is this by design or do they know topics to be in the advance. some notes not many notes. like horses at the gate. all i give them and organic conversation after that. finally jason asks who do you have in the super bowl? great question, jason, i have the washington commanders versus the buffalo bills. mark this tape, save it on dvr we are coming back. tomorrow on "special report," president-elect trump returns to washington for a strategy session with senate republicans and, of course, the funeral and form former president carter. remember set your dvr 3:00 on the west coast and 6:00 p.m. on the east. that's it for "special report" fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" starts now. ♪ >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham that is "the ingraham angle" from washington

as always. thank you for joining us. and joe biden is trying to somsabotage trump on the way out the door. >> these people are crazy. there is something wrong with them. >> laura: plus, meet the man trying to spread populism to canada. >> why should canadians trust you with their vote? >> common sense. >> laura: and trump gets results a major shakeup at meta but should we trust them? >> we are going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes. >> laura: but, first, trump in charge. that's the focus of tonight's angle. all right, we commanded the room for over an hour on complex matters of foreign and domestic policy, on trade, on regulatory matters. and he is already announcing huge new foreign investment in the united states. and that's going to create jobs and, of course, boost our g.d.p. the media's take on trump today was, well, more proof that they have learned nothing. >> one of the biggest things that stood out to me from that

press conference from moments when trump got out there before he started taking questions the level of anger. >> he is really agitated. >> a long list of grievances. this should be someone who is upbeat and happy to come in. but still full of grievances. >> laura: that's what they took from today? that's it? these people are as clueless as they were when they thought that taylor swift and good vibes and a billion dollars could drag kamala across the finish line. if trump was anything today, he was trump request of the confident, determined, candid and unafraid to call it as he sees it. if you were looking for optimism. he offered plenty of that today, too. >> we are at the beginning of a great big golden age of business. i think we are at golden age of common sense. great respect is being shown to our country again. and we have great country but we have to run it properly. >> laura: again, unlike biden, unlike harris, trump took

questions from reporters. he didn't hesitate to take questions. most of the reporters, by the way, who never gave him a chance four years ago. on the campaign trail you vowed to bring prices very fast you recently told "time" magazine bringing down prices would be very hard. what can the american people expect when you get in office. >> it is always hard to bring down pr prices when somebody ele has screwed up. energy is going to bring down prices. you will see drastic price reductions. >> finally we have a president who is focused on putting the american people first, not the global climate control freaks who have dominated us under biden. but on every issue today, issue after issue, he was clear. other countries aren't going to dictate our policies and just because a policy has been in place for decades doesn't mean he won't be open to changing that policy even when our allies are concerned. because, when trump is president, no one, not even our

friends, are going to take advantage of us. >> we are not treated well as you know by canada. canada is subsidized to the tune of $200 billion a year. they rely on our military. it's all fine, they got to pay for that. it's very unfair. >> laura: yeah. well it's refreshing to hear a president standing up for america's interest again. taking a magmatic approach to protecting the american economy again, of course, the back benchers who literally missed trump's rise in 2016 and again in 2024, always under estimating him could only resort to the role playbook. >> that was a trailer. that was an hour long trailer for the next four years in that he tells a lot of lies. >> laura: he tells a lot of lies. now, this from a media that doggedly refused to report on what was obvious for four years dispeeking of lies.

well, you know, look, we all saw biden was not in charge. all the big defenders of democracy. we didn't have a president for the last four years we certainly didn't have somebody living at 1600 pennsylvania avenue who was mentally fit for the job. so is trump accused of lying i would say consider the source. trump was speaking inconvenient truths today. truths that the talking heads don't bother to even think about. as usual, he is five steps ahead of them. >> the panama canal is vital to our country it's being operated by china. china? we gave it to pan mall not to china. they have abused that gift. it should have never been made. >> laura: trump was, again, refreshingly unwashington. when he didn't even shy away from the subject, despite jimmy carter's lying in state today,

remember he was the president who presided over the handover i liked him as a man i disagreed with his policy. he thought giving away the panama canal. i think it lost him the election. i didn't bring up the panama canal because of jimmy carter's death. people don't bring it up. >> laura: well, it wasn't about disrespecting carter and the press knew exactly what it was saying when they brought it up. it's about putting our security first. now, remember, congressman mike gallagher, he was then chair of the select committee on the ccp. he laid it all out in stark terms saying in 2023 the visitor to the panama canal might think they are in china. ports at both ends everywhere the canal are managed from companies from the people's republic of china while huawei dominates the country's telecom system. pretty important, don't you think? since 2018 panama has been a member of china's belt and road

