edition of "hannity" this memorial day. i want to honor all our great men and women who gave their lives for our country. let not your heart be trouble. laura is up next. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. i am laura ingraham, this is a special edition of "the ingram angle. " what i found was stunning. it was heartbreaking. it was infuriating. i am going to show you all of it tonight. first, they own it. that's the focus of tonight's angle. now, the seupported the fauci approach to covid and the lockdown and work from home, all

the school closures - >> these numbers are greater among kids. what you also find is loneliness affects on our mental health and our society and heart disease and dementia and premature deaths. >> who would predicted this? the lingering effects of shutting kids out of education, sports and social in interactions without other kids have been horrific. >> we could not go to our first homecoming. i could not have an eighth grade graduation. >> you felt if your son were still in school, he would still be alive. do you still feel that way? >> had he not gone into lockdown, he would still be here. he would have gone into lacrosse

practice. he said, "mom, i just don't know what to do," that's the last thing he said. >> it is heartbreaking. we human beings are social beings. we naturally want to be communicating and collaborating with each other. >> the place that used to bring people together whether churches and synagogue or whether it was volunteer organizations in your community or whether it was parent associations in your kids' schools. participation and a lot of those organizations had gone down. >> you don't say. well, we all know church attendance was declining long before covid-19 started. we know it accelerated the fall off and we know stories of young people especially in blue states who just stopped playing sports all together after almost two years without them. biden's medical cartel chief repeatedly blames school

athletics for the spread of the pandemic. >> many without masks that are driving it rather than in the classrooms spread. when you go back and take a look and track where these clusters of cases are coming from in the schools are just that. >> these people advocated policies that ruined education and sports for countless children. they urge mask wearing on preschoolers. some kids today are paranoia about masks to these days. >> do you think the president will ever make us wear masks again? >> i hope not. you guys are at the age where you had to deal with covid pretty personally. >> how cavalier and patronizing. i will say it is personalizing. >> when children including my own struggles was forced to online education.

we found out that math and reading scores fell between '20 and we saw new stats among eighth graders. a first ever decline in civics. again, all due to the democrats' needless and inhumane covid-19 lockdown. what did miguel cardona had to say about all these. >> half of our schools were not opened for full-time learning. >> this put schools in a total bind. the mental health struggles and anxiety and poor performance is a triple threat. >> schools have been trying to hire more staff including tutors and psychologists. with teachers burnout, many

schools are facing a teacher shortage in rural areas and those with low income families and students of color. >> that's right, especially hard hit are students of color. but, don't try to blame randy. do regret not pressing for a full school, full in-person school sooner? >> i regret covid. i regret that we didn't know sooner what was key to keeping people safe and keeping schools open. what we were trying to figure out was how to reopen schools and how to do it safely. >> that woman is a complete menace, an unrepentant liar who should not be in hundred yards of any child. we learn that the cdc's director

rochelle walensky is stepping down, two years too late. think of all damage she inflicted. we knew early on that southern schools in states like nebraska, south dakota, that only locked down for a short of time were doing just fine keeping schools open. if liberals regret anything of the covid years, it is the political consequences that some of them felt. >> was the union just doing its jobs advocating for r teachers and didn't feel safe? >> schools are about children. we demonstrated over and over again that our schools are safe. we put $100 million into retrofitting and classrooms, the learning loss is real. the union needed to work with us. >> here is what -- well,

>> lightfoot may not have lost her job if she really stood up to the union. it is all good after the fact. that's not in the democrats dna, is it? they're all disengenerous. major blue states including in places like california, washington state, and beyond, they're bleeding population. new irs data showing that 105,000 people left illinois in 2021. new york lost 261,000, 785 people and a whopping $28.5 billion in revenue. the golden state started losing 32,000 taxpayers leaving and along with them, $29.1 billion. florida and texas they benefited with a big influx of money and people who were fleeing from liberal la la lands from new

york, california, new jersey, and illinois. the decline of blue lockdown states is most apparent in their cities. the lockdown and the remote work option offered by esg, it is killing commercial real estate. the u.s. office vacancy rate reached a milestone in the first quarter when it rose 12.9%, exceeding the vacancy rate during the financial crisis. it could hurt cities which depends on property tax revenues and weigh on bank balance sheet leads to less blending throughout the economy. staying at home to improve your work/life balance. that may be good for the core power of yoga studios near by but there are big ripple effects. new york times commonist, maureen doud wrote. in the last year, there is been

