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angle. now it seems to me that the democrats know they're in one big hole. now, first, having joe biden as their nominee, it's very risky. at the same time not having them as their nominee may be even riskier. now, how did this happen? well, during the 2020 campaign, when everyone in the press already knew biden was failing, well, they propped him up in a full weekend at biden style production. they and the dnc knew then what they know now, they could market him though as kind of an older and more stable than the new far left democrats and reassure the seniors and minorities and independents. but now what? he has only gotten worse. and america knows it. and now the country and the party is stuck with someone who literally, everyone knows is a figure head president. joe is not calling the shots on

any major question on maybe whether he will have jell-o or pudding for dessert and look, let's be honest, dr. jill probably makes those decisions for him. now, with his cat naps and his regular stumbles, we are dealing with weekend at biden's returns. trying to bring him back to political life, the media, they are blaming everyone but themselves for the bind they are in. >> yes, he is 80. you need to be there for him. and you need to make a pathway. you can't have these video images of the president tripping or the president, like, going the wrong way. >> well, sometimes they try to pretend that he is actually serving as president even when they know he is not. >> well, yeah, he keeps a very rigorous schedule. we know that of course, it would be easy for the democrats to get rid of biden. but, they are stuck with him because all of their potential

plan b's are nonstarters. >> biden is a figure head, but even biden without a brain, he is less terrifying than kamala with half of one. >> culture is -- it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? and -- and present culture is the way we express how we are feeling about the moment. and -- and we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy because -- you know, it comes in the morning. >> speaking of joy, it won't be found in that gavin newsom option either. california used to be known as the golden state until left wing politics hit. it's now the go somewhere else state. and more than 40% of californians are considering moving and one third blame liberal policies. but the governor is not worried that people are voting with their feet.

>> this is the first time in the history of the state that you have lost population. you acknowledge per capita more floridians coming back to florida than californians going to florida. 18 states saw decline. i love this state. don't count us out. no. that spin is not going to flight. and neither will the regime's attempt to spin the biden economy. >> we are very happy to see some breathing room for american households. >> our wage growth is moderating and inflation is subsiding so i think we are in a good path on the united states. >> now, even twitter had to correct biden's latest economic brag. he claims real wages are higher for the average american worker than they were before the pandemic. it's not true. real wages adjusted for inflation were at $11.15. now those real wages are at $11.05. now, the bottom line is republicans have a huge edge.

it's awesome in 2024 if they wish to exploit it. but, it's not about drag queen, story hours or trans radicalism in the schools as important as those issues are. and they are important. but it's about securing the border. but, mostly, about the economy. because that's biden's biggest achilles heel. >> here's the dilemma. for the white house though. they clearly need to do a better sales job. especially in talking about things like the strong job market be. the fact that inflation. >> what the house can do is hope the things get better. you got to explain, explain, explain. basically educate. >> oh, we need to educate. people can't look at their own bank statements, richard? okay. well, at least biden has an msnbc, you know, panel to augment his comms team. that's good. but what about the republicans? well, kevin mccarthy, he is surprising a lot of people who doubted him as a speaker.

>> i will not put an omnibus on the floor of the house. we should do our work. we should do our job and i'm thankful that you are here in statuary hall, continuing to see that this is the people's house. we keep it open to the public. members are now back to have to actually work in congress. they can't stay home. >> laura: now, if pelosi had her way, the capitol would still be surrounded by razor wire closed to the icky public and we would be well on our way to packing the court. house republicans are doing their job on this defense authorization act by trying to scrub it of all this nondefense related stuff like paid travel for abortions. how does that make us a better fighting force? and as far as the presidential race is concerned, no one seems close right now in that republican side. no one seems close right now to catching donald trump. he is dominating. is he dominating in the polls. and he is dominating in fundraising. now, people ask me all the time,

laura, could that change? maybe. but over the weekend mike pence and tim scott got a taste of what the g.o.p. base thinks of the american munitions drain right now in ukraine. now, let's just put it this way the electric democratic and raytheon do not have the same interest in a prolonged war in ukraine. especially while our border is open to the south. ands who trend lines would you rather have with hispanic voters the republicans or the democrats? well, hispanic support for democrats slid from 72% in 2018 to 60% in 2022. and, obviously, desantis he showed massive appeal in his state with lisp voters even in traditionally dominated counties like miami-dade, impressive stuff. all right, here's the bottom line with my creaking voice. if you live in a part of america

