yes, they said it's the cat's meow. tomorrow on "special report," republican presidential candidates go to iowa for the annual lincoln dinner. we will have a preview of that thanks for watching "special report." i'm john roberts in washington. i will see you again tomorrow afternoon with sandra on america reports. "the ingraham angle" starts now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham this is "the ingraham angle" from minneapolis tonight. i will explain why a little later. but, first, sleazy deal, slimy family, that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> laura: now, at this point the white house needs to hire some professional writers, i think, because they are running out of good lines, the trail leading to corruption, to the special treatment they received along the way, it's getting harder and harder to explain. >> this is hunter biden, as you

know, is a private citizen. and this was done in an independent way. the department of justice is independent. we give them the space to be independent and we respect the rule of law. >> laura: ha ha. who knew she did stand up. the details of the defunct hunter biden plea show once again how far the legal system will bend to accommodate and ultimately protect the bidens. so the rule of law is always an after thought for these people. what's important is keeping joe biden in power. so after combing through both the plea agreement itself as well as the transcript of yesterday's court proceedings, the angle understands why there was such a converted effort to keep it all from the public. the most damning provision and the one we hit last night would have granted absurdly broad immunity to hunter biden. very conveniently it would have covered every crime he may have

committed during the relevant time frame. presumably stuff regarding his lucrative business dealings with foreign entities based in china, romania, ukraine and god knows where else. now, the effort to shield hunter from further investigations, this is an explosive development. and it begs the question: if all these relationships he had with foreign business interests were on the up and up, now, why would the first son and why would his legal team think he needed this expansive immunity deal? and why wasn't this known until yesterday? well, i will tell you why. because of it appears that the lawyers from joe biden's doj and hunter's legal team were cahoots. hidden in paragraph 15 of something called the pre-trial diversion agreement. not even the deal itself. so, when judge noreika discovered the scope of the immunity and then the

unconstitutional role it would have conferred upon her, she was not happy. this from judge n noreika. what is funny about this you put me in the smack dab middle of the diversion agreement i should have no role in. you take it out and say your honor, don't pay any attention to that provision not it prosecute because we put it in the agreement that's beyond your ability. well, sol wisenberg will be here in just a few moments points out this is totally unprecedented. in fact, judge noreika asked biden's justice department cronies five times was there any precedent -- is there any precedent for such a one-sided plea agreement with this broad immunity like the one that they gave hunter? so she said do you have any precedent for agreeing not to prosecute crimes that have nothing to do with this case or the charges being diverted? the federal prosecutor leo wise responded "i'm not aware of any, your honor." four other times upon further questioning, he replied that

there was no precedent. finally adding this was crafted to suit the facts and circumstances. facts and circumstances? wait a second. is that legalese for never before done type of plea deal for the son of a sitting president? well, naturally, axios reports that the hunter biden legal team is angry at judge noreika for deliberately questioning lawyers on both sides about the terms of the deal. now, imagine a judge being curious about how this all went down? doing her job, maybe? but that's not all. that's not allowed according to biden's gate keepers. >> is it unusual for a judge not to accept a plea deal like this? because it felt kind of surprising to everybody watching it. >> i don't think that some of the comments that i read that the judge made needed to be provided in quite sort of the provocative way in which they were provided. >> of course, this judge is a political appointee and a

republican. >> when the judge is trump-appointed, it just doesn't fall on any kind of reality. >> laura: a political appointee, yes, judges are appointed by presidents, sweetheart. what were all these lawyers trying to hide? not the judge's comments in court. one exchange from the transcript that might help tell this story is when the judge asked so there are references to foreign companies, for example, in the fact section. could the government bring a charge under the foreign agents registration act? mr. wise then answers, yes. here is jonathan turley explaining why that matters. >> because the judge just raised the one charge that the white house most fears, which is a chance that hunter was a foreign agent. and if he was a foreign agent, the question is foreign agent for who and for what purpose? the president was that purpose. if you are influence peddling, it's influence over the president.

