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♪ sweet old chicago ♪♪ ♪ ♪ >> laura: they started their stuff and after he left office the democrats kept returning to their obama nostalgia to hit trump. >> what does it mean to be cool? composed. >> you have the q? >> under control. never going out of style. the obamas have been the first family of cool since 2009. the first father of coal which is 47 years old when he took office and he showed off how a man from chicago by way of hawaii. >> laura: and now with the decrepit biden in the white house, the sell gets harder and harder. >> democrats of the party of the rising american majority, people of color, younger people. single women.

>> democrats of the party of getting things done. >> could you point to one thing the biden administration or you, democrats in control have done to deal with inflation? >> i can talk about what i have done and what i'm willing to do. >> laura: oh, can you? the polls show none of this is working. biden is taking a wrecking ball to the economy, the military and the border. his team of radicals is doing everything possible to give energy prices high and strengthened china's hand. in the man who needs a blue dot in the easter bunny telling him where to go doesn't exactly scream cool and the future. the future now includes elon musk running twitter and it is where ron desantis stands with parents and puts disney back on its heels. it's where fox dominates the competition and cnn plus closes a month after its launch party. the regime media, if honest, they are embarrassed by their puppet president.

they are even worried that conservatives are becoming cool. "new york times" columnist michelle goldberg is conceding that the left exudes an irritating progressive sanctimony, is grimly censorious, that the cultural energy is on the side of opposing wokeness. she goes on to quote author james pope who in "vanity fair" noted this new conservative movement has been quietly edgy and cool in new tech outposts like miami and austin and in downtown manhattan where new right politics are in. the signifiers like age of or cross necklace have become lockers of a transgressive sheik. now, where is my cross necklace? de mayor. leave it to liberals to misconstrue a crucifix. we all see what has always been true. in the modern era conservatives have always been the real rebel.

refusing to accept a cram down of policies and trends that don't work now and never worked before. after all, who are the ones rubber-stamping everything the teachers unions want? who are the ones giving biz business everything they ask for? who are the ones still wearing the risks outside because dr. fauci adores them. who goes along with whatever the gender identity crowd demands, who defends people like jussie smollett, the supposedly cool left, that's who. they are the ones bragging about muzzling nikki. >> last summer we removed all of the gender readings and relationship to our characters. we don't say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. we have provided training for all of our cast members in relationship to that so now they know it is hello, everyone. or hello, friends. >> laura: hello, friend.

we are the ones who knocked billions off disney stock price. they're the ones who won't do anything to fight for human rights except talk about it. but we are the ones who hit china with tariffs. it's very uncool to punch down, and that's all they do. they wage war against small businesses like cake shop owners with religious views. or a health club owners who try to survive the shutdowns. they target selfless gnomes like the little sisters of the poor. they fire beloved high school football coaches who pray after games. what do we do? we go after the multinational corporations and celebrity athletes who bully americans on social issues while they make billions by sucking up to china. we fight the sensors at big tech and the open borders anti-terror of cabal at the chamber of commerce. some of the worst people on earth are the westerners helping the ccp, including many of the old republican guard.

the new more populist conservatives like tom cotton, bill haggerty, josh hawley, they're not afraid to challenge our own leadership on these issues. who out there is actually standing up to goldman sachs and black rock as they build their portfolios in shanghai and beijing? it is not the woke left, i can tell you that. the big banks selling out their country and selling out freedom, they are the opposite of cool. it's where the modern left is. celebs present pretend to fight for the powerless but the truth is they are owned by the powerful. lebron james in china, leo dicaprio and his private jets. prince harry and meghan. opining about how grim the future looks from their montecito mansion. it's not cool to give people awards either for stuff they don't deserve but that's what liberals do all the time.

