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and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. joe trump filling out the cabin at speed. and friend of his for many years and serving as the cochair of his transition team. also a role in the new administration, none other than dr. oz. trump's nominated him to be the centers for medicare and medicaid services chief working closely with rfk jr. we will bring you more as it comes in tonight, but first, the revenge of the swamp monsters. that is the focus of tonight's "angle." a historic win, popular vote victory has trump world and hardworking americans in a great mood. we all want to believe that the mandate is undeniable. trump and vance and elon musk and republican house and senate

how could the goal of transforming government not be reached? well, before trump has the opportunity to really drain the swamp, the swamp monsters will fight for their natural habitat no matter who they are up against. >> government agents, scie scientists, soldiers, secret formulas, none of them belongs in the swamp. only one thing does: the swamp monsters! >> laura: well, the swampy defenders of the status quo find ways to survive and this includes setting traps for trespassers. well the democrats still have power on capitol hill, they want to hamstring trump pipe forcing hundreds of wasteful and distractive year end spending including spending for programs and initiatives that voters don't want or support they have ten so many times before. we have been through this. this is such a scam seems to

happen every year with members anxious to leave for christmas, they just advocate their duty to be faithful stewards of our money courtesy senator webb mike lee. here are a few ticking time bombs passed in a swamp build. first, a yearlong continuing resolution that would cement into place the democrats were spending abuses for the first part of the trump administration disaster. second, we can be locked and for continuing ukraine money. might as well treasury print another $50 billion and throw it in a bond fire capitol hill total waste there. third, fast tracking of the afghan into permanent residency status, even when we know urgency of the inspector general's report that they can't be guaranteed to have ever been properly vetted. and fourth, democrats authored new standards and rake to make regulations on intelligence that

will include dei requirements. ai with dei, what could go wr wrong? will republicans say no to this madness and help make trump's year in office successful? will they stay as long as it takes in december to back down? this is what. >> mike johnson warned about back and september. >> i have no intention of going back to the terrible tradition. they will not be christmas on the bus and will there be many omnibus'? we will not do any omnibus. sourpuss humor is trying to stymie trump's agenda by running through as many judges as possible before the senate changes hands. >> last night i have nine nominees to serve as district judges across the country and i will file cloture on a total of 12 district court judges since the end of last week. we are not done.

there are more judges to consider income from. we will spend the rest of this week and the rest of the sheer focus on confirming them here or just be when he looks like a re. trump urged republican senators to step up and slow down the cramdown. meanwhile democrats haven't given up the strategy of printing everything trump does as extremist. but now it is using the veneer of bipartisanship to do it. but what is more extremist than always pushing more question what. >> have to pay to work hard to bipartisan to find common ground with republican colleagues and incoming administration on any issue whenever and wherever possible but at the same period of time, we will push back against far right extremism whenever necessary. >> laura: we know the swamp loves wars because the military industrial complex needs pending to always increase which will happen with biden move for

ukraine weapons in russia. >> is this being done to box and the administration and pull back ukraine? >> well, i can't speak to exactly what made this decision final, but i do think it is urgent we put ukraine on strong footing as we can. >> laura: look, the swamp, its allies, they have never cared about what the voters want, which includes putting americans first. after all, america first, that was the cornerstone of trump's entire campaign. speak of the trump victory is far from a mandate. president biden put the popular vote by 7 million votes in 2020. the republicans say, okay, let's give biden everything he wants because he has mandates. trump doesn't have the mandate. >> laura: this from the party that thought calling trump a fascist was a brilliant campaign

strategy. well, here's the bottom line, we won, they lost. the american people don't want joe biden making any significant policy decisions now. plus, we saw the video tape. we know he is not the one making any of these modes. the man can't even stay in a photo shoot at the g20. window president trump is going to stand up for himself and his priorities here are typically also need republicans on both sides of capitol hill doing their part to prevent schumer and jeffries from hamstringing him until he's back in office. then the swamp monsters will be the ones running for cover. and that is "the angle." beyond the swamp, liberals still want trump to worry about a prison sentence go to manhattan d.a. bragg is requesting a stay and trump's sentencing and the hush money case until after he leaves office, yeah, 2029.

