foxworthy and larry the cable guy. he handled it really well. he was taken by shock but seemed to handle it. depend for him. the slap heard around the world. that's all the time tonight. never miss an episode. let not your heart be troubled. laura is next. see you tomorrow night. >> ♪ ♪ >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. the slap in the face at last night's oscars that really mattered. it was not across chris rock's face. and jada pinkett smith is not the only woman who has been on the receiving end of a chris rock jab. raymond arroyo has the video of what rock said to me 25 years in "seen and unseen." first the impossible clean up. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." >> president biden back in

washington trying to walk back his ad-libbed remark. >> are you concerned you and other administration officials may be undermining him on the world stage. >> laura: i told you it was a mistake for the white house to send biden to europe. if he thinks these appearances will boost him he has another think coming. biden should have participated over zoom. the man is incoherent enough without jet lag. "angle" was correct. biden was a human wrecking ball. asked about reports that russia might use chemical weapons in ukraine he said the u.s. would respond in kind.

macron warned about the with the escalating things so the white house had to do its favorite dance called the walk back. >> the u.s. won't use chemical weapons under any circumstances. >> with the respect of any weapons of mass destruction, russia would pay a severe price. >> laura: in-kind means severe response. in poland biden announced a 180 degree change in policy after insisting there would be no u.s. boots on the ground in ukraine. >> you will see when you are there. you will see women, young people standing in front of a tank saying i am not leaving. >> laura: again his staff had to scramble. a white house spokesperson tried to clarify the president's

remarks saying the president has been clear, we are not sending u.s. troops to ukraine. the most dangerous flub heard around the world were his ad-lib comments on putin. >> ukraine will never be part of russia. this man cannot remain in power. >> laura: why is he always screaming? this was another instance of biden playing pundit instead of acting like a president. targeting putin plays into his hands boosting propaganda efforts in mother russia. reagan never said this during the darkest days of the cold war. biden dismissed any fallout playing clean up man for

himself. >> you have more foreign policy experience more than any president. you understand why someone would believe you saying someone can't remain in power. that's a statement of u.s. policy. are you concerned about propaganda use of those remarks by the russians? >> no and no. nobody believes we will take down putin. i was expressing by outrage. >> laura: every time they send biden out to speak he digs himself and america into a deeper hole. it happens every time. today was supposed to be his chance to reassure allies after his speech last week. he still could not get it right and things went side ways. >> do you believe what you said that putin can't remain in power? >> i am not walking anything back. i was expressing the moral outrage i felt toward the way putin is dealing and the actions

of this man. just brutality. i am not articulating a policy change. i make no apologies for it. >> laura: it's really confusing for joe and his team. they had to walk back his non-walk-back. >> it sounded like you told u.s. troops they were go to ukraine. >> you interpreted it that way. talking about helping train the ukrainian troops in poland. >> when you said you are going to see when you are there? >> i was talking with the ukrainian troops that were in poland. >> laura: this would be a dangerous escalation. reached for comment by politico a pentagon spokesperson did not respond nor did representatives for the ukrainian government.

the white house got the swiffer back out saying there are ukrainian soldiers in poland interacting with u.s. troops. this has gone from sad to scary. he is not an ordinary citizen. this is a sensitive situation. every word an american president utters has global repercussions. he is not capable of freelancing. nevertheless, the people at cnn tried to help the clean up mission. >> he was speaking out of frustration and anger. this is a president responding with emotions here. >> candor is unappreciated in diplomacy. this is a president who can be candid and tell you what me is thinking. he is hugging children who lost their parents and have seen death. that's what he was reflecting.

it was not a policy change. we are not used to presidents who do that. >> laura: yes, gloria. that's the concern. biden is too candid. a former cia director. >> why do you think president biden made that mistake? >> i happen to think that joe biden is irish. he has a great deal of compassion when he sees that people are suffering. i think it overwhelmed him. >> laura: he said it's because biden is irish. trafficking in emotionalism with putin could make life more painful for the ukrainians giving putin an excuse to ramp things up. this is not the first time joe's

clean up crew used his empathy to excuse a major diplomatic mistake. >> the president's remarks speak for themselves. he was speaking from his heart. >> laura: even the left knows biden made a mistake in poland. look at this headline. from day 1, it was obvious that the entire rationale for this trip was political. the white house hoped that seeing biden on the international stage would distract voters at home from the economy. the opposite happened. the results of the new nbc poll are nightmarish.

