we have. thank for being with us. you make the show possible. set your dvr to never miss an episode of "hannity." don't forget my website. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham's show starts right now. i didn't get my hat in the mail today. >> laura: i fed-exed it today. it will get there tomorrow. now i have gotten you this too. can you read it. mandate freedom. >> sean: people are asking me how do i get my hat? >> laura: every month it's a different charity. 100% of my proceeds go to it a different charity. go to it laura ingraham.com. all made in the usa. that's what we love. >> sean: i will put it up on

hanit.com. >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. let's start right at the top. pete's highway to hell. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." >> the nation's roadways are deadly than ever. >> every one of us can close our eyes and picture people we know whose lives ended too soon because of a crash on a road. it's like we are living through a war. >> laura: that means transportation secretary buttigieg is now our general. a growing danger is the increase in traffic fatalities accident the biggest increase in more than a decade.

is it surprising that we had more traffic deaths in it 2021 than in 2020 when millions were staying home in the pandemic? in 2020 the economy came to a halt and so did everything else. that was peachy for the folks of the "new york times." they wrote in los angeles, businesses and schools have closed and drivers stayed off the roads. air pollution declined and traffic jams have all but vanished. march 2020. forget the massive unemployment and the kids suffering on zoom. look on the bright side. the climate was happy. >> a year ago los angeles had the worst air quality in the country. now we are seeing some of the best air quality in the world. >> the pandemic lockdown took 80% of passenger cars off the

roads. showing a 31% reduction in air pollution. >> laura: businesses shuttered and people stopped commuting and ordered door dash while binge watching their days away. now that people are slowly getting back to the office even in blue states, they want to make permanent the new normal feeling of the pandemic glory days by making private vehicle ownership difficult for average americans. the sick thing is they are concealing their plans by wrapping them in the noble goal of reducing traffic accidents and fatalities. >> we must not accept that these fatalities are a part of life in america. often there is a great strategy out there. that's why we are fortunate in this moment to be able to meet

the moment thanks to president biden's bipartisan infrastructure law. >> laura: a top official cited the need to change the culture that accepts inevitable road fatalities. that doesn't communist. -- exist. i know no one who celebrates deaths on the road. they are always tragic. the real culture shift the left wants to force on us involves our freedom. doing away with freedom on the open roads. the ability to go where we want wherever we want. >> adventure begins here. never ends. >> ♪ ♪ >> laura: that's when sean hannity was driving. this is a vision of america they hate with the house in the suburbs and big families and suvs and church on sunday.

in their perfect world where climate trumps personal liberties they will keep tabs on you and even redirecting your route to a safer defamation. -- destination. they might like free range chicken but not free range drivers. that's why they love electric cars. liberals may like all of this stuff, let's face it. when you get if an electric vehicle, you have to recharge those batteries, which means what? hours and hours. don't get me wrong. i don't oppose electric vehicles. they are fun to drive but i don't want to see the government forcing them on people who don't want them. you have to wonder where the soundness of biden's push when

the king of electric cars elon musk came out against his build back better plan despite the plan it was loaded with green hand outs and subsidies. it's not just about swapping out gas powered vehicle for electric vehicles. no, no, it's about taking millions of cars off the roads all together. that becomes obvious when you read the details of biden's national road safety strategy that buttigieg was talking about it. its goal is getting to zero traffic fatalities which is ludicrous like zero covid. once you read the plan, it's clear road safety is secondary anyway. improved safety on the roadways is needed to support strategies

to achieve transportation greenhouse gas production. that means more walking and bike riding to make the roads safe. that means more green scooters and less driving for you. the "new york times" spilled the beans about that writing: they have to encourage people to drive less. blue states are leading the way. colorado, for instance, new state rules dictate if localities want to expand highways they need to offset the extra emissions with cleaner projects like bike trails and land use changes. if they exceed the emissions buckets the state can withhold

