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promise you, i haven't felt so good today, i'm telling you, i feel like i have to toast you. i feel a little bit bad tonight because what is america going to do without the most scintillating 30 seconds of tv every single night with you and me? i don't know how they are going to -- >> sean: let me just say this. laura and i have a plan, we've discussed, and you'll learn more about it in the weeks to come. we've known each other for 30 years. and this will not be the last time we're on the air together. i'll put it that way. >> laura: you bet. i can't wait. >> sean: congrats on your new time slot and i look forward to seeing you soon. >> laura: all right, sean, take care. thank you, i'm laura ingraham and this is "the angle" tonight with some breaking news. president biden has just order

$3 reservists to be ready for european deployment -- 3,000 reserveists. this doesn't suggest our military's training mission in europe will change but along with the deployment of several brigades after the ukrainian invasion, this has stretched active duty forces. what's more alarming is according to sources hundreds of these reservists are from something called individual ready reserves. they are not active reservists which speaks to how depleted our military has become under biden. we'll have more on this in a moment. but first, convenient cold cases. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." now, when they think an investigation is going to help democrats politically, the fbi is johnny on the spot. their commitment to the rule of law and to pursuing justice is boundless. >> the scope and scale of this investigation and these cases

are really unprecedented. not only in fbi history but probably doj history. the enormity of this investigation, it's going to take a lot of work and effort and rest assured, the bureau, the department of justice, all u.s. attorneys across the united states that are assisting in these investigations, everyone is in it for the long haul. >> laura: the long haul. and now, even 2 1/2 years after january 6, the fbi is still ramped up trying to arrest more suspects and still asking for help to identify suspects that they have on their website. we've deployed our full investigative resources to aggressively pursue those involved in these criminal activities. the fbi was so enterprising after january 6, it got bank of america to cough up debit and other withdrawal information of customers in the d.c. area around the time of the capital riot. >> they asked financial institutions to turn over debit and credit card purchase history

in the washington, d.c. area on january 5 and january 6, 2021? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> we do, because bank of america gave us this email from the fbi to bank of america. >> my understanding that our engagement with bank of america was fully lawful. >> laura: they will go to the ends of the earth, even collude with their corporate pals to get the info that they need to convince americans that the real threat to our nation, it's not inflation or crime. it's the maga trump supporters. yet any time inconvenient facts are raised, and we saw the same thing happening during covid, by the way, federal authorities just throw up their hands and say, we may never know the real truth about what occurred. now that seems to be the case about the outstanding questions about how many federal assets were embedded in that capital crowd that day. >> how many agents were actually -- agents or human

resources were president at the capital complex and in the vicinity on january 6? >> i'm not sure there were undercover agents. >> at this point you don't know if there were undercover federal agents, fbi agents, in the crowd or capital? >> i say that because i want to be very careful. >> did you have any assets present that day? >> that's a place where, again, i want to be careful. >> laura: agents versus assets. and we know that the feds are never going to let up on how angry parents attending school board meetings, oh, what a danger they are. they are basically the equivalent of al qaeda domestically. >> the fbi opened 25 assessments against parents and even created a new threat tag. did attorney general garland consult with you or the fbi before issuing that men dumb? >> i can't get into discussions -- >> threats of violence, that's a didn't matter. >> is there any evidence that

you provided to attorney general garland that supported that premise that there was an increase in harassment and threats of violence? >> i'm not aware of any such evidence. >> laura: while we're on the subject, how is it possible that with cameras on just about every street corner near the capitol the fbi still hasn't made any progress on who planted those pipe bombs on january 6. >> can you tell us how the second pipe bomb was found at the dnc? >> again, i'm not going to get into that here. >> 900 days ago is when this happened and you said you had total confidence we would apprehend the subject. >> we've conducted all logical investigative steps and interviewed all logical individuals at this point. >> you need to tell us what you found, because we're finding stuff you haven't released into the public. >> laura: now, did they run into dead ends at the fbi or did they stop when the answers didn't point toward a preferred narrative? the angle thinks none of this adds up.