>> laura: and there it is. given what senate and house investigators are uncovering, it seems like on a weekly basis now, is there any doubt that that is what was driving all the subterfuge here? the action of hunter's lawyers are almost understandable, i guess, they are representing hunter biden. of course they are trying to get the best deal for their client. but the actions taken by the doj, those are an insult to every law-abiding citizens in this country. and that's the angle. joining us now i'm delighted he is with us sol wisenberg former deputy independent counsel in the white water investigation. sol, shouldn't someone be accountable here? i would say fired but you might not want to go that far. but this is an embarrassment for the doj. and i would say for the entire u.s. government at this point. is there any oversight of how these kinds of agreements are crafted? >> not any -- not in this case. and, you know, you said every american citizen should be

embarrassed. every single prosecutor, every single assistant u.s. attorney in the department of justice should be embarrassed by this deal. this is an incredibly sleazy deal. there is no reason to hide an important paragraph like paragraph 15 of the pre-trial diversion agreement which you talked about, which typically an agreement like that is called charge bargaining would be in the plea agreement itself. that's why the judge said you are taking that away from me and you're putting it here in this separate pre-trial diversion agreement about guns. there's no way, obviously the government was part of this. there's no justification for this. it is shocking. it is embarrassing. it is shameful. >> laura: well, it seems like this was literally just written by the defense attorneys and, again, you can't blame them for

trying to get as much as they can. it's almost like they just wrote it and it was rubber stamped by the doj. that's what it looks like to me as someone who used to practice white collar criminal defense. >> well, i think that the important thing is obviously it was a joint product. but the important thing is that the federal government, the doj, whoever was in charge, whether it's david weiss or lisa monaco, the deputy attorney general, they ratified it. that's what is shocking. honest brokers do not act this way. they do not hide key provisions like that in a plea agreement in a case like this. we have to step back, laura, and put this in the context of everything we have learned from the whistleblowers about this investigation keep in mind according to shapley, as i understand it, as late as september of 2022 there was a 90

page doj tax provision memo authorizing prosecution. the team thought that there was going to be a prosecution. that got killed. the u.s. attorney in d.c. was involved. the u.s. attorney in california was involved. and those declination decisions were effectively ratified by leadership of the doj. merrick garland says nobody ever talked to him. david weiss never talked to him. so he had to have talked to lisa monaco, the deputy while i guess a.g. farland was tending to his ant farm. i don't know what he does but he certainly has washed his hands of this investigation. >> laura: sol, if you are in the house or house g.o.p. and you want to conduct further hearings into this and you can get the witness you want to talk to, who would you think would be the most important witness at this point to shed light on how this

all went down? >> i want to talk to lisa monaco. i want to talk to merrick garland. i want to talk to david weiss. and i want to talk to those u.s. attorneys. the thing is, like i said last week, they have already talked about weiss and garland they have already talked about what they authorized and didn't authorize without getting into the details of the alleged crimes. so they can come and talk and lisa monaco can just be asked are you the one that david weiss called? what did he ask for? what did you tell him? he has already stated in one of his many changing letters that he did discuss special attorney status. that's critical, being named a special attorney, not a special counsel, a special attorney gives you the right to charge in any district, which is what garland said, he always had it. i mean i always gave it to him. well, it wasn't written authorization. so, he says he talked about it with somebody at doj.

who did you talk to about it? they all need to be asked those questions. >> laura: we need those answers. >> what was authorized. >> laura: leslie wolf as well. >> yeah. >> laura: leslie wolf i would add to that. excellent analysis as always. thank you. the hunter mess is not even a day old but msnbc, cnn were already pining to move on with their latest distraction game. >> this morning we are on indictment watch. >> we begin with breaking news on the investigation surrounding former president donald trump. >> a secret meeting sets off alarms across the political and legal world. >> the indictment on charges related to january 6th and the attempt to overturn the election could be handed up at any moment today. >> laura: oh, they are so giddy. lawyers for former president trump did meet with special counsel jack smith and his team in washington, d.c. today regarding that possible federal indictment related to the january 6th investigation and while there is no indictment yet, they did get their distraction, the media did. it was reported just moments ago

