issue given these latest pollings that we have seen. >> bret: i would bet yes. panel, thanks a lot >> bret: finally tonight, a special delivery for china. a sad day for animal lovers in washington. the smithsonian's national zoo had to say farewell to its three bee loved pandas. the animals were on loan from the chinese government. headed back to china first time in 23 years the panda exhibit at the zoo is empty. sad. we talk to ron dermer. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. we crammed a lot in one hour. laura ingraham has "the ingraham angle," next. ♪ >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight.

they keep trying to stop trump and they keep failing. late tonight, the minnesota supreme court dismissed a lawsuit that would have kept the former president off the ballot entirely. that was based on a totally bogus claim that he is disqualified from being president under the 14th amendment. it is not going to work. so, what's next in their bag of dirty tricks to try to stop this guy? well, we are going to discuss it a little later. but, first, what happened and what's next? that's the focus of tonight's angle. no getting around it, republicans were once again disappointed last night. big weed and big abortion won in ohio. the g.o.p. lost its dream of taking control of the virginia state house. and the incumbent democrat in kentucky andy beshear, he won. now, naturally, democrats are leaping to the conclusion that biden emerges as superman. >> it was a significant victory for democrats and it couldn't come at a better time for them as there is tremendous anxiety

about president biden's bid for re-election. >> last night is indicative coalitions are actually strong. >> boom, once again, joe biden is under estimated. >> laura: now, wait. listening to that crowd, you think that biden was out there week after week vigorously campaigning. virginia, and ohio, kentucky. forget superman. he is more like kryptonite. >> one of the things i convinced president -- when i was vice president, i convinced the president to do. ♪ >> laura: that's the amtrak behind him. now, an a"the washington post" poll biden's approval in virginia is at a lame 43%. meanwhile, in the same survey republican governor glenn youngkin's approval is at 54%. also, there was some genuinely positive trends for the g.o.p. in virginia. republicans won 1 districts that president biden won in 2020. republicans won seven districts

where the congressional democratic candidate won in 2022. and, look, in a state that biden carried by, what, 10 points just three years ago, republicans came within just a few thousand votes of winning majorities in both legislative chambers out of roughly 2.3 million votes cast. so, do they wish they did better? of course. but, is it a total disaster? far from it. and in kentucky, let's face this: no one was going to beat beshear. withbut at one point polls shows cameron down double digits. he came in about five percentage points? not bad given the power of the beshear family name. the good news is that all other major statewide offices in kentucky went big for republican. and then there was mississippi where democrats got their hopes up that elvis presley's cousin would unseat incumbent conservative tate reeves. but they were all shook up because it didn't happen. reeves won.

republicans even managed to snag a few victories in new york where republican romaine flipped long island executive seat. we continue to chip away at the democrat party there. keep it up. so, everyone is asking me today when we run into them, what lessons we take from this? what do we do next? well, first, microtargetting voters matters. democrats knew that suburban knights in virginia and ohio would turn out for the abortion issue. they were right. almost every democrat ad that i saw in virginia over the last, what, 90 days or so was about abortion. it was nothing about how great the economy is under biden or the democrats. so democrat consultants stuck to that issue. because it worked in the midterms. and with abortion front and center, the parental rights issue that worked for youngkin back in 2021, kind of got drowned out. this time democrats were ready. and by election day, the issue was no longer about protecting our kids.

it was about keeping nazis off the school board. again, it's time to recognize that the suburbs are increasingly left leaning on the cultural issues. plus, the democrats are able to outraise, outspend, and better frame these issues than republicans. and i know now hearing you this are saying okay, so now what? with these dynamics at play how can conservatives still win? my answer is of course they can win. mostly last night's results confirm what we have been saying all along. the g.o.p. must continue to harvest voters from where they are for the g.o.p. which is among working class, multi-ethnic voters. right now we face a coalition of upper class voters, big business, and far left culture warriors. that's not changing any time soon. look, a few decades ago, certainly back in the 1980s, it wasn't this way. businesses weren't, you know, they were anti-soviet and far more pro-american than