it's pretty obvious at this point that they will always hide these inconvenient truths until they are forced by a court order to reveal them. >> the fbi wrote a memo talking about radical traditional catholics. page 4, provide new opportunities to mitigate extremist threat through outregion to traditional catholic parishes and the development of sources with placement and access to report on places of worship. that's what this men dumb said and you won't let us talk to the people who did it. >> do you have a response to that? >> i was waiting for the question. >> can you assure us this didn't happen? >> that product, did not, as best as we can tell, result in any investigative action as a result of it. >> laura: doesn't answer the question. imagine if trump's doj drew up plans to go after some cherished left wing group like the southern poverty law center. the catholics aren't the threat. a weaponized doj, now, that's a

threat to everything we hold dear. like the principle of equal justice under the law. and as we discussed last night it's a cancer on the body politic when certain people in certain places get special protection. there are two tracks of justice. remember, just a few days after that coke was found at the white house, secret service sources telegraphed right away, almost, that we would never find the person responsible. and wouldn't you know, that's exactly what they concluded one week after this intense investigative focus occurred. >> basically, they told us that the investigation would be over tomorrow. they don't know who it is. >> they say they haven't been able to find the individual in a did it and won't be able to and therefore it's concluded. >> after not even considering to take their list of 500 potential suspects and simply do a drug test. >> laura: when they tell us to do something like get another

shot, put on a mask or stay home from church, they expect all of us to abide right away. no questions asked. but when we ask inconvenient questions, they stonewall. >> were they successful in breaching the systems? >> i'm not going to speak in any detail about the underlying event. >> the secret service determines who brought the cocaine into the white house, does the white house support the prosecution of this individual 1234 >> i'm just not going to get into hypotheticals. >> a july 2017 what's app message sent by hunter biden to henry -- does this not undermine the president's claim during the 2020 campaign? >> no, i'm not going to comment further on this. >> laura: you don't deserve answers. of course, we'll never know who leaked the dobbs decision at the supreme court and unlikely we'll never see that manifesto of the transshooter in nashville. i wouldn't hold your breath on

that toxicology report that the angle has been asking for from that uvalde school shooter. cover up some inconvenient truths, they don't just play out in washington. we don't want to say that tonight. they are playing out everywhere, when big money and political power are on the line, transparency just isn't a top priority for those in charge. marijuana legalization has been a complete disaster in the united states. the evidence is unequivocal. psychosis, schizophrenia, the cartels undercutting legal sales, and for many it's a gateway drug but why do so few media outlets cover which? and why so many government officials selling out to big weed or big pharma or the defense industrial complex or the teacher's unions? we know why. and we know the effects of this. it's a staggering decline in the public's belief in the american system. look at these gallop numbers. after the pandemic lies repeated

by the so-called experts, medical system has taken a huge hit. dropping 10 points in two years. faith in the presidency was only at 38% in 2021 but it's dropped to 26% under biden. even faith in our military, weaker and woker by the day, has dropped by nine points. any elected official who thinks they can keep this charade going with no consequences needs his head examined. the house is already beginning to fight back against the race and gender proppgandists. followed firm, don't be bullied. let the people decide if they want to keep fundinggovernment that refuses to tell them the truth. has the two track justice system, treats the people like

enemies but then just expects them to keep writing the checks and that's "the angle." joining us now is american majority ceo ryan and stephen miller. our institutions in this country that the democrats claim to care so much about preserving and protecting are in precipitous decline. any saving point without a change in the white house? >> no, i don't think so laura, i think the bigger issue is i think the american people are waking up and realizing, the bigger issue is they can't have representative democracy. you can't have it in this country if you're actually governed by these institutions that are run by unelected powerful bureaucrats would are separated from the accountability of elected politics and i think they are waking up to that. i think they are waking up to the snarling administrative state actors who serve itself,

who serve and protect allies, who treat americans as surfs and peasants, who should do what they say, should be the atm's for the ruling class's priorities. i guess the bigger question, fundamental question, in 2024 for the elections is this. what are we going to do with this administrative state that has nothing to do with the american people and serving its interests and priorities? you cannot have a representative democracy and have an administrative state. they do not mix and i think that's one of the fundamental issues in 2024 and i think the american people are weighing up to that you can see it in the poll. they do not trust these institutions, which are the administrative state. >> laura: that's why they really are worried about trump. that and china. they are very worried about trump dismantling this entire system. imagine how the media would have acted if cocaine was fouled in the trump white house. i was thinking about those diagrams they did during covid to find out, tracking the spreads of the virus. i think i was sitting in one of