joining us now john turn jonathan turley and fox news contributor. jonathan, they want is hanging over trump. where is judge merchan ultimately going to land on this issue? >> well, that is a good question because the judge does have the ability to dismiss this case. there is a number of reasons for that or to one of the most obvious is immunity decision from the supreme court. they did use evidence that came out of the white house in the first trump term. that evidence was highlighted by the prosecutor's and their arguments. the judge could say, looks, i think this trial is difficult to unravel in terms of what the impact of this evidence may have had. but the one option he shouldn't consider is the one that alvin bragg is pushing that we should have suspended for four years.

consider the implications of that for an american president. it would mean a local judge and a local prosecutor have basically the president on a leash. keep in mind also, the governor of that state could pardon the president. this is not to say trump would yield to that type of pressure. but it will create this appearance of a president who is beholden to local and state officials whenever trump makes a new york decision, they will ask, did it factor and they are holding this card that they will play in 2029? once again, i don't believe that will influence president trump. what i am saying, this is unprecedented and dangerous type of condition. but is creating a type of layaway presidency. they will redeem him in 2029 and try to put him in jail. >> laura: this is their

favorite dream. it has been really since 2015. this has been going on in one form or another since i think for nine years. it really has. they wanted some major recourse, the orange jumpsuit, t-shirts. they have seen those printed up for years. this is something quite different. he was elected president of the united states. the american public were very clear that lawfare was not important to them. they would reject -- i would state reject welfare from president trump porch certainly did not give it much credence, jonathan. >> i think you are right. rage is addictive and use all that outside of the courthouse. the people dancing in the street with joy over the verdict. they just go cold turkey. what alvin bragg is offering is they can spend the next four years suggesting he is a president awaiting sentencing. that is just a thrill to them.

it would be much worse to go to sentencing because it would be unlikely he would be sentenced to jail. it is much better to have the sword dangling over his head for four years where they can say, looks, there goes the president. he is awaiting a sentence. it is an option that i hope judge will not take. his better angels will prevail. but i'm also pulled the court of appeals and other courts would not allow this to happen. but that is exactly what alvin bragg is suggesting. >> laura: but trump's low years can't leapfrog to the court of appeals yet, can pay? or can they make some type of motion to the court of appeals to did that, jonathan, in this current posture? >> they can try, but it is very unlikely, gloria michael laura, they would succeed. the judges yet to make a final

decision. >> laura: ridiculous! >> he's holding onto this case for dear life and none of the courts can look at, for example, all they are is made at trial, which is incredible. these are layers of reversible error that have not been reviewed yet and we are not even talking about the sentence. >> laura: so judge merchan, let's be charitable, could be insulating itself from an embarrassing series of reversals or even court appellate admonishments given what i saw when i was in the courtroom and you came on the show, i don't how may times talking about this. so, it actually helps him here until the left thinks it hurts trump negotiating with world leaders, you are the guy waiting for sentencing. you see why this is the lifeblood for the left. >> no, that is right. the real preference here is to keep lawfare going by allowing this to be suspended, to leave the president in this suspended

conditional state. we cannot have a layaway president. we need a president in this country. if judge merchan is not going to bring the circus to an end, we e going to have to, the country will have to seek that elsewhere and hopefully higher records will prevail. but i'm still hoping judge merchan will recognize this is absurd and becoming dangerous periods payment that is also bad for him and the entire process. jonathan, as always, thank you for the insights. a new survey telling us what we already know, the woke terms that the left wing loons have force-fed us for years, especially our kids, schools, colleges, they are not popular and people don't want to use them. confirming house democrats have learned nothing after getting shellacked in november 5th election, they are going full steam ahead for a biological meant to use women's restrooms. but congresswoman nancy mace is trying to put a stop to it. she introduced a new resolution

requiring members and staff members to use a bathroom that corresponds with his or her biological sex. i can't believe this has to be a thing. but this comes the first trans-member of congress sarah mcbride to take office. >> bullying a member of congress, this is what we are doing? this is the lesson you have drawn? from the election in november? this is your priority that you want to bully a member of congress as opposed to welcoming her to join this body? >> laura: of course, as always, legacy media helps democrats frame the issue as the nice people versus the mean people. >> secretary johnson wants to treat everyone with the words dignity and respect. forcing this congress wanted to go into a bathroom is dignity and respect? forcing them to share bathroom space is not dignity and

