all those fancy leaders are coming into town. that's true. >> i am suspending my campaign. >> this is not my time. >> the race is over. >> no! yes! boy, i almost fell off. >> think about 2023. >> coke in the white house, now sex in the senate. can't wait for 2024. >> that is it for "special report." that is it from los angeles. on tuesday night, fox news at night returns to its normal time slot, 8:00 in the west. 11:00 p.m. in the east. for all of us here at "special report," fox news at night and the fox news family we would like to wish you and your family a very happy and healthy new year. trace gallagher in los angeles. "the ingraham angle" is next. ♪

>> a special edition of the ingraham angle from new york city. efforts are underway several states to remove former president donald trump from the ballot. we will get to that in a moment. tonight, vivek ramaswamy is here with his reaction. plus, gary sinise with a heart-warming inspiring story that you have to hear. but, first, william faulkner famously said the past isn't dead, it isn't even past. as we say farewell to 2023, there are important lessons that we may have missed. lessons we need in the new year. you know, we tend to focus so intently on the crisis or the outrage of the moment that we miss the larger trends. this hour we will report breaking news, look at the big stories of the year and how they will shape our 2024. it will be an important and fun hour. i want to start with the narrative thats sounded all year long and going to be a major theme in the new year. you know the song.

>> this fight for out freedoms is also a fight for our democracy. >> i wish i could say the threat to our democracy has ended with our victory in 2020, but it didn't. our democracy is still at stake. don't kid yourself. >> democrats will defend democracy. >> former president trump, not china is apparently the big threat to democracy not unregulated reading scores or math scores trump is thought greatest threat to democracy. no matter where you stand, the former president whether you stand on him or whether you voted for him or not or whether you supported him or not, shouldn't the american people be allowed to choose their own leader? isn't that the mark of democracy? apparently not. in colorado, and now maine. trump's name has been removed from the primary ballot on the grounds that he engaged in insurrection. there are active lawsuits in 14 states and counting to remove trump's name from ballots

everywhere. but make no mistake. this is an organized political effort to target one candidate and to deprive the people of their ability to choose their own president. this is maine's secretary of state sheena bellows, bellowing on about election sabotage from back in 2021, long before she tried to sabotage an election. >> we have to fight back to protect our democracy, protect everything. make sure we have better leaders in positions of power to fight back against that. this is rooted in a deliberate and organized campaign to discourage people from participating in our democracy. it is an attack on our very democracy itself because, when everyone participates, everything that we care about, social justice, climate justice, economic justice, we win. >> raymond: yeah, she goes on to say this is about protecting everything. now, let me tell you what this is. this is a rabid, reckless

ideology mass kerr raiding as patriotism. she has attacked democracy by undermining a fair election process, knocking a former president from contention on the most absurd grounds, which we'll explore in a moment. but she was very candid about her motives there. she is not protecting democracy. she is protecting the democrat agenda. and she is not alone. rogue prosecutors from alvin bragg to letitia james in new york to fani willis in georgia have tried again and again to interfere with the democratic process by forcing major presidential candidate into court, rather than bringing their cases after the election. they are trying to influence it by dragging the former president into court before it begins. each court appearance turned into a frmd circus in 2023 with intent to tarnish the reputation of a presidential candidate and handicap his ability to campaign. the amazing thing is, though the media covered trump's every move

from the home to the airport, to the interstate to the back streets to the courthouse, then, when he finally decides to speak out, when they finally get what they're waiting for, this is how the coverage proceeded. >> the former president himself is making remarks tonight from his home in florida. it is just getting started. so far he is just giving his normal list of grievances. we don't consider that necessarily newsworthy and there is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things. >> donald trump is charged with a series of federal felonies for mishandling the most sensitive government documents that we have the folks in the control room don't need to see any more of that is he trying to turn it into a spectacle, a campaign ad. that's enough of that. >> raymond: i love rachel maddow, we can't report untrue things. that's half your show. when the media did invite trump in for town halls or interviews in 2023, they were condemned for lending a platform to trump.

