>> sean: look at your screen, as reported earlier, looking at one of the kidnapping victims about what happened in mexico, but when he approached, she refused to answer any questions. we will keep us posted on all of that. what a great audience tonight. let not your heart be troubled, benjamin hall tomorrow for the hour, laura is here, and let's give it up for laura ingraham! [cheers and applause] >> laura: what nice people! >> sean: they are all here, that's for you, laura. >> laura: great crowd, i am laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight, the myth of tonight's angle. just when you thought you had heard the last of the nfl quarterback at colin kaepernick, he resurfaces to promote another groundbreaking project that he coauthored. >> colin kaepernick has a

powerful message for young people in his new book he says stand up for what you believe in. >> part of the goal in telling the story is to take pride in your blackness, take pride in your culture. my hope is young people and readers walk away and they cease their power. >> laura: nothing wrong with that us all, everyone should take pride in their background and who they are, after all, kaepernick himself lived a charmed life, adopted at five weeks old my parents who by his own account to loved and supported him. >> your dad and i have had so many proud moments since you came into our lives. you have always been very persistent and tenacious in pursuit of anything you desire, but i admire that treat anyone as well, because it is what took you to fulfillment of your dreams. >> laura: and upward middle-class upbringing in california, nice house, nice community, a top athlete in school, both baseball and football, probably could have

played in the major leagues. his parents sacrifice to make sure that he had every opportunity to succeed, and he reached the pinnacle, all the way to the super bowl for the 49ers. but the moment he decided to take a knee to protest prickly's police brutality, kaepernick saw a career that provide a better pay and more job security than anything on the football field, de facto president of racial victim apology inc. he was a person at clement perfect vessel where the media and american hating leftists could pour their enthusiastic support. >> the off-season for colin kaepernick looks much different these days. the 35-year-old has a nonprofit, a publishing company, and media projects including a docuseries on netflix in an upcoming documentary with director spike lee. >> laura: that is some big bank, and if it means throwing your parents under the bus to promote your comic book, why not? >> it's his true high school coming-of-age story, his jersey

clement journey embracing his blackness, despite the person went many including hits. >> i know that my parents love me, but there were problematic things that i went through. it's important to show that this can happen in your own home, and how we move forward collectively. while addressing the racism that is being perpetuated. >> laura: now the comic book shows young kaepernick being a fan of allen iverson wanting to emulate his onboard look. >> kaepernick wanted cornrows to match pit he is getting what roles, his mom asked? >> your hair is not profe professional. >> your mom said that to you? >> yeah. and those are spaces where how do we navigate this situation now? >> laura: is that what you say as a teenager? how do i navigate the situation? who knows what happened in his house or what his parents said, but there's only one reason why that drive-by anecdote about his hair was included, it was to

sell kaepernick ink. but at some point they are going to run out of victim myth material, it already dramatized the entire scene and is netflix special. >> you have to cut your hair if you are going to stay on the team. >> truth be told, you do look unprofessional. >> you have to cut your hair. >> i don't want to. >> we told you, it's a team rule. >> wide? >> because you look like a thug. >> what? >> laura: now the message is deeply corrosive, especially to children that white people are inherently racist and even dangerous, and that unless they are atoning for their ingrained racism, unless they declare themselves allies and the bogus antiracism movement, they are irredeemable. even if those white individuals are family. and devoted their life to their

minority child. but in the end, this is not even about colin kaepernick. it's about what the left has done to destroy hope, optimism, and truth in america. the left has failed american working people at every turn, but especially minorities. cities that they run have become havens of decline and despair. joe biden's open border has kept two drugs flooding into the poorest of poor neighborhoods. liberal das entity from the police movement that kaepernick himself supports has sparked a crime wave that is killed countless people of color. but they want black and brown people in america to believe that the real problem are the 74 million people who voted for donald trump. >> this maga crowd is the most extreme political organization that has existed in american history. in recent american history. >> laura: think of how far the democrats have fallen, bill clinton was a man for hope,

