>> sean: all right, we minder tomorrow night we have a live audience show, judge jeanine pirro will be here and many others, go to hannity.com, tickets are free. as we hand it off to laura, and let not our heart be troubled, theresa is here, and it is going to be her hundredth birthday in just a couple of weeks. happy birthday, theresa. god bless you. laura, how great is that? >> laura: that's amazing. >> sean: yep. laura, you want to say anything to theresa? i'll convey your message. >> laura: theresa, all i can say is, i'd like to have seen america as you saw america as a young girl and live there for a while, even if it was a difficult time because it was a different country. some good stuff, some bad stuff but what a life experience you've had. amazing. >> sean: well said.

>> laura: i like hanging out with old people and young people. all the people in the middle forget it. that's awesome. sean: laura is abandoning these handoffs. isn't that sad? >> laura: including right now. including right now, sadly. all right, hannity, great show. i'm laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. my angle on the fraud that is bidenomics a little later in the show. but first -- >> has vladimir putin been weakened by recent events. >> hard to tell but he's clearly losing the war in iraq losing the war at home and become a bit around the world. >> i spoke to a white house official about that who really downplayed that who said look presidents spent a lot of times talking so there's moments they confuse words but there's no doubt those moments will be under heavy scrutiny. >> laura: but joe's addled mind

isn't the only thing to heavy scrutiny the new york times among others extensive pieces on damning hunter biden whistleblower tomorrow morning. even cbs evening news dedicated part of its brad cast last night to whistleblower gary shapely. >> there are certain investigative steps we weren't allowed to take that could have led us to president biden. >> laura: . >> and you wanted to take them. >> we needed to take them. >> and you weren't allowed to take them. >> that's correct. >> laura: now, don't think for a second that the media are suddenly reporting this because they think hunter needs to be punished. no. they finally realize that the scandal is bigger than the first son. >> how involved were you in your son's chinese shakedown text mess snowballing were you sitting there? were you involved? >> no, i wasn't, and i -- >> were you? >> no! >> laura: those denials are going to need further clarification given what we've learned today.

a newly released what's app message revealed hunter biden demanded ten million bucks from a chinese business associates to further the interest with the joint venture with a chinese energy company. what was his closing line? well, bidens are the best, i know, at doing exactly what the chair man wants from this partnership. please, let's not quibble over peanuts. unless you think this is the end of it house oversight committee chair james comer reminds us, this is just the tip of the iceberg. >> this isn't the only text message or message that hunter sent demanding payment from these foreign nationals. we've got people coming in for depositions now. we found transfer -- money transferred to nine biden family members through those suspicious activity reports. we found the romanian money. we found new banks and new shell companies just by having access to the treasury reports that they fought us. the irs fought us on the 1023 they said there was no 1023, and there are probably three more

1023 forms that they haven't disclosed. >> laura: where's 60 minutes on this? shortly after comer broke that news, another explosive allegation, senator lindsey graham the top republican on the judiciary committee revealed the u.s. attorney though led that federal investigation into hunter biden, david weiss was briefed on the fbi form that contained allegations that then vice-president joe biden and a foreign national were engaged in a criminal bribery scheme. and as to weiss listen to what the whistleblower gary shapley told our own bret baier tonight. >> i called us attorney david weiss and we need to execute the search warrant. he respondeded that the prosecutors didn't want to. no sooner had gotten off the phone with david weiss had we learned that the prosecutors were informing defense counsel of the storage unit and the evidence that existed there. >> and you believed what was in there was crucial to the case.

