>> sean: programming note, another live audience show tomorrow night and if you want to be part of the show go to hannity.com for free tickets although sometimes they scalped them. just kidding. that's all the time we have left for tonight but thank you for being with us. set your dvr, never miss another episode. let not your heart be troubled. laura is next. these great group of people have a message to you. >> laura: good. >> sean: ready? one, two, three... [cheers and applause] >> laura: oh! i'm going to do my nancy pelosi clap. >> sean: she says she's going to give you a nancy pelosi clap. after that warm welcome, that's what you give them? you should tear up speech is too. >> laura: they know my sense of humor.

>> sean: you have a great sense of humor. >> laura: i'll see you the week after next in new york. we'll see you soon. thanks, lara. >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle." things are spending time with us tonight. now whether it's friendship, romance, a strategic alliance, our relationships start somewhere and sometimes there is a long buildup of anticipation. guys worry about getting shot down in girls, they wonder if they'll ever call. ukraine the postures president zelenskyy president ukraine's president zelenskyy finally got the call he wanted from xi. was there a spark? seemed like it. zelenskyy described the hour-long call meaningful and a powerful impetus for the development of our bilateral relations. in fact, there is a follow-up

date that's already planned. chinese leader xi said that beijing will send an envoy to ukraine to discuss a possible dialogue and negotiations, using pin theonly way forward. had we had smart leadership in the united states, it would be the u.s. driving the parties to peace negotiations, not china. early on in this conflict, "the angle" warned that the longer the war would drive on the more it played at the china's hands. president xi and one called a vladimir putin could and make these hostilities. glad, no more week purchases, no more oil buys before you stop the killings. how bad is it that a brutal regime like china will be the leader in brokering the peace deal that we desperately need?

and now, that is clearly the case. is it not? china is thinking strategically here. michael pillsbury's book "the hundred year marathon" he claims that thinking quite well. xi knew that to have leverage he first needed economic power and so he pursued a fiercely economic policy to do that. then he used that leverage to advance china's global ambitions. china has enough money to buy off pretty much anyone anywhere and is doing that in every continent including our own. in contrast look how weak biden's team is. french president micron visited the white house and complained about the inflation reduction act hurting imports. he instantly caved. but when tells xi how excited france is forging stronger ties

and he stresses that they are not blind followers of the united states. a major european country sees that china has the power, china has the momentum. and biden has none. forget acting with authority, the man can't speak with authority. >> with regard to what i keep hearing about is i'm between 42 and 46% favorable rating and it makes it sound like that biden is really underwater. number one. number two, when the same polling data ask what kind of job i've done, it's overwhelmingly positive results. >> laura: i do not know what polls he's reading. if america is going to continue to be a superpower at all we are going to need leaders who think beyond of the immediate goals,

activists like the climate crazies that biden is bowing down to. the ele obsession with electric vehicles and the tax in our fossil fuel industry? that further empowers china. and anyone who is surprised about the massive gains that china is making, they haven't been paying attention. a new chinese backed battery plant in michigan is getting democrat congresswoman debbie dingell's attention. >> i have to tell you i am and i'm gap to get to the point where we don't need a joint venture with china. >> laura: had carley not caved we wouldn't be finding ourselves vulnerable like we are right now. but we sabotaged ourselves by voting and biden. but biden? he's not worried. >> i'm not concerned about ch china.

decided it's going to be cheaper to export jobs and import products. >> laura: the ignorance should terrify you. and so there are three takeaways from this past month. first resident xi will be the big victor in ukraine. second china has more influence now in europe than we do. and third, biden's post trump european charm offensive backfired for the ap sums it up this way. the past two decades a chinese government has used its economic cash to pry allies away from the u.s. on issues ranging from literary security, trade, human rights in taiwan. what about the trips by world leaders paying the march to beijing

they are meant to reassure xi of respect for beijing's control over all of chinese territory and to urge calm. they also highlight the challenge the u.s. faces as it tries to build a coalition of countries to ramp up pressure on beijing over its expansionist policies. build a coalition? joe biden couldn't build a coalition of preschoolers to play ring around the rosie. ridiculous. if american voters gave joe biden for more years, the message will be of one to total capitulation. if we are lucky china is going to allow us to play the role of something akin to being a junior partner at a law firm. look, they are going to make all the big decisions. let's face this. biden's own treasure secretary janet yellen has a ready indicated they aren't interested in challenging a china that's obviously on the move.

