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streets with raymond to track down the pot revelers. what we found may surprise you. and in moments my angle on how the left wants you to live in never land. but first breaking tonight senior law enforcement officials telling nbc news that there is growing frustration inside the fbi as they finish the bulk of their work on the hunter biden case over a year ago and reportedly the irs finished its part of the investigation more than a year ago as well. now, remember, the washington post previously reported there was enough evidence discovered to charge hunter biden with tax crimes and a false statement related to a gun purchase. now this comes out on the heels of another bombshell report that could be the straw that broke biden's back. a whistle blower special agent from the irs has come forward to allege that joe biden was getting special treatment and special protection in the agency's investigation of his son hunter. the whistle blower's lawyer

appeared on special report tonight. >> he's not a political person. he's not a social media person. he's not coming here with a political agenda. he has spotted and observed things that are done differently in this particular matter, which i can't identify. and he wants to talk about them and he believes that they were influenced by politics. >> laura: but that can't be because joe has sworn all along that there's no there there. now, remember, these are the so-called defenders of democracy. remember that? but in the end, of course, they're trashing our democratic systems and laying waste to our justice system all for their own political ends. it's gotten so bad that the legacy media that's always circled the wagons for biden family, well, they're actually covering this story. here's cbs. >> an attorney for an irs supervisor sent a letter to lawmakers today asking for whistle blower protection saying his client has information that suggests the investigation is

being improperly influenced by, quote, preferential treatment in and politics. >> laura: is the old mule so injured that even the vultures at cnn decided to swoop down for their little bit of flesh. >> now it's clear there's an irs agent apparently involved in the case who wants to go to congress and share what he believes are allegations of mishandling and politics at play here. >> laura: now, the white house was obviously rattled enough to release a hastily written statement. of course dismissing the whistle blower's allegations. now, with the perfunctory assurance of course that the hunter biden investigation will remain free from any political interference. and that the doj is handling it independently. well, maybe that's the issue, because late tonight, the new york post reported that attorney general merrick garland himself is the senior official cited in the whistle blower's letter. if true, that would contradict

testimony that garland himself delivered under oath last month. >> i promised to leave the matter of hunter biden in the hands of the u.s. attorney for the district of delaware. i have pledged not to interfere with that investigation. and i have carried through on my pledge. >> laura: so does the nation's top lawyer need a lawyer? but there's something else they're sweating about tonight. one news that ex cia director mike morrell had become a problem for biden. turns out he testified under oath that it was the biden campaign himself that was behind that letter that he and 50 other former intel officials released that claimed, remember falsely, that information from hunter biden's laptop was just russian disinformation. congressman jordan, jim jordan, asked, well, what was the intent of the statement and morrell answered one intent was to share our concern with the american

people that the russians were playing on this issue and, two, it was to help vice-president, the vice-president. chair man jordan then says, you wanted to help the vice-president? why? the answer? because i wanted him to win the election. and then it goods worse when morell when he said current secretary of state antony blinken was the one who spearheaded the letter. now, remember, it's never just about hunter. in the end it's always about the big guy. joining me now is house judiciary committee chair man jim jordan. congressman you've been very methodical about this investigation. we're going to get to morell's testimony but is it worth asking, first, whether the attorney general himself may can in some legal jeopardy here on the question of obstruction of justice given what we've learned from nbc news and others tonight? >> yeah, we'll have to see.

what we do know laura is what you said. this has been political from the get go clear back to the morell situation when the story came out on october 14th, 2020, about the biden business operationally, and was then vice-president joe biden involved, there was some concern that he was. and then quickly it turnts into this political operationally that that letter that became the basis for suppressing the story and keeping it it the american people just days before the most important election we have, election for president of the united states. understand what happened, the 14th the post does the story, the 17th tony blinken senior advisor to the biden campaign contacts mike morell, he looks at it the next day organizers on the 18th all these other people to sign the letter, the 19th the letter goes out, and then on the 22nd, the reason mike morell said he did the letter he thought president trump would bring up the letter during the debate on the 22nd of october and they wanted some statement joe biden could use because as he said they wanted him to win.

