because it is for the people. we have to make sure that we protect it at home. >> laura: in the swamp defense. didn't congress just pass a stock sales ban? no. >> we have a statement criticizing the democratic leadership for not calling up the stock bill. >> i'm strictly focused on winning the next election. i don't know what her statement is. >> [question inaudible] >> you have to have the votes to bring it up. we'll see. we don't go from one day to the next. >> laura: i have to call paul. the bill is still stuck on pelosi's desk. why? could it have anything to do with the fact that they've got ten very, very rich during her time in office? of course not. no wonder people are so cynical

about government today. no wonder the democrats are in freak-out mode over the possibility of a trump second term. remember, he's already pledged a top-down reform of the civil service. he wants it all cleaned up and cleaned out of political bias and favoritism. now imagine that. a government that actually advances the president's policies. you know, the guy that was elected. no. not if it's a conservative like trump or anyone else like him. in that case, the democrats believe the role of the civil service is to torpedo his or her policies. resist, resist, resist you must. now this is what democrats truly believe. it's time we had a new sheriff in town, my friends. >> we're going to drain the swamp, we're going to save our country. we're going to drain that damn swamp. i did a hell of a job, but that sucker is deep. >> laura: this time it means

really draining the swamp. we pay the salaries of government employees. why they have job security and they have salary guarantees, not the case is it for the rest of america? consider what has happened to the real median income for american families. now, in 2010 during the tea party election, real median household income was $63,000. in 2019 after pelosi won the speakership and the 2018 mid-terms and before her policies kicked in, real median household income was $72,808. that was all under trump, but under biden, by 2021, the democrats had brought real median household income back down to $70,784. it will no doubt fall further this year and next. so house republicans, they did well from 2010 to 2018.

and the house democrats have simply staggered from one disaster to the next. but the regime media, they don't want you to know these facts. they want you to know about imaginary issues or things that have zero effect on your day-to-day life. they don't have anything to run on. we covered this. hot air from old wind bags like norm orenstein that wrote if republicans capture a majority, they will make the tea party group look like milk toast moderates. the prospect of default with extended government shut downs and disruptions and a hamstrung administration will loom large. fear mongering. that's all they have. yet the real fears of real americans about inflation, energy prices, crime, they go unaddressed and unacknowledged. the swamp creatures may have breathed a sigh of relief in

election 2020 but they should be getting nervous about now. that's the angle. joining me now is josh hawley. good to have you on tonight, senator. what is the solution here? i have a lot of friends that are chattering in my ear day in and day out. they say look, we want the republicans to win, but republicans, when they get into power, they tend to punt these big issues and government never gets cut. what are we going to see? >> well, i think what we've seen, laura, in the last two years, we've gotten a close look at the corruption that is in our government. whether we're talking about the finn, doj or whether we're talking about the self-dealing that you have just outlined. republicans need to get serious ant rooting out this corruption. it has got to be priority number 1. by the way, congress can start with itself. you want to talk about self-dealing in how about congress pass an actual stock trading ban, which is what i propose. if republicans want to lead,

this is something that they should run on. this is something that we should pledge to do. let's get it done. once we ban stock trading among members of congress, let's turn to doj, let's turn to the fbi, let's have a top to bottom review of what's going on at these corrupt agencies. it's time to give this government back to the american people. it's not going to happen unless we root out the corruption. >> laura: you raise the dod, this is like the sub about which we can never speak if we're republicans. you can never cut the department of defense. you can never cut military spending because you're anti-military. i've called this out, senator. i think it's time for republicans to get real on this issue. there's enormous waste, fraud and abuse across government including at the pentagon where we spend most of our money in the budget at least. do you agree? >> well, you know, listen, look at the pentagon. look what they spent the money on.