>> we do not seek to decouple our economy from china's. we seek healthy economic relationships with china. growing china that plays by international rules is good for the united states and the world. >> laura: great for all those workers in the rust belt. thanks a lot. as of china didn't already know that there was a total surrender in place under biden must be 13's people won't set up a meeting to hash out the debts dealing with kevin mccarthy but they are begging for a return phone call from our called me this adversary. >> laura: we've said over and over again that the president intends to call president xi. >> would like to see this relationship get onto a better footing and when it's appropriate for the two leaders to talk it'll happen. >> laura: they aren't returning your phone call. that's the truth. look at it this way. if you can't make a movie now

with china as the bad guy, how independent as a country are we anyway? and that won't change anytime soon if biden wins a second term especially since his finance chair is jeffrey katzenberg and katzenberg is in china's back pocket. the democratic kingmaker has an extensive history with china, when katzenberg was at dream works at 2012, and as deal with the chinese government to build a studio in shanghai. soon after that an agreement was reached to increase the number of u.s. films that could be released in the chinese market every year. just before the big ceremony in l.a. to ink that deal then vice president xi jinping got a rousing welcome to the united states by none other than president obama. >> i want to welcome

vice president xi into the oval office and welcome them into united states. this is a great opportunity for us to build on the u.s.-china relationship. >> we are sleepwalking into a geopolitical calamity. every year we go further into debt to defend countries in europe who despise us. and give president xi the money he needs to build a stronger military. one growing stronger than ours. we are not going to remain a superpower or any kind of power unless we dramatically change course. this is not going to happen unless we get new leaders. the g.o.p. presidential nomination in 2024 should go to the candidate who best understands these facts. who has the will and the ability to change course and defend our interests. and that's the angle for joining

me now, senator tom cotton who sits on the senate armed services committee. senator, everyone thinks i talked way too much about china. i have for 25 years now. but other than the cultural marxists on the left here in the united states, is there any greater threat to our future than with china? and what they are doing today? >> there is not, laura. the gravest threat to america, our way of life. the other threats don't even come close. china is may be the most powerful adversary we faced as a nation in part because of the last 40 years we've helped grow their economy which in turn has grown their military. we have never faced a competitor like china. soviet russia, nazi germany, these were not countries with economies near the size of ours that could support a military like ours.

as you lay down in your opening monologue, joe biden is continually behind the power curve when it comes to china and the simple fact is and in world politics are either on the show or the show runs you and right now the show is running joe biden and that's bad for america. >> laura: haley clinton is out there for some reason reacting to lyrical events. she's trying to remain relevant, obviously. commented on the mccarthy debt deal, and she said, republicans are seemingly intent on sabotaging america's global leadership by refusing to pay our debts and also know positioning ourselves as tougher than thou china haas. they talk a good game about standing up to beijing yet they are handing a major win for the chinese communist party. senator, hillary clinton is telling us that we are handing a win to the chinese communist party after her re record? >> let's just look at the

democratic party's record in general. considering their obsession with green energy, america is the world's number one producer of fossil fuels. we are an energy superpower. china has del mike number one importer of oil and gas yet the democratic party to the so-called green new deal would hamstring our key source of energy and reward china because of their unfair trade practices where they are the most dominant producer of so-called green energy. progressives may march under the banner of climate change. but lara, looks an awful lot like common is china's red flag. >> laura: as far as this. del makepeace brokering that the "the angle predicted last year, this is what john kirby, national security spokesperson said today about the meeting over the phone with xi and

