars have done this halftime show. to say it was the greatest. whatever it was, it was not the greatest halftime show of all time. please. >> laura: they had a cool set. i liked that set. >> didn't it feel small to you compared to others, katie peri and bruno mars. >> laura: i know you are a big naughty by nature. you dug the whole thing. >> we are like this. i am there every week. >> laura: what can i say? the kids like it. the older kids like it. the rolling stones are more my style.

eminem's music, what are you going to tell us about that? >> eminem's music was not the only nostalgia trip. he was reenacting protests from years gone by, laura. ♪♪ >> now, the nfl had the black national anthem featured prominently. no athlete black or white knelt during the national anthem. what was eni'm eminem protecting? >> i thought a couple did kneel. i thought he dropped something. i didn't know. there was so much going on there. i couldn't tell. i actually thought he dropped something. then, i realized what he was doing. it was kind of an ode to colin kaepernick. it seemed like there was a lot of backing vocals in the

performances. maybe i had an echo on my screen. the most memorable super bowl commercials were also throw backs. jim carrey reprised his cable guy role. >> and the late 1990s were also resurrected by michael meyers, or was it dr. evil? >> ladies and gentlemen, our takeover of general motors is complete. we're going all electric. look, the floor has opened up and there are cars there. >> laura, gm also produced and keep that image in your mind. gm also produced the best commercial of the night. it solved a bit of that soprano's final episode mystery. we don't know if tony survived. it looks like his children did. ♪♪

>> laura, this is all part of gm's push to try to get the next generation or the older generation to buy into electric vehicles. unwittingly, gm has recruited a super villian and a mob family to be their spokes people. i'm not sure if that is going to go down when this is all over. >> laura: when they are trying to run away from the police or escape, then they are going to run out of a charge. they have to make sure they are charged. that's the whole problem. can you make it to the pines where they used to dump the bodies in the pines? >> exactly. >> laura: they can't get there. >> tony didn't have duracell in the duffle bags in the back. that's not what he was carrying. laura, happy valentine's day. even the biden's went all nostalgic. jill posted a valentine's day card on the front of the white house. whoever painted the dog need a

refresher course. this looks like a mongoose with a rabbit. >> laura: i didn't see it. i thought it was contemporary art. i didn't know what that was. joe sent out a tweet to jill that read, you are the love of my life and the life of my love, jilly. >> even that was a repeat, a nostalgic moment. how many times has joe biden said that line. >> jill is a life of my life and the love of my life, the love of my life, the life of my love. >> the life of my living and the loving and the lack of the live. >> laura: that was sweet. raymond, i just want to say, to all the people that didn't realize that you are in beijing, congratulations for the ice dancing. you got the gold medal. that's amazing. how did you get back in time? >> i can't let joe burrow and tyrus get all the bling, laura. this is my indemian grand

marshal medallion. i thought i would wear it tonight and the friday before my ride to mardi gras. >> laura: it is a huge honor. i don't know what you have talked about more on the ingle angle, the spider that saved christmas or the indemian medal. it is a cute little gold medal for the ice dancing. if you are looking for a simple example as to why the health establishment lost so much trust, compare their responses to the blm protest in 2020 to the canadian truckers today. that's next. e-related macular dn may lead to severe vision loss. and if you're taking a multivitamin alone, you may be missing a critical piece. preservision. preservision areds 2 contains the only clinically proven nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. "preservision is backed by 20 years of clinical studies"

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>> laura: what does this reveal? joining me is dr. jay bat char ya and doctor peter mccullough. dr. battarcharya, pretty emblematic about how policy affected public health? >> i support the right of the blm protester and the truckers to establish. i think it is interesting the medical establishment supports one and not the other. this has real consequences. if the people on the right think the public health is not supporting their basic civil rights, they are going to distrust the whole thing. i think that has already happened and will have long-term consequences. >> laura: doctor mccullough, you have talked about the public trust waning given the attacks

on you and the entire bearing ton declaration and you have been right about almost everything. we still have people on television that are involved in the scaremongering. doctor leanna wynne. >> lifting a government-imposed mask mandate doesn't mean it is suddenly safe. it doesn't mean people should go out and rip off their masks because covid is gone. i do think there is a level of unfairness. life has become less safe for those that are the most vulnerable. if they are going to be surrounded by people that are maybe unvaccinated and also unmasked. they could be more exposed than before. >> laura: dr. mccullough, will they ever drop this, ever relent, ever? >> laura, the two super bowls were night and day. last year, in tampa bay, they let in just a few vaccinated, uncertain health care workers. this time, it is in l.a., and the stadium was packed. i noticed all the interviews afterwards. there were no masks, no cameras

on six-foot sticks. it is completely changed. the emergency phase of the pandemic is over. people know it. it is time to move on. >> laura: dr. battacharya, i was talking to one of our mutual friends. he said by his calculation, we could be at 94%, zero prevalence. explain what that means and why it could be significant? >> when the disease first arrived, no one was immune. no one had any exposure to it. it could cause severe disease. now, what 94 cyril prevalence means na a large fraction of the population is recovered from covid or has some protection due to the vaccine. that means that it is no longer an immune 90 population. the disease is nowhere near as dangerous to the population as it once was simply by the fact that the population has protective immunity to it. >> laura: dr. mccullough,

biden's former covid adviser lamented what he thought was the backlash, not against people like you but against the controllers. watch. >> we have two pandemics going on right now in this country. one is caused by covid. it surely is taking a heavy toll on us. the second one is a pandemic, a loss of trust in government, in public health and in some cases the media. in all cases, where we lose the trust of the people to try to get them to comply with recommendations to help save their life and the life of their loved ones becomes very challenging when they don't believe you. >> laura: that begs the question, dr. mccullough. it is challenging why? why is it challenging to try to get them to believe you next time? >> well, you know, once there is a series of committed statements -- once there is a series of committed statements and they turn out not to be true or misleading, trust is broken.

it is very difficult to repair. we should have always seen teams of doctors working in groups, coming in consensus. it is far safer than what happened over the course of the pandemic with our public health agencies. >> laura: dr. battacharya, should we have ever shut down this country at all? >> i don't think so. we knew from the very early stage of the epidemic, it was older people and certain folks with chronic conditions that were really at high risk. we should have moved heaven and earth to protect them. instead of closing schools, we did nothing to protect them and hurt our kids. >> laura: thank you, gentlemen. when we come back, i received a very special valentine today. who is it from? stay tuned.

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everything you do for me as an act of kindness. i could not ask for more from anyone. whenever i see you, you brighten my day. i love you to the moon and back and 100 dogs. kind of a thing with us. i hope you had a wonderful valentines valentine's day. remember, greg gutfeld is next. >> greg: there for something funny set up their about me. just start clapping. it's a natural kind of thing that happens among real americans. happy monday, everyone. what a great show we have today. first of all, judge jeanine is here. he here she is pulling into town