respect. >> laura: congresswoman nancy mace go to great to see you. as far as dignity and respect go, i wonder congresswoman, how have you been treated after introducing this resolution? >> very interesting question. the height of hypocrisy and height of gaslighting, they are threatening to kill me because as dumb a chiesa woman are protecting men from being in her private spaces, bathrooms, lock, changing room so they are threatening to give me over this and i'm being bullied online. but they forget is laura, i'm the first one to graduate from military college of south carolina. i will not be bullied into silence and it will not back down but in fact they will double down on this and file more legislation to protect everyone in the nation. the simple question is do women have rights or not? it is a very simple question. >> laura: sarah mcbride

responded to your solution and a blatant attempt from far right wing extremist to distract from the fact they have no real solutions to americans are facing. we should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, child care and not manufacturing culture wars. your response. >> this is not manufactured. this is a person to come into women's private spaces and i am a survivor of, sexual violence, abuse and i know how women are vulnerable and places we have a right to privacy. to this is not okay. if your biological man born as a man, use the men's restroom. you don't invade our privacy and you don't come into women's private space. this is not a thing. i will die on this it will. it will not happen on my watch. we are fighting for this and i will protect every woman and congress, staff, employee and every woman and girl across the country. they did not learn anything two weeks ago and the issues on the ballots and conservatives are now feminist, it is wild, insane

that this is up for debate. it is not up for debate. >> laura: one thing i know the left will say in response to what you just said, well, it is terrific you were subjected to any abuse or assault, any of it. but are you intimating that this new congresswoman-elect would somehow insult you in the bathroom? >> the idea of a man walking into a locker room where i am changing is actually, it feels like a salt. i am a victim. from the trauma that i have endured at the hands of a man. and i will stand in the way solidly at the any guy that wants to come into our spaces. guess what? sarah mcbride doesn't get a say in this. i'm not going to succumb or be silenced by bullies on line with the radical left. they lost they lost big, and i will push back harder than ever before. >> laura: congresswoman, thank you so much for telling us your story. why are democrats protecting illegals instead of american

citizens? or on that next. ♪ ♪

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american citizens. >> tom homan and migr donald trumpe believe all undocumented immigrants are criminals. we will see home to home raids by immigration aids. find out what donald trump will do an step to, where will he be violating u.s. laws and people's fundamental civil rights in order to ram 1 million people a year through the deportation system. >> laura: of course the aclue filing a lawsuit because that it information on how trump plansts to deport americans. illegal immigrants, which american support, by the way. of course, the aclu seems most concerned protecting the rights of jose ibarra on trial forin murdering george of student, laken riley. joining the chris landau former law clerk for justice scalia and thomas law clerk an investor to president trump in mexico. the aclu trying to get their hands on the records how i.c.e.o

immigratiorcn customs enforcemet error operations expanded to carry out deportations. so assuming they get that information which trump is notou eate tn in office yet, what legl roadblocks do you think they can utilize to slow down or even>> stop these deportation flights? >> well what do i think there it a distinction between the onesea they can try and the ones that can succeed. ngthey will tr awally to throwp everything at the wall to see what sticks.y po we see that in the first trumpn administration. basically every policy administration rolled out was n court. t i and i think the goodhi thing is trump 2.0 knows how to deal with that. knows how to get things uption through the legal process a lot more quickly to get resolution. but is not just the aclu, democratic governors and mayors have announced campaign of

e resistance to federalns attempts to enforce immigration law, which of courseib is one of the core responsibilities of. te federal government. states and localities much lessi the aclu don't have the responsibility over immigration u camatters. that is a federal matterd appear to dg o can't have states and localities just thumbing their nose at federal law. we went to the trump administration will, of course, sites affect sanctuary cities, chris, preet 22,000 criminal aliens from custody rather than working with ice, which they did deport some people in the biden administration. but we have criminals roaming free on our streets a lot. and they have to first go tove those people have to be removed and removed expeditiously. meanwhile you have michelle wu, mayor of boston who says, no, wadon't look to us for help or o