zelenskyy. >> we think that's a good thing that we've been saying for quite some time that we believe it's important for president xi and prc officials to unveil themselves of the perspective. that's a good thing. >> laura: we weren't party to it and that's a good thing. so the united states takes a backseat to communist china, that is two thumbs up for this administration? >> run the show or the show runs you. another example of letting the show run him. china does not want this war to end up. china is benefiting economically by buying a lot of russian exports at cut rate prices. again you see this not just in ukraine but around the world. the trump administration hoping we'd have a peace deal between israel and saudi arabia brokered

by america but what we got is a restoration of relations of iran and saudi arabia as brokered by china. shouldn't be surprised other countries even partners and allies begin to hedge their bets against her chief rival which is communist china. >> laura: four years from now if we finishing up the second biden administration, what does that mean for american superpower status? are we still superpower after four more years of biden? yes or no. >> i'm worried very gravely that our power would be in a further recession. the end of this presidential term we are about to vote on next year it'll be 27 included. that's when many of our military leaders and many other thinkers believe that xi jinping will go for the jugular in taiwan. his most recent five-year term ends in 2027 and does not want to leave this issue unsettled by the end of that term.

that's why you are absolutely right. our presidential election should focus intently on the china question, exactly what the united states can do to ensure we remain the world's most dominant superpower. >> laura: senator, thanks for seeing you tonight. thanks so much. >> i resume -- the united states has resumed formal discussion with the chinese. if china and united states can't find a way to move forward and cooperate on this, it's going to be a much harder race for everybody else. >> it's imperative that china and united states find a way to cooperate. >> biden climate czar john kerry who is not a cabinet official come up by the way, not confirmed by the senate, seems to be in constant communication with the ccp. why is he the guy with the most leverage here, the most interaction with them? why is he holding secret negotiations with them and why won't the biden administration

reveal any details about those conversations? house oversight committee chair james comer is now threatening a subpoena after the state department repeatedly ignored previous requests for information on john kerry's exact role here. jonathan, joins me now. congressman, do you believe you are going to get answers given how secretive they've been about john kerry's role here. >> it looked like it. we've been requesting this information long before we became the majority. from the day john kerry was appointed climate czar by joe biden we had questions about what authority he had, what his budget was. who did he answer to, where did he rank in the chain of command. as you said in your monologue he wasn't confirmed yet joe biden treats him like cabinet level position. he would be the only person with cabinet level authority that wasn't confirmed by the senate. we don't know what authority he has and it's very scary that

he's over there negotiating with china and not a single member in congress knows what the heck, what he's negotiating and what authority he has to negotiate. >> laura: also, congressman, if we keep going down this road the obsession with electric vehicles over oil and gas in the industry, gas powered automobiles, we are going to not have a car industry in ten years. going to want to dominate the market like they did with other vital america again, previously industries. >> you look at california, the state trying to convert to 100% electric vehicles. they have blackouts regularly. they don't have the infrastructure, they do not have the great capacity to be able to sustain 100 electric vehicle population there. we need a diversion energy

policy in america we need to burn more coal. we need nuclear. we need to drill. we need to frack. this administration does everything to tie our hands behind our back to where we are at a competitive disadvantage in the energy industry and if you throw in the fact they are trying to push us towards electric vehicles which makes us come up by the way dependent on china for rare minerals which are used to make the batteries, this makes no sense. this is one of the most dangerous things that this administration is pushing. you throw in all the disasters, water policy, foreign policy but what they are doing with our energy policy in america and what john kerry is negotiating, this could be the worst of everything with the biden administration. >> laura: negotiating away our independence ultimately. congressman, thank you. if it seems like there is an effort to make the lives of rural americans miserable, well, that's because there is be we have the latest moments.

