dan. dan bongino. sean: they cut the sound. thank you for being with us. >> laura: reality bites and that's the focus of tonight's angle. how many of you are feeling more positive about your family's finances? do you feel like you're heading ahead financially or feel like you're falling behind?

>> i pay over $1230 in rent alone. i got two kids i'm taking care of so anything can help me out right now. >> very high eggs, $5 and up. milk, $5 a gallon. bread, $4 just for a loaf of bread. it's ridiculous. >> we paid $8.99 for a dozen eggs. >> it's a struggle for any family because the price of food is outrageous. >> when e moved here, rent was relatively cheap. now it's like you really got to have a second or third job just to keep up with rent. >> laura: well, despite all of this, biden thinks you should be feeling pretty upbeat. >> just this morning we got some very good news about the american economy, i'm not sure and i mean this that the news couldn't have been any better. >> laura: couldn't have been any better. i don't know what's lower at this point? his own pulse or his ability to

read the pulse of the american people. 71% of the country say we're on the wrong track and that's the eighth time the number was above 70% and nbc itself saying we've never before seen this level of sustained pessimism in the 30+ year history of the poll. heck of a joe, joey. yes, indeed, reality bites. the tiktok types entertain you with animal videos and push trendy makeup tricks, the angle treats you like smart americans because you are smart americans. last night we reiterated that the biden regime goal is lower not raise your standard of living. they believe that america must

become poorer to advance their power grab for climate change. now we have proof that their plan is working. now you are not going to believe the numbers that we're about to show you. you're not going to see them anywhere else. the imf just released its updated gdp outlook for this year and next year, and it looks like americans are right to be gloomy. look at our change from gdp from a p paltry 22% and now they had the election going the other way under tram and our chips act should have taken off and would have taken off like a rocket ship. europe declines too from 3.5% last year to 0.7% this year. our foreign neighbors to the north 2.5% down to is s .5% this year and next.

1.5% this year and next. looky here, where's china headed? a huge jumped nap 2023 and to taper off a little bit in 2024 but still, that's four and a half-times our gdp and that dip in 2024 is probably because we're not going to have the money to buy as much of their junk that we buy now. here are the cold hard facts. number one, the euro countries did better than us with their declines in 2022 and will still do better than us in 2024. shocking. canada did better than us in 2022 and even with its declines, its gdp will beat ours both in 2023 and 2024. that's justice trudeau to remind you. number three, china did better than us in 2022 and will do much better than us in 2023 and 2024. wait a second, what about

russia? i seem to remember assurances that biden's tough ukraine war sanctions would cripple putin. this is immediately and overtime. >> the media took the bait on the olekowski gashing angle. >> this week will it put the push on putin? >> laura: what's the report card on the grand sanction scheme and get the oligarch's

gang a year later? by 2024, even russia will be growing faster than the united states. chalk it up to another failure for the regime. just as the angle predicted. when we help make shy that richer, china turns around and buys more oil and agriculture from russia. even the new york times has to concede we were right. russian trade appears to have largely bounced back to where it was before the invasion of ukraine last february. overall things are going exactly as biden and the folks in the white house had hoped for.

these give the eu and china more leverage over and yous that's exactly what the re-seem wants. regime wants. during trump when the middle class was getting stronger and real median income was rising, the dc cabal, the swamp, they were miserable. why? because they loathe an america whose model is obviously superior to anything any other country could offer. living on our knees waiting for the crumbs our government throes and yous that's the angle. joining me now is missouri senator josh holly. senator, they said inflation was transitory they said russia's

economy would crumble under the sanctions and they did the bailout buying oil and ag and go on and on with the failed predictions and have they gotten anything right here? >> no, they haven't, laura. but i'll tell you this, they're getting what they wanted in an ultimate sense is they want to remake our economy. joe biden wants to remake our economy such that we don't have any more blue collar work in the country or jobs for working people and all those folk haves to depend on the government and all we have is this climate green economy where you have to have a fancy degree where you have to get a white collar job in a big city and live in the middle of the country, there's no jobs for you. that's what they want and don't like blue collar workers or blue collar culture and they're trying to wipe it out by changing our economy. laura, they're succeeding and we've got to stop them. >> laura: yeah, despite all this, everything we laid out, biden today pretends to be the