that the doj added new charges related to trump's retention of classified documents. here now is missouri senator josh hawley, member of the judiciary committee. senator, it seems like, again, the two tiered system of justice, hunter gets an agreement that would give him all broad immunity and meanwhile they just keep piling on trump from every corner. >> yeah. now we're down to charging random people. just throwing those into the indictment. is there any coincidence that the doj rushes to add these new indictments today after the hunter debacle, after their own self-dealing and two-timing is exposed. after they tried to hide from us the truex tent of this plea deal that gets blown up and go indict trump on something else. so brazen right now whether a they're doing. it is really a subversion of the rule of law. they are taking the rule of law and turning it on its head. laura, we cannot allow this to stand, the american people are not going to be safe. our system of government is not going to be safe if this is

going to be the new standard. >> laura: senator hawley, the situation here is this: it's very simply stated: our department of justice, someone or some group in the department of justice decided to give hunter biden a free pass in this plea deal for all sorts of other potentials, be fair, potential criminality, it looks like related to those foreign payments that came into hunter and others. but, that's a free pass. that doesn't happen in these types of cases but it does in this justice department. how serious is this? >> yeah, it's really serious. i think what is even more serious or just as, laura, the fact that they tried to hide it. as you were covering just a moment ago the way the government structured that plea deal, they tried to hide the fact that they were basically giving hunter biden blanket immunity. it wasn't until the judge in open court questioned them and said hold on, hold on, what are the actual facts here. doj was trying to hide the

facts. you talk about, again, subverting the rule of law. we all know the only reason hunter biden got this deal because his father is rich and the president of the united states. that's what this is about. it is two standards of justice. he should be treated like anybody else, hunter, and joe biden -- joe biden should tell us whether or not he is a crook. because the truth is every day evidence piles up that he was involved in these foreign bribery schemes. we need to know is this guy a crook? >> laura: the house minority leader, hakeem jeffries, spoke out today about this indictment watch. >> the system should just be allowed to work as intended. and that means that the prosecutors and whatever judges may preside over the various court cases, as well as the defense attorneys, follow the facts, apply the law, be guided by the constitution. >> laura: senator, that's fine. do they feel the same way about

the charges against hunter or the investigation that occurred, supposedly, into hillary clinton or any of the other stuff? >> yeah. i agree with everything he said. the problem is that's not at all what they are doing. what they're doing is giving republicans one standard of so-called justice and then they are out there giving a free pass to hunter biden. they are giving a free pass to hillary clinton and bill clinton, by the way. treating parents like domestic terrorists. never forget, this is the justice department that sent the fbi to parents' homes to treat them like domestic terrorists because they wanted to go to a school board meeting. never forget this is the fbi that sent swat teams to the homes of pro-life demonstrators. you talk about attacking the rule of law. that's what merrick garland wakes up to do every single day. it is a travesty, laura, he should go, and we need find out joe biden is this guy a crook? this is an answer the american people deserve to get the result to. >> laura: senator, very quickly. politico is reporting tonight that the white house is very worried about senator mcconnell's possible health

problems given what happened yesterday's because they would essentially lose an ally in their work to try to block donald trump. they said having spent years as one of the party's chief villains, mcconnell in the biden era has become something different, a safeguard, essentially, against a senate turning into a version of the chaotic house g.o.p. senator, do we really think republican voters want someone leading the senate who is closer to biden than trump? >> well, i certainly don't. and i can tell you what the house has the senate doesn't. the house has what is called a majority. the republicans are in charge in the house. they are not in charge in the senate. and i to say to senate leadership if you want to know why that's the case? take a look in the mirror. >> laura: senator, thank you. great to see you. >> thank you. >> laura: if you had any doubt that joe biden's white house was pressuring facebook to censor conservative thoughts, wait until you see these internal communications that congressman jim jordan just uncovered. he is here next with all the details. ♪