a smattering of people whenever i am here with rows of rows of empty desks. i am mystifier hearing that people preferred to work at home. i could never latch on so many breaking stories if i had not raise my hand and said, "i will go." she didn't link the office problems to the dc's government of handling the pandemic. back in 2020, the angle warned blue states they would be left behind if they did not follow georgia, and florida, and open up quickly. left behind they were. without foot traffic or office building workers, other businesses are suffering as well. now, combine that with reimagine policing, you have a recipe for disaster. criminals begin to run the streets with impunity, retail

sales are replaced by drug sales. as we saw last week reporting in san francisco, it is bad. >> when did you get hooked on drugs? >> when i was young, 16 or 17. >> wow. >> you want to get off of it? >> well -- >> i need my drugs and medications. i had open heart surgery, once i had that, i got addicted to my pills. >> oxy? >> narcan. nordstrom announced it was leaving san francisco because of the constant theft problem. whole foods said it was closing immediately. i went there for myself to find out how it was impacting folks. more on that in a moment. >> now, it is infuriating to see these things happen to good

people. good policies are killing america. hit-and-runs by illegals are off the charts and biden's open border are flooding chicago and new york. >> new york can't take more. we can't. we are pointing fingers we should be pointed. this is our national problem. there is no more room in new york. >> the liberal mayors know that democrats and biden own this crisis. just like they know big cities, procriminal mayors own the crime problem. they'll never take any responsibility or point a finger at biden, they'll never do that. that would be telling the truth. they know that the truth would set democrat voters free. free to vote for someone else in 2024. that's "the angle." i have been

coming to san francisco since 1996, this has always been my favorite city, forget politic, architecture and the rich history of this place. what i have seen happening to san francisco, especially just over the last few years, i mean it is nothing short of heartbreaking. how long would it take me to get crack? >> under a minute. >> how about heroin? >> same thing. >> fentanyl? >> same. >> easy to get. >> very easy to get. >> less than two years ago, i was here in san francisco, it is an open-air drug market. we decided to come back to see whether things improved or gotten worse. >> within the past week, this were three shootings, one resulted in a homicide and one resulted in a person being shot and another of a car being shot at. >> just in this district. >> yeah, lieutenant tracy mccray

have be with the department after 30 years. >> this is hard core drug addicts in the area. >> yes, you take a look around. you got your crack cocaine and garden variety of all types of drugs. this is where you will find people who are on all of these different drugs. you will see someone shooting up. >> right in broad daylight. >> while attempting to turn your heads away from the human sadness and suffering on the streets. i decided to speak first-hand with those in the grips of addiction. >> how old are you? >> i am 38 years old. i have a family, a husband, children -- >> you got to get clean? >> you got to get clean. >> yeah, i have to get clean,

but since i have been on the street. i just barely started using fete -- >> it helps keeping me alive and it helps me from some of the traumas i have been through. when i don't get it, i can't breathe or having anxiety very bad. when i have it fentanyl, i immediately calm down. >> okay. >> the human need is great. after seeing this first-hand, it is going to take a lot more police and a lot more creative thinking to get this situation cleaned up. >> how many police officers in the city? currently right now, 580. >> you are down to 580. what would a fully staff field be able to do about this poor

guy? >> a fully police force could be out here connected to people and trying the get them connected to service. we need those partners out here, too. >> right. >> that's the thing, they say we get this money of these billion dollars organization, where do you soo e the boots on tp ground from the community organizations out here trying to help that man or that man across the street, trying to help that lady in the door way or rot in a blanket. where are they? see, that's my problem. >> they have to be off the streets. your point is off the streets, your choice is jail or treatment. >> that's it. >> now, what happens? >> you get none of that. >> you can live out here and do as much drugs as you want. >> the injunction of about clearing tents and encamencampment -- >> you can't clear that.

>> we can't do that. they want us to do but we can't do it by law. >> a judge says no. unless you can provide a badge for every person you see out here. when did it fall on us? that's not my issue. like -- i am my brother's keeper but damn, how much keeping does one person have to do for another adult who makes these choices? that's the other thing nobody talks about. these are adults who are making choices to be out here to do this. >> lieutenant mccray know all too well of the danger of having the department stretched too thin. even herself at one time as a victim of crime. >> the police are not the solution. we can't be the only solution. until people want to make these hard decisions and tell people no, then this will continue to happen. you will see this and you will come back in two years and it will be much worse. >> do you have hope for this city? >> i mean i have hope but it is

going to be a long-term kind of hope projects. we are talking about five years or ten years down the road to recover, right? san francisco will bounce back. it always has. this one is going to be tougher bounce back from. >> part two of my series, san francisco sabotage where we investigate home burglaries and how police are not doing much to stop it at all. my exclusive report is next. [announcer] carvana has hundreds of thousands of five star reviews and counting. to be honest, i thought it was almost too smooth, financing, every step. there were no surprises. well, my monthly payment did come out lower than expected. financing my car with carvana was super smooth. [announcer] finance your next car with carvana today.