initiative as well and xi's plan to come to nate all global trade is part of this do we really want china dominating a canal that's central to our trade? if they take control of enough of pan marks could china ultimately use it as a station for its military? these are valid questions. again, each raising this issue is somehow unaffront to official washington. how dare you stand up for the united states? you are threatening the global order donald trump. if trump can make a deal for strategically important greenland? why wouldn't that be a good thing? >> we need greenland for national security purposes. i have been told that for a long time. long before i even ran people have been talking about it for a long time. i'm talking about protecting the free world. you look at -- you don't even need binoculars, you look outside you have china ships all over the place russian ships all

over the place we are not letting that happen. >> set the media's hair on fire but trump is right. back in august, a piece in the harvard international review explained how china has tried to take hold of greenland's iron and uranium mining industries and even has russia involved in the project to establish what they are calling a polar silk road. that would create artic dominance. so why is this never mentioned? in the media's coverage of greenland? and trump's desire to perhaps make a deal for it? for the same reason they never address that nato is still taking advantage of u.s. taxpayers. >> nato is taking advantage of us. one of the problems i have had and i have said it openly i have said it to president zelenskyy. europe is in for a tiny fraction that we are in.

why billions and billions more dollars in europe. >> laura: excellent question, why? it's a question that makes all the right people comfortable as does trump's approach to dealing with russia somewhere they said biden should be able to join russia. someone on their doorstep that i could understand their feeling about that. but there are a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation. and when i heard the way that biden was negotiating. i said end up in a war. and it turned out to be a very could speculate. >> laura: trump the peacemaker wants it to end and of course he is spot on. and in response. the press tiptoed toward russia collusion again. nato i understand why russia would be mad that country on its doorstep would join nato. >> stop right there, john.

that quote alone. >> russia is mad and i understand that. >> that russia invaded a. >> a democratic nation within europe. >> and he understands why? >> laura: imagine that? a leader who actually tries to convey an understanding of both sides to reach a peace deal? it's called negotiation. has biden tried this? of course not. is he not capable capable of it. biden hasn't been able to negotiate the release of hostags from hamas. they are not worried about biden but about trump yeah they're. >> when you say all hell must be paid if they don't release the hostages. >> if they are not back by the time i get into office, all hell will break out in the middle east. >> can you elaborate? >> it will not be good for hamas and it will not be good frankly

nor anyone. all hell will break out. i don't have to say anything more. >> laura: he is not going to give you battle plans but is he conveying his point and i bet hamas gets it. trump displayed this kind of strength, some would call it bravado i think it's pragmatic throughout the entire press conference like he has his entire life. it's why he won the election. it's why the media hates him. let's be clear what is really going on here. they accuse him of being angry. they are livid that he is going to be back in office. they can't get -- they can't get past themselves and their own anger. and apparently the press, and some democrats, most democrats, expect our leaders to just roll over and to submit to the demands of the elites and any resistance is just met with lies and smears. >> it's dangerously similar to the kind of leadership that we see in places like russia or hungary or other places where we

have strong men and oligarchs making decision as opposed to the american people and often accompanied by not just corruption but also oppression of peoples. >> they are back to the same thing, is he a dictator. he just won the election. and the "boston globe" columnist, oh no, he is just an autocrat. it's not going to work anymore. they have leshedz nothing. the american people saw through this. that's why trump is going to be back in office in just a week or. so and more importantly, it's why the american penal are also back in charge. and that's the angle. joining me now chris bedford, author of the beltway brief newsletter and ben domenech editor and large at the spectator. ben, is he really setting them off about his talk about greenland. and he even sent don jr. there today. what's the end game here and why might this be just brilliant?

>> one of the things we should respect about what the president said today foreign policy perspective i think is well defined as it ever has been what he wants to achieve in the next four years in terms of reasserting american dominance in the western hemisphere. something that a lot of conservatives have been calling for for a long time to return to the lessons of the monroe doctrine and everything else that we have goer gotten over the years as we have listened to globalist elites and instead be focused on the things that aren't in america's interest. the greenland thing, which you accurately pointed out is obviously about containing and keeping control of something that is in our strategic interest against the kind of polar artic slick road that sila and russia would like it have between themselves. argue. about the panama canal is long

