[inaudible] >> bret: check that out. snowmobile ridener colorado buried in the snow for more than an hour following an avalanche. rescuers found the rider because of the airbag sticking out of snow. note to self, bring one of those. they were able to dig him out. he escaped with minor injuries. our salute to them for digging him out of that hole. tomorrow on "special report," our "common ground" segment on efforts to give congressional gold medals to members of the 1980 u.s. olympic hockey team took down the soviets. there is a big hockey game tonight. remember that four nations. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. in the east, 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. follow me on instagram and x at bret baier. thanks for inviting us neuro i don't home tonight that's it for "special report" fair balanced and unafraid. here's laura. >> laura: good evening. i'm laura ingraham in this is

"the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. >> run again? you tell me. [cheers] >> there is your controversy right there. [cheers] [chanting four more years] >> laura: the fun never ends. the maga advisor text, billions of waste being exposed maybe even. >> this is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. chainsaw! >> laura: and they could use that chainsaw over at the epa because it turns out someone was getting a lot of dough for doing a lot of nothing. >> i'm a high achiever but in a different way than a lot of my fellow students. there were things i was supposed to want that i didn't. >> laura: secretary lee zeldin will share the latest budget insanity but, first, history in a month. that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> one month of trump 2.0 and a

whirlwind of success. [signing] >> okay. that solves that problem. >> laura: today, senior white house staff gave a quick recap. >> the president has already signed 73 executive orders. that is more than double the number signed by joe biden and more than quadrupled the number signed by barack obama over the same period. >> thank you all for joining today. our one month celebration of the most historic opening to a presidency in american history. he has ended all dei across government. terminated federal workers unlawful policies. restored merit as the corner stone of all federal policy. >> and if you are a criminal alien terrorizing americans or an ngo that's been profiting off

our open borders, your life over the past month suddenly got a lot more challenging. deportations are sending a strong message biden stream lined 15 million illegals into the country. much more being planned including legal action against mayors mariuccis insist on protecting illegals, don't interfere with ice, ice baby i'm happy the numbers are up. happy with the numbers so far. i'm not satisfied. i will not be satisfied until every gang member, every illegal alien gang member. every illegal alien public safety threat and national threm this country. >> laura: more on this coming up later in the show. seriously love the media reaction to the last month trump

reshaped everything allies and foes overseas, to approach to war and peace to distances on trade and foreign aid. he shows no signs of slowing down. axios says trump is exceeding the wildest dreams of supporters and darkest nightmares of detractors trump is historically popular. >> laura: what has their head spin something basic accountability to d.c. for decades progressives have benefited from wasteful federal grants that fund radical agendas on race, on gender and open borders. but those days though are over. truly absurd do not pay list can take up for a year for an organization to get on the do not pay list. talking about terrorist organizations. talking about known fraud centers. known waste. things do not match any appropriation. >> laura: this is why they hate elon musk. the gravy train is coming to a screeching halt.

>> he has undertaken an historic cost-cutting effort across the federal government. uncovering corruption on a scale that we never thought imaginable and already saving $50 billion in a single year which over a 10-year period would be $500 billion just think about how vast and enormous that sum is. >> laura: you know the song who let the dogs out? every day liberals have been running to court to keep the doge out and illegals in. the results of their lawfare have been mixed. nevertheless, democrats are slowly getting back on their feet but are they really convincing anyone? >> why does our own government want to turn against our own people if this [bleep] scandal is a disgrace in 2025. a rally a day keeps the fascists away.

meanwhile, trump is in a great mood much to the horror of the war hawks. is he pursuing peace in ukraine. >> we can make a deal in russia to stop the killing of potentially millions of people. soldiers being wind out on both sides. wiped out. it's horrible. >> and today was even sweeter when his nominee to head the fbi kash patel not only won confirmation but all of trump's cabinet nominees have been confirmed. now, it's not just the g.o.p. that's more united and changing. the country seems to be changing, too. donald trump and the republican party has changed the electorate. take a look at party. democrat vs. republican. you go back to 2017, five points more the electorate was democrats than republicans. look at what has happened in february of 2025. look at this. republicans, there are more republicans in the electorate than there are democrats republicans plus 2. >> 30 days in and americans are grateful. including at the white house