>> yes, we believed so and but we'll never know now because we weren't allowed to access it. >> laura: never know now. is that really accurate, too? could we learn more? well, the more we peel back this onion the more two themes emerge. one, everything that garland claimed about the supposed independence of the investigation seems tonight to have been a lie. and, two, the suggestion that this was solely a hunter biden problem was and continues to be impossible to believe. joining me now is david schoen form trump impeachment lawyer and form assistant us attorney as well. sol i want to start with you. i want you to examining what looks like doj malfeasance here especially as it relates to merrick garland and the u.s. attorney david weiss. >> well, merrick garland is either the most naive attorney general in the history of the

country, or he's lying. and clearly somebody is lying here. i mean, he stood up and he said at a press conference a few days ago that weiss had more authority than a special counsel. that he had all the authority than he needed. as i said the other night, you can't just give that authority orally. where is the proof of that? and why didn't david weiss, when he was asking permission of main justice, if he didn't ask merrick garland and merrick garland says he wasn't asked, who did he ask? did he ask the deputy attorney general lisa monaco? and did she then refuse or fail to tell merrick garland about it? so we either have an incredibly intentionally dysfunctional doj where they're looking for plausible deniability or attorney general garland is just flat-out lying. >> laura: now, david, i need to play what i think is one of the

most damning moments from the whistleblower shapley's interview earlier with bret baier. >> we eventually did a day of action where we were approaching the subject and several other witnesses, we had a plan of how we were going to approach hunter biden that morning, and ultimately we found out that the night before, i was told the fbi headquarters contacted secret service and the transition team and told them of the pending action the next day. ultimately i don't know how it affected the witnesses, but there is clear opportunity for them to be tipped off before we even approached them. and of the 12 interviews that we attempted, we only received one substantive interview. >> laura: david, anyone watching this across america tonight doesn't think that's stunning, your reaction? >> it's absolutely stunning. and what i also hope the viewers understand is how extraordinary it is for a career supervisory special agent with the irs to

find something so compelling that he has to break ranks with his unit. any criminal defense lawyer, who's ever dealt with one of these fellows, knows how committed and dedicated they are to their job and to the irs. and they're a real pain in the neck to deal with because of that in a case. what this guy's doing is courageous and extraordinary, but what we're seeing here is making an absolute mockery of the mantra that attorney general garland keeps using on the equal application of the law. remember, we now know from the special agent, the supervisory special agent that they had probable cause to search a locker of hunter biden's in northern virginia, president biden's mansion in delaware and so on and it was all called off. think about the idea of the equal application of the law, and then consider what they did down in mar-a-lago and elsewhere when they decided to execute search warrants en masse. so it's really -- this is why we're seeing today a poll showing an all-time low in confidence in our institutions.

49% of americans have no confidence in our department of justice. we can't operate that way. the department depends on public confidence and its integrity. >> laura: sol, i want to play a moment from a former federal prosecutor harry lipman and how he began to straff the whistleblower. >> i'm a whistleblower lawyer and this guy is not a whistleblower. he goes within the agency follows procedure and says something happened. this guy is a complainer with maybe a political axe to grind and maybe just a professional. >> laura: sol does he come off as a partisan with a political axe to grind to you? >> well, no, and he is considered among the elite of the elite in irs, and, of course, littman is wrong. you're allowed to go to congress. it's not that your only exclusive venue is to go up through your leadership chain. and just a note to the wise,

don't listen to anything litman says about criminal law he knows nothing about it. he was in the u.s. attorney's office for two or three years. he's an absolute createn on this subject. i don't want people to lose sight of something david was talking about because there's so many issues here. what is so striking here is instance after instance after instance in this investigation, when investigators were not allowed to do things that would typically be done. and that storage unit in northern virginia is critical, laura, because they had probable cause. the ausa in charge said i don't want to search it, and shapley called up david weiss personally and said these documents are under subpoena. let's wait t subpoena's response is due in 30 days. let's wait and see if hunter goes to that location or his lawyers do because then we'll know they're complying with the subpoena. if they don't go, then we'll

know that there's a problem. and weiss agreed with that, but the ausa in charge, lesley wolfe, called up, they called up hunter biden's lawyers and said, hey, you've got some documents in a storage unit, make sure you get to those, too, to comply with our subpoena. that is an outrage. >> laura: it certainly seems, david, if there's any partisanship going on it's not on the part of this whistleblower who comes across, i think to the average person, certainly to my eye, as someone who just feels so compelled out of his public duty to speak. but putting roadblock and roadblock after roadblock, obstacle in place, then tipping off the bidens along the way, or in this case hunter biden's people along the way, or joe biden when the classified documents in his garage, that seems to be the modus operandi here, tip them off and block an investigation. >> exactly what you would think happens in a third world country, not in our department