it's woke policies in the military. they're in the midst of a major recruiting crisis, which is terrible and dangerous to the country. why is that the case? it's because they're forcing critical race theory, this wokism across the military. they're spending taxpayer dollars to do it. there shouldn't be a dime spent on this crt nonsense. so yeah, there needs to be a top and bottom review. it's the corruption that i'm talking about and republicans need to lead on it. >> laura: here's one of d.c.'s biggest swamp creatures, congressman jamie raskin who is ranting about the prospect of holding these government bureaucrats accountable for bias. watch. >> professional civil servants must be able to do their jobs without fear of retaliation and discharge for political reasons.

the previous administration attempted to turn our civil service, mr. speaker into a top-down political and idealogical party machine. the 50,000 civil servants deemed to be involved in formulating policy could have been swept up in a schedule f political purge. >> laura: senator, spear sweating a review of the civil service. this is at a time when most government employees are still not back in the office. they're not even here. >> by the way, that review of the civil service needs to happen, laura. we need to look at what is happening in the civil service. you want to talk about politicizing the civil service? look at this administration. look what they have done to the fbi. look what they have done to the department of justice. the fact that they're conducting raids on pro life catholic demonstrators to what? make a point. look what they have done to parents. sending the fbi to their doors if they go to school board

meetings and complain. you want to talk about politicizing things? this is the corruption that needs to be investigated, that needs to be rooted out. finally, i say this. let's not forget who told fbi whistle-blowers not to come forward. it was merrick garland that sent a memo out to doj employees and say don't talk to congress. you have to go through me. that's not the law. talk about double standards, it's double standards all around. that's why republicans have to make an anti corruption agenda number 1. >> laura: and it should being asy by agency. no one spared. >> absolutely. we need to look at what they're doing with taxpayer money, look at what they're doing in terms of pushing the woke policies, the self-dealing in terms of the stock trading. all of it needs to be on the table. if americans sent republicans back to congress in majorities and i think they will, this is what they're electing us to do, to protect the people's

interests and to stand up for them. >> laura: senator, great to see you. thank you. there's a few more cowardly actors in modern american politics than mitt romney. let me explain. in the 2012 republican primary, senator mike lee went out on a limb and he became the first member of the tea party caucus to support mitt romney's bid for the nomination to return the favor, romney is now the only gop senator who hasn't endorsed lee's re-election citing his relationship with lee's opponent. independent candidate and professional grifter, evan mcmullen. now, what does that hold out produce? a flurry of puff pieces. >> evan mcmullen is asking people from both parties to join his campaign to win a senate seat as an independent from utah. >> our democracy is at great risk right now. we will decide as a nation over the next two cycles, this cycle

and the next whether we're a democracy or head down the report of authoritarianism. >> laura: now, mcmuffin is a champion of democracy. he's the plucky underdog. not the guy whose wayward 2016 independent bid resulted in 670,000 in unpaid bills. >> mcmullen says he understands the challenge but urges voters to see his allegiance is to utah, not a political party. >> i'm not running to be a boot liquor for the leader of any party or president of any party. i will work with anybody to get things done for our state and country. >> laura: i was expecting there jeff and mcmuffin to go full spooning. >> senator lee was willing to sacrifice our constitution and his oath to it in order for him and his allies, donald trump and his other political allies to hold on to power.

>> would you say he violated the constitution and the law? >> i think he violated his oath certainly and violated the constitution. >> if you're number 1 issue is defending policy, you won't build a coalition with the republican senators. >> laura: i don't know who that person is, but enjoy the fruit of you cowardest, mittedens. newted, i supported romney in 2012. i always liked him personally. but this trump derangement syndrome has really revealed a lot about the establishment and what they really stood for all along, has it not? >> well, it's particularly dumb for a republican senator to not be endorsing a republican senator. there's no question that mcmullen will vote with the democrats. all of this nonsense about being independent, that's just baloney.

