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>> laura: schumer >> laura: schumer forced to vote on military nominations one by one. first, blue the vote, that is focus of tonight's angle. angle. >> democracy. i think everything is at stake right now. >> our democracy is at risk. >> democracy is at stake, folks. our democracy is under attack. and we got to fight for it. >> laura: yes, this is the wild fantasy that they want you to believe, the party that threw open the border that, want to make the supreme court and is trying to lock up its chief political opponent before the election? that's the great savior of democracy. okay in the real world we know the opposite to be true. just consider the societal and economic damage that's been done to the hardworking people of let's just say new york under the super democrat majority. like in a state reeling from crime, teeming with illegal

aliens and losing population, its governor was desperately trying to change the subject today. >> we're seeing all across america the right to vote is literally under attack. i could not have imagined as a child that i would be standing here as an adult having to say we have to fight to defend the right to vote. in america. it is shocking. >> laura: shocking? well, what is shocking is that anyone would have voted for her in 2022. hochul and the democrats across the country can't run on their abysmal records. we have already shown this on the angle. so they're running on the ludicrous proposition that republicans have r. trying to take away your right to vote. so wanting a secure and accurate vote count is now attacking the right to vote? nice try. now, the truth is, more people are voting than ever before. as we saw in the last presidential election. it was near record turnout, including in new york. the hochul like modern democrats not interested in serving the 2.7 million people who voted for

lee zeldin for governor. she would rather grandstand on phony issues to ensure that democrats remain in power indefinitely. and that brings us to the bills she signed into law today that could actually undermine faith in elections. she is now allowing any registered voter to use an early mail-in ballot. no excuses needed and it's creating something that is called a golden day, which means on the first day of the voting period, you can register and vote on the same day. it even pushes for voter registration to ex-cons as soon as they are released. so, how is ballot verification, signature verification going to be ensured with a process like this with millions of more mail-in ballots flooding in? well, it's anyone's guess. but we know this is a do anything you need to do to win, given more where hochul took her remarks next. >> january 6th is always going to be part of our psyche. when we think about 9/11, it's certain images arise.

i want you to beware that it didn't end on that day. there's a more sinister, slow motion insurrection going on. it's happening quietly in republican controlled state legislatures all across america. >> laura: that want a secure vote. yeah. you can almost smell their panic at this point. and the polls are showing the democrats are losing ground. they can't all be wrong. democrats see biden losing support among almost every demographic group, even suburban women, if can you believe that. so they are freaking out. instead of changing course on policy whether it's on spending or high taxes, crime or education, they are moving to juice the vote. they believe that they deserve to win no matter what, even when, under their watch, americans are getting poorer. and republicans are smartly suing to stop the implementation of new york no excuses mail-in voting law arguing that any changes to absentee voting would

actually require a constitutional amendment. by the way, which is precisely what the democrats tried to do before in 2021. but they failed by a 55-45 vote. but, look, they don't care. they don't care what happened. they don't care if they lost that vote. so talk about disrespecting the democratic process. that's it. but the entire point is this. democrats, they don't care about anything other than winning. they are not going to sand on principle. they need to win. they don't care if it means shredding state constitutions or our federal constitution. just like they don't care if it requires sticking with debilitated people like biden or fetterman or pretending that dianne feinstein can actually do her job. they don't care if their soft on crime and prodrug legalization policies lead to nightmares to urban areas like philadelphia. the only thing they care about is winning. and if joe biden loses pennsylvania, is he probably going to lose the presidency. we all know that. don't forget how the state

democrats did an end run around the law by going to the pennsylvania supreme court to extend their absentee ballot deadline and approve the use of mail-in ballot drop boxes which remember, happened in 2020. then sured that democrats had the greatest chance of winning in that state. well, now they know they are in worse trouble. so they need an insurance policy, which they see in automatic voter registration in pennsylvania. so the state's far left governor, is he a nightmare by the way, headed over to the campaign headquarters, call campaign headquarters, to celebrate. >> you and i have spoken a lot over the last number of years about the attempts by others to erode our institutions, to erode our democracy, to try to make it harder for people to vote. the more engaged our citizenry, the stronger our country, the healthier our democracy and we took a giant leap forward here in the commonwealth today to do just that. >> laura: and, of course, a