fundings for roads. these are sick people. their rules always hurt the little guy. as the elite get a fast pass to wherever they want to go. we can't miss the most important component of this push to destroy america's open road culture: high gas prices. >> gas prices are climbing across the country. the national average is $3.49 a gallon. >> it's been more each time. >> we are spending more time at home. >> laura: the left loves high energy prices and they don't think $5 expensive enough. mayor pete thinks you should be happy at home planting a garden. as with every issue facing america, the goal of the biden

team is not to make your life better. it's to force you to behave better. to leave the old notions of freedom before. while they remain free to go wherever what do whatever they darn are please. that's the "angle." joining me is steve maloy. steve, react to the "angle." they wrap this up in this laudable goal of reducing traffic fatalities which everyone would like to see. but they use that statistic from 2021 comparing to 2020 when he had major lockdowns across the country. how valid is that? >> well, you did a great job in the "angle." you tied it all together beautifully. they hated the car fay long time. i wrote about this 13 years ago

in my book green hell. they are trying to get us out of cars. now they will try traffic fatalities. it doesn't make sense. their use of statistics is dishonest. that's nothing new. people will be surprised when that go downtown to work. it's more inconvenient for cars. local governments have been making it more difficult to drive your car and park your car. speed limits have been reduced and parking areas have been reduced. gasoline prices are up. the biden administration doing everything it can to make it more difficult to drive. why? they don't like cars. they don't like what cars enable which is living in the suburbs. >> laura: isn't this partly a control thing as it was with covid-19? they didn't care about the virus when millions of people were crossing the border without

being testing. that was a joke from the beginning. the same with this, correct? you can't just jump in an electric vehicle right now and travel 500 miles quickly? >> yes, the internal combustion engine gave americans and the world more freedom. now the government in infrastructure package, they want the government to work on kill switches to turn your car off when they want. it's all about control as it everything environmental. i have worked on environmental issues for 30 years. it's not about the environment. it's about controlling what people do. >> laura: here's jen psaki on the importance of ditching the fossil fuel industry. >> over the course of decades we

are a clean energy super power because that's not just where the jobs are but where the advantage will lie in 30 years. >> laura: the white house thinks nobody will be using oil in the next 10 years. china will be using oil. >> china will use oil to make all of the green tech stuff we are forced to buy in america. we should be the oil and gas and coal super power. we have all of the energy but they want us dependent on china. the more the green agenda passes, it makes us more dependent on communist china. all of the materials for green tech comes from china. none of these bills that have been passed even bother to

imagine that these materials should come from america and not communist china. otherwise, we are dependent on china. >> laura: they are fine with that. this was all in the "new york times" today. wanting americans to ditch beef for a certain insect. watch. >> unless we make major adjustments to the food we eat, we are cooked. one of those dietary changes might make you squeamish. >> we will finish off with grasshoppers. >> yes, we are talking about insects, specifically eating them. >> [laughing]. >> laura: they are like handing the election to the republicans. just run that for the next 3 years and say do you want bacon bit on that on your salad?

>> the "new york post" and others wanted people to eat cicadas. >> laura: we love having you on. the details about the murder of a 35-year-old asian woman were heinous, but so too was the reaction from the democrats. we go to trace gallagher with a lot more. >> this happened in lower manhattan. when police arrived on the scene of the call they could hear a woman screaming. ran to the 6th floor but the apartment door was locked and the woman had stopped screaming. somebody else inside was telling

police to go away saying they were no longer needed. when they broke down the door the 35-year-old woman had been stabbed more than 40 times allegedly by the man telling police to go away. a 25-year-old man who was found hiding under a bed. the crime fits a familiar pattern where a man with a criminal history, in this case a black homeless man is involved in a violent attack. he had been arrested 7 times in years for drug possessions and assault. last month arrested and tried to escape from a police van. prosecutors did not ask for bail and the judge did not set bail. nash was immediately back on the street. new york mayor eric adams calls nash a poster child for the need to change bail laws.

