>> greg: we are out of thanks to our guests and our studio audience. ♪ ♪ >> laura: hi >> laura: hi, everyone, i'm laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. humiliating themselves, the focus of tonight's "angle." they're so excited, they just can't hide it. they're almost glowing, waiting for their bundle of joy, arriving in march. >> donald trump has a packed legal calendar. >> another proposed trial date is filling up trump's calendar

in march, in fact, the day before super tuesday, how do you think this is going over for the former president and his team now? >> that could force him to lose a critical election window determining who the nominee is. >> for the disgraced, four-time indicted ex-president. had to count there. >> laura: they are ready to upon po, they have a glow, they are expecting trump's legal woes will deliver a surprise next year. >> this handicaps donald trump, hurts donald trump. this likely emboldened incumbent joe biden. >> laura: self-proclaimed defenders of democracy want you to believe their priority is restoring respect to journalism and politics, it is just for

all. when you listen closely, you see what they are all about. they are accusing trump of what they, themselves are, just vengeful idlogs who revel in shame of others. >> you will be able to see live on tv, there will be mug shots and fingerprints. >> donald trump will be fingerprinted and photographed and end up with a mug shot. >> the very first presidential mug shot. >> laura: these people are sick. how is a mug shot for the former president necessary or good for america? are they worried he will disappear into the population or he will flee? i expect him to push for bail to be set at million dollars. that will show them. the sick fantasy never ends.

>> donald trump will find it difficult to be given bail. >> there is bail, that is the thing he is not factoring in, continue speaking the way he's been speaking, one, if not more judges, will take action. >> laura: will take action. for years, humiliation squad has been itching to see that trump mugshot and to have him behind bars. >> a judge could lock him up awaiting trial? >> first thing donald trump has to do is go to jail. he is facing jail time in a bunch of different places. >> laura: think how sad it is to be a political analyst and what you are hoping for is to take an opposition candidate off the campaign trail. no debate, no cammin pa, just to be silence. they ponder how to stop him from doing more so-called damage to

america. >> there is question, how do you contain donald trump. >> she could revoke his bail and put him under house arrest. >> laura: house arrest, even that is not good enough for the viepers. salon describe trump under house arrest and trump being deprived of his phone is somewhat unsatisfying. it gets worse. amanda marcot says it is better for everyone if trump loses freedom from these threatening antics. better for almost everyone for trump to be in prison, not be able to speak? certainly the 74 million who voted for trump in 2020 would beg to differ. considers them to be actual human beings entitled there own views. as usual, as part of their acts, democrats seize the opportunity to portray donald trump

supporters are potential domestic terrorists. the country shouldn't be directed by them, should be protected from them. >> creasing security outside of fulton county courthouse. >> security concern around the courthouse and what might happen as this case progresses. >> she's reached out to judges to have them keep their staff at home. >> laura: what is going on here? could this be pretext to justify, not just limits on trump's own speech issue but 2024 limit on campaign rally, campaigning at all or in-person voting? >> those poll workers in georgia, who were targets of such hate and racism and threats of violence because they were unfairly maligned by trump. there is concern about elections this time around. >> violence is always looming on the horizon, especially this

moment. half a percent or percent of that half percent think violence is the answer, they will go after the folks. this is very scary. >> laura: what is scary, their entire reason for being, for living, seems to be focused on seeing trump humiliated and the fanatics are not just giddy because they want to see trump shamed with the trials, they firmly believe they are putting conservative populism on trial, as well. anything can happen when juries are involved, even in what are politically motivated prosecutions, but anyone predicting that the pig pile we're seeing on trump, predicting that will lead to demise of the america first movement, that person himself will be humiliated down the road and that's the angle. joining me is stephen miller,

former senior advisor to president trump and founder of america first legal. given proposed court dates by jack smith and fani willis, does anyone expect the american people to believe that this isn't a series of political hit jobs designed to interfere with the election next year? >> no, and they are not even trying to hide it, laura, let's be honest. as you played in the sound, they are giddy and fleeful, they are excited. their goal is to pull up trumpist populism from this country. they will fail and they will fail speck tack loorly. they will cause damage, as much human damage, to hurt president trump, hurt his allies, hurt his supporters, financially ruin and jail anyone associated with him and inflict as much pain as