is that protecting democracy? democracy is lost. why would some in the media and democratic public officials go to such lengths to deprive a candidate for the highest office in the land of even a hearing, much less a chance to campaign or appear on a ballot. the answer is simple: insurance. these door for immigrations of the public trust are insurance policies. designed to keep the current president in office. president biden is polling at historic lows across the board and restricted recent interviews to sitdowns with comedians at home getting ofl teen. >> i think it's absolutely crucial that ukraine prevail republicans were always tough on foreign policy, tough on russia and now maga republicans have kind of flipped the script and they are saying well, we can let ukraine go. it's confusing. >> they also say -- the other guy says we can work with putin,

is he smart. >> other guy, i like that he is the other guy. [laughter] he is like voldemort now, his name shall not be mentioned. >> over a billion # hundred trillion $300 million. >> instead of cutting them like congressman trump and boebert want to do. we can use to help billionaires and millions of families. >> if that was your candidate you might try to get the other guy's name off the ballot, too. what we are witnessing, what we are watching play out in state courthouses and soon at the supreme court is not just a series of random events, this is the biden presidential campaign in action. with the president incapable of even offering voters key heernt argument, these bureaucratic proxies are running the campaign for him this foolishness in maine is another turn in organized ideological attempt to pervert an election and to deprive the american people of their democratic right to vote

you know secretary bellows in maine was right about one thing. people do need fight back to protect everything, from partisans like her. joining me now vivek ramaswamy, the 2024 republican presidential candidate. vivek, you vowed to remove yourself from any state ballot that does not include president trump. do you think your opponents, for the g.o.p. nomination, should follow your lead? >> i do. this is the simplest way for the g.o.p. to protect itself against brazen election interference in our own primary. that's why within minutes of hearing about that initial colorado decision, it was instantly clear to me. if every republican removes themselves from colorado or from maine, if they remove donald trump from that ballot, then we are acting on principle to say none of those ballots, none of those votes should count towards the g.o.p. nomination. unfortunately i am disappointed in my competitors in this race.

christie, desantis, haley, who have refused to do that focusing on electing their own delegates. we got to focus on principles over it would be a lot easier for me to defeat donald trump if he were not in this race. that is not how we should want to win. we need to stand for principle and my increasing concern is this system will stop at nothing to keep this one man out of office which gives me even more of a purpose to be in this race all the way through the very end. >> today it's trump, tomorrow it's you, tomorrow it's biden. depending on who is in power, yes, can you deform and use the weapons of government against a candidate you don't like or opposition. sheena bellows the maine secretary of state. she has posted several photos of herself and president biden on instagram. she has also bragged about being an alumni, vivek, of the aclu and the southern poverty law center. key elections. they have a playbook. meanwhile the g.o.p. has had two

speakers in one year. what is the game plan for the g.o.p.? what this s. their ground strategy? >> look, i think more than the ground strategies, we have to define what we actually stand for. and right now the g.o.p. has an opportunity to say we are the party that is founded on the principles of the american revolution. revive the basic 1776 ideals. rules of the road like the idea that we, the people, whatever your beliefs are, we, the people, select our verdicts. people reelect to run the government should be the ones to actually run the government. not the managerial class in the deep state to say that we believe in the rule of law that nations have borders. i think that's the opportunity for the g.o.p. it's an historic opportunity to just stand for the basic american values that most of us share in common and if we do, we will win this next election in a llandslide. we got to get there in a fair system to make it happen. >> raymond: i have about 20 seconds. i have to ask this, it's a two parter. what do you make of nikki haley

