cathedral. first of its kind event illuminates the city's jackson square on each day leading up to the super bowl showing celebrating the big game as well as the unique spirit of new orleans. going to be something. also sunday watch my exclusive sitdown interview with president trump on fox on the pregame coverage of the super bowl. tomorrow on "special report" g.o.p. senators head to mar-a-lago to meet with president trump ahead of a national senatorial committee retreat. remember if you can't catch us live set your dvr 3:00 p.m. in the west and 6:00 p.m. on the east. at bret baier put a lot of stuff about the super bowl on this ahead of saturday and sunday. that's it for this "special report," fir, balanced and still unafraid, "the ingraham angle" is now. >> laura: good evening, everyone, i'm laura ingraham this "the ingraham angle."

thank you for joining us tonight. our control alt athlete moment. that's the focus of tonight's angle. ♪ past two weeks strength restored spirit revived and a new national momentum sweeping across our land. the golden age of america has officially begun. our economy is roaring back to life. optimism is soaring. hope is returning. and we have brought back the words common sense to our government. >> laura: he and his cabinet are moving so rapidly on so many levels that democrats are feverishly trying to keep up. >> when he they're not filing lawsuits, we will get that in a moment in liberal jurisdictions, they are scrambling to get their messaging in order. >> this is a national emergency. in the aftermath of the election, many democrats needed time to soul-search, to grieve,

to think, but that time has ended that time ended when elon musk took control of our country's financial nuclear codes. >> do they actually pay people to write those lines? the nuclear financial codes? is he kidding me? debt not emergency doge identifying scams that is a emergency? okay. only now though are americans beginning to really understand how deep the corruption runs in washington courtesy of doge and allies on the hill we are seeing what a s. tantamount to ongoing brazen theft from the u.s. taxpayers. no wonder the co-conspirator are all in a froth what we are seeing unfold is unlawful power grab by an unelected and unaccountable billionaire puppet

master. >> look at what musk is announcing every single day that he is doing. elon musk take your hands off the people's money. >> laura: take your hands off the people's money. that's funny. well, the people elected donald trump to clean up this mess and that's exactly what he's doing. in response, democrats only have hyperbole and, of course, their fallback. >> elon musk to have access to their personal data. there is nothing about co-president musk that is about saving the american pe people money. >> laura: of course, that's false. he is saving us money. and he is not coming through irs files, accessing people's personal data. that's what democrats do. like during the obama administration when they nosed into conservatives files over at the irs. do the democrats big file musk

do you think? doesn't look like it. he knows that the numbers don't lie. a comprehensive audit of federal spending, we have needed it forever, and it shows that billions upon billions of dollars are being blown on moronic projects supported by globalists and, of course, the hard left. money flows to their ideological bed fellows for things such as 361,000 to queer trans pansexual nonbinary and two spirit people on how to farm. 1.5 million to advance dei in serbian businesses, oh goody, 2 million for sex changes and lt. activism in guatemala. 2.5 million for evs for vietnam. and 3 million on girl centered climate action. huh? and, what if you are feeling kind of stressed out and you are an employee over at usaid? for the ahmadest price tag of

31.5 million, they hired a consultant to assist you with counseling organizational resilience, wellness, and work life. is work life balance now abbreviated to just work-life? i guess so. this is all obscene. we know it. drop in the bucket for what we already knew happened in fiscal year 2023 when biden and company blew through 236 billion with a b in improper payments within 17 federal programs. 71 even worse in 2022. 247 billion in improper payments. now, try to wrap your head around this. since fiscal year 2003, again, this spans republican and democrat administrations, cumulative federal improper payment estimates total about $2.7 trillion. now, this means people got the

money and grant recipients didn't qualify for the money that they still received. and that the payments were sent in some cases totally in error. so, 2.7 trillion over about 20 years. cannot make that up. but as infuriating as it is, that we're funding all of the nonsense and wasting trillions of dollars, it's far more disturbing that you and i are actually subsidizing woke propaganda that's packaged as news. 3.2 million for the bbc media action group. they got 8 percent of their entire income from the american taxpayers. and, of course, we know they all despise trump. but, wait a second. trump is attacking journalism. that's what the left is saying here. expect sob stories to start pouring in. but, are democrats really going to defend our funding