that's governed by republicans, you have good reason to be optimistic. because your businesses are growing. your schools are most likely not controlled by radicals and you are not getting hammered with unnecessary tax. if you live in california or you live in new york or illinois or any place governed by the radical left, you not only have to deal with a failing biden administration, you have to watch your state grow more and more fringe radical at the same time and less competitive. now, in 2024, the republican party -- i'm going to say this a lot. you might get tired of it but, you know, it matters. so i'm going to say it a lot. this has to be a no-state-left-behind strategy no. urban america left behind and no american state left behind. that means all 50 states because people want to be happy again everywhere in the united states. including in the blue states where a lot of them are miserable. so, conservatives have the

answers. now we just need to get the votes. i made it through and that's the angle. all right, joining me now ned ryun founder and ceo of american majority. ned, i think this freakout by the leaders in the democrat party over a potential third party run, everyone muttering about joe manchin. >> right. >> laura: it shows how truly lacking in confidence they really are. >> well, they would be correct. i mean, let's not forget in 2020 arizona, wisconsin, and georgia were only won by roughly 42,000 votes by biden. if trump had won those states, it would have gone to the house of representatives and he would have won there. he would have actually won the presidency. so it was a very narrow win despite highly questionable activities. you throw in a third party or two. let's not forget it's not just joe manchin and the no labels party. but the green party and probably cornel west as their candidate, if they get on the ballot and stay on the ballot in 10 or 15

key states, of course the bath battleground states. that completely changes the could i am in mics of the 2024 elections. >> laura: ned, do you agree with the "angle" democrats are in a bind trick box with biden? they both can't get rid of him but it's a nightmare with him? either way? >> no, i agree. i think they are kind of left and see going biden is going to be able to keep shuffles along until november of 2024. and i think it's 50/50. i'm fully convinced that if biden doesn't completely collapse, if they can somehow keep him going that he will be the nominee. i think that's the big question. will they be able to keep him going? will they be able to keep this charade going? i'm not sure they will be able to. then they are left in a bind, who do they pick gavin newsom, michelle obama? i think it's going to be interesting to see where we are in the summer of 2024 and where biden is if he is able to physically actually be a

candidate for the 2024 elections. >> well, i think newsom is pretty slick, he looks slick, he is a smooth talker. but i don't know, you talk to people in the sec states. you talk about people in the midwest, they love the idea of california but they are not going to run to california. and i don't think they are going to run to newsom for solutions. a overstating that? >> i think if people know enough of the facts they will realize what a disaster california has become under newsom. can't rely on the media to that story. i think enough people will get enough of a feel for how newsom has led california down the wrong path that he is going to be a nonstarter. and that's going to be a key difference, obviously in some of those battleground states where i think people are going to go we don't want california exported to the rest of the country and we are not going to be voting for him. again, laura, i have said this before. i will say it again. regardless of who the nominee is for democrats, if republicans

can actually conduct an absentee ballot chase in the battleground states. i think it's going to be donald trump. donald trump can win if we actually conduct the ballot chase correctly. >> laura: multi cultural, hispanic, working class, independents, women who want a better life. this is an exciting time and i'm very optimistic, actually, about this, ned. >> and to be successful economically. i mean this biden economics, bidenomics is a complete sad attempt by this administration to act like everything is going great when, in fact, we know inflation has made everything insanely expensive. still $4 a gallon. now mortgage rates have gone up so much you get half the house than you did three years ago. >> laura: we see what is happening. sorry i missed you in the studio but that's another story. a majority is from big donors, oh, shocking. hollywood mogul tech billionaires and hollywood.