overdue. something people have been writing about and paying attention to when it comes to the policy areas and the challenges there. i'm glad that the president is finally -- president-elect is about to do something on this to pay attention to it. but what is it overall? it's the reassertion of america's control over its own destiny in the western hemisphere and say we are not going to be dictated to by others around the world. >> laura: hilarious for all these neocons just so worried about trump, the trump is terrible. trump is going to be isolationist, and ben, i mean, chris, excuse me, he is now saying look, america can actually grow in strategic superiority. by, perhaps, cutting a deal here. and instead they laugh at it. but not everybody, chris, john fetterman made a very interesting comment on with bret baier just a short while ago. watch. >> there's a lot of talk about greenland, for example. now, and i know a lot -- there is a lot of freakouts and, of course, i would never support

taking it by force, but i do think it's -- i do think it's a responsible conversation if they were open to acquiring it. you know, whether just buying it outright. >> laura: chris, what is the beef with this from the left and also from the old, you know, republican guard? >> you know, you heard a lot during trump's last administration that this is not normal howls and she cans from f anybody that didn't have history soundbites paying attention. if was shocking to see reporters ohio personally knew did not know what nato stood for explain the strategic importance of nato and how men is spent and how negotiations ought to go. i knew they had just wikipediaed it that day these are the same people explaining it now. i think that ben is right. trump's foreign policy is don't come in my yard. don't even throw your ball in my yard. and china likes to push and

push. and we have seen it since the first few moments of the biden administration when the chinese ambassadors were so rude to blinken's face right to his face that the respect is simply not there you see it in the philippines, in the so south cha sea. you see it with australia and neighbors. see it in panama and greenland. the united states' sovereignty and the western hemisphere our dominance in the western hemisphere must be respected even if if people who are wick wikipediaing it for the first time don't understand that. >> laura: the other point about this, ben, when trump expects our allies to treat us as allies, that's somehow met with howls of indignation. jim himes from connecticut, congressman, spoke about this today. watch. >> president-elect trump is talking about taking greenland, renaming the gulf of mexico, getting european countries to pay 5% of their g.d.p. for nato.

like where does this come from? just complete madness from a national security standpoint. also is antagonize. >> laura: antagonistic toward our allies? really. rye dickless what we are talking about is expecting live up. it's in america's interest to have these alliances. we also expect them to live up to their promises and obligations. that's true whether it's in the western hemisphere or elsewhere around the world. the idea we would asking them to keep their promise and demanding if they don't there is going to be consequences promising that is something that is absurd. of course, this is the way alliances ought to work. we want to get back to a point where they do work. donald trump is sending the message he has certain exceptions of these countries here in the western hemisphere and around the world. if they break those exceptions and don't live up to them there

is going to be consequence. >> laura: chris, who is angrier today trump who i didn't find him angry at all or the press having to cover him at mar-a-lago for that press conference? who is really angry? >> the press are among the angriest, most bitter group of mimosa sipping people i have ever met 'in my entire life. truly you cannot hate them enough. >> laura: i think minimum mow is as have been replaced by expresso martinis,. >> apple teenies. >> laura: that's right. this is a fox news alert. thousands forced to evacuate as wildfires rage across southern california, fox news correspondent matt finn is live in the pacific palisades with all the details. matt, this is horrific. >> laura, this is a disastrous fire. really shaping up to be potentially catastrophic. let me show you a couple things happening right now behind us. we could see some flames right over this hill threatening this mobile home park here along the

pacific coast highway. just a short while ago we saw some red hot flames. right now being masked with thick black smoke. what is so concerning all the fires making its way across the soil and now inching closer to the pacific coast highway and the ocean right behind me now you can see some embers caught these palm trees and that structure on fire. and this has been happening all day. we have very, very strong winds that are carrying these embers and these flames all across the palisades area. threatening malibu, santa monica and beyond. 30,000 people under mandatory evacuation orders right now. drivers abandoned at least 30 cars on sun set boulevard to escape the flames. but eyewitnesses say there may be even more cars abandoned. now, there is a red flag warning in effect right now. and people in southern california were notified that today's weather was going to be near perfect conditions for what we are seeing. fires all over the place. we are experiencing one of the strongest wind events in a

decade. as you stand out here it feels like in a tropical storm or maybe a low grade hurricane. the winds are whipping at your face, carrying smoke into your face and embers and right now we are looking at more and more homes just burst into flames. a thick black smoke crossing over the pacific coast highway into the ocean, it's hard to really wrap your mind around the disaster that's unfolding here right now. and sadly, we're being told that the weather is going to intensify into the evening, laura? >> matt, the people of california have been through so much in recent years with these fires. i remember seeing the malibu fires years ago. a friend of mine lost her home there this is just a heart break. please stay safe, matt, and we will check back with you as needed. thank you. coming up the biden nightmare. yeah, it's almost over. not without his last act ofur sabotage b. ♪ eddie. no! fraser. frank.