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building an economy where no one is left behind. it's about making an investment in america's cities, towns, heartlands, rule america. >> laura: heartland? for the heartland, the opposite is happening under biden's watch. they are finding themselves more alienated than ever before. political reporting that national airlines are now rapidly pulling out a rule airports, the most in the onset of the pandemic and they don't plan on returning. it's fostering a sense of isolation that has frustrated small-town americans fed up with big business in washington. so what and who are responsible for this, can this be traced back to the administration itself? this piece doesn't really say but it's important to recognize the resolve of this. these moves just don't seem the cut off rule in america but for pain, they seem to be pushing

americans to move from rule america it may be closer to urban centers. here now is daniel turner, the founder of "how are the future." he testified in congress what seems to be a war against rule america. is this just a coincidence with these airlines all pulling out of rule areas? >> not at all. this administration and d.c. elites in particular have a real disdain for rule america. when you look at biden's housing policies, for example, the desire to move large housing units into urban, suburban and rural communities, to make them a little bit more urbanized. you see even the entire green new deal that secretary buttigieg pushes all the time, the talk about bike lanes, they talk about evs, high-speed rail. a couple hours outside of d.c., they are never going to connect levi high-speed rail to d.c.

the policies they are pushing for are written for the urban community in mind. they want people to move to urban areas very deliberately so they are making it hard to live in r rule america. >> i think a lot about places like norway where there's been an absolute assault on private ownership of farms. so the food growing capacity of that country has changed. the land has been seized by the government. can anything like that ever happening here in the name of an emergency? >> absolutely and i'm glad you brought that point up. they are seizing this private farmland all under the public health emergency of climate change. and we saw with covid once you declare something a public health emergency it seems the power of the government is limitless. it's very plausible to seize private land. it's very possible to seize private property under climate change. look what they do with the

combustion engine as you talk about with their last two members of your congress gas down the guests, whether it is covid >> laura: all those cowls of the great threat to our environment. you've got to get rid of those as well appear thank you so much. a new battlefront has been opened by disney in its battle with ron desantis. backed into a corner, the house of mouse has now sued the florida governor alleging he orchestrated what they are calling a targeted campaign of government retaliation as punishment for disney's protected speech. the legal case is weak but that's not what this is all about. this is about whether conservatives are going to support crony capitalism, whether they accept the

status quo of businesses stepping all over them. it's a position that governor desantis made clear last week. >> it's not conservative to defer to every corporation in america. that's being a corporatist. disney was enjoying unprecedented privileges and subsidies. they control their own government and central florida beer they were exempt from laws that virtually everybody else had to follow. we said that that arrangement doesn't work for us. >> laura: this is how you win. but the chamber of how supported candidates still think there is a market of the brand of conservatism on the corporatist's side. enter nikki haley. speaker you take care of your businesses, everybody wins bear that's the way we dealt with it. we are, south carolina was a very anti-woke state. it still is. if disney would like to move there hundreds of thousands of jobs to south carolina and bring billions of dollars with them,

i'll be happy to meet them in south carolina. >> laura: does that mean companies who decide to offshore jobs, you work with them too? these are two competing factions that make up of what is left now of the republican party. those who understand the stakes and realize these battles are worth having, consultancy driven campaigns. again, big business versus the small business mentality. joining me is roger tversky, founder of the 1776 pac. this is versus the new populist wing of the party that seems to me the dominant and growing wing of the party for sure at this point. do you agree? >> yes. absolutely. you have nikki haley who is as popular, she's a republican hillary clinton. she will do or say anything to appease her donors to put them

in position of power as entire life. putting up broken borders, promote trade agreements that got americans and apparently gave crony capitalism to corporations that push and peddle cultural marxism on children. this is ridiculous. for all of the crying about governor desantis, how mean he has been on disney, since the deal, since the fight happened, disney has not weighed in on a single culture fight. the pro-life legislation, the gun legislation. the expansion of the parent sponsor's rights in education act. the fight over e-verify. disney has not weighed in at all because they learned that just because you build a castle in florida doesn't make you the king of the state. and right now ron desantis has led with leadership and no one else has. where are these governors? they should be a potent dell my pushing this as desantis does with corporations in their state contracts. >> laura: a new harris poll