woman who could never campaign successfully on her actual record, is thrilled over what could amount to a joe and kamala job protection plan. >> i also want to give a shout-out to the governor because, today, they have announced that if -- when you renew or when you apply for your driver's license or state i.d., you are automatically registered to vote. soe automatically registered

to vote. so let's make sure. [cheers] >> right? that we let everybody know. >> laura: that we have to let everyone know. you know. there are signs though that republicans are waking up to reality here. mail-in voting, look. we all know it's here to stay. the rnc relaunched its bank your vote campaign to get more republicans. in ohio, republicans like j.d. vance know that not getting it done could really end up hurting us. saying if the democrats are getting 100 percent of their voters engaged early and we are

only getting half of ours engaged early there creates pressure on election day vote. as things happen as they invariably will it puts us republicans at a huge disadvantage. is he absolutely right about that. and glenn youngkin, the governor of virginia, has been very smart about this. he is launching a similar early voting effort. and it's desperately needed in the commonwealth. there is a critical state election this fall where every seat in the virginia legislature is up for grabs. well, the fact is republicans across the board. they can't sit around moaning about election changes or even what happened in 2020 as important as it was. they can fight them, but if they lose, they have to adapt, evolve, in order to win. and then they have to get power back. now, i believe we can grow this coalition. i think there are a lot of people in, no, new jersey, my home state of connecticut and oregon and even california who are fed up with the left. look around, how many people like the crime or the -- like the economic problems their

families are having or the unfair justice system and all the rest of the nonsense that left wing politics fist upon us? and if enough of those people join us? that collisi coalition is goinge unstoppable. i don't care how many mail-in ballots they solicit. everything we do now has to be focused on this growing coalition that we have already begun to put together. these are the votes we need because complaining, again, isn't going to work. asking for mercy or even fairness, that's a waste of time. and that's the angle. all right, joining me now is ronna mcdaniel, chairwoman of the republican national committee. ronna, great to see you tonight. take me through this first legally. what exactly can we do to fight back against some of these initiatives that these blue state coalitions are pushing as far as changing the rules? >> yeah, laura, you are spot on. the democrats are trying to change the rules through the courts or through executive order. so with new york we filed within one hour of hochul putting this

in place. we had 20 different plaintiffs. it's bipartisan. we have a democrat city council member, and we are changing the governor because we think what she is doing is unconstitutional. she is trying to change the definition of an absentee vote as it's defined by the new york constitution. but i will also add we have had success in new york. last cycle, they passed a law to allow non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. the rnc sued there. there were 900,000 non-citizens just in new york city and we won at the new york state supreme court. so we feel confident that we have standing. and that we have a good case on the constitutional issues in new york. >> laura: well, the problem is with these state ids, ronna, as i was listening to what kamala harris was saying when you get your state i.d., isn't it true that in a lot of states illegal immigrants can get state ids? >> absolutely. that's part of the pennsylvania situation with what governor shapiro just did.

saying we are going to give ballots to anybody or register anyone who is registered at the dmv. and that's terrible. so we need transparency. he has not outlined what he is going to do yet with non-citizens. we are going to look for litigation there he didn't pass it through the republican legislature there. we are going to be in the courts. we will go on offense in the courts. just to give you an idea. we are in 50 different lawsuits right now on issues just like we are seeing in new york and pennsylvania. >> laura: ronna, what's next? i mean, hochul went so far to say that any concerns about election integrity are conspiracy theorist. watch this. >> it's just ridiculous. >> ballot harvesting. they made up a whole lot of words around. this they weren't problems at all. they made them up. conspiracy theories. distortions of reality because if more people vote, they are more likely to lose. they want to keep it power in the hands of the few.

>> laura: are you a conspiracy conspiracy theorist? >> showing i.d. to vote makes me conspiracy theorist. we should all do. this we want to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. that's what most americans want. we know we should have voter i.d. and we know we should have chain of custody and we know we shouldn't have drop boxes. now, we will have to deal with the law as they are on the books. we are going to fight these bad laws. it shows how scared the democrats are. in pennsylvania we have outregisterred the democrats every month this year. we have strong senate candidate about to announce against casey in pennsylvania. they are scared and they have a president who is feckless. they see his numbers dropping like a rock. this is their solution. let's change the laws. let's make poor selection. people have to sign up to be poll watchers and bank your vote so we can get you in this process to protect our vote.