trying to clean up this civil war flap and, two, what happens if donald trump is elected come november? what is the response from the democrats and this resistance that is obviously dead set against him even being considered for candidacy? professional politicians spouting off slogans. i got a question about the civil war. i'm very clear about the history on it. i think we deserve a president who understands the depth of our history and can speak to it. i will put that issue to one side. i think the deeper concern is not only the democratic party, the establishment is not going to let donald trump get anywhere near that finish line, this country deserves an america first candidate. i'm that candidate from the next generation. i believe that's what it's going to take revive this country. i think fight for the principles this nation was founded on we will be victorious and that's what i'm going to do. >> raymond: vivek ramaswamy, thank you for being with us. happy new year. let me tell you about the real threat to democracy that's

getting almost no coverage. democrats now facing election fraud charges in three states in connecticut. someone was caught stuffing an absentee ballot drop box for mayoral election in september. in new york, investigators say a man submitted 118 false absentee ballot applications for his 2022 democratic primary election. joining me now congressman byron donalds, member of the house oversight committee and tim pal tore, is he a former attorney for president trump. thank you both for being here congressman, what do these stories tell you about the threat to democracy and why do we hear so little about brazen election tampering. >> first, the stories tell me done firm what is we already know. it's what democrats do before every election. before every election they go into court and they sue constantly try to get weakening of election laws or complete

removal of election procedures on many different areas. this is what happened before the 2020 election. they were in court everywhere trying to get things like these drop boxes in every municipality in the country saying it was too hard to vote because of covid-19. people need to drop it in a recep tab outside the building. that was a joke and a lie. it is not needed. but they do this every single time because they want to weaken the infrastructure of voting. they want to weaken the controls around voting. they want to make it easy for these outside groups to drop ballots all over the place. and to subvert the will of the voters who actually take their time to do their work. these outside groups need to go. ballot harvesting operations need to go. this is part and parcel of what the democrats need to do. these stories demonstrate what we already have known. the reason nobody knows about it is because big media is not going to cover. this they only want to talk about january 6th. that's all they want to talk about. >> raymond: stunned when i came across these stories and i heard

nothing of them anywhere. tim, even cnn's legal analyst knows how silly this maine ballot situation is trying to strip trump from the ballot. watch. this if you look at the hearing and she details this in the ruling, they heard from one fact witness, a law professor. she based her ruling on a lot of documents, but also youtube clips, news reports, things that would never pass the bar in normal court. >> tim, is there any legal justification for removing trump from the ballot and invoking the 14th amendment to do so? i mean dog, even apply? i read the 14th amendment today. his office, the presidency, doesn't seem to be stipulated there when they mention congress people and senators those offices are exly indicated, not the president. >> it's codified u.s. 18 code for a criminal code section on insurrection. it's defined. it has a sentence up to 10 years in prison and you have to indict

somebody grabbed juries hearing the direct evidence not some law professor they have all declined to bring this charge. even in the oath keepers case, they decided to go one level below that for the seditious conspiracy and decline to actually bring an insurrection charge nobody has been charged with insurrection. nobody convicted of an insurrection, saying that somebody participated in it and removing them from the ballot really does go against the rule of law raymond ramentd an attorney wrote in maine today none of what has transpired or is upcoming is anti-democratic in our system of constitutional government. or unlawful interference with the election, or the right to vote. this is the process by which the rule of law is actualized in our

system of government. congressman, very quickly, how is taking off, removing a leading candidate from a major political party not anti-democratic? >> >> it's very anti-democratic. anybody that says otherwise is a fool and is lying to the american people. i want to talk about democrat voters for a second worked hard, lived life not really political. you have people in your party who are radicals, who are anti-democratic, they don't believe in the will of the people. they don't believe in votes in the ballot box, legitimate ones. they don't even believe in the rule of law or actually following the rule of law. they only care about their agenda. you got stop voting for these people. because they are the ones who are destroying america's republic. they are the ones who are threats to our democracy. >> raymond: congressman, tim, thank you. thank you. we will leave it there happy new year. coming up gary sinise is here with an inspiring personal story to start the new year. first, stephen miller, reacts to the biden administration's

biggest lie of 2023. next. ♪

>> it would be wrong to think that the border is open, it is not open. >> i want to be very clear, our borders are not open.