what happens on the 22nd? joe biden brings it up. and then after that debate, here's the kicker, steve row sheety chair of the biden campaign calls up mike morell and thanks him for doing it. it was a political organization and it was false, it wasn't russian disinformation, the laptop story seems to be true. >> laura: just so people remember what happened because there are a lot of facts going on here. this was during the 2020 debate and this is what congressman jordan is referring to, biden actually referencing this letter that we now know a lot more about. watch. >> look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he's accusing me of is a russian plant. >> you mean the laptop is now another russia russia russia hoax? you've got to be kidding me. >> that's exactly what we're told. >> you've got to be kidding me.

>> laura: congressman donald trump was right was he not? this is ridiculous. >> he sure was. he sure was, but the way the then vice-president did it was he made it seem like it was organic. you understand, it was choreographed all the way. understand this too it wasn't just their names on that letter, on that statement, it was their name and title former head of odni, former cia director. this gave it this feeling and impression that it was accurate when it wasn't. and that's the scariest thing of all. that letter became the basis for keeping that information from the american people. and the other thing that was important we learned in that deposition with mr. morell, was they were even, he was even trying to direct who the biden campaign told him who to get this to in the media. it was that coordinated. that's the scary part. >> laura: they're all tight. you know what it remind me of, the letter that was choreographed or the article that was choreographed about the

origins of covid remember forb fauci and those guys, you write it we'll put it out there and get the media to put it out there, it's the same game. they run this same game consistently when it's a political question that they want to resolve in their favor. this happens time and again. this is nothing new. >> you're right. just let the american people decide who we want representing us, who we want leading us, who we want to elect into office. quit trying to put your finger on the scale stay out of it and let we the people decide. >> laura: i want to get to the irs whistle blower connection. here was the white house on this today. >> the president respects the rule of law and the independence of the department of justice. he believes that's what they should be and this administration we believe that it should be independent so i'm not going to go beyond that. the department of justice will certainly deal with this issue. >> laura: congressman, are they letting garland kind of twist in the wind out there? >> you know, it's hard to say

but we do look forward to communicating with this whistle blower and seeing what he has to say. the time line has been so long and they've had the laptop since 2019. they had the laptop before the previous stuff you were talking about, they had the laptop before they even put this statement together, for goodness sakes. we look forward to talking to this individual working with his attorney and we will begin that process and make sure we have a chance to visit with him and see what he has to say. >> laura: we don't want to jump to conclusions because that's what the democrats do but the facts speak for themselves at some point and congressman thank you for all you're doing >> joining me now is senator tom cotton who sits on the intel admitee and the judiciary committee. senator from your position on your committees, your thoughts on this reporting tonight out of multiple sources regarding merrick garland, hunter biden, the laptop, and the coordination of this letter that was then used in that 2020 debate by joe

biden to blow off of this concern about this laptop and what was in it. >> well, laura, my main thoughts are i'm very glad that jim jordan, my old friend in the house, is the chairman of the judiciary to get to the bottom of it. but they're very troubling reports that the irs and the fbi have been thwarted from investing hunter biden's dealings which as you say are not about hunter biden, a very troubled but private citizen, they're how the biden family has been trading on joe biden's public office for 50 years. in other investigations you have jim comer and his committee reviewing the suspicious activity reports at the treasury of money transfers involving the biden family. again not just hunter but other members of the family. more troubling information appears to be coming out there that joe biden has been using his public office for 50 years to benefit his family. and if he did it when he was a senator and he did it when he was vice-president, do we really

think he wouldn't do it when he held the highest land in the office? >> laura: well, if garland and wray, wray being the head of the fbi, have been sitting on this, you know, completed investigation, irs work is completed, the fbi work is completed, now for more than a year, what's the delay? >> i think the truth is going to come out. that's why you're starting to see whistle blowers come out. because in my experience law enforcement officers of all types, whether federal state or local, are extremely, extremely frustrated whenever their investigations are obstructed. whatever their personal politics may be, they dedicated their life to law enforcement and they want to be able to do their job. and if you have political appointees in the department of treasury the department of justice preventing them from pursuing fairly straightforward cases. hunter biden's crimes or potential crimes are not some kind of massive corporate conspiracy that takes years and years to roll off. if they're sitting on those and