>> many san francisco residence have had that feeling of safety shatter. i have talked to a lot of people during my time there and it is just heartbreaking. the way they are feeling and they don't have this support from their political leadership democrats or the police. they are overwhelmed. you know, where is their representation? you don't hear anything from nancy pelosi unless it is involving her family. it is her city, too. she lives there. why are residence having to pay for private security to protect themselves in their own homes?

well, i spoke to one homeowner who had to do just that after his house was broken into nearly a dozen times. his story was first reported by independent journalist lee fang. >> i don't feel safe in my own home. >> you may have heard of the crimes here in san francisco. the assaults on the streets, the targeting of asian americans, the closing of stores because they can't keep items on the shelves. what about individual hom homeowners? people who are investigating in the city, maybe they're renovating or doing an entire reconstruction. how are they making it? we decide to talk to a tech entrepreneur who have been burglarized not once or twice but over the past three years alone, he's been burglarized ten times.

what's the future of san francisco if his crime problems does not get solved. >> my first break in was in the summer of 2020. in total, i have had ten break ins. >> in less than three years? >> yes. actually. >> what are they looking for? >> valuable things. something they cancel. it is getting more intense and scarier. it is constant. >> ben cook grew up in rural kentucky, he came to san francisco more than 20 years ago to get his phd. he stayed because he fell in love with the city. >> i see the broken windows up front. that was a break-in earlier, i don't remember which one. >> it is hard to keep track. this is happening all the time. after the break in and theft, i lost tens of thousands of dollars. my crew lost a lot of tools and valuable tools they need. this fella lost all of his

tools, significant amount of money. he's upset. >> the most recent break-in at cook's home happened over the weekend. three incidents in a single day. you can see one of the thieves walking out of the house with a ladder stolen from the construction worker. >> the guy looked like he may have been armed broke in right there. >> you know just a month ago or so. there was an organized crew that came in the middle of the night. two vehicles, big crew of folks, they even took my washer and dryer. these are big stuff. these folks knew what they were doing. they had a plan. they knew -- they had been watching us. it is what it felt like to me. >> when you do call the police, what's their response? >> usually it would be - we'll call you back, you know? i called many, many times. i just -- i was shocked there

was no response whatsoever when there was a home invasion. there was someone there. there was as confrontation. i hired someone to sleep here at night because i knew the house is under constant threat. >> wait a second, you are building a house, you had tofire someone to be here, where are they sleeping? it is a constriction site. >> there is nos heat. >> the space heater and an air mattress. >> this is insane. >> it is insane. i am not okay with it. i don't think it is okay. i don't know what to do and how to feel safer. i don't know how to protect the things that i worked harder. i hear it from everybody expect if you park your car outside a restaurant and gough to dinner,

there is as good chance that a window will be broken when you come back. you don't report it, necessarily. you know there is not going to be a response. but, i don't feel that should be an acceptable part of life that you should not feel safe when you are out or home. >> yet, you love this city. >> i do. >> it is beautiful. >> the main thing is it is full of brilliant, ambitious people. people i don't feel like i meet anywhere else. i love my friends here. i am committed to being here. >> no matter what happens? >> well -- >> is there a limit? >> there are limits. i can't afford to have full-time security staff outside the house just to feel safe at night. that's crazy.

i feel like i should expect a basic civic service of security. i am not getting it. >> once this is finished, this project, i don't think how long it is going to take. its got a little more work to do, then what? are you going to feel safe then? >> everyone tells me oh, what's your end it will stop? well -- why should i believe that, you know? if there is no repercussions then why would they stop? i don't understand the logic behind it, you know? no, i don't feel safe. i am doing lots of research now on the best security systematic get. i can't afford to have someone here at all times to prevent people coming in. that's crazy. >> what's your view of the city going forward if there is no significant change in law enforcement and actually pushing the criminals out and back?

>> well, i don't know what to expect but i can say in my experience and in the experience of people that i know and talk to, it is clearly getting worse -- you know, steadily getting worse. it is starting to get scary and no one would do anything about it. i don't know what to do. >> criminals are running the streets of democrats-led city with impunity. the angle seen it first-hand throughout our reporting. what impact does it have on neighborhoods and just communal spirits? we investigate in part three of my series, "san francisco sabotage," you won't what we saw and smell, next.