great protector, senator holly, of the middle class. watch. >> when i ran for president i agreed we'd build from the bottom up and middle out to bring back good paying jobs you can raise a family on whether or not you went to college, give families more breathing room to invest in ourselves again, invest in america again. that's what we've done. >> laura: that's what we've done, senator. people are now spending more than they're making because wages are not keeping up with prices. that's as obvious as, you know, biden's cognitive decline at this point. >> what he's doing is the opposite of his rhetoric and that's the real agenda to hollow out the middle class and working class in the country and the reason is he doesn't like the culture of blue collar workers and doesn't like their attachment to faith, he doesn't like their attachment to family, he doesn't like their attachment to church. he doesn't like any of that. the left thinks all of that's backwards and how do you get rid of it? so you can't get good paying

jobs if you're a blue collar worker or sustain in the working class and dement on government and take orders from government and the only people that flourish are the rich people at the top giving money to the democratic party. that's their agenda. if republicans want to turn this country around, they've got to go after that and start protecting the people that are the backbone of this nation. >> laura: even with the relatively mild winter all though our friends in wyoming at negative 20 wouldn't agree. more americans are struggling to pay their energy bills and number of households getting energy assistance this winter season rose an estimated 1.3 million to 6.2 million. that's the largest one year increase since the disastrous year of 2009. senator, is it not the case that the biden regime's goal is to lower our standards, lower our expectations? this is the new american normal.

no gas stoves, no cars that you want to drive. and bike lanes everywhere. we'll all become beijing and that's it. >> that's the norm. they want us once again -- they want working people to no longer be able to support themselves while meanwhile china gets rich. are we producing energy jobs in the country? not under joe biden? are we producing our own energy in the country? we're the most energy-rich country in the world. are we producing it? no, not under joe biden. who's getting rich off that? china. our blue collar class suffers and the chinese communist party gets rich. that's joe biden's agenda. >> laura: senator, great to see you tonight. thank you. bad policies not only impact at the federal level but most pointedly at the local level. now take new york where politicians sing a very familiar tune. >> i love my job representing all 20 million new yorkers in all our diversity. synergy home i'm here to fight for the people. everyone. no matter where they came from.

people of every collar. >>-- color. >> we're changing how we get things done for new yorkers and moving beyond a new era of abundance and equity. >> laura: equity. that's a claim from adams. it's complete bull. and you know how we know that because blacks are leaving new york city in droves. now thing haves gotten so bad, things have gotten so bad even the new york times is sounding the alarm. michelle okoki moved from new york to mans field, texas, in 2021 because she was worried about obtain ago good education for her children in what she called new york city's insane and complex system. atheni rodney is a product of upward mobility in new york city and wants promised americans and started her own event planning in the city and as ms. rodney's family grew, she found herself living in a cramped one-bedroom

rental where her three children share add bunk bed in the living room. she scrolled friends posts in georgia with backyards and nice homes. last summer the family bought a five bedroom home in snellville, georgia. advocate and activist living still in new york city. joy, this piece in the new york times. i was shocked they published it. but there is a flight of african americans from the north to the south that we've been hearing for ages is just racist and a terrible, awful place to live. what's happening here? >> well, new york city has changed so much. especially in the last three years and this is not anything that's new. this has been an issue in new york city for years and years and years. this is not anything new and blacks are starting to understand communities like mine, they're starting to understand new york is not the place where dreams are made of and whether it's they're starting a business or grow a family or own a home, it's not here in new york anymore.