pro-globalization. the left was pretty much relegated to college campuses. and if a few places like san francisco, greenwich village and so forth. rich americans also tend to be more politically pragmatic back then. but, that's pretty much changed. but the views of most working class voters have not changed. clean-up is why it's key that we follow the strategy that trump began with. economic growth, stuff like lower gas prices, peace through strength. elect democrats and you're going to get more inflation, more exploding migrant populations and more war, period. that kind of message wins. and will prove the overly confident democrats wrong. >> since we have had joe biden at the top of the ticket, they -- democrats won the presidency. they did fantastically well in 2022. now, in 2023 far exceeding expectations. basically everything they could have won they won. >> why are democrats still so weird. >> exactly even when democrats

are doing great under joe biden, all they want to do is panic. >> laura: panic. but the americans doing great? panic is exactly what so many americans families are feeling now because of joe biden. and conservatives need to galvanize those people. and these orders just aren't white men living outside the old manufacturing hubs in places like akron, ohio, burgton, vermont, they are black and brown, too. new immigrants as well who came here for a better life for their children, not what they are experiencing today. so the message might be when we're back in control, you'll be able to keep your gas powered car and fill it 'with gas that you can actually afford. when we win, we'll enforce our own border before we spend billions trying to enforce other country's borders. we will take power away from government bureaucrats and give it back to you. hard-working americans, who just want a fair shot. next year's election should be about common sense. we have it.

democrats have none. so they are celebrating ohio's ballot initiatives buff those issues didn't stop j.d. vance from winning last year, did they? and another reason by the way to believe that democrats are unjusticably confident in biden's 2024 prospects. look no further than the comments made by the matriarch of corruption herself hillary clinton. >> barack obama was tied at this point my husband was behind at this point in his re-election. joe biden has not only proved he has done a good job but look at the alternative. >> ug. >> and look at what we would face as a country. i think the election results yesterday should be very good news for president biden. >> laura: look at what we face as a country, peace, prosperity and a closed border. yes, secretary, bleach bit is actually trying to convince us that biden's political skills are on par with obama's and clinton's. yeah.

the fact is, beyond the republicans being outmaneuvered on the social issues, they were outspent in all of these races as well. so is there a plan? does anyone have a plan for how to turn that around in 2024? it does not seem like it. the other point, as always, the media was egregiously pro-abortion and pro-marijuana in its coverage. obviously we know that's not going to change. so, again, we must accept these facts and pivot. we have to build on the success that trump, desantis, greg abbott in texas, and a lot of other great governors have found. their policies appealed to republicans and independents and open-minded democrats. including to hispanics and even more african-american men. so, is next year going to be an uphill battle? i'm not trying to shy away from that. it is. but republicans can win. after all, they control about half of the country and their policies make life better for working people. why else would 76% of the country on the monday poll just released by the "new york times"

say we're going in the wrong direction? and that's the angle. joining me now is ben domenech editor-at-large for the spectator and fox news contributor and president of the committee to unleash prosperity. ben, we are going to talk later in the show about where the g.o.p. goes from here. but what's your take on what happened last night starting in virginia? >> well, first off, i have to say as a virginian for, you know, three decades of my life, people need to recognize it's a blue state. it's not the first time that republican candidates both hard core social conservatives and people insider moderates ken cuccinelli and ed gillespie had to deal with the problem of navigating the abortion issue in that state. they both lost very close elections. that's the kind of issue that's a real challenge in a socially liberal state. in a state that joe biden won by 10 points, glenn youngkin came extremely close to achieving republican ends and he did so after redistricting that affected a number of these races. situations where you had very close elections where they

added, you know, 17,000 votes, in particular, to one critical senate seat from the democrat side. it's really hard to go up against that. it's even harder when someone like ronna mcdaniel at the rnc does not come in and offer any support in virginia. okay? that's actually what i would be pointing the finger at if i was any republican in virginia saying look how close we got. we got this slim margin away from achieving something that could have made this governorship extremely effective the next two years. you didn't give any money toward it. you refused the request. >> laura: do they have the money? >> well, that's a big question, too. that is a fair question. and but the fact that she refused the request that came from the virginia republicans for that last minute help in october, that could have been the margin there. a few million dollars here or there could have made the difference in these states. >> laura: again, i don't want to pin the blame on one person here because it's not just one person there are a lot of political consultants that got rich off these virginia races and no matter how wrong they are, they always get hired again.