watch this. elections have consequences in the federal government is responsible for a certain set of actions. what we can do is make sure wer are doing our part to protect their residence in everyctua possible way that we are not cooperatinveryg with the evidenr there by causing widespread fear and having a large scale economic: impacdot periods be y you notice, chris, she saidor residence and she didn't say american citizens or legal residents but she said that is who she is protecting.re >> you are so right. theyhe have the verbal sleight-of-hand, i will protect taresidents or immigrants, no, , no, no wind is talking about american citizens or people who are unlawful year. we are talking illegal aliens, people here illegally.or oevery time they talk aboutt is immigrants or the residence or the people, that is a verbal sleight of hand to change the issue. they should be forced to defend

what they are doing which are people who are here illegally to stay here illegally. you raise an a excellent point about i think a lot of people woulpriod agree the first priory is to get the criminals, people who are here who have committed crimes to deport them.rs in our country, state and local police and law enforcement officers are at the front lines. we don't have much of a federal police force. if these jurisdictions fail tois cooperate will go you know, that is very problematic. people should call out these w policies.let >> laura: absolutely! chris, beforkly.e we let you go, realin n quickly, we hit the sp you have judge merchan in new york holding onto the trump sentencing not really one way or the other when that sentencing will take place. alvin bragg move to maybe postpone it here too but are holding onto this sentencing ofm

trump. on a federal level, i'm not sure what can be done about this, but how deleterious is that to our executiv fe branch and future precedent if this nonsense continues? >> it is terrible, laura. lit, let's cut to the chase. this case is dead. it should have never been brought in a tragedy to begin with. now it is dead. any attempt by judge merchan at thecute prosecutors to keep it e somehow for years -- >> laura: it is unbelievable! >> keep waving as a blood he sure like they feel like it is outrageous! >> laura: 2029, they want to hold it until 2029 because they want to keep lawfare going from 2015 to 2029. chris, i had to ask about that. sorry, i could not stay on the one topic. chris, good to see you. tei am a has americans living in tents still. the details and the shocking

immigrants living in hotels. that is next.

♪ ♪e th >> laura: did you notice that we just stopped hearing about s the suffering of fellow americans in north carolina?vi but we have seen scenes of pet villages went cold and wet weather is on the way. well, congress wants answers so fema administrator criswell was in the hot seat over the government's response to both hurricane helene and milton. as to one of the most enraging elements of the nightmare pwhether fema instructed staffes to skip over trump's homes?king we have investigated this incident and it is still under investigation. they are working witho inspector general to determine

whether broader than this. the evidence i have seen so far is an isolated incident and has not gone beyond what this one employee data.>> did y >> did you talk to the 13 peopls in this best practices text message? >> the office of responsibility is taking that simple length o protocol. have y youou talk to these 13 t people? >> have not talkedha to these ad 13 people i have an entire teamo that focus on the investigation. >> laura: more government waste. why didn't she pick up thecome phone? january 20th cannot come soon enough. tom homangressman met congressma oversight committee, from the inspector general reports eventually but it takes a long > time. is that enough from what we heard from her? >> no, but is not enough in jim jordan question her very appropriately. she admitted that she hasn't talked to a single person involved in this incident.t. she said too under oath she believes this is an isolated incident. we have another whistle-blower come forward during the middle of the testimony to communicatei with our lawyers to say that a

similar incident happened to them in georgia where a fema worker told the people, the g american citizens, you neeoid ta get rid of those trump signs ind your yard or no one will helpd you. greg steube communicated with memen moments ago and said he d over ten people in his district in florida that said they were discriminated against because they had trump si signs and they guard to. this is a pattern.n that woman sending a text message, if she wasn't confident how the government agency operated the, theype would not help people who would support donald trump.um >> laura: what do you think would happen if republicanad administration fema and theyk th skipped over the house with trans flags flying?n what do you think the democrats would say? i think it would be on the front page of every newspaper in america. >> laura: as it should be. >> democrats would try to burnbn

the capital down they would be so outraged! again, this is something we hav. seen in a lot of government hav agencies, not just fema but the but the department of justice,is the irs, fbi, the biden-harris administration has created a cus of discrimination against conservatives. theycens haven't just insert conservative speech. they have essentially censored government services from conservatives. >> laura: it is weaponized. it is weaponized in a different light and not lawfare weaponization, but his weaponization of the less.we congressmen, we will stay on this. wet domain thank you. with the wet, cold weatherhe coming, let's check in on helene victim is in north carolina. >> the main road since winona, you can see tense over here. lthere are tents everywhere. i just want to know if they are telling you note tense, just tell them to drive down the main