$268 million worth of grants to news outlets across the globe? i mean, in a mystery novel, that all would end up being some type of c.i. a front group because it sure sounds like it. taxpayers do have a right to know where is this money going and why? apparently we are funding zelenskyy's propaganda effort in ukraine as well. how are we supposed to believe that this qualifies as a free press when it ends up in ukraine? because right now right now not far to the u.s. taxpayers. democrats finding all of this out, being publicized to the american people and really beginning to take it in slowly but surely their playpen is being emptied out. their toys are disappearing one

by one. >> for us, this is great. it's money saved. it's woke programs xed out. employees who are not needed have to move on. radicals on their heels. christmas morning. that's the angle. joining us now this just in before we get to that from reuters. the trump administration plans to keep fewer than it looks like 294 u.s. aid staff out of over 10,000 staffers in the agency globally joining me now missouri senator eric schmitt, senator, i guess it's about 294 staffers out of about 10 to 14,000. we have lost count at this point. that's from, i guess, marco rubio's office tonight. that is -- that's got to be the biggest mass firing that we have

ever heard of. >> it's incredible. i think this is just the tip of the iceberg. we are just talking about uaaid right now. wait until they get to the other agencies bloated and accountable. permanent washington's worst nightmare. which is why you see this hair on fire moment right now. because they have been able to hide behind this, you know, sort of secrecy for far too long. you mentioned some of these programs. they know if the american taxpayer knew what this money was being spent on they would object. you would have a new tea party moment in this country and all coming to light which is a good thing. we want this fight. laura, i have a partial list. i want to read a couple more things. you mentioned the girls senate climate action in girls. 45 million for dei scholarships in burrma. 1.5 million for dei in serbia. 47,000 for trans opera in columbia. 32,000 for trans comic book in peru. $2 million for sex changes in guatemala. that is just the beginning of this stuff.

so, i think, you know, this is -- really important field i think for us to fight on. the democrats are essentially the guardians of permanent washington right now. and we should welcome this fight. >> laura: well, apparently reuters was the one that confirmed that plan of the trump administration to essentially delete the department and bring it down to, you know, still 300 people. i mean, anytime the sure why you need 300 people. but still 300 people out of 10,000. that's quite a cut. senator, not everybody is happy about this. bill gates weighed in on the value of usaid. >> usaid plays a super important role in dispensing our aid budget which is less than 1% of the government budget. it's work that saves millions of lives and, you know, helps strengthen relationships for the united states. if you go around. >> laura: so will we not have any relationships with other

countries now because we don't do the slush fund for dei and i mean there are some water projects, probably, that are worth funding for people who need help in that regard. but there's a lot of other waste. >> i think we have to look at this and secretary rubio talked about this, too. and president trump has talked about it at large. we should only be doing things that are in the core national interest of the united states of america. that's it. and i think what relates to foreign policy or intervention nism or foreign aid. we need to have a real reset here. when have you money going which is also sort of being reported at this hour going to george soros, you know, sort of nonprofits that who knows where that goes and it could be coming back here to the united states to undermine our justice system, this is ridiculous. people have had enough of this. this is what we mean who we say the election in 2024 was about the disrupters versus the establishment. you are seeing it play out right now in real time. there needs to be real reform within these agencies and we can

save hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars doing the right thing. >> we can be wearing the white hats here as republicans. we should welcome this fight. the democrats are defending the status quo, which is totally broken. >> laura: well, nancy mace was exposing brilliantly the millions spent on creating transgender animal experiments. $10 million. i mean, it seems like a joke. it can't be really true but, i guess it is true. >> well, and what's really interesting is you hear democrats basically when you challenge them on this they say that's not that much money. that's a drop of the money in budget. tell that to the truck driver working tail off. tell that to the waitress working another shift. tell that to a family saves up for vacation to come to the nation's capitol to show our kids what this is all about. insulting to taxpayers. like i said, this is just the beginning. this is one agency right now.