i never understand this about the political consultants. i got to go in that business. >> fail upwards. >> laura: exactly. phil, given the financial disparity here, clearly republicans don't have the money that the democrats have. how to connect that working class message that obviously works in miami-dade county it works. >> well, look, i think it's interesting that the biggest win in virginia was actually a race where the republican had almost no money. commonwealth attorney republican spent $70,000 against incumbent 1.1 million. >> laura: what race. >> county attorney spent $1.1 million lost. loudoun county. she lost because she criminalized parents standing up for their children in the schools and refused to prosecute the actual criminals in the schools and that did have enough legs to extend through another election cycle although it wasn't enough to dominate statewide the way that it was. >> laura: bob anderson won that

seat. arlington virginia liberal. fairfax county is so liberal now. it's not in any way moderate. it was in the mid 80's when i came here. fairfax county. northern virginia, it was kind of working class. very moderate republican. that's totally changed and, ben, immigration has changed a lot in virginia, has it not. >> it really has. >> laura: open border is going to make it worse. >> it really has. >> this is a failure of republicans to recognize. you have a new coalition now and not going back to the old one. you may have fond memories of the point where you had those, you know, upper class wine moms in the suburbs come out and voting for you in midterm elections. guess who is voting for you now in the guy who is building the deck out behind your house. so you have to appeal to him. reach out to him. bring him to the polls. >> laura: to that point, phil, are republicans investing in spanish radio? because there's an enormous amount of hispanic radio and television that seems to me to be fertile ground for common sense messaging on policies. i'm not hearing anything oil-are

you hearing any ads in spanish? i speak spanish i haven't heard any ads. >> very little and huge missed opportunity. look, i think that ben is absolutely right. republicans are now the party of people who work for a living. the democrats are the party of the very rich and the party of people who are on government assistance. government dependency. for republicans to win, they need to run up the score with everyone who is in the middle economically. laura, i wish they would carry the message exactly like did you in monologue there. that's a winning message on the economy. >> laura: when i'm president gas is going to be 2.30 a gallon how does that sound? >> exactly. >> what i have such a big problem with i agree with you virginia is a tough state. we did all right. we picked up some seats. the math was tough. we have a president who is a total failure. >> laura: total disaster. >> horrible rating. we should be able to win in an environment like this. it's almost political malpractice. >> laura: ran abortion in virginia. >> political malpractice we let democrats run away from joe biden and the responses on abortion are simply not up to the scale that they need to be. >> laura: how did trump do it?

what did trump say? hillary you are the radical. rip babies out. >> wiewms. >> people are scared to talk about it? >> lets democrats define you on the issue. you can't avoid it anymore. state, local, this is in your territory now. you can't get away with dodging it. you have to come up with an answer and you have to deliver it. >> genius of what trump did is, i think most voters, he says hillary you want to rip babies out? most voters who don't vote on that issue say they are both crazy i will vote on the economy and something else. if you don't give them something. >> laura: i think they are the radicals. wouldn't you think -- when does a baby have rights? never. >> i have an idea. >> you don't have to convince us. >> crazy idea, maybe let's start with having an actual organized pro-life movement in the country and see if something that benefits from that. >> laura: and dobbs, what people say was it worth it to have roe v. wade overturned? absolutely. not even a question. >> not even a question. >> laura: dumbest question i heard all day. both you have thanks so much. up next, a frightening new report on how bad actors

overseas are already getting ready to interfere in the 2024 election. senator eric schmitt is here with all the details. first, where in the world is pete buttigieg? oh, we'll tell you, very exciting, next. ♪

>> thank you so much. thank you for having us over. >> good so far. very good visit. >> bret: of course transportation secretary pete buttigieg is hobnobbing with zelenskyy in ukraine. what else would he be doing? i'm surprised he didn't appear in matching zelenskyy fatigues. he looks like his son there. little kid. this year dozens of train derailments including the toxic one in east palestine. a spike in aviation near misses and just bridge collapses including philly's i-95. pretty boy pete is in kyiv to talk about rebuilding even tapping a new infrastructure adviser not for the u.s. but for ukraine. what is this? why is ukraine asking us for an infrastructure adviser? and more importantly, who is going to be paying this guy's salary? well, you. the department of transportation telling the angle the funding for the position at the u.s.