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hurricane season. forecasters predict some where between 12 to 17 named storms. those five to nine may become hurricanes. there is a bright side on the horizon, this season is expected to be less active due to a high chance to el nino will suppress hurricane activities. senator lindsey graham is a wanted man following his meeting with ukraine's president on friday during that face-to-face, graham claims, "the russians are dying." moscow is not pleased. i am lauren blanchett, now back to "the laura ingraham special". >> now to part three of my series of "san francisco sabotage iii," we have shown you the drugs and the crimes.

>> just over a year ago, whole foods opened this store in san francisco. now - it is closed. the company says it will temporary but we know what's going on. in the span of one year, 911 receives 568 calls about what was happening in this store. there were assaults on employees with knives, attempted shootings, a machete, attacks almost everyday. people didn't feel safe. this is all the results of policies that have been terrible for the city. the failure to enforce criminal laws, and that resulted in stores like target, walgreens and others putting a lot of their toiletries behind thick plastic shields. other stores are closing,

nordstrom and sak's. what's the lost of retails going to do to san francisco? when will people wake up? >> even when you go to walgreens, there is security guards in the front preventing people stealing basic necessities. basic necessities are boxed up in plastic boxes. >> what does it feel like when you go to the store where tooth pastes are behind thick plastics now. >> i am used to it. >> people around the block shooting up. >> i live on 6th and 7th so i see a lot. >> you want for it to improve? >> yeah. [laughter] >> i don't think anyone likes to live like this. >> do people get numb to what's going on here in the city with obviously the drugs and -- i don't know people are numb to it but people are aware of it.

>> especially covid and the shift has kind of changed. i am worried of the feature of the city overall. >> i was here when it actually opened. >> i missed it because i live right here and it was easy to get my milk and anything i needed. that was already a problem and now it is gone. >> how worried are you about that? >> how it may change the city without retail? >> i think it is going to be horrible. it only gets worse. it is getting worse since i got here. everybody complaining about the crime. it is terrible after 6:00 p.m. walking around at night -- >> you afraid after 6:00 p.m.? >> yes, i can't do it alone. >> what do the socialists do? they legalize marijuana and other drugs to keep you numb and dumb. to investigate this, we hit the smoky streets o f new york city

on 4/20. >> today is 4/20. we'll do what we do. it is 4/20, man. >> i don't know if it is legal. ♪ >> what's the biggest misconception you think out there of pot usage in the united states? >> i don't think it is a big problem. >> you like the idea that it is illegal now? >> absolutely. why not? why should it be? if you are smoking cigarettes with nicotine, why can't i smoke something that's naturally put here and it serves a great purpose, positive purposes. you don't see people smashing people's heads in because of being high.

>> you know what today is? >> of course. >> why is it such a big deal? it is a national pots smoking holiday. >> you don't need an excuse to smoke pot, do you? >> no, nobody needs an excuse to smoke pot. it is glorious that we are here and it is finally legalized in new york. >> we have a sample of our product here. this is a preroll cannabis joint that you can buy in a store. >> that'll keep you going for a while. >> a lot of personal use. >> it could be medical for a lot of people. >> you smell pot pretty much everywhere in the city and you are walking around with three kids. your thoughts on that? >> it is horrible. i used to work here. i can't take this. it is like getting a headache, i feel like i am getting high from just walking past people. >> don't want a two-year-old getting contact high. >> do you think it is a good idea to have a national pot day?

>> i don't think it is a good idea because everybody will get used to it. they'll see like if something in the world is everyday use. that looks really bad and especially for the future of kids. >> when you are not smoking and you maybe want to stop for a while. how do you feel? >> i feel great. i am always in the gym. i feel that right there. >> if i can wave a juaned now and you would not be spending your money on that everyday, would you want to give it up? >> yes, i would give it up. >> if i had to start fresh, telling all youth, if you have never smoked it? don't smoke it. >> you have seen the evidence. i am going to explain the true state of america. what's happening right now. what we can do to fix it? stay there. if we want a more viable future for our kids, we need to find more sustainable ways of doing things. america's plastic makers are investing billions of dollars in new technologies