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♪ ♪ on his way out the door, if he can find the door, biden or the puppet masters pulling his strings are working overtime to undermine trump and his maga mandate. and you bet trump called this out today. >> you know, they told me that we're going to do everything possible to make this transition

to the new administration very smooth. it's not smooth because they're doing that. they are playing with the courts. >> laura: and, of course, biden's petty pointless moves to limit trump on the energy question. >> they took away 625 million acres of offshore drilling. nobody else does that. and they think they have it but we'll put it back. i'm going to put it back on day one. i'm going to have it revoked on day one. >> laura: and biden's vindictiveness is not just aimed at trump. it's aimed at you, the american people. >> 60% of homes and armtsd have gas heaters. he's them all removed quickly. these people are crazy. there is something wrong with them. >> laura: who in his right mind by the way wouldment to limit people's ability to use the energy they want to use? it's crazy. who in his right mind would not want to stop the killing fields in ukraine?

i will tell you. who the war who gave war fanatic liz cheney the presidential medal of freedom. no one has done more to abuse the american system and destroy public safety than george soros. and, of course, biden rewarded him, too. and when biden is not handing out awards to radicals. he is dolling out pardons to his son and, of course, to terrorists. the other day biden released 11 yemeni radicals with al-qaeda tties from gitmo. and now the white house says biden's considering even more pardons. so when biden said he was going to restore the soul of the country, remember that? who knew it would come at the expense of the body and public safety? joining me now is missouri senator josh hawley. senator, liz cheney and george soros, that kind of dozen sum it up, does it not? and that's just the ultimate and pettiness on the parts of this

administration. >> and that's really what they're left with laura, at the end of the day, pettiness. this is the last gasp of the dying liberalism. this is their pennants their poster children. liz cheney that's who they want to go out the door with. george soros financier. biden has been trying to sabotage the country for the last four years, opening our borders, shutting down oil and natural gas. taking away gas stoves so, of course, he is doing this on the way out. the good news is that help is on the way. laura, the other thing this speaks to is congress needs to get busy get active right now and start passing legislation to overturn all of this. we need to open up our energy production and shut down our border. we need to get this country strong again. congress can do it and it's time to get after it. >> well, right now, we have a situation where donald trump is going to be n about a week. they know he is going to just rescind a lot of these executive orders. some of them have been overturned by the courts like

the forgiveness of student loans, and, yet, biden still finds money to, you know, to try to allocate to do it. and at the same time, biden is sending billions to ukraine when trump has made it clear that war is going to end, period. it's going to end. so, why continue to send the billions out the door now? >> well, i think that this is his attempt to try and cement his policies, of course, trump can't do anything about it. it's not going to work, laura. it just isn't going to work. what a failure. what we're really seeing here is a parade of failures. liz cheney, the january 6th committee. what a bunch of failures and frauds who lied to this country. the ukraine policy. it's in total shambles. biden has given us nothing but war. everywhere we look he has given us danger on our streets. he has given us open borders. so, of course, the american people voted to overturn all this stuff. of course the american people hate all this. that's why trump got elected and start overturning all of this in over a week as you say.

that's why congress needs to get active right now. let's start doing it. republicans have control of congress. the congress is in session both houses. let's get after it. it's time to give the american people some relief and get this country moving again. >> laura: senator, i know donald trump made the point today that ashley babbitt was the only person who was killed on januar. she was shot dead. and then he made the point that there were no guns in the capitol on january 6th during that riot. but then daniel dale, the fact-checker on cnn, decides to do this. watch. >> this not one gun thing, danna, has been debunked for three and a half years if not more. it's an out and out lie. we will never get a complete inventory of guns brought by the capitol that day most of them were permitted to leave before later being arrested. there have been numerous cases in which people carried guns on capitol grounds and were convicted for it. >> laura: isn't it the case that they understand what trump was

saying there that this was not an effort to carry out an insurrection at the capitol. there were people who shouldn't have done what they did but, in general, this -- this was not the way it was portrayed by the media or by the democrats. and, again, they continue. they won't let it go like they have learned nothing. >> and the whole country knows that, laura. the whole country has looked at this. they know the fax. they know the democrats tried to turn this into their issue that they thought they could win on forever by frankly lying to the country what happened that day. by prosecuting people who were there peacefully, laura, who did nothing wrong. i mean, really, it's an outrage what they have tried to do. the country knows it which is why when they said all this about trump and tried to kick him off the ballot and called him an insurrectionist the courts threw that out and said yeah we don't agree with that they just reelected the guy. they rendered their judgment on this. i think the country is tired of the democrats' playbook. they are tired of the lies.

