rick scott they will join us. that's thursday 9:00 p.m. writ here on hannity. unfortunately, that is all the time we have left this evening. as always, thank you for being with us. thank you for making this show possible. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham, the laura ingraham is next. vegas, have a great night. thank you for being here. ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is the laura ingraham live from houston tonight ahead of tomorrow's re-taking america town hall. now we're going to get to my angle in a little bit plus we're going to speak to new york gubernatorial candidate lee zeldin who absolutely thumped kathy hochul tonight. but first, we want to bring you highlights from the most anticipated debate of the midterm calendar. of course i'm talking about mehmet oz versus john fetterman in pennsylvania. now, let me just say this.

if this had been a boxing match the referee would have called this in the first 60 seconds. and now in case you need reminding it wasn't your run of the mill debate because due to his stroke fetterman required special dispensations. >> may notice these large monitors that are behind us. this is part of our closed captioning system. it was requested by john fetterman to help him process the questions that we are asking him tonight. >> laura: but right off the bat it was pretty clear that fetterman would need a lot more than that big screen. >> what qualifies you to be a u.s. senator? you have 60 seconds. >> hi. good night, everybody. >> laura: good night? well, scary thought. that might have been actually the best moment of the entire debate for fetterman. one of the most remarkable exchanges was about fetterman's views on fracking. >> i absolutely support fracking. i believe that we need independence with energy, and i believe i've walked that line my

entire career. >> you have made two conflicting statements regarding fracking. in a 2018 interview, you said, quote, i don't support fracking at all. i never have. but earlier this month, you told an interviewer, quote, i support fracking, i support the energy independence that we should have here in the united states. >> i've always supported fracking and i always believe that independence with our energy is critical, we can't be held, you know, you know, ransom to somebody like russia. >> but there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote, i don't support fracking at all. so how do you square the two? >> oh, i, i do support fracking. and i don't, i don't -- i support fracking and i stand and i do support fracking. >> laura: wow. now, when he wasn't lying, there were these bizarre moments. >> abortion decisions should be

left up to states, and specifically when john fetterman -- >> you roll doug mastriano. >> mr. fetterman, it's his turn for his closing. >> laura: he kept like screaming out random thoughts. that was during oz's closing statement. so, look, whoever thought it was a good idea to put fetterman out there, not only tonight but to run for the u.s. senate? that was cruel, and it was a total fraud. >> will you pledge tonight to release those records in the interest of transparency? you have 60 seconds. >> no. to me for transparency is about showing up. i'm here today to have a debate. i have run a campaign and i have been very transparent. >> didn't hear you say you would release your full medical records. why not? you have 30 seconds. >> again, me doctor believes that i'm fit to be serving and that's what i believe is where

i'm standing. >> laura: now, for all the talk of what ableism in the last few weeks as it relates to fetterman, tonight was kind of a clear example of it. >> dr. oz, you know, loves free, free money when it's half a million dollars tax break on one of his, you know, homes down on a ranch in florida. and whether it was a $50 tax break, you know, about his farm in montgomery county. so it's about supporting and helping, you know, young earners, excuse me, young, young, young, you know, students, to give them a break. i believe that, that supporting -- >> laura: remember all those reporters, by the way, a couple of weeks ago all rushing to say that they talked to fetterman, and that he seemed totally fine? well, tonight i've got to tell you, that was all a lie. so my question is, what else are those reporters covering up?

the democrats in the media, they should have been honest with themselves and the voters from the very beginning. but they would rather lie and they would rather cover up. they would rather hide the ball and then give the voters the actual facts necessary to help make good decisions about who should be in charge and what policies we should adopt. look, the only way to stop this, the only way to get the media and the democrats to tell us the truth is to punish them for their lies. what you saw over the last several months with fetterman, filled with lies. they have to learn that when they lie to the voters, they will suffer politically. now, until that happens, the lies will continue. joining me now is mollie hemingway editor and chief at the federalist and fox news contributor. mollie, i really do think that's the most important point to come out of tonight. they jumped on that poor nbc reporter, what, a couple weeks ago, dasha burns for supposedly

skewing what fetterman's condition really was or being able, ableist about his, you know, stroke. doesn't this just pull the curtain back on the u.s. media once again? >> yes, when dasha burns reported she wasn't sure fetterman was fully able to communicate with her without this assistance, she was trashed by other people in the media who mocked her and said that he was totally fine. those people look horrible right now. they clearly were lying, or they clearly did not know enough to accurately convey the situation. but it does remind you that the media did this exact same operation with joe biden in the 2020 campaign. he also was suffering and not able to endure the rigors of a campaign. they lied about it. they protected him. they even kept debates until the very last part of the campaign cycle. and so i think you're right. they'll keep doing it. they keep doing it with all sorts of candidates. this is not the first debate

that we have had where we have seen the republican candidate do a very good job after the media presented the race in a different manner. before this debate began, fetterman was really losing ground, mostly on the basis of his policies and his soft on crime approach. he already was going to have a hard time and had been losing momentum. after this, it's just, it's an embarrassment. >> laura: right. mollie you're right because they're lieding about biden's condition. they lied about inflation for a year. and now, you know, we see they lied about fetterman. and, by the way, fetterman's answer to the question on immigration, this is a doozy. watch. >> i don't ever recall, in the statue of liberty did they say, you know, you know, take our tired huddled masses and put them on a bus and use cheap political stunts about them. i believe we have to develop a comprehensive and bipartisan solution to address our issue here for immigration here in our

nation. >> laura: mollie, of course, it's also bad policies that he's advocating for which is basically just immigration amnesty which is open the flood gates even more. >> yeah, we're seeing a lot of these clips that are so painful to watch of fetterman, but they were all -- this also, as we saw, what mehmet oz did in his debate where he was putting forth some pretty reasonable balanced viewpoints. he came off looking very respectable. and so if you are an undecided voter going into this debate, i think you're going to look at the difficulties that fetterman had and the particular policies he seemed to be advocating, versus what mehmet oz was saying. and, you know, on all sorts of issues, whether it's crime or the border, or inflation, or foreign policy, there are a lot of issues that are going into people's decision on how they're going to vote, and i can't think that fetterman's camp is feeling very good about how it went. >> laura: no.

i felt sorry for the poor spokesman tonight. he came out and basically said given the fact that he was in the hospital a few months ago, he really took it to the f to oz, the worst just in the world. >> i do not feel bad for the people around fetterman. i do feel very bad for fetterman. but i am actually appalled at the people around fetterman. >> laura: that's a great point. >> that they did not protect or love him more. he has families members. if this had happened to me i would pray people around me would love me enough to not put me through this. this is very bad for them, for the democrat party, and it's an embarrassment to the people of pennsylvania. they deserve far better than this. >> laura: yeah. mollie great point. thank you. >> an escape now for new york. that is the focus of tonight's angle. now, during election season, failing political leaders put a lot of time and energy into changing public perception, believing that better pr is the

answer they feverishly attempt a brand reboot. now, biden's done it more times than i can say mega maga but it's maddening to see elected officials try this in the city that never sleeps, or maybe we should call it the city that's never safe. >> ask me why does new york lead the entire population laws, because their wallets safety and freedom and quality of kids education are under attack so they're hitting break point. they're looking at the carolinas texas tennessee and elsewhere and feel their money will go further they'll fee safer and live life freer. >> like i said sound bites not sound policy. that's absurd. >> laura: that's pathetic. and new york mayor eric adams wants you to forget about his city's high taxes and high crime problem and think all he is doing is really good. and so he does stuff like now use a hashtag that says get stuff done on social media. now, look at eric with mayor pete yesterday. well, yeah, he's getting stuff done. but here's the stuff that's

actually getting done, subway crime up 41% in new york this year and transit murders at a 25-year high. but mayor adams says that everyone needs to realize it's only six felony climbs a day in the subway. >> if you do an analysis of the six major cities in america, the crime waves that's tackling all of our cities, the new york city's the safest. i also show how i have turned around the morale of the police department. yes, we have a real crime problem that we are addressing. but part of that is the perception that every day those six crimes are being highlighted over and over again. >> laura: the man is totally tone deaf. does he not understand anyone, especially women commuting by subway, are terrified at the prospect of being the next victim? and what does he want the press to do, conceal the surveillance videos? well, at least they've made some arrests in the subway attacks. not so in upstate new york where

that compass care, that pro life centre that was fire bombed on june 7th in a so-called jane's revenge attack. $400,000's worth of damage done to that charitable organization. but it's not a priority is it, not for new york's ag, because she's too busy, leticia james, carrying out her own revenge attack on crump. but the least shocking development in new york politics lately was the new york slimes editorial endorsing governor kathy hochul. now over and over again they write zeldin, lee zeldin, has demonstrated a loyalty of trumpism over his oath to defend democracy and the u.s. constitution. in his campaign for governor he makes arguments about crime and advocating to returning to the zero tolerance days that have no clear connection to public safety. i hate to break it to the gray old lady, that's called getting tough on crime, kid. and that's exactly what needs to

be done in new york. it was only when the polls started getting shaky for hochul did she even want to talk about reexamining things like bail reform. but that didn't last long. >> she still hasn't talked about locking up anyone committing any crimes. >> okay. >> anyone who commits a crime under our laws, especially with the change they made to bail, has consequences. i don't know why that's so important to you. >> laura: now, if that sentence didn't lose her the election, i don't know what will. she just doesn't care about you. if you're living in new york and she's making it clear. >> there is very few people in congress who have a more pro life record, someone who said he'd bring on a pro life health commissioner. you know how much power that person has over decisions on regulations. they could literally use their power to shut down clinics. so that is a frightening spectacle. women need to know that's on the ballot this november as well. >> laura: and to think that this

was once the party of jfk. meanwhile, the left claims that hochul is a leader, who is focused on finding solutions to the big problems rather than getting off-track with partisan warfare. really? they think she's not partisan? oh, okay. >> we're here to say that the era of trump and zeldin and molinaro just jump on a bus and head down to florida where you belong, okay? get out of town. get out of town. because you don't represent our values. you are not new yorkers. you're not new yorkers. >> laura: although, in typical weasel fashion, she then tried to clarify those nasty remarks. new york's 2.84 million republicans heard her, though, loud and clear. she was telling you to get out. the fact is hochul is now, and always has been, a radical harpy who just like mayor adams shows

more concern for migrants flooding the state than for the nearly 20 million americans who still call new york their home. but don't worry, because hochul says she has no plans to raise taxes right now, new yorkers. i should hope not. raise taxes in an economic downturn? and look where new york ranks in the just released business tax climate index. number 49. so the angle's message to the good people of new york tonight is the same as it is for the good people of connecticut, michigan, illinois, et cetera. aren't you tired of this yet? two weeks from tonight, the voters in liberal strong holds like new york have a chance to save themselves and send a powerful message to the democrat party. to quote president trump in 2016, what do you have to lose? you don't have to escape the state, just choose to escape its bad leadership. and that's the angle.

joining me now, he just finished the debate, new york gubernatorial candidate republican congressman lee zeldin. congressman, i mean, i know, you know, i know i'm bias because i obviously want you to win but you did wipe the floor with hochul tonight. she just does not have a record she can defend. >> no, she was given many opportunities but kept trying to change the subject and talk about trump. you ask about crime, trump. you ask her about corruption, trump. we talk about her pay to play corruption, people want to grow an economy, they feel like their safety is under attack, hitting their breaking point deciding whether or not to stay in new york or head to another state and you get an opportunity to to let them know where you stand what your record is and what your positions are and instead of utilizing that opportunity to talk about what she stands for, the fact that she's deflecting, i would say people out there listening, even if they didn't like trump, they also care about safety, they also care about

their wallets. so she probably lost support even from people who, going in, were behind her and may not have even voted for president trump. i think she bled out a lot of support tonight and certainly very much fired up our people. >> laura: yeah. i think this next sound bite, to your point, has to go to all the independent minded people, and even democrats who are more traditional democrats, who still live in manhattan. this is a revealing exchange. >> first thing i'll do right after i'm sworn into office is turning the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg to let him know he's being removed. from day one that he was the district attorney he said that he was not going to enforce all different kinds of laws across the board. >> do you want to respond? >> i'd be happy to i'm not surprised because in lee zeldin's world you overturn elections you don't agree with. but for someone who voted to overturn a presidential election, i'm not surprised he just thinks whenever he wants to

do something he can just undo the will of the people. >> a question gets posed about a manhattan da who refuses to enforce the law and all my opponent can come up with is talk about the last election? think about that. >> laura: congressman zeldin, that exchange, just like several between oz and fetterman, that exchange should be an insult to new yorkers. she should be removed from office just for that. and with that my little ear piece fell out but go ahead, i'm listening. >> yeah, new york doesn't have recall elections so what we saw in san francisco can happen there but it can't happen here, but when they drafted the new york state constitution they gave the governor the authority to remove a district attorney who rests toss enforce the law and alvin bragg from day one has refused to enforce the law. i said he needs to be removed, kathy hochul said he just got there cut him some slack he's doing his job. when alvin bragg was throwing josé alba, you know the guy working in the bodega who got attacked and had to defend

himself, alvin bragg threw josé alba into rikers island and slapped him with a murder charge with an open stab wound when i was in the district attorney's office saying this guy shouldn't be facing murder charge kathy hochul got involved and said it's a local matter i'm not going to get involved. so this disconnect. >> laura: i think, congressman, what we have to say tonight is, new york, it's time to save yourself. you have a chance to save new york. >> amen. >> laura: the state -- i mean, all of it. it's a great state. it's no state left behind and you did a fantastic job. a lot of people wouldn't put themselves out there like you did just to run for this position and congressman zeldin hats off to you, great job tonight. everybody has to go out and vote in two weeks >> one thought to be a long thought now minnesota republican gubernatorial candidate dr. scott jensen is now tied with incumbent tim walsh, total lib

ratchet he's here next, not walsh, but obviously jensen and how he closed the gap. plus ahead of my houston town hall texas republican dan patrick joins me on set so stay with us. ♪

♪ >> laura: >> back when i worked in politics one of the thing that was frustrating was democrats lack of spending on spanish language radio, haitian language radio, inlanguage radio. disinformation, the inlanguage disinformation on those outlets, think about miami and spanish language radio and how republicans are in there doing that. are democrats not paying enough attention to the propaganda that is really, really republicans are running pretty successfully on in language radio and in language media period. >> laura: it turns out that we're not the only ones in texas tonight but joy reid's mini freak out reveals something larger. the democrats and their media poodles, they are panicking about the sudden and hispanic gist of hispanic voters towards the gop. instead of grabbling with the

issues and repelling voters, instead they're screaming misinformation prop beganed and and have even gone so far as to suggest i guess hispanic republicans are, what, the new white supremacists? that makes sets. joining us now onset my friend of 20 years lieutenant governor in the great state of texas in his own battle dan patrick. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> laura: the democrats are freaking out you have your own race. what are you seeing when you're campaigning. >> they're freaking out because they've driven hispanic away where their party just like rural texas from the party. hispanic voters are flocking to us because they want a secure border. i'm doing 130 cities in 170 days on on my double decker bus with expensive joe biden diesel gas. we have three candidates running for congress, a texas senate canned day could be the first from the valley, an appeals court justice a person that just changed parties. it's real in the valley. they support the oil and gas

industry, they want a secure border, they don't want boys playing girl sports, on and on. >> laura: those cultural issues, dan, schools, parent power. >> yes. >> laura: all those things that on the radio, and when we were on the radio together, you know, we talked about that all the time. this is nothing new for us but now people know what their kids are being taught. >> yes. >> laura: and in texas this issue is hitting along with the economy and crime obviously. >> the hispanic voter and all voters want their children to get a great education but they don't want divisive crt, 1619, they don't want their first graders taught about gender. these are common sense things. >> laura: gender's okay but gender identity is not. >> gender identity. the american public doesn't want radical policies taught to their children, they don't want them at work. they want the america that all america used to be and that's texas. and every day, laura, i meet people from every state who are flocking here from blue states, from blue states, literally fleeing as refugees someone told me tonight where i was, to come here to texas.

>> laura: tonight on msnbc beto o'rourke sees a different issue as the most important one dan. watch. >> majority of texans including a majority of republicans disagree with abbott's extreme abortion ban the epicenter of a ma material mortality crisis three times more deadly for black women. when you have foreclosed opportunities to seek reproductive healthcare you have condemned women to suffering and unnecessary death. >> laura: i guess texas with all these people moving in, you're condemning women to suffering dan. >> we're not condemning women to suffering. look, it's the democrats who have the radical policy on life. they want to abort a child up until birth and beyond if they need to. and the hispanic voters in the valley understand that, that's why they're losing hispanic voters in the valley and all over texas and america. texas will not turn blue now or ever. they used to say it would turn blue because hispanic voters would become democrats. >> laura: what happened to that argument. >> hispanic voters will be republicans. >> laura: dan we're watching

this race, get back on the trail. >> great to see you. yes, ma'am. >> laura:le lieutenant governor dan patrick. now to minnesota where governor tim walz basically abandoned the states and does not deserve to be reelected. he gave up on the police a bandning the third precinct remember during the george flied roy jots i was just reporting there a few months ago with increased crime and the police department hemorrhaging officers, he abandoned them on the economy a state that ranks 45th in terms of business and tax climate and tim walz has abandoned the voters on co-red. he tied minnesota with all the other states of locking everyone down and taking away their essential rights. as a result the race that once saw walz lead which was 18 points a few weeks ago is now tied. joining me now is his challenging dr. scott jensen. i haven't seen you for a few

months last time we were back in minnesota broadcasting. which issue is fueling your comeback? >> without question, it's crime. minnesotians get it that there's a lawlessness that's perfect raided our state and arguably tim walz is the god father of the crime epidemic. he quit on the national guard, he quit on the cops when it came time to protecting the third precinct. he told the state patrol to stand down when it came time for some of his demonstrators to want to tear down a statue because they were feeling pent-up. he has quit over and over again. i think minnesotians have seen him quitting on kids, quit on their education, quit on economy, the cars, done an end run around legislature. people are saying what's wrong with him. he's not engaging, he's ducking debates trying to distract the voters taking a page out of joe biden's play book and people are saying we're not having it.

on the other hand laura we're just straight up. >> laura: well, i think -- minnesotians are, it's an interesting state for people who haven't spend time there. it's common sense. i think they want common sense solutions generally. but i have to explain to people watching this how bad it is in old minnesota now. last year there violent crime like aggravated and assault and murder were up 22% in minnesota compared to 2020, public safety was the second most important issue for minnesota voters. and as you said it's so important. and after the economy and jobs. so dr. jensen, look, you first came to the fore, i remember when you came on this show during covid and you questioned the lockdowns and the approaches that the government was taking back then. do minnesotians still remember the tyranny of the covid lockdowns and what they did to our kids given these scores on the math and english tests? >> i think they do.

i think they see tim walz as the lockdown artist. he locked businesses down and locked kids out of school even after it was clear that this was the wrong move to make. minnesota's been decimated regarding our kids education performance. he locked elderly frail people into nursing homes that were infested with covid-19 causing them to die barbaric deaths. i really believe that minnesotians get it and what we are he a telling people is listen, we're going to fight crime. we're going to get your kids a good education and we're going to push back against inflation. we put ten-point plans on each one of those issues on our web site. we tried to do everything we request to let minnesota know. there's a contrast between what tim walz's hunkering down in the basement strategy looks like compared to scott jensen being straight up saying let's have a sgheergs conversation needs to lead to accidentses and his actions have been strafed rus for the state. the best thing said about the

abandon building, the third precinct, it's a monument to anarchy and that's the legacy of tim walz after the george floyd riots. we wish you the best on the trail. we'll be watching >> wesley hunt joins me on set why he says black republicans are no longer going to be sitting on the sidelines or hiding away >> plus with just days away from the show's fifth anniversary so we've got to see who the next surprise shout-out is from. i love these. >> happy fifth anniversary laura, well done. five years, still going strong. >> laura, congratulations on five years, happy anniversary. but thank you for educating the american public on the issues that matter most.

>> laura: this morning the washington post wrote a piece titled black republicans are no longer hiding as they run for congress. now, one of the most prominently featured was houston area republican candidate wesley hunt. a west point grad and army vet

is leading his democrat opponent in the polls, hunt adding, you're seeing black conservatives no longer hiding from what we do traditionally. houston area republican congressional candidate wesley hunt joins us now. wesley, what's happening here? i know this is a fairly conservative district. >> it is. >> laura: but just around the country, you see a change. like people have kind of had enough. >> well, i think when president biden says if you don't vote for me you ain't black and i've been black for a long time i think is very insulting to black voters. and i'm running here in congressional district 38, it's the newest one right here in texas, it's a predominately white district, a district president trump would have won by over 20 points and a black man's going to be a congressman in that seat. and the reason why is because we don't care about race, religion, color or creed. we just want good governance. if for whatever reason the democrat party has pitched to black people that you have to vote for us no matter what, and that's just not true.

and they've also convinced black people that white republicans won't vote for black republicans. well, that's not true either. >> laura: well, democrat pollster cornell has a theory wesley about why blacks are moving toward the gop. check it out. >> going in a 2016, i think we didn't know exactly the extent to which sort of misinformation, and some of the russian meddling had on the election immediately. we've seen this sort of trickery before especially aimed at minority voters. again, this is, you know, once again another hurdle for minorities voting. >> laura: wesley, he's already laying the ground work to try to dismiss a republican victory. >> i think what people have to realize is that this is the worst inflation i've seen in my lifetime, worst border crisis i've seen in my lifetime, enough fentanyl has poured into our country to kill every american

five time. crime in our cities has affected everyone, particularly black and brown people and we are not stupid. >> laura: 2.2 million people have been apprehended, that doesn't include the gotta ways. >> the gotta ways. >> laura: just in the last year. >> yes, yes. >> laura: 2.2 million. so if you do the math on it it's really like ten million maybe over the last couple of years and all the gotta ways and all the other problems. >> absolutely. >> laura: this is not just a texas problem, this is an american problem. >> it most certainly is and so when you couple that with the idea of defunding the police and taking away our second amendment rights no wonder we are upset and this is why black people are saying enough's enough the democrat party has not done good by us it's time to look at our options and that's why i'm here. >> laura: wesley congratulations i shouldn't say it premature but two weeks from tonight i'll call and say congratulations. >> it's an honor. >> laura: and if he were to win he would join a republican caucus absent liz cheyney and writing in the federalist previous guest mollie hemingway

how cheyney's plan to divide the republican party failed writing separating the voters from the issues they care about has been the dc's establishment's goal for years but it's not working. joining me now is congressman jim banks chair of the republican study committee. congressman, liz cheyney was on tv on sunday and said, if donald trump is the nominee, then the party's going to split in two and the real conservatives are going to start a new party. what? how does that work? >> it makes no sense, laura. liz cheyney is more barack obama than ronald reagan who she was invoking on the sunday shows on sunday morning because she was talking about all of these issues, trying to tear down the republican party on the way out the door as she exits after her loss in her most recent election. but at the same time, she's attacking kevin mccarthy who understands what ronald reagan was talking about when he talked about peace through strength and we have to rebuild america,

restore america's strength from within before we can lead around the world. america can't lead around the world when we're so weak at home and that's why leader mccarthy and the republican conference are unified than ever before around an agenda that puts america first and liz cheyney doesn't fit in that republican party because she doesn't get it. >> laura: i don't even want to give her anymore time because she's already taking up too much of our head space so i want to move on to hakeem jeffery's, of course, who, you know, he's trying to sound very hopeful, the dnc chair, caucus chair. strangely optimistic about democrats chances for the midterms. check this out. >> very hopeful. there are close races all across the country. we do have a track record of accomplishment that we can run on in terms of what we've already done. and, trust us, we have done the work. we have made a difference in the lives of everyday americans. >> laura: okay. trust us? we have a track record to run on? what part of this do we need to

unpack right now? i mean, i don't know. a nose could have been growing at that point because it was like a pinocchio situation. >> well, hakeem like all these other democrats are auditioning to replace speaker pelosi, who's end is coming very soon on election night two weeks from tonight it will be a red wave election. republicans will win back the house majority and we will retire nancy pelosi, whether that retirement leads her to the beaches of italy or back to san francisco, wherever that might be. so hakeem is sounding that message because he, like so many others, adam schiff, so many others, want to lead the minority party, the democrat party, after this upcoming election. but nobody's buying it, laura. the american people are hungry for change. they are going to fire these democrats because they focus on all of the issues except for the ones that they care most about, which is inflation, the border, crime, the drug epidemic, the issues.

>> laura: they failed. >> the issues that matter most they failed. >> laura: they failed. >> they failed the american people, american families and wor working people. >> laura: yeah, two words, they failed. they had their chance they failed move aside. congressman bank we're looking forward to the leadership races and i guess you're going to throw your hat into whip so we'll watch that as well. thank you for joining us >> jennifer say was a levy executive riding high and set to become the jean company's ceo levy strauss until she spoke out on the extended school closures with covid. she's here next and explains why she refused to shut up and how the woke mobs are taking over corporate america, the woke mob. stay with us. and if you're taking a multivitamin alone, you may be missing a critical piece. corporate america, the woke mob. stay with us. vision. preservision areds 2 contains the only clinically proven nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression.

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♪ >> i lived in san francisco for over 30 years. my job is there, it's still there. my home is there. but as this went on and on, and i have very little hope that schools will open in spring, my six year old, he's a kindergartner, his experience is two hours a day on an ipad, it's not engaging and i saw his personality starting to change, he was a happy boisterous kid and he became withdrawn and

didn't want to go outside. >> laura: now, that was former levy strauss executive jennifer sey appearing on the laura ingraham in the spring of 2021. at the time we didn't care about the position she held only that she was so fed up with california's covid policies she decided to move to denver. well, little did we know that that appearance would cause an outcry at the company. she was attacked and falsely labeled a covid denier, and levy's management gave her a choice shut up or leave choosing her principle over millions. she's joining us now the author of levy's unbuttoned the moak job took my job but gave me my voice available for pre-order now. jennifer we couldn't have cared less you were some big exec but the story you were leaving the state and moving to, as we were calling them free states, was so inspiring and so shocking. so why was that so threatening

to levi? >> well, you know, to be clear, i was definitely getting some pushback even before you invited me on your show, but that really was, i would say, a straw that broke the camel's back. once i appeared -- although i was at the company for a full year after that, but it was a very difficult time. you know, i would say appearing on your show, it was -- employees were outraged. it was, you know, i spoke with someone, you in this case, that they perceived to be out of step with their progressive values, and that made me all kinds of things that they deemed unemployable. i was called a racist. i was called an ageist. i was anti everything. i was anti everything because i had spoken to you essentially about something that i think we very much agreed on, which is that prolonged school closures

were harming children. >> laura: well, jennifer you and i and a few others turned out to be right. i mean, without a doubt we were right. look at what's happened to the children's test scores, their mental health, all the other things, anxiety, alcohol abuse, all of it. all of it was driven by the lockdowns and no one's paid in the price except the kids. >> yeah, no one has paid the price, no one has taken any ownership. i will say everyone seems to want to distance themselves from the decision, the governor of new york just a few weeks ago said, oh, boy, that was a terrible decision, dr. fauci just, you know, a week ago i think on abc said he had nothing to do with it. so everybody seems to want to distance themselves from it and act like it just happened. it didn't just happen. it was a policy choice. and democratic leaders frankly made it. my governor, my former governor in california, gavin newsome, he's responsible. no one's willing to take any accountability for it. >> laura: jennifer, why are big

corporations so liberal now, just one sentence? do you have any idea? why are they so woke? >> yeah, my take on it is, you know, ceos today, they want to distance themselves from the tycoons and oil barons of the past and it's not enough to be really rich they want to be celebrated as philanthropist and do-gooders and so they adopt these social justice stances they put them through the company and banish anyone who disagrees must be ousted. >> laura: yeah. so it's virtue signaling extraordinary. jennifer, thank you and good luck with the book, everybody go out and buy it, levi's unbuttoned. another surprise shout-out our fifth anniversary next.

>> laura: yeah.

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>> laura: hi laura this is governor ron desantis. i just want to congratulate you on your five-year anniversary of the laura ingraham on fox news. i remember trudging over to the studio in dc when i was a member

of congress, and obviously we've been able to do a lot of interviews since i've been governor and even you've come down and done some fantastic town halls i know people in florida enjoyed. god bless you and keep up the good work. >> laura: governorr governor desantis thank you seven. our town hall tomorrow focused on hispanics, dramatic turn. ♪ ♪ >> greg: happy tuesday my special tuesday friends. so guess who's back in the news? i'll give you a hint. her picture should be on household cleaners to induce vomiting