>> the border is secure. >> president has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. >> we have seen the effectiveness of our approach. >> that border is so effectively closed you can't imagine. though december did see the highest number of migrant encounters ever reaching a stunning 276,000 migrants, this is clearly one of the biggest stories of 2023. and one the biden justice department is just trying to ignore because they just threatened to sue texas if they try to take matters into their own hands and police their own border. joining me now stephen miller, former senior adviser and president r. -- president trump and founder of america first legal the don, steven, is threatening to sue texas but not maine for disenfranchising voters. the biden administration i think they are trying to show how serious they are about immigration by visiting mexico. then they hamstring texas.

i don't think they realize what a crisis texas is facing every day. >> they are very serious about immigration. they are serious about maximizing the number of illegal immigrants who internet country every single day, every single week, every single month. we saw in december the highest number of illegal aliens in american history, nearly 300,000. this comes after many previous record-setting months. and at the same time we have record low ice deportation. record numbers coming across. record few being removed. aliens being resettled en masse across the country and state of texas stepping up trying to defend its citizens, defend its homes and property is, of course, being sued by the department of justice for not joining in biden's conspiracy to let many illegal aliens limited -- unlimited numbers of illegal aliens settle themselves

all across texas and america. >> backlog on these cases is unbelievable. what is it 5 million people, something absurd the backlog on this thing. >> almost 7 million. >> raymond: is it that high? six migrant buses arrived today in new york city despite mayor adams executive order. and this morning on cnn, he said this about the order. watch. >> with that executive order, we're saying that between a certain period of time you are allowed to drop off migrants in the city but you are going to do it at the location that we specify so we don't overtax our resources, our manpower and create a disorderly environment. >> raymond: they are still coming and the fact is after his executive order, six more buses showed up. does this put any additional pressure on biden as we move into 2024 with so many democratic mayors feeling the pinch and watching their city bulges be destroyed. >> only if republicans in

congress get sophisticated and determined very quickly. the chronic under reaction to the worst illegal immigration and the worst border crisis in the history of civilization, nothing comes close. nothing even approaches it. the chronic under reaction is the biggest impediment to stopping the biden sponsored border invasion. the house should come back in january and vote on immigration every day and every night and nothing else. issue by issue, criminal removals, catch and release, sanctuary cities. shutting down the department of justice attack. shutting down the buses, shutting down the funding to the ngos, shutting down every single element of this crisis. restoring remain in mexico. restoring prosecutions of criminal entry. restoring fight 42, every day, every hour if that's what it

takes. it's not like border security bill a year ago, congratulations a year ago you voted on a border security bill. i need the house to get in the game every single day every single day we are losing this country to a degree illegal immigration that no civilization would possibly endure, raymond. >> raymond: it is impacting every community in the world and certainly in our country every community. including new york city. stephen, thank you so much for being here. >> i have work to do instead of having chaos providing structure and calm around the situation and without significant federal support this is not sustain. >> we need more federal support to be able to manage this amount of inflow it will crush city budgets around the country. >> the federal government said to new york city, we're not going to do our job, you do our job. >> these blue state mayors are demanding more federal funds as they buckle under the onslaught of the migrants crowding their

cities. now a new health warning. once forgotten formidable enaffections, infectious diseases are now back in the u.s. decades after they were considered defeated for two years running, polio has been detected in some new york water samples and this fall leprosy reemerged in florida where cases of malaria have also been recorded. the recent polio and leprosy cases are certainly imports to the u.s. dr. jay bhattacharya physician and scientist at stanford this past april new york city health commissioner warned that the a least half of the migrants who poured into the city have not been vaccinated against polio, joining me now dr. marc siegel ny langone medical center. you say this is a problem and there is nor come. what could would he be seeing in the new year as a result of this? >> this is a frightening problem