jon stewart received the mark twain award for american humor over the weekend after recent performances like this. >> the problem with white people. [cheers and applause] >> america has always prioritized white comfort over black survival. any real attempt to repair a ton of that damage. reparation. it sets off white people that they are coming for our [bleep]. >> laura: oh, my god, that was hilarious. today's rebels are the high school and college students questioning the anti-american tripe that they are being fed by radicals in the classroom and on campus. >> do you think the media acted inappropriately when they instantly dismissed hunter biden's laptop as russian misinformation? >> the mistakes of the mainstream media and cnn in

particular seem to magically all go in one direction. are we expected to believe this is all some sort of random coincidence? >> laura: now, those young people, they are risking their futures by just being out. that means they have rh. very cool. the left has such an inspiring young stable of leaders, we have to admit, like at yale law school where they disrupt a bipartisan free-speech event. >> yale has a policy of freedom of speech. [all speaking] >> laura: dumb is never cool but at least they have the millennials and mayor pete. >> we are about to take a test ride on one of washington, d.c.,'s electric buses. we are going to have a lot more where these came from. i'm excited to see it for

myself. it's a really important part of how people get through their daily commutes and it's part of the climate solution. >> laura: that was his charisma. our future stars really cool. they don't get standing ovations at the oscars with a standard basic decency for mothers and fathers. >> we believe parents not only have a role, they have a fundamental role to be involved in the education of their kids. that's how it's going to be in the state of florida. >> laura: of course it was cool when trump had the guts to take on the powerful globalist interest in his own party. trump showed us that putting america first actually works. despite the relentless attacks, the fraudulent investigations, he expanded the party with women and minorities. very cool. now with all the democratic failures mounting, all of the tds lectures by equally tedious personalities no wonder young people are fleeing the

democrat party. this is what we did in the 1980s. carter had a wrecked america. young people just said no way. to continuing this life of decline. so we voted for reagan. i even ended up working for him. even with shoulder pads and bad terms, we were the rebels back then, that is "the angle." joining me is the prager you personality and former left-wing activist as well as a rapper, author, and host of real talk. it seems to me we are seeing a fundamental shift unfolding. who holds the cards in politics and culture. your response to the angle? >> i agree with you. i don't think this whole revolution how things are changing is about being chic or passe, as that article road. i think it's about average american people looking at the state of this country right now looking at the wokeness that is largely a factor in why we are

living the way we are living on going i want to be comfortable. i want of my individual freedom. i don't want to be reduced down to things like my race, gender, sexuality. i certainly don't want that taught my kids. i want to run my business. i want to be able to have civil liberties and i want free-speech. it's just average normal people being fed up with the wokeness they are trying to shove down our throats and we are rising up and being open about that. >> laura: do you think the lockdowns, everything that came along with that also obviously the lecturers that we are constantly getting from the left, is that the tipping point. is that the purely economic nightmare unfolding for young people the tipping point. >> i don't think the tipping point is primarily economic. i think for the past several years we have slowly reached this time period where people who call themselves liberals not just of the usa but also in the u.k. and many other anglo

countries and western countries, they are no longer liberal. there is nothing liberal about wanting to enforce face coverings on people. there is nothing liberal against going against free speech. there is nothing liberal about censoring an deplatforming people. nothing liberal about facts mandates, lockdowns, and have it. so i think if people are in support of it, i don't think we should even be referring to them as liberal and they shouldn't be calling themselves not because that's not what the word means. it is supposed to be based in liberty. >> decades ago dinesh d'souza wrote a best-selling book called "a liberal education." it was way ahead of its time but that's what you're speaking to. what's happening with the twitter takeover. brian stelter and cnn is very worried with this whole musk situation. watch. >> based on the public statements it's clear he has very little understanding of the complexities that go into content moderation and hate speech policies and the like.

he is about to learn how it works. it might be a whole lot more completed than he realizes. >> laura: amala, what are they really worried about here? >> they are really worried about losing their ability to take a stronghold on the american mind and what you see and what you learn. twitter is a massive platform for this. they are using the platform to get their primary news sources and learn about what the state of the world isn't so far they have gotten a progressive, leftist woke iteration of our world and our country. they can do that anymore if elon takes the helm and they are scared of it and they can't say it out loud that they don't want you to have freedom of speech but that's exactly what he saying with those words. >> laura: zuby, getting back to your point about the antiliberalism of the democrat party, one of their favorite television host set msnbc, joy reid, has a rather fascinating theory about what musk's real goal is here.