>> by the way schools are underperforming and failing our kids and sending kids to fancy private schools. >> come here and make dreams happen and we'll pay for it and it's on the backs of taxpayers and meanwhile on the backs of city workers and city workers are working tirelessly to keep the trains running and garbage picked up and fire fighters and police officers answering 911 calls and not all services are afforded to us and offering $55,000 to migrants but what happens to the city workers that can't crest at $55,000 to

provide for their own family so they have to get up and leave and go where their money is stretched scout cost of living works for them. then new york city is just tired. if you look back at what happened over the last two years, 60% of blacks were let go because of mandate so what do they have left? they can't survive here. they're struggling and harm was done. eric adams caused harm to the people of new york. he has to be held accountable for it. >> laura: another horrifying story out of new york city is crime. today the nypd arrested two men early on tuesday morning after an armed robbery spree that spanned three new york city bureaus over a period of several hours. i'll be out on bail in 24 hours. one of the suspects is quoted as saying. joy, the criminals know they'll be released right away. they're not going to stop committing crimes. again, why would minorities at this point stay with the democrat party given the

insulting treatment and these horrific conditions across the board. as trump would say, what do you have to lose? give another party a try at this point. >> yeah, at this point, we're seeing what's happening in the cities. we're seeing that it's predominantly one political party but at this point if you even talk to black families or these communities, they don't care about politics at this point because unfortunately democrats and republicans failed us to uphold duty and oath and protect the rights and defend the rights of the people. it's people like me -- >> laura: well, truth be told here, if you're an african american living in florida, you have a much better chance a better standard of living and opening a small business than you do in any part of new york. i mean leadership does matter. >> absolutely. >> laura: it does matter and i'm not trying to be partisan here but the republican governors have overall been better for minorities than the liberal, pro-criminal,

pro-illegal immigrants mayors and governors across the country. give another leader a try at some point. >> absolute chicago and at some -- absolutely and at some point they need to do that and there needs to be a change and can't do the same thing and blame the previous administration and say if you stay democrat, it'll get better because we care about equity and race and your livelihood. really you don't care and this has been years and years and years. new york city has been a democrat city for a very long time and they're not changing anything. >> laura: something has to change. we talked about white flight and white flight has now turned into black flight. we love having you on. take care. tonight there's a big reveal, big one at the end of the show. some of y'all know i was joined while rehabbing. you were sick of hearing about this but this is fun. while i was rehabbing hi knee over the weekend in car accident i will give hints throughout the show and tweet me your guesses at ingram angle.

the first hint is oak pumping. kind of odd. oak pumping. tweet your guesses now and go to instagram to guess as well there. up next, a sudden spade of animal disappearances at the dallas zoo. this is bizarre. we have a breaking update on the latest pair who went missing.

>> laura: breaking news update tonight on the suspicious disappearances of multiple animals and the death of another at the dallas zoo. fox news correspondent kevin cork joining us with all the details. kevin, what can you tell us? reporter: evening, laura. a bit of good news and even a break in the case f. you've been following this story and wondering what in the world is going on down there over at the dallas zoo, you're not alone. first a leopard got lose after the enclosure was cut and a vulture found dead in a suspicious manner and two tamerin monkeys were missing and thankfully tonight the monkeys were safely located and found in the closet of an abandoned home. and tonight they are finally back in zoo custody where they are being checked out by veterinarians. just when you thought this story

couldn't possibly get any stranger like who would do such a thing, dallas police actually have a beat on who may know something about the mystery. tonight they're asking local residents for help in identifying this person in connection with the missing animals. and, yes, in case you're wondering, what are they going to do about all this madness? yes, the zoo tightened security measures adding more overnight guards and more cameras and an arrest could be in the future and we'll keep you posted but for now back to you. >> laura: kevin, unreal. thank you so much and good to see you. earlier today house republicans ignored opposition from president bide and voted to end the public health emergency related to covid, it's about time. anticipating a political black eye from the public that wants to see the whole emergency declaration nonsense and biden tried to get ahead of it last night declaring that the emergency would come to an end on may 11. if you thought joe was ridden to

the action by his own white house, listen to his response here. pay attention to the date. >> what's behind your decision to listen to the covid emergency. >> covid emergency ends when -- we've extended to make it [inaudible]. that's all. >> laura: couldn't even get the date right. why not end this now? joining us now is a board certified doctor, phd research and scientist and d good to see you -- doctor, good to see you in studio. this administration is buying tim until the next pandemic and variant. are they hoping for some other shoe to drop here? they cannot let go of this power. this is bizarre. >> they're taking queues, laura from gavin newsom and la county. what did gavin newsom do? use the pandemic as an execution not to do better health policy but to print ballots and basically send them out to everyone and make that permanent