possible. that is their objective, it is ope openly their vendetta and people willville to decide if that is system, authoritarian ideology they want to support. >> laura: speaking of populism, and their goal, to go back to republi republican-style. historeians weigh nothing and claiming if you don't defeat trump, if you don't jail trump, you are basically letting hitler, stalin and every other dictator back into the white house. this is from walter isaacson. >> this combin agszation of populism, we have a couple examples where fever didn't break and led to war. there has been a reduction in

the sense that democracy is the core of what america is all about. >> laura: stephen, last time i checked, jailing your political opponent or trying, is what we saw with what putin just did with nevalni, extending his sentence by 17 years, that is what putin and xi do. >> at least four regimes pretend people they are jailing are guilty of spying, agents of a foreign country and now in america, we are imprisoning people for speech we don't like, for asking them to lobby a state legislature or watch a particular tv program, that is where we have gotten to in this country. throw conservative lawyers in jail if we disagree with their faithfully argued legal theories. this is truly authoritarian ideology we're seeing from the left in america today, from the democratic party in america

today. i believe they are laying out the template to criminalize speech and political decent amongst everyday americans. you eluded to this, by describing president trump as enemy of the state, foundation to treat his supporters the same. it is not free speech, it is hate speech and hate speech must be policed and hate speech must be policed and those prospread it must be published. dangerous moment, laura. >> laura: do you believe there is a building movement on the left to push for some type of emergency order in various states given the threats because of these trials? i foresee that being used in all sorts of ways during the campaign, maybe into the fall of 2024. >> unquestionable. no, they have pierced that veil. the idea free speech is sacred

in america is dead now. there is criminal speech in this country. if they don't like your speech, that speech is violent, that speech is dangerous, that speech is threat to public safety. they are prosecuting president trump and their attorneys under that same theory, you are right, that is what is coming next. >> laura: thank you. to the judge assigned to trump's georgia case, scott >> mccaffrey, he's been a judge for six whole months. "new york times" pointed out, he used to work for the da who brought the case, fani willis. joining us is jonathan turley, professor of law at gw university and fox news contributor. the legal world is intertwined, all of us used to work for someone. given the importance of this

case, is this a little too close for comfort if you're one of the 19 defendants? >> i will give this judge the benefit of the doubts, we'll have to see how he performs. doesn't have a lot of experience as a judge, but he does have experience in the courtroom. my view in these cases is essence of the judge as opposed to the extent of their experience. what you want from someone, they will listen to both sides, be fair, understand this is a historical moment that calls for to assure both sides of this deeply divided country that this will be a fair trial temperature is concerning with state judges that stand for election, being viewed as in any way helpful to donald trump in at atllanta is

a way to get re-elected. it will take courage to say, i doll this the right way, even if taken the wrong way by people voting in the judicial election. >> today we learned jonathan, that fani willis wants to start this trial on march 4, just one day after super tuesday, one day before super tuesday. will this fairly expedited schedule in terms of this type of litigation run into problems >> jonathan: it is clearly going to run into problems, speaking as a criminal defense attorney, this schedule is grossly unfair to donald trump. what she is suggesting, put 19 people, 19 people on trial. this is going to be this massive production and she's going to do it in this rather short period of time. the defense has to go through

what are three grand juries, three years of investigations. there are 19 defendants that may have conflicts tlchl is flurry of emotions and constitutional questions will arise. why is not everyone piling on indictment, but jamming together the trials, daisy chaining them from super tuesday to virtually the inauguration, if you count the civil cases, as well. judges will have to step in and be a mature voice and say, okay, stop it. this guy has got to prepare a defense in multiple cases, you are not the first prosecutor to file and get in line. >> laura: is there any way, jonathan, this motion, not just on part of meadows, but others working in a federal capacity, it could be moved to federal court, given the dual track with jack smith, a lot of same claims

are covered on a state level. >> jonathan: it is possible, we are living in uncertain and interesting times, which itself is a curse. there are issues here that president trump will raise. some actions occurred, when he was president. some of the conversations that are cited occurred in the oval office, some occurred with his associates. in some ways, willis may have tripped the wire here. i call this the jackson pollock school of prosecution, she threw everything against the canvas and looked to see if a picture emerge. this is a big conspiracy, every speech we cite. she tripped wire with regard to his time as president and that has created this question of whether it can be removed. >> laura: jonathan, that is big insult to jackson pollock, i

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♪ >> laura: you have to admit libera >> laura: you have to admit liberals do hyperbole really well. yesterday they resurrected a trump era refrain. >> do you see echos of watergate or is it bigger than that? >> it is bigger than watergate, it is of a different dimension, foundation of democracy. >> laura: who thought cadavers could talk? worse than watergate. tried and true troep commentators have, they have been using even before trump was in office in 2016. >> talk about something bigger than watergate, if russian espionage that been trying to tip the election, which has been happening, that actually is bigger than watergate.

