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joining us now from washington laura ingraham.ht, you heard my talking points and you heard bob beckel and the discussion go. >> first of all did purr reno perino and gutfeld put beckel's head in a device and squeeze it? what's going on. no problems on christmas. no attacks on religion in the public square. susan rice was treated unfairly. living in a parallel universe here. look, i think most people realize that after the election as often happens in politics the side that wins, democrats feel very heady, very cocky. feel like the country has shifted so much both politically and culturally that they can push their issues. >> and they are. >> laura: push more benefits for illegal immigrants. take the fight against religion and christmas. and they can do a variety of things. the problem with that in the end, bill, is that it's almost always overreaching on the part of the cocky party, the concreted party. in this case of course it's the democrats and more liberal democrats. they overreach. america kind of bristles and the people in

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i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly.w one week since 20-year-old adam lanza went on a shooting rampage that left 28 people dead including 20 little children. the massacre spawned a fierce debate over gun control. but the leading gun rights group, the nra has been largely silent until today. they came out swinging today against the media in a press conference which was occasionally interrupted by protesters. >> rather than face their own moral failings, the media demonized lawful gun owners, amplify their cries for more laws and fill the national media with misinformation and dishonest thinking. that only delays meaningful action and all but guarantee but the next atrocity is only a news cycle away. the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invested in a plan of absolute protection. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> laura: with us now to respond josh horowitz, he is the executive director of the coalition to stop gun violence. josh, good

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. >> hi everywhere, i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. g.o.p. and post election blues. that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo many believe the president has the upper hand in the fiscal cliff negotiations. if we gopher 00 cliff republicans think they will get most of the blame. if they give in to tax hikes conservatives believe they will infuriate their base. senator rand paul even believes that since they have such little leverage in the talks of president obama. well, republicans should just get out of the way and let the democrats raise taxes as much as they want. and then let the president take responsibility for party of high taxes. now can i understand senator paul's thinking especially given the fact that the president has already announced ahead of his mano a mano meeting can john boehner that he won't concede an inch on tax cuts. this republican defeatism news broke of jim demint's departure from the senate yesterday. is he a tea party warrior and demint is a hero to part of the g.o.p.'s 2010 midterm route. now he is o

always there. >> thanks for staying with us, i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly.r flashback. this year's ongoing christmas situation. many of the actions against public displays are christmas are taken of course by atheist organizations. bill recently spoke to david silverman president of the american atheist group. >> really trying to give point of view here. you are atheist, nonbeliever, i respect that that's fine. i don't look down on you. i don't think you are a pinhead. >> thank you. >> bill: if you want to be an atheist that's why we have america. be it. why are you messing around with my tradition? why are you messing around with christmas? just leave it alone. is there a compelling reason for you to mess around with it. >> we are only messing around -- we are not messing around with anything. we're stopping the government from preferring one religion over another. >> bill: stop there. >> no. >> no. >> bill: no, no, no, no. you listen to me and answer my questions. >> i try to enat questions, go ahead. >> bill: what religion is involved with christmas? what

. >> laura: hi everyone i i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. back-to-work. that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. yesterday the obama administration announced that the president would cut short his hawaiian holiday to make one more attempt to work out a deal to overt the so-called fiscal cliff. in unison, his pals in the news media repeated this white house talking point. >> president obama cutting short his vacation in hawaii, heading back now to washington. that will happen tonight to work on the fiscal cliff deal. >> the looming fiscal cliff is forcing president obama to cut short his christmas vacation. >> president obama is cutting short his christmas vacation. he is leaving hawaii tonight so that he can be back in washington when congress reconvenes tomorrow. >> laura: so we should believe that by leaving his island enclave that the president was making some big sacrifice for the country? i'm thinking washington, crossing the delaware on a bitter christmas night 1776 before going on to defeat the british in two major ba

i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. the unresolved problem segment tonight, it's been now one week since 20-year-old adam lanza went on a shooting rampage that left 28 people dead including 20 little children. the massacre spawned a fierce debate over gun control. but the leading gun rights group, the nra has been largely silent until today. they came out swinging today against the media in a press conference which was occasionally interrupted by protesters. >> rather than face their own moral failings, the media demonized lawful gun owners, amplify their cries for more laws and fill the national media with misinformation and dishonest thinking. that only delays meaningful action and all but guarantee but the next atrocity is only a news cycle away. the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invested in a plan of absolute protection. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> laura: with us now to respond josh horowitz, he is the executive direc

laura ingraham is joining us today from our nation's capitol.s okay. >> we're beaming in washington. sorry. >> brian: we, unfortunately, didn't tape the game. we don't know how it ended. >> steve: i think you could tell by the look on her face. >> brian: i know it was 16-10 when i went to bed. >> i saw it. washington might be paralyzed about this ridiculous fiscal cliff, but we're happy about this. >> gretchen: the only good news for washington now is the redskins win. >> and the weather. >> gretchen: the third thing is that the white house leaks are now saying that president obama actually maybe wants to go over the fiscal cliff if the republicans do not agree to raising income tax rates even though yesterday they agreed to these deductions and loopholes and getting rid of them, which essentially many people argue, would do somewhat of the same thing. your thoughts? >> right. so there are going to be consequences for syria if they use chemical weapons and the president thinks there is going to be severe consequences for the republicans if, in f