today at a celebration for black history month. >> mr. president it's been an honor of a life typically to support you, to try wake up as many people to the lies of the democratic party and the nonstop manipulation of the mainstream media. we pray for you. we continue to pray for you, and we are thankful for your service and your sacrifice. >> we love you all. we're going to work with you. we are going to make america greater than ever before. we're going to do it together. >> laura: it's only one month. and anything can happen. but i am extremely impressed by trump's team, their discipline, their devotion to the america first agenda. now, of course, going to be bumps in the road. no one could be perfect. and i'm keeping an eye on how they deal with china. but, i am very optimistic. in the coming months, we will hear a lot of vicious accusations from the left. a lot of he is a dictator type garbage. we will see frivolous lawsuits. some setbacks from activist judges. but, for now, like you, i'm just

thoroughly enjoying every day because this is history, my friends. that's the angle. joining me now national security adviser to the trump administration 30 days in is mike waltz. mr. adviser, i want to talk to you about what's happening with the democratic party and concern about donald trump pursuing peace, which is what he campaigned on? >> yeah, isn't it a little odd, laura, that the same party that how about pounding the table and waving their hands in the air for a cease-fire, demanding it, including kamala harris, joe biden, what have you in gaza, is completely opposed to president trump being the president of peace and ending the war in ukraine. i mean, it's just it's nonsensical and i think it's just let's oppose all things

president trump is trying to do. what did i say today at the press conference with our great spokeswoman karoline leavitt? who in the world is against peace? he is determined to drive both these parties to the negotiating table. he's determined to apply diplomacy. and only president trump, as said by putin on the call and as said by zelenskyy on the call, back-to-back calls, could get it done. we had a follow-up meeting in riyadh hosted by the saudis, to talk to the russians. and talk about how to get this war over with. meanwhile, the killing fields continue. zelenskyy needs to sign this economic partnership with the united states. it's an incredible opportunity for him and for the future of ukraine. and once we get a cease-fire in place. we can get all of these things done. >> laura: now, senator ruben gallego shared his thoughts about what president trump said

about zelenskyy the other day. watch. >> more willing to be bullies to our friends than to actual bullies because he is a weak man at the core. is he afraid of people like putin. because putin is an actual strong man. the way that he operates bullies he goes after people that tend to be friends who are going to react to him in a more i would say real bullies he is afraid of. >> so, saying that donald trump is weak for wanting to pursue peace and, genuinely being concerned about the suspension of civil liberties in ukraine, obviously, the orthodox church, all the things we know that zelenskyy has done. some of it is popular, a lot of it is not. your reaction tonight to this? >> well, i would just remind him and others that putin invaded his neighbor under president bush, georgia under obamacare, ukraine in 2014, not under president trump and then again

under biden. so, putin is clearly emboldened by per received weakness. and deterred by strength. and he understands president donald j. trump will go toe to toe with him. with xi, with kim jong un or anyone else. but, president trump also prefer diplomacy. he prefers -- i mean, this is just like the democrats turn completely upside down. when did they become the party of continuing a war that by all accounts was endless, had settled into a brutal, destructive stalemate with no end in sight, costing the entire world. blood and treasure to -- again, no theory of victory. president trump does. and that's the plan we're putting in place. >> laura: mr. waltz, another concern is that the president has said all hell would basically rain down on hamas if all the hostages weren't

released. releasing some dead hostages, hamas, those hideous videos circulating on the internet of the hamas parading through the streets with the coffins of children and the mother. it's just the most depraved, evil thing you can imagine. but what can we expect more from the administration given the fact that these hostages still all of them, somehow, but many have still not been released in. >> >> well, laura, i will just let everyone know that sadly and tragically we thought that that family, perhaps, had been killed by an errant bombing. in fact, we now know that hamas executed them. these are twin children, these are babies this was their mother. this was a sick terrorist organization. no different than isis. and we cannot have gaza ruled by a terrorist organization. hamas has to be destroyed. we'll continue to enter in to

some type of negotiation to get as many hostages out. but at the end of the day, gaza will be ruled by hamas no more who has repeatedly said their intent is to have more october 7ths, more attacks, they fully intend to attack israel if allowed to remain in place. and we stand with israel in making sure that doesn't happen. >> laura: the idea that they could continue to live there. we don't have the video for some reason. the most depressing, depraved video of hamas and children clapping at the bodies of these small children being removed from where they were being kept, applauding clapping, cheering, that's who we're dealing with. that's what they have done to their children in gafs. and the idea that any of these people could remain is ludicrous. completely include crews.