not letting it come out, then i'm confident, especially with the leadership of jim jordan and the house that all these facts will come to light. >> laura: imagine if the republicans didn't have the house of representatives. . would just continue to be buried. the washington post is reporting tonight, senator cotton that joe biden is preparing to reannounce his his reelection campaign next week and aids looking to release a video on tuesday declaring the president's bid to return to the white house. does some of this news that has emerged just in the last 24 hours, in your estimation, could that change this calculation by the bidens that the green light is on? >> i don't know, laura. you know, i thought for a while that joe biden was gearing up to run for reelection even though he keeps delaying his announcement when he did things that actually signs our law that overturns the dc's radical pro criminal ordinance or when he finally allowed oil and gas exploration, these are things he

would have never done his first two years in office, so i kind of thought he was running for reelection for a while now. but of course if he does go forward with reelection and the facts come to life, you're going to have the kind of reckoning in public that we did not have in 2020 because of biden campaigned efforts to suppress information about hunter biden, to spread lies to the media, which happily carried water for joe biden in their efforts to beat donald trump. >> laura: and quickly senator the white house seems to be begging now, begging and begging china for a meeting, and they can't get any answers. so they sent their pit bull to johns hopkins to deliver a message. >> we seek a constructive and fair economic relationship with china. we do not seek to decouple our economy from china's. we seek a healthy economic relationship with china. one that fosters growth and innovation in both countries. a growing china that plays by

international rules is good for the united states and the world. >> laura: china and international rule, senator. how's that working out in the south china seas or taiwan or the uyghurs or the trade cheating that they've done for decades? >> well, it's like they turned back the clock ten years when barack obama was in office and we were celebrating china as our partner but that's who joe biden is and who he's always been. in the 2020 campaign he was saying that china's not a competitor to us. we should seek to decouple our economies in strategic ways from china's economy because it gives them leverage over us, we should instant up to confrontations in places like taiwan or threats to other neighbors. we should make it clear that we will not allow them to set the rules for global travel or trade, that we are finally -- that we have finally turned the page on 30 years of failed policy in washington and we intend not to back down again. but you heard that clip from secretary yellen.

>> laura: begging. >> which is just pathetic, rushing after china begging for meetings. next they're going to trot out john kerry begging for climate change agreements. >> laura: they're getting ghosted by china like please pay attention to me. senator great to see you again. up next the peter pan party. what is that about peanut butter? no, i'll be back to explain it plus ray and i hit the streets of new york. where the citizens there nice to us? stay tuned, you'll find out.

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and how the conversation around mental health has changed. - watch our conversation on peacock. ♪ >> laura: the peter pan party. that's the focus of tonight's angle. imagine if you never had to grow up. if even as an adult you could get up in the morning knowing that someone more responsible would take care of you. >> i'm so glad you came back tonight. i might never have seen you. >> why? >> because i have to grow up tomorrow. >> grow up? >> uh-huh. >> no. i won't have it! come on. >> but where are we going? >> to neverland. >> neverland. >> you'll never grow up there. >> laura: being a kid is just more fun and care free especially in a world where there's so many dangerous monsters out there, most notably

climate change and biden's interior secretary wants you to know that mommy's going to protect you. >> climate change is the crisis of our lifetime. we have an obligation to future generations to make sure that we have a planet for them to live on, and that's why i'm here, and that's why i'm working incredibly hard to make sure that we can realize that transition. >> laura: don't worry, mama's crying but mama's working hard for you. but you need to listen and you need to behave children. cows and beef, they're also very bad for you. and the planet, terrible for the planet. so you need to eat healthier boys and girls. but now we've actually updated the old eat your vegetables line. >> crickets are actually a great source of protein and nutrients so they can be a great alternative to meat which gets you thinking. if we were to replace meat with insects that might help emissions by cutting on meat production and help save the planet from overheating.

