that republicans used post 2020, to make -- come back politically and states and the federal government was education. the poor test scores. the covid rules. that kept schools closed. there is a lot of dissatisfaction about the public school, bureaucracies, the teacher's unions as jason was talking about and there is a lot of frustration. i don't think people are going to miss much about the bureaucracy. >> john: a lot of people saying take the money you pay those federal workers and give it to the states to handle education. because that's what they do anyways. panel, great to see you tonight. thank you so much for joining us, tomorrow on "special report." president trump is going to host the nato secretary general mark at the white house. remember, if you cannot catch us live, set your dvr, 6:00 eastern, 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. thanks so much for watching "special report." i'm john roberts in washington. "the ingraham angle" is coming up next. ♪ >> laura: gogood evening, everye

i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. thank you as always for watching. the good news, it keeps rolling in. >> oil is down to $65 a barrel. when energy comes down, prices are going to be coming down with it. >> laura: meanwhile, liberals say be afraid, very afraid. >> these are, you know, the scariest times in my lifetime, that's all. that could subjectively the truth. >> laura: rosie o'donnell was so scared she self-deported. >> well, hey, everybody, it's me, ronget star of the flintstones. i'm here in ireland. and it's beautiful. >> laura: i told you it was good news. remember our stranded astronauts. if it's up to elon musk they won't be stranded for much longer. a spacex rocket is launching tonight to go get him home and we are going to bring it to you live. but, first, time to transition and it's good news. that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> what we say when we fight, we

can win. when we fight, we win. >> donald and elon are bullies. they are afraid of pushback and we are here to push back. [cheers] >> how many more will you get paid? do you believe in the first amendment, tom homan? >> laura: while the democrats scream at protests and struggle to do their own political autopsy, president trump is fighting 24/7 for america. the goal is simple. a return to an era of peace, prosperity, and common sense. >> financially we'll be stronger than ever before. i think the markets are going to soar when they see what is happening. i want to tell you there is tremendous optimism out there about our country in terms of regulations being cut, in terms of taxes being cut. it would be great if the democrats would do what is right for our country for a change. >> laura: isn't it great to have an optimistic president who has a real plan to make life better for wall street and main street?

just ignore the sky is falling reports in the regime press. tune out the breathless reporting about market gyrations because even the most dedicated globalists, they know trump is good for business. >> the president is engaged with the business community, the administration is engaged with the business community. and that's a different experience than what we have had over the course of the last four years. i would also observe, you know, his sense of optimism in the engagement yesterday at the brt. >> laura: so what we are living through now is a transition. and this one is good for us. for decades, ours has been an economy driven by government stimulus. a lot of printing and borrowing of money. government spending. government giveaways. and trump knows our survival though requires a return to an economy by private sector productivity, the way it used to be. that's why the playing field in global trade has got to be leveled. >> we have tariffs -- dairy products from canada, 270%.

going up to 400 percent. you never hear that canada is absolutely one of the worst. and we -- when i say worst, worst in terms of charging tariffs. their dairy products. they charge our farmers, 240, 250, 270 and 400 percent. and economy charge them like peanuts. >> laura: 400 percent. that's fair. trump has been on this since, i don't know, some time in the 180s. >> it's very important that you have free trade. but we don't have free trade right now. if you want to go to japan or if you want to go to saudi arabia, various other countries, it's virtually impossible for an american to do business in those countries. a lot of people are tired of watching other countries ripping off the united states. this is a great country. they laugh at us behind our backs they laugh at us at our own stupidity. >> laura: nearly 40 years later donald trump is in a position to do something about it. >> the united states of america is going to take back a lot of what was stolen from it by other

countries. and by, frankly, incompetent u.s. leadership. we're going to take back our wealth and we're going to take back a lot of the companies that left. >> laura: take back what they stole from us or what we gave away stupid policies. you think about it, what is the alternative? keep allowing government to just balloon out of control? keep borrowing money? keep -- i don't know, the deficit spending 2 trillion every time we do a budget? what happens when our debt becomes too risky and then no one wants to buy it? >> they have to sell a quantity of debt that the world is not going to want to buy. and that's a set of circumstances that is imminent. you are going to see shocking developments in terms of how that's going to be dealt with in our lifetime. trump understands. this but democrats, for political reasons, pretend not to.