>> laura: ronna, on the issue of mail-s in i can't tell you how many people are we on top of this now? are we registering people? are the mail-in ballot applications are actually going to be returned and collected by republican volunteers? are there groups out there that are planning to do this to canvas the country outside church parking lots? if that's legal or nascar if that's -- wherever you go, old folks homes. they are doing it so why don't we do it? >> we are doing it. we won four house seats in california in 2020 in a presidential year. ballot harvesting. we won a new one with 2022 with ballot harvesting. we have to do it. drop boxes at the church. ballot collection. we will do this in all these states. we have to. we do need to vote earlier. we need to change the culture in our party. we have people saying don't vote by mail. don't send your ballot in early. there's a couple things to that like you mentioned earlier, j.d. said things happen on election day but it's also financial issue. if you're holding your ballot that entire 30 day early voting period, it means i'm spending

money chasing your ballot that whole time. >> laura: that's a great point. >> if you vote that first day it free's up money for me to go chase swing voters and independent voters so the earlier you vote, you got trust that we're going to protect it. we'll have the poll watchers and poll workers but we need our money to go further so we can chase those other voters that we need to turn out and not try to get it all in on election day. the football analogy is you don't wait until the fourth quarter to score. we have to score in every quarter of the game. law officer lawyer everyone has to remember what do they bank hundreds of thousands of votes for poor old fetterman in pennsylvania? by the time they got around to trying to get the republican in there, they had already banked all those votes. so it's republicans who have to bank the votes this time. ronna, i'm so glad you are doing this, keep in touch with us on this. thank you so much. late tonight a federal judge ordered hunter biden to appear in person on october 3rd for his arraignment on gun charges not by video as his attorney

requested. a.g. merrick garland. have had you contact with nip be at the hunter biden headquarters fbi headquarters about the fbi investigation? >> uh -- i don't -- i don't recollect the answer to that question. but the fbi works for the justice department i'm sorry, you don't recollect where you talked to anybody at fbi headquarters about the investigation of the president's son? >> i don't believe i did. >> under oath today your testimony is you have not had any discussions with mr. weiss about this matter? >> under oath, my testimony today is delay promised the senate i would not intrude in his investigation. joining me now congressman thomas is i of the judiciary committee. he doesn't remember conversations about the president's son? what went down there. >> usually he comes and he says it's longstanding fbi policy not to comment on ongoing investigation. well, the job is investigating so they're basically saying no comment on anything.

today he had just forgotten everything. he didn't know. he wasn't there. couldn't remember. >> laura: he has impeccable memory. one of the smartist just on the d.c. circuit so mart the democrats wanted to put him on the supreme court. he is not bob mueller having struggles, perhaps, intellectually. this guy is johnny on the spot. i'm not following that. >> i didn't either. we didn't buy it. i didn't believe it. but one of the things that came out of this hearing today there is a duel system here. the will reason he tried to get arraignment by video he thought he could. he has gotten special treatment this whole time by the doj. >> laura: do you think the gun charge issue is kind of a fig leaf to get people off the scent of what really is goings on here influence peddling, u.s. foreign policy changed or altered or some type of effect on it because of the money trail going

to hunter biden? >> oh, absolutely. this is the one charge that doesn't go back to joe biden. you know, the big guy. the big guy wasn't involved in the gun charge. so we will charge him with that. and then, also, some of these tax charges or some of the charges, they slow-walked them. so that the statute of limitations ran out for the period of time where the big guy was involved. so that if you do go into the other charges. you know, he supposedly pled to. they weren't during this period of burisma and joe biden as vice president. so that's another thing they did. they only want to charge him for the things that aren't connected to the big guy. >> laura: wall it off. garland is outraged that anyone would challenge his prosecutors. >> what is dangerous is when anyone singles out a career prosecutor or a career fbi agent and we know as a matter of fact that that kind of singling out has led to threats. this is a concern across the