and i think that's going to be the benefit of doge, which is to dig in to all this stuff. lawrence. >> laura: no, this is just -- it it is like every day is christmas morning. it's just you can't -- you can't get over how much good stuff we're learning. good stuff about the bad stuff. but it's good -- knowledge is a good thing for the american public here. senator, wonderful to see you. thank you so much. all right. the party, of course, forced lockdowns on us and vax mandates that canceled student loans and then targeted christians for political persecution is now supposedly worried about, what? oh, a constitutional crisis. >> i want to cut through the b.s. because i am from detroit and we like to speak truth to power and be very honest. you know, the american people feel very much we're in a constitutional crisis. they are very much living in fear right now. >> there is a tipping point at which you can't get your democracy back. and i see all of these very

purposeful lines of effort that the trump administration and elon musk are taking and i think we just have to be right now at this moment on, you know, red alert mode. >> laura: joining me now jonathan turley, george washington university law prof and fox news contributor. jonathan, a constitutional crisis because, as a special government employee, elon musk and two young computer whizs are actually finally doing what the government should have done a long time ago, which is a real audit of what they do with our money. it is an amazing reaction. you have people all over the beltway breathing in paper bags right now. the idea that you could bring in these people and they are going to sort of think outside the box. that's what musk is known for. he is known for someone who rejects path dependence.

did he that at twitter. he said he couldn't fire all those people at twitter. did he that and twitter became more efficient and the operations continued unimpeded. and that was against all the predictions that twitter would literally shut down because it needed every one of those or most of those employees. so, musk is coming in here and, yeah, the terror alert in washington is quite astonishing. but this idea that this is a danger to democracy is rather odd. he -- you have a president who just ran on a pledge to shrink the government. to look for waste. he brought in someone from the outside for a reason. because past pledges by presidents have gone nowhere. in terms of changing the way washington functions. so, he brought in this guy who operates with a different approach. and, look, the truth is they want people to leave some of these positions. and as i said before the fact is

if you throw a badger into a crowded car people are going to get out. musk is that badger. he threw them in that car and they are trying to change the way government is composed and is running. but, the other thing by the way that you were correct on is a lot of what has happened in these court cases is speculative. musk does not appear to have access to information. there is people that have read only access according to the treasury department. also, they were delivery in a number of respects. they took a department, an office that, was created by obama in 2014, they have re-purposed it. and they moved it under the executive office. they are not going to get rid of usaid but apparently they are going to cut it to the bone. all of that is going to make it more difficult to challenge. so i think what you are going to see coming out of this is there is going to have to be guarantees to protect things like privacy and other things. and those are important to do. but, i find it rather hard to

believe that a court is going to micromanage how a president is going to be fulfilling this pledge. he has a right to information, to make these decisions. >> well, jonathan, in a lot of these cases that are being filed, whether it's about this deferred resignation, the deadline was supposed to be tonight, that had you to tell them whether you wanted to take basically the buyout. the federal judge pushed that off until monday. and so, jonathan, the question here is can we continue to expect democrats to forum shop in places like the first circuit up in boston or rhode island where there is no republicans on the appellate court there when this thing goes up to be appealed all these cases? will this continue for these, they hope, nationwide injunctions to be issued against doge? >> i think it will continue. the fact is that the president has had a rough going with a lot of judges who were not

particularly sympathetic when he was a candidate. but, ultimately, these cases have to go before the supreme court. we have a system of appeal. what's difference about this term as opposed to one that you and i helped cover the first time trump was elected is that trump is wasting no time. i mean, this is -- i mean, i got to tell you the entire city is on edge. just the pace of these changes, the flurry of executive orders, has everyone reeling. and there is a reason for that he knows that the final two years of a second term presidency, everything slows down. you lose a lot of momentum. he wants -- if there is going to be challenges. is he going to invite them. is he going to go into court and they are going to knock them down and they are going to get on with this. >> laura: yeah. well, i hope it doesn't take months or years, because that's what the democrats are planning to do, drag it out as long as they can. but, jonathan, we will cover all that with you. thank you so much, as always. all right, chicago leaders,

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walls but no gang members, the entire complex was virtually empty. a stop at another apartment complex netted no arrests. >> seems like they were tipped off. they knew this was coming. >> yeah. i do get the impression there was some intel leaks here and i think that probably they did know we were coming. but we are still coming. it's not going to stop us. >> laura: well, as a result, only 30 of these illegal gang members were arrested. only one of which was confirmed -- actually confirmed as a tren de aragua gang member. it appears that some of the open borders activists were actually there on the scene. they're not going to thank ice agents for making the city safer, so they did this. [shouting] [bleep] [bleep] wrong with you? get out of our community. >> get the [bleep] out of my neighborhood. [shouting] >> get out! get out! you're not welcome here. get out!