one of those hollywood moguls jeffrey cass stenberg happens to be biden co-chair $1.7 million stood out not just for the amount but because it brought his questionable china ties back into focus. now, according to jeffrey, he visited china every month for years while running dreamworks animation and in 2012 he saw here now is enes kanter freedom. human rights activist and nba player. he is not the first guy to do business in china. we all know that musk has made plants, major business in china as do so many other fortune 500 ceos but who do you think china wants to win if it's trump vs. biden and why? >> i mean, of course, of course. i saw the news about jeffrey, and i believe he is the trojan

horse for china in the biden administration. so he is essentially the biden extension into china. and this is a guy who said he used to travel to china once every month for the last two and a half years. i'm just so confused why our current administration right now wants to be in bed with china so bad. and administration not only them but you look at hollywood, big tech, academia, nba, they are pretty much all run by the chinese government, so, instead of distancing ourself, my question is why do we want to get in bed with the biggest dictatorship in the world so bad? >> laura: well, our worst enemy. even they say it's our biggest threat geopolitical threat. and the biden administration is, as you noted. so desperate to get back into china's good grace. watch this. >> we're not attempting to

stifle economic progress in china. that we have and continue to want to have deep economic ties. our trade has reached almost $700 billion. >> laura: enes, what she least out we have near record trade deficits with china. our industrial base is eroding. chinas is still humming where it was for the pandemic. she is trying to act like this is parody and trade. oh, what a joke. >> exactly country they talked about biggest in the world. everybody knows about the human rights violation. >> uyghurs and tibetans. everybody knows how they are pretty much brainwashing 150 million americans with tiktok. everybody knows about the spy

balloon. >> laura: it's about money, enes. biden's donors are wall street and big tech and all -- they need their china business. so the donors are making these decisions for the biden administration. ned, enes, thank you very much. breaking just moments ago, the house oversight committee just conducted an interview with, yet, another witness who is cronting the whistleblowers in the hunter biden case. congressman jim jordan and james comer have exclusive details in moments. i can't wait. stay there.

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democrats and many in the liberal media have tried to discredit the whistleblowers prior to the committee hearing that we're going to have on wednesday. so, these two whistleblowers are going to come in front of the american people, in front of the house oversight committee on wednesday for about six hours and the american people are going to get to hear the truth from two credible people on the front lines that were in charge of trying to find corruption within the irs and hear what this fbi agent confirmed is they were blocked at every turn. they were tipped off, the secret service tipped off the bidens as well as the biden transition team. why would the biden transition team need to know that the whistleblowers were about to interview hunter biden? so i think this is good stuff and it adds correct to our whistleblowers. >> laura: congressman jordan, we understand that one of the whistleblowers is going to reveal himself later this week or her several later this week. what do you expect that will do to the democrats' attempt to really smear this whole process

and you know they are going to end up further smearing -- trying to smear these individuals. >> well, these two whistleblowers have been nothing but credible. and today with the fbi agent confirming key parts ever their testimony that just gives more credibility. this is quickly coming down, to laura, who are you going to believe in the biden justice department that said parents were terrorists, said catholics were extremists, who censored americans first amendment speech writes or these two whistleblowers who have impeccable records who got performance reviews always outstanding who were the go-to guys when it came to international tax fraud cases. these two guys were the go-to team. who are you going to believe the whistleblowers or the biden justice department? i think i will trust the whistleblowers. i think you will see that on wednesday when they appear in chairman comer's committee. >> laura: congressman comer i want to get you're reaction to this moment between biden's former press secretary and one of your colleagues.

>> how concerned are you that james comer was the chairman of the committee was knowingly, unknowingly co-opted by a foreign agent? >> i'm just concerned that the house oversight committee is suddenly being compromised in a really serious way. our legitimacy is being eroded by the tactics adopted by chairman comer. >> laura: congressman comer, your response, sir? >> that's very disappointing but not surprising. the tactic that we are using the house oversight committee is we're using a thing called evidence. and it's something that jamie raskin has no concept of and the democrat liberal media will not consider. we have the bidens' bank records. we have bank violations from six different banks that all reported treasury cabinet that they felt like the biden family was laundering money through shell companies. they were concerned about the fact that some of these wires they were getting from foreign nationals were from state-owned

entities. that means they are from the government from the chinese communist party. so i i don't think that jamie raskin or jen psaki can point to one thing that we produced. one thing that we put on oversight stationery that cannot be backed up by facts in the form of hard evidence from bank records and bank violations for the biden family. >> laura: congressman jordan, you sent a letter, i know, today to mark zuckerberg. >> yes. >> laura: i love this already which reads in part given that meta has vete censored protected speech government agency's request. the committee is concerned about potential first amendment violations that will occur on the threads platform and according to fox business, you are strongly considering holding zuckerberg in contempt of congress? are you going to really move forward on this on or about is this just a bunch of -- >> if he doesn't give us the information we will. threads is using the same guidelines that facebook used. we know facebook was censoring americans because a federal