board. >> laura: so, you can't question someone with that much power? in a situation where there's at least the appearance of -- i mean, at the very least, the appearance of a conflict of interest. >> part -- that's part of the job. look, when he talked about threats and tried to get some sympathy, we all looked at each other on the dais and we are like, wait, we get threats every day as members of congress. if you are in the public eye but you are accountable, and they should be questioned and that's what we were doing there or trying to do there. >> laura: congressman, what's that on your pocket there. >> oh, this? >> laura: what is that? can we get a close-up of that? can we move into that? that's blinding me. what is that? >> i have an engineering degree, and i realized that some of my colleagues have pacemakers but what they really need is an anxiety maker. i display the debt to them every second of the day.

>> laura: 33,065,792,000,000 and then i can't read the rest. >> it's so fast. it's meant to provide anxiety to my colleagues. i'm sort of the skunk at the garden party there in congress. it's needed. they need to know. >> laura: 2 trillion more in debt this year. keep going with ukraine. no end in sight. looks like zelenskyy, speaking of ukraine, wants to start picking up his checks in person so he is heading here to d.c. senator josh hawley is he here on what he expects during tomorrow's big meeting, next.

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♪ >> if we allow ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure? i would respectfully suggest the answer is no. that's why the united states will continue to stand with the brave people of ukraine. it's not only an investment in ukraine's future but in the future of every country that seeks the world governed by basic rules that apply equally to all nations. >> laura: and now, mr. zelenskyy goes to washington. ukraine's president is expected to meet tomorrow with congressional leaders along with president biden. but he doesn't really need to beg for money now because the white house has already committed to giving him a significant package. including one or two things that

ukraine hasn't gotten before. oh. senator josh hawley is going to be at the all senator meeting with zelenskyy and now he joins me. senator, are you going to just hand over the, you know, uncle sam's wallet completely or is he going to get cash in person from the president? like what is going on? >> you know, it wouldn't surprise me if senators stood and just handed him bales of cash, laura as he come in. not with my vote or my support. we shouldn't be spending dime more on ukraine. we need an accounting of every dime that has been spent so far. and i'm just tired of hearing the president say over and over that we have got to invest. this is an investment in the future of every nation. what about our nation? it's not an investment in our future, in our people. in our jobs. that needs to be the priority. >> laura: well, your colleague, lindsey graham, wants everyone to know what's really at stake with this spending on ukraine. watch. >> >> you'll be in another war,

because putin won't stop. he'll go to moldova and other places. china will see this as a signal of weakness. so, for all these people who say we need to get out of ukraine to be tough on china, you are making a fatal mistake. >> laura: senator, how is america going further into debt making us stronger against china? >> yeah, i have to say i completely disagree with lindsey graham there if he if you want to deter china, get tough with china. slap tariffs on china. bring back our jobs from china. stop them from treating our laborers like slave labor and driving down our wages and stealing our technology. that's how you get tough on china. not by spending money in ukraine. so i just don't get it. if you want to spent money on ukraine, tell me why ukraine is important. don't tell me it's about china. that's in a completely different hemisphere for heaven's sake. i mean, come on now, let's focus on the real issue here which is that we need to invest in nation

and we need to deter china. and we're not doing that by investing or spending money in ukraine. >> laura: well, there is at least one president out there who is actually listening to what his people may be saying about increasing aid to ukraine. and that's the polish president, senator, who said about ukraine earlier this week. ukraine is behaving like a drowning person. clinging to anything available. a drowning person is extremely dangerous, capable of pulling you down to the depths, simply drown the rescuer. talking about that grain embargo fight they are over. but at some point, the american people will have their say on this. and four more years of biden, without a doubt, means four more years of war for the united states. is that what americans want, four more years of war? >> no. that's not what they want. it's not what they need. here's what i heard just today, laura. i heard briefed by the administration that this newest request for 24 billion more u.s. dollars is not the end. it's not even close to the end. they want us to be writing

checks to ukraine direct to their government forever, year after year, hundreds of billions of dollars. that is ridiculous, for what? what's the strategy? what's the end game? they don't have one. it's nothing but nation building. it is nothing but failing to invest in the united states. laura, we have stop, this it's crazy. >> laura: senator, thank you so much. good toe so you don't. we look forward to that meeting tomorrow. a crush of illegals came across the border this morning. now, it's hard to shock me on the immigration front, but i actually am shocked at what i saw. and when it means for the rest of the country. that's next. ♪