>> let's go back, rebind the clock back last year when you had people in our college campuses chanting from the river to the sea. the anti-semitism that we saw naked and bear and in front of the world. and cheering on an organization that would do things like this. a terrorist group that has radicalized the next generation as well. this is a complex issue but what is crystal clear hamas has got to go. their leadership has to go. and we are working with the israelis to do that o. >> laura: thank you very much. democrats pulled the most, well, perhaps the most pathetic protest so far. tough competition but this may actually win the award next. ♪

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>> laura: the party of partial birth abortion, pro-hamas protesters, and gender mutilation of children doesn't talk about evil very much unless they are talking about a trump nominee. >> kash patel, mark my words will cause evil in this building behind us and republicans who

vote for him will ryu that day. >> no one is a bigger this political hack does not deserve to be in this building. >> this is not a distraction. >> this is a real danger and a real threat. >> laura: oh, yeah, danger? they are not only bad political leaders, they are bad actors. patel's confirmation vote was a stern and beautiful rebuke of the left for its weaponization of the doj and the fbi against donald trump and conservatives. but schiff is sweating. not because patel will be ineffective. he's sweating because the new fbi director is promising investigationsed into the corruption rocked confidence in the fbi. biden dolled out a lot of preemptive pardons, remember those? remember, schiff actually got one. joining me now is wisconsin senator ron johnson senator why

oh why is adam schiff so worried about kash patel? >> adam schiff is afraid of the truth, is he a habitual liar, talk about a political hack. he is one but now unfortunately a u.s. senator. i fully expect kash patel, first of all, to be transparent, which obviously fbi and the department of justice was not under president biden. the american people deserve the truth and we're going to work very closely with kash patel to give the american people the truth. to expose all the corruption corruption within the fbi, maybe the department of justice. this can't go on. we are going to return integrity restore integrity to the fbi. that's what kash's mission. he told me that prior to the confirmation hearing. he wanted to restore credibility to the fbi. send agents out to the field. make prosecutorial decisions out there outside the politics of

washington, d.c. return to a single system of justice. one for all americans. >> laura: hunter biden, the biden gravy train. all the things that we know were given short solidify by the previous administration. they sprinkle the pardons around. adam schiff got a pardon why? they are still lying about what trump really wants here. watch this kash patel is the crown gel in this lawless rampage. he is an instrument of donald trump's effort to destroy the justice department and the fbi he agrees to carry out revengeance tour of donald trump. >> senator, the ren general's tore the obama administration?

>> this is the well worn strategy of the political left. falsely accuse their political opponents doing exactly what they do in orders in multitude worse not sure what happened to them. what is going to happen to them though the truth is going to be exposed across the board government agencies. screaming so loud with elon musk and doge exposing all the waste, fraud, and abuse within their government. they are the party of big government. they use big government to fund their radical left ideology. hopefully that's coming to an end. >> well, a lot of folks watching, this first of all they are enjoying it thoroughly because the democrats are back on their heels. but they are worried, also, that executive orders, while they're great, they can be undone by an

opposing administration. so, all of that spending presumably could come back if congress allowed it come back. congress allowed this to go on as well refusing to stop funding a lot of these agencies, but so how does some of this get made permanent rather than temporary? >> well, we have the reconciliation process. aware of the fact that i proposed four options to bring spending to a pre-pandemic level. somewhere between 4.5 and $6.5 trillion. that's going to defund an awful lot of the deep state. we start with that we also have the congressional review act, which is a very powerful act. some of these regulations that have been enacted wherein a certain time frame. we can undo. we can remove them and they can't come back. a future president, future democrat can't put in place those same regulations again when we remove them, repeal them under congressional review act. we need to be very aggressive. there is more than 50 that are available. we need to be very aggressive about using the congressional review act as well.