the way the senate and the house work, you ultimately end up with a party. bernie sanders is technically an independent. however, he meets with the democrats. that's a fact. angus king of maine is technically an independent. he meets with the democrats. if mcmullen wins, it's a vote for schumer and a vote nor biden. it's that straightforward. while romney would vote or fail to pursue helping his colleague keep a republican majority, which is where they're drifting now towards a majority and utah will be one of the great surprises if we lost it, furthermore, senator lee is a constitutional scholar a solid conservative and somebody who by any reasonable standard has earned the support of every republican in the country. so i'm puzzled by romney's confusion about his own future. >> laura: speaking of failures of the democrats and republicans that don't seem to understand how important they are for the

country and recognize, newted, we just learned late today that the act test scores, tests that kids take to get into college, they dropped to the lowest level in 30 years in the pandemic slide. that is a total indictment, is it not, of democrat governors, mayors, teacher's unions that kept these schools closed. at this point, tantamount to child abuse. we still have republicans like romney trying to keep the status question going. >> look, the fact is the greatest threat to american long-term national security is the collapse of our education system. the department of education under biden is looking at very radical positions on transgenderism, on imposing on kids all sorts of things that don't relate to learning. they don't teach you how to do math. they don't teach you how to read or write.

they have all of these strange weird ideas that they're trying to impose. the fact is, this is really a deep national security crisis. it goes all the way back to president reagan who issued a report in 1983, called a nation at risk that set up a foreign power did to our children what the schools are doing, we would consider it an act of war. i think we have to recognize the teacher's unions have towed out totally. their results are disastrous. they're very expensive and yet they're not producing. nobody wants to go out and have the kind of reforms that we need. in some states, florida, arizona, you're seeing real change putting parents back in charge. i think that's frankly going to be the future to what betsy devos called education freedom. more than just school choice. a freedom to find out how your child learns and whether it's an

apprenticeship or online or in a charter school, or whatever. that will be one of the biggest fights for our survival as a country. >> laura: fantastic, newt. great to see you. thank you. speaking of control of the senate that we were talking about, the left's response to john fetterman's very disturbing interview with nbc. it was president a question whether he could actually really serve, but whether to attack the reporter that just asked basic questions. fetterman's opponent, dr. mehmet oz is here next. he will respond. the new allegations that fetterman made against him. stay there. pas patch reported reductions in pain severity, using less or a lot less oral pain medicines. and improved quality of life. that's why we recommend salonpas. it's good medicine.

>> laura: now if you want to watch the teamwork between the democrats and the big wash dogs in our media, look at the reaction nbc's interview with john fetterman. remarkably the reporter conducted an interview. she admitted that fetterman was using closed captions to help guide him through the actual interview. >> closed captioning technology to help with the auditory processing interviews. will this impact how you do your

job? will you need accommodations on the senate floor? >> i feel like i'm going to get better and better every day. by january, i'm going to be much better and dr. oz is still going to be a fraud. >> laura: so congrats to fetterman's consultants for coming up with that line. we have a lot of serious questions here. how can a man struggling to process conversations in real time actually meaningfully participate in the u.s. senate? even if we assume he can walk to the floor and read a speech in how do you engage in negotiations that are heated and complex in a lot of senate business is behind close doorsed when there's a lot of horse trading that goes on to pass legislation. how you make a deal if you can't understand what the other person is saying or does everyone have to carry about a closed caption screen to talk to him? i'm not sure what he expects.

the commonwealth of pennsylvania gets two senators. my question is shouldn't they both be capable of fully representing the voters, especially in these troubling times? our press, they're not interested in any of these issues. instead, they're interesting in helping chuck schumer remain as the leader in the senate. so they just circle the wagons. msnbc says how is this different than madison kawthorn needing a wheelchair or many senators needing hearing aids? we're talking about someone who appears unable to do the job. let's be really cheer here. if you can't go behind closed doors with some of the toughest negotiators in washington and hold your own with no staff to help you, then you can't do the job of representing pennsylvania