of justice. and, by the way, the tell on the whistleblower is, he said, well, if you don't believe me, here are six other witnesses who heard the same thing at the same time. why would he volunteer that if he had a political axe to grind and was just making up something. he's not a whiner. he's coming out with specific details that are very, very troubling. listen this isn't about whether hunter biden goes to jail, he's a tragic case. it's about the underlying lack of integrity here. i still want to hold out hope merrick garland is being misled by lisa monaco and eric within the department of justice. he sat on a judge on a case i had. i thought he was an extraordinary judge, i thought he had great integrity. i don't understand. he certainly can't believe any longer that this is the equal application of the law. >> laura: no. >> and that's a fundamental principle americans have a right to depend on. >> laura: helps reputation was stellar before he became attorney general. david and sol, great to see both of you, the best legal analysis

around >> the next guest has interesting perspective on the hunter biden news, both as a remain for u.s. attorney prosecuting these types of cases and former director of the national intelligence agency that dealt with the fbi and its handling of the hunter laptop in 2020, joining me now john ratcliffe former trump director of national intel. john, now you've heard all of this. when all the details of the hunter biden laptop came out back ini 2020, everything on it was quickly labeled as disinformation get everyone off the scent. but this whistleblower says something the fbi and the irs knew before the laptop went public. what can you tell us? >> laura i'll say first of all i watched theed whistleblower today, credible, competent in everything that he said added up, made sense, consistent with department of justice and u.s. attorney manual policies. where as what merrick garland said doesn't add up and as you

said that was us attorney. but two things really stood out from what the whistleblower said tonight in his interview. one, we can stop speculating that this was a sweetheart deal for hunter biden. he said it. he said the most serious felony charges were left on the table and he pointed out the special agent report that went to the prosecutors, including ausa lesley wolfe, laid out all of the elements for those felony charges and she agreed they were met. and at some point after that, that got reversed. by who and when, we don't know, but those are things that, you know, we're going to need to drill down to find out. but really the most compelling thing that he said, laura, was when he talked about the fact that this what's app message that reveals hunter biden shaking down chinese officials associated with the chinese communist party for millions of dollars, that what's app message he talked about the fact that they authenticated it through apple. they obtained it through apple. so think about that.

when they were seeking the search warrants that you were just talking about relating to trying to get documents about these financial transactions involving china and ukraine and other places, and hunter biden, the fbi agents, along with irs agents, were affirming that that information was credible. that they had probably cause to seek that. yet within months of that, we know that other fbi agents were going to social media platforms and saying, if you hear something about hunter biden, joe biden, the big guy, financial transactions involving china and other countries, it's likely russian disinformation. those two things really can't be reconciled. fbi director wray really needs to publicly address that contradiction. >> laura: one of the things that also came out tonight was that jim comer, congressman comer, noted that the new information they have includes that payments

went to non-biden family members, presumably other friends or associates of the bidens, with new bank -- other bank accounts, other llcs, and other shell companies. so this was a web of transfers, accounts, trying to hide -- clearly trying to hide where this money was coming from, and then biden never really revealed the source of his income in that crucial year, just how much income he got, which leads everyone to ask, how did biden get so rich? joe biden. how did he get so rich? we don't know, right? >> and that's why this irs whistleblower is saying, none of this makes sense. you talked about the what's app message that hunter biden bragging that nobody's better than the bidens at the business that the chairman wants done, and you have an irs investigative team saying, what is that business? >> laura: yeah. >> what do you do? you don't have any product, so what services are you providing? what do you do better for officials in china and ukraine