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laura lawyer the administration seems to be losing a lot of things lately, economic growth and last week they lost an f-35 that's a sophisticated military

aircraft worth $100 million or so. disappeared off the radar. how do you lose track of 85,000 children? >> well, according to reports it seems that that's precisely what the biden wiz bangs have donement at congressional hearing on capitol hill today we learned just how overwhelmed our government is by the millions allowed to waltz right into the country from other countries. and the party that professes to care so much about kids, seems pretty bylaw zay about not knowing what's happened to so many of these migrant children. >> these may be people that may be going to school. we just don't know. but i don't think it's fair to say that these are missing children. >> they're absolutely missing. because we don't know where they are. you can't tell me for sure that they're not in the arms of some sex trafficker, can you? >> i think that is. >> or an exploiter that. >> is unlikely. >> you can't say that for sure. >> the office of refugee resettlement has not had contact with their parents or sponsors that does not meaner that

missing. >> laura: what a disgrace this is. don't worry especially what the democrats did to vilify president trump. remember he is separating the migrant families we are going to stay on this story. meanwhile, none of what is happening at the border is going to get better as long as we have biden in office. just today fox cameras caught more than 4,000 illegals crossing the border in just one sector, eagle pass. we did a show from there back in 2019 if you can believe it. that was just this morning. we know more are coming in had massive numbers. a mexican train company announced that it is stopping 60 trains because so many migrants are just climbing on board the trains. and some are getting hurt. the company said that there are about 1500 people gathered at one railyard and one city to hop on the trains to come here. about 800 migrants waiting in another train station and a thousand people were on, yet, another train. how much more can we take? joining me now is victor davis

hanson, a senior fellow at the hoover institution. victor, this is starting to get a little coverage in the media. but, not really the level that it should be covered at, given the enormity of the problem coming into this country and the shear volume of people flooding into urban america and suburban america. >> yeah. this is historically unprecedented. we have never seen seven to eight million illegal entries in just two and a half years. we can't even use the border border. it doesn't exist. it's been erased. there is no border. we are getting up to about 50 million people who are not born in the united states various categories residing in the united states. that's almost 15% of the population. we didn't even have that in the 1st century. but we have no ability to immigrate or assimilate people in such numbers who have come illegally without english facility or knowledge of our country. and the question is for-why are

we doing this? and i know the mexican government uses us as a safety valve and they get $60 billion in remittances. we know the cartels make money and they are killing 100,000 of us with fentanyl. but why is the biden administration? they talk grandly of demography destiny the new democratic majority. we are going to flip texas and arizona of the way we did new mexico and colorado. so it is a deliberate cynical policy, i think, the irony of it is impacting for the first time the sanctuary blue cities that have democratic constituencies that are robbed of the ability to use their own social services because this administration is privileged foreign nationals over their own citizens. i mean, they're talking about masks and vaccinations and boosters again for everybody. does anybody care about people walking across the border without any vaccination? >> laura: no. we have t.b. coming into the country. we have all sorts of other diseases. these are health officials saying things they hadn't seen

in these numbers for years and years and years. also, victor, this is just one example. but an illegal alien was just arrested for murdering a u.s. citizen in eagle pass this week. multiple sources were telling fox, fox digital that he crossed back in may and was released into the country with a court date, get this of 2025. victor, the shear number of criminal acts that will be committed at various levels. not everybody is a criminal, of course not. but we already have enough problem with crime in this country, do we not? now we have an american citizen murdered. >> well, if you have 8 million people, you have 1% are criminals. and that's generous just to say 1%. that's 80,000 people. and here in the san joaquin valley of california. that's daily occurrence. felony acts committed by people here illegally. there's no response, laura. nobody cares. alejandro mayorkas took an oath

to obey and uphold his own immigration laws and he is destroying them. if there was ever an impeachable offense it's homeland security person who deliberately undermines the security of his own country. it doesn't make any sense. there's no logic to any of it. >> laura: well, there is a logic. this is their plan. you hit it. this is their plan. >> it's their plan but it's kneelistic. >> laura: they don't like this country and they don't like most of the hardworking people of this country victor, it's playing out you are seeing it and i'm seeing it. thank you so much. all right, new york city has a budget crisis. now they want to spend dollars to erase history. the senate moves to erase civility. raymond arroyo is making music, what? what is going on