>> they have been described as being on the outside of the culture looking in through the glass but they don't want to just come in. they want to come in to be able to punch people in the face and walk around and laugh about it and not have anyone be able to stop them. elon musk, i guess he misses the old south africa in the '80s. he wants that back. >> laura: zuby, does this work. isn't going to turn it around for them? >> these people are not serious. you can't play the racism card and the white supremacy card all day every day for decades upon end. it doesn't make sense. they've had this one hammer in the toolkit that they want to continuously use. each time it loses effectiveness if you're just going to go around and accused everything and everybody of being racist or make references to apartheid and things like that. it makes you look foolish because it has absolutely nothing to do with that and it's just a disparaging comment. i think that's the kind of stuff that turns people away from it.

when you have people who are more open-minded in the middle or more on the right side of the political spectrum, those people are going to be welcomed with open arms. i think this is a very foolish tactic on their part. >> laura: yeah. i'm surprised they keep doubling down on the same stuff that didn't work last week or last month or last year. but i guess because they have controlled college campuses for so long, amala, they think they can control the whole country but then they run into people like to stand as a abbott or kristi noem or bill lee in tennessee. like, we don't have to live this miserable life of everybody hating each other and everybody in their separate alphabet groups. you can just live in freedom and have a decent small business and raise your family and actually make a decent wage and have less crime. trumps policies showed that those things actually can be done. but they keep going back to the old toolkit, as zuby said,

nothing is working. >> exactly. they have tried so long to paint a caricature of our values and the policies we've advocated for and now people are finding out that they are actually successful. for so long, i was scared of coming out and saying you know what, i actually support conservative values and conservative policy because of the caricature that i had painted in my brain. but then you realize it's going to make your life better. you're going to actually have freedom. you're going to be able to start businesses to have a successful family and to live in this country and the mate was ashley it was meant to be lived in and then the policy doesn't look so good and they can't use things like white guilt and patriarchyt marginalized and oppressed people to trick you into being silent and full of guilt. people are standing up. they are not taking it. >> laura: fantastic conversation. thank you so much. >> we want to see ukraine remain a sovereign country, democratic country able to protect its sovereign territory. we want to see russia weekend to

the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done when it invaded ukraine. the first step in winning is believing you can win. they believe we can win. >> laura: we can win. is congress voting? has there been a declaration of war we are not aware of? what a telling slip of the tongue from the defense secretary yesterday while visiting kyiv. senior u.s. military officers at our facility in poland describing and accelerating logistical network for supplying weapons and materiel to ukraine as well as regional effort to increase troop levels and exercises with nato members along the lines of the eastern flank. what's going on here? john daniel davidson wrote "the biden administration is openly pursuing a policy of escalation in ukraine. it's hard to disagree with this assessment. good to see you.

the american people have made it pretty clear that they are done with wars of choice. as much as they emphasize with the horrors that are being perpetrated against ukrainian people. are we getting dragged into a war slowly but surely? >> i think that's exactly right and i think the slip of the tongue from secretary of defense lloyd austin was kind of saying the quiet part out loud. there are people and forces in the biden administration and in the government and especially in washington and both parties that would like the u.s. to get directly involved in this conflict. they are reasons of their own for wanting that. but they know they can't just come out and do it right away or declare war, that the american people aren't behind them. they're kind of slow walking us toward direct engagement. they are slow walking escalation. we are seeing it now with this visit from secretary of defense

and secretary of state antony blinken with the increasing complexity and advanced weapons and troop training that's going on. we are kind of being, we are being lulled into involvement in the war and i am afraid it's going to get much, much more obvious in the weeks to come. >> laura: well, billions and billions and billions of dollars not going to enforcing our border, that's for sure. the state department is basically echoing what austin said, john. maybe even in more stark terms. watch. >> not only will ukraine emerge sovereign and independent when this is over but moscow will emerge weaker. as long as moscow escalates, we will escalate this type of aggression can't be repeated. whether that's in days, weeks, or months or years from the conclusion of these hostilities. >> laura: john, how is this actually a working policy when

moscow escalates, we will escalate. peace through strength? i don't think so. attempt to rally everyone around the flag but that doesn't seem to be working either. >> it only makes sense if you understand that what he saying here is that we are going to get increasingly involved in this war and increasingly we are going to escalate our involvement to the point that we are actually participants in the war. something secretary of state blinken said back in march. he laid out a kind of policy vision for an end state in ukraine that saw ukraine with all of its territory intact and russian forces totally withdrawn. russia humiliated and defeated. maybe even putin out of power. it was a reckless thing for him to say about another great power, the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. we can all be synthetic with the plight of the ukrainian people pair we can all recognize that

russia is at fault in this aggry started but we have to be smart about how we talk about this and the real steaks that we have here and be realistic about what the end state is, we are really going to look -- make u.s. policy the total defeat and humiliation of russia in this war? we really think. >> laura: i will add. well, i think we also have to add we are enriching china. we are going to drop tariffs against china. enriching china and china is basically paying russia. think about that. china is buying from russia. russia is attacking ukraine and we are puffing our chest out as we enrich china. none of it makes any sense. thank you for this piece. new polling revealing that the giant red flag for joe biden, not just in the battleground states, but in deep blue ones as well. oh, my gosh. how bad could this be? victor davis hanson and tom bevan have some thoughts next.