they are tired of the division and the democrats making this country weak. and that's why they voted for trump. that's why he is going to start overturning and undoing their policies in just under over a week. >> laura: to trump's point nobody was charged with insurrection. he wasn't charged with it. all of this -- again, they are the angriest people out there. even that little fact-checker he seems very perturbed all the time. senator, thank you so much. all right, next up. trump-style populism going global. and our neighbor to the north, canada, we may want to take a look at someone rising there. don't go away. ♪

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200 billion plus a year? our military is at their disposal. all of these other things they should be a state that's what i told trudeau. i said what would happen if we didn't do it? he said canada would dissolve. >> laura: pretty boy justin trudeau announced is he resigning and not a moment too soon. his policies have laid waste to canada's economy. but this also means he is not going to take up trump's offers to become governor. writing on x there isn't a snowball chance in hell canada would become part of the united states. not clear how much trump is trolling trudeau on their it. does help prove one thing. populism is alive and well and trump helped that -- helped make that happen in america and across the globe. >> it's exactly how canada is going to fix the mess trudeau got them in. meet pierre poll lava.

canada's and could become the country's next prime minister. is he pretty funny. he is pretty brash and helping to usher in a new style of unapologetic canadian politics. >> a lot of people would say you are taking a page out of the donald trump. >> which people would say that? >> well, i'm sure a great many canadians. but. >> like who? >> ha ha i don't know who. >> why should canadians trust you with their vote? >> common sense. common since for a change. sheelg la, is canada ready for somebody like poilievre. eating an apple. entertaining dumb questions and ripping him apart bit by bit. >> yeah, canadians are more than

ready. we have been ready for a long time. unfortunately trudeau won't give us the opportunity to send trudeau the message. he so rightly deserves by unelecting him. he has resigned and let somebody else take the fall. but, pending some sort of absolute catastrophe, i have no idea what could possibly derail the conservative movement in canada right now. conservative voters, canadians, by and large, are going to send an extinction level event tile meteor right into the liberal party at the earliest election call. and i can't wait for it. it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch, these liberals. >> laura: now, is there anyone in trudeau's party who can rise to the forehere? i talked to my canadian friends today and they said there is really no one. because they all essentially rubber stamped what he was doing as time went on and so they all are culpable here. >> well, that's the thing.

i don't know how the liberal party gets around the problem they have with all being tainted by being yes men for justin trudeau and his bad policies for the last nine-plus years. even if they look to the outside of the party. we have got names like mark carney being floated. now he is supposedly a liberal outsider; however, he has been a key adviser to justin trudeau in several different roles since 2020. even their outsiders are insiders, and even, you know, their cabinet ministers have been so deeply involved in all of the liberal scandals that they just don't have anybody to offer up right now. >> laura: poilievre has a different approach. i want to play one more sound bite because americans have to start paying attention to this guy. >> everything is under control now the government is out of control. this ask not go on.

we'll cap spending. ax taxes, reward work, build homes, uphold family, stop crime, secure borders, rearm our forces, restore our freedom and put canada first. >> well, sounds a lot like donald trump, sheila, what's the chances one in 10 that he is the next prime minister? >> 11 if i had to guess. his chances like i said pending some sort of catastrophe. that we don't know about he is opposite sit. >> pretty boy trudeau the poster boy and trump was on his way out. funny how life ends up. sheila, thank you. mark zuckerberg changing his tune on free speech, but should we believe him? that's next. narrator: for generations, this ally to the north ♪ ontario for energy

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♪ >> laura: well, just what a week or two ago meta ceo zuckerberg was at mar-a-lago meeting with trump. trump seems to get results, because zuckerberg made a major announcement this morning. >> it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on facebook and instagram. governments and legacy media have pushed to censors more and more. a lot of this is clearly

political. we're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to x, starting in the u.s. >> laura: meta, meta, call the thing off now. we are cautiously optimistic. we have to remember. this zuckerberg is still the guy who bent the knee to the biden administration for years to silence conservatives. he admitted in august that the white house pressured facebook to censors covid content during the pandemic. and we also know that facebook execs suppressed the hunter biden laptop story to win favor with biden and harris. so, why the sudden change of heart? >> what started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas and it's gone too far so i want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms. >> laura: that's the way it should have always been. they also demonetized political