laura ingraham.com and follow me at twitter, ingraham angle. i will be tweeting throughout the weekend. thanks for watching us tonight. in for bill o'reilly. please remember the spin stops right here because we are always looking out for you. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to hannity and tonight we start with three very important questions. now, how is it possible that american has gotten so far off. economy will slow and slip into double digit recession like europe right now is experiencing. comes as more bad news on the jobs front as 350,000 americans have left the labor force which is a good indication that a real recovery is nowhere in sight. now, let's get right to the bottom line. you, the american people in american pay zero federal income tax. tell me what part of that is not fair? most taxpayers pay close to more than 50 cents of every dollar they make. they pay the state, the local, the fatigue government in taxes. what america should be addressing is two things. one, we should be addressing generational theft. we now as a country borrow 40 cents of

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there's laura ingraham. oops! oh oh! [ laughter ] >> their excuse was it wasn't laura. all right we'll see you guys monday. >> good evening, i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." the status quo rarely lasts more than 24 hours. just ask jim demint. he has done everything in his power to perpetuate the grid lock between the white house and capitol hill, including support for some far right candidates who won office in the conservative wave election of 2010 and for con turf as i haves like richard how are dock who may have cost the tea party many seats. he announced he was leaving for a lucrative post as one of the presidents of the heritage foundation. he explained. >> chad conley told the hill: >> this morning, house minority leader nancy pelosi was asked what it meant to her. the congressman reflected on his role. >> that was one of the saddest days so anyone who was a party to that, well, i wish them well wherever they are going. >> while we always wanted to wish someone well while they go on, i will not miss his often bizarre views or tea party rhetoric that defi

. >> stephanie: an influential group of conservative radio hosts including laura ingraham. >> imagineright. all right [ inaudible ] go ahead. >> caller: our president is doing so bad, but yet apple wants to move the factory here. >> stephanie: exactly right. unemployment dropped to the lowest in four years. >> caller: yeah, so i mean these guys are all hot wind. they are trying to push the statute of liberty over the cliff, and it is not happening. >> reality has a liberal bias. >> stephanie: that's a disturbing image pushing the statue of liberty over a cliff. bill press reporting today just the facts that we just reported. turned to the right-wing station and they were like how many jobs? not many not much. >> unemployment is down and here is hannity to explain why that is bad. >> stephanie: yeah. we'll continue fridays with fugelsang on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ i'm going to be on with the governor tomorrow night. she is awesome. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: hello current tv world. representative roberts andrews to give us

laura ingraham on that moments away. >> shepard: first, there is breaking news now on fox news channeland we have just had a major turn of events in washington. as the house of representatives, which was voting on the second half of its plan b, the republican plan to end the falling off the fiscal cliff has fallen apart. they voted on the first half earlier today and that went through. the second half was about increasing taxes on all incomes over a million dollars. frankly, there were a lot of republicans, as mike emanuel reported on "the fox report" who got elected on a pledge not to raise taxes. and a lot of republicans didn't want to raise -- vote he to raise taxes on anybody. even at levels above a millions. so though speaker boehner had hoped to have a vote on this tonight, he sent out a release a short time ago that they didn't take up the bill because they didn't have the votes. now they go into recess. and he says, mr. president, it's now up to you. continuing coverage throughout the night on fox news channel. i'm shepard smith. o'reilly is back right after this. [ male announ

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i'm laura ingraham. i'm in for bill o'reilly. please remember the spin always stops here. i'm going get the spin down one day. merry second day of christmas! >> hello, everyone. i'm greg along with kimberly guilfoyle and juan williams and andrea, and it's the five. >> so a new york paper called the journal news is under fire for printing the names and addresses of local gun owners. even adding a map that shows exactly where they live. some gun owners are ticked, which is wrong. because this article is the best argument for gun ownership ever. i mean, if you knew that an idiotic editor would out nongun owners, won you get a gun to protect yourself from the thugs? do you think he works for the nra. the paper made them the easiest marks. look at this map. what do you see? not just pockets of gun owners in red, but pockets without. how comfy would you be knowing your gun free area is now on line. but listen to the media talk about guns is like listening to a tree talk about algebra. listen to celebrities speaking out on gun control. of all the problems j zoo has, owning a -- j

laura ingraham and fox news political analyst juan williams. >> this week one gave me a new way to think of the way we are accumulating the huge national debt. it is interesting. under president obama the debt increased $5.7 trillion. the estimated cost of recovery from hurricane are sandy is $50 billion. so the rate at which our debt is increasing is as if a new hurricane sandy hit the u.s. treasury every two weeks. given that, bill, what do you think of the president's new stripped down plan which would reduce the debt by less than 2 sandys in the first year. >> the president is not serious about reducing the debt. that was evident the last four years and will be evident the next four years. we do have this practical problem ten days from now of the fiscal cliff. i said republicans would be well advised to accept the fact that president obama won the election and minimize the damage that will be done by the tax increase that is coming. >> chris: you would go for the stripped down obama plan? >> i would go for what the speaker tried to do late last week and try to get the number up from