>> president biden have left had him an economy with steady growth. with all-time high stock markets and with inflation coming down. >> donald trump was given an economy that was on the way up. it's completely inverted now. >> laura: oh, yeah, okay. that must be why kamala won. oh, wait. now, the truth is trump is delivering for the american people, companies are moving in or expanding, not shrinking or moving out. japanese company in wisconsin boosting its production. two different south korean steelmakers are looking to bring production here. and valve vo are considering expanding production at their south carolina plant. but, they have the solution for the middle class. >> purpose is a clear sign of whose side we stand on. we're standing on the side of working families.

>> laura: okay. those are really nice words and well-delivered. but the actions don't match up and the people are on to this scam. according to an internal poll, the democrat group called navigator research only 27% of independents think that democrats are focused on helping them, compared with 55% so said they are focused on others. now, earlier today, our own raymond arroyo decided to ask folks in d.c. what they think about the democrats. >> when i say the word democrat you think, what? loser, transgenderism. >> liberal. >> stock trading. >> they have strange. >> i don't understand that. >> cry baby. musk hater suddenly. >> more social programs and entitlements. >> socialists. >> evil. tell us how you really feel. the fact is over the past four years, biden and the democrats threw the middle class under the bus. then they backed up and ran them

over again. all biden needed to do in january 2021 when you really think this through, where the economy was in december 2019 before the pandemic all bidened needed to do came into office open the economy, open the country up, get america back to business. but, of course, he did the opposite. he kept things closed longer. for months and months and months. he blew trillions that we didn't need to spend on covid giveaways and ukraine. on illegals and, of course, countless boondoggles that we're only discovering now. and if they're back in a majority, they will do it again. more spending, more wasted foreign aid, more investigations, yes, of trump and probably, yeah, another impeachment. so does america really want that? we have seen that movie. and we know how it ended. and that's the angle. joining me now is grant cardone, he is the ceo and founder of cardone capital.

okay, grant, this just in right before the show, the trump administration is considering adding tariffs to the imports of timber and lumber as well as their derivative products necessary to protect national security. your reaction to that tonight? , well, 100 percent. it's exactly what president trump is doing. it is what we should have been doing years ago. not just through the biden years. we get about 30% of our soft wood from canada. and, which is a great deal of soft wood, that's paper products then the regard woods we produce. now while canada has a lot of forest land. more forest land than we have. we have enough timber. we produce more hardwood than canada, by scale. and we could not need them. we don't need them for their milk. we don't need them for their cheeses. we don't need them for their coffee. we don't need canada. canada needs america. donald trump knows this. as well as, i believe this is

his interest in the panama canal because most of our hard woods come from brazil if we don't manufacture ourselves. bottom line is we need to become independent of these other countries and these imports and the way to do that is to put fair tariffs in place so that we level the playing and we going competitive. the current -- >> laura: i think he is the current thought leader along with jazmine crockett? >> you call him a thought leader, huh? >> i find it hard not to describe it as a government of the billionaires. and that is what oligarchies. these are, you know, the scariest times in my lifetime. that's all. they could subjectively the truth. it's not only the power of money, it's also combined with that the movement toward authoritarianism. >> laura: grant, it's all about the oligarchy. how does that make sense when the billionaires, many of them

are complaining about the tariffs? the tariffs are good for the middle class, it brings jobs back to america. so, i don't get that argument. >> yeah, look, the viewer needs to understand and that you guys that are conservative and vote republican, the democratic party for the most part are a bunch of good people that are led by compassion and they want people to have, you know, freedom and choices. the problem with the democratic party today is not led by democrats, it's led by crazies, complete, insane, out-of-connection, don't understand priorities. this guy is talking about me. i'm a self-made person, grew up in the bayous of louisiana. built a company for myself that takes care of other people. i'm not hurting anybody. i'm not some oligarch. like this is insanity. i'm out hiring people, giving jobs, no government involved. not reaching into the government's pockets. not stealing money. i'm producing jobs and opportunities for people, myself, my family, and my community. >> laura: grant, -- >> -- it all started in