sites on facebook and yours truly has experienced that as have many others. both conservatives and liberals by the way. why did that happen? that shouldn't continue. joining me now michael shellenberger the university of austin cbr censorship and free speech. also the founder of public news. michael, again, we want to give people their due if they see the light. they are going to be cautiously optimistic here. but would zuckerberg have made this announcement if kamala had a been a strong candidate in the fall and had gone on to win? >> hey, laura, it's a great question. it's hard to know. i mean it, seems that they were trending in this direction. but you are absolutely right. i mean, after the 2016 election, when zuckerberg was being beat up, supposedly around allowing this information that elected trump. he then went on to censor true stories about vaccine side effects. he censored information about covid potentially coming from a

chinese lab which now most people believe it did come from. the hunter biden laptop as you mentioned, but also accurate information about climate change, about the reality of biological sex. so, yeah, i mean, i think there is reason to be skeptic here. the best news though it appears they are going to defund those fact-checking organizations which are really censorship organizations and he said move the other content moderation from california to texas. california content censors are just too biased. >> laura: well, again, we don't want to be so pessimistic that when someone does something good we are like oh that's never -- look, he made a good announcement today. there is no doubt about it. again, if he moves forward and ends that demon at thissization of political pages on facebook. that will even show more of a nod to freedom. dana white being put on the board of meta as well how significant is that?

>> that's a great sign. zuckerberg has been doing a rebrand over the last several years. you see that sort of style. he t-shirts. more masculine vibe. the free speech is part of that rebrand. him getting rebranded american way. did not want committees of experts fact-checking us and deciding what key can and cannot say. credit to elon musk. you saw and credit to zuckerberg for acknowledging that the fact-checking method they are going to use they are going to take directly from elon musk's x kind of a crowd source form of fact-checking. i think all those things to the good. obviously we have to hold them to account but this is the beginning of the end of a pretty dark period of censorship and totalitarian nism in american life. >> laura: great defenders of democracy, the covid chapter was one of the darkest in american reporting and in the scientific

community, the censorship we will never forget that. michael, you were a leader there thank you so much. and ahead, there is a new wolf on wall street. her name is nancy. ♪

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who says she doesn't get results? >> pop the champagne because trenton officially did it her portfolio finished up 54% 2024. literally did better than the majority of hedge fund manager is a video up 177% on the zone of 46% and brunk on sheba back in june 2024. since then the chart speaks for itself. >> so i guess its move over warren buffett the financial world has a new guru. that investment firm autopilot a charge politician stock trades shows policy more than doubled the deterrence and be the nasdaq

25%. gets better the former speaker's portfolio also top that of the several major head tons. what's the secret? >> -- hedge funds. >> no this is a free market and we are free market economy this should be able to participate in that. >> over the course of your career has has been ever made a sale based on -- >> no. >> okay. >> i love how she pushes the microphone away. 20 me now lydia moynahan financial corps spun in at "new york post". lydia she basically says even win she was speaker her husband paul made all the stock trades. are you buying that? >> yeah, it's a free market and no heel of the free market and i love the v market but this isn't about the free market this is

about her profiting off of companies she has oversight of. it strains prettily due to thank a couple isn't going to talk about their shared finances and the issue is that she is actively regulating the things that she is doing in congress are going to have a direct impact on the stocks whether they go up and down at the same termer her husband's betting on whether the stocks we'll go up or down. i've got to say even for washington, d.c., this is pretty egregious in the executive branch you do have to disclose or a devasting any asset you have that shows a comfort of interest. here, not so much. >> let's say her husband overheard her having a heated argument with somebody on the phone about some law that was likely to pass or a move they're going to make against a certain industry. i mean she didn't tell him, you know what i'm saying it opens up so many terrible things. he made some controversial moves her husband. remember when he sold that 33,000 shares of google a month

prior to the doj against a tech giant it also sold all of the stock commentator said in the clip of nvidia. as congress was set to pass the chips plus bill again this is why this shouldn't hamper ever how does she get so wish -- which that's the banner here. in answer to that. >> yeah, laura i mean is a great question and the amount of money she has made is staggering. win trajan made last year $4 million that's 20 times her annual salary. >> at work if you can get it but why does this continue? thank you so much that's it for us tonight. make sure to follow me on social media. lots of snow hijinks in the interim household it's america now forever and jesse watters takes it all from here see you tomorrow night. welcome to jesse watters primetime. tonight.