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♪ >> laura: time for "seen and unseen" segment where we expose the cultural stories of the day explore or expose? who changed that word for that we turn to raymond arroyo on set. >> yeehaw. >> laura: new york city budget crunch. >> yeah. we chronicled laura in recent weeks how the immigrant crisis

strained the city. here is mayor eric adams. >> $2 billion that we spent already. $5 billion we are going to spend in this fiscal crisis. new york don't deserve. this asylum seekers don't deserve this. >> the asylum seekers? facing billions in budget short falls you would think the city council would focus on basic services. they just cut overtime to the cops, laura, they are begging the federal government for money. instead, they are spending time and money on tearing down statues. >> the bill allows no, to confront the deep rooted slavery, systemic crimes by mandating the create a plan for removal we are acknowledging and rectifying historical wrongs. >> historical wrongs? >> i mean, the problem here, laura, they are spending millions of dollars to explore which statues to take down. columbus, washington. washington square park. major -- john j. major figures not only in new york but in american history.

they are all targeted and here's my problem. i understand everybody should hate slifry, it's a sin. but don't do ancient slavery. deal with present slavery. get rid of all of ties with china. that would be a good start. biggest enslaved people on planet now. don't go ripping washington. put a plaque up. put in context. put a plaque up. that's enough. >> laura: memorial for enslaved person. congress is in a total tizzy over this new senate dress code, slobs. which basically allows senators to show up in thongs, anyone they want to wear on the floor. that's ugly. >> schumer's accommodation to slobbiness senator john fetterman. now things are really getting scary. i give you senator susan collins. >> i plan to wear a bikini tomorrow to the senate floor to do away with the dress code. to me, debases the institution. >> now, she was joking, laura.

>> laura: good for her. >> was she joking? >> laura: well, looking pretty good there. >> this is what we can expect more though. there are no limits. >> only people with a dress code are the staff. staff have to wear ties. >> laura: no, who else has to wear a certain dress? capitol police. >> capitol police, of course. so, the public servants treat the public like servants. none of this makes sense to me. this is backwards. they need to reinstitute a dress code because dress san expression of what is going on inside your mind, inside your heart. >> laura: you are looking very captain smoothie tonight. >> i'm trying to exude. >> laura: look like you have lost weight. >> i am. here is john fetterman, a day as out ambien, watch. >> my message to the c.o.s is $74 million collectively earning that, you know, how many yachts can they need, you know, to -- yacht, to water -- to ski behind it? you know? i mean, it's just crazy.

>> laura: didn't he say hump a leg the other day, too? what is he saying? he makes biden sound like. >> we can't pretend that this is normative or that that dress is acceptable. it's not. you are a u.s. senator. you represent millions of people. dress like it. act like it. and let your staff do the talking. the outfit he should wear maybe is a straight jacket. >> laura: given the age of some of these people maybe just adult diaper will do now. just show up with that. >> they hit that age. >> laura: finally a new project, raymond, which i only learned about recently is dropping this week. >> yeah. >> laura: wait, are you singing? >> i am singing. it's a christmas album. >> laura: are you kidding me? >> christmas merry and bright. viewers who saw my christmas show over the years requested this. we did it big. 20 piece orchestra. >> laura: it's amazing. >> classic carols and jose felizzian know. he is a preview.

>> hearing the herald angel sing ♪ glory to the ♪ oh jingle bells ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle all the way ♪ feliz navidad. >> we wanted to remind people of the merry and the bright. >> fa la la la la ♪ la ♪ >> laura: raymond, that is amazing. i cannot wait. what happened to the orchestra's black tie? we just talked about that. >> we didn't have a dress code on the recording. on the road we will. i will try to get you out on the tour. raymond arroyo christmas.com. can you order it. a way to bring joy and festivities. >> laura: are we doing a number together. >> i am giving you my first cd no one has gotten it but you. >> laura: just for this celebration we have to say something special for you. >> not another celebration. not the birthday.