california, laura. >> laura: yeah. what makes zero sense to me is the fact that democrats had four years, the right track, wrong track number just kept shooting up, wrong track. people america economy going wrong track. they are losing money because of inflation. they blew that off for essentially three years. they tried to pretend they cared in the last year. but then they juiced the economy. with huge government spending, huge debt, debt pile on despite the fact didn't need it because we opened up after covid. trump says huh-uh, that's a recipe for disaster. we're on the edge of the cliff. we got go back to private sector prosperity. that's going to take a while not going to be overnight. will patience run out among the american people if they don't see significant improvement and prices across the board. there already is some improvement. >> well, yeah, you are already

seeing improvements across the board. headlines will be recession and deflation. this is the mainstream media being used by the crazy liberals to somehow make donald trump out to be the scapegoat here. is he fixing america. the way to do that is to first get rid of the old leadership. two, replace anyone and everyone in everyone department that was not efficient. number three, put a culture back in place that gets order back in the house. handle it, drug addict or a gambling addict or anybody out of control. >> laura: grant, wouldn't you do that in your own company? like a producer gets promoted. >> of course. >> flat liners get booted. right? >> that's right. 100 percent. and those people will find another place to work in the marketplace or they will have to straighten themselves up and find another place to work in the marketplace. >> laura: bingo. >> entrepreneurs of failing companies. >> laura: maybe they need to learn a skill that translates. every time they send a company

overseas, what did the democrats say? well, people are just going to have to learn to code. they are just going to have to learn new skills. what about government workers? i would say the same thing? no one wants anyone to lose their job. i understand it's very painful and it's awful. that's not real in an economy with $36 trillion in debt. and it's not sustainable. so, i think trump has s. on a common sense path. going to be a little different for a while. i feel very positive and i think he is right. the business leaders that i talk to are extremely bullish on this country. >> i talk to business leaders every day. they are extremely bullish on the direction of the company. the cuts that are being made. doge is a positive thing. anybody that's ever run a company. not a politician. but really run a company, are controlled in violator or in this case an entire country, knows that you have to get rid of the bad leadership. you got cut out the fat. and then you rebuild the culture. and america wants that they voted for it. i'm for it. and i believe that the second

quarter of this year will be a phenomenal, robust, expanding economy. we're already seeing that happen now. >> laura: awesome, grant, great to talk to you as always. thank you very much. and when we come back, the end of the green grift. the epa administrator lee zeldin is here, he'll tell us about it, next.

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>> laura: this is a fox news alert. spacex's crew 10 mission to bring stranded astronauts home just got scrubbed. it was supposed to take place tonight. we'll tell you what went wrong later in the hour and when they could actually try it again. >> laura: thanks to doge and trump's cabinet we have learned how democrats used your tax dollars to fund their pet causes and the story keeps getting worse $20 billion of your tax dollars parked in outside financial institution in a deliberate tort limit government oversight, dolling out your money through just 8 pass through politically connected unqualified and in some cases brand new ngos. the money has since been frozen and the department of justice and fbi have been investigating. >> laura: well, someone needs to

do time for this. this is a total defrauding of the u.s. taxpayer. a lot of people probably have to do time for this. but, for now the left wing slush funds are being shut down including all of the epa's dei and environmental justice offices immediately. joining me now epa administrator lee zeldin. mr. administrator, the left is hitting you hard for shutting down something called clean power plan 2.0. it sounds so wonderful. so why are you so mean? >> well, i must be doing something right if the left is attacks us for being good stewards of tax dollars, if they're attacking us for getting rid of an office to fulfill the president's executive orders and mandates that the american public demanded with their vote november 5 of the. as it relates to the regulatory action today. there were 32 actions that we took. it's the most significant, biggest deregulatory action in the history of the country.