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information spreads too quickly. >> laura: now we know that facebook dutifully took its orders from the white house. congressman jim jordan and the judiciary committee just released documents showing how facebook routinely caved to the biden administration's pressure to censor americans. and in april 2021 email from a facebook employee to ceo mark zuckerberg and coo sheryl sandberg it says we are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders including the biden white house to remove posts that same month facebook's president for global affairs told his team that biden covid adviser andy was outraged that they didn't remove a particular post. joining me now is house judiciary committee chair jim jordan. congressman, what was that post? >> oh, it was a people. it was one of these class action lawsuits that said, you know, if you have been harmed by covid call 1-800. one of these things. they were even censoring a meme,

humor. here is the kick core. they knew itose facebook executd this is significant incursion into the boundaries of free expression. that is a fancy way of saying this violates the first amendment for goodness sake. but, because they were -- the white house was outraged because jen psaki stood there at the podium what you played in the white house and demanded this happen because the white house was demanding it. and they wanted to keep their cozy relationship with the biden administration they censored first amendment speech. more documents going to slow it even more so. >> laura: what can be done about this because biden is still in the white house. >> i hope it's not continuing because we had that great federal court decision on july 4th in western district of louisiana. great decision. so i don't think it's going on now. but we got make sure it doesn't go on in the future, it doesn't

happen because we have this amazing thing in greatest country ever called the first amendment. we are going to -- rand paul and i have introduced legislation. senator paul would say if you are in the government and doing what was happening there, you get fired, you don't get your pension benefits. there could be civil liability that you are subject to. you lose any security clearance you may have. we want real penalties for people in the government engaging what professor turley called this censorship by surrogate. this coercion, this pressure from government on private companies to censor speech. or what matt taibbi -- by the way, laura, matt taibbi said what we are beginning to uncover here is more significant than the twitter files. he was one of the primary authors of the twitter files and he has been attacked for. so things he has done to expose this attack on the first amendment. so, yeah, we have that bill and stopping what mr. taibbi and mre censorship industrial complex. now we are figuring out how this complex worked and that's the first step into stopping it. >> laura: well, i think they

probably know pretty much what the biden administration doesn't want out there. so, the cat is kind of out of the bag. you don't even have to get an official order anymore. you just -- there can be a wink and a nod. i wouldn't be surprise there is body language being read here. they want us to do this. congressman, on this issue of hunter biden, i know you have been, obviously been all over this, but we're going to ask you the same question we asked senator hawley. how serious is this that the doj was willing to give the president's son a total free pass on criminality, potential criminality that had nothing to do with the underlying facts of his crime that he pled to? >> no. it's hugely significant. and i went to -- your first guest sol was on i want to go to that october 7th, 2022 bheeght. seven people in that meeting gary shapley telling you. five other individuals. some u.s. attorneys other people

in the investigation. i want to talk to those people. one of those individuals is mr. shapley's boss. he has basically agreed with mre mr. shapley put it in an email and sent it to his boss. those are the key people we want to talk to in addition to the sol talked about in your first segment assistant u.s. attorney leslie wolf, other folks we need to speak to. we are working on making that happen as we speak. >> laura: all right. congressman. thank you. and now it's tonight's profile in courage. meet texas congressman greg zay sore, a new member of the squad and yesterday he did what was now thought to be physically impossible. he ate breakfast and dinner but he skipped lunch. holding his own thirst and hunger strike. he claims he is doing so because texas just passed a law regarding water breaks for construction workers. of course, that was a lie. it merely was a law that keeps local jurisdictions from going beyond state and federal osha

safety requirements that are already in effect but don't let that distract you from his remarkable sacrifice. here he is moments before embarking on this perilous journey the hunger must have been gripping him, taking his last sip of water. refreshing hey everybody it's greg. thirst strike believing in our democracy believing we can make things better that's why i'm closing in on six hours and headed into hour seven of no food, no water, and not coming off of these capitol steps son and may be even rain later. >> ended the strike and immediately blanketed in care including what looks like a cold compress and monitor for oxygen. if this man is not on a bill or at least a coin by the end of the year we have failed.