obama was about hope and change, and now we have joe biden. >> long hunted and played to the nation. >> facing deep racial negligence in the american systemic racism that has plagued our nation for far, far too long. >> laura: think about what the democrats are really saying here. after rosa parks, brown v.board of education, the civil rights act of 1964, the work of martin luther king jr., and obama as a two-term president of the united states, and now the left main arguments is that nothing has improved for black america? it is all rotten and racist in the country? while black wages were increasing under donald trump, black unemployment was the lowest in 50 years under trump. in minorities, today, they have reached the top of every profession in this country. in the media, and corporate

america, and sports, entertainment, and far beyond. so it is a vicious hateful wide to imply that most of america is so infected by racism that the system is rigged. that's only big government is the answer. in fact, big government is a trap. just look at what's big government today to schools in urban america. in the end the media will always promote the fact that they believe racism poisons any effort to to build a relationship between white people and people of color. rather than celebrate biracial adoptions or biracial marriages, the left is treating them with automatic suspicion, that really does say it all. and let's be candid, if colin kaepernick's message in his new graphic novel was about how much he loved america, how blessed he was to have such selfless adopted parents, now, he would not be rich, and he would not have his own publishing company or a netflix

deal. and that's "the angle" joining me is florida congressman byron donalds, and horace cooper, congressman, again, kaepernick is the vessel, the most recent vessel for the left's poisonous hatred that they are pouring into this country, but when adoptive parents of a minority child get hit across the face, again, we don't know what happened in this household coming you kind of see where this is all taking us. >> i mean, look, laura, first things first, his parents decided to adopt him out of the goodness of his thought meant their heart. they raised him come a part of his success being an nfl quarterback as part of what they did instilling a nurturing and him for his life. i just cannot imagine doing that to somebody who raised you. i think about my mom, my mom said a lot of tough things to me growing up about how i'm supposed to to comport myself and carry myself as an individual in america, and so to write a book about that, i just could not get there.

so that's the thing that is problematic about this, because they decided to make a decision for themselves to care for him. and so in my view to not honor them, i just think is wrong. >> laura: it is an anecdote and a graphic novel about his life, but the point is the theme that america is racist cells in publishing companies, including his own publishing company, but it sells. and he used another interview yesterday to display his utter contempt for the white culture, watch. >> to really take hold of my blackness and do it in a way that i was proud of, and i was excited about. and the difficulty with that is being in white culture, so trying to navigate that while having a white family and being in a prominently white comm community. in trying to find ways to make sure that my identity and blackness is not stripped from me.

>> laura: horace, a lot of navel-gazing, would you make of this? >> it just tells me that racism is so awful in america, that colin kaepernick's coloring book is likely going to be a best seller, because everybody is on the racism train. you know, i look at this story of his life, and what i see is a life that many millions of americans would be grateful for. would find it an amazing story of the possibilities what makes america. here's a man who is living a life where parents do the very kinds of things that they do every single day, we call these loving parents to make it possible for you to be a suc success. if my mother and father, if my grandmother had not intervened to influence me, which by the

way, colin kaepernick would probably call them racist too, even though they are all black. i would not be sitting right here today. you got prince harry, you have colin kaepernick, two super, super privileged people complaining about how they grew up. amazing. >> laura: you know, congressman, think of what has happened to the inner cities, especially our schools at the hands of the party that colin kaepernick is most closely aligned to, obviously the left, the democrats, that's a real carnage in america. he grew up in a privileged community. good for him. parents, i don't know them, but seemed like he was very appreciative of them for most of his career, but he has to sell a book in a comic book in a netflix special and suddenly they might as well be wearing white hoods. but what to make of this obsession with victim apology and selling victim algae to young people? is it not a cynical view of the