people afford a home. heat their home. >> laura: like what. >> endangerment funding, clean power plant 2.0. mercury and toxic standards, par particulate matter 2.5. social cost of carbon. >> laura: we are going to have bad air now and bad water? >> no. it's not. we can protect the environment. we can make sure all americans are access to clean air, land and water while also not bankrupting our country. the thing from the left is that they will push these mandates and these laws that will drive up the costs of living for the people who can least afford it. you know, i come from a state of new york, as you know. in new york state, they banned the save extraction natural gas. they won't allow pipelines no, hookups to new construction of gas. and people who are suffering the most are the ones who can least afford it. one other point we also as you just said closing down our environmental justice office. the best can you make in favor of environmental justice a community is left behind.

we have to help them remediate environmental issue. however, if in the name of that you are sending tens of millions of dollars to left wing groups like -- >> laura: politico is saying have you no evidence. they are saying that you terminated $20 billion and climate grants, you just don't like climate change, regulations. but where is the fraud? >> yeah, so, you have self-dealing conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients. one recipient of $5 billion was a former employer of the director of the greenhouse gas reduction fund. the stacy abrams linked gpo. signed agreements to tie epa's hand behind their back. >> laura: are you going to refer this to the doj for possible criminal penalties. >> doj and fbi have been investigating and the money has been frozen at the bank. >> laura: i hope it's more than investigating, eventually. now, there's a story that broke late tonight that the epa has been silencing some of its staffers as these grants are

canceled by the agency. abc news is reporting that epa staff members across the country have been told by supervisors that they are prohibited from communicating with partners, grantee partners that they're supposed to supervise and monitor according to multiple sources inside the epa. and others working directly with the agency, do you have any comment about that tonight? >> generally speaking across the country, that's just fake news. the only alternative for a few employees that come to mind is that there is an active and dni investigation those people no. here is the problem we need more accountability and oversight not less. anybody inside the agency and not part of the problem they should be concerned about their own future inside the agency. we don't need them. we need people in the agency there to do good work and make the american proud. more oversight not less. >> laura: one problem that i

think has been around for decades. it's gotten intermittent coverage, is what mexico is doing to california. with raw sewage that just goes straight into a pipe, into the ocean that ends up into the san diego beaches, la jolla, tony areas, all the way up to oceanside, shuttle down beaches, contaminating them with human feces. this is our ally, mexico, what's going to happen? is this ever going to be fixed? >> yes, it has to be. we need to demand it. mexico at times has done what they needed to do to cut off the flow. and. >> laura: to speak. >> we had last weekend notice came over the course of the weekend that the raw sewage was getting into the tijuana river and coming to the united states. we can't tolerate any of that mexico needs to permanently stop it. and this needs to be something 24/7, 365 that they never allow anything, otherwise, to come through. want to protect the environmental? this is something that is

extremely important for the residents of california and the trump administration has been. the democrats are just beside themselves. and about climate. political climate under trump and the climate under trump, and this is what shellie, another maniac has just said. watch. >> i'm deeply concerned that the republican majority is giving the administration a free pass to abandon programs that protect the public from pollution, that safeguard human health, and that address the climate crisis. >> the death of the green new scam is upon us. there are penal who are congressional democrats who have not going to be happy with our actions. i am here to fight for, as part of that trump mandate november 5th, the people across this country who have seen a green new deal that it fully implemented would cost tens of trillions of dollars and people who cannot afford to be able to heat their home, to purchase a car, small businesses are

struggling to operate, people have been put out of work and it's going to end. this whole grift of being able to get tens of billions of dollars of tax dollars to your friends is over. >> laura: made in covid. all the covid scams. hundreds of billions of dollars. but the green money scam is -- it's beyond. >> they are not giving their friends $100 here. they are giving friends billions of dollars. >> laura: thank you for speaking up stacy abrams is now defending the $2 billion that funneled to an affiliated group of hers, watch. >> i led a program to demonstrate that by replacing energy inefficient appliances with efficient appliances can you lower your costs. and based on that program, a coalition of organizations said to the epa, if we can do this here, we can do this for millions more americans. what they are angry about is that it's going to work because we know it can work.