>> laura: you go first. and you don't want to burn up, do you? left-leaning politicians have always liked the idea of governments sitting in locco. an authority figure like your parents who will set the rules of conduct and rules of language that you're expected to follow. and if you ask why, it's because they told you so. >> we've introduced the green new deal for cities, the green new deal for public schools, and the green new deal for public housing, just to name a few. these bills not only stop climate change, they tackle the intersecting crises of climate, economic inequality and racial justice. >> laura: follow that venn diagram. of course none of this has anything to do with justice. it's all about consolidating power. racial justice? the civil rights act passed almost 60 years ago. economic justice? big government just makes that worse by wasting our money and sending our jobs overseas. and climate justice? tell it to the chinese sweetheart who the democrats are

making richer day by day. the truth is, liberals have failed across the board, and you can't campaign on that, can you? so now beyond dividing america along racial lines, all they're left with is trying to sell voters on accepting a new, lower standard of living. in return, democrats offer them a life of perpetual adolescence. this is why so many on the left are thrilled that more states like minnesota are pushing marijuana legalization. that's to keep 'em numb and dumb right? that way they won't realize how little freedom they actually have left. or money. and what said freedom in a country as vast as ours more than a gas powered car on an open road, right? but mommy and daddy want to take away your keys permanently. or put you in an ev that traps you every 300 miles at a charging station with some guy named ralph, if you can find some charging station that is. >> when they told me they were going to put chargers in i was

like great. of the six, one is completely broken and several are extremely finicky about exactly how you have to plug it in. it's insane if the wind blows too hard i get a notification on my phone your car stopped charging. >> laura: and vox is telling merge it's better to just ditch did it it's better for your health and a better way to avoid car crashes. and it's too expensive. biden's fight only drilling. but if liberals have their way you won't need to provide for your family anyway. because families are bad for mother earth. and marriage many people have come to believe it isn't the ideal because if it is the ideal offends someone somewhere. democrats are scrambling to get young americans to invert the old idea of the american dream, which is marriage, a family, home, maybe a few cars.

in biden world, it's all too expensive especially with wages declining. so their allies are feverishly providing alternative ways of making ends meet. and it's not one family home ownership. >> this is call the member wall and on this side of the wall are all the current members. there are 20 people that live in this house. >> one cool thing in a communal house is everything is shared. tht pan is a shared house pan. everyone has so much to offer and so much to share. growing up in a modern family the house is almost an extension of that. >> did you see size of that kitchen it's like college days. it's like preschool for adults, share children share. in this peter pan world democrats are creating you never even actually have to go to work. why leave home at all. >> it's certainly the case there are fewer people in the building any given day than there were pre pandemic, telework has become an important dimension of how they work. there will be substantial

taxpayer savings from right sizing our office footprint. >> laura: right sizing they're making up phrases now. bye-bye cities you won't exist any longer because no one's coming in. we'll figure that out later though. democrats are cruel, impower outage rishing millions of hard working americans and pretending they aren't. who knows how many will live without ac this summer just like they went without sufficient heat this winter all because of rising fuel costs. >> do you believe energy poverty is a good thing? >> i don't know the term, ma'am. >> you've never heard of the phrase energy poverty? >> i have not heard of that term, but i -- >> it's probably pretty self-explanatory, don't you think? >> well, i think what we're really trying to do with our clean energy goals is make energy more affordable. >> and make the american people more miserable. so yes the democrats are determined to keep young people weak, poor, frightened and alone. they don't want you to get married. they don't want you to go out to

work. they don't want you to have kids. they want you at home smoking pot playing video games and spending the rest of your life as a 12 year old. we all know stories of young people who don't want to grow up. but i really don't believe that most young americans want to spend the rest of their lives feeling sorry for themselves. they want to grow up. they want responsibility. and they want better lives for themselves and some day, yes, for their children. her here at the angle our motto is no american left behind and that includes young americans. we have to help them overcome that despair that the democrats are selling. if you grew up in the 1970s, you know what it's like to be young in a world where the president is a hapless guy, where the enemies of america are on the march and even the adults seem to have given up on the country. that time was scary and it was discouraging and i remember it. and for young people in the 80s, president reagan was a breath of fresh air. he believed that we could all do better, and we still can. most of the so-called problems