country? >> it absolutely is, but i am coming back to one thing, i heard my own mother talking about different hairdos and hairstyles, cohen rose and the like, and she was like you can't do that, this is the way you are going to care yourself and that's how you will do your hair and all that stuff, it will be nice and kept nice and that's what you are going to do. now to the victim ologies from the left, this is one of the things that real cancer and our country, because the ills of our past are what they are, the civil rights movement as a thing that everybody should study, all of the fights and the struggles, but to try to weaponize that into the minds of young black kids today who are in a far better position than any era of black individuals in the history of our country is outrageous and it is a defeating proposition for these young people, because it does not help them understand a fully taken into their own agency with all the opportunities they have in america today. i think it is destructive of the country. >> kat: again, whereas hope and change?

obama was about optimism and tomorrow is better than today. apparently nothing gets better, so now they just have to stay as horace called it, the race train. congressman, horace, thank you. speak of the thing i am proposing not only lifting the burden, but it's going to generate economic growth. >> laura: seriously, joe, let's talk about what your budget plan really tells us. we will get to the tax heights in a moment, but this document only gives us more evidence that the economic future for america it's very grim. now under the plan, interest on the debt, interest on the debt is 2.9% of the budget, that's nearly $800 billion, to put it simply so that everybody understands this. that is very close to the amount of money we are spending annually on our entire military, so this budget is based right now on a very pessimistic and chilling assessment of where our countries gdp will be both this year and next year, can you say

flatlined? i mean, the charts are disturbing. .6%, the biden administration is going off of 2023, and 1.5%. so after four years of biden being in office, not only will we have not built back better, but we will have steamrolled what should've been a soaring economy. i mean, my friends, we know this, if trump's policies had stayed in place, america will be looking at 4% gdp. but now all joe biden has to offer us is more spending and higher taxes. personal income, capital gains, whether realized or unrealized, corporate taxes are all higher and no end in sight. he also gives us another tedious refrain about people needing to pay their fair share. >> just began to pay your fair share. that's why i am fighting for another proposal, anybody who thinks our present federal tax

system is fair, raise your hand. i am not joking. people making $400,000 and you don't think it's fair. >> laura: is this fair? according to the irs in 2020, the top 1% of income earners paid 42.3% of the country's income taxes. that is a two decade high, and the share of income taxes paid by lower earners has been going down. so despite the presidents demagogue or fee here, millionaires and billionaires don't pay less than their secretaries. now joe biden wants to raise taxes to pay interest on the debt we have already bothered wrote good people think you can borrow borrow borrow and apparently never pay back, but that's not how it works. the paper will be paid eventually. and now we are left with three undeniable facts. china, yes, they are getting stronger. and ukraine is losing the war to russia, and the economy is stuck in the pits and will be for the

next two years. what a record. joe biden needlessly borrowed trillions, doled out to people to stay home what should've been working, and triggered massive inflation. we predicted this in early 2021, we said it would happen, democrats defilement -- defiantly forged ahead with all of the spending in the printing of the cash and waving off conflation -- inflation concerns like larry summers does not know anything. and there's no better example of how it's destroying the middle class and what is happening to general motors, just six weeks ago the headlines were great, gm smashes expectations and a strong 2023. what about today's headlines? offering buyouts to majority of u.s. salaried workers at that aims to cut $2 billion in structural costs over the next two years. now what makes it remarkable is that gm's fortunes were used as a de facto campaign slogan back

in 202012. one that was repeated most often by our current president. >> you want to know whether we are better off? i have a little bumper sticker for you, usama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive! >> laura: now gm is dead, and bin laden's taliban runs afghanistan pair just like they were wrong on china entering the wto, they were wrong on this. and what's more, their policies directly led to this ruin. and sadly in the end, it is americans who are left holding the bag. as the house committee on the weaponization of the government held a meet demand hearing today, you might've seen that. while the democrats thoroughly embarrassed themselves, we will can on one figure. who has a particularly sordid past, plus we have a federman update with you, so stay here.