those rows there. your thoughts there? >> i remember the maps of the rose garden, and the circumstance isles and arrows and lines pointing, and they analyzed who every staff assistant had been with in the previous seven days and who they had been interacting with, how long they spent in the room and who shared air with whom. yes, that was to figure out who had symptoms of a mild virus. now, you have cocaine in the white house, just be clear, it was cocaine. but this was a white powder so it could have been anything so the position of this white house, just so we have it clear, the current position is, that we do not have the ability to control whether people bring in banned, illicit substances into the inner sanctum of the west wing. we can't control the entrance, we can't determine who brought them, who might bring them in the future. we're completely powerless to control the entry of cocaine or any odd banned substance into the west wing near the oval office. clearly, clearly, they wanted to find out who it was. if they are willing to do the

interviews, do the drug tests do the forensics, do the fingerprint printing. they do have figured it out but they didn't want to. >> laura: this is a felony. someone was engaged in felonious activity at the white house, and our media, the corporate media and the democrats and white house staff and all the white house officials, and the secret service are just like this, cocaine, what cocaine? that's where we are. it's unbelievable. now, i need to get both of your reactions to this call up by biden of 3,000 troops to send to europe. i noted some of these aren't even true reservists. they are essentially, you know, out of the military, but that's how bad things are now with our military readiness, and our recruitment. this is about the ukraine war and trying to send some message to putin or what are we looking at here? >> i have to tell you, laura,

between this, between sending cluster munitions, this ole fool and his hangers are going to get us into a shooting war with the largest nuclear power if we're not careful. we keep on escalating. it's one thing after another after another. and at some point, russia is going to probably respond toward us. not in ukraine but toward us if we continue to push the envelope on this, and at some point we have to have the conversation, republicans in d.c. actually have to stand up, not lindsey graham, of course, but others, and say, what does this actually have to do with the national interests of our country? nothing at all and here we are pushing the envelope over an eastern european country that has nothing to do with our national interests. >> laura: the bottomless pit of the taxpayer dollars. we're borrowing money from one of our adversaries, china and other countries to continue to do what we're doing in the ukraine and we don't have a lead

on what's happening that spring offensive was supposed to be such an incredible push -- >> china -- to fund this war, in ukraine, we do not have enough munitions. we are out of standard munitions so now we're sending cluster munitions. you have a woke military that's pushing away the very people who fight and die in our wars to keep us safe and you're doing all of this at the same time as you're courting world war iii. we're the closest that we've been to the potential of a world war since the cuban missile crisis except jfk was trying to keep us out of a war and this president and his handlers seem determined to drag us into one. >> laura: gentlemen, great insight and we'll see you at 7:00 soon. if the unsealed indictment got -- the man who made claims about the biden chinese dealings, if that wasn't sketchy enough wait until we tell you about the prosecutors in this case plus john ratcliffe is here

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>> over an intensive two-day meeting i shared my information about the biden family's

financial transactions, including specific dollar figures. i never heard back from the doj but instead of showing appreciation for my whistle blowing, i became public enemy number one. i'm not a republican. i'm not a democrat. i have no political motive or agenda. i did it out of deep concern that if the bidens were to come to power the country would be facing the same traumatic russia collusion scandal, only this time with china. >> laura: well, we all know what happened next. the u.s. attorney's office in manhattan unsealed charges this week against him, after he made those claims about the biden family business with china and now we're learning some curious details about the lead prosecutors in the luff case. now, not only did the assistant u.s. corner katherine gosh and daniel rikanthal conduct the

2019 interview, both have contributed exclusively to democrats. gosh made 35 contributions in the 2020 election psych toll biden's campaign and the dnc while rikanthaul contributed to the 2008 obama contain while in private practice. joining us now is a fox news contributor, "the new york post" columnist, the one who published the video that you saw at the top. miranda, there is a lot out there about luft, the leftist circulating saying he's a pro china plants, and, you know, he's not someone who is credible and he's a spy, et cetera. these prosecutors are the same one who interviewed him in 2019. we're learning more about him and the donations. that's relevant, is it not? >> i guess so it is new york. and so it's not surprising to find democrats in the