but democratic state senator said don't blame for left prosecutors. residents disagree. >> everything that people find is frustrating it's so easy to blame bail reform. i don't think that does any of us a service. >> we can't protect against monsters like this. no matter how much we incest. -- invest. >> jen psaki was asked about crimes against asian-americans. >> we have seen this rise because of hate filled language around the origins of the pandemic. >> for clarity. the white house hasn't provided any evidence linking violent crimes to rhetoric about covid origins nor have we seen any evidence like that. >> laura: unbelievable.

justin trudeau autocratic wants to switch condemnation from politicians up north and from americans on the streets of united states. what happened when we spoke to folks outside of the canadian consulate in new york city. stay there. my name is douglas.

i'm a writer/director and i'm still working. in the kind of work that i do, you are surrounded by people who are all younger than you. i had to get help somewhere along the line to stay competitive. i discovered prevagen. i started taking it and after a period of time, my memory improved. it was a game-changer for me. (vo) prevagen. hewhat makes my heart beat?e.

having everything i want in the place i love. jamaica. heartbeat of the world. let's go!

>> ♪ ♪ >> laura: if justin trudeau thought invoking his emergency powers would silence or move the freedom convoy and supporters, he was dead wrong. today freedom lovers amassed again outside of the canadian consulate in new york city to lead the trudeau government know what they thought of his actions. the "the ingraham angle" spoke with some protestors today. here's what they told us. >> we are supporting the canadian truckers in ottawa. it's a peaceful working class revolution. i am astonished the left media is not covering it at all. it's multi-culture. trudeau has shown his true colors. he is authoritarian who doesn't care about the people. >> they have a tyrannic leader like we do.

>> what the canadian truckers are doing is amazing for all of us around the world. everyone affected by the mandates. >> he needs to step down and let someone else cover it. if he won't resign at least end the mandates. do the simple thing they are asking. end the mandates. that's all they want. >> we are here for our freedom. this is a spiritual war against humanity there. are some people who have not bowed down to their authority. in a war against humanity trudeau declared it using the battlefield of economics. >> he is playing a really dangerous game. ultimately, you can't be at war

with the half the populace. >> i am here to support the canadians and new yorkers for health choices of their own and the people who lost jobs due to mandates. i have never seen anything so absurd. i was taken aback. i can't believe that people are not screaming from the roof tops. >> i was a nurse for 18 years. they decided to terminate me even though i had an excellent record. >> we are seeing different things. the vaccine mandates and all of these things. these are not signs of freedom. these are things that keep us from freedom. people need to be allowed to

choose. >> i think it's about time that people wake up. it's about time that people become awake from being woke. i used to be woke but now i am awake. >> laura: trudeau is received scorn from politicians and media. premiers from 4 provinces oppose his actions saying they only inflame the rift in the country. canada's second biggest paper published an editor entitled trudeau has gone too far. they write he's gone out of his way to increase the tension. the convoy has been peaceful. it was trudeau's incompetence

that made such an extreme measure necessary. even the canadian civil rights association slammed this decision writing that: in the face of condemnation trudeau is defiant. >> it these are things canadians affect from government. we have worked closely -- to ensure canadians get their treats and lives back. >> laura: the executive director of the canadian civil liberties association joins me now. what is the justification for this? >> well, you are asking the wrong person because we don't think it is justified.

the emergencies act is supposed to be used in the case of a national emergency that threatens the safety and security and health of people in a way that overwhelms the provinces or threatens the security and sovereignty of canada. that's not what we have here. >> laura: what happens if this continues and morphs into other power grabs by politicians? this time it's a liberal politician. maybe a different political persuasion next time. what happens to the rights of the average canadian citizen over time. >> you think there are serious concerns. it's difficult for the people 2 who live this ottawa.