kirsten powers from the daily beast web site, radio talk show host, laura ingraham and fox news politicaljuan williams. well, this week, someone gave me a new way to think of the way we are accumulating the huge national debt, in the country. bear with me for a moment. it is complicated but it is resting. under president obama the debt increased $5.7 trillion. the estimated cost of recovery from hurricane sandy, is $50 billion. so the rate at which our debt is increasing, is as if a new hurricane sandy hit the u.s. treasury every two weeks. given that, though, what do you think of the president's new stripped-down plan which would reduce the debt by less than 2 sandies in the first year? >> the president is not serious about reducing the debt and that has become evident over the last four years, as we continue to grow the deficit and it will be evident over the next four years, on the other hand, we have a practical problem, ten days from now, the fiscal cliff and on that, i think as i said many times on the show, republicans will be women advised to accept the fact the president won the

. >> julia: this woman was on o'rielly and laura ingraham was hosted it .he had adopted two russian children. she doesn't know if they will see the boy. they have gone over there constantly to get close to the little boy. more than 60,000 russian children have been taken in by americans in the past two decades. massive winter storm that killed 16 people so far continues to move over the northeast. it is expected to head into canada today as many travelers are trying to get home after christmas. they had flights cancelled all over the place and delaying 8000 more. many northwest states saw a foot of snow . in vermont, 21 inches. hard-hit arkansas, 200,000 homes and businesses lost power. the bush family said, put away the harps, it is confident that george bush will be out of the intensive care. he has an elevated fever but told his condition is not dire. is he sick, yes. does he plan on going anywhere soon? no. he will stay put. he would ask me to tell you to please put the harps back in the closest. the care in methodist hospital is unequaled to anywhere i

laura ingraham weighs in and she thinks this change in michigan is the beginning of a nationwide trernldegyn: confrontations outside of the michigan capital. white house press secretary jay carney said he had not heard not necessarily about the violence outside the michigan state capital, but comment made by one michigan state democrat saying there will be blood in the wake of michigan's right to work law. saying instead i haven't seen those comments. and talking about the president's repeated calls for civil debate. laura, i want to tell the viewers what happened. our own ed henry is at the white house press briefing. he asked about -- hold on -- about this guy mr. geiss, the michigan state democrat saying there will be blood if they do this in michigan. jay carney said, well, i didn't see that comment. doesn't sounds like it necessarily means what you are implying it means but the president likes civil debate in general and that's what we want to see in michigan. >> reporter: remember a few years back in 2009-2010 in the leadup to the obama-care vote, the tea party was described as bro

laura ingraham was actually hosting the factor. she adopted two children from russia.you been dealing with adopting this little boy. they have been so close. they were about to bring this little boy home. listen to what she has to say about this. we have done everything that the russian government has requested of us we have done parenting classes and traveled back and forth. these children are not available to international adoption until after they have been on a domestic registry for at least 8 months. now, in our son's case, 22 families russian families came to see him and rejected him because of his blood line. >> there is another mother who we are going to hear from now who has already adopted two russian kids and she was trying to adopt two other kids. no more. take a listen. >> they were already our family. we already had their names. we were already tech core rating their room. it's really. [crying] >> are you crying? >> what a sick man to do this. you know. >> clayton: if you think about the hypocrisy here. we talk about the human rights violations you are pu

tomorrow on our program, laura ingraham, cheryl casone, and actress aisha tyler. big show. >> gretchen: see you tomorrow bill: guys. good morning. as we start this week we want to talk about a dangerous rescue in afghanistan come at a high price the life of a u.s. navy seal. here is the mission. to save an american doctor kidnapped by the taliban. as we go through the story it's a reminder about the sacrifice still being made overseas. good morning i'm bill hemmer. whole new week here at "america's newsroom". martha: i'm martha maccallum. this fallen hero was a member of navy "seal team 6" that carried out the mission to kill usama bin laden. according to officials in afghanistan they came under heavy fire with this mission. >> according to our information the kidnappers were taliban. they were heavily armed with heavy machine guns, with so-called rpg. rocket propelled grenades and ak-47s. bill: steve centanni follows up in washington. what can we report about this rescue machine? >> reporter: good morning bill. it took place early sunday after intelligence reveal

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. >> hammar's mom was also on laura ingraham last night and talked about how thankful she was to foxs and how she did not want them driving in a rental car back home. she wanted them on a plane home as soon as possible. but a good ending there. >> we will have the congresswoman on the show coming up at 8:15 to talk more about that, update us on that. meanwhile another story that everyone is talking about, of course, is gun control in this country. i think it's a debate. if you look across facebook and twitter. everyone has an opinion on it. and everyone has shades of different feelings about it. of course. yesterday though was the big speech with wayne lap peer who is the executive vice president of the national rifle association at that big press conference. they had waited a week. a lot of people felt like this was a measured response. they were taking a week to gather their thoughts about what they were going to say. and then they came out at this press conference and what ended up unfolding and what stole the spotlight about five or six minutes into the press conference were some