we salute you congressman cesar for pushing your body to limits. here now is ned. just when you thought your body reached limits. we had democrats really showing us how wrong we were. this just -- >> taking it truly to the limit up human capabilities. i mean a 9 hour thirst fast on a truly hellish mid 80-degree day congrats on a stupid stunt. how emasculated do you feel now. if you have want real respect maybe go out and dig ditches for 24 hours without water and i might actually pay attention to that laura, this is just more of the nanny state from progressives who think the peasants are too dumb to drink water while working so they want to federally mandate water breaks. but i thought one of the funniest parts about the congressman's stunt is that he was essentially cloaking himself

in the civil rights era as though him sitting on the capitol steps without sipping water on a relatively mild day made him on the level of martin luther king. so the man is clearly detached from reality on a whole host of fronts. >> well, speaking of the heat, the u.n. secretary general dropped a very calming message today. >> climate change is here. it is terrifying and it is just the beginning era of global warming has ended the era of global boiling has arrived. >> laura: that was boiling by the way. global boiling. that's where we are. >> it is a motion. manipulate people into the state of fear to have them give more control over the ruling elite who would take this hoax and enforce it through a whole host of memes. it's a hoax and continue to push

in hopes that we will surrender to them and we will not. >> laura: ned, thank you. great to see you. the democrats in the media have a new distraction game. another one that they think is going to help them ahead of 2024. tulsi gabbard is here next to reveal it.li ♪fy you should get a second opinion from innovation refunds at no upfront cost. sometimes you need a second opinion. [coughs] good to go. yeah, i think i'll get a second opinion. all these walls gotta go! ah ah ah! i'd love a second opinion. no. i'm going to get a second opinion. with innovation refunds, there's no upfront cost to find out. so why not check like i did for my small business? take the first step to see if your small business qualifies for the erc.

the president and economic policies have made america's policies the strongest in the world. >> this economy is holding up really well. it's actually heating up. >> the biden administration has been more successfully economically interventionists than the new deal, since the new deal. >> laura: but most americans aren't really feeling and seeing what the media are trying to paint as some historic economic achievement by the biden administration at this point. even here in minneapolis. >> by do bidenomics they say is working. >> as long as you are blind. half are like biden they can't think straight at all.

>> laura: i will have more from the streets of minneapolis later on. but the truth is the economy should be a slam dunk for republicans in 2024 but that means they better start messaging it. investigations are terrific. they are all well and good. we need them, especially in the case of biden's corruption. but we also need republican presidential candidates and anyone running for office to explain what a real economic recovery can look like. joining me now is tulsi gabbard, former democrat, presidential candidate, and a fox news contributor. tulsi, there has been a noticeable shift in the media's focus to really not run away from the economy but to try to spin this economy as something much different than it actually is in the real lice of americans. >> yeah, laura, it sounds like from some of the conversations you have been having with people there in minneapolis, they get

what all of these spin doctors don't. they actually see what is happening, which is quote, unquote, bidenomics are failing the american people. but what people in washington are not focusing on enough what is bidenomics. fascism. a national socialism where we have government bureaucrats and politicians partnering and colluding with these massive cult corporationed and ultra rich to make these business deals, picking winners and losers that serve their own self-interest and the interest of the power elite at the cost of the well-being of the american people not only today but in the increasing debt that they are incurring that will effect us for generations to come. and foremost, the perfect example of this, laura, you and i have talked about this before is the military industrial complex. they have essentially a blank check, unaccounted amount of spending of taxpayer dollars and if you or i or anyone else ask

if what you are spending serving the national interest of the american people maybe we should perhaps know where every dollar is being spent. if we say that, we are at risk of being called unpatriotic. i have been called that before for asking these very questions. and so people aren't even allowed to challenge or question where this spending is going and how it's benefiting the american people. what to speak of our economy and everyday americans being able to, frankly, survive and live comfortably. whether a to speak of prosper in the united states of america. >> laura: now, biden wants us all, i think, tulsi, to kind of clap like seals since year over year inflation isn't as high as it was last year. since he has taken office, consumer prices have gone up nearly 16%. we obviously know what's happened with energy costs this is something hitting the middle class, lower middle class really really hard.