♪ ♪ >> laura: who can forget how how the left obsessed about president trump's unique threat to journalists. remember they were saying stuff like, someone is going to get hurt, he will get someone killed. boy how things have changed. at today's hearing on the weaponization of them demand government, democrats are saying the reporters themselves are the real threats.

>> i just want to look at the very real threat posed by twitter files and the witnesses in front of us today. i'm not exaggerating when i say that you have call before you two witnesses that pose a direct threat to people who oppose t them? >> laura: ladies and gentlemen, i give you delegate of the items. and like the rest of her party, she is alarmed when independent journalists shine a light on the production of the democrats. >> twitter, facebook, google, other companies developed a system for taking moderation requests from every corner of government making lists of people whose opinions, beliefs, emotions or sympathies are deemed to misinformation, disinformation, or mall information. the making of such lists is a digital mccarthyism. >> laura: and see is that comment as a threat to our power. and responds in kind.

>> all of the so called twitter files really showed was a discussion on content moderation and that we only got a fraction of the discussion. >> republicans have brought an two of elon musk's public scribes to release cherry picked out of context emails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen narrative. >> laura: now why did the democrats choose to be the ranking democrat in the first place? she had the media swooning during the trump impeachment hearings, but she also has a shady past of her own. during her candidacy to represent to the u.s. virgin islands, she received over $10,000 in contributions from... jeffrey epstein. contribution she had to be pressured into returning when jeffrey epstein's well-known crimes were known public. her relationship was apparently so galling that the pulitzer prize-winning daily news asked

in february of 2020 whether she was one of his enablers. well, and she does not think we are cherry picking. now if a u.s. representative does not care about protecting our citizens first amendment rights, he or she should not be representing this committee, or honestly be serving on it at all. joining me now is congressman dan bishop of the house may government subcommittee. that's a mouthful, she was really a piece of work today. but what happened to democrats loving the idea of a robust aggressive and independent press corps? where did that go? >> oh, man, laura, that is so gone. the hostility of self not only from this, but everybody on the democrat side of the aisle like the two heroes of liberal journalists, michael shellenberger, and they were fantastic, and it is astonishing as it is a part of this chilling

episode of which we have only seen the tip of the iceberg, these gentlemen and several others have become with several parts of the twitter files is just the surface part above the water, laura, there is the censorship and industrial complex that is burgeoning across, i mean, it has covered the federal government, all of these ngos and only the several journalists are standing up and boy, the ruling class in the democratic party are hostile and they are belittling and trying to destroy folks like those who are speaking out to lead the american people know what is happening. >> laura: the fact is that the democrats policies are not working, they have no growth, not going to have any growth the next year. so it's over. their policies have failed. so now all they are left with is racial fearmongering, and censorship, and basically deciding to shut down free speech. that's all they are left with.

i don't know where else they go? and this was obviously, and dan goldman who basically bought his congressional seat was rebuked by chairman jordan, watch this episode. >> twitter, you cannot find actual evidence of any direct government censorship of any lawful speech. >> the following email from clark humphrey, executive office of the presidency, wanted to flag at the below tweet and wondering if we could get moving on the process for having it removed. >> laura: the other networks were saying this hearing was a bust, of course they don't talk about the substance of the underlying issues involved, your reaction? >> bust, and what it does is it sets the table. there is much more to be discovered and disclosed, but what we are facing as a censorship regime unlike anything else we have seen in the united states government history. and your observation about the

others is very key to this. the democrats, the left despise the first amendment. they are ready to see that go. because they want power. i'm telling you, as these journalists who have been well-known journalist for a long time said this is the biggest story of their lives, and they find it chilling. they are personally afraid of what is happening in the united states with the governments, the ngos, and to the media social media platforms, this complex. i have to root it out to save the first amendment in this country. >> laura: i guess we will have to see how long these suburban women voters and voters in urban america are willing to suffer for what you saw today. if that's the best that america has two offer, that class gets representing the virgin islands, i feel bad for the virgin islands, it's a beautiful place and i feel bad for them. thank you. this is a headline in "the new york times," cloistered at walter reed, fetterman runs