>> laura: of course! the russian collusion case was beginning of watergate obsession, before trump was inaugurated through his first year in office. >> this is bigger than watergate now and could explode to be bigger than watergate. >> imagine if watergate had been carried out with support of the then soviet union and you get a scale. >> these are nights we need experienced voices who can remember the rumbling of watergate and what it felt like. >> laura: then rob mueller happened, brought it back into focus. >> i think the mueller investigation could be bigger than watergate. it is far more complicated than watergate. if watergate is aissue lgebra, this is calculus. >> i feel confident we will get

it out, this is bigger than watergate, we'll just have to know. >> laura: when mueller and russia-gate fizzled, they had to find something new. alas, trump phone call to zelenskyy watergate. >> this is something very different and worse than watergate. >> it is worse than watergate, it largely dealt with coverup. >> laura: trump was impeached for trying to get to the bottom of the corruption we now know biden was involved in, that doesn't matters, we had january 6 and hearings followed the following year. >> we said this ari, this is worse than watergate. >> i think what trump did in january and run-up to january 6 is worse than what richard nixon did. >> this is worse than

watersgate, this is watershed moment for democracy. >> laura: wouldn't be watergate without dragging out the gum shoe reporters who get rich off books that are poorly sourced and their cnn hits. >> just ahead, bob woodward and carl bernstein will join us to talk about today's dramatic developments, is this bigger than watergate, i will ask them. >> no president including richard nixon, engaged in anything like we heard today. >> january 6 committee has written donald trump political obit iary. >> laura: political obituaries. pathetic as lame searching point. they keep searching for watergate, we'll keep bringing the stories that matter. joe biden finally announced he will visit fire-ravaged maui after ignoring questions on it

just days ago while in vacation in delaware. i want to quickly remind you senator ted cruz flew to cancun during a storm that left his state without power or water and quickly realized that was a mistake and came back. it was a days long news cycle and he's still hearing about it. and biden dismissal of unfolding tragedy in hawaii, barely a blip for the trump-obsessed media. here is what they are missing. there are reportses, the death toll will rise in maui and tragically include scores of children who were kept home because power outages forced schools to close. joining me now is tulsi gabbard, fox news contributor. you just got back from maui, please tell us what you saw there, this is heart breaking for americans to see. >> yeah, laura, it is difficult to put into words this tragic

loss that continues to grow, that we're continuing to see and experience and feel every time there are more and more names and numbers of our friends and neighbors in lahaina who perished because of this wildfire and still over a thousand people missing and vast majority of the area of devastation that needs to be gone through by those that are conducting this recovery operation. i want to speak to the many, many families who live in the community surrounding lahaina north of that historic town who continue, many of them did not have power for days, they were told water was contaminated, having to shower and bathe children with bottled water, cut off from communication, cell phones were down, no wi-fi, or internet connectivity. they stood up and did everything

to help each other. sad part is, we are eight days past this wildfire and i'm in constant touch with community leaders and they are still not seeing response from the county, the state, the federal government. the community support hubs are community led, volunteer supply collection, conducting coordination on their own. they feel like the government doesn't care about them and that is a horrible disservice to people that have gone through kind of loss we can't imagine. >> laura: we have commitments around the globe, we spend billions and allocate to other countries, issues and problems and we realize, you have to put your own oxygen mask on first before you can upon had others and these people need help and need help now, not a week from

now. >> exactly right. when you think about there is a mom, a woman named andrea, stay-at-home mom staying with her kids, spent day and night trying to get supplies volunteers are trying to bring in and having to circumvent blockades the county put in place to get them where they need. oftentimes they have been getting from being able to receive the support from their friends and neighbors. this is a crisis that is continuing on. it is not lost on the people of west maui. they are told fema will give those impacted a one-time $700 payment. look at the news and they are seeing tens of more millions of dollars being sent to ukraine. maybe if we change the name of maui to ukraine, they will pay

attention to us. >> laura: i know the breaking news about the background of the chief emergency coordinator didn't have a lot of experience in these situations, sirens were not working for this fire event, we'll get to the bottom of. thank you for your report. rats big as size eight shoe, new infestation in new york city. speaking of new york, you won't believe where they will house migrants next. that is next.