prosecutor's ranks, and, look, it's only a few hundred dollars although i would say that katherine's contributions to biden in the 2020 election cycle would suggest that she was pretty keen on having joe biden beat donald trump that year. but look, i don't think it's really fair to cast dispersions on their professionalism just based on who they donated to but i do think it is really curious the way that they have handled both the patrick case and the gal luft case. patrick was the joint business partner of both the israeli professor gal luft, currently a fugitive, and hunter biden. both hunting and his uncle and gal luft were making money out of this chinese energy company that patrick worked for and when patrick was rounded up by the

southern district of new york, arrested, and charged and then convicted on bribery allegations during his trial, the very same prosecutor, dan rikan -- he asked the judge to not -- to basically redact the biden name from the evidence before the jury. and he said there was just no point having it, and this is one of the reasons why gal luft felt like he would not get a fair trial in new york -- >> sean: biden getting special protection. they are getting special treatment, again. once again, there is a standard of justice for them, and everybody else. important details, thank you, and it's not just hunter's scandal being covered up, a former intel official says the fbi not only confirmed the affair between a cpp connected spy and congressman eric

swalwell but that the spy in senator diane feinstein's office knew each other and it gets worse. the former official also told dunleavy instead of keeping the investigations into these chinese spy efforts open the fbi moved quickly to offer feinstein and swalwell defensive briefings to shut it all down. >> joining me now, john ratcliffe, former congressman and former trump director of national intel. john, it seems like the fbi, it's not too curious to follow leads into chinese spying like so many other things we're seeing lately. >> yes, laura, this was interesting. i was in congress and was aware of the allegations regarding feinstein and swalwell but when i became dni, it's one of the first things that i looked at, i asked to see what's called the gates reporting which is foreign efforts to target members of congress and what i saw was shocking. so shocking that i actually went to capitol hill, you know, most administration officials are

subpoenaed to go to capitol hill, i went there to brief the house intelligence and the senate intelligence committees about china's efforts, and it was based in part upon some of the details that you're talking about relating to eric swalwell and diane feinstein. incredibly troubling. the fact, again, to your point, the fbi, in this case, a very dubious investigation that resulted in defensive briefings for both feinstein and swalwell, and i will add, a defensive briefing for hillary clinton when the issue of foreign interference or involvement in her campaign came up, but a very different approach to donald trump and the whole idea of russians in his campaign. i will say this -- go ahead loop. whether or not they didn't give him a defensive briefing. it was a trap setting, wasn't it? >> it was a -- >> laura: yes. >> pre-textual to spy on the

campaign, which they subsequently did through falsifiedfies is a applications. this issue about eric swalwell, i will say this because he's repeatedly come on since this time and said the fbi cleared me of wrongdoing and it was wrong for kevin mccarthy to remove him from the intelligence committee. you know what he's many not saying? he's not saying that his actions didn't harm national security. listen, stupidity is not a crime but it doesn't mean that it doesn't harm our national security. if you're duped or played or used by a foreign intelligence asset to gain sensitive national security information, even if it's unwittingly, that can harm our national security and it's a reason why you shouldn't be serving on a congressional intelligence committee and it's part of the basis for which kevin mccarthy moved to appropriately remove him from that committee. >> laura: john, i want to circle back to what we were talking about earlier this call-up of 3,000 reservists to send to europe, and a significant number

of those from the individual ready reserve, which is really not somewhere we see the military pulling troops from on a regular basis. i mean, what is going on here? what are they -- what are they signalling to all of us with this? >> i think what they are trying to do, laura, in part, is a bit of saber rattling to show some strength in a war, and a counteroffensive that's going on that maybe isn't going that well and to snow unified support. the problem is, it's a pointless, you know, a pointless show. look, joe biden has repeatedly said that american troops under no circumstances would be engaged in the conflict in ukraine and if he goes back on that, you know, both he knows and the russians know that if he goes back on that his re-election campaign will end so i think this is all for show but it's a pointless show loop. whether or not they also said they weren't going to send f-16's to ukraine and indicated that cluster bombs were really

bad. they say a lot of things and a couple of months later they turn their backs on it. >> schizophrenic foreign policy. it's a fairpoint. >> laura: thank you. new details about the china hack raises questions about the biden administration's true motives plus republican attorneys general are putting fortune 500 companies on blast. well, knock off the affirmative action practices or we'll sue. one of them will tell us about it next.