court told us so two weeks ago. laid out 86 pages of facts with facebook and federal agencies pressuring them and other big tech companies. so we want -- we don't want this to be going on this. is a direct attack on the first amendment. and we want the information we have asked for months ago. if they don't give it to us we can move ahead with contempt if we need to. >> laura: all right, congressman, thank you both. now it's full-time for political pallet cleanser. well today it's a puppy party. yeah. hundreds of golden retrievers gathered in scotland last week to celebrate the breed's 155th anniversary dogs and their owners came from all over the world to the estate where the dogs were first bread. now, from the looks of it there were a lot of good boys in that crowd. oh, so cute. i just hope no one forgot to put their dog's name on his or her caller. that's. [dogs barking] >> laura: how do you find your

dog. calling all those dogs good boys may have set off a bunch of millennials. frankly they think that misgendering should be a crime. we're going to explain. plus, if you thought that musk vs. zuckerberg fight was going to be huge? wait until you hear about this next one, instagram -- no, excuse me ingraham vs. trudeau. what did i do to tick off the canadian prime minister? i will tell you, next. ♪

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>> laura: we have ruffled some feathers up north as in canada. justin trudeau expressed outraged that canadian muslims are thinking for themselves and protections strong disagreement with moves to radicalized radical sexual teaching in school. >> leave our kids alone. [chanting] >> leave our kids alone. >> leave our kids alone. >> community support trudeau and now look what he is doing.

he is saying that mumples are being brainwashed. we are concerns. and what is hang in our schools is getting worse and worse and worse. and now they have crossed a red line. our children are our red line. >> rather than, perhaps, reconsidering his nation's lunch to push these transgender and nonbinary propaganda things on kids, trudeau pulled a hillary. he blames a vast right wing conspiracy. >> there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation. people on social media, particularly fueled by the american right wing are spreading a lot of untruths. these are people on the far right who have consistently stood against muslim rights in the muslim community but they are weaponizing the issue of lgbtq. >> laura: of course the angle was the first in cable to showcase muslim parents. those who were fed up with sexual indoctrination squads and who are now working with social

conservatives to stop the madness. now, as for trudeau, he? his job for one reason, his last name. well, maybe for another, maybe for his hair. it's pretty good, now, personally i love my canadian friends and it's a gorgeous place but we are not to take elections interest people who allow china directly influence their elections or to push for people to kill themselves tore turn truckers into public enemies number one. trudeau is a rather silly fatuous man who touts multi culturallism but really wants a dictatorship of ideas. anyone who challenges his sacred cows may be canceled, punished or, in some cases, even jailed. nice try. joining me now is the canadian nhl legend and stanley cup champ. theo, i was dying to talk to you

when i saw these comments because we are the first ones to really showcase the muslims working with social conservatives here in the united states. but trudeau is the one trying to drive the wedge here, is he not? >> yeah. 100 percent. you know, he is completely lost his own narrative. and everywhere he goes, laura, in canada, is he being met with angry crowds. lots of nasty rhetoric going back and forth, and, yeah, it's -- it -- we're in a really bad place and a bad state up in canada right now. and it's all a direct result of trudeau's ideologies, and his divisiveness. and, yeah, it's disgusting. >> laura: the attack on the truckers that you and i talked about, their slow response, really, to what was happening

with the chinese infiltration in your elections, and really we're trying to save canada from the chinese. i mean, we conservatives. and he turns around and bashes us? no. we're not playing that game. is there a building opposition in your political system enough to really put the conservatives back in some kind of contention because it seems like we are always disappointed there. >> yeah. well, you know, the leader of the conservative party of canada is, you know, gaining a lot of momentum. and people -- he is getting big crowds at his events. >> laura: good. >> we just finished stampede in calgary here. the greatest outdoor show. and all the politicians, all came and, you know, they were all spewing their rhetoric, all