i have talked to dr. vossen about this. it's not just new york city. i know we are sitting here in new york. 7.5 million migrants coming across illegally into the united states under president biden, listen, when we left afghanistan does trussly, 90,000 migrants came here. do you know what is endemic in afghanistan? polio. and you just heard that half of the migrants, most of them pouring across the border not vaccinated against polio. we saw a case in new york state of polio first since the 1970s. wastewater in new york is now loaded with polio and even if you had a polio vaccine you can still carry polio. i look at history through a medical lens. i grant this is a national security emergency at the border it's also a public health emerg, tuberculosis raymond, only treated partially. you know what we are seeing emerging resistance to tuberculosis very, very

difficult to treat. one more thing, we are seeing chicken pox emerge because people under vaccinated during the pandemic. we were locked down. we didn't get our usual childhood vaccines. when i talk to the top vaccine in the country from penn what keeps you up at night? i thought he was going to say a bioengineered crirs maybe like this one or maybe a new virus or a flu or something he said measles keeps me up at night. measles because 22 million children in the world were not vaccinated against measles fully we are not checking on anybody coming across the border. >> raymond: when my grandparents and mine came they vetted them for everything. now these people come, in we don't know what they have, who they are, where they came from, nothing. dr. siegel we will leave it there. >> my grandfather for tuberculosis in the neck and let him in three days later. now they come pouring in past the fences. >> raymond: it's not sustainable and health crisis in the wings. thank you, doctor. >> good to see you.

>> raymond: i think we have had all a good year compared to president biden. my only worry is what we should expect in the new year. governor huckabee here to forecast what's ahead. next. ♪

>> raymond: former arkansas governor mike huckabee joins me now. governor, the president seems unwilling to accept his condition even those near him, are very concerned. and my question is is this going to be the achilles tendon for him going into the election season? >> i think it's going to be hard year for him because he has got a lot of things to try to overcome. not the least of which is the economy. people have really been taking it in the teeth. their gas costs more. their groceries cost more.

interest rates mean they can't buy the homes or the cars they like to buy. he can go out and tell everybody how wonderful it is. he can try to be ethel murman and say everything is coming up roses but people are feeling the thorns. that's why joe biden has a tough year ahead. it's not like he has got somebody in the bullpen ready to come out to the mound and throw some pitches because he has kamala harris and she can't get it past the mound. so, it's a tough year for the democrats. no wonder they are trying to take donald trump off the ballot. that's the best hope they have got. >> you know, mike, i wanted to play this for you earlier. >> this is a little montage. the president keeps saying nothing is amiss. i think this is going to be one of the leading stories and have huge political impacts as we go into the new year. this is the president. take a look. >> i know i don't look that old. >> i have been around a long time. >> there is one thing that comes with age, if you're been honest about it and that is some wi

wisdom. >> eight eigh percent. >> i want you to know it's difficult turning 60. >> how would you say your mental focus is? >> cheers] ♪ >> it's focused, joan shin gang. up keep saying just watch biden age is not an issue anymore. i think people have to just watch me. [cheers] >> i don't know about you, but i'm going to go to bed. >> that was just 2023, governor huckabee. now, look. we are making light of this about there is a political impact here. 70% of voters have concerns about his age. and there is that cbs poll, 9 #% say he shouldn't run because of his age. will he listen? is anybody listening? >> no, i don't think so. he is determined he wants to be president again. is he enjoying the job. heck, is he on vacation most of the time.

he is down at the virgin islands right now. what a job. any of us would love to take the job if it meant for the most part we hang out at the beach, we go on vacation, people go out there and speak for us because we can't even find our way off the stage. i would say, raymond, it's not just the chronological age. you know, i will give you a great example. you got chuck grassley out of iowa. he is in his 90's. that man is as sharp as anybody i know in his 30's. the guy still runs every day. is he as sharp as he can be. it's not joe's age. it's his capacity. his policies. the things that he does that's hurt this country. that's why we have to worry about him. that's why he can't be president again. >> raymond: and i got to tell you, governor, you are right. joe biden is on beaches more than sand. i mean, i have never seen anything like it. every time you turn around, there he is. and it wouldn't be so bad if biden had a reliable vp. but kamala harris' public performances are often as