>> laura: well, another thing that people are very concerned about is, of course, anthony fauci. again, received a pardon. but, given what happened during covid, given the lies that were told about the origins of covid. the cooperation with ecohealth alliance and the wuhan lab, perhaps we even maybe had a hand in funding the very research that led to this pandemic. will congress and the fbi have a responsibility to put the truth out about that? >> that would probably be my top priority as the chairman of the permanent subcommittee on investigation. we need to uncover the truth. federal health agencies and in particular, anthony fauci, francis collins, what do they know? when did they know it? how many lie did they tell the american public? hold them accountable and that pardon is a double edged sword for them because now they have no protection fifth amendment denying or, you know, not being willing to testify fully and

truthfully. so i fully intend to get the full truth exposed between anthony fauci and federal health agencies. >> laura: as he enjoys his time wherever is he. he is at georgetown? they always fail upwards, senator, as always, thank you so much. >> have a great night. >> laura: all right. the epa and stacey abrams? what? how does she end up getting money? climate change? slush funds? well, lee zeldin the head of the epa has the information for us and he's next. ♪

>> republicans are gutting agency after agency. then you add the cdc, the epa, hud, taking away those who work to make our lives better only makes it if you don't think we need prevention from pandemics,

pollution, or to, i don't know, answer to an affordable housing crisis. >> laura: stacey abrams is very worried. she is worried about these agencies, i'm sure, don't waste any of your money. she is worried about them getting doged. well, maybe it's because she was profiting from the epa? the agency has discovered $2 billion awarded by the biden administration to, quote: power forward communities. it's a nonprofit that partnered with multiple left wing groups founded by abrams. joining us now epa head himself lee zeldin. mr. administrator, can you explain what the huck happened here? and how another slush fund has been exposed? >> so this is $2 billion of that 20 billion that was parked at this bank outside of government towards the end of the biden administration.

stacy abrams only received $100 in 2023. they then got $2 billion in this grant in 2024. now, i was just reading over the grant agreement, laura, on the first page, it gives the organization, this nonprofit 21 days to distribute $2 billion. but this is the crazy part. i went to page 7 of the grant agreement. and it's giving the entity 90 days to complete a training called how to develop a budget. now, i would say that if an organization needs to take a training on how to develop a budget, one, they should be taking the training before they are spending a dollar but they definitely shouldn't be getting 2 billion. >> laura: she is quite something, right? she loses. in georgia. and then she goes on to be -- she is really an aggregator of, you know, fraud and corruption

in the fact -- this is how you view government. it's just a place where you can reward your friends and fund your pet projects and call them green and then everyone feels good about it. but the citibank accounts where this money was held, has that money itself been now frozen? is there actual fraud, do you think, in these payments or was it just the usual nonsense they were pulling at the end of an administration? entire scheme set up is fraud, it's wasteful. it is abuse. we just had another example come out over the last 24 hours where $5 billion went to another recipient. that person was the director of the greenhouse gas reduction fund, he comes from this fund, joins the biden administration, becomes the director of the greenhouse gas reduction fund and then gave $5 billion to his recently left former employer.

that sounds like self-dealing. that sounds like a conflict of interest. and the other problem is that all of this money was put up up front. it wasn't like there was performance. you show performance and then you ask for the next tranche. it was here's $20 billion. it was going to their friends on the left as opposed to making sure that the money is going directly towards the purpose that you allegedly said this money was needed for in the first place. if you care about clean air, land, and water. if you think there is some community that's been left behind, then why aren't you spending a dollar actually remediating that issue instead of paying off your friend? >> laura: well, lee, we have row have a, murray, merkley, all these lefties now demanding answers from you cuts, freezes of spending are going to devastate programs programs going to provide clean drinking water and other important environmental, you know, help to

people in need. but they're really laying it on thick in congress. specific buy about what you are doing. >> i'm not going to waste a penny zero zero tolerance. congress should want me to. the way the agreements are written when the money goes to the 8 primary recipients receiving $20 billion as a pass through. when it goes to the subgrantees, the epa isn't even a party to those account control agreements. the epa actually put in writing we would have less oversight and accountability and many of those subgrantees are also pass-throughs. the members of congress, they should all be outraged, they should be upset that tax dollars are being squandered instead of making me want to close my eyes and let it play out. we are not going to let it happen. the trump administration has zero tolerance from this. >> i love how they are demanding answers from you. you are demanding answers from. they i can't wait to see how this all plays out.

lee, thank you very much. all right. trump's also cleaning house at the irs. of course, that's the left's most cherished bureaucracy. nearly 7,000 irs bureaucrats were fired today and the left has been in a total meltdown over their faith. >> the internal revenue service is also one of the hyper efficient federal government agencies by far. it is the agency which makes money for the federal government. the truth is the irs costs zero. >> if we're cutting staff at the irs. that means your payment and your refund will not get processed in a timely manner. >> it's tax season and they are also looking to not just access iris is system our government and going to have impact. >> do you remember biden's 80,000 agents?