his operation from afar. of course no one believes that. and the piece inadvertently admits that his chief of staff basically now runs the show. but there is another passage that we thought was telling. the times and in corny rights, doctors say the senator should limit his exposure to cable tv, the internet, and social media. yet the media tasked with rehabilitating fetterman's image as someone who is capable of doing the job, they are given unfettered ask bunt access while the press corps is not allowed to see or hear him? joining us now, sean duffy, former congressman and cohost of fox business is "to the bottom line" this is how it always goes, is it not? politician or his handlers, they need a story to get out, so they give one person access, and then they say, okay, tell that story. for more access in the future. >> laura: so "the new york times" cover for fetterman who is stuck in a

hospital at walter reed, and just to be clear, laura, and its cover piece all dis- information, for 12 hours a day members of congress or senators spend time meeting with constituents. they brought to the senator house floor, they go to hearings, they ask questions. they caucused with their colleagues to strategize and plan together, those are all jobs that only a senator can do, chief of staff cannot do that. but laura, in this article by "the new york times," they went so far as to say that the chief of staff will actually cosponsor legislation until the member of congress after. if my chief of staff ever signed a piece of legislation that i did not approve, he would be fired. that does not have been anywhere, i mean, maybe in dianne feinstein's office, but no other office does that happen whether you are democrat or a republican. the member leaves the office, they are the heart of the office, he even said, listen, he kind of glad hands, but the real work is done by the chief of staff. in a sit down for 20 or

30 minutes, they want to see what their constituents care about. what their issues are, and not only is it good for policy, but it's good politics. he can't do any of these things. he is a name plate the senate office, but with him not there, the chief of staff w who is not elected cannot replace. so the citizens of pennsylvania are not being represented right now. >> laura: i think that that is the key points, and we wish everybody well. we wish him well in his recovery. we hope that everybody is you know, feeling better and getting better. but he was pushed to be in this race but it looks like his wife and a few others. they knew that he was not coming you know, come on, we knew that he was not up for it, he struggled every day he was out on that campaign trial. i actually felt bad for impaired a total left us, but i felt bad. and now we are seeing what happens and the consequences as you said, sean, congressman, for the people. the people are suffering now, and there is no leadership. >> it's a really good point, and by the way, you mention his wife

who forced him to run, rachel and i did a podcast from the kitchen table where we talked about jill biden and gisele fetterman, and the fact that in this article she stops by to see him one time a week? rachel would be there every other day if not every day. i mean, what is going on in this family? why are we pushing so hard for our own personal achievement as opposed to will be are supposed to do. this is supposed to be a service. if you can't serve the people they represent coming you should step aside and let someone else do it. and no doubt, he can't serve the people. and i wish him well, i want him to get better. i disagree politically, it has a human being and a father i want him to recover. but you can't represent their constituents as a senator, so let someone else do it. >> laura: we appreciate it, thank you so much. now not the only one with ties to jeffrey epstein, or at least suspected ties, one famous wall street ceo might be in some hot water with some new regulations, and wire mill and

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>> laura: back in december, the virgin islands president alleged in the lawsuit that jeffrey epstein use the bank to facilitate as many sex trafficking crimes. now jpmorgan has been the past few months fighting in court to shield it ceo jamie dimon, but today a big setback, fox news senior national correspondent is here with all the details. speak a very interesting story, i know from a legal perspective, let me share for the next few folks at home, and sharing jpmorgan chase to hand over more documents to the u.s. virgin islands concerning the ceo jamie dimon, that request is actually part of the territory's lawsuit against the bank