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>> laura: if you have ever been to new york city, you've definitely had a run-in with a rat or two, not snitches, actual rodents. there are two million in the city, not including master splinter. mayor eric adams hired a rat czar to tackle the problem and over the weekend, first anti-rat

day and interactive rat map. we found like the san francisco poop map, what is point of the map, it is all over the place. >> we've had rats the size of crocs, like average size eight running up and down the street. >> laura: rat race, hope residents can get them gone soon or get them down in shoe size. first rats, then school gym nasrat ahmad yarriums, now talking about putting illegals in your homes if you are a new york resident and new york city's latest plan involves a former military base. dhs officials, along with reps from city hall and kathy hochul's office secretly toured st. wadsworth to turn it into a new migrant shelter.

joining me is vito fossella. dhs officials told the angle they did review numerous locations in the city, made no determination for using fort wadsworth. your response? >> it is crazy they are even considering it. we have on staten island about a year ago, asylum seekers, in new york city, those in midtown welcomed them with champagne glasses and we said the policy is unsustainable, statten islanders did not cause the problem, the federal government did. why should statten island families have to solve this problem, it has gotten worse. we asked the city to run analysis how much it would cost, it was $600 million and now they're talking 12 billion to

accommodate the migrants. now looking at fort wadsworth, a national park tomp add insult to injury, the park, many families are attached to the coast guard. we did an awareness campaign to raise money and goods and diapers for young military families who can't afford to feed their kids and put diapers on and the government is spending 50 million to possibly put migrants on fort wadsworth. it is out of control. the average annual fee to accommodate migrants is $140,000 for a family. that is more than the average household of people of staten island. >> laura: can you imagine if american families that don't watch fox or that don't read the few websites that report the truth on this, they don't even

know this is happening. $140,000 per family when american families are struggling, this is an insult, total insult. >> i agree, laura, you just talked about the poor people of maui, we could be spending that helping them. instead we are spending that money on people who came here a few days ago. before you put these people on fort wadsworth, bring to the national maul in washington, d.c., build a tent city between washington and the white house. this is totally not fair, not right and i think this world is upside down, we are bending over backward to accommodate many who come illegally and not talking about the thousands that want to come here legally and are waiting for years, wrong on so

many levels. >> laura: send them to wilmington, martha's vineyards, the liberals want them, keep sending them there. keep speaking out. now time for political palette cleanser. what made mma legend colby covington say this. >> laura ingraham, baddest woman alive, you heard it here. >> laura: what was context? here is a hint. i got a first hand look at what musk and zuck's training might look like, tune in tomorrow at 7 p.m. to see for yourself employees the president had a moment and why trying to cancel

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♪ >> laura: >> laura: it's time for "seen and unseen" segment, cultural stories of the day. we turn to raymond arroyo. raymond, i can't believe i'm saying this, i can't believe what biden said today, why am i

surprised? >> raymond: biden touching and sniffing and acting strangely around children, hard to understand why he would open an event this way. >> president biden: one thing to you children, i know some really great ice cream places around here and -- talk to me afterward. >> raymond: from the man who brought you rubbing leg hair in a pool, daddy owes you, may be the most terrifying line i've heard in a year. >> laura: nuzzling children. nuzzled dr. jill, stay away from the children. we got to examine this more closely, this is awful. >> raymond: troubling. it is difficult to run for president, when you can't keep track of reality. biden repeated the story about the amtrak conductor who saluted him when he was vice president. small problem, the conductor was dead when biden was vice

president. then this whopper. preak more bridgeings in america than any other city, i watched that bridge collapse. thank god school was out. >> raymond: he didn't see it collapse. biden showed up hours later because he was in town for another event. since when does the president sit around waiting for an infrastructure to crumble. >> laura: this is an addiction to lying, he does not know the difference between truth and friction. >> raymond: no one holds him accountable. >> raymond: he's having a mary poppins moment resorting to his own language. >> president biden: when i sign the bipartisan -- which ron johnson voted against.