enforcement meaning more americans. grant cardone capital ceo fund manager. so obsessed about these cuts. why are they so worried? >> well, because they are chivas thieves they are parasites american people. it's a ponzi scheme. they collect 5 trillion. i don't think the american people understand the irs and what they actually did. they collect $5 trillion a year from american people. american people regular middle class people. the super wealthy, have figured out thousand get by it. 50% of that money is from income taxes. taken literally, you know, $2.5 trillion away from the american people. 1.8 trillion comes from

withholding. and 10%, laura, listen to this. 10% are penalties, $500 billion a year. the american people are charged by the irs for penalties alone. we should get rid of the irs. we should go to a zero tax -- first of all, audit the irs and you will get rid of them. because the amount of fraud there is unbelievable. we should go to a zero tax and then win the american people for some situation whether it's a military or whatever print money. right now we print and tax. we should do one or the other. i would say print and make sure the american people are behind it. otherwise, don't tax the american people. >> laura: well, you could actually, it turns out, you could get a doge check with all this savings some time soon. watch. [inaudible] >> i love it, 20% dividend, so to speak for the money that we're saving by going after the

waste and fraud and abuse. >> how much money do you think. >> it could be a lot. 20% would give back a lot of money to the taxpayer. >> laura: well, grant, this is the people's money, so calling it a doge dividend is kind of fun but it's their money. it's our money. >> well, you know, what is crazy, is that the withholding, for instance, everybody gets withheld for 26 weeks of the year, if you are getting paid every two weeks. they say the reason they do the withholding is for the convenience of the american people. and one of the people that you were talking about in the video, they said it makes it easier for people budget convenience. i'm not getting a refund. if you get rid of 87,000 irs people refund. that was money i should have never paid. i overpaid to theist. if that money alone stayed with the american people, it would be $81 billion a year that i could

earn having money at the bank rather than the irs and maybe going to ukraine. >> laura: it's criminal that we spend a trillion dollars a year on interest on our debt. it's criminal that we spent trillions of dollars in iraq and afghanistan. it's -- i mean, it really is criminal. it's stealing from the american people and our children and our grandchildren and speaking of stealing, grant, what about fort knox? do you think that gold is all in there and a few gold bars missing maybe? >> one of two things are going to happen. either they will find nothing in there. j or they are going to find. too much gold in there maybe go back a couple years and maybe they have been packing some gold in there from other countries. neither one is explainable. but the american people deserve to know what's truth is. and the american people can handle the truth. let's get down to it and stop the nonsense of these ponzi schemes and parasites. >> do you think there should be any tax, flat tax, fair tax, sales tax? >> there should be no income

tax, no death or inheritance tax. no gift tax there should be no income tax at all. no payroll withholding. the way to do it is to go to a flat tax. 20 to 25% on a purchase. that's when it would be collected. and if a local state or county wants to add a property tax let them do that shouldn't be the federal government. >> grant, people across the country are applauding that sounds good to me. grant, thank you so much. come back soon. >> print money when you need it. >> free ride coming to a screeching halt and that's happening. next. ♪

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♪ democrats are running on empty. the american people overwhelmingly support deporting illegals. by the way, i think truth be told, i think they want more deportation, not enough just to do the violent criminals. do the democrats say in response? well, j.b. pritzker is one of the premier governors for the democrats in the united states. this is what he has to offer. >> what comes next?

after we have discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and minorities, once we have ostracized our neighbors and depar betrayed our friends. when the problems are still there staring us in the face, what comes next? >> laura: chad wolf, former acting dhs secretary joins me now. chad, they're back to the same old scare mongering. the american people have made it clear in pole af poll after poly want more illegals deported. not just the criminal gangs but everybody who is here illegally. and that's it? that's what they have in response? well, you are exactly right. the american people have spoken. and they want illegal aliens removed from this country, that's, of course, what president trump and tom homan

the department of homeland security are doing. those comments from the governor are ridiculous. they are ridiculous comments from a ridiculous governor. we have seen this play out time and time again. i have no idea what he is talking about. that's actually not reality and to your point, laura, it's just trying to scare the american people american people different environment than they were the first time president trump was in office. they understand what the media is doing. they don't believe left wing politicians like the governor. and they trust president trump to keep them safe and secure. what is incredible about all of this the cost per illegal is now estimated to be about $130,000 to keep them in the united states. most people across the country hear that sum and they think well, wait a second. i don't make anywhere near $130,000 and yet we're supposed