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♪ ♪ >> laura: now to our new series "how low will joel go? survey showed biden's leading support from coast to coast in fact. underwater by double digits in 33 states. this can even be true, including

battlegrounds arizona, pennsylvania, and georgia. there is more. the bidens net approval fell by 30 points among independents in michigan. this is wild. 33 points among independents in georgia and minnesota. to add insult to injury, he's only plus two approval in deep blue illinois. he is underwater in my home state, connecticut, and in new jersey. joining me now victor davis hanson, hoover institution senior fellow. tom bevan. real clear politics. i've been saying for a number of years because i remember reagan i believe ended his 1980 campaign or close to and did it in new york. i think it was in the bronx. is it far-fetched to think that the g.o.p., given the state of things, could truly pursue a 50 state strategy? >> well, i mean, i think some of

the state might still be a little bit out of reach. look at places like hawaii and vermont where biden still has majority support in his approval rating. but your point, laura, i am in illinois. there's a governors race here and it's one that nobody's even really talking about. if biden's approval rating is as low as it is and there is anger brewing out there among the electorate, you may see some races like that where democrats and states -- you think the state might go down and you might see in the senate races we are talking about georgia and arizona. not really talking about colorado where michael bennet is up for reelection or even patty murray in washington. if biden's approval is really that low, are democrats really going to run and be able to outpace his job approval by 15, 18, 20 points in order to win reelection? i don't think they all will. i think some will fall short. >> laura: i think ken griffin,

billionaire, gave the aurora mayor 20 million bucks. this is going to be a hot race and we are all watching it. victor, former republican charlie psych, fascinating character, he has some advice for democrats in the midterms. >> this election needs to be more than just a referendum on legislation that they passed. they have to make it into a choice. they have to tell the american people look, you might not tell pollsters that democracy is at the top of your list but these people are crazy and they are dangerous. put crazy and dangerous and seditious on the ballot. >> laura: it's like a cartoon character at this point but victor, we have heard this suggestion from others that the new conservatives are scary. does this resonate? >> they got everything they wanted, laura. they got to the border. they got inflation. that was due to their policies.

they wanted higher gas prices. they got out of afghanistan. they wanted critical relation polar theory. the problem is nobody wanted it and it has almost destroyed the country now they are surveying the landscape and they are looking for these subtle indications of hope and there is none there. you've got the world's richest man, may be the world's most creative individual and he is playing the role of ronald reagan, elon musk. tear down this wall, silicon berry. they are on the side of monopolies and censorship. they are afraid it's could spread. what happened to netflix or c-span are disney or the virginia elections are san francisco or the latino polls and they are seeing this whole facade crumble. they don't know where the bottom is. they are not going to change. these problems were self-induced. they know they were self-induced. they do not want to change. they are ideologues. they would rather go down into feet and be politically correct than be politically incorrect and win. there is no bottom because people are fed up. they are going to vote and a lot

of their constituents are going to vote against them. you're not going to see something like 1992 or 2010. you could see 1932, 1936 cycle. they have alienated everybody. everybody. they don't have a solution. they have no leader, like bill clinton, as you said, or barack obama, that has charisma that can lift up their unpopularity as a party or ideology. they have joe biden. kamala harris is an adolescent. they are not going to have any help. they are force multipliers of unpopularity. >> laura: it turns out that confidence matters and if you just pick your cabinet, most of them at least, on the basis of how a college campus picks a dean of students. diversity, equity, inclusion. a lot of the folks had no

background or no talent in their area of focus. so you have people like pete buttigieg transportation. i worked at transportation as the lead speechwriter in 1988, okay. it's a complicated agency. he knows nothing about transportation. okay but he makes cool little videos about electric buses and everyone is supposed to go oh, great, mayor pete. nobody cares. yet that's the policies they pursued and to victor's point, they are just going to die on these hills of diversity, equity, and inclusion. racism everywhere. lgbtq. it's going to go down the line and they are not going to stop. i don't see any pivot point from the democrats. >> it certainly doesn't seem like that and the real problem is, inflation is by an order of magnitude the most important issue in the election and it comes across. you see biden is failing among young voters, failing among hispanics. failing among independents. it's all because they are not addressing the main issue on the minds of voters.