embassy, which was a top ask from ukraine is from a ukraine aid package which passed with bipartisan support in both the house and the senate. well, if ukraine asks for it, then how could we say no, really? we'll continue to follow along with pete's trip. but there is one thing we know for sure, and that's where the biden administration's priorities lie. >> this funding will not only rebuild ukraine's economy and offset the damage brought by russia and reimagine it investing in new industries, infrastructure and supply chains connected to europe and to the world. >> laura: can i see the buttons and bumper stickers 2024 reimagine ukraine. that should be biden's 2024 slogan. that's the only thing they seem to care about. >> two foreign actors, iran and russia, have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our

elections. some voter registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia. we have already seen iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest, and damage president trump. >> laura: now it's about to happen again, plus china. new analysis from microsoft warning that russia, iran, and china will likely interfere in the 2024 presidential election. and i think we all know who they are pulling for. joining me now is missouri senator eric schmitt. senator, good to see you in studio. the microsoft analysis center for those three countries the stakes are simply too high. the next u.s. president will define the direction of conflict whether wars might occur or peace might prevail. i mean, come on. pretty obvious who china doesn't want to be president of the united states, is it not? >> by the way, can i just say something about pete buttigieg on the previous segment? >> laura: yes.

>> he is in ukraine -- another reason why we should separate this funding. vote on these things individually, the supplemental that has ukraine funding we have to separate. they is in ukraine. he has never been to the commerce committee. i'm on the commerce any oversight of the department of transportation. never once been in front of this committee this year. is he in ukraine. >> laura: when i worked at the d.o.t., we were always up there, i mean the secretary was always up there testifying. >> refuses to answer questions and more interested in woke policy. >> laura: maybe you should convene the committee in kyiv and invite zelenskyy and get pete to actually show up. >> but, to your question. i mean, look, this is a serious concern. i think we should be focused on -- there ought to be consequences, by the way, if state actors are engaged in this kind of activity. i would also say the bit of a warning here that in the 2020 election, our own government used sort of a -- the russian hack and leak pre-bunking of the hunter biden laptop story to affect the election. and we ought to be careful about our own government using this

sort of misinformation as a giz. >> laura: piggy bank misinformation concern tagging it to those three countries when it actually could be just regular americans having a conversation. you are worried that's. >> i don't want to see our government engaged in censorship like we have seen in the biden administration and we saw leading up to the 2020 election. no doubt in the missouri vs. biden lawsuit we have shown this the fbi was engaged in this. >> laura: china wants biden. they are brokering the big surrender from the united states right now. they say it's a deal. it's a u.s. surrender to china on all these trade issues. they are going to drop these tariffs. that's trillions of dollars over a decade. that's probably a couple trillion dollars for china alone. for trillions of dollars, they will do pretty much anything, will they not? >> yeah. and this administration is projected nothing but weakness on the world stage and china sees that. and that's another reason, again, our focus, instead of worrying about the sanctity of other country's borders and not our own we need to be laser-focused on china. we need to retaliate when there is cyber warfare hacked into the

emails china has. we need to retaliate. again, this administration doesn't really want to play hard ball. >> laura: sucking up to china left and right. we had a parade of, you know, ignoramuses go to beijing biden cabinet one after the other. this is like the old dating game. i was expecting the big flower decal. it was ridiculous. >> janet yellen bowing, being our top high ranking officials being snubbed. this is really a sign of disrespect. >> laura: it's american humiliation and total conciliation. senator, a few weeks ago, the u.s. attorney for the central district of california raised concerns about this happening in local and state elections in his state. he told the judiciary committee that we're the gateway to asia and we have china trying to influence our elections, trying to target some of our individuals. and this was said by the way. he was talking about pro-china. i mean, sorry, anti-china politicians. and this was -- this testimony

was given while gavin newsom was, where? in beijing. i mean, how beautiful is that? >> i mean, look, china is out for world domination. we should put nothing past them and take them seriously on all levels, all levels. >> laura: senator, great to see you. thanks so much for coming in tonight. >> great to see you. >> laura: now is time for our political palate cleanser. ♪ ♪ [sigh] >> laura: look at two characters i ran into on the way out of the dog park yesterday. >> my dogs are going crazy because we just ran into the fox and the buck who are friends out in the woods. look at this. okay, dogs, crazy. the deer doesn't even care. >> laura: my dogs were going insane. the buck kept looking back to see if the fox would come into the woods. they were obviously friends. anything is possible, senator. all right, if you thought the homeland security secretary could locate the terrorist who