and romania? and that's why i think they're also motivated and so distraught by the fact that this has been swept under the rug, very clearly for political reasons that need to be drilled down on. >> laura: on a scale of 1-10, ten being the most concerned, how concerned are you, john, that joe biden is compromised in our dealings with china because of these business dealings of his son? >> well, i've run out of other reasons than to think that he's compromised. i mean, what else -- it can't -- you know, it can't be that he's that incompetent. it can't be that he doesn't care at all about national security. >> laura: 1-10, john. >> i mean -- >> laura: 1-10 how concerned are you. >> 15? >> laura: 15? okay, that's pretty concerned. john thank you for your perspective. good to see you. what does bidenomics mean to regularmen. we went out on the street to find out. my video on the angle next.

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♪ >> laura: when down meets up. that's the focus of tonight's angle. now, watching biden give a speech is like watching a slow-motion car crash. you can't help but rubber neck. >> trickle down economic theory,

three-quarters of u.s. industries goo more cons crate -- excuse me, cons created. i'm thinking i didn't go to mass. >> laura: as sad as that is for america it's not his biggest obstacle to reelection. the biggest obstacle is poll after poll show americans hate the biden economy. >> 20% of voters think this country is headedd in the right direction, 74% say the nation is on the wrong track. let me tell you something about this moment. we have had this sustained period of 70% about a year now. the last two periods in the history of of this poll that we've had this kind of sustained negativity about the nation of the country was before the '92 election and 2008 election both controlled the party changing the white house. >> laura: uh-oh. that's stunning. that killed chuck todd to report but it's devastating. it was just a few weeks ago that

biden was trying to act like america was sitting on some record growth. >> not a lot trickled down from my parents kitchen table when i was growing up. so we're changing. we decided to replace this theory with which the press is now calling bidenomics. i don't know what the hell that is. but it's working. >> laura: it's working. of course that speech flopped. so today, the geniuses over at the white house decided to roll poor joe out again this time with a new branding strategy. but is the public buying this? >> bidenomics. >> bidenomics. >> bidenomics. >> bidenomics is working. >> that's just not true. >> whatever world they're living in they may be working but they're not working in our world. >> people can't even afford to go to the grocery anymore. >> bringing down inflation remains one of my top priorities. >> is your grocery bill higher. >> absolutely, yeah. >> as a matter of fact, things like everything is just going up in terms of prices. it's ridiculous. >> he's done more to hurt this country than any other president before him. >> bidenomics is just another

way of saying restore the american dream. >> who wrote that for him? >> middle america's definitely a thing of the past. he's destroyed a lot. >> so when you hear bidenomics, what do you think? >> idiocy. >> absolute idiocy. >> stupidity. >> failure. >> how he screwed up the country, that's what i come up with. >> laura: brilliant. well, i have my own definition of bidenomics. an economic theory whereby the closer you are to the biden family, the more likely you are to get rich. and exactly what part of biden's economic record are we actually supposed to be celebrating tonight? why don't we ask fed chair jerome powell. >> correspond inflation i don't see us getting to 2% this year or next year, i see us getting there the year after. >> 2025. >> yeah. >> core inflation 2% so you're going to be restrictive for a long time. >> we will be restrictive as long as we need to be. >> restrictive. let's say what you mean. interest rates are going to remain high and persistent.

inflation's not going to be transitory. high prices are going to be there for beleaguered americans to deal with. and then powell really came clean linking bidenomics to the r word. >> i think there's a significant probability that there will be a downturn as well, though, not to me the most likely case. >> that's the hard landing scenario. >> i wasn't even thinking of hard landing, i was thinking of even a, even a recession. >> laura: hard landing would be the good case. now, you see what i mean? the biden team thought that they could message away, you know, all their bad numbers. like the fact that our economic growth this year is going to be a pathetic 1.6%. and next year it drops even lower to 1% putting us at or below the rest of the other member countries. now, only could biden call it restoring the american dream when americans are having to abandon their dream of owning a

home. with home sales dropping over 20%. now, remember, the one year that biden did have strong growth, that was in 2021, was before the fallout of his inflationary spending and the anti oil and gas policies actually took effect. biden's performance today was, when you look at it, kind of the ultimate study in cynicism. to go to speak to a country where workers are suffering and scared, and your plan is to keep the same economic team, the same economic policies that are going to produce the same pain to americans? your answer is to unveil a branding campaign using your own name? a real president would see these numbers and heads would roll. he'd say that 1% growth is unacceptable. it's intolerable. a real president would queen leaders from both parties and likely conclude that, let's give americans some tax relief.