the elites are kind of gliding above it, as they usually do. >> and that's exactly what we are seeing as president biden and his administration and the elites are celebrating quote unquote bidenomics. the american people know better because those successes that are being touted are actually the opposite is being felt. again, this is where we have to hold the biden administration, the democrat elite accountable. we just to message things better is always their answer rather than looking at what the problem is because doing that would require them to look in the mirror. >> laura: tulsi, great to see you. thanks so much. now it's time for political pallet cleanser. ♪. well, my dog zoey was on set recently ready to make her ingraham angle debut when the unthinkable happened. >> are you waiting for your star turn? >> she is.

zoey. she is joining the sag strike. >> laura: yeah. she didn't want to cross the picket line. she undo youive she was part of the writer's strike going on. well, coming up, three years after the george floyd riots i return to minneapolis to document what i saw. there have been many changes in the city. my report ahead. plus a hearing on the fallacy that is gender affirming care. democrats reveal their true colors. that video, next. ♪

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♪ >> laura: today the house judiciary committee held a hearing on the unnatural explosion and so-called gender affirming care cases. well, to no one's surprise the radicals didn't take seriously what is truly a trend of civilizational importance. >> this is hearing is a descable exercise and contemptible use of the subcommittee's time and power. >> what did he say descable? under the guise of healthcare. >> caused permanent changes to

my body. my voice will forever be deeper. my jaw line sharper. my fertility unknown. i look in the mirror sometimes and i feel like a monster. i will never be able to breastfeed. i struggle to look at myself in the mirror at times. i have massive scars across my chest and skin graphs that they took of my nipples are weeping fluid today. everything that i went through did nothing to address my underlying mental health issues that i had. >> laura: but democrats do not care about the truly vulnerable in our society. >> it's a cynical and frankly dangerous political attack on transgender children and their families driven not by science or facts but by polling and political strategists determined to mobilize conservative voters through fear. >> laura: do you know what fear is congresswoman scanlon?

being forced as a young man to get naked in front of a biological male against your will. >> my teammates and i were forced to undress in the presence of leah a 6'4" tall biological male fully intact with male genitalia. 18 times per week. some girls opted to change in bathroom stalls and others used a family bathroom to avoid this. >> laura: that's infewer united states. next time the left claims to care about the rights of women and children remember their decision to look away from the horrors and frankly encourage the horrors that are being perpetrated by a greedy and frankly sick and political medical class. joining me today is one of today's witnesses, jennifer, director of the senator for family studies at the family research council. doctor, i was rivetted by your testimony and the testimony of others. you have been a clinician providing trauma therapy to kids for over 25 years. what is this tran indoctrination

doing to them? >> well, laura, this whole issue -- remember, we are talking about a psychological diagnosis. and what's happened is it's become a human rights issue for a lot of progressive political folks. and the problem is with that is it hides all of the bad research that goes along with this issue. so, instead of having an open discussion in this hearing about the nature of the research that's used to promote invasive, i mean highly invasive surgical procedures and hormonal and pursuant blockers, instead, it's just, you know, we are dismissed because, well, this is a human rights issue. instead of a psychological diagnosis. >> laura: well, in the diagnostic manual, gender dysphoria, is it still listed as

a mental disorder? yes? >> well, it is in the dsm-5 tr, so i mean, people can twist it which ever way they want, it's in the manual, so it's the manual for mental disorders. >> laura: so, when you see this now growing push beyond what was documented today at the hearing, to actually cut parents out of the equation and subvert parental rights in these decisions, that's a growing trend now as well, doctor. >> yeah, it's a growing trend and it's very alarming. because, usually, when you treat a child, you try to include the family because you're going to have a better outcome for that child. and what we're seeing now is it's almost like an extension of the foster care system so that the child becomes a ward of the state and the state imposes their world view or their

ideology on to that child and to that family. this is very destructive long term. i mean, we don't -- we're getting a taste of it but if we continue down this path, this is going to be very tragic for our society. >> laura: you are going to have a lot more young women testifying on capitol hill telling those horror stories. >> jennifer, thank you. now, three years after the george floyd rioters burned some of minneapolis to the ground, i returned again to see where things stand. i was shocked at much of what i saw and what i found. that report in moments.