>> laura: but this isn't stopping, i don't think, ice's resolve. border czar tom homan has no problem arresting people who get in the way if that what it comes to. >> they are shouting and helping these people get away with bull horns how is that legal. >> you are exactly right. they may find themselves in a pair of handcuffs very soon. we are not going to tolerate anymore. this is not a game. when we show up at these sites this is a dangerous job for men and women of ice and border patrol and all the doj agencies to have this type of interference puts our officers at great risk. not only the officers, it puts the aliens at great risk. anything can happen when we take our eyes off the goal here. >> laura: this is the only example of left wing interference in ice raids. the fcc is looking into a local san francisco radio station that happens to be backed by, guess who? george soros. for revealing live locations of undercover ice vehicles and agents that were conducting deportation operations in the

area. now, it's disturbing to see that, of course, these radical groups make every effort possible to stop the courageous work of our immigration officers. that is actually keeping communities safe. but it's also very encouraging that this administration will not put up with it. >> laura: chicago residents desperate for help in removing illegals from their communities. but, their leaders, like j.b. pritzker and mayor brandon johnson decided they know what's best. >> when we are talking about undocumented people, we need to give them an opportunity to stay in this country legally. >> we welcome all individuals and families who want to work, live, and thrive here in our beloved city. what is clear from this administration is that they do not have the full pulse or the breath of what people in america are calling for. >> laura: perhaps mayor johnson should listen to his own

constituents or at least chicago aldermen. >> we had the ability to work with ice, they wouldn't be here. >> the mayor listening to the constituents he cares most about hyper liberal white progressives in the city of chicago. >> he believes that he is such a strong advocate for human rights no matter what you are here and you are not a citizen and you are committing heinous crimes, he wants to protect you. >> laura: thankfully, chicagoans have an ally in the white house. the doj is suing the city and the state over sanctuary laws and interference with ice. joining me now is a resident of chicago, shah sean it unsell. vashon we know what your elected officials want to keep chicago above all else, apparently, a sanctuary for illegal aliens, but what are you seeing within your community about what the residents who deal with this

influx are saying? >> they absolutely cannot stand the illegal immigrants. they are bringing drugs. they're bringing crime and all sorts of heinous acts and people are just sick of it. and they love people like tom homan because they are cleaning up the city. and let me just remind the people that brandon johnson has sworn an oath to the people of chicago that he must protect us. j.b. pritzker sworn an oath to the people of illinois that he will protect us. they failed to do that because they're continuously telling us they will protect the illegal immigrants here, knowing that they're bringing all of the drugs and crime here in our city, absolutely ridiculous. we know that they are doing this because tom homan was just here and he just, you know, he just took away someone that was here since 2009. and if i'm not mistaken, that's during the obama administration. and he basically had a rap sheet of doing horrendous toockets children. and my question is why is this guy leaving now in 2025?

>> laura: seems to me it's time for president trump to make a trip to chicago. i really want him to be seen in blue cities and deliver a message personally to the people there. that i'm here for you. we love america's cities we want to help rebuild them. frankly focusing on america first, that's what he is all about i think he would be he can withed if he actually did that left would kick up a fuss. he would find some allies in the south side and englewood. i think he would find a lot of support numbers spoke for themselves. we actually wanted trump to come here. we loved him when he was here at the nebj. i don't want these blue libs here to act like trump isn't welcome here. we would love trump to come here

in chicago, illinois. and i just want to say also also excited about pam bondi being confirmed as attorney general. the man who had the orange jumpsuit at city hall is looking like is he doing a little foreshadowing looking like brandon johnson is going to be behind bars pretty soon. >> she ordered that pause of federal funds to sanctuary cities of course that is being played out in court. vashon, thank you so much. wonderful to see you as always. coming up, horrific consequences of the left's gender obsession, next. ♪