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♪ >> do you believe that a border wall is part of the answer? yes or no. >> no. >> situation at the border, you're saying, is not a disaster? >> that is correct. >> laura: those are just a few of the questions that dhs secretary mayorkas was able to answer today about the border crisis that, of course, was created with purpose by his boss. what's more strike something what he wouldn't tell us. >> there is 280-something people on the terrorist watch list. are they out of the country or are they in the country? >> senator, they may very well be out of the country. >> but you don't know. >> you came to this hearing today without those numbers. >> that is correct, senator.

i'm not aware of a member of hamas crossing the border. i don't know that -- i will follow up with you. i can get you that information. >> laura: waiting for that information to flow in any moment. joining me now tennessee bill habit on the senate appropriations committee at that hearing today. senator, in any professional setting, with the job that he has done, he would have been fired long ago. >> absolutely. >> laura: this is his job, is to confuse and obfuscate and allow millions of people into the country. >> it's orwellian to hear him speak. this is what has the american public so frustrated, laura. beyond frustrated they are angry at what is happening at our southern border. >> this is the architect of that strategy. today he could not tell me anything that was truthful at all. he denied the fact that they are asking now for the authority to re-purpose all of ice's budget. they want to basically defund ice. >> laura: i want to play that exchange about defunding ice.

watch. >> senator, i have -- i have never proposed the defunding of ice. i would vigorously. >> mr. secretary, that's the exact please read this language i hand you hear. are you denying this would allow you the ability to preprogram even one dollar? >> let me -- let me be clear, senator, because it's -- i would want to read this carefully and in the context. >> laura: what document was he reading? >> this is his own request. his own budgetary request that he put forward to us that basically asked the latitude to reprogram the entirety of the ice budget and use it for basically turning ice into a travel agency to welcome people here, send them by airplane to new york city and put them into hotels. that's what he wants to do reprogram up to the entirety of the ice budget to do just that. >> laura: these cities are getting increasingly frustrated, specifically new york. >> indeed. >> laura: new york has more shoplifting than any city in the past four years. a bigger problem. everything is adding to the problems new york already has. but, as this is happening, we

see the administration deflecting and going to, well, the republicans aren't serious about the border. this is karine jean-pierre when she was asked this. watch this. >> we have been doing this since day one of this president's administration. day one on trying to figure out how do we deal with the border security issue. if republicans in congress were serious and are truly, truly serious, they would look at what we presented. >> laura: from day one they have wanted amnesty. >> back to an orwellian concept here. we had security at the border under president trump. he had taken this illegal immigration down to a trickle. they came in and blew up everything. and you have got people like karine jean-pierre, secretary mayorkas talking in one direction and doing something completely different. >> laura: what do you think about this -- i mean, what is going to happen over the next four years if biden is reelected. if all the giddiness from last night's elections, you know, actually pans out and somehow biden is able to be pulled across the finish line next

year, what happens to america? >> the american public better watch out. we have already seen 7 million, 8 million illegal immigrants coming across this border. we will be 10 million by the time this administration is over with we will see another 10 million come to our country illegally. >> laura: so four more years of biden. 10 million migrants? >> exactly. laura that is the bumper sticker. >> laura: senator, always great to see you. thank you so much. >> great to see you too. thank you so much. >> laura: what can republicans do now to make sure what happened last night doesn't happen again? we're going to explain it, next. ♪