and la county used the pandemic as an excuse to ban convictions indefinitely and we're seeing the federal government taking cues for them and policies nationwide. this has nothing to do with public health and if you see the entire country at a low level of covid transmission and end the pandemic today and how in the world can they predict an arbitrary date in the future and lawler does a supreme court have to do with this? >> laura: whole pandemic emergency declaring for states like pennsylvania, this was a total abuse of power and there was never going to be an end to it and they'd have it go on for the next 25 years if they could. >> when you have any kind of medical issue in a pandemic emergency is a perfect example, there's an end point. when are we done? >> laura: objective standards in may of 2020. what are the objective metrics and they kept moving the goal post. here was congresswoman sheila jackson lee's response to the house vote. >> the pandemic is not over.

500 people are adied right now as i'm standing here from covid. that's a reasonable amount. i know there are other infectious diseases but doesn't it make sense that if we can have a vaccine and a protocol that allows people to live, our children, those with preexisting conditions that we want them to do so? at any moment, we could have a surge of covid-19. >> laura: her last comment is why they're extending for the next pandemic or variant and the question talks about 500 people a day and i'm not sure if that accurate and how many people are dying because of repeated booster shots that we don't know about. they don't care about those facts. >> that 500 number is pretty exaggerated. why? they're looking at patients that die with covid and not from covid. the ones dying because of covid, the numbers are dramatically less and in la county, several months ago they were fudging the numbers on a nationwide level and look to see who's dying because of covid as their

primary reason for death, you'll see a dramatically lower proportion. >> laura: doctor, so great to see you in studio. >> thanks for having me, laura. >> laura: the second tip for who joined me in rehab, not that kind of rehab, physical therapy, okay. is it classic return line, here's the hint, a classic return line. keep sending the guesses at ingram angle at twitter and hit me on instagram and we'll reveal the answer and some of your guesses at the end of the show. up next, donald trump has his first gop primary opponent, the breaking news on who that is next. plus, senator jd vance, congressman jim banks with an announcement of their own, stay with us.

>> laura: this is breaking just moments ago, the south carolina post and courier reporting that former south carolina governor and trump ambassador to the un nicky haley

will officially jump into the 2024 presidential race announcing tomorrow with the formal announcement coming february 15th. in the latest echelon inside poll she was polling at about 2% and doesn't mean much now, it's so early. well behind at the time and front runners donald trump and ron desantis and should she choose to get in, of course, we're going to santa claus rallr feel. this looming announcement dove tail withs what we'll discuss with our next guest. earlier today newly minted america first senator jd vance endorsed indiana congressman jim banks. he won the endorsement of the aforementioned vance and mitch daniels said he would not run. in a rare move the nrsc threw its weight behind his candidacy for the senate as well.

senator vance, before we get into the news you were here for, what is your initial reaction to this news about nicky haley? >> i think he's the best nominee to deliver on the propses and i think trump will win and i think he'll be the best nominee nor the party. >> laura: congressman banks, your thoughts on nikki haley? i mean, everybody knows nikki haley, she's a lovely person and considered quite formidable at the un. she's more of an establishment favorite. if i saw someone online today saying she should be the jeb bush of 2024, i don't know if that's fair or not. she's understood to be a bit more established and certainly not a populous conservative, but she has a lot of fans out there. >> welshing i'm sure she won't be the last candidate to get into the race but there's a

reason that donald trump is the front runner in this race early on. he's the leader of the republican party for a big reason and he changed america in such a significant way and we've seen in two short years the biden administration undo most of the progress that donald trump made for this great country. and america is hungry for that type of -- to go back to that type of leadership that we had when donald trump was in office. this race has a long ways to go. i'm sure there'll be others that get in the race and there's a good reason that donald trump is the front runner today. >> laura: all right, now for the reason we're here. jd vance, you know that my big concern about the senate is that it really doesn't reflect the core, the feeling, the heart of the american conservative today. that is much more globalist and so forth. so why is jim banks the right man to be the next senator from the state of indiana? >> well, laura, what you just said is the very reason why i