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protections against physical and psychologic harm. >> laura: well, richard cox, a 58-year-old registered sex offender claims to be transgender and he's accused of spying on women and exposing himself for months in a virginia high school locker room. >> he was coming out of the women's locker room when i was going in to the women's locker room and i remember looking at him and saying why there is a guy coming out of the women's locker room. >> this person is clearly a man, abusing the rules. and refused to use the family locker room. in our locker room naked and watched us getting dress and undressed. >> laura: how could something like this actually happen? well, in arlington public schools, they call it the people's republic of arlington, virginia for a reason. can you use any bathroom or locker room you want. it's just based off what you feel on that day your gender identity. and one of these locker rooms is shared with an aquatic center

used by the public. some of whom think a man exposing himself to women and children is just perfectly normal. >> the jeopardy identity of the person who entered the pool locker room is completely irrelevant to this conversation. sadly sexual predators exist and it will probably happen again. there is not many things we can't do to stop it. in fact, you won't know if a transgender individual is in the locker room with you. >> laura: joining me now is ian prior, america first legal senior adviser and former deputy director of public affairs at doj. ian, now, we have been warning about this for years. we knew things like this were happening, could happen. what needs to happen now. >> well, what needs to happen is that these school districts in northern virginia and it's not just arlington. surely they are one of them. arlington county, fairfax county, alexandria, loudoun, prince william, they all have same policies. they are all school systems that take federal money and they allow boys to use girls rooms

and locker rooms. which means they are running afoul of title ix. and president trump has made clear there are two sexes in the united states of america. male and female. which means if you have a policy that says a female has to subject herself to a male invading her private space, the female has to go find alternate arrangements that is sex discrimination. that is clear and the president has made that clear. so these schools better shape up or they are going to lose their fall money. >> laura: now, the arlington school board had an idea how to stop the sexual predators. watch. >> prompt action was taken. based on the community members' feedback we installed signage that reminds all pool patrons to be considered other's privacy, cover intimate body areas when using shared spaces. close shower curtains and follow all locker room etiquette guidance. >> laura: is she kidding me?

so, a man in a girl's locker room should just make sure the curtain is pulled. okay. >> look, the fantasy is over. there are not 72 genders. we can stop with that fantasy. we can stop with that fairy tale. they need to actually follow the law. and that's why at america first legal we sent actually a letter on monday to the department of education and we cited this specific issue and said we need an investigation in these five thorn virginia school districts. we have been dealing with this now in virginia for, you know, three years, four years. in fairfax county really since 2015. the game is over. there's a new sheriff in town, and he has made it very clear that he is going to protect women's spaces. and they better get on board. >> laura: well, the doj and civil rights office, the doj, everybody get involved fast, because this is not going away any time soon. ian, thank you. coming up a teacher says she was suspended for having a cruise fix in her classroom? she is here to tell her story,

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>> laura: but thankfully, we have a president who believes our nation has a divine desat desdestiny. >> from the very beginning of our public america has been a nation of people founded by faith and strengthened by the power of prayer and united by four simple but very beautiful words: in god we trust. >> signed executive order to create task force to eradicate anti-christian bias mission of this task force would be to immediately halt all forms of anti-christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government. in addition the task force will work to fully prosecute anti-christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of christians and religious believers nationwide. >> laura: he is talking about defending people like mayor sell arule castro a connecticut teacher who says she was

suspended for displaying a crucifix next to her desk. she joins me now next to her attorney keisha russell. i know you have this crucifix displayed for many years. why has it become a problem? it's a problem because they want me to take it down. they want jesus out of the school. i drove by the school and i said god bless that school because they kicked me out with me and my cross in the box, so it felt like they didn't want me or jesus in that school i'm so saddened by that. >> laura: consolidated school district, the superintendent told the angle when students report to us that their teacher is calling them sinners, we investigate fully, and apparently they claim that the students reported that their teacher is saying they need

jesus we investigate fully and say jewish and muslim students were told they need jesus by you and that they were falsely worshiping a false god. it wouldn't be tolerated kisha, your response on behalf of your client there. did any of that happen? >> no. i don't know why the district feels like they need to smear marisol right now because the reason why they have put her on paid administrative leave and they did start by putting her on unpaid leave in december, december. right before christmas. they altered that decision, thankfully, but she is on paid administrative leave now and the reason why they threatened to terminate her is over that crucifix. it's because she said she would not take that crucifix down and she wouldn't put it under her desk and she wouldn't put it in her drawer which are all the options that they gave her. what they're doing now is really just continuing to bully marisol because she standing up for herself and they don't like it. >> this seems like religious

liberty issue and so i don't understand that i mean i know for many public schools it's become commonplace for teachers, marisol, to put up, you know, transgender flags. other flags, foreign nations, and depending on whether you are studying history. all together appropriate people have made their identities known, their viewpoints known through lots of different types of symbolism. so, their argument, their late in the game argument is that, you know, i guess you are preaching to the students. that's clearly what they are trying to get at. they see you and your presence as a threat, which frankly, again, in this world that doesn't surprise me one bit. but i don't think it's constitutional. >> absolutely is not