-- peaceful protests is something that is done by protestors many different issues. vaccine mandates today. and black lives matter. there are so many different kinds of protests that happen. a government can't shut down free speech using excessive measures. they should not be pulling out emergency powers to deal with the problem they have laws they are capable of dealing with. that's what we are concerned with. they should not be pulling out emergency powers to address the canadian economy or international trade. they filed that in relation to this emergencies act. we are concerned about the government using a law that gives them enormous power without the legislative process. >> laura: there is no review.

this is a dictorial move? there is no way to appeal it? >> that's right they just declared the emergency and put before pal parliament saying this is happening. the emergency powers are a much too large power. >> laura: yes, too broad with no quick judicial review or other review for people to get relief. i never thought i would see something like this in canada. i don't think i ever thought they would see i am seeing in the u.s. this is not about politics. you and i don't agree on

political issues but this is about freedom to speak and i am glad are speaking out. the american civil liberties union hasn't done that in the u.s. a disturbing story. the "the ingraham angle" obtained these shocking photos of looks on display in a high school library. this was taken at a recent open house for the parents of 8th grader. notice the sign on the table. stuff some adults don't want you to read. i kid you not. one of the books featured on that table is called "gender queer." they show one man performing oral sex on other.

one the public caught wind of this display the langly high school principal snapped to issuing the following statement: we got a copy of the email. the sign has been removed he said. he apologized for any challenges. it's only offered because they got caught and put up a stupid sign. people have parent not made it

clear what they want. -- stay out of this business. parents have to remain vigilant no matter what progress we have made politically. this is where things are headed. still ahead the corporate media are downplaying the john durham filing. stay there. what are you recommending for muscle pain? based on clinical data, i recommend salonpas. agreed... my patients like these patches because they work for up to 12 hours, even on moderate pain. salonpas. it's good medicine

>> was the election in 2020 torqued by russian meddling? >> the president tried to gaslight about that. the question is whether our allies see president trump as someone in charge with all of the comey stuff and the russian staff. >> laura: that's charlie savage

what the "new york times" calls a political reporter. he ignored the shocking revelation from the new john durham charges. he said these appear to be flawed. okay. the story isn't about what a u.s. attorney john durham filed but rather the reaction to the filings that the "new york times" didn't cover the substance of. this is a classic. michael sussman theular from the clinton campaign gave the cia misleading web data they had a tech company mine from the

white house and trump tower networks and this doesn't merit coverage by a national security supporter for the "new york times"? the media has been downplaying durham and they are caught with egg on their faces and they are colluding with the left to diminish it all. joining me is congressman jim jordan and congressman jim banks. congressman jordan, your response to the "new york times" coverage of this meaning the coverage of fox's coverage of it. unbelievable. >> well, the press first promoted the lie that president trump colluded with russia. they pushed that narrative. when the truth is coming out that we said for years was

accurate, they won't cover. it for me the big take away here is democrats always accuse republicans of being a threat to democrat. -- democracy. mark helped pushed the steele dossier and filed lawsuits after lawsuits going after republicans am and now we learn that the democrat's go to lawyer for the clinton campaign was involved on the effort to spy on the sitting president, president trump. in that filing of durham he referenced that they are communicating with mark. >> laura: on msnbc they are dismissing durham's legal actions. >> a week before he is on tap to

do this, this comes out and you have all of these people who are witnesses who fed the conspiracy theories on durham and then go on fox news and make false claims about it. >> laura: now the work of a u.s. attorney working for years on this now a stunt if or the coverage of the filings that's a stunt? had it isn't pass any straight face test at this point. >> it really doesn't. they all have egg on their face. they all denied that donald trump was right. he was right all along. they were spying on him. they were spying on his campaign and sitting president of the united states of america. if they can get away with that, they can get away with spying on me. they can get away with spying on any of you watching this evening. that's why this is dangerous. as jim jordan said mark, to call

him an elections attorney is an insult to elections. he gets paid by the democrats to support voter proud. he's been pushing election theorys to take donald trump's name off the ballot. he is doing that on our colleague madison and this week on friday they are trying to take my name off the ballot and saying that i violated the 14th amendment because i objected to unconstitutional elections conducted in 2020. these are the same people who lecture us about democracy. give me a break. >> laura: the most anti-democratic election meddlers. congressman jordan, you were attacked in the hill newspaper over your criticism of the