think jim banks should be the next senator for indiana. he comes from a working class family. he does not apt republican party that represents the interest of the globalists and he want as republican party that represents normal americans, workers, middle class people that go to work and pay taxes and want to live in safe and secure communities. he's great on all the issues and a good friend, and i've been in the senate for all of a month, laura, and i know we need as many good people that are america first conservatives in the senate as possible. jim banks is that guy. i'll say to your viewers, laura, if they're in indiana and i hope they'll vote for jim banks in the primary and general election. go to banksforsenate to support him and we need his support from the grass roots and not the donor community and all these things getting jim elected in the right way is the best way to transform the senate and country and he's a great guy and candidate and will make a great senator. >> laura: congressman banks,

must be weird sitting here hearing all the weird things said about you. do you have a re-toric. do want to take issue with anything he said? what about the early voting problem nationwide? what's the status of early voting in indiana for our viewers out there who aren't sure how it goes there? >> well, we had better voter id laws in indiana than many other states in the country. so that's the silver bullet. we need all states to pass strong voter id laws like my state has and at the same time we have to do more to ban ballot harvesting into the 2024 election and secure the elections when half of the american people don't trust our elections and we have a crisis to do everything we can to trust us in the process and do that at state level and state by state and ways that the federal government could amend existing federal election laws to ban ballot harvesting and all mail

in ballot process that led to the shenanigans that happen in the 2020 election. >> laura: if you do t do it like florida does. in less exciting news, guys, here was adam schiff on his own bid for the senate on sunday. >> i need to get out. california is in a time when the democracy is so deeply at risk and quality of life as risk and deeply concerned about the future of the kids and start to entertain a demagogue that promises he can fix things. >> laura: senator vance, he's right our culture and way of life is at risk because of democrat rule. we went through the gdp w wipe t for the united states and projections for the next two years and we're getting killed under biden's policy. he's right and everything is at resident and can they're the ones to blame.

the fbi going after the political opponents from donald trump on down and adam schiff is one of the problems and one of the reasons to get congressman banks in the united states senate and if god forbid in two years i'm serving with adam schiff and we'll need reinforcements and banks is the guy to do it. >> laura: how many populous conservative america firsters in the senate are there? you must have counted, how many are there? >> not more than two hands worth, laura. we could use as many reinforcements as possible. >> laura: gentlemen, great to see both of you. we're excited about congressman bank's run. the explosion of legal pot growing in california has turned parts of the state into what lawmakers describe as the wild wild west. we're talking about illegal pot growing, not legal pot growing. those details in moments and speaking of societal rot in the golden state, the head of the state's reparations committee

has shocking plans for where the money will come from. stay with us.

>> laura: this is every bad idea seems to start in california and first state to mandate covid vaccines for school-aged kids and first

sanctuary state for minors who want so-called gender affirming care. the gas stove ban, that started in berkeley. and of course it was the first state to legalize medical marijuana and led to legalization for recreational use. we were told that was supposed to cut down on crime and on jail overcrowding, eliminate cartel activity but what actually happened? the illegal pot business is booming but it's being run by organized crime syndicates that have local games sell it. la times investigation found legalization led to political corruption, explosive growth and illegal cultivation and widespread exploitation of workers. now lawmakers are demanding a full investigation into what they say turned parts of the state into the wild wild west. joining me now is california assemblyman tom lackey. assemblyman, you say this is destroying california

communities. how so? >> we have several thousand that have come to the desert to cultivate this product and it -- for a long time went completely un-enforced. quite frankly cannabis -- we're the only state in the entire union where you can be caught cultivating cannabis and not be guilty of a felony. >> laura: the amount of money these illegal grow operations are making is just staggering. police seize more than $3 million worth of cannabis in livermore, california, including 3,000 plants valued at over $2 million and process flour valued at over $1 million and

$46,000 in cash and three firearms. assemblyman, are these busts common? as far as i request tell, there's thousands and thousands of illegal grows in the middle of national forests like the shasta forest, which is what 2 million acres. hard to even find them there. >> yeah, it's really sad. quite frankly these are not cheech and chon operations but the cartel and they only care about profit. they're stealing water in the desert, which is a very precious commodity, that you might guess and poisoning the earth with illegal pesticides and they're exploiting workers and the la times article you referred to indicated we have at least 35 farm worker deaths and this is a very serious problem that a lot of people just dismiss as, oh, it's just cannabis. >> laura: now, what are you saying as a warning to other states across the country?