let's change our trade policy, starting with that idiotic $800 diminimus duty free package give away to china and actually help american workers and small businesses for a change. let's get america moving again how do we do that? instead we get more puffery from biden towedies or in this case a bull frog. >> today americans have more job opportunities and can earn a better wage because president biden cares about upward mobility. >> laura: he cares. well, we don't need to hear, jb, about how much joe biden cares about us, or all the life lessens he learned from his dad and his grandfather. we need less marketing and more results. the democrats like to say that one of trump's biggest problems is that he never admits when he's wrong. okay. well, trump's policies on the economy worked magnificently. now, check this out from

december 2019 from cnn, of all place persist. as 2019 comes to a close, the u.s. economy earns its highest ratings in almost two decades. overall, 76% rate economic conditions in the u.s. today as very or somewhat good. significantly more than those who said so at least the same time last year at 67%. this is the highest share to say the economy is good since february 2001. in other words, trump didn't have to spend his economic numbers, because they spoke for themselves. he was both tougher on china than biden and delivered better growth at this point in his presidency. it took a china-generated virus and a prolonged democrat shutdown in blue states to stop the trump economy in his presidency. think of all the office buildings bustling and the christmas parties that were buzzing in december of 2019. and now, 2.5 years into biden's

presidency, we see half empty office buildings, which may never be full again. that's bidenomics. and that's the angle. joining me now, larry kudlow, former director of the national economic counsel under president trump and host of kudlow on fox business. larry, what's your definition of bidenomics? >> you know, that's a really hard thing. i mean, middle up, bottom up, middle out. i don't know what he's talking about. nobody knows what he's talking about. by the way, this whole thing, he's a class warrior. everything he does is about class warfare. this whole thing is a grift. he spent $6 trillion to democratic donors, democratic interest groups, esg corporations. he's increased business regulations by $500 billion. he hates business, by the way. he's waged war on fossil fuels. you can't even get a good -- you can't even get a good pizza in new york it's gotten so bad.

and now they're trying to make a case that wages are going up. let me tell you something. consumer prices have gone up 15.6% since biden was in office. 15.6%. that means that real wages for the entire bottom half of the economy have been dropping at a 3% rate week after week, month after month, and the economy, which donald trump handed him on a silver platter growing 6.5% with less than 1.5% inflation, the economy has now dropped to 1% after all this spending, all this regulating, all this green new deal nonsense, all this grifting industrial policy. i mean, come on. that's why his approval number's around 30%, 28% in poll after poll after poll. he's dead in the water on the economy and he should be. he's a class warrior. what you want to do is unleash prosperity, unleash prosperity, laura. let a rising tide lift all

boats. stop kidding us about esg and dei and class warfare and all this other stuff. produce jobs. businesses create jobs, okay? biden will never acknowledge that. >> laura: well, we need a tax cut. we don't need anymore tax increases, we need a tax cut. >> yes. >> laura: across the board tax cut period. that's one thing we need. >> supply side tax cuts. hold that thought. supply side tax cuts would get us out of the doldrums. his own fed chairman is predicting recession. what do you make of that. his own fed chair man says he won't solve inflation for three years. what is that all about? and they're still spending and they want to spend more. it's incredible. >> laura: i love how they were trying to say today that, well, we're restoring the american dream. larry, as new home starts are down 15%. we have a 34% decline over, what, 18 months in new home

sales. i mean, this is -- how is that restoring the american dream? >> cut taxes across the board for everybody, okay? stop the -- and get rid of these new regulations in the war against business. open up the fossil fuel spigots, okay? stop the class warfare. stop kidding americans who are not fooled. >> laura: no one gets fired. >> consumer price continuing to rise, no end in sight. so i would just say to you, save america, retire joe biden. that's my mantra. retire joe biden. >> laura: because we know gavin newsome's going to do a much better job, or kamala. larry thank you. great to see you. even more horrific. >> so just how sleepy is sleepy joe? raymond arroyo knows he has the answers, seen and unseen next. so stay there. for an erc tax refund. you should get a second opinion from innovation refunds at no upfront cost. sometimes you need a second opinion. [coughs]