road in swanton nola north carolina. u will seeoad and yo them everywhere. there are tents everywhere in these people need help. >> laura: joining me now, mattln van swol and erin derhamntio bringing attention to these tens cities. now, matt, this is heartbreaking and infuriating especially ofter covering the crime and disturbances outside of hotels in manhattan that cost the city millions are actually billions at this point. but explained to us what life is like for for the people living in this area of north carolina? >> it is absolutely horrific ane there should be zero american citizens living in tents in north carolina right now. there are plenty of fema trailers available for the citizen sitting 15 miles away. they are nic e in heated and

occupied by fema workers.th hey maybe you should get out of thoseme in hand goes to the peoe and swannanoa because it's posted be nice weather on friday. speed when we reached out to sta fema, guys and they did not provide an official statement and i guess we don't count. they sent us a daily fact sheet on north carolinona and improvei 23 million to 123,000 households and it sounds like a lot peer to individuals recovering 52 million for community recovery and more than 4800 households with transitionalit sheltering assistance in hotels and motels. could it be, that people are as the weather is coming to live in the tents? >> no, they are basically givena a choice. we were given a choice a few days out if we got out of asheville and came back. we got aette letter from fema a

pouch or a hotel in tennessee, far away from everyone who needs here and we came back and decided to stay. we got denied twice from fema,de appealed, ended up havinnig to have a generator to take care of carour neighbors on either sidf us. one at a cpap machine and when didn't have electricity of anyns kind including cook plates. so everyone's circumstances is incredibly different. they have to figure out a way to help themselves.fter because fema, one of our friends was offered $9,000 after entiree homeless destroyed, a three bedroom house or to the person that actually helped her the most was a church. >> laura: that is usual, that is the way it goes, faith community steps up. you talk to somebody who still hadn't gotten any financial assistance, correct? >> phil mcquade had,

"the angle" dead, sorry got ahead. no, sorry. i'm getting too much information while i'm trying to talk to you. but the point here is i think americans see that lots of people arount d the world need r help, i get it, i do.ou thatt putting up 2 $2,200,000,00 to ukraine and we have americans in a not in a safe, warm shelter seems criminal but running out of money at fema, no many! >> that is the massive head that and i don't wish this upone anyone, but the big pivot before this go help other countries to make sure they are taking care w of and ukraine has weapons. now we realize, wow! that don't make this has

affected peopl impe that were at impoverished andi people withon multimillion dollar houses.s in people that have lots of land that now is in the river. hasthis has affected everyone.e we are getting help from nonprofit organization s and churches. s it.ura: that i >> pretty much stand on the list or to the amount of fema help wi can count, i mean the highest branch was $42,000 would not do much for even a house $150,000. that does nothing! >> you still have to pay a mortgage. and findha another place to liv. >> pay mortgages on homes that don't exist. >>rin, laura: matt and aaron, yn are bringing information to light that most americans don'tn know about or the media has kind of moved on and forgotten about. but this is why president trumpe campaigned on america first. this is one of the examples. all victims of hurricanes arecan not the same, but this cannoty 20stand here to this cannot

continue. eda january 20th cannoo.t come n enough. fema canno. t come soon enough. matt and erin we will stand the story. just ahead russia threatens to these nukes after biden gives ukraine long-range missiles.

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♪ ♪ >> laura: the biden administration always brags about first. the first female of this, the first lgbtrst q t plus that areo but now another first they are e responsible for. ukraine launched missiles ony wa russia for the first time. >> and want to escalate the conflict andig it is impossibleo use high-tech missiles without americans and putin has saidgett this many times. >> laura: putin warned uswa getting this deeply involvedday, would be considered an act of war. today after thatth attack he lowered russia's threshold forow the use of nuclear weapons. joining me now former deputy a sense elbridge colby. i guess before, he could be bluffing but should biden at the end of his term be taking that risk andp putting the trump administration at this position?