because obviously this is a -- this is a boulder rolling down the hill with pot legalization and big money with people like john baynard flaking for one pot company saying it'd never been for legalization. what are you saying for those states? >> learn from california and learn from our mistakes and one thing that was very unique about our state was the fact that we had an illicit market able to practice for almost 20 years because we had a semi-legal unregulated space where they're able to really hone in on their skills. there's different levels, cultivation, manufacturing and distribution and of course retell and all those aspects were able to dbrox exploited by the illicit market and these cartels, they are no joke and they're very, very serious and they don't care if deaths get in the way or poisoning the earth or stealing water, they really

don't -- as i said, they care about one thing, profit. >> laura: where are all the environmentalists and what's being done in the forest and the water supply and they're not packaging the fun little things you're seeing in the video there and undercutting the cost and selling on the street and taking their control. asemi-man thank you for this warning. staying in california, where we are of course, the states reparation task force met here over the weekend and after recommending last month that black residents should get over 223,000 per person for past housing discrimination but this time they tried to figure out how a state would pay for it. among the suggestions would be taxing the rich of course. there could be a mansion tax, a graduated property tax, a state estate tax and even suggested a tax on t m meta verse. >> black americans are less likely to gain access to tax

breaks that white peers receive and more likely to pay higher taxes than their white peers. >> laura: joining me is amala ekpunobi. your reaction. >> it gets more ridiculous and especially here in california and as far as reparations are concerned, it's a discussion we should have had when we emancipated slaves not 200 years later. there's very little benefits among the black community with reparations and it's not meeting the foundational problems that african americans are facing in the country right now. >> laura: well, the idea that you'll make californians better by driving more people out of the state, they're losing 300,000 resident as year and there's already a tax, i believe in place or being proposed if you leave california. >> exactly. >> laura: you're going to get taxed. it's like hotel california, you can check out but can never leave. >> you would think they'd think maybe we should change the

policy or the discussion that we're having to keep people in the state but they refuse to do it and the task force chair on this reparations committee says she's going to approach all these issues as radically as she possibly can. >> laura: amala, the number the task force is looking at per black resident is $223,000. here's how one resident reacted to this. >> damages, real quick, damages certainly they have to go back to slavery. we're talking about compensation back to slavery. how will reparations be paid immediately? and $200,000 is not enough. $223,000. >> thank you, thank you so much. >> laura: amala, this is the inevitable reaction. it's never enough. >> with activism, there's no final destination as far as what they want from the american people as far as what they want with reparations and you give them $223 and each black

resident what they're proposing and some activists say it's not enough and as soon as it's given and if it is, they'll come back and say we need more and you've not met the need as a black community and not repair the transgressions of history. >> laura: i want you to comment on what we talked about earlier and we were shocked that the new york times actually did a major piece today about black flight from new york city to the south. >> yep. >> laura: people moving to texas, georgia, south carolina, beyond for good schools, less crime. a chance for a better life. surprised? >> i'm really not. you go and talk to black america about issue by issue basis and speaking conservatively and they want to be in a community that supports their own prosperity and own ability to flourish. if you go to some of the lower income communities of people of color and you ask them about progressive policy and you'll find they don't like it at all.

>> laura: amala, thank you. finally, who was my rehab buddy after surgery? your final hint: mist hulk. your guesses and the big reveal, next.

cake kk the answer to the angles gametime question of the night what did they run into while doing physical therapy right let's do a brief review? one, the austrian oak. and two, the classic return line . and three, the missed bulk here are some of your answers. the guys from duck dynasty. hulk hogan, and richard guest, stallone. here is the big reveal. arnold swarts and egger. he was the austrian oak, of course, his classic return line

i'll be back. >> albi back. >> he lost out to the lead role and the classic series the incredible hulk. could get i didn't expect arnol to be there, but we had fun. that's it for us. ♪ >> happy tuesday. good to see you all. mean that. out about some economic news. i know it sounds boring. but it's important freight also larry kudlow is here.

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