>> by a large 71-28% margin americans do not have a lot of confidence in president biden's ability to respond to this war. 57% said we are already at war with russia or will be within a year. and 68% would prefer mr. biden make the economy his top priority. his job approval is just 40% with 55% disapproval. his worst showing since he became president. >> laura: if you put a microphone in front of biden he is bound to say anything that pops into his mind. he was obama's vp no one took him seriously not even obama. now as president. he doesn't have the self-discipline to weigh his words more carefully. he undermines the efforts that his administration is makeing to

keep europe on our side. we all know that the major nato countries have no interest in forcing regime change in russia. biden thinks appealing to the press corp matters most. the white house keeps hoping for a george w. bush moment with the bull horn. that this crisis in ukraine will help his party in the mid-terms like it helped republicans in 2002. >> are you concerned this remark might escalate the conflict? >> no, i am not at all. nato has ever, ever, ever been as strong as it is today. never. >> laura: never. the problem here is that no one inside the biden administration has a clear strategy about what we are trying to accomplish and how to advance our interests in a prudent manner. the only strategy is to keep the

media happy and hope for a rally around the flag momentum going into november. all of their time and effort is eaten up with their spin campaign. they did the same thing leading up to the afghan withdrawal. we know how that ended. they keep getting this wrong. it's unreal to watch this. the way to fix your poll numbers, joe, is not to showcase america's weakness and get bogged down in europe. the way to fix your poll numbers is to make america stronger. that means a domestic policy by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer that will only delivery more misery for more people. trying to clean that up will be left to the republicans who end up trouncing them in the fall and in 2024. that's the "angle." joining me now is tom bevin and

mark, a former clinton advisor. tom, the presidency is more like bush's mission accomplished than bush's bull horn moment at this point. >> yes, obviously his ratings on ukraine not great. the problem for this administration, they are not focussed on what the american people care about. they care about inflation. when you have a disease you need to treat the disease. you can't pretend you don't have the disease or treat something else. the administration is not addressing inflation which is the political disease this administration is facing. they should be focussed on that every day from the white house podium. instead it's not happening. they are playing a political price for it. >> laura: mark, your least poll

shows that biden is in the 30s on some top issues, the economy and foreign affairs and crime. where will be there a pivot back to the u.s.? he unveiled his big budget and that's a train wreck. will the democrats try to save themselves begin how low biden as gone? >> i don't think there is going to be a pivot. i called for a pivot for a long time. as the numbers keep dropping. he is in the 30s on almost all of these issues. you can't win an election being in the 30s with all of the primary issues. i think it will be like 2010 when obama did not pivot until the election results came in or in 94 with clinton. >> laura: biden even if he goes down into the 30s on issues he

can count on the media to try to frame the situation for him like cnn's don lemon. >> the president is saying exactly what most of the world feels. this is a media manufactured story. i think we should ease off. it's out of proportion to what is going on. we are in the middle of a war. take a step back. this is the stand that the people of america and ukraine want the leader of the free world to have. to be strong. >> laura: talking about the regime change comments they claim were not real about regime change. tom, i think that was a pathetic attempt to circle the wagons for joe. >> i am not sure how many viewers cnn has. it's not enough to make a change in public opinion for sure. i think mark is right. the way to address the issues