in the united states senate. your just another rubber stamp for biden and schumer. pennsylvania deserves better. the press is not going to give up. kirsten powers added the ablism being directed at john fetterman is a problem. having auditory issues and needing a device to understand people is not and should not be a disqualifying factor. again, this is complete nonsense. it's embarrassing. the question is not whether he can see or hear or even stand, the question is whether he has a medical condition that will prevent him from being an effective senator. if we had a real press that was interested in looking out for the best interests of the american people instead of circling the wagons for the democrats, they would ask that question. instead, they're another wing of the dnc. now, the outcry reached such a fevered pitch about this that

the reporter, mrs. burns, had to go on "the today show" to defend her interview. only to find herself under attack from old savannah guthrie. >> other journalists that dealt with fetterman said they had a different experience. >> our team was the first to be in the room with fetterman for an interview rather than a remote video conference. our crew saw the small talk was difficult because of the auditory processing issues. >> laura: here's the bottom line. savannah guthrie and the rest of the media literally don't care if fetterman can do the job or not. they don't care about that. they care that he's a democrat. that he's going to do what he's told. that's what they care about. poor miss burns has been taught a lesson. do not try to do the thing called practicing journalism around democrats.

so it's up to you, pennsylvanians. do you want to give new york a third senate seat by letting chuck schumer have one of your votes? or would you rather send dr. oz, a self-made man that has the capacity to fight eloquently? argue eloquently for your interests? here now is fetterman's republican challenger, dr. mehmet oz. dr. oz, you heard fetterman in one of those clips saying he will be fine by january. i know you're not a neurologist, you haven't treated him, looked at his files. but has there been in your mind in what you have seen marked improvement in the intervening period after his stroke to the moment where he was sitting with that nbc reporter? >> well, first off, i do have some experience with what he's going through. he has heart failure and the stroke which he's acknowledged. i have compassion for what it's like to cope with those conditions.

that stated, that is really about the voters. the transparency that they deserve to make a decision for the united states senate. and for this entire campaign, i've been trying to find out as has the voters who he really is. he seems to be hiding a radical agenda and he is radical, that's a separate issue, or he's hiding his health. now he's refused his medical records to be released, he refused probably a dozen times in this interview, the first in-person interview that he's done. is he improving or not? i don't know. nobody knows. we weren't given any kind of insights to what happened to him in his initial illness that can guy us. i think it's important to be aware that a lot of what's going on in this race is people hiding the truth. that's the opposite of what we want in a democracy. you want your candidates out there asking and answering questions, you want the voters to quiz us. you want to take questions from reporters and gaggles and groups. unrehearsed, in person ideally.

you want to debate each other. he stalled debating me until the very end of this campaign what is happening is money the pouring in to protect john fetterman. if you're upset about this, go to droz.com. we have 27 days to go i have to keep matching him so we can tell our versions of what's going on. the concern i have about john fetterman is about transparency. that's something that democrats, independents and republicans we can all agree on. we should have the ability to judge who we're voting on, what you stand for and an illness that we should know about and we can decide if it's important to us. >> laura: fetterman made a serious charge against you, dr. oz. watch. >> with dr. oz as a doctor has chosen to mock that or to make light of it or to say things that i just don't understand how a doctor, you know, would want somebody sick to remain to be sick and celebrating missing

words and having made fun of. >> laura: dr. oz, he's clearly playing the victim and essentially saying you're being mean. >> it's preposterous. i've been saying what i just said to you, that i do have compassion for the challenges he's facing. you have to applaud john fetterman for fighting through this. the reason they're panicking in the fetterman camp, we're closing the polls. we're talking about kitchen table issues. i talk about safe streets and secure borders and making sure we don't have fentanyl pouring in and lowering tax. he's not paid his 67 times, by the way. reducing inflation. john fetterman is a no-show. he missed most of his meetings as a major. he went through 1/3 of the senate meetings as lieutenant governor. he's not showed up on the campaign trail and he takes positions that are difficult to defend with a high crime rate and inflation run amuck. >> laura: i'm sorry to butt in here, but isn't it the case that you had three police officers