confused as vexing as her boss'. watch. >> let's always take a moment to also see what we have achieved thus far while we clearly see the moment that we are presently in? >> to see what can be unburdened by what has been. >> nobody says a venn diagram should only be three circles, right? i love venn diagrams. >> i eat no for breakfast. don't hear no. >> they suited up, they waved to their families, and then they launched. >> we have achieved a lot. >> raymond: i would like to see a venn diagram of those achievements. look, harris is a 17% disapproval rate among african-americans, governor. can she take biden's place if something unforeseen happens here? will she? >> oh, goodness, i hope not. i mean, just thinking what a disaster this is for the country because we would have to go with the passage of time and hope that the passage of time would

somehow make us be able to live with the passage of time. she speaks in more word salads than the buffet at golden corral. i have never seen anything like it. people are watching those speeches. taxpayers are paying for those speeches. i don't know if she throws them away when she goes to the lecturn or if that's what they write for her because they think it sounds good. i have no idea i just know it doesn't make sense. >> raymond: i don't think she can possibly rereplace him and the question is who will if something hans. governor huckabee, happy new year, thank you for being here. american culture told its own story in 2023. and most missed what it was saying. some highlights and low lights and gary sinise coming up. stay right there. ♪

♪ >> raymond: american culture taught us some important lessons in 2023. but were we listening? for that we turn to stephanie hamill a tv contributor for the american research center. sales plunged to lowest levels in 24 years thanks to bud light's disastrous dylan mulvaney campaign. here's a quote.

sales have steadily declined each month by 25 to 30% since mulvaney is now famous post touting the brand. stephanie, what was the lesson here and do you think bud light and others have learned the lesson about breaking faith with an audience? >> so, number one, the lesson is go woke, go broke. and that's exactly what we thought here. we see these corporations over and over again going after their main audience, their main consumers, with things that their consumers don't like. why in the world would they have dylan mulvaney be the face of bud light when they know exactly who is purchasing their beers? i'm sure you remember the video of one of the bud light executives who was dismissive of some of the bud light drinkers referring to them as frat boys and they were hoping to reach out to people who are less fraty. so, it was a pretty interesting year for bud light, of course, and they are suffering because of this decisions that were made

and one of the executives had to resign from that. will they learn from this? i would hope so. we see this vicious vibleg happening over and over again and it's not just about bud light. it's with lots of corporations businesses and so on. >> let me move on to another one, speaking of suffering. disney had a difficult year. 7 of their 8 movie releases under performed, costing them billions. did the mouse get the memo or is the brand so damaged that families just don't trust them anymore? >> families definitely are looking to alternative sources for viewing for their children. we saw in 2022 those leaked videos of some of the disney executives admitting the agenda they were pushing in some of their cartoons which was the lgbtq agenda which a lot of parents thought was inappropriate for their children. and a lot of people thought that that was what was going on and then the videos came out and it was exactly what everyone was thinking. so that happened in 2022.

and in 2023 they were punished for it. that's why people started turning away. we also saw this happen at some of their theme parks where they started removing some of the theme park attractions that had been there. >> raymond: stephanie, i want to move on. they are showing images of indiana jones the dial of destiny there. indiana jones was roundly beaten at the box office during the summer by the jim caviezel trafficking thriller sound of freedom. on track to make $300 million at the box office. it was made for $14 million by the way. why did that movie resonate with audiences in a way that others didn't, these blockbuster films? >> i think there is a fan base for a lot of these movies and some of the fans would be willing to continue watching it. i mean, the same thing for the barbie movie, right? that was another, quote, woke moe. yet, people still turned out to watch it because it wasn't just geared at one younger audience.

it was also for adults as well. and so, are that's why we see some of these, i guess if you will anomalies when it comes to that issue. >> raymond: i think they are playing to under served audiences in both cases. barbie, huge under served female audience and younger audience, young girls that went to see it. in the case of the sound of freedom, there is an audience there that caviezel fans certainly a movie of faith and about something that impacts our lives. hopefully hollywood got that memo this year. stephanie, thank you for being here. up next, an inspiring story of hope and resilience in midst of struggle. gary sinise joins us with that personal story, next.