that the american people care about, biden would have to pursue policies like opening up energy exploration and domestic production. that's something his base won't allow him to pursue so he is stuck. he tried to blame this on putin. they didn't work. denied that inflation existed. that hasn't worked. said it's transitory. that didn't work. that's the only strategy they have. they won't change policy. >> laura: mark, i want something else that leon penetta said more on point than the irish comment. >> from a personal point of view i understand why he said it. at the same time, when you are president of the united states, you just have to be disciplined to make sure you don't make comments that have to be clarified by the white house. >> laura: mark, you and i both know biden has been around

almost 50 years. has the word disciplined ever know used to describe him? >> well, no. he got into a lot of trouble with speeches and issues around that over the history. i worked with leon penetta. president clinton was disciplined when it came to the words of foreign policy. he knew every single one has meaning that reverberates around the world. >> laura: thank you. if biden's team cared about stopping autocrats they would reach out to americans who voted to trump and standing up for china. instead reaching out to china and bashing republicans. politico said the white house postponeded a summit with leaders from southeast asia schedule for this week. this is author of the 100 year

marathon. speaking of pivots. obama was going to do the great pivot to asia. never happened. biden was going to and hasn't happened so far. we are bogged down in this clean up mission about biden's comments in ukraine and cancelling a major summit about the most serious adversary we have, china. >> i agree. it was 12 prime ministers to come to washington, d.c. it would biden a chance to roll out his china strategy which he said a year ago he would present. he still hasn't done so am with the operation clean up, he mentioned twice on television that taiwan is independent. that's a redline for the chinese. they said if taiwan goes

independent we will invade taiwan. the biden team had to take it back and say they are really not. china's strategy is where major gaffes could set us back decades. >> laura: russia foreign minister said today that his country's relations with china were at their strongest level ever. biden's people are still pretending they don't know where they stand on ukraine. your reactions to those words? >> well, he is giving the fact that china is supporting russia against ukraine. china claims they are abiing by the sanctions but there is no proof of that.

they have not done anything to help biden. that's why the long phone calls between biden and xi jingping have not released. there is only word used to characterize the last biden and xi jingping phone call which was the word candid. it's not good news from the chinese. i think he is correct. we are seeing the formation of a major alignment against us by two major powers. statesmanship at its worst. >> laura: today he did mention briefly china in relation to the budget and our priorities. >> we are facing increased competition from other nation states. china and russia which will require investments to make things like cyber space

hypersonics. we are in a different world today. >> laura: we gave away a lot of our technology to china for globalization. now we have to catch up to china? is that the message? >> yes. and breaking news, 2 hours ago the pentagon released its new budget strategy as a fact sheet. they said it's on its way to congress. in that document they rank china high tore russia as a threat to america. -- would give them an a -plus on rhetoric. they said china is the number 1 threat. when you drill do you know what you find is depressed biden and china advisors who give ideas to them and he doesn't act on them.

it's a mystery why they don't speak out. some are leaking to the press their dissayings. it -- dissatisfaction. >> laura: joe biden is not content making the rest of the world miserable. he proposed a 5.8-trillion dollars budget with record tax hikes. wait until you hear where that money is going. steven miller and charlie hurt will reveal it all. stay there.

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>> send a clear message to the american people what we value. first fiscal responsibility. second safety and security. and thirdly investments needed to build a better america. >> laura: where is the 5.8-trillion dollars going to make this so-called better america? it would allocate $10 billion to respond to the unprecedented need arising from conflict. increased refugees as our country is struggling economically. it will allocate 765-million

dollars to process increasing asylum case loads. we will make the borders flood even more and make it more appealing for those to cross. joining me is steven miller and former senior advisor in the trump white house charlie heard. most people don't read these budget. just hear what the media cher picks from them. 5.8-trillion dollars is staggering -- a lot goes to social security. talk about the refugees resettlement issue. >> it's a trillion and a half dollars more than the last full budget from the pandemic in 2019. it will send inflation further out of control.