throughout the last 10 days, but, you know, ultimately, we are headed towards communist dictatorship if we're not already there already. but hopefully in the next little while here, we can get an election called, get a conservative government in power and then hold. >> laura: turn that around. >> hold them to account. >> laura: turn it around. i can't wait to see biological women playing in the nhl. i'm looking forward to that happening. >> yeah. >> laura: we have got to roll. we will see you back soon. with the new time slot comes a new segment it's called the "unreal, real" stories that seem fake but actually aren't. this one from "newsweek" misgendering should be a crime, according to millennials 44% of those aged 25 to 34 think using the wrong pronouns should be

illegal. l.a. county deputy district attorney shay was suspended for not using the preferred pronouns of a transgender child molester that he was prosecuting. shae joins me now. shae, i guess george gas cone is a millennial at heart. so, now, we have to worry about the feelings of a child molester? that's where we are in california? >> that's true. -- that's correct. i was was suspended because i used the -- i didn't use the preferred pronouns of the child molester when i presented evidence that the child molester was gaming the system. there was a defendant, james tubbs. who his m.o. was going into public restrooms and attacking little girls as young as 4 years old up to 10 years old. he was convicted. he pled guilty. there's no dispute. and when george gascon refused to try james tubbs as an adult,

he put him in a juvenile facility and then tried force me to recognize james tubbs as a female so he would be placed with little girls in a juvenile facility. and by telling him that we were all being played and i have recordings that james tubsz was faking it. i was suspended for not using the preferred pronouns. so, -- >> laura: i mean people watching this across the country, shae, they are shaking heir heads throwing up their hands, what happened to the great state of california. golden state now somewhere else state it's shocking. thank you for fighting. thank you for being there the voice of sane people. have you enormous amount of support. we will be following this closely. thank you. kamala harris finds rainbow connection. the teacher's union is focused on something then kids'

education. raymond arroyo has things seen and unseen 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.

>> laura: it's time for seen and unseen segment where we rereal the stories behind the headlines author that we turn to fox news contributor raym raymond arroyo.

no commenting on my voice. >> i won't. >> laura: every time kamala harris speaks can you count on something. >> she is saying the quiet part out loud. >> when we invest in clean energy and electric vehicle and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water. >> reduce the population. laura, the secret service may have quit that investigation of the cocaine bag a little too early. look, it was so bad the white house had to correct kamala harris' speech in the transcript replacing population with pollution. >> laura: freudian slip. >> this is the problem, she is disaster even among friendly crowds. she is at 55% disapproval setting, in uu gov and this inability to communicate is a break down in confidence surrounding her.

>> laura: raymond, remember in 201 when she dumped out of the race quit the race. paraphrasing but one of the worst campaigns that they had seen, people were fighting with each other. it was just a disaster. you know, prescient of things to come. >> the staff is running out of that office. then yesterday the white house dispatches kamala harris to the rainbow coalition push meeting to salute jesse jackson who was supposedly retiring but decided not to. kamala celebrated jackson but not before mispronouncing apostolic here. >> here at apocalyptic church of god. when i was in law school i drive toyota karolla. it was a fancy car for me. [laughter] and i had a bumper sticker in the back window. jesse jackson for president. early on, he even had the

audacity to name this coalition the national rainbow coalition. think about that he defined the rainbow, he was one of the first to define the rainbow. >> define the rainbow. laura, she gets stuck in a phrase. she mistakes frequency for profund dry. is she saying that jesse jackson founded the lgbtq movement. again, they keep sending her to friendly groups and even among african-americans she is at 17% disapproval. this is not what joe biden needs at this moment by a long stretch. >> laura: you know, i would actually love to interview kamala. i'm actually inviting her on "the ingraham angle" tonight in this new time slot, raymond, which i love by the way, it's great. it would be fun to have her on and just really, really talk like, you know, just really drop everything else.

why? why are you doing this? it's not your thing? go into fashion. not fashion. go into something else. >> her next big two speeches are to a black sorority luncheon and desiree rogers fundraiser. you remember her. the largest teacher's union. the largest teacher's union the nea wrapped up their meeting in florida which got very little coverage this was their leader becky pringle laying outs the priorities for the children. >> we are required to fight for fair and free elections and a woman's right to make decisions about her own body. this radical court struggles yet another blow against our lgbtq+ community that actually licenses discrimination under the first amendment nea we are dissent.