constitutional. >> laura: marisol, the way you feel right now, tonight, given what's happened to you? >> well, i feel like i'm being looked like i'm a bad person, if, first of all, i would never call anybody a sinner. because we're all sinners. why why point that out to anybody. >> laura: it's an allegation. and you don't look like the kind of person who would have done that marisol, kisha, thank you so much. we will continue to stay on thi story. alina habba comingugh up. ♪ all day or night. delsym, cough crisis averted. so sick. are you okay? i'm incredible! so many in-network docs on zocdoc. this one never rushes appointments.

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>> 4547, you got this. >> laura: and trump at madison square garden. and now there is a defining moment from the first few weeks of this trump presidency. [applause] [cheering and applause] >> laura: that is my favorite image. i love seeing trump with young people, especially with kids, he loves kids and you can see it on his face there, so happy. especially after liberals like mark cuban tried so hard to paint trump as somehow hostile to women and everyone including j.k. rowling, they noticed what happened at the white house yesterday. and they wondered why a republican president had to step up and save women's sports. joining us now, one of the many women working as top staff in the trump white house. counselor to president trump. elina, right to see you tonight. i thought president trump was threatened by strong women?

there seem to be a lot of strong women in the white house yesterday. and girls. >> exactly. we love our strong women and so does president trump. and more importantly he is protecting our little girls and that's what he did when he did what he did yesterday. and you saw those children's faces, it was great. they don't need to have men in the bathroom, they don't need to be worried about getting hit in the face by a guy who was twice there size and 17 times their strength. it was ridiculous. and for once -- not only for once, always he stands by his women and girls. and all fairness in sports. and he put an end, as he promised, promises made, promises kept in the campaign. >> laura: and the ncaa had to make their announcement that common sense actually had to prevail now. that biological men and boys cannot compete against girls and women. obviously women by the time you are in ncaa. but as to president trump's

point on this, the fact that he had to do this executive order tells you how radical and far afield the democrats have turned. it is insanity. >> you know what's worse to me? it is not just that they have turned, they turn for four years, okay. then they lost in the most profound way. we swept every state. there was a clear mandate from america that we want what is good, what is god and what is healthy and write and safety. and these people are still screaming. they are screaming and going crazy and berserk in the streets of new york. you have tissue james saying hospitals pack ignored the executive order on the transgender stuff, you continue doing what you want and you were going to lose your federal funding. too bad you are under my purview. this is a derangement the likes of america has never seen. that's why they lost and it's why they continue to lose and they will lose again in four years. they are a mess and they don't care about america, they don't care about our kids and they

don't care about fairness, they are completely woke and it is an actual joke. i just run for you, there is your clip. not on purpose. [laughter] >> and actually seems like a mental disorder at this point, it sounds uncharitable but i saw that mark zuckerberg, the meta-ceo was leaving the white house late today and had a chance to talk to him, i know as did you during the inauguration. but what was he doing there again? is he now the second best friend of the president? >> i will not speak to that, i'm trying to keep my job and that white house. but let me tell you this. you'd be surprised by a lot of the people we have seen coming here. and that is about strength, that it's about them having respect for the presidency. it doesn't matter if you are a democrat, i was at the national prayer breakfast and i saw people try to persecute president trump sit in front of him and that man looked all of them, just like soccer break and bezos, just like these people that are now surrounding us and helping the cause.

he said one thing. if america could only get the left and the right to sit down and work together, we would be so strong we could do more than i can do by myself. and that is his message and i think when you see these people come in, i think they are getting at. we want to be strong, we want our economy to be strong and we want to be safe and people get behind that, they cannot get behind the radical stuff. >> laura: and we saw he wants to work with everybody in the cities and beyond. i can't believe he didn't give us any scoop from zuckerberg, come on girl! that's our we have you wanted. nothing for me? all right, thank you so much, great to see you as always. that is at rest tonight as always, make sure to follow us on social media and of course on twitter and instagram and thank you for watching. it is america now and forever, it is only getting better. jesse watters takes it from here. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: welcome to "jesse watters primetime". tonight... >> what is the general feeling