they are concerned about other things. they don't seem to be organizing any sort of strategy to combat that. inflation is something, the first time you fill up your gas tank and it is $6 a gallon. it might be shocking but the tenth time you do that, it's a compounding effect. it makes people more anxious and more angry the longer it goes on. there is no end in sight at this point. >> laura: talking about january 6 isn't working for them either. victor and tom, thank you. we have a clue. tonight's wits' end segment is becoming very popular. the answer will be revealed at the end of the show but here's a clue and you have to treat me your answer. which disastrous policy is a former president still defending. treat your guesses and we will see if you get it right. but alarming medical trend coming up. hepatitis outbreaks are being blamed both on covid lockdowns and the vaccine.

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>> what lessons should they draw? >> she is boosted, twice boosted. we have a very, very contagious variant out there. it is going to be hard to ensure that no one gets covid in america. >> laura: do you mean it's like a coronavirus? okay. add vice president kamala harris to the growing list of democratic heavy hitters to come down with covid over the past couple weeks. fortunately like pelosi, garland, jen psaki and the other democrats, she is largely asymptomatic but the outbreak among icons on the left is in the most confounding part. it has something to do with joe biden. >> president biden is not considered a close contact of house speaker nancy pelosi who herself announced today she has tested positive for covid. >> white house press secretary

jen psaki reporting she has tested positive for covid. she said she was not in close contact with the president. >> vice president was not a close contact of the president. >> laura: does anyone else find this slightly alarming. considering this for a secondary speaker the house, e.g., white house press secretary and now the vice president. none of them were in close contact with the president of the united states? what? it might be worth asking, who is in close contact with the president of the united states and where are they keeping joe? besides dr. jill and ron klain, does he come into close contact with anyone on a daily basis? we will endeavor to find an answer to that keep you updated. now to a truly alarming story. sudden outbreaks of hepatitis and children they may have been brought on by covid lockdowns weakening immunity to what is a normal virus. there have been 169 cases and

one death of acute hepatitis of unknown origin found in 12 countries including 11 right here in the united states. what's driving this question are joining us to discuss is cardiologist and epidemiologist dr. peter mccullough. doctor, what have you learned regarding this hepatitis issue with kids and lockdowns and these spikes? >> this is hepatitis or acute liver inflammation. children develop fever, abdominal pains, lethargy, jaundice. the blood tests are easy to employ, to diagnose acute hepatitis. in a report by colleagues, 13 children in scotland all hospitalized. one needed a liver transplant. five had covid-19 implicated around the time of the diagnosis of hepatitis but there are always other viruses involved, namely adenovirus, or other

viruses. we need to know what is their covid-19 status question what have they had covid-19? have they been exposed to the covid-19 vaccine? we know reports from outside the united states and elsewhere that the adenovirus in particular can be found along with the little virus in sewer, water, food supply. so we need the cdc to apply efforts, there excellent outbreak investigation efforts to opposing their -- as opposed to burning the time on energy and advice mass mandates. >> laura: this new study that found that covid vaccination can elicit what is called a distinct t cell dominant immune mediated hepatitis associated with vaccination induced tissue immunity. explain what the heck that means. >> we have reports that have

basically demonstrated that covid-19 vaccination can trigger an acute hepatitis of a variety of mechanisms. one being autoimmune. the fatal case that was reported was reactivation of hepatitis c and an elderly individual. despite -- the spike protein in the illness and then super loaded in the vaccines could be the culprit. >> laura: well, dr. mccullough, we keep hearing more about the mandates, the vaccines for kids, boosters, including another booster perhaps being required next fall for new colleges and universities. things keep getting worse on that front but thank you for being here tonight. up next, a scandal. a chinese company aligned with the ccp, aren't they all, in the process of purchasing one of the most iconic financial brands in