asked voters approving of governor desantis trying to limit disney's autonomy in florida and over all 56% supported desantis' actions along with 54% of independents. so republicans do see a need to take a stand when appropriate against these megacorporations that deflects into politics especially when they are getting all these privileges on the other side. >> watch what this was originally about for the governor that you cannot teach education to third-graders and disney said that is unfair. that's what this bite was. that's the side nikki haley and people of his ilk are taking and governor desantis said, okay, all your giveaways, we are taking them away. that's the ultimate fight. what are we going to do questionnaire peddle to every corporation to give their visit to china because they are a corporation? where is the patriotism?

ronald reagan put a foot down over a corporation that did things like in japan. we had presidents in the past we said no, patriotism is an important part of the american industry. all the military, all the spending we do is access to free trade. they should respond by being respectful by the states they work with and respect the people they sit there and cater too. otherwise a turnaround no drugs are made in the united states. we had a microchip problem. where's all the stuff we had to make. thank you for your voice. the biden team is reviewing what the campaign could look like so expect lots of star power and cue cards. raymond arroyo is here. seen and unseen is next.

>> laura: it's time for seen and unseen segment where we explore the cultural stories of the day and returned to fox news contributor raymond arroyo.

biden is in the middle of hosting a state visit for the south korean president i understand. >> this is less to do with statecraft but also campaign craft. this is the first day of the biden reelection bid pair they got an 80-year-old candidate who seems a lot older and a president who has trouble speaking here so today they put him in front of a pageant of flags complete with fife and drums. but he still seemed lost at moments. look at this video. he was wondering why should i go next. is he indicating the handlers them are not sure where to go. we need key in the south korean president reviewed, he walked behind yoon. he addressed the obvious this way. >> with regard to age, i guess how old i am, i can even say the number. it doesn't register. >> lara, they are hedging against the aged. that's what this pageantry is all about. he went from dark brandon to

black out brandon. this is not a good look. >> laura: no. i do not think the top gun ray bans are helping him. they make them look older, if that's possible. >> these events, these are movie premieres for a film that got really bad reviews that nobody wants to see. somebody snapped a revealing photo of one of biden's ever present cheat sheets. curiously the card not only featured the photo of the reporter asking the first question. but the question itself about manufacturing and alliance based foreign policy. >> first question is from courtney of the "los angeles times." >> >> even with the cheat sheets,b. >> all of a sudden everybody is starting to learn the phrase "supply chain." a year ago, now we all know, we

had significant field of dreams outside of ohio. can return this commitment to move a nonproliferation treaty. >> do you feel like it's the fall of the cue cards? maybe it's written that way. >> laura: raymond, wait. the man tried to say that without their great work, no one would know what the word "supply chain was? like no one understood what supply chain was until biden came along? that's his great accomplishment three years of being president of united states, the fact that the dolly went down the toilet today and the first republic is about to collapse, people know what supply chain means. >> at one point the present repeated a line that sounded like a music cue.

>> we go together. may we continue that refrain of the republic of korea, united states, for all the days ahead. we go together. >> laura, for a minute i thought he was enjoying the cast of that "greece" reboot. given that it's a south korean state visit, at least they could've invited the cast of "quit game." biden welcomed the cast of "the l word" and "generation q" as members of the press briefing. 2 showtime series that chronicle the friendship, the love, the triumphs of strong, funny,

resilient women. >> we are honored to have the opportunity standing behind the first out lesbian press secretary in our history who serves the most pro lgbtq-i president in our history. >> laura: you cannot trust biden to get the message and connect with the base of the party. so he's going to use figures in pop culture to do it for him. but i'm not sure i like using actors in this way. >> laura: i think i feel like they should do economic growth week or jobs billability week. looking at all the layoffs that are coming in corporate america. i'm glad that they are celebrating their latest how about growth visibility? the left has found a new hero in the montana state how to accuse

republicans of trying to stop gender surgeries on minors of murder. dan patrick has some thoughts on this and he's next.