accusing it of aiding jeffrey epstein and his sex trafficking ring. manhattan district judge has ordered the bank to turn over documents from 2015 to 2019. a period after jpmorgan had actually dropped clement dropped jeffrey epstein as a client, it said to be calling jamie dimon a likely source of relevant and unique information about why jpmorgan kept him on as long as it did. now the virgin islands are said to be seeking damages from jpmorgan chase, allegedly for aiding a sex trafficking by keeping him on as a client, and missing "red flags about his misconduct. now jeffrey epstein who had been at jpmorgan from make that 2000-2013 allegedly killed himself in a jail cell back in august of 2019 while awaiting trial if that is what you believe. that is what we have been told. now jpmorgan has previously said

this is all a big fishing expedition, noting that the territory has artie recovered more than $105 million in the estate, but they are digging, and will keep watching. >> laura: the concern is that jeffrey epstein was known to have surveillance all around that island, and cameras everywhere, have we seen any of that footage of what came out, what happened to that? >> we have not seen that footage, what about in new mexico, there is a lot more to the story. he had a place in new york as well, and i have not seen a black book. i have not seen video of the people, and going. i'm sure it is out there somewhere, but i have not yet seen it. >> laura: yes, thank you, great to see you tonight. and speaking of billionaires, why are so many scooping up huge swaths of land around america, bill gates has been well documented, who 270,000 acres of

u.s. farmland. jeff bezos, he owns 420,000 acres in west texas. mark zuckerberg owns 1500 acres in hawaii, and in recent days he was joined by oprah winfrey who purchase now and total close to 1,000 acres on the island. now obviously, the rich and famous, they can do whatever they want with their money, but we could not help but ask, what do they know that we don't? i think the best guess for a lot of people is perhaps self-preservation on link investments that are subject to the whims of the stock markets, land is forever and it provides food, water, timber, it is a reliable investment and will be there forever. but it also reveals that they don't think that this economy run by this president frankly is going to recover or that america will even regain its past economic glory. it's pretty pessimistic. perhaps that's what we should be worrying about more than anything. here now is ned ryan, ceo of the

american majority. ned, there is further thought on this that with what seems to be the growing acceptance of a forced scarcity in the united states and beyond of water and the food supply that the elites, the rich, the billionaires will always have their food and water source covered by having the land they have. that sounds wild and out there, but there you have it. >> i don't disagree with that, laura, they have always bought lands, ted turner to today, and hedging against inflation, always a safe haven for money, god is not making any more land. the interesting dynamic for me especially in the last couple of decades is the fact that they had been acquiring a lot more farmland, farmland does perform very well in inflationary periods and holding its value. and it's very curious that bill gates has specifically

acquired 200,000 acres of farmland, and i think that one of the interesting dynamics now that is taking place in america with regards to the farmland as we are seeing the wealthy pick up more of it over 40% of the remaining farmland is owned by senior citizens, meaning there will be a transfer of this ownership of farmland in the very near future and i'm sure that some of us can be past or future generations, but i think the question that ties into what you're talking about earlier is what happens if the wealthy acquire more and more this farmland, people like bill gates who have a very different vision for the future then you and i do and believe in the hoax of man-made global warning and believe that the world is overpopulated, what does it look for the american consumer and american society as more and more farmland comes into the hands of the wealthy somatic wealthy who do not have the same vision that we do. and it's something the elected official should be asking if they want to see the american people benefit in the situation. >> laura: especially when you see places like the netherlands,

one-third of all farmlands basically being seized by the government for concern over a nitrogen projection. and bill gates is i guess not a fan of having so much cattle, and national review thinks that that is part of the equation, reducing the cattle supply for all but the super wealthy, because again, the bogus concern of climate change, how real is that? >> laura: i think we have to take that into consideration. i think it's a very real thing that we should be considering as more of more of these people acquire land and their vision for the future and their belief system of global warming and all of these things, what does that look like for us. it's not a good future and i think that that's one of the reasons we should be looking at how much land are they acqu acquiring? especially the farmland they are acquiring into private needs. >> laura: at some point it is a national security issue for the the country. thank you, good to see you.