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♪ ♪ >> laura: why is china targeting for a takeover at one

of the most iconic names in american financial media? why is biden's treasury department just letting it happen? last august, forbes came to a business cooperation agreement to be acquired by a chinese company called magnum opus. february 2021, magnum opus was formed and on march 25, it received its initial seed money from the china investment corporation. that's an official financial arm of the chinese government. two days after receiving his money from cic, magnus opus met with forbes representatives. if that wasn't bad enough, the proxy statement states prc governmental authorities may seek to intervene or influence such companies operations at any time that the government deems appropriate to further its regulatory, political, and societal goals. here is florida representative

michael waltz. congressman, i like to say this is shocking to me but given how much land china is allowed to buy in the united states, food companies they bought in the united states. why isn't anyone in the biden administration even slightly expressing concern over any of this? >> well, laura, as you know, the chinese communist party seeks to replace the united states as a global leader. they are doing it by compromising every aspect of american society. they have done it with wall street, with hollywood, with the sports industry, with our politics, with academia. now they are going after media and they are doing it through acquisition and the thing is the treasury department has the power to stop it. and so the explanation i am demanding is one, are you investigating it? the committee for foreign investment in the u.s. to

protect our critical infrastructure, like telecommunications and media. or secretary yellen of the treasury department are you not investigating and why? >> laura: at this point is going to be either capitalism, congressman, or the chinese way of doing business. which is filled with control, and demands for certain speech, to block certain speech. it's not like their goal is to let the united states continue to go on its merry way and have a strong economy again into all the things we did under trump. that's not what they want. they want to sew down to the capitalist system. that's what the goal is. forbes would be a great way to do that. >> that's absolutely right. they have what's called a leak capture. we have seen that in spades with hunter biden, the son of the vice president, where they seek to compromise on that influence and use influencers or people in powerful positions. the other piece of it is they

seek to control platforms that reach the american people. forbes reaches millions. it is seen as an icon of capitalism. so then they will have a platform and they say it in their sec documents that will soft peddle their human rights abuses, soft pedal their military buildup, soft pedal of the fact that they are buying up things like both sides of the panama canal, an entire electric in countries through their debt diplomacy and then trash the united states as, in president xi's own words, he seeks to replace the american dream with the china dream and supplant the united states and they are going to do it through propaganda and they are going to do through using our greed against us. i am sick and tired of these corporations selling out, lecturing us about social justice, and then selling out. the hypersonic missile going after an american aircraft carrier, it should say "provided

and bought by larry from black rock and wall street and all of them." we have to stand up and call it out and enough is enough. >> laura: you bet. speaking of blackrock. apparently although some financial institutions are being spooked, congressman, by these locked out, they are shocked that you have a month-long lockdown in shanghai of 26 million people. shocking to them. reuters is reporting that nevertheless goldman sachs is looking to add close to ten jobs in shanghai. they are building other operation. blackrock is adding around 20 to its head count already there. the industry's growth moves resulted, many bankers, traders, fund managers at the same time are moving from hong kong to other centers, to shanghai. those dreams now appeared to be in peril, some of these other companies are picking up and moving over to hong kong where there is no freedom as well. you would think that goldman and blackrock at some point will put their money where their mouth

is. >> this is what happens when you make a deal with dictatorships and a deal with the devil. how about we default dictatorships. how about a little bit of corporate patriotism? at the end of the day. they sell what they reap on this one, laura. >> laura: congressman, thank you. we'll be continuing to follow it. next, our wits' end segment. see it motions about we just talked about. here is a clue. which disastrous foreign policy decision is a former president still defending tonight? it's an economic and foreign policy decision. tweet your answer @ingrahamangle and we will see if you get it right. ust growing. i feel kinder, when nature is so kind to me. find more ways to grow with miracle-gro.

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>> laura: which disastrous policy is a former president still defending? catch and release. obamacare. >> if i had denied them access to the wto which i could have done, would it have been better?

i don't know. saying i'd be better off keeping them out. my theory was always we should work for the best and prepare for the worst. and the chinese thought i was being too tough on them. >> laura: china has now a massive trade surplus with the united states. $355 billion deficit. >> greg: happy, glorious tuesday. what an amazing tuesday. congrats to tyrus who woke up to a number one book on amazon. leanne congrats to kat who woke up to a booking at rikers island. >> so mean. >> greg: i know. to the insane media response over elon musk buying twitter. even brian stelter was pulling his heroine. how to use tweezers but now his back is as smooth as a baby's bottom. i've never seen so many opinions