>> why would this have to go through stacy abrams? if you have such a good idea, and you need to remediate an issue, just if you are spending a dollar, spend a dollar to fix the problem. in this case the stacey abrams linked ngo in 2023, they received $100. and then in 2024 they received $2 billion. their grant agreement stated that they have 90 days to complete a training called how to develop a budget. >> laura: how is this $2 billion? if you are getting people how to insulate your windows? how is that $2 billion? or have, you know, appliances that, you know, you have energy did. >> it doesn't cost 2 billion. >> laura: where does the money go, i mean actually go? >> it's going through pass-throughs. so the 20 billion goes to just 8 entities, many of these entities didn't exist before this was first created. when the money goes through that pass through to other pass-throughs. >> laura: everybody gets their piece of pie. >> everybody gets their piece of the pie. >> laura: everyone else is getting sick because they are

footing the bills. director zeldin. >> call me lee. >> laura: what is the official. >> administrator. >> laura: mr. administrator, thank you. it's always great to see you. >> always good to see you. >> laura: thanks so much. deranged democrats are looking to give murderers and child molesters some perks. the obscene details coming up. ♪

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who are currently incarcerated. >> laura: okay. well, we were just told by that democrat senator that this bill failed to pass by the deadline so it will not become a law this year. okay. joining me now jason rantz, radio host and author. jason, i know you have been investigating the situation. so, it's not like they had some great epiphany that this is insane, right? they just missed the deadline, meaning they are going to try to get to this end result another way or at another time? >> yeah. and technically, even though it was past the deadline, they could still reintroduce this and turn this into a budget without getting too in the weeds. not completely dead until the end of the session. that's the issue. thankfully, and i don't often do this, but there were democrats who spoke up and said guys, come on. this is absolutely insane. how is it possible that we're going to say that someone who maybe committed a crime, a murder at 17 years old, would be released in just a few years

after in many cases talking to the victims' family and simply saying, don't worry, we have to get a plea deal here but they are going to spend 20 years in jail? only to then be told oh, never mind, you're going to have to go in front of a board and explain why we shouldn't release these kids early because, well, they told us pinky square, that they actually are better. they are now on the right path. definitely sociopaths never lie. >> laura: well, jason, at this point, people like in the real world, just have to believe in their heart of hearts that the pacific northwest democrats, they just cater to criminals. yeah. a couple of them kicked up a fuss because of the public outcry. but, they were going to do this. if there hadn't been news reports. if you hadn't covered it. this was a done deal. >> 100 percent. i mean the fact of the matter is, i was hearing from folks in olympic i can't telling me that

we need to shine a spotlight on this, it's going under the radar. people are not aware of what is actually being proposed because they title this around the new youth hope act, which actually makes it sound like this is a good thing uferltly that's been the case so many times. if it's not this bill it's another one. a bill moved forward going to allow judges to decide unilaterally to dismiss certain misdemeanor charges over the objections of a prosecutor how is it that this continues to go on. i would argue in large part you have a lot of voters vote for the person has a d next to their name optaticly refuse to cover these stories. this issue got no coverage outside of what it was that i was able to do j woe should say the democrat. juveniles show them that if they

turn their lives around, could get a second chance. obviously, that's what they are going to say. maybe that's what they think. but, i think it's important for our viewers to understand how recent some of these crimes had been -- recently some of these crimes had been committed. this was one of the convicted murderers trying to, you know, make her case. this is someone named lola luna. watch. >> i have and i still am learning how to be accountable for my action. me, sitting in a cell for the next 14 years will never heal the pain and trauma i have brought among people. i'm going to spend a part of my life in prison for a decision i made when i was a child. >> she was sentenced in 2023 to 14 years in prison for stabbing a girl to death. i mean she kind of looks cute in that video reading her script. but a girl dead. stabbed multiple times. >> yeah. >> and this went in front of a jury and a jury decided they looked at the facts and said this is how we are supposed to

punish this person now all of a sudden democrats want to get from and say we are going to reverse what a jury said. it's absolute lunacy. by the way, there can be rehabilitation. and we should want that for kids or adults who end up getting out. but, that does not mean you give a shortcut to not paying a price for crimes like murder. >> laura: yeah, stabbing multiple times a female victim. jason, thank you very much. and ireland is now home to a disappointed hollywood star. and michelle obama has become a self-help guru. of course, raymond arroyo has it all in scen "seen and unseen" wh is next. ♪