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>> all right, here is what we know tonight about the state of america. mortgage demand plummets as rates are going higher. workers essentially had 24 months now of pay cuts. public pessimistism of the

economy hidden an all time high biden. it is cutting 4,000 more technical employees. disney reportedly cutting 7,000 jobs including 15% of its entire entertainment division. espn, they're getting hit and hit hard, more lay offs there. of course, biden's war against cars continue. gas prices have reached a five-month high. as all of this is weighing on us. there is no end in sight for the war in ukraine. >> the announcement will be the 36th use of presidential draw down, authorities to support ukraine. >> some of the biggest economies in this world, countries we thought are allies are now aligning with china.

all right, i am not going to say the obvious of the border. it is an open sewer of fentanyl, cartel, human trafficking all due to biden's policies in the ending of title 42. there is nothing to debate here anymore. biden is a complete and utter disaster of all front. he's an embarrassment on the world's stage. >> all the businesses and enterprises looking at me like hey, guys, don't jump. i have been in iraq and iran but iraq and not iran, i am fired. it is a consequence of utility polls you put up and all the rest. >> he's completely incompetent. given all of that, which everyone if you really are being honest, everyone agrees. what on earth should we expect from biden if he does run and from the democrats in general

going into 2024. i will tell you what to expect. divide and demonize. forget hopes and optimism. remember obama's optimism and change? that's out the door. biden has to divide the country into villains and victims. whoever they deemed as victims will be elevated to hero status. they're going to get rewarded. whoever they participate as evil will be punished. he'll try to shift attention from his and his party's failures to the bad people out there on the other side. he can't win without dividing us. the stories they choose to inject themselves into will only be ones that'll advance their political narrative. this is why they'll give a hero's welcome the the tennessee three but not the families of the nashville christian

shooting. >> on monday, you will have three of the lawmakers who protested - >> peacefully protested after the national school shootings. any of the victim families have been invited to the white house? >> i don't have anything to read out to you of any invites. what i can say to you right now is that the president is focused on getting things done. he's focused on making sure we are protecting our communities. >> why does biden spend my time talking about the violent crimes being perpetrated and places like chicago and compton, they do not advance the narratives that america raises. same with the sweet 16 shooting and alabama. these are not the accused.

they're not white officers-involved shooting or white on black killing. so, they don't get the play. the liberals have a lot of proxies in the media. hollywood and corporate america, they're all helping them out. we can't forget the activist crowd. people are cashing in the lie that our country is systemically racist. well, there is no money in chicago who leaves behind a trail of debt. instead, they wait, they wait until the perfect fact pattern. like in an 84-year-old who shoots a black teen who mistakenly walked at his doorstep. >> it was a white man who shot their 16-year-old son. it is in-escapable not to observe the dynamics here.

if the rolls were reversed and you had a black man shooting a 16-year-old white child for simply ringing his doorbell and the police took him in for questioning and let him come home and sleep in his bed at night, how much outrage would there will be in america? victims are victims. skin color should not matter. it does to democrats and the media exploiting their suffering. trump voters? they are, too. no invite for the family of katelyn gillis who was shot in upstate new york. that girl died but she was white. her death did not help much. even if you are losing money every month and sinking further

into debt, you and your family, or biden should be in an arrest hole some where. you can't vote for him. as argument goes, republicans are evil. their tactics are so transparent and so cynical. there you have it. it does not have to be this way. just because biden is giving up on america does not mean that we should as well. as we go into 2024, republicans have to show the country and i am talking about the whole country and not just red states. there is a better way. we can grow this economy. we can rebuild our economy and stand up to china and reign in big business. we know how to do it. republicans in state after state are doing it. now, let's take that message to new york to philly and chicago. yeah, even san francisco and l.a. let's save the whole country, no

state and no city left behind. america survived almost 250 years now. we certainly will not be destroyed by joe biden and a cynical handler. final thoughts when we return.

>> freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. by each generation. this is the recurrent challenge, the one from which we cannot shrink. >> kat: face so many challenges, both domestically in our foreign policy and our national spirit, our national compass. we need a lot of focus. we need a lot of reflection, prayer, and we got to roll up our sleeves. and get to work. to next year and a half is going to be crucial to preserving the freedom and independence of our nation that many of us have

frankly taken for granted of the years. but no more. that is it for us tonight. fly your flag. remember the great sacrifices of those in uniform and everyone who supported those on the front lines, not just today but every day. remember, it is america, free and independent, now and forever. thank you for thank you for watching. greg gutfeld and the gang, they take it all from here. ♪ ♪ >> greg: happy memorial day, everyone. we have had some great shows to start the 2023. so let's do that totally original never been done before thing where we look back at some of our favorite segments. enjoy it. [cheers and applause] [laughs] oh, look at that. yeah. yeah. i want