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>> laura: time for seen and unseen where we turn to the stories behind the headlines for

that we turn to fox news contributor raymond arroyo. raymond, as we talked about joe biden offered his bidenomics today. which was exciting. >> i thought bidenomics was making millions using the family name on foreign interests but i digress. whatever bidenomics is or is not, the president sold it with his natural aplaum. >> we've appointed more african-american women to the exec -- to the federal bench from -- anyway. i go to these sites where they're training. by the way. be more cons created, excuse me. conscreated. i'm thinking i didn't go to mass. >> i don't think you went either. but given those odd marks on his face, laura, from this morning, you see the indefinitions near the cheek? he was probably sleeping.

the white house says those marks are due to the cpap machine the president wears to combat sleep apnea. it's starting to fall into place laura. >> laura: it does make sense to me. >> according to the mayo clinic, the symptoms of sleep apnea includes excessive daytime sleepiness. >> it also causes difficulty concentrating during the day, laura. ♪ sleep apnea can also cause mood changes, laura, such as you are ratability. >> were you?

>> no! >> [inaudible] >> people stage! >> i'm not going to respond to that. let's focus on the problem, focus on this man, what he's doing that no president has ever done. >> finally, lauer asleep apnea can cause a decreased libido. >> i've got hairy legs that turn, that, that, that, that turn blond in the sun, and the kids used to come in and reach in the pool and rub my leg down straight, and then watch the hair come back up again. i learned about kids jumping on my lap. >> laura: laura sleep apnea says a lot. >> laura: what does that have to do with libido? i don't understand that. >> perhaps a different expression of the libido. >> laura: oh. >> this helps explain i think in part laura, the raspy voice, the

decreased energy and those marks on the face, they may have just waken him up and taken that cpap off before he showed up. >> laura: i have a different theory. the whole thing can be a scam, a way to say, no, he's not mentally impaired he just needs to get a good night's sleep. so perhaps that's it. let's really analyze that. >> the president is not the only er rateable high profile celeb out there. an abc game show called claim to fame moved a dozen celebrities into a house and they have to figure out who the other house mate is related to. tom hanks niece carley reeves was found out in the first show. her reaction was so gracious. >> screaming. >> so freaking obvious. freaking poster of freaking forest gump are you kidding me? there's literally no reference on any other movie. i didn't even get to do any

challenges! >> she thought the clues were too easy and they figured out tom hanks was her uncle too soon. >> laura: she has to know she's being filmed. that has to be a put on. that cannot be real. >> well, if it is, these spoiled baby antics, it's really not welcome particularly when you're attached to hollywood royalty. it doesn't only look bad for you it looks bad to the person you're relateded to. >> laura: so long as we're talking about these game shows kind of going sideways, i saw that the wheel of four tuna nounsed that ryan seacrest is replacing pat sajak, who's legendary as a host, right? so seacrest is in. >> laura, seacrest has now replaced everybody. on new year's eve, he took over for dick clark. rehe replaced regis fill but. soon he'll take over for sean duffy. where does it end? i guess steve harvey wasn't available and they had to put poor ryan seacrest in there. >> laura: wait, you forgot

someone. >> who? >> laura: arroyo. casey case sum. >> of course. >> laura: only the best voice other than rush limbaugh. i think he sleeps one hour a day, he sleeps less than i do, which is not a lot. >> let me solve the problem for you here. the puzzle is no one can replace pat sajak. he was kind. he was warm. but he also had that little edge that's going to be hard to replace. and you know vanna white wanted a crack of being a host of the show i don't know why they didn't offer it up. she loosened up. >> laura: i heard she loosened up some of the tiles and loosened the wheel. so the first time seacrest has to -- the whole thing -- >> maybe seacrest pushes the letter and van a will be asking the questions. we'll see. >> laura: the first contest than spins the wheel it will spin off toward seacrest. that's what van a's planning. great to see you as always