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♪ ♪ >> laura: it's time for "seen and unseen." we reveal the stories behind the headlines for that we turn to fox news contributor raymond arroyo. i guess hollywood has lost one of its leading trump haters. >> raymond: yes, lawyer, i didn't know ireland was offering political asylum for disallusioned former stars but apparently they are hey, everybody it is me, rosie o'donnell, star of the flintstones, i'm here in ireland and it's beautiful and warm. i moved here on january 15th, when you know, it is safe for all citizens to have equal

rights there in america, that's when we will consider coming back. protect your sanity. it's all i can say. >> protect your sanity. you have to possess sanity to protect it. poor lady. she went from a talk show host to a rambling social media poster, laura. i have heard of finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but rosie o'donnell? i mean pot of a different color. >> that's like pot gummies. >> >> you have your kind of green. >> you are getting ready. >> raymond: i notice this is the color in d.c. today. and, as you know, there was a. >> laura: the ireland prime minister was at the white house, don't you know. rosy's relocation nearly set off an international incident. >> ireland is known for very happy, fun loving people, why in the world did you let rosie o'donnell move to island lower your happiness level. >> thank you, i like that

question. do you know you have rosie o'donnell? do you know who she is. >> i don't know. >> do you know who she is? you are better off not knowing. [laughter] >> raymond: look, this could have gone really badly like that zelenskyy thing. look, ireland, you are going to keep her, you got very limited carcards in your green hands. when they find out what we have done they will file a complaint with the human rights commission. >> laura: triple reciprocal tariffs because you gave us rosy. what else? >> speaking of new begins your friend, michelle obama is becoming a podcaster. not with her husband but with her brother. >> laura: hmmm. >> together craig and i are going to take your questions about the challenges you are grappling with in life let's be real we are living through complicated and confusing times. people are feeling more alone than ever. couldn't have gotten through eight years in the white house without my big brother, you

know, being married to the president of the united states thing. >> yeah. >> that none of us kind of banked on. we knew barack was smart and, you know, ambitious, but, you know, i think -- but you -- you talked me into supporting his run. >> i did. >> i was definitely like no, no way this is crazy. >> laura: nope, nope, nope. supportive wife? >> raymond: she is always trashing barack obama. this goes back to the first campaign, laura. >> laura: we covered that in the obama diaries. >> that is he stank, he left his socks out. he wouldn't talk back to me he was cold and aloof. she has got to back off. i hope the podcast isn't about trashing her husband. the only reason we care about michelle obama because she was married to barack obama. >> laura: wait, wait, wait. this just in. we have the numbers of the podcast. we have the number of views. oh, oh, 25,000? >> raymond: yeah. the union numbe youtube numbersa little soft.

>> laura: they call that soft launch. >> raymond: a soft opening. >> laura: she is -- these are difficult times from maui or martha's vineyard. >> raymond: there are rumors of a -- we will see what happens. that table was pretty big. i have never seen a anniversary photo with a table. it was like you were at the end of that table, raymond. >> raymond: we have to go to another show. speaking up. >> laura: another fairy tale bites the dust. disney announces new live action snow white premier will have no press avail and just still photographers. that's not good. what's that mean. >> they are trying to salvage the movie after the actress playing snow white rachel trashed the original and promised a woke remake. you might call this snow fright. >> it's no longer 1937. >> not going to be saved by a prince and not dreaming about true love. she is dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be.