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the backstory which is just as inspiring. the piece is called arctic circles and written by max sinise, the son of gary sinise. he's been struggling with some major health issues, mack has buried gary joins us now an end i want you to tell us how the music came to be and why it means so much to you and your family. first, this is the moment when you end and the family first heard his composition which took many years to write come to life. watch this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> raymond: gary, tell me why that moment was so important to, he started the song many years ago. >> oh gosh, thank you for having

me come my. it's a beautiful piece. back as a composer and musician, he went to usc music school many years ago in the past several years he's been dealing with some very serious health challenges. he was a drummer, he used to play and he can't do that anymore and he kind of put it aside. then he started listening to some old music that he had written back in school. he connected with an old college friend, oliver. they went to college together and he played it for oliver who is also a composer and musician. oliver fell in love with it and they went to work on it to finish it and they went into the studio this past summer. it's a beautiful piece. i hadn't heard it on till the day they recorded it. >> raymond: it's and orchestra they, it's absolutely beautiful. i love the look on mack's face when he's looking -- when he's reviewing the score as they p play. gary, i know you can see mack is having difficulties physically.

i know this has been a burden for you and the family and him. what i love about this is despite that, he stayed on mission and he's doing what he's being called to do, and that to me is such an important note that i wanted to sound at the end of the show that no matter what struggles we are going through, it can be worse, it can be less or better, but you know what? you've got to stay on mission no matter what. speak out that's what's so inspirational about it is not seeing him come alive again and rediscover something that he thought was kind of a part of his past. you know, it rejuvenated him so beautifully and you can see the music and his youtube site on youtube. they've gone into the studio again and they've got some new music coming out as well. it's really beautiful. a speech of gary, i want to play little piece before we run out of time. this is a song you introduced

him to. watch. ♪ ♪ how has this changed mack and you, gary, and the family? watching him realize his dream and fulfill his work? >> it's just beautiful to see the very talented guy teaming up with his buddy oliver, just some chemistry just happened and they just exploded and started making this music together. it's beautiful to see him do it. he started playing harmonica because he can't play drums anymore. in fact, he told me one time saying dad, maybe i should've learned harmonica years ago, i wouldn't have to bring the drums all over the place.

>> raymond: before we run out of time, you dedicated your life to helping others. i know once again this christmas, you brought the snowball express to so many gold star families, hundreds of them where you bring them to disney world, give them a moment of birth in the midst of their trials. tell me what it's meant to you and why do you continue to do this? i know it can't be easy. >> there's a lot of heartbreaking stories amongst these families that we take to disney world. they've all lost these children have lost a parent and military service. we take children of fallen first responders there now. it's heartbreaking, but it's also heartwarming because you see these children come together in a way that are very special and healing for all of them. just knowing they are not alone and going through what they are going through. it's a beautiful experience and we continue to do it. the american people support it,

american airlines provides the travel. it's a beautiful program with the gary sinise foundation. to speak to your beautiful, i love what you do, i love the foundation and thank you for being here tonight. our prayers for mack and the entire family and you. of course, gary sinise.com you can learn more there and max sinise on youtube. find more of the beautiful music there. thank you so much for being here, as always, happy new year. >> wonderful to see you, raymond. >> raymond: that's it for us, i'm raymond arroyo infra laura ingraham wishing you a merry christmas. it's the fifth day of christmas by the way so that my christmas merry and bright cd, available where music is sold. to think you for watching a special edition of "the ingraham angle," i will see you on the weekend show tom tomorrow. pete hixson is in for jesse. good night. ♪ ♪