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♪ ♪ >> laura: you want to know what guides today's democrat party, look no further than what happened during a hearing today about joe biden's decision to drain our strategic petroleum reserve. >> one of the a so-called energy experts is a philosopher who has previously espoused white supremacist abuse. he came here to promote fossil fuels that we know are disproportionately harming and killing black and brown people. >> thank you for giving me a minute to address the truly despicable and false attack on me claiming that anything i've ever said as white supremacist and then trying to imply that that somehow applies today. when i have argued for my entire adult life is that western culture is superior in the sense that it promotes individualism and freedom. there are different places around the world that are in many ways inferior. the female genital mutilation, they have slavery. i make no apology that this is associated to skin color is

despicable and skin color has nothing to do with ideas. >> laura: standing ovation for him. joining me now, the man you just heard, alex epstein, author of the book "fossil future" what does that say? right, that's her card, you are a white supremacist, you have won the debate if that's all she can do. >> i was even a little surprise, i guess i should not have been supplied, but when i was preparing for the hearing, i was trying to look at every possible counterargument to see if i could be disproven, and i wrote a very thorough testimony and sent it in advance, and this is what she leads with and she has a prepared poster to show me as a white supremacist. but she is not even aware enough to know that one of the posters she showed had me saying this is nothing to do with race. it was so embarrassing. during the whole hearing i made so many points and not one of those points was addressed. it was only accusations of that or accusations of being some

sort of stooge for the fossil fuel industry, which i also refuted for it so it was an embarrassment, but a ticket to get the truth out at the hea hearing. >> laura: i think what we are seeing now and have been documenting this in the last few days on "the angle, is that the american left really is not floating. they have the media, they have academia, they have hollywood, they have all of that, but you know they don't have? success on the merits. they have racial fearmongering, censorship, and smearing. and you were on the receiving end of that today. >> yeah, i don't think it's universal among everyone who considers themselves on the left and i wish there had been more representatives there who had stood up. that was one of the disappointing things. i know there are many people in congress who are democrats who don't approve of this kind of thing. but one thing they really need to do is stand up. and i saw that representative cori bush has spread the idea that i am a white the premises, she owes me a public apology. but i think it would be really great if some democrat stood up

and said this is unacceptable and censure her in some form or another. >> laura: don't hold your breath, that democrat party is not long gone. you don't live in the d.c. area, i have been here too long. the purpose at this hearing, here is ohio democrats shontel brown defending the moves to drain the spr. >> the joe biden administration worked with the international partner, energy partners to release oil from the strategic petroleum reserve on an emergency basis. that is precisely why the reserve was designed. to bolster american energy in times of need. >> laura: oh, my gosh, is there anyone more irritating, is there is a first grade classroom where we have to speech with such cadence, i'm not sure? is that the purpose? >> the purpose is genuine

emergencies, what we had here was not a genuine emergency, we had a supply problem caused by anti-fossil fuel policy is that joe biden has supported for 15 plus years. if we have a potential emergency with russia which i think is the real issue we need to stockpile as follows possible come you don't drain it now. >> laura: they had a political emergency, had high grass prices, that's the short answer. that's the political emergency. thank you. the ingraham angle gets results on the issue of guns, we will explain it next.

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told you discover was about to do the same but discover announced it was going to reverse its position and sensing the growing outrage and now scrapping their point out right. they're going to pause their plans on the gun issue right now. we'll remain vigilant and not let up until they end these plans together. "gutfeld" is next. ♪ [ applause ] >> here we go, here we go. there we are. look at that. momother -- [ applause ] >> yeah, somebody should have told me about my collar. i am firing somebody, i don't know who it is. happy thursday, everyone, i am super excited. i am welcoming russell brand to the show