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of the common sense society and sean davis, co-founder and ceo of the federalist. sean, let's start with you. how does the g.o.p. use the lessons that we can glean from yesterday, last night to their advantage in 2024? >> well, i think there is two things they need to do. the first is realize that money matters and the message matters. when you look at ohio, for example, the results there, the left spent a large amount of money, seriously outspent the republicans, and then they were unified on their message whereas if you look at the different races throughout the country, whether it was pennsylvania or virginia, or ohio or kentucky, there wasn't really a unified, particular message from the republicans. and so they need to put real money behind. they need to unify behind a message. they need an actual compelling message that everyone can identify with. and then the second thing they need to do is they need to nationalize the issues. instead of having a serious of local issues across the country, they need to pick the one issue

that the election is going to be about and that's a referendum on joe biden's policies. if they can't do that, if they can't do either of those things, they are going to have a tough time in 2024. >> laura: all right, chris bedford, we're not going to get plutocrat money. there is no way. republicans aren't going to get big tech money. they are not going to get hedge fund money. i'm not sure that's ever going to be equalized? what about that? they are tagging every republican with abortion and they are playing defense on that. why not tag every democrat with joe biden? >> hard hitting ads talk about the reemotional things. they try to do that in kentucky tag women had joe biden. popular governor powerballly ineffective governor of kentucky. the democrats were really successful at pulling on the heart strings. this last couple races we saw in virginia and in kentucky, when they were talking about abortion, they had people who had been raped by family members talking straight to camera about this. republicans are talking about crime. they didn't have the family and

the relatives of people who had been executed my ms-13 in the state. didn't have the family and relatives talking straight to the camera. they had actors. >> ainsley: how would william at water have messaged these ads. >> afraid of ad of lee at water. though don't want to talk about that. the ads where they talk about the real victims and consequences of crime. those people robbed and attacked by people who had been released by soros prosecutors. that's one to absolutely go. also, look at ohio, the place where the legislature passed a socially conservative bill. higher on abortion initially. higher church attendance than most churches in the union. how could they have passed this constitutional amendment death. sneaked it through with the language of civil rights. republicans ought to be trying to get ahead of these things. talking about rights, talking about health, talking about life and using these nice words essentially to get that agenda ahead before the left does. they are very good at it. >> laura: sean, this is -- this

is a conundrum for a lot of the folks because they see the media is always going to, be on the side of the democrats, always. it doesn't matter if it's romney running in 2012 or mccain in 2008, they were acceptable republicans, they were slaughtered by the media. the media is always going to be against them. money is always going to be raised more and higher quantities by the democrats. no question about that. that's just a constant. i don't think people are going to be able to bet on changing that any time soon that's true what we really need from republican candidates and from conservatives is a spine we need some intestinal ford tuesday. we need them to go out and boldly talk about the policies that they support that make america better. i have no doubt that the policies on the right are far preferred by a majority of americans than the policies that the left are pushing. even on abortion, for example, the left is pushing abortion up to and through the moment of birth, funded by taxpayers. that is a heinous, awful, evil

extreme position and, yet, republicans have been cowed into just hoping they can just not talk about abortion and survive. no, we should absolutely be talking about the issues in an emotional way just like chris said because when the people hear the facts and when they actually hear the arguments that conservatives believe, we win on those issues. >> laura: yeah. they are for pot, porn and abortion. basically and open border. that's kind of what they are for. republicans are for growth, prosperity, peace, and a secure border. >> this is another tactic they used in ohio that soros aligned groups really pioneered in colorado. they put pot on the ballot. that creates new voters coming out. people are going to show up for the first time. >> laura: donors. >> people aren't informed necessarily. stoners. >> stoners for biden. >> i don't know who could look at the results of legal marijuana and say i want that in my state but they did. >> laura: we want colorado, portland, oregon all working out well there. billing news out of the minnesota supreme court tonight.

they rejected, dismissed the challenge to president trump's remaining on the ballot there because they are making some 14th amendment argument that would supposedly wipe him off the ballot. it's been rejected by anyone i know who clerked with me and people who understand the constitution. nevertheless that, is a strategy they have, at least for now, one state supreme court said no way. >> yeah. great news that they did that. unfortunately the democrats aren't going to stop trying. i think they are eventually going to find a state where their insane legal theories are accepted, maybe california or vermont, so that battle is not over yet. >> laura: sean and chris, thank you so much. great to see you both. "u.s.a. today" creates unnecessary new journalistic beat. and while big tech tries to tip the scales of the 2024 election, the government wants to shut down your car. raymond arroyo has it all, "seen and unseen" is next. ♪