shot in philly yesterday? he's buddies with the state attorney there, right? the d.a. who has been terrible on the crime issue. as far as we know, fetterman agrees with his positions, permissive towards crime and criminals. >> he's doubling down on the prosecutor in philadelphia. it's led to a murder rate that is the high nest history. we had our 1,000th carjacking this week. fetterman opposes bail. he's tried to get dozens of people out of jail. if you're upset about it, go to droz.com. we have the answers. but fetterman has to be transparent with what he's stands for. >> laura: thanks, dr. oz. thepresident spin as new tall tail as "the new york times" calls out his old ones. raymond arroyo is here with the details. seen and unseen is next.

>> laura: it's time for seen and unseen segment where we explore the stories behind the headlines. for that, we turn to the author of "the wisemen that found christmas" out night.raymond arroyo. >> at a firemen's event yesterday, this was the tale spun literally. >> lightning struck in a pond behind my home in to the air conditioning system. ended up generating thick black smoke literally of those proportions. from the basement to the third floor, the attic, everything was ruined. the kitchen floor, we almost lost a couple of firefighters they tell me. >> they who? who told you? the truth is, it was a small kitchen fire, laura, that was out in 20 minutes. we have the article. >> laura: my granddad told my,

joey, when you have a fire extinguisher handy, don't forget to pull the pin. >> the stories and shifts in identity. he's been a coal miner's grandson, an arrested civil rights activist. none of which is true. nobody of this is new, by the way. a few weeks ago biden tried to pass himself off as being raised in the puerto rican community of delaware when he was taking time off from being jewish. >> i probably went more than you did on saturday and sunday. you think i'm kidding. i'm not. >> anybody that has to say i'm not kidding is probably not telling the god's honest truth. it erodes confidence in everything he says. that's the problem. >> laura: raymond, they're his verbal crutches. like if he forgets where he is in a sentence, he always says, i don't have -- i don't want to get into that right now. he forgets where he is on the

list of things he's talking about. today biden told this whopper in colorado. >> i said this as a father of a man that won the bronze star and lost his life in iraq. >> that is so sad. beau biden did not die in iraq. he died of brain cancer at home. the conflation and the expansion of these stories, even the new york times finally getting wise. they acknowledge that biden spins yarns that often unravel. we might call that pandering and lying. but we're not going -- >> laura: are you sure he was talking about his son there? was he -- >> he was talking about beau, as the father of a son that died in iraq. when did that happen? >> laura: the kicker is called out by "the new york times." he goes on with jake tapper to talk about climate change and throws out numbers. >> we passed $368 billion of

help which as the same bankers talk about will bring billions -- trillions -- billion dollars off of the sidelines in investment. >> billion, trillion, zillion. he sound like an auction near. what i found curious is jake tapper, he books the president of the united states, gives him 15 minutes and then he gist the rock nearly the same amount of time. maybe it makes sense. he had to explore the deep political message of the rock's new black adam super hero movie. >> also this theme about how westerners have no right to impose their views or decisions on conduct. there's not an anti colonialism theme that i have never seen before in a super hero movie. >> thank you for pointing that out. i feel like we tried to add as many layers as possible.

