laura? >> laura: thanks, adam. stay safe. the fbi chief tries to defend the bureau to congress today. it was wild. it was an onslaught of i love kiwis. i've always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free. it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. try super poligrip free. ♪ >> the fbi that i see is tens of thousands of agents and analysts and staff working their tails off to keep americans safe. the fbi that i see is people, decent people, committed to the highest principles of integrity and professionalism and respect. >> laura: that was fbi director chris wray responding to the president's assertion that his agency is in tatters following the bomb shell revelations about anti-trump bias but the bureau's former top investigator peter strozk. and after that, there's a potential conflict with a obama holdover. they're coming out of the wood work. this one in the justice department. bruce orr was stripped of his title a

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laura is standing by with her baby pictures. did you bring it. >> laura: no, no. i'm going to do it tomorrow. too many serious things. >> sean: i'm so angry over this tragedy, how the system failed the steinle family. i know you're angry, too. >> laura: we'll be all over it. thanks so much. >> sean: have a good show. >> laura: good evening from washington. this is "the ingraham angle." let's get to the top story. a stunning very digit out of san francisco. a five-time deported illegal alien with seven previous felony convictions was found, believe it or not, not guilty of murdering 32-year-old kate steinle on july 1, 2015. now, the jury did find jose garcia zarate guilty on one count, being a felon in possession of a firearm. the not guilty verdicts on the homicide charges came despite the fact that mr. garcia zarate both admitted to shooting mrs. steinle and to coming to san francisco to take advantage of its sanctuary city policies. remember, garcia zarate had been in custody of san francisco authorities until april of 2015, but then they released him without no

>> laura: horrific.s so much. black lives matter says it has a nasty christmas gift for white-owned businesses. a boycott. a boycott. we'll explain coming up.♪ ♪ohhhhhh, ou! guess what i just got? uh! ♪i used to be spellbound hello again. ♪i used to be spellbound hi. ♪i used to be spellbound that's a big phone. ♪in your arms. [screams] ah, my phone. ♪you built the flame ♪that warms my heart, ♪but lying and cheating ♪has torn us apart ♪and i'm moving on. >> laura: we always keep an eye on culture. tonight it has a christmas feel. why is the washington d.c. metro system waging a war on christmas? plus, cnn plans to boycott the white house christmas party. but we begin with black lives matter, which seems to be dreaming of an -- i don't know, communist christmas. joining us is raymond arroyo. raymond, let's start with the black lives matter issue. >> we do. >> laura: with white organizations and businesses, do they not like the phrase "white christmas?" >> no. they want to boycott all white-owned businesses

laura is next. we will see you back here for an important breaking news friday night. ♪ >> laura: the subject of tonight's angle. what we have seen over the past seven months at the mueller investigation reveal as lot about how big government can end up becoming a threat to representative democracy. and the more we look at the web of clinton and obama loyalists who burrowed in to mueller's office, the more obvious it all becomes. there were a number of highly influential and powerful people working inside the obama administration. who were not only horrified about the idea of donald trump winning the presidency, they were intent on preventing him from being elected by any means necessary. and if that meant applying for a fisa warrant based on a phony dossier in order to spy on the campaign, maybe they would do it. and if it meant deploying the entire mainstream media apparatus into death con one mode, hyperventilating with russian collusion 24/7, they would do it. and today if it requires floating a

doxy. >> laura: doxy.ted to have issues with sarah sanders, i mean, yeah, go ahead. >> laura: lot of substantive things to talk about. >> this is trashy. >> laura: chelsea not lately. great to see both of you and you don't want to miss what i have for you on the other side of this break. leave it to "time" magazine to celebrate some of the worst people in america. and later, my advice to president trump on how to honor the life and shame the city of san francisco. stay right here. we're on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, it's time to wake up to keurig. wakey! wakey! rise and shine! oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. so rich. i love it. that's why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you're describing the coffee and not me? full(♪)died. (♪) it all starts with a wish. the lincoln wish list event is here. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complementary first months payment. i was wondering if an electric toothbr

. -- laura ingraham is standing by. was it on an elli elliptical machine. >> sean: i do boxing and street martial arts. now how i train. i don't run on a stupid machine bored out of my mind. >> laura: i have seen your hand broken from mixed martial arts. >> sean: this is the latest. i snapped it when i hit somebody. it's fun. >> laura: i am afraid of you. >> sean: why do you start in on me. i hand the show over nicely and this is what i get. i give up. >> laura: you should come to the studio one night on a painted horse. wouldn't that be fun? roll right down 6th avenue. >> sean: oh, okay. it's new york city. every liberal in the world will be there. have a good show. >> laura: welcome to the "the ingraham angle" from washington. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> laura: last night we told you about disturbing text messages about president trump sent by the lead fbi investigator on the mueller probe. now we have our hands on more of this guy's text. they are more troubling than we originally thought. more details in a moment. also tonight, mo