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>> laura: it's time for seen and unseen segment. we reveal the stories behind the headlines. all right, ray. i hear usa today made an important new hire. >> laura, get ready for some ground breaking reporting. the country's biggest newspaper publisher has created a new category of journalist. a swift respondent. 35-year-old brian west has been hired as the taylor swift

reporter. he'll be reporting out of tennessee's news room for usa today covering all things taylor swift. watch. >> how does it feel to be the taylor swift reporter? like literally, that's your title on microsoft teams. >> i am still pinching myself. i just ordered the business cards. this is a job a million swifties would kill for. >> laura, i guess this makes him a part time nfl correspondent, given that she's practically the chiefs mascot at this point. >> laura: did he actually say i'm pinching myself? okay. >> yes. >> laura: that was meant for college kids or something. do we really say that? >> it's absurd. look, you can't be this close to a source. as my old ben tore bob novak said, these people are your sources and your subjects, not your friends. this is too cozy. it's click bait. they're trying to resurrect these paper, trying to get the

swifties, millions of them, to tune in and watch this guy. now taylor swift has her own dedicated correspondent. gets people reading. maybe that's a good thing. laura, if usa wanted to do something important, they would hire a new government interference in your life reporter. for instance, it was barely reported a big part of biden's infrastructure bill were kill switches which will be mandatory in all vehicles in 2026. >> laura: they claim it's a safety feature. it's a safety feature that's automatically going to disable vehicles when the driver is impaired or disagrees with government policies. did i add that? sorry. >> who determines when the driver is impaired? who else has access to this kill switch? congressman thomas massey tried to defund that amendment and killed it last night. watch. >> it's so incredible that i have to offer this amendment. it almost sounds like the domain

of science fiction. federal government would put a kill switch in vehicles that would be the judge, the jury and the executioner on such a fundamental right as the right to travel freely. >> believe it or not the house rejected that amendment by a vote of 229-201 with the help of 19 republicans. now these kill switches are going to be in all of our vehicles in 2026. >> laura: this is just another reason to have a 1975 buick or something. you don't want any of these cars. why would they be against people travel, raymond? pray tell? so they couldn't gather together? you can't just pick up, like we're going to florida tonight or -- no. >> you know people are going to be able, in a foreign government like china, will be able to hack into your car and just shut it down on their whim. this is a terrible idea. and they're talking about lasers

and breath, read your breath as a driver, to see if you're impaired. this is way too intrusive. >> laura: maybe a bad breath meter. that's different. all right, raymond. with the 2024 election less than a year ago silicon valley is already showing who they're supporting. >> oh, yeah. google may be trying to tip the scales in biden's favor by burying the campaign websites of all his competitors in their search engines. the media research center discovered if you google the phrase presidential campaign websites, which we did, biden's website is the third result while trump's isn't even shown on the first page. if you search republican presidential campaign websites, google doesn't show a single gop candidate's website though hreul heard, who dropped out, and marion williamson, a democrat, did show up. we also searched independent

presidential candidate websites. neither rfk jr. or core nell west appeared on the first page and less than 1% of people go beyond that first page when they google something. >> laura: another reason to go duck, duck go. any other search engine. i just keep typing in duck duck go because i don't want to use google. what else? >> duck duck go not goose. if you want the know why they're helping the president, look no further than his one public event yesterday. he doesn't know what is being said and he still has not mastered a graceful exit. >> sir, did you ask israel for a three day pause? >> did you ask the president of israel for a three day pause?

i love how they pull the feed. biden wanders away. the white house just pulls the feed. he doesn't say good-bye. he doesn't say thanks for being here. the lady says thank you and he just wanders out of the frame. >> laura: raymond, raymond, we have to get this product out as soon as possible. it's only people who need a little help. we're all gonna get there at some point. just an elder -- a leash. let's just say a leash. or a tether, just to bring him back to where he's supposed to be. >> we need to revive vaudeville. remember the hook? give him the old hook. >> laura: all right, raymond, thank you. up next, jesse. >> jesse: welcome to jesse waters primetime