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♪ >> laura: okay. the billionaire brawlers are getting down to business. >> i was talking to both elon and mark. both guys are absolutely dead serious about this. this would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world. >> laura: we know zuckerberg is up for the challenge. he's been training in jujitsu for about a year now but now we're going to look at how elon musk might be getting ready for the big fight. first he agreed to train with ufc hall of famer georgia st. pierre and yesterday jujitsu black belt lex freedman. posted these photos on instagram i did an impromptu training session with elon yesterday. i'm extremely impressed with his strength power and skill on the feet and on the ground. it was epic. joining me now is mma legend kolby covington, currently ranked number two in the ufc's welter weight division. kolby congrats on that, you've

got to get to number one, though. what do you think of musk's training here? he's already epic and he just started training, or is that just an exaggeration? >> no, you can see from the way that elon gets on that mask that he's an innovator, laura. he's not a guy like zuckerberg who's just going to copy and mimic other people's moves. he's an innovator he created his own move. laura, roll that tape. show the people the wall rus. let the people see the walrus and how they can implement it into their game. >> laura: do we have that? that's just the flop where he lays on top -- no, we don't have it. but is the walrus just flopping on top of someone and staying on them, right? with all your weight and force. >> you know, laura, it's an alpha doing alpha things, you know, using his weight as learning and you can see the

winning mindset flowing from awed the videos from that. you see suckerburg, he's not make up his jujitsu move. elon is an innovator he's making up his own stuff. he doesn't steal things like he did the winkle sos twins. >> laura: you love reverencing them. lex who did the training session with elon, is he playing both sides of this? watch this. now, kolby, that was just three weeks ago. >> man, he looks like traysor.

he looks like a traitor disguised as a coach. i think elon needs better help than that someone with integrity and wouldn't give inside secrets of training. >> laura: i don't know anything about this kind of fighting but mark zuckerberg reminds me of watching my son, who's a wrestler, kind of the junior high wrestler moves. that's what it looked like. i don't know, i might be wrong but it seemed juvenile. elon seems more naturally kind of strong and athletic. but elon's parents, i understand now, are against the fight. mom mae was teeth i cancelled the fight. i haven't told him yet but i'll continue to say the fight is cancelled just in indicate. and elon's father erol beats this guy he'll be called the bully while he loses the humiliation would be total. it's a no-win situation for

elon. kolby is that right? a no-win situation for elon. would you listen to your mom and dad here? >> no, i wouldn't laura. we need to have a heart to heart tonight with mama musk and papa musk. listen, mama and papa musk, i understand. you don't want to see your kid get in a fist fight but, listen, zuckerberg is trying to steal and bully from your son and your son is an alpha mama musk. you raised an alpha and let him do alpha things. let him off the leash and correct this bully for the people, for the universe. >> laura: kolby, you're did he best. soon to be number one. great to see you. thanks so much >> for men of a certain vintage what we're going to show you next would have, at one point, been a dream come true. last bite will explain. what is this?

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>> laura: over a thousand people gathered in ireland attempting to break a world record of dressing as a certain celeb in

public. ♪ ♪ working 9:00 to 5:00, it's enough to drive you crazy if you let it ♪ ♪ . >> laura: all right, those dolly parton look a likes need to wait a few weeks to see if they actually broke the record. i'm waiting desperately. ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ here we are! once again, happy wednesday, everybody. tonight's monologue is dedicated to all our friends on the left who are failing upward. leading the charge, vp kamala harris. it's the only time she's ever led. and congrats. according to a new poll from