to keep the federal benefits going that are in the hundreds of billions of dollars? donald trump said no in that executive order. those federal benefits are over. do you think that's going to be upheld in court? >> i do because what president trump is doing is just instituting the law. right? there is a law from 1996 that says these illegal aliens should not be getting public benefits and the biden administration skirted that with parole and everything else that they gave them over the four years. and so president trump is actually trying to implement what congress passed and implement the law. i think they will be successful. >> laura: chad, thank you so much as always. democrats think screaming into a microphone is actually going to stop trump. >> have you ever heard the expression that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction? i think this is one of those stories. yosemite national park, 1200 square miles of soaring cliffs,

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>> laura: aoc is instructing unelected bureaucrats on how to defy the mandate president trump has to shrink the size of the federal government. >> when we are sitting down and

we tried to storm these offices and dismiss people, they key here, make them. make them show a warrant, make them show a document, make them assert their authority. ask them, who are you? they are no one. he's running around because he thinks he's got a bank account with a lot of zeros in it, that it makes him some kind of super citizen. >> laura: cathy houck will also having a bit of a difficult time about this photo that the white house tweeted out today saying congestion pricing is dead. manhattan and all of new york is saved. long live the king. >> president donald trump tweeted "long live the king." i'm here to say, new york hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years. [cheering and applause] >> we sure as hell aren't going to start now. >> laura: joining me now,

fox news contributor and editor in chief of the federalist, and molly, what's wrong with cathy hochul? >> just in general it's hard to be a democrat right now. they don't have many positions of authority and the ones they have don't seem to be going well. when you see something like that you think maybe just need to do a rudimentary course in metaphor. where they can understand that they don't need to get outraged over every turn of phrase and maybe focused more on proper governance that they can return to power. >> laura: a congresswoman misses having an unfit president. >> when those hospitals in rural america start closing down even more will understand when you don't have your social security, you will understand when your medicaid and medicare goes away. he will understand his planes continue to fall out of the sky. soon you will understand why it's important to have somebody

that isn't loud and ridiculous and may be sleepy joe is what we wanted because we could at least sleep at night. >> laura: so now they are relegated to saying you should miss sleepy joe because you could sleep better. that's it. that's the argument. >> it's not great messaging and it's such a lie that medicare and medicaid will go away. that's tolerated i guess on the left. i've never donated to a politician before but i might donate to jasmine crockett. i think for people who have to create content every day for conservative audiences every day, she's a gift. the american people rejected the woke moment and somehow only new -- one new star has emerged from the democrats since the election and it's jasmine crockett. we could not plant someone any better to prove how inane the woke mom has gotten. >> laura: we also know that the democrats keep clinging to their old narratives.

bernie sanders says he's fighting the oligarchy. it's a tour apparently that he's kicking off tomorrow in omaha because nothing screams the future like bernie sanders. are you rushing to get your tickets? >> you know, bernie sanders would have had a better argument for the democratic party, until they ousted him unfairly when he was running. but in the meantime republicans kind of took away all of the issues that were working for the democrats including economic populism and all the democrats have right now is identity politics. they have that at a time when most of america has said we are done with that, we don't want to do that anymore. they need to get serious and think about issues but it's going to be hard for bernie because while the democrats are playing their games, donald trump came in and presented a really great working-class agenda that got him a lot of votes from working-class supporters. >> laura: all of those issues, one after the other, trump picked off and left the old republican party behind. alex, at this point, you've got

all trump nominees confirmed. kash patel was like, that was the spirit in the side of liberalism today. how significant was that? >> he's the right guy because they went after him, targeted him, messed with the wrong person and now he's going to come in and clean house. he's exactly why he's so beloved by people on the right. >> laura: and mitch mcconnell even supported kash patel. did you think that was going to happen? >> a little bit surprised but he is a great pick in the guy who uncovered the russia collusion hoax at the fbi so you could not have a better person there to clean out the problems there. >> laura: very exciting. molly and alex, thank you so much. that's it for us tonight. follow me on social media. is a wee reaction last night. thank you for watching. american now and forever, jesse watters takes it from here. >> jesse: welcome to "jesse watters primetime". tonight... let me