>> laura: it's his birthday today and is he spending it with us. isn't that sad? >> thank you, guys. should i blow did out? >> laura: don't get it on my silk blouse. >> you are the only one with a dress code. >> i know what i wished. something to do with christmas and you singing with me. >> laura: raymond is multi talented. i'm so proud and excited for you and you always bring christmas cheer wherever did you go anyway. raymond, thank you. >> thank you. >> laura: his abull found at raymond arroyo christmas.com or wherever you buy music. check it out. senator chuck schumer is forced to blink after one senator refused to give bipartisan kabul that loves to spoon with the pentagon. that gutsy senator joins me next. stay there are some things that go better... together. burger and fries... soup and salad. like your workplace benefits and retirement savings. with voya, considering all your financial choices together can help you make smarter decisions. voya. well planned. well invested. well protected.

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>> i told secretary austin this almost a year ago. i will block your generals and admirals from promotion. if they bring them one at a time, they can get them all they want. but the problem is as you said, they don't want admirals. >> laura: she was referencing the pentagon's promotion of abortion after the dobbs decision. that was two weeks ago and he has gotten democrats to the cave. on holding actual votes. >> due to the extraordinary circumstances of senator tuberville's reckless decisions,

democrats will take actions. senator tuberville is forcing us to confront his obstruction had on. >> laura: dissented confirmed junior to be chair of the joint chiefs of staff. it took a while. but the truth is schumer had the power to do this all along. what is the grandstanding all about? >> i forced his hand but i did as a usual rule of the senate. i got 17 senators to sign onto a petition that i said, i wanted to do my own cloture vote. i'm going to bring my own vote up and schumer says, no, no, no, we can't let him do that. we will do it. so i forced his hand and we're going to do two more tomorrow which will be good. but still i have my hold on and they are going to have to change the policy. we are going to go through a long drawn out process. >> laura: how did you figure out -- >> i got people that work for me. a lot of good rules. you don't want to use them unless you really have to.

we needed to confirm some people. and schumer, anybody -- he was just going to let it all go up and make us look bad and so the next week was going to be tough. the chair of the joint chief, they were going to put it on the front page every day. that i was holding him up. it is out next week. >> laura: all right, surgery, here is what schumer says is going to happen at the end of all of this, though. >> these three honorable men will finally be able to assume their positions and the abortion policy that senator tuberville opposes will remain in place. senator tuberville will have accomplished nothing. >> laura: did you accomplish nothing? per. >> plink. he knows now that -- >> laura: what did you accomplish? >> number one, show people what we're doing. they can do it one at a time and we talked schumer how to bring somebody into the floor so that we can vote and confirm him.

i think a lot of people thought, hey, i'm holding him up no matter what. no, schumer can bring them up one at a time. we will probably vote for most of them. they waited 220 days to do the first one. 220 days, they pushed all the stuff back on me. now it is on them. people know now that they can confirm him and so we will just sit back and see if he brings anybody to floor. >> laura: on the other issue that i think is sticking in the crock, to use an operant phrase, what is happening with leadership in the senate, which is the issue after issue at odds with core republican voters' concerns, whether it is on ukraine, were funded, the border, still not doing enough to stop the madness there. you know a lot of stuff on trade and china. what is happening? what does it seems like we don't have that leadership in the senate that we need. >> we don't have any leadership in the senate. we don't have any leadership in the white house or the pentagon. the biggest problem is not

ukraine. it is the border. if we don't stop it, the american people, you know -- >> laura: did you see those videos they were playing earli earlier? that is a travesty? expect it has cost us millions of dollars. >> laura: billions, if not millions. >> and we are going to be overrun. it happened in europe and they regret that they let all of these people come into their country. they're going to do the same thing here because we don't have any leadership at the topic. >> laura: third -- senator marco rubio, do a lot. but it is not being done. we look forward. great to see you. are not going to say good luck to you this week. no, good luck. set their diverse so you stay connected with us. make sure if on social media. thank you for watching. it is america now and forever. jesse watters, the whole gang there, they take it from here. i can't believe ra

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