the democrats are talking about, the end of the planet threat to democracy and all the like, they're simply made up and the real problems we face, a weak economy, a rising china, open borders, can all be addressed with right policies. we've seen it before just a few years ago. so we shouldn't concede any young voters to the democrats, no way. let's explain how things can get better, and let's encourage them to take on adult responsibilities. because childhood is great. but only for children. and that's the angle. joining me now larry kudlow former director of the national economic counsel under president trump host of kudlow on fox business. >> very good. very good, really good. >> laura: larry you and i are still kids at heart and that's fun to be. >> yeah. >> laura: but this perpetual adolescence allows people to forget at the time they really are getting poorer every month under biden and they are worried about having that extra child because they feel they can

barely make ends meet today. >> i think that behind it all -- you touched on it -- is the perpetual growth of government. this is all about government planning, central planning, soviet-style planning. newt gingrich called it the government socialism a while back. he was exactly right. you're seeing -- i mean, today, yesterday we uncovered they're going to actually penalize middle class people who have better fica credit scores and put more downpayments on their home they're going to make them pay higher mortgages with more fees to damage the american dream. they're going to punish them but those that don't have credit scores and don't have downpayments are going to get subsidies and cheap money so we can bankrupt fanny may and freddy mack and maybe have another $200 billion government bailout. all this stuff, it's very important what you're saying, but all this stuff it's just like government replaces family. government replaces religion. government replaces the economy or free enterprise. and i think it's going to take

some adults and some calm voices to give an alternative vision. we can, and go back to reagan, it looked hopeless in the 70s. i came professionally to age in the 70s, and it can be fixed with strong people so we can get back to the family values, and the religious values and the free enterprise capitalist values so we can have prosperity. and these kids who think scarcity is the only way, who see themselves as victims and they're going to be entitled to this. they'll figure out as they get older that that model is not working. >> laura: what are the democrats selling them living in tiny apartments. >> that's right. >> laura: you can't drive a car, you can't own anything and heaven forabout it you have more than 1.2 children. >> 25 people in that kitchen. that did not look like a very big kitchen. >> laura: unless you were really interested -- >> i don't want to share my house with 25 people anyway. not that i'm antisocial i love

people, but i also love my wife, love my family and love my privacy. >> laura: but that's a threat to the climate. we tried to sink this and now senator manchin starting to have buyers remorse on the so-called inflation reduction act. watch this. >> i'm very proud of the ira and what it's doing and what the intention of it was to do. what i'm not proud of is that basically we're not staying in the guidelines of what the cbo score was. i'm trying to make sure we don't dupe or scam the american public thinking we passed one bill that costs this much and doubling up because of what they're putting out much quicker faster and longer. >> laura: every time he runs for reelection he comes a little bit more like the average west virginia. >> he's going to have a hard time getting reelected this time around. governor's going to run against him and beat him. joe manchin is a nice fellow. >> laura: everybody's nice. put that on the table. >> but that misnamed inflation

reduction act. >> laura: pathetic. >> will or could, if not stop, cost three or $4 trillion. there's no limits to the credit subsidies. there's no time limits. there's no caps. and it's all a lot of bull. and by the by, this is the interesting thing. so let me get this right. we're going to ban the internal combustion engine, ban it, that's what they want, no gas powered car. where was the vote on that as we dismiss 150 years of technology? or as we dismiss consumer choice so people can choose their own car and drive wherever they wish? was there a senate vote? >> laura: the infrastructure. >> was there a house vote. >> laura: that infrastructure bill. >> on ending the internal combustion engine? no. it was all masked as climate subsidies, okay? nonsense, they want to change our way of life. okay? they want the government to run everything. they want to keep us in these electric cars.