january 6th committee on this show. if jordan was worried that a local reporter might pin him down. wait until he gets 14 former prosecutors on his case. they are trained in the socrattic method. that's so fancy righting. your response? >> well, a couple of things. one remember this captain altered evidence and lied to the american people about it so much so they had to apologize. they said we regret the error. that's the government talk for we got caught lying. we know this committee lied. we know it's political. they are just going after president trump. i wouldling it to the filing from durham. he said they were trying to create a narrative to go after

president trump. we call that framing somebody. they were trying to frame the of the united states of merrick garland . that's so long. -- america. that's why they would not let jim and i on this thing am we were going to try to get to the truth and hold nancy pelosi responsible for the fact she did not have the adequate protection and security we needed that day. >> laura: thank you. are the democrats engaging in sinking their own chances to hold the senate. senator rick scott is here on the intriguing dynamic playing out right now in pennsylvania. stay there.

>> ♪ ♪ >> laura: remember when democrats were obsessed with recruiting moderates to run in swing states like a rising star in pennsylvania? >> we lost heavy industry and jobs in coal and steel. a ton of manufacturing went overseas to mexico and china. i am new. nobody held me accountable for that. but vice-president biden has been around longer. >> laura: now me is struggling to stay afloat trailing

pennsylvania's far left lt. governor. and politico is reporting that the party establishment hasn't come to the incumbent's rescue. what does this mean for the other moderates out there. senator rick scott, it has to be music to your ears the democrats abandoning the middle and going far left? >> he is bernie sanders. and connor lamb voted with nancy pelosi 90% of the time. not much of a moderate. all of these candidate visit gone far left. green new deal and shut down fracking and medicare for all and parents not involved in schools. it's bad for the country but it will be great for us in

november. >> laura: senator kelly from arizona must have noticed what is happening to lamb in pennsylvania. kelly will back a talking filibuster rule only for the proposed voting rights legislation. it looks like he is trying to rebrand himself as more progressive to it avoid challenge from his left? >> first he votes 100% with chuck schumer. he voted 3 times against border security in arizona which is a big issue. he is not the moderate he said he was. he is a chuck schumer new york liberal. he will have a hard time winning this election. we will beat him. >> laura: 17 republican senators signed their name besides 17 democrats that the department of

homeland security and the department of labor used the authority provided by congress to release the most allowable numbers of visas for the year. you did not sign on to it. why are your leagues signing on to bring more workers into our country where americans are on the sidelines? >> i don't get it. we have to secure the border. the border is completely open. number 2, we believe in immigration. legal immigration. we should not be doing anything that will kill one american job. we have to fix our immigration system. it starts with securing our borders and doing nothing that hurts america jobs. >> laura: this is muc music to

it the ears of the big tech focus bringing in engineers from india and other big countries -- they are conspiring to do this. this is where the rift of the republican party is. will it go more populace or go back to the bush/cheney days of old? >> we will focus to zero illegal immigration and we won't do anything to kill american jobs. that's where the republicans will be going. >> laura: and the same on china. not pushing for a partnership or dropping the tariffs in china. >> it's frustrating. communist china is stealing our jobs. the government in it china lies,

cheats and steals. we have to say we are here for american jobs and human rights and peace and liberty. communist china want to dominate the world. they put people in prison for their religious. >> laura: why are we still doing business with them? >> i have had a bill -- i have been in the senate for 3 years. companies like amazon you disclose where your products are made. did i get that it passed? no because too many people depend on china. >> laura: you have been terrific on this issue. as the pandemic winds down dr. fauci attempts to it absolve himself. "the last bite" explains.

>> laura: george washington could never tell a lie. tony fauci is different. >> there is nothing political at

all in what i do. it's unfortunate that i became a target of political messages. i have never have nor ever will have anything to do with politics. >> laura: wasn't he like best friends with the cuomo's. anthony fauci mandate freedom. see you tomorrow. >> ♪ ♪ >> greg: i didn't read this by the way. >> [applauding]. >> greg: clap like you are an audience and not some employees i dragged in here. how was your valentine's day day. kat spent the night in cuff. we could have spent it in jail as well.