>> raymond: super califrag ibiden. >> laura: let's hear it, what does he say? >> raymond: same thing he said before, repeating it so you didn't miss it temperature is brilliant. if the public doesn't know what bill you are talking about, you don't have to explain it. other members can't pronounce anything properly either. >> the president is deeply concerned about the people in maui, senator horino, the president spoke to last night thank the president for immediate support of federal agencies have delivered for residents of hawaii and so has senator shotts. >> raymond: and hawaii senator is macy horono, a woman, not a

he. and harino, that is what the public asked about biden's second vacation in a week, huh, reno? i leave it there. >> laura: macy harono were one of the more prominent people in the impeachment trial or was it brett kavanaugh? one big long investigation. >> raymond: you're right, it all runs together. >> laura: turning to pop culture, bradley cooper is a big liberal, now in the cross hairs for portraying leonard bernstein, what is happening, what is the problem? >> raymond: the trailer dropped, the actor is wearing a prosthetic nose. now the usa and guardian isim claing cooper is part of

hollywood's jew face problem, prompting bernstein's children to defend the actor. it happens to be true that he has a nice big nose, bradley used that for resemblance and we are fine with that. the portrayal is certainly done with full consultation of the family. your friend helen mirian ran into the same thing this year. same routine. >> laura: any portrayal of barbara streisand, did they get upset? you are playing someone and trying to look like them, they are good looking people. >> raymond: actors play people that don't look like them and that is called being an actor. i guess the new rule, actors are not allowed to use make-up to play historic figures, this now

is kosher. >> laura: rachel levine can dress up, nobody else. raymond issue great to see you, sorry i stepped on super cali. saga of michael oher and his lawsuit against the family that brought him in as a teen. dan dakich has more, stay there.

>> big mike, why were you going to the gym? >> because it's warm. >> do you have any place to stay tonight? don't you dare lie to me. >> laura: we know the story, or at the least seen the film, "the blind side," based on real life story of michael oher, a football prodigy who grew up in poverty before a wealthy family,

the tuohies took him in. he played at ole miss and first round draft pick by baltimore ravens, amazing story. michael oher now claims he was duped. he discovered they never adopted him and placed him in conservatorship. michael oher says the tuohies used their power to strike a deal that paid them and their two birth children millions of dollars in royalties from "the blind side" and/or or got nothing. the tuohy family says that is a shakedown. >> he says he learned that in february, hard to believe. there were things back in 2021. if you guys give me this much, i won't go public with things. >> laura: michael oher mentioned conservatorship in his book

three times and planned negative news story until they paid him $15 million. dan dakich joins me now. dan, this is sad, i am adoptive mother of three children, i felt sad when i read this. he has a new book out, i feel like there is a lot we don't know in the back story here, dan. >> dan: i agree with you, it is incredibly sad. the story was so great. michael oher was so successful. this wasn't a deal where a kid had a nice high school career. he became a really good n.f.l. player. we all know there is a back story to this. is this a shakedown? if he says he didn't know it was conservatorship, he mentioned it in 2011. the tuohy family is saying

something interesting, they could not adopt michael oher and go with ncaa rules, which talked about a pre-existing relationship. sean tuohy was a good basketball player at ole miss, thus they couldn't lavish things on michael oher and allow mississippi to recruit him. there is that, they went into a conservatorship. i believe this is a shakedown. i believe michael oher knew, he said it three times in his book, he understood what was happening here and i believe this is going to end up being a sad, sad ending for everybody and i don't think michael oher and his case is going to get any traction, that doesn't detract from it is sad. this should be a relationship set in stone, loving relationship and it is not.

tell you something, couple weird things, people are saying sandra bullock should give her oscar away. that is crap. the woman did a story, handed a script and got an oscar. second, selling of a book, many have forgotten who michael oher is, you bring this up issue guess what. all publicity, bad or good, is publicity when trying to sell a book. i think this will be thrown out, it is a sad chapter. >> laura: one of the sons of tuohy spoke out and says the family is willing to let him out of the conservatorship at any time at this point. >> what are they going to say? michael oher is an adult male, has his own thing going on, they should let him out. 2.5%. tuohy said we got paid x amount

of dollars, some say $14,000. 2.5% is the number. michael oher wants his piece of the pie, we'll check it out. >> laura: great to see you, that is it tonight, set your dvr, stay connected with us. follow me on twitter and instagram. >> todd: six days out from first republican presidential debate. fox news poll showing vivek ramaswamy making big gains since june, sliding into third place behind donald trump and ron desantis with fox news power rankings pointing to another candidate to watch. >> carley: shaping up to be an election unlike anything we have seen before with fulton county da moving to prosecute trump in a public spectacle tha