>> we do we care about the back story of this super hero? who goes to a movie to get a political message? anti-colonialist? this is about pushing the rock to run for president. he took a pass for now. >> laura: is jake trying to do the larry king thing? >> the open collar look. >> laura: it's an endearing thing. you think he gave joe 15 or was he supposed to give joanne hour and then they had to cut it's because joe was getting -- >> very likely. >> laura: a little lost. >> before i let you go, raymond, your picture book, "the wisemen who found christmas". tell us about the book. >> this is the true story of the wisemen. they were not kings. they were not from the far east. that's all a legend and may have been more than three of them. the historic reality of their journey, where it started in arabia, turns out to be a high

stakes adventure and i kind of assembled what i learned for the whole family. when you bring the magi into focus, the one that they sought becomes more real as well. i have a virtual signing tomorrow, all the details are at ray raymondarroyo.com. i think you're joining me on a couple of these clandestined visits. >> laura: it's an interesting tour when it's clandestine. i'll show up. >> you are, not the tour. >> laura: congratulations. awesome. as the state of california targets docs for telling the truth about covid, wait till you hear what we learned about one of the medical cartel's favorite new drugs. that is next.

>> this is a new viral platform, the mrna vaccine platform. we're not sure it's going to work especially since it's not geared to go after native immunity. it's an anti body response. >> it's not medically indicated. they have less to protect you from other people. >> the schools are actually not even a controversial issue in my

view. it's irrefutable that children have low risk from this disease much less than seasonal flu. there's serious harms to children from closing schools. >> laura: correct, correct, correct. the show that you're watching now, the angle, never blindly followed unelected medical bureaucrats. we asked questions and put on smart people. we didn't care about what was being forced on us. a new law in california seeks to target doctors for raising these questions. it reads in a doctor disseminates information about covid and the development and safety and effectiveness of vaccines, that doctor could face discipline from the state board or lose his or her license to practice in california. joining me now is a ph.d. research scientist. dr. hamadi, who decides what

constitutes disinformation given how many has changed from 2020 to today just as it relates to covid? >> well, according to this law, ab 2098 that gavin newsome signed into law, he does. his state medical board, which is run by a trial lawyer does. it's not a panel of physicians or peer-reviewed journal experts. it's not a panel of people elected by the citizens for this purpose and it's not a predefined list of medical facts that has been vetted. it's whatever they want it to be and it can change. it's like having a speed limit that changes every day and is not posted and you have to guess what it is. it's impossible to follow. >> dr. hemmati, the fda approved can covid boosters targeting omicron for kids as young as 5 years of age. here's how biden's covid czar reacteded to that. >> here's what we know. we know vaccines have made a tremendous impact on keeping

kids healthy. i'm going to gets my 10-year-old, the new updated covid vaccine and encourage every parents i know to do the same. >> should kindergarteners be getting this booster, dr. hemmati? >> great question, laura. i'm not the physician for the kindergarteners of the nation. i have no place to make that decision for them. the decision that needs the be made for each individual kid is what is the risk, what is the potential benefit and what is the need. right now many argue that the case deaths are near zero, the need is near zero. kids don't -- >> laura: i'm not trying to poke you here, dr. hemmati. we already know this. we knew this with the lombardi data that came out in february and march of 2020. that the risk factors are usually two and three comorbid dids, the average age of death in that early italian data was about 79.5 years of age.

so why are we doing this to the kids? if you question that, you're going to lose your state license potentially? what is the heck is that? >> that's what it is. this is a way of censoring people, forcing compliance and a way of control. this is not just about covid. covid is almost gone. this almost sounds like a trial balloon to see how far they can get with restricting first amendment speech and thought, to see whether they can get away with it. once they do that they can do to it media and private individuals. >> laura: dr. hemmati, here's another one -- scientific review article that said that paxlovid that was used to treat fauci can cause deadly blood clots when coupled with heart disease meds. dr. hemmati, paxlovid.

your reaction. >> we know any drug has side effect. especially a combo of two different drugs which makes it's more likely to have interactions with other drugs will have these sorts of issues. the problem is that paxlovid didn't have these phase 1, 2-3 trials. it was rushed to market. they skipped a lot of studies. what we're learning about that drug and its safety is largely based on post marketing data. what does that mean? people that are getting it in real world usage and then we find out through them. >> laura: adverse reactions. dr. hemmati, great to see you tonight. thank you. liberal sport reporters don't get the sound bite they want. the last bite will show you when we come back.

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