we all dissent. we all dissent. and we will change this world for our students with that inner fire burning. we will never bend! >> laura: wait, wait, wait, wait. that -- if the republicans want to win in 2024, just play that speech, raymond, that will win the election. this is what your kids are being subjected to. rants and angry people apparently. what a disaster she is. >> somebody either needs a xanax or exorcism. has nothing to do with the kids or reading scores and math scores are in the toilet, laura. this is abomination. they give most of their money 50 million to the democratic party mostly. how far do our kids figure into this. >> laura: she is doing a maxine

waters channeling there at moments. raymond, great to see you 7:00. all right, the white house reveals who is really calling the shots in the ukraine war. j.d. vance has reaction, next. ♪

>> the ukrainians are running out of ammunition. the ammunition, 155 millimeter weapons and they're running out of that ammunition and we're low on it. >> but that reality won't

stop the u.s. from sending more to ukraine. the country reportedly fires the same amount of 155 millimeter artillery rounds in five days as we're able to produce in a month. but this administration, they don't care, and if you had any doubts about who is actually running america's war effort in ukraine, listen to what john kirby said to shannon bream. >> defense industry obviously wants to make sure if they're going to increase production that that production rate is going to stay elevated for a period of time. that's sort of the central thesis of the discussions with them, to increase production and let them know we're serious about doing that for some period of time here. >> joining me now, ohio senator jd vance. we are mocked for warning against the industrial military complex. go back to dwight d. eisenhower knew a little about it.

here john kirby all but adds admits it. >> it is scary stuff when he says the profit motives of defense contractors are motivating our posture in the ukraine. what's so unbelievable about this, laura, is those of us that have been warning about this have been saying for a year and a half that our posture in ukraine would deplete our missiles and the systems we need to god forbid fight the next war, to send to the taiwan east to focus on the war with the chinese. you're seeing the president of the united states saying the american people were running out of bullets. we're not making enough ammunition to arm our own troops or arm our allies for a war of the future, yet the same people will continue to say we can send more, more, more to ukraine. we need to stop supporting the ukrainian war effort at the least until we have enough bullets for our own troops. >> senator, i want

reaction to something former president trump said yesterday. >> i know zelenskyy very well, felt he was very honorable. when they asked him about the perfect phone call i made, he said it was indeed perfect. >> that's not enough for putin to stop bombing. >> not saying that. i had a good relationship with both of them. i would tell putin, if you don't make a deal, we're going to give them a lot, more than they ever got if we have to. >> senator, i know what he meant to say there, but some people were worried, some populous conservatives were worried bought it seemed like that was lindsey graham speaking toward the end about giving them more and more weapons, but what's your reaction? >> here's how i take it, lawyer a first of all, president trump has been the lone one in the wilderness saying to stop this war, it is not in our interest or anybody else's interest for this to continue. the way i took it is making an obvious, simple point that the americans, we have leverage here, we

have leverage over the russians. they don't want to continue the war, we have leverage over the ukrainians, they can't continue the war unless we continue to support them. i think president trump is saying look, we need to use that leverage, we are the world super power, we can stop the fighting if we want to. this idea that this is ultimately russia and ukraine's decision is ridiculous. america has been an important party from day one from before the war even started. let's use our leverage to bring this thing to a close. that's what the president is saying and i agree with it. >> but senator mcconnell and joe biden are on the same page as is lindsey graham who is close to president trump, and again, not personal toward anyone, but they have a very clear pov here. very quickly, is the senate ever going to relent on the nonstop weapons to ukraine? >> not yet, laura, to be honest with you, not yet. about ten of us are pushing back on this, we need 51 to really stop it.

that's why the best chance to bring the war to a close is get a better president in 2024. >> looking forward to it, senator. thank you for joining us. that's it for us. my voice held up, very excited. set your dvr every night for 7:00 p.m. so you always stay connected with us. remember, it is america. now and forever. feels good in this slot. jesse watters next. >> welcome to "jesse watters primetime." tonight. >> the secret service has ended their investigation without figuring out who's campaign it was. do you think that's a problem? >> democrats confronted over the white house cocaine scandal. why the coverup should upset you. >> covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. >> rfk jr. shock comment that covid-19 may be a racial bio weapon. what does that mean and why anthonfa