doxy. >> laura: doxy.sarah sanders, i mean, yeah, go ahead. >> laura: lot of substantive things to talk about. >> this is trashy. >> laura: chelsea not lately. great to see both of you and you don't want to miss what i have for you on the other side of this break. leave it to "time" magazine to celebrate some of the worst people in america. and later, my advice to president trump on how to honor the life and shame the city of san francisco. stay right here. >> laura: goodie, "time" magazine released its 2017 person of the year finalists on "the today show." few on their list -- well, illegal alien dreamers demanding citizenship. the me, too movement. not a person by the way, the #metoo. and the kneeler in chief, colin kaepernick. the aclu honored him last night with their courageous advocate award. he offered this wisdom. >> we all have an obligation no matter the risk and regardless of reward to stand up for our fellow men and women who have been oppressed -- men and women who are being oppressed with the

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. >> laura: thank you and welcome to the angle. news breaking on multiple fronts you will not want to miss a single minute of the show tonight. al franken's career on the road microbes as a tsunami of democratic senators are now demanding that he step down. in a bold and historic moved by the president moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem recognizing it as the capital of the jewish state's parking vows of violent protest across the muslim world. we will talk about it in a rare interview with former defense secretary donald rumsfeld. don't and you want to stay till the end of the show tonight where i will deliver a special message on "time" magazine's farcical person of the year choice. but first, the desperate political warfare of the left. that's the focus of tonight's angle. i'm going to explain to you what is really behind all these calls on capitol hill suddenly for al franken to resign from the senate. at last count 34 democratic senators, look at them all their are demanding that he step down in the wake of a string of harass

laura? >> laura: james, thanks so much.oday's flynn news has the media, of course, going absolutely bonkers. and they are excited about the possibility that this could be curtain for president trump. >> there aren't many more dots after mike film, right? your dots go to kushner and then the president. there really have no other dots here. >> they're is a case that reaches directly in tout heart of the trump administration. into the oval office. >> people now who have believed that the president sort of loose way with information and facts was his best defense now think that the president is in danger and exposed. >> i do agree, this is a big moment where if you are on the fence you start to think, jeez, is this whole thing going down? is it watergate? >> laura: so the contrary. everything is watergate. nothing is watergate when everything is watergate. here is how famed federal prosecutor andy mccarthy put it, his own perspective in national review. he said for awrlt fewer roar, we have furor we have a so plea just as we di

the laura ingraham is live now from washington, d.c. laura? always. >> kimberly: all right. god bless, thank you so much. >> laura: you take care. welcome to the ingraham angle from washington. the president is poised to sign his historic tax cuts into law tomorrow. we'll tell you how he has reshaped the g.o.p. straight ahead in the angle. plus, we will expose the strategy behind those frenzied democratic warnings that the president shouldn't fire special prosecutor mueller. and the justice department is asking the fbi some very tough questions about their investigation of that shady uranium one deal involving the clintons. and at the u.n. the world condemning the united states for moving its own israeli embassy to jerusalem. but the president is taking names. a lot of people on that naughty list. so what's his next move? and did hollywood really just make a major film about the ultimate kennedy scandal? we'll tell you which one. but, first, trump, the great g.o.p. unio unifire that's the focus of tonight's angle. do you remember those headlines about how trump was going to

laura, we are handing it off to you. care. and welcome everybody to "the ingraham angle" from washington. it isn't just a merry christmas, it's a truly historic one. epic tax cuts cleared both houses of congress and were sent to the president's desk today. i sat down with vice president mike pence earlier this evening to get the white house take on this major achievement, that's coming right up. this massive overhaul of the tax code is the biggest in 30 years. it's going to benefit 80% of the american taxpayers and is a major victory for businesses and for workers. in fact, a slate of major corporations announced today that they will be giving out special bonuses to hundreds of thousands of employees as a result of the new tax field. why, it's like christmas day at george bailey's house. kind of. except for the caroling. the tax bill also delivers another huge achievement to the president, a repeal of obamacare's individual mandate. he did what congress wouldn't do, which may be the death knell for a program that has been a dr

says, i'm out. >> laura: have a good night. good evening from new york. welcome to "the ingraham angle"" explosive and exclusive new information will put further pressure on special prosecutor bob mueller to resign. that's the focus of tonight's angle. last night we brought you a disturbing and revealing report about fbi investigator peter strzok, who was relieved of his duties in the mueller office after it was revealed that he texted anti-trump messages during the 2016 presidential debate. previously strzok had been a top investigator on the hillary clinton email probe and was responsible for watering down the language. then-fbi director comey use to e mrs. clinton's handling of classified information on her private email server, isn't that neat. the original language called her "grossly negligent," which by the way can be a criminal violation of the applicable statute. but it was changed by strzok to merely "extremely careless." once again hillary ends up skating for conduct that would have put any of us behind bars. struck