the trouble is, this gal you had her up there, she's crying about climate change deb whatever her name is. so she denies the permits up in minnesota, the iron range near lake superior, that have the minerals to supply the batteries in the united states. >> laura: hello china. >> the china bailout story. this is the china bailout. look, i have a great -- i must say i'm an optimist. i have great confidence in the common sense of ordinary folks, they're going to wake up some day, that includes the kids, and figure out that this was a scam, that socialism doesn't work, it's not working here, and it never worked anyplace else and we will restore, we will restore privacy and free enterprise capitalism. >> laura: refounding of america, yeah. >> and work, and work and the dignity of work. >> laura: larry hasn't left since about 4:movement in the morning. >> even going to church and temple now and then we will

restore it i believe that. >> laura: wonderful to see you always optimistic which is why we love you. thank you for staying up for us. >> you're going to want to stick around for what raymond and i saw on the streets of new york today. that's all i'm going to say. full report moments.

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>> laura: i told you earlier, the left wants you to get used to living with less. be happy about it. and they also want you numb and dumb which brings me to today, and the weed holiday known as 420. it's the first one in new york city where it's legal for both the purchase of marijuana and its use in public. so i wanted to see what it was all about. i smelled the problem, but raymond was with me. so we hit the smokey streets of the city to investigate. >> today is 420 you already know the vibes we gonna smoke one for all the people that's locked up, smoke one for all the people that's gone you feel me. we gonna do what we do.

420 man. i don't know if this is legal. >> it's legal. ♪ . >> laura: what's the biggest misconception you think out there about pot usage in the united states. >> it's like high of your life so i don't think it's a big problem. >> and you like the idea that it's legal now. >> absolutely. >> absolutely, why not. like why shouldn't it be? if you're smoking cigarettes with nicotine, why can't i smoke something that's naturally put here and serves great purposes, positive purposes. you don't see people smashing people's heads in because of being high. >> you know what today is. >> 420. >> why is that such a big deal. >> it is a national pot smoking holiday. >>. >> laura: but you don't need an excuse to smoke pot, do you? >> no, nobody needs an excuse to smoke pot.

it's just glorious that we're here and it's finally legalized in new york. >> we have merchandise here. >> yes, i have a sample of our products here. this is a pre roll. so this is a pre rolled cannabis joint you can buy in our store ready to smoke. >> laura: that will keep you going for a while. >> it can be medical for a lot of people. >> laura: you smell pot pretty much everywhere in the city and you're walking around with three kids. your thoughts on that. >> it's horrible. i used to work here, i said never can i work here again, i can't take that. getting a headache, i feel like i'm getting high from just walking past people. >> keep her covered because don't need a two year old getting a contact high. >> do you think it's a good idea to have a national pot day. >> i don't think it's a good idea. >> why not. >> because everybody will get used to it and it will seem like it's something in the world, like something that is everyday use. that's really bad, especially for the future of the kids. >> laura: when you aren't

smoking, and you maybe want to stop for a while, how do you feel? >> i feel great because i'm always in the gym. feel that right there. >> laura: if i could waive a wand now and you wouldn't be spending your money that every day, would you want to give it up? >> yes, i would give it up. if i had the choice to start fresh, to all the youth, if you never smoked it, don't smoke it. >> lauer ai got to tell you the, i still have a. >> laura: i still smell like it. >> i will still have a slight headache and a light contact high and i don't feel so good. >> laura: felix ungar was not happy. >> these people. >> laura: zombie land. >> i was was in the village, it looked like a mushroom cloud they were smoking like crazy. problem is this, they're a nest

sizing an entire generation, not just one generation generations as we saw and it's sad seeing young people make this a habitual part of their life and they think of it as we used to see a beer or a cocktail. >> laura: what we saw on the street almost everyone is trying to escape something. i know people talk about a glass of wine at the end of the day. we're talking 11:00 in the morning. they're like i have to chill out. are you taking the beaches of normandy? what do you mean you have to chill out. >> everybody was well i have anxiety. anxiety is the beginning of creation. >> laura: yeah. do you remember growing up and -- what's wrong? i have anning site. >> my father had anxiety every day of his life and worked two jobs. >> laura: if i said that to my mother she said grab a rake the front lawn needs to be raked.