>> laura: the details of china's recent cyberattacks grows more alarming by the day. as we reported yesterday china exploited its relationship with microsoft to hack sensitive government emails and now the "new york times" is revealing that commerce secretary gina romando was among the targets and successfully hacked.

what's even more concerning is the timeline. secretary of state blinken was scheduled for a pow wow with china but it was suddenly cut short. why? >> i would like to address the presence of the chinese surveillance balloon in u.s. airspace in. light of china's unacceptable action, i'm postponing my planned travel this weekend to china. >> laura: oh, yes, china spy balloon. that was surveilling us and collecting data from military bases. obviously the biden administration didn't want to cancel the trip but they had to save face. they postponed the meeting until late june. i think they thought they successfully distracted the public from this spy balloon embarrassment but what the administration doesn't want you to know is that the state department was fully aware of china's cyberattack before blinken departed for beijing. why didn't blinken postpone his trip this time as he did after the chinese spy balloon? the answer is obvious. americans saw with their own

eyes the balloon flying over. but a cyberattack? i think they thought they could conceal that until after blinken had arrived back from his chinese meetings and when confronted with those inconvenient facts, of course, buffoons who communicate for biden claim what, it's no big deal. >> what does it say to you it was happening just as secretary blinken was headed to beijing? >> i don't want to get ahead of the fbi investigation. i'll say a couple of things. first, our networks are attacked every day, state and nonstate actors around the world. it's not uncommon for some of those state actors, russia, iran, north korea, china, to be parts of the process and i don't know that it's helpful to try to read too much into the timing of this attack with secretary yellen's trip. >> laura: not only does kirby think you're too stupid to know the difference between blinken and yellen, maybe because it's two syllables each, he thinks your concern of a chains

government hack is misplaced. it happens all the time. the question is, what is the administration's motive here? i think we know. >> this has far reaching implications. it's not just college admissions. we're talking about diversity, equity, inclusion. what are the conversations that you all are having with the private sector? >> there is no reason to use this as an excuse to go backwards. companies should not fall victim to the attacks of the right on diversity. >> laura: they were right to be scared because republicans thankfully are not letting up. today 13 state attorneys general sent a letter to fortune 500 corporations demanding that they end affirmative action practices or face legal consequences. saying that the supreme court's recent decision should place every employer and contractor on notice of the illegality of racial quotas and race-based preferences in employment. joining me now is a man leading

that coalition, tennessee attorney general, jonathan -- jonathan, do you expect corporations that are so tight with the democrats on so many issues now, including on the china question, that they are going to fall in line here and just say, okay, we're afraid of this letter? >> there is a lot of misinformation that came out immediately after that decision. i think anybody who reads it and looks at the relationship between title 6 covering education discrimination and title 7 covering employment discrimination, has to think that the fundamental principle here is the same. that is, you can't treat people differently because of the color of their skin. so if corporations are going to continue on their track at least they will know that they should be concerned, and that this decision, while some people are reading it narrowly, really seems to speak to that fundamental principle in a forceful way.

>> laura: you're a attorney. i'm just a recovering attorney. this leptus up back in the supreme court. you can read as much as you want into the decision but the court sort of likes to narrowly apply its holdings. so they are going to push this to a legal challenge, and then, you know, appeal it up the chain until it gets back to the supreme court but two members of the equal employment opportunity commission of president biden published a piece in bloomberg law, and they wrote that those calling for an end to dei efforts due to the court's disare wrong and employers can and should maintain their commitment to advancing dei principles in their workplaces. they are not letting this go, mr. attorney general. no way, no how. >> there are a lot of people deeply invested in that, but dei has very broad meetings. very different meanings, and i think the concern here is about explicitly treating people

differently based on race, setting quotas, refusing to hire people because they have the wrong color skin. these are things we fought hard to get rid of in america and the court seems very willing to engage on these issues so corporations need to know this is not a cost-free, risk-free exercise for them. >> laura: mr. attorney general, thank you very much. it isn't just sharks you need to be worried about this summer. two new aggressive beasts are harassing swimmingers from coast-to-coast. a live report on that in moments. age-related macular degeneration may lead to severe vision loss and if you're taking a multi-vitamin alone, you may be missing a critical piece... preservision. preservision areds 2 contains the only clinically proven nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. preservision is backed by 20 years of clinical studies. so ask your doctor about adding preservision and fill in a missing piece of your plan. like i did with preservision. now with ocusorb better absorbing nutrients.