>> laura: she is becoming like the green new deal advocate? >> raymond: laura they spent $280 million on this movie. this is also the actress who went out by the way and said trump supporters should never have peace. okay? and when you are casting snow white, it's always a good idea to make sure that snow is truly the fairest of them all. this is the first version of snow white where the dwarfs and dads are going to be pulling for the evil queen. and if they wanted to give audience a happy ending, laura, they would let hunter, the queen, pay off the hunter and we would never have to see snow white again. >> laura: maybe she should have been the other character. maybe she would have been evil raymond remain the wicked queen? >> laura: gavin newsom has reached peek narcissism. not his podcast. new bust of newsom was unveiled in the san francisco city hall. >> raymond: according to "the daily mail" he funded the bust himself, laura. $97,000. that was just to properly sculpt the hairdo. he paid for his own monument

from three companies and it's probably the only thing newsom has ever contributed to california that the taxpayers didn't pick up. look at that he looks like gavin in pride and prejudice. he looks very stoic there. >> do you know what would be good: plaque underneath that said this bust sits on stolen land. indigenous people originally had this land and my bust sits on stolen land. >> raymond: there is a little bronze hair gel bottle next to it. >> laura: child size every time you look at it take one of the little bottles. all right, raymond, cruel, this is a cruel segment tonight i totally disassociate myself from it. the stranded astronauts will have to wait a little bit longer. we will tell you what went wrong, next. ♪

hey we're going big tonight let's go safety whoa! should i call mom? no, no don't tell your mother anything >> we have a fox news alert, the spacex rescue mission to bring back the stranded astronaut has

been called off. let's go live to kennedy space center very senior correspondent is standing by what happened? >> nasa officials say it was a high -- a hydraulic issue on one of the clamps that helps hold the rocket to the launch tower in the launch complex. they emphasize this was not a problem with the rocket itself, that spacex... or the capsule that rest on top of it. if you take a look at the live feed coming from nasa you can see the closeout team, those people dressed in the black and then just suits, they are helping the astronauts out of the spacecraft, it's a very long process getting them in and out. right now they are helping them to get out in the same team will help them back in once they determine the next launch attempt. they do have two upcoming

windows or opportunities. the earliest would be tomorrow evening at 7:26 p.m. eastern. another window friday at 7:03 p.m. eastern time. that doesn't mean they are going to take it yet. they have to determine first that they are going to be able to repair this problem on the ground before the launch attempt. before they decide weather to take either of these very specific windows. they call them instantaneous launch windows because the international space station as a moving target, you have to launch at a specific time to reach the most ideal, efficient and safe trajectory for those astronauts. >> thank you very much. and taxpayers in indiana are shocked to learn about what changes their tax dollars could soon be funding. kevin corke is here with all the details. what on earth is going on.

>> you may have heard this, the aclu is suing the department of corrections on behalf of a transgender inmate. mn by the name of jonathan richardson who also goes by autumn. this person was convicted of strangling his 11-month-old stepdaughter back in 2001, killed her while her mom was at work. this inmate wants a so-called sex change surgery which doesn't change you from xy to xx but that's what they are calling it. the judge in this circumstance, a clinton appointee, granted the inmates motion to renew a preliminary injunction insofar as it relates to the 8th of may meant deliberate indifference claim. indiana's attorney general has been defending the law barring sex change operations for inmates. estate ag argues that the eighth mm it doesn't require the state to provide experimental treatments in general and it certainly doesn't apply here

especially when you have multiple doctors saying this inmate is a poor candidate for surgery. they also claims this inmate has identified as a female since the age of six and is now a woman. trapped in a man's body which means thanks to the judge, taxpayers in the state could be on the hook for this inmates operation. quite a scene and something that a lot of people can't believe but that's what they are telling us right now. >> this is crazy. does tattoo removal come with this exchange? that's terrifying. >> eighth amendment you know this, we are talking about cruel and unusual punishment. the argument they are making is that it's cruel to not give this surgery because he needs it. >> so eighth amendment cruel and unusual punishment, to not allow

taxpayer dollars to funnel to this operation which itself costs i think $100,000. that is what our framers understood to be cruel and unusual punishment. >> it is beyond shocking and here's. [simultaneous talking] >> but the supreme court does have some president on this issue and they will have to grapple with this. this is going to continue to pop up. always great to see you in person. thank you so much. that is it for us tonight we will have a big show for you tomorrow. i'm sitting down for an interview with vice president j.d. vance at the white house. nothings off the table. you won't want to miss it. follow me on social media. we will have behind-the-scenes photos of that and jesse watters takes it all from here. >> jesse: welcome to jesse watters prime time, tonight...