>> forcing a trans child to go through puberty when you are trans, that's tantamount to torture but if you vote yes on this bill, i hope there is some moment you see in moment of prior blood in your hands. >> laura: those commons accusing republicans of torturing children if they voted to ban gender mutilation, those are from transgender montana lawmaker is always that move that off thetrans act. >> [chanting, protesting] >> zephyr did get another chance

to speak ahead of a vote that would bar her from the house floor from the rest of the session. instead of using that time to apologize, this individual claimed that wow, they were standing up for democracy it itself. these protest and statehouses have become the norm but you don't see the left announcing them as a threat to democracy. you see those celebrated beer that would be surprising if zephyr got an invite to the white house. a new hero. another state taking on the lie of gender curving care is texas, the state senate saying there a bill that would add new restrictions to it. joining me now texas lieutenant governor dan patrick. why is this a priority for you all in this particular legislative session? bigger by the way, laura, i do not think

look, we are living at a time of chaos and just a lack of the the quorum discipline everywhere. got to this point in all of society where people can think they can act out of control, whether getting in on a fight on a plane, baseball stadium, wherever it is today and in this case with this issue we do believe it is child abuse. we passed it last time on the texas floor but didn't pass the texas house. pass it again this time. it will pass the texas house. we see it as clear a child abuse. the people, the american people know that is the case but when i see zooey zephyr stands up and see what she did, she hopes to see other members 'has blood on their hands and she eggs on that crowd, we've never had that happen. i would've cleared that gallery immediately. they were right to censure her and they'd see those issues for the people who come, the minority, and a small minority, they think they can just take over the 327 and take over

everything and you can have a lack of decorum and civility because you have to be able to debate and talk about ideas. >> laura: this was moments after zephyr was censured to today. >> herbert microphone has been repeatedly disabled. seven of her supporters were arrested yesterday. she has been missed gendered by her own colleagues. is this what moccasin looks like? >> laura: feels more like a witch trial. >> that anesthetize it at some extent that you saw jackbooted police officers are moving her supporters from her public chamber but that's the very definition of authoritarianism. >> laura: what does it say that the left line arises individuals like this whose sole goal is to disrupt the proceedings and be so inflammatory that it's essentially defamation on the floor of the statehouse? >> it's a shame that she is a transgender person because it's

not about her being transgender, it's about her having order in the chamber. you can conduct business unless you have order. this is part of, laura, this tearing of the fabric of civility in our country today. that's a whole show we can do on that issue alone. but this had nothing do with her being shut down. for the first time in my nine years as lieutenant governor, i had to say to someone recently that i'm, you know, i'm not going to address you anymore because you no longer have the floor. people just keep on talking and keep on talking and it happens. a small group, most witnesses are tremendous. but a small group of people think this is the way, well, this is the way of the woke left and the chaotic socialist act and act and that's to tear down society p that's what they are all about. they don't even understand the basics of having a conversation was someone else that you disagree with. >> laura: they are being affirmed in different ways. sometimes just being big pat on

the back by democrats saying, good for them, you are our new hero. leah thomas, the whole litany of victims we've been discussing on the show. thank you for your leadership on this. who was trying to win matt cohen award for best performance on capitol hill today? the last bite will explain.

our capitol hill testimony randy weingarten tossed her lachat in ring for best portrayal of a woman devastated by school closures. >> we spent every day from february on trying to get schools open. we knew that remote education wasn't not a substitute for opening schools. we also know that people had to be safe. there was tara. our members were terrified. other brothers were terrified and what we were simply looking for was clear scientific

guidance. she thinks doing this using her fist makes her any believable? the truth is that from a february on, randy was coordinating with vita and cdc on finding ways to keep schools closed. the head of the biggest teacher union hates children. go figure. that's it for us. gutfeld next we go. happy wednesday everybody. let's talk about clinique of franca. the chosen name of a runner who ran the london marathon. frank accredited girl power for beating nearly 14,000 women in