on immigration this budget slashes i.c.e. detention and boosts funding for the agency that grants amnesty. they will give money to the bureaucrats but hand out work permits and asylum benefits and green cards. >> laura: charlie, the white house said it will invest a total of 45 billion dollars to tackle the climate crisis. 16.7-billion dollars increase over last year. 3.8 billion dollars to support clean energy projects. 18 billion dollars for climate resilience and adaptation programs. 11 billion dollars in international climate finance. charlie, i hear that, you just

want to start laughing and crying statement. thoughts? >> exactly. it's a ponzi scheme. if there is a silver lining of the biden presidency everybody knows when the biden administration wants to spend a trillion dollars on climate change, what they are really saying if they want to raise your gas prices even further. not only will the bill raise gas prices, it's going to make inflation much worse. it's a trillion dollars bill aimed at amnesty. it will do nothing to secure the border. anything that doesn't curve inflation and lower gas prices and secure the border will doom democrats in november. i don't think they will get this

through. but it will doom their chances for november. >> laura: stephen, this google billionaire is influencing the white house. politico said more than one dozen officials have been associates of schmidt. including his charity paid the salaries of two of these science office employees for six weeks. this is a science office bought and paid for by a google billionaire. we are all living on the death star now. >> if you needed more evidence that big tech controls joe biden and the white house. big tech is financing employees. when i worked in the white house, it was clear to me you can't be on the payroll of

anybody. let alone big tech. you are talking about google here. the guy that ran google is paying for the salaries of white house technology employees. this is one of the biggest scandals in america right now. if you want to know why biden is not working to break up big tech, look no further than the tentacles ever big tech money encircling the white house. >> laura: where are the ethic walk -- watch dogs? they were crawling over trump all the time for nothing. >> yes. this is what you get when you have a president who is a figment of the media's imagination. the only reason he is in the white house is because the media ran interference for him and hid

stories that were damaging to him throughout the campaign. can you imagine an oil baron or the u.s. steel baron working inside the white house? they don't have a problem with it. it won't get called out because this is how these people operate. >> laura: gentlemen, thank you. what fueled this and raymond arroyo has new insight in 2016 next.

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then what happened during the ceremony. >> well, the academy is excited that the ratings were up from last year. those were a historic low. these awards were about to be the lowest ever until that bad boy slap down. the oscars are bad when one fright follows another. amy schumer in a spider man outfit and will smith battery of chris rock. and lady gaga wheels lizza out to end the evening. she was very confused. gaga was kind to her. the message here is whatever hollywood had, it's over. it was a boring show. female hosts globing male presenters. to compensate for the nominated

films you never heard of. >> laura: and the moment that ate it up whole. >> gi-jane ii i can't wait to see it. [laughing]. that was a nice one. okay. uh-oh. [laughing]. >> oh, wow! wow! will smith just smacked the [bleep] out of me. >> don't have my wife's name out of your [bleep] mouth. >> wow, dude, it was a gi-djokovic. >> keep my wife's name out of your [bleep] mouth. >> will smith originally howled

at that joke. it was after his wife's displeasure he flipped out. for a group of people who pride themselves for standing with this cause and speaking out on that cause it was amazing to me and everyone to watch them sit on their hands as a colleague was assaulted and say nothing. no boo. no get him out of here. that shocked me. >> laura: what if jon voight punched somebody in the face? someone known to have a conservative thought, i don't know what would have happened. they probably would have been walked out of there and never work again. >> well, when smith won the best actor statue he used the speech to justify the shocking display. watch this. >> love will make you do crazy things. i want to be a vessel for love.