laura is next. see you tomorrow night. >> laura: good evening from washington. this is "the ingraham angle." it's been a big news day here in the nation's capitol. and in new york city where an isis follower botched a terror attack, a pipe bomb strapped to his chest malfunctioned after detonation at the port authority subway station. surprise surprise, he got into america via -- wait for it -- chain migration. so isn't it time to ditch this dangerous policy finally? i'm going to ask univision anchor jorge ramos what he thinks of the debate of chain migration. and with accusations of part seasonship surrounding the mueller investigation. andy mccarthy will be here to explain how the mueller probe may be missing the most important russia story of all. but first, the media's desperate attempt to divert attention from their repeated screw-ups. that is the subject of today's angle. it wasn't just another fake news story attempting to tie president trump to russia. cnn's disgraceful reporting of last week seems like a watershed moment. a blatant example of the establi

laura ingraham is live now from washington, d.c. hello, laura. i follow you on tw. come on, who doesn't follow you? >> judge jeanine: it's my firsthandoff to you congratulations. >> laura: thanks so much, judge. great to see you will. welcome to the ingraham angle from washington. famed attorney lisa bloom shooting the messenger, blaming a far right journalist for busting her case. that's apparently after she was caught red-handed soliciting funds for those accusing donald trump of sexual misconduct. and that supposedly far right journalist is actually well-respected reporter john solomon of the hill. he used to work at the a.p. he is going to be here to give his side of the story. but, first, the left's hyperbole and hypocrisy regarding criticism of bob mueller and the fbi. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." critics of the president and this channel are howling that we are putting the country in danger. what's our crime? accurately reporting the alarming bias within essential counsel bob mueller's investigation. despite the fact that mueller and his team have u

i also say i'm happy to be your democrat on here, laura. >> laura: thank you. love it. >> the media is trying to get it right. there is more to the speed. there's not even a 24 hour news cycle right now. every outlet wants to break the story. the trump and russia connection, every outlet wants to be the one that broke. there's enough that puts enough between collusion -- >> laura: really? >> we don't know if it's criminal or not. >> laura: and ari, you can speak to this on the russia issue. we know campaigns have had contacts with russians. hillary's campaign did. barack obama -- people are reaching out to russian counter parts. the question is whether it's collusion or an attempt to undermine the democratic process, which would be a big problem. that's what they haven't found so far. there's been a lot of mistakes. no one is perfect. we're not perfect here. we try to get it right. it does seem that mainstream media outlets, it's a russian to be the network that finally does trump in. not the network that gets the story but the one to put him in. >> for 20 year

>> >> laura: it has everything to do about it. >> leading by example, laura. >> laura: really?the democrats who have linized ted kennedy for decades. the democrats who build. >> conyers. franken are going to resign. >> laura: going to continue to take money from the hollywood pornifiers shocked there is sexual harassment behind closed doors. message out of hollywood is sexualizing and objectifying and misog lyrics and words. >> what are you saying to these women president trump? are you saying they are wrong? >> laura: i have no idea whether they are wrong or right. american people voted on it all i know is the democrats have no message because you still vngts said any message. >> i just gave you one. >> laura: what are the three steps to economic growth in the democratic party. >> first of all we have to provide healthcare for people. >> laura: that's economic growth. >> yeah, because a healthy population. >> laura: they got no economic plan. go ahead, herman. i mean, you gout no economic plan. >> clinton economic plan. i'm sure you just don't want to hear it. >> antwon, i let

. >> laura: how many hours can you be on? are you doing "fox & friends" in the morning, a cooking segment. >> i'll check my email. great job as always. welcome, everybody. to "the ingraham angle". from washington what the president should do next year to improve his popularity and perhaps prevent a mid-term wipe out. that's the focus of tonight's angle. with the economy up, isis pummeled, criminals deported, 12 appellate judges confirmed. regulations slashed and consumer confidence high, one would think the president's poll numbers would be above 50. they're not. of course, the usual suspects in the media, the same people who erroneously relied on polls in 2016 are eager to hype the bad trump news. >> today we have a president with sinking approval ratings, unpopular piece of legislation, the tax bill supported by one party. >> 24% approval rating among women. i've never seen a number that low. >> the president's approval rating has fallen to 35%. that's a new low in our cnn polling. >> that is something that is a record low

laura? >> laura: james, thanks so much.ay's flynn news has the media, of course, going absolutely bonkers. and they are excited about the possibility that this could be curtain for president trump. >> there aren't many more dots after mