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angle. ♪ >> laura: now how often have we seen the press try to kind of pretend that religious americans are part of a fringe movement? liberals warn of christian nationalism and even link the faithful to domestic terrorism. now these same elites relishing headlines like christianity in the u.s. is quickly shrinking and gleeful to support that millennials are turning against organized religion. and if you're someone who offers thoughts and prayers after tragedies, well, they assume you're just a fraud. >> we are not going to give thoughts and prayers, which to me is just [bleep]. >> the rhetoric that we've used, the thoughts and prayers you've just referred to has done nothing to stop the epidemic of gun violence. >> laura: liberal high school administrators let's not forget them they felt threatened by public displays of religion for decades now.

remember joe kennedy beloved football coach in washington state? he lost his job for the high crime of praying after games. >> it was never like we were forced to pray with him. he never said hey, guys, let's go pray or anything like that. we all just kind of took it upon ourself. >> but the school district says it warned kennedy several times that as an employee he could not pray on the field after games at all. >> laura: well this poor coach had to take his coach all the way to the supreme court which, thankfully, ruled against the school and upheld his free exercise rights. but then last night in cincinnati, when buffalo safety damar hamlin fell limp to the ground after a hard tackle, not only was no one complaining about public prayer, the millions watching, including yours truly, we were comforted by seeing it. grown men visibly shaken, terrified of what they saw, were moved to drop to their knees.

not in protest, but in humility and in devotion to the all mighty. it was fervent prayer for healing for their brother who lay motionless as his mother watched in the stands. no one was focused on rivalries, the playoffs, fame, fortune. issues like race or politics. none of that mattered. on display for the world to see was the best of america, our humanity, our compassion, our caring, our shared faith in a greater power. one that can help us see goodness even in its terrible suffering. fans from both the bills and the bengals even ran to pray outside the hospital where hamlin was rushed in for treatment. >> just a big shock. like it was just a big silence like no one knew what to do and it's just heart breaking to even hear what happened. >> the whole world loves him, you know, everybody loves him. it's not just one fan base, not

just one person. we're all here praying for him. >> i'm a bengals fan so i was really praying very hard that everybody's okay and i still am. i feel that the world just stopped at this moment. >> laura: this is the best of america and it's also in part why we love sports. all sports teams, when they're run well, become brother hoods or sister hoods. they're reservoirs of love and support where they can grow and enjoy victory and when on rare occasion they're forced to realize that every breath of our life is a guest. that tomorrow is promised to none of us. of course it's easy to lose sight of our priorities, we all can do that with money and fame, but in interviews damar hamlin seemed wise beyond his years. >> i'm big on my family unit. like my mom, my dad, my little brother, like that's pretty much my whole world. outside of any other thing going

on, my life revolves around them. like i don't really do too much without my mom and dad's opinion. whether i take it or whether i don't, you know, but i sometimes just want to hear it, you know. just how i was raised and that's just something i'm big on. >> laura: how refreshing. and how uplifting. that last night and today, americans from coast to coast contributed to damar hamlin's charity that provides toys year round to needy children. now, here on the angle we spent a lot of time pointing out where our politicians and sometimes our schools go off the rails. we bee moan spectacles on capitol hill and the fact that kids are taught that america was founded on evil or that capitalism is only about greed and power. as i mentioned earlier we're taught that anyone who dares to be religious in public or offers thoughts and prayers is kind of treated like an outcast. it wasn't too long ago that

quarterback tim tebow was ridiculed for kneeling in prayer but fast forward to today on espn. moved by the heart wrenching reality of damar hamlin's condition, sports analyst dan orlovsky bowed and prayered on television. >> maybe this isn't the right thing to do but i want to bow my head and pray right now for strength for demar, for healing for demar, for comfort for demar, to be with his family, to give them peace. if we didn't believe that prayer didn't work, we wouldn't ask this of you, god. i believe in prayer. we believe in prayer. we lift up demar hamlin's name, in your name, amen. >> amen. >> amen. >> laura: now how often have you seen that happen at an anchor desk on secular television? well tonight, even with all the political chaos in dc, we're going to get to that shortly, we see the innate goodness in

america shining through. we're endowed by our creator with inall nab rights life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and for tens of millions of america it includes celebrating our traditions, thanksgiving, christmas, fireworks on the fourth of july and, yes, football. to stay healthy for us to continue to build bonds of friendship across our communities, we need to strengthen our traditions, not tear them all down. certainly not allow political or racial or socioeconomic differences divide us. in the horror that unfolded on a football field in cincinnati last night, we also saw grace, and the beauty, the deep concern for our fellow man. so wouldn't it be incredible if this national outpouring of genuine empathy could carry over to other suffering in our mid.? to the addicted?

to the homeless. to the elderly left alone. or maybe from the foster kids shuttled from home to home. that would be the greatest legacy of all. because, in the end, it's what really matters and that's the angle. joining me now is lou holtz college football coaching legend, go near dame. lou, your reaction tonight to what happened to damar hamlin, and how sports can actually bring rivals together in great, great hardship. >> well, laura, i felt that your interview with demar said volumes about the importance of father and the family. as i remember not too many years ago, everybody was trying to downplay the importance of the father t nfl and college football coach, predominately college, for well over 40 years. i think i speak on behalf of all the coaches. your number one obligation is not to win. it's to keep the safety of your players. and i'm proud to say over 40

years of coaching i never had a serious injury because i think i would be absolutely devastated. it's like your children are entrusted to you with your safety, so are your players. i think the nfl has done a tremendous job of improving and lowering the risk of possible injuries. you look at all the changes they've made. targeting. if you get a concussion, you can't play, like tua for a while. you only get that one-yard run on a kickoff. you can't have blind side blocks things along that line so they've done a tremendous job. and as i look back on it, it was devastating. but, you know, what i don't read about is how many athletes today have problems with their heart after covid. i'm talking about athletes like over 1500. but yet you only have one in the nfl and all of a sudden you have to get rid of football it's too dangerous. it was an accident that can

never happen. >> laura: yeah. >> smith made the comment about gathers. he was a basketball problem on the court. this youngman got hit in the chest. that is unfortunate and prayer is so important. >> laura: yeah. lou i think. >> what makes people come together and pray. >> laura: lou, i think we -- i'm sorry to interrupt there's a little bit of a delay here. but i think we don't know, i mean we speculate politically a lot on this show but i'm not a doctor so i don't want to speculate to what causeded this cardiac arrest. i think they are going to have to release his medical file, we're going to have to learn a lot more as dr. mccullough said on tucker's show earlier. we will have to learn more about his overall medical status. but i want to talk about him as the man. because i read -- i think this is right, lou -- that hamlin was offered -- or letters of interest from notre dame and

other top college programs. as much as he loved those other colleges, including notre dame, he chose to stay with pitt because he wanted to be close to his younger brother and his family. what does that say about him as a young man? >> it says his priorities are right. it's all about family. i don't know what happened top the deterioration of the family where we cared about one another. and what makes football so popular and i say this from the bottom of my heart laura, is because football is a family. the only friends you have in your world if things don't go with are those you sleep with pray with live with and cry with. that's your family and teammates. players come and go teammates last a lifetime and that's why you care about one another. you care about their safety and their success. yeah, you're an individual also but it's being part of a team. and one of the reasons that drugs and gangs became so prolific because people started to downplay football and everybody wants to be part of an

organization. so if you don't have football, then i'm going to go join a gang. so i cannot begin to emphasize how much i learned on the football field. i learned far more on a football field than i ever learned in a college classroom. >> laura: lou one aspect of the story drawing controversy involves this claim that the players were told they had five minutes to warm-up following damar hamlin's injury. now, the nfl has denied that. there's other old timers out thereto on the internet today saying, you know, this is horrific and tragic but 40 years ago, the players, you know, would have, you know, got themselves together and they would have gone on and played the game. i don't know what's true and what's not. but your reaction to that claim that the nfl was going to go ahead with this game. >> well, i've been watching football, as i said for 50 years. i never saw anything like it before. however in the 70s there was a

receiver from minnesota ran a rout, came back passed out and died and they carted him off the field and they continued the game and played it. they didn't cancel it. our society has changed. when i played in high school my football coach five years before that was in iwo jima and he had different opinions ons picking pup and moving on. et cetera. so i think the nfl had to make that decision also. but the players don't want to play, there's no sense having to go out there. i agree with what the nfl decided to do. they got all kinds of problems now because that was an important game between the bills and the bengals. >> laura: so what happens now? >> so i don't know what in the world was going to happen but it was an important decision. >> laura: well, lou, they say they're not going to play this weekend. so how does that actually work? i mean there is a lot of money on the line with football. it's a business on top of everything else it means, a

brotherhood, a family, an american tradition but there is a process. so what happens? >> it can be done. you can have the open date or you have the playoffs et cetera. you can work that thing out. maybe have to eliminate the open week before the super bowl. that's no big deal. it's all about fanfare and everything else. but it can be done and it has to be done in fairness to the game. >> laura: lou, it's great to see you tonight. thank you so much for joining us. >> and coming up, chaos on capitol hill leaving our country without a speaker of the house. so what does that mean for the republican agenda? who's going to be speaker. congressman chip roy and jim banks are both here. they're on different sides of this. stay there.

♪ >> let's meet the challenges that the american people sent all of us, not just the republicans, not just the democrats. we can meet those challenges, but let's start by e electricing kevin mccarthy as our next speaker. >> i think kevin mccarthy's the right guy to lead us, i really do or i wouldn't be standing up here giving this speech. >> laura: not everyone feels that way because if they did we would have a speaker of the house right now. nominee kevin mccarthy lost three votes in a row today and the first two, 19 house

republicans voted for someone other than mccarthy. then in the third, florida congressman byron donald switched his vote at the last minute bringing it up to 20 lost gop votes. my next guest actually received one vote during that first round, joining me now is indiana congressman jim banks chairman of the republican study committee. congressman, did your mom vote? what happened with that one vote? just teasing you. >> i'm not asking for a recount. >> laura: i got you. you voted for mccarthy three of the three times how are you going to vote tomorrow. >> i intend to vote for kevin mccarthy today, he's the guy most prepared to do the job and step in. this has been a long yet somewhat messy and productive and healthy process. it's led to better rules that has empowered members within the conference to get the things done that we said we were going to do. that's my biggest gripe about republicans. we make promises and commitments that republicans don't keep after we've been elected. but i think this process is leading the way so that we can

keep those commitments over the next couple of years. >> laura: any concessions by any of the oppositions that you're seeing on this? >> well, many of these members on the other side, many and most of them are my friends. and the good news is we all get to go home and sleep on it tonight and those conversations have been ongoing through the evening. probably will well into the night and tomorrow morning. we're going to go back to work at noon tomorrow. we're going to elect a republican speaker, a conservative speaker. >> laura: let's say the vote keeps going and it keeps going and we have another and another and another. at some point the moderate republicans, and there are some, could decide to throw in with the democrats and have some type of coalition house of representatives correct? >> yeah, that's my biggest fear. >> laura: what the heck was that? why didn't the folks who are opposing mccarthy campaign on nah in the midterms. >> that would be devastating and

a break of our promise to the american people who gave us the majority counting on a republican speaker to lead us forward to go after the democrats and hold the biden administration accountable. so we have to do everything we can to stop that laura. i'm determined to do everything that i can to make sure that a republican speaker is elected. someone has to get 218 votes and kevin mccarthy is the only one close to that number, the only one i suspect can get 218 votes in the conference. so we go back to work at noon tomorrow and hopefully get this done so we can roll up our sleeves and get to work. >> laura: i asked you the first time when i asked that you intended to vote that you didn't say you will vote. >> i'm going to vote for kevin mccarthy on the fourth ballot tomorrow and more ballots after that. i mean, i don't know what's going to happen overnight. i'm hoping that deals are made overnight, that deals are struck and we go in and have unity tomorrow, let kevin mccarthy be the speaker so we can roll up our sleeves and move forward. >> laura: what would have happened today had a speaker actually been elected?

>> well, then we would have gone to work. we would have passed bills, we would have created the select committee on china. we would have got started on our efforts to balance a budget and cut wasteful spending, cut the 67,000 irs agents. >> laura: 87,000 but who's counting. >> 87,000. those are things we would have done right away but we're held up. we're going to go back to work tomorrow and hopefully get that done. >> laura: we hope this isn't going to be a never ending process. this is like electing a pope, white smoke coming out of the capitol. joining us now is texas congressman chip roy who voted against kevin mccarthy all three times. want to have both sides on this issue. congressman it's great to see you. now, some are saying, and i think kevin mccarthy's folks are saying, that they already gave you guys a number of key concessions, frankly if i were he i might not have given them if i were trying to become speaker. so what is your end game at this

point given the three votes and yet y'all don't have one candidate that can get to 218, at least not yet. >> thanks for having me on laura. look, this is all about making sure that we change this institution, okay? laura, you know this. every single night on your show, you talk about how broken this place is. does anybody think that $1.7 trillion bill that just passed is a good thing? does anyone think this institution is working? with all due respect to kevin he's been in leadership since 2009. let me be clear. the debt was $11 trillion then. it's $32 trillion now. i can go through vote after vote after vote over the last decade. he was in the minority of republicans not standing with ted cruz on obama care in 2013. he was on good two in 2018 with immigration security border bill that messed up the entire effort to secure the border four years ago. >> laura: congressman, we've documented that. and everybody knows. look, i'm probably to the right

of a lot of you guys on a lot of these issues, so no one's going to be conservative enough for me. however, you still have to get to 218. so again i'm going to ask you what is your end game here? because it looks like we could be going to something, in my view, a lot worse than someone who passes an ideological purity test. understanding all your points here. >> it's not an ideological purity test. this isn't about kevin, right? this is about all of the assertions being made by kevin's camp. when i hear assertions that say they gave you everything you wanted. hold on a second. what? 72 hours to read a bill. that's already the rule and it gets waved because the rules committee is chock full of establishment people that say whatever we need to do to jam through the big bill that mitch mcconnell sent to us. . the leadership votes with the minority votes with the democrats to steam roll republicans which is the past history of republican leadership

maybe we should do something different. i want tools to change that. >> laura: but my question to you again, you have to get from point a to point b. >> sure. >> laura: i understand frustration with the establishment. long before you were on capitol hill i've been fighting the establishment so i get that. >> right. >> laura: but you still have to be able to get to point b. so my question is a very specific one. would you rather have hakeem jeffery's. >> that's not a real choice, that's not a real choice. >> laura: authority in the house rather than have mccarthy as speaker with the concessions that you did get a number of concessions. what would you rather have a coalition where you could be in in the minority opposing the democrats? yes or no. >> laura, that's a false choice. hakeem jeffery's can only be the speaker of the house if a republican votes for him. >> laura: moderate republicans might. moderate republicans might end up doing that. if we're here four days later. >> i don't believe that, laura. at the end of the day right now the conversation worry he a

having is, will we ca he the rules committee so we stop doing what we are he a doing. you're talking about having a democrat versus a republican. explain to me how what we've been doing is working. explain that to me. >> laura: right. but my question is, and i'm not privy to everything, but did he not put a number of freedom caucus members, didn't already agree to you guys having specific and top positions in the key committees. >> no. >> i know some of them aren't sexy like ways and means or appropriations but rules committee correct? judiciary. >> of course we have jim jordan on judiciary. this is the reality though. last night a presentation of an offer was put in front of kevin and he walked away from it and then went out and said people were looking to pad their ose resumes and get on committees. laura i don't want to be on the rules committee and miss my family on sunday night but i offered my name to come up and fight for my country and he turns around in the conference meeting this morning analyze about us and then he had mike

rodgers stand up and say he was going to kick us off committees. he just burned himself. he just solidified 15 or 20 people against him. some of us have been working in 60 days in good faith to get actual changes to fix this place and i'm here at the capitol and i'm going to turn around and sit down to try to negotiate. but the negotiation only works when people actually want to advance conservative policies and unfortunately we hit a wall last night when kevin rejected a good faith offer to give him 218 votes. he had it on his table, he turned it away. >> laura: okay. my final question here is, do you have an alternative? let's say a vote after vote after vote happens and hakeem jeffery's is still beating in the overall count kevin mccarthy. would steve scalise then be acceptable to you? from what i gather on most issues that i've been following, they're pretty much the same on the issues, correct? personally i have nothing against any of these folks, i like steve ca lease as well. would that be more acceptable to

you and if so why? >> there's a number of names floating about but we can't actually get to that as long as kevin says he's going to keep running indefinitely. >> laura: so you don't want him at all then? you really don't want him, which is fine to say. >> look, i'm actually -- i like kevin. i like steve. but what i want is i want the rules committee to reflect idealogically our ability to stop an um us in spending bill over the wishes of republicans of mitch mcconnell and 18 republicans who didn't give a crap about americans. i want the ability to stop that and i don't trust leadership to stop it currently. >> laura: well, you need more populous elected. the point is, there's still not a critical mass of populous republicans. that's who i am. i'm not one of the pro war republicans that's not positive me at all. you need more america first populous you don't have the numbers first. >> what got packaged was a ukraine bill packaged with a massive spending bill. >> laura: well pelosi was speaker, right? >> right.

but the fact is, you could have negotiate wind mcconnell. me, chip roy i would have said you're not passing an ndaa until you pass a continuing resolution so you don't stuff us with a bloated omnibus spending bill restricting our ability to secure the border. he didn't do that. he should have met with the senate and said don't do that. >> laura: i don't like any of these bills, i wouldn't pass anybody, i would make everybody stay over christmas until it got straightened out. congressman roy i'm looking forward to see what's happened. i learned the hard way perfect is the enemy of the good so i hope y'all can work something out. i appreciate it. joining us now tulsi gabbard former democrat congresswoman fox news contributor. the democrats are enjoying what's going on with all the republicans. watch this. >> i did not think that kevin mccarthy was going to have the votes on the first round but i didn't think that it was going to be as catastrophic for him as

it actually was. from the democratic side, we didn't have a single defection and that unity is very much going to help us. >> laura: maybe she can have the word unity written on our next met gal al gown. tulsi, your thoughts on what unfolded today. >> laura, i turned on the tv for a little bit and was watching it for a few minutes and seeing that clip from aoc and how this is playing out, i think i felt the same frustration so many americans feel is you see two big political parties fighting with each other and like, oh, kevin mccarthy this or this hakeem jeffery's this or that. what about the people? what about the fact that over decades it has increasingly become true that political parties are getting more powerful and individual representatives that we the people elect are getting weaker and the more powerful these political parties become who really care about their own interests and advancing their own power they use that power to

bully individual representatives to do whatever it is they want. and what is it they want? they want to accomplish often times whatever their highest contributing lobbyist wants them to do, the military industrial complex is one of the biggest donors of them. i have experience, obviously i served in congress for eight years and i saw this was true just within a couple days of going to congress in 2012 when i got elected where it very quickly was clear hey if there's a good idea but it's coming from a republican we're not going to support it unless a democrat introduces the bill and vice versa. so ultimately what i see here laura is the american people are once again losing out to this battle between, you know, kind of what is best for the political party rather than saying, hey, what action do we take to best empower your individual elected representatives in congress to fight for you. >> laura: tulsi, i agree with you. however, i mean, what unfolded on capitol hill, and i understand everybody's frustration here, i really do. but how does that get us --

again, i keep saying from point a to point b. better representation for the people, the anti-war republicans don't have the numbers yet. they need the numbers. they can block some things. >> that's true. >> laura: but blocking mccarthy, again, no one is as conservative as i want them to be but blocking mccarthy, how does that get you to a point where you block the pro war coalition or pro china or pro free treed or open borders. not sure how that gets you there. you see what my point is tonight? >> yeah, i see your point and i agree with you. there definitely needs to be more people who are for the security of this country and against these counter productive wars that end up costing us and hurting the american people more than anything else. it's one of the reasons i left the democratic party. the democratic party has become the pro war party and as you know that's the one thing so many democrats in washington

actually agree on and i think there is hope that there's still a small group but increasing group of republicans who are becoming that voice of accountability and restraint and against these counter productive wars. there's a lot more conversation that needs to take place in order to move towards that objective we're talking about here that we actually have leaders looking out for the best interest of the country and the american people. >> laura: that's the way to grow this party. not sure what happened today grows the party but it needs to grow and it grows in different areas and different ethnicities and races and ages and tulsi we value your voice. thank you so much >> now a top high school just outside of dc caught intentionally hurting some students college prospects. a major investigation iss in the works and we're going to talk with one of the parents who helped uncover this mess next. ♪ ♪ ♪ mom! mom! every day can be extraordinary with rich,

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glenn youngkin now demanding an investigation into the top high school in the country after it withheld telling students about a prestigious award all in the name of equity. thomas jefferson high school in fairfax county virginia known as a school for gifted and talented students is admitting that numerous national merit scholars were only told of their honor after important college application deadlines had already passed. but my next guest is a parent of one of those students is saying that the director of student services told her that it was done intentionally because he and the principal didn't want to hurt the feelings of students who didn't get the award. oh, my god. joining me now is a thomas jefferson high school mom, shauna i know you're a proud mother, son of a senior at the school. doesn't want to hurt the feelings of a student. that's such a prestigious honor to be a national merit circular. not everyone can be that. >> we were so proud. certificate was in his room with

i a pile of papers and we asked him what was this. and the thing laura that makes me so sad is these kids at the school do amazing accomplishments and the school doesn't celebrate them to the level that these kids deserve. and as such these kids are thinking their accomplishments don't mean anything but it means a whole lot. graduateing in the top 3% of your class in terms of sat, psat scores is a huge honor and we should be celebrating the kids for that not trying to hide that information from them. >> laura: we had heard over the last couple of years, really since the george floyd tragedy, that, you know, the concern about making other people feel bad because they're not in high honors or they're not in honors or they didn't get an ap designation or they didn't do well on an exam even, what does that do to objective standards in the united states? >> it absolutely destroys it, right? i mean, these kids are thinking that, you know, that their accomplishments don't mean anything. >> laura: well, what does it do to the kids who are coming up

through the ranks or maybe are improving? why bother trying really? >> absolutely not trying. i mean, why would you? these awards don't mean anything to you, the accolades don't mean anything to you, you're led to believe college admission don't even look at sat and act scores anymore. why are you working on your studies it's just a hodgepodge of luck at this point. >> laura: at this point what do the kids at tj say as to how this is going. they all know what's going on. >> they are. my son and friends have made comments they're proud of the work i'm do doing and other parents are doing. >> laura: lit me tell everyone watching it's one of the top schools in the united states period, thomas jefferson. but that made them feel bad or not fair to the kids that didn't get in. >> i don't think it made any of them feel bad. i don't think any kids feel bad. >> laura: talking about the administrators. >> the administrators feel bad

or think the kids should feel bad and try to impart that. >> laura: your son doesn't go to a stop school, it has to be given someone who doesn't do as well. shawnna thank you for bringing this to light and good luck to your son. >> thank you. >> laura: the medical censorship police strike again this is happening where common sense goes to die, of course california, where new laws go into effect this week. doctors who spread so-called medical misinformation will now be subject to various punishments. now, the sanctions range from rep hands to suspensions to complete revocations of medical licenses. joining me now is dr. jay bhattacharya professor of medicine at stanford. dr. b, who gets to determine what constitutes misinformation? what? >> in california now essentially, if you go to the doctor, you have the cdc in the same room with you as your doctor. and the doctor has to decide whether they're going to serve the cdc or the patient.

it's absolutely an incredible thing that happened. normally you would want the doctor to serve the interests of the patient rather than just public health in general and now, under law, under threat of losing their license california doctors serve the cdc over their patients. >> laura: dr. bhattacharya, isn't it curious that as new information is coming out about the efficacy of these boosters, antibody dependent enhancement, natural immunity, vitamin d, zinc, all the early interventions now we can't talk anymore about this. isn't that curious? >> the thing is, these issues are complicated. there's a lot of differences of opinions among experts on issues. what this new law does is essentially tell doctors if you express your honest opinion you could lose your license. that's the purpose of the law, it's to take qualified doctors

out of that conversation so that there's an illusion of consensus on all of these complicated issues when in fact what we need is all minds at the table talking considering honestly what we think instead of this suppression of opinion by government edict. >> laura: one of the most courageous doctors in the united states who led in part the great barrington declaration, everything you've been to and you still spoke out, dr. bhattacharya, we really appreciate you. thank you >> up next jimmy failla finally woke up from his new year's eve stoopor and's here to weigh in on a sober cnn and much more. you won't want to miss this. stay there.

♪ >> laura: now saturday night proved that the only thing worse than new year's eve on cnn hosted by drunk anchors was new year's eve on cnn with sober anchors. we on fox didn't need booze hounds to make our coverage on air fun, it was fun to watch. certainly not with jimmy failla on air. joining us now the host of fox across america, fox news radio, he joins us. jimmy, it's great to see you, happy new year. >> thank you, laura. >> laura: now, it wasn't the cnn, though, hosts that blacked out this time but their actual

coverage. i want you to watch what happened when the clock actually struck 12:00 in new orleans. >> ♪ [bleep] ♪ [bleep] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> y'all ready for this countdown? ♪ midnight it is new year's eve 2023! happy new year! >> laura: jimmy here's the problem, you can see the countdown in the corner it wasn't until 19 seconds after midnight if everybody wa ready to count down. what's the point of doing the countdown at all. >> don lemon did such a good job laura they just offered him a show on cnn plus. like, man, come on, dude. you literally had, you know the expression you had one job. this is like the groundhog forgetting to come out of his hole. new year's eve is all about the

countdown. the only thing i will a say in their defense is cnn has been dropping the ball all year long. hey, good night everybody. >> laura: all right, we can just drop the mic now. jimmy i preferred when they drank, i think it was much more interesting or maybe it was because i wasn't drinking. who knows. by the way, there is a brand new book out that's revealing that biden apparently doesn't trust his own secret service, saying that he told a friend that he thought an agent lied about being bitten on the leg last year by then first dog major. the president's attitude about the dog incident reportedly is part of a broader distrust of the security agency by the main figure it's supposed protect. that's his problem with the secret service? >> well, he has the territorial thing with the dogs in the white house because biden thinks the only one sniffing people is him. he doesn't realize he has some competition in that department. but yeah when it comes to the

secret service, if anybody should be showing their appreciation it's the guy who needs them to help him get in and out of every room like he's lost. remember when he walked out mid speech like i'm done here and they had to fish him out of the crowd? like show a little respect. >> laura: i think that dog could be on capitol hill giving encouragement to get people to come to an agreement. >> the dog was just picked up and supposed to be speaker. don't rule out the dog yet. >> laura: i thought george santos just added to the his resume. jimmy back to new year's now, it's that time of year where people are thinking of shedding a few lbs. but what happens they stop trying at the beginning of february according to the wall street journal saying exercise and weight loss the common focus is for resolutions but two-thirds of the people just basically a pan done them in the first month. jimmy, how's it going for -- not

that you need to lose weight. you look great. >> no, i leaned into this overweight figure skater look that i rock on your show every year. i look like i used to be the gold medalist guy they hoisted at the end of the routine but now i got fat during covid so i'm the guy on the bottom. the reason resolutions go nowhere because people want to make them at the beginning of the year to post the photo like look at me i'm turning my life around. number two you're making it at the bad time of the year, it is it's the height of the holidays it's the winter. >> laura: wait a second. >> whoa. who's that humble man. >> laura: they're telling me i have to get out but you just got thrown off by a mechanical bull. apparently he wants you to lose weight or something. jimmy see you next week. up next a sad good-bye on the angle.

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>> laura: a sad goodbye for us here at "the ingraham angle." jessica curry, one of our great, great producers, has been with us almost from the very beginning is going on to bigger and better things. she is getting married. malcolm is a lucky guy. he better take care of her. we were going to miss you. thanks for everything. she is one of the great. we have great kids on our staff. up next, "gutfeld!." ♪ ♪ >> greg: happy new year! yeah, hope you had a great new year's eve. i don't know if i did. which means i did. i'm not an optimist or a pessimist or even a gynecologist, despite what it says on my business cards,