anxiety she was a waits from she had anxiety. >> speaking of anxiety the unfortunate hearing chaired by john fetterman. today fetterman tweeted this out, and it is a flag that reads, it's 420 somewhere. >> laura: just what you need. >> again, why is john fetterman advocating recreational drug use? this man just walked out of a psych ward and has difficulty. >> laura: speaking. >> getting from the car to the capitol. >> laura: he needs to be at home recuperating not encouraging others to crawl into a bong. >> but of all the messages. i just think it's terrible. we really don't know where this day came from it's just one that pot activists designated. >> laura: follow the money. >> the other green. >> laura: all right raymond. >> okay i'm going to go recover. >> laura: we had a high time together in the streets. >> yeah. >> laura: a democrat lawmaker with ties to jeffrey epstein is trying to put a journalist behind the twitter files in jail. a story that's almost too frightening to believe it and

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♪ >> laura: three weeks ago, the biden justice department convicted a man named douglas mackey under what they say was a scheme to suppress votes for hillary clinton. now the elaborate scheme,

obviously fake memes he circulated under his popular twitter handle. now, if that's not absurd enough consider what's happened next. several black leftist groups and activists are likewise being charged with felonies by garland's doj for posting memes and other political content against the war in ukraine. the doj's campaign of political retribution has emboldened some of the worst actors in congress as a result. democrat rep stacy plasket who we as a close associate of jeffrey epstein is threatening matt taibbi with prison over his twitter files testimony. joining me is harmeet dhillon center for american liberty, harmeet it strikes me that so many are claiming in the journalistic set to be upset about the, you know, unfair and hideous imprisonment of the wall street journal reporter, as we

all should be, but they stand by and let this happen with the harassment of journalists and others expressing their opinions by our own government. >> absolutely, laura. this type of thuggish intimidation we're seeing from representative plaskett from the virgin islands is outrages but also a piece of the actions of the department of justice against journalists for some years now. i mean, you see how the doj's going after project veritas for not publishing the ashley biden diary now you see some of the most important journalism work in decades being the subject of these types of thuggish threats. and so when you see this level of hysteria from aoc and congressman plaskett you realize the journalists are over the target so it's actually a compliment to them because our government wouldn't be shrieking this way if it wasn't for the fact the journalists exposed government censorship. when you really unpack this letter, i read it and five pages of hysteria, foot notes, she's

the one herself who's making the mistake about what ta eastboundy reported and said and in fact he's standing by his reporting that all of these alphabet soup entities and so-called non-profits are working together to censor your and my speech. >> laura: of course. >> the speech of hundreds of millions of other americans and speech around the world. so this work is important, i hope matt and others don't get intimidated by it. >> laura: harmeet, excuse me, we found out of course the irs showed up on his doorstep the morning that he was going in to testify. oh, that's just a coincidence right? we're supposed to believe that? >> right. i think anybody who's criticized our government in recent years is afraid of just such an outcome or worse. our government has drawn up lists of people to censor and they are popular conservative influencers and activists. it's happened to clients of my firm. it's happened to clients of the center for american liberty.

and it's intensifying. and, in fact, their rates of intensifying it, what's interesting about this letter laura, is that there's a desire to find out how much this reporter has spoken to public enemy number one, elon musk, who has really exposed the government and its allies by giving free access to journalists, selected journalists who are known for doing a good job of telling the story. so i hope that they don't respond to these threats and i hope that the other members of congress stand up and call this what it is. it is thuggish bullying intimidation by our government. >> laura: soviet like. >> and threatens the first amend snowbelt harmeet great to see you tonight as always. thank you >> was kamala harris lying about her love of space? an ingraham angle investigation in moments. ♪

>> laura: kamala harris's child like glee about astronauts and space has been well documented by the angle and today she was presented with the ultimate test. >> would you go into space if you had the chance? >> is that a request?

ha ha i would go to space if i could. i actually -- and there are people on my team who do know that but sadly i think that there are those who would prefer that i would stay on earth for the time. ha ha. >> laura: the answer was, there are many people who would like to send me to space but i'm already kind of a space shot ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ >> laura: yeah! ha ha... oh baby, here we are. yeah! yeah! yeah! i know, huh? happy thursday everyone. i'm sorry that i was out er