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>> laura: sharks, as usual, have been getting most of the attention this summer given the bites on long island and the shuddering of nantucket beaches due to great whites in the area there are other terrifying creatures. kevin, you take it away. >> for anybody who is old enough to remember seeing "jaws" in the theaters, hello, 1975, not that i'm dating myself, you know that summer can be super chill and scary especially when it comes to the water depending on your perspective but don't take my word for it. sure, sharks get all the attention but tonight the u.s. fish and wildlife service is warning people who enjoy the waters off santa cruz, california, about an aggressive sea otter who has apparently been going after surfers.

a 5-year-old female otter has repeatedly approached surfers and kayakers, and while there have been no confirmed reports of injuries otters can be very aggressive. who knew? and this one in particular is considered a public safety risk. now, famous otter has engine spider a few memes on this one, can't you marry it, in a world where otters are totally out of control. sounds like it could work. all kidding aside, though, it's not just otters as you point out causing trouble, over in georgia, a rabid beaver bit a girl near lake lanier in gainesville. hall county officials say the beaver weighed between 50 and 55 pounds. holy smokes. no smokes. the dad and little girl who was bitten took care of business and that animal won't be around to bite anyone else any time soon. laura?

>> laura: kevin, all i can say is you better be doing these reports for us when we move to 7:00, okay? because i'll be really mad at you. i'll be so mad at you. was the otter like actually trying to surf? one of those videos it seemed like he just wanted the surf board. >> exactly. literally just wanted to play but i think what happens is, they get territorial, right? they are thinking food, maybe it's a mom and their little pup is nearby, i would not mess with one. i know they look cute but ask anybody who knows, they will bite you. so don't play. >> laura: i'm still trying to get past the other story with the beaver. all right. kevin. thank you. we'll see you at 7:00. >> working students have a long way to go to fully recover from covid-19. that's the word. third through eighth graders show significant evidence of backsliding across all demographics. a new report shows students will need an additional 4 1/2 months of math work and four months of

reading just to catch up. >> laura: students are suffering. americans are now noticing. recent gallup poll shows that confidence in the public school system is hitting an all-time low. only 26% now have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in the public schools. and democrats are fleeing their own party because of it. like our next guest who recently lowest her party as a state representative and joined republicans because of the left's stance on school choice. here now, a representative from georgia. do you think that democrats understand how vulnerable they are, because of their position on the school choice issue? >> if they did not know before, i think they definitely know now. >> laura: what's the reaction been? what's the reaction been since you announced a switch of parties? they like to vilify any

african-american or republican, that's the easiest thing in the world for them to do. what have they said to you? >> they were villifying me and sabotaging me before. surprisingly they are quite quiet right now but i've heard through the grapevine that washington is quite upset with georgia democrats for letting one of their own go. there were some colleagues that have reached out to me, though to say, look, i get it, i understand. a lot of us feel the same way you do. you just have the courage to actually do it. >> laura: your district went overwhelmingly for biden. 89%, so you're going to have a real uphill battle to keep your seat, but, you know, you don't care, i mean, because you think this issue is so important especially for young minority students. >> yes, i would not say that i don't care. what i would say is that i would

rather die on this hill, on this battlefield for the kids in my community. i think me putting them first, ahead of me being elected shows a lot. my community has reached out to me and said overwhelmingly, although we're democrats, we know how to at the general elections vote for you on the ballot so i still think there is a pretty good chance for me to win. i've proven myself to the community on the same things i'm fighting for as a republican. these are the same things that i campaigned for as a democrat. >> laura: well, and the folks in your district are fed up with the schools as well. i mean, schools that don't teach, kids that are falling far behind. all the problems with drugs in the schools as well. i mean, i think this is breaking point for the strangle hold the democrats have on certain constituencies. this and the economy. how confident are you that this

could be that issue, that finally breaks this logjam? >> i hope that, you know, my move, since it is such a drastic move, i hope that it is the catalyst where georgia actually will pass some school choice measures, but it's not just georgia. i care about all kids. i am a former daycare owner, so education is just near and dear to my heart. i'm a parent. and i understand that we have nothing, if our kids can't read. >> laura: there is no future for the country if our kids aren't taught the right things. state representative manor, we appreciate you and i know a lot of people are contributing to your re-election, thank you so much. coming up, another bloodthirsty animal finds its prey. "the last bite" revealed.

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>> laura: last night we promised you another animal themed last bite. well, man's best friend just learned a new trick.

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