i hope the academy invites me back. thank you. >> i hope they don't invite him back. that's not a vessel of love. smith should an apology to chris rock tonight. the academy is investigating that smack. there is talk of revoking his oscar which is a bridge too far. booth him from the academy is the least they can do. he was partying it up at the "vanity fair" party. >> laura: yes, he was having a good time. >> like nothing happened. >> laura: after doing the "angle" on the biden walkback. biden feels too deeply. he has too much empathy. that's the whole thing about the regime change and feels bad for the people suffering. >> and they said will smith was

protecting his wife. mothers and fathers are terrorists at school boards but this guy pops somebody, no problem. after this the presenters tried to pick up the pieces but it was impossible. >> will smith said it all. >> there is violence and hate crimes on innocent civilians all over the world. >> and right on your stage. giving him a standing ovation after that assault is everything that is wrong with us as a people. i have to say it was shocking to watch that reaction. you now have grounds for a smack down. we found this clip from the 1990s. watch. >> laura ingraham, with all due respect, ma'am, you are the

meanest [bleep] i have ever seen. >> oh my god! >> laura: that was 1996 at the republican convention in san diego. it was one of the first tv appearances i did -- no, it was on politically incorrect. look at my hair. look at my out fit. that was tragic. forget what he said. >> i am glad will smith never went to a don rickles show. he insulted by pregnant wife and we laughed and had a great time. >> laura: i am upset you fell sleep before the smack down. his friends in the media are turning on him for perpetuating a stereotype about black men. stay there.

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>> ♪ ♪ >> laura: there was something else about the will smith assault of chris rock that could more lasting and damaging effects. nbc's craig melvin. >> if you are rearing a boy in

this country you talk to the kid about keeping your hands to yourself and controlling your emotions. there is a long held perception that men of color can't control their rage and anger am on it see someone who has been beloved for decades it was troubling on so many levels. >> laura: vince, your response to what we saw last night in melvin's comments? >> [static in audio]. i have not had this much fun in a long time watching will smith hit chris rock and watching 2 leftists going at it on national

television. to watch these 2 guys get up there and see this go as far as it went. [static in audio]. i have never seen a man get on tv and disrespect another man's wife in his face. hollywood has taken it too far. chris rock took it too far. he got dealt with. will smith took it too far and he is getting dealt with. we see this type of violence all the time. you have two things going on. a guy with no respect and then the collision. >> laura: the today show mentioned something else about will smith's history. >> i read will smith's autobiography. he describes himself as a coward. that was a poignant thing to say

out loud. >> laura: his background and the violence in his home, made him do it. >> the left never gets away from normalizing bad behavior. in this case they racialized it. there is no need for this. when i was a little kid my grandmother told me sticks and stones could break my bones but words could never hurt me. that's a lesson i lived for my entire life. that's a good lesson that will smith could have benefitted from. i will add it's not actually a cool thing to do to mock people for their medical conditions. i know we want to do a lot of things for a joke. we could find a lot to laugh

about without going in that particular direction. >> laura: vince, when we think about what happened to the culture in general, we are seeing on video people beating each other up in airports. the knockout game. pushing people from behind. we see people pushed in front of trains in new york. the most rank violence. it's glorified on social media. people say isn't this terrible as they watch it again and again. now two big stars. will smith beloved engaging in in conduct. >> yes. this is a harbinger. to see this happen in hollywood. these people tell us to how to be tolerant and nice to each and other lecture america. they are hypocrites and always

will be. we have to pray for them to it hopefully get better. >> laura: back to the point that young males and young african-american males fool like this is their stereotype. they feel like they can't get away from it. then this. this is another -- a slap in the face to them. people are trying to do a good job every day and work hard. then this. >> what is the most adult and responsible thing that could have happened last night. that would have been in will smith heard this joke or this comment and found it offensive, he and his wife could have stood up and walked out of the assembly. when they called his name to

announce he had won an oscar and he wasn't there, someone would have to explain that offensive joke created this problem. that's the way a mature adult behaves. this has nothing to do with race but it has to do with the left racializing behavior. how about everybody is capable of good behavior and bad behavior ought to be frowned upon. >> laura: wonderful to see both of you. did nancy pelosi just admit to a criminal past? the frozen "last bite" explains. . the fast way to bring it up to speed... is scotts turf builder rapid grass. it grows two times faster than seed alone for full, green grass. everything else just seems... slow. it's lawn season. let's get to the yard.

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