>> i'm here in minneapolis three years after the george floyd riots. devastated after city block after city block i make a point to come here every summer to see how the city has progressed since 2020. have things gotten better. businesses, buildings, lives, have they been rebuilt, race

relations better? i'll try to answer these questions over the coming nights but right now i want to bring you something that we did not even have planned. we were driving to an interview today when my crew and i saw a group of young girls picking up trash. it was 100 degrees in downtown minneapolis today and i hopped out of the car to find a what going on. i was blown away by what they told me. >> we are going around neighborhood parks taking out trash, helping the community keep queens and the kids, making it safe for them to play. >> why are you doing it? >> we feel like it's important for the kids to play and be able to safe dell might be safe at playgrounds while they are around. >> what are you picking up that's perhaps unsafe for them? >> just plastic glass, leaning up the inside of the park. >> do you feel safe in the neighborhoods around here? walking at night? >> walking at night. especially being a young lady

with all that's going around. >> city leaders are saying the city is getting safer three years after george floyd bit what are you finding? >> i feel like the crime rate is going up. all the gun rate going up. the neighborhoods are getting more dangerous. >> why do you feel like the neighborhoods are getting more dangerous? >> i hear gunshots a lot of nights. i remember i heard the gunshots and the next morning they posted this like r.i.p., like, bro, you can hear it happening and someone just got a little bit not too long ago a couple of days ago i believe that so many people are dying around. so many kids my age. >> what does that make you feel like i'm at to hear these stories. this is your community. this is where you live. >> it's heartbreaking because many people, kids, they die a day and i do not think it's okay that people are like are just shooting around. it's a community. they shouldn't be shooting just for fun or just because gangs.

it's just... it shouldn't be happening. >> how do you inspire other young people to avoid the life of violence and crime that is attractive because they make a lot of money doing it russian mark >> just get into more activities. enjoying programs. you just stay out of trouble. you won't be on the streets stealing cars, killing just for fun. i advise everybody just to go and do something. >> what's the difference between what's happening now with violence in the city and what was may be the case years ago? >> three years ago, the gun violence was adults dying because they were the ones in the gangs. decades now, they are do it, those are the parents that were lost. they don't have mothers but they don't have nobody. they are the ones promoting gun violence. >> is it a cycle? >> yeah. >> it's a cycle and the ages are getting younger and younger. >> some of my homies, they are five years older than me. maybe. they are little brothers and little cousins. they go down a hill and trying

to get through this gang business. we are kids. you're just fitting into stereotypes at this point. >> how young are they, in gangs? >> 15-14. seventh graders. sixth-graders. it's varied. they teach it to their little siblings. we'll see videos on snapchat like little kids holding a gun. >> they are making it the new trend basically. >> they are launching a weapon your camera. there was literally a video going around where these two kids where in a bathroom playing with a gun. she absently shot her cousin and shot herself and yell still playing with guns and cameras? i don't understand it. >> some people that do have father figures and mother figures that will just try to follow the trend so they are getting yourself in like -- >> self-esteem. >> they think it's fun but it's actually very dangerous. when they do get put in a scary position they wish they would have never had done it before. it's too late. you are already -- he really got yourself into something.

>> these were wonderful young ladies volunteering their time to try and make their neighborhood better. it was inspiring but i'll continue to bring more of my "angle" investigation to minneapolis three years later per jesse watters and the whole gang take it from here. so enjoy. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: welcome to "jesse watters prime time." tonight. >> one more word out of you and i hold you in contempt. >> i hold myself in contempt! >> jesse: the hunter biden plea. a dynasty doomed. >> a lot of people look at you and see bernie made off. yeah. >> i do not think that's who i am at all. >> many made >>