>> absolutely not, laura. the american people have delivered resounding mandate for president trump to go a veryeems different direction and end the war with ukraine. biden seems to be undermining here. laura, this step does not maketo sense. the biden administrationange admitting in "the new york times" this will not change the military it situation or do we have sufficient weapons have thisve f type of attack.th the russians are continuing to move forward the deputy national security advisor in brazil yesterday with the situation extremely typical and thrusse russians will up the ante. a perfect biden symbolism over effectiveness, which is very dangerous.ea as pointed out, putin has made significant threats in thes. nuclear thing is very serious. i would stress it is more on the table fo witr escalation with te iran, china, et cetera.

aurathis is digging us deeper ie hole with no progress. >> laura: itifyi is so terrifyig given the fact this man can't a even find his way into a g20 photo shoot, and he is getting us deeper in this. elbridge, by the way, and from "the washington post" andel antipersonnel, i let that,. antipersonnel landmines to ukraine. >> they are trying to pull up restrictions they have held the last two and a half years in the sort of last -- gasp of why they have the policy building, may be tight president trump hands.th it is not going to work. the russians have mobilized their societ lauy and mobilized military and moving forward unfortunately. even more, laura, i don't want to go back to much for the last couple of years and we predict that this kind of thing would h happen. >> laura: we did.an speak of the head of pacific

command admitted weapons stockpi missiles and things you have and i have beek isn saying for . laura, so important to stress, biden-harris are leaving president trump and vice president vance i deep,n a, deep american people have to calibrate expectations accordingly. ifare we avoid this iceberg and make i did a great turn people i will fall out of the box and it is dangerous.d people have to be realistic we beare in a bad hole because of this. >> laura: you di thid predict me of this two or three years ago. thank you very much. coming up, trump being at the spacex launch tells us about the future of american innovation dojo especially over the next four years. ♪ ♪

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>> laura: you see ronnyja jacksockn and bill hagerty behid ofpresident trump. of course, he went to the side s of the spacex space launch today. it is what happens when you release the power of ingenuity and entrepreneurship underersh america first leadership. it is only going t go get bette. it is a stark contrast to current leadership courtesy of the national space council chairwoman. >> i love the idea of exploring tha e unknown. we just haven't figured out or discovered yet. >> we are going to learn yet so much. increasingly, we are curious and in the potential forr the discoveries of the work we do in space. >> laura: i don't even know

she was the actual space council chairwoman until just this moment. joinin g me now clay andersonte stretired astronaut spacex. s what does the lunch tell us is so special about this? >> well, i think several things. having the president there ands mustgo see the launch shows interest in skin iot sn the gamd a dog in the hunt and that is important to the american people to know they were incomingre president supports the space program. elon is all about innovation. elon is all about making thingsy happen as quickly as he possibly came. i think that is something that can be good for our country. i think sometimes nasa is ali little slow and bureaucratic how they proceed to. i am anxious to see what happens the next several years.it >> laura: now, i think it was reported to, i think, this was the happiest a load to be

brought up to space, is that correct? >> i know his rocket is the biggest one ever built so far.bi buggt is bigger than the statute will make statue of liberty. lid toib lift that mass to space is absolutely incredible. he has taken steps way faster than wide did in the apollo program to do things like thiss. but is a very exciting time for anyone in space. >> laura: clayton, you wereha esther knight 2019, 2013 but what i is it like for americans when, they see tm about it?ba >> i want tock go back. i watch all of this going on and i wish i was back in that world because it is very exciting,t very challenging, very fun. to think about us becoming multi-planetary species as mr. mosk likes to his say. i worked on the space station and i loved everi every minute t

here at josephink the when i thk the great thing about all of this is merit really rules the . it is about who can do the best job. it doesn't matter where you come from or the color of your skin or man or woman, who is the best of the best. that bes is what resident trompn his encouraging and that is whan elon musk and his hiring for spacex is demonstrating once again, merit rules. >> i think i agree.d it is important to understand these are tough jobs, technical jobs, that require people not to make mistakes. you have to have the best possible people doing that work. i hashtag almost every day never bet against elon musk and so far he's proven to be right. >> laura: clayton, it is sope good to have you on tonight.ci follow me on social media and i got a post from this morning. check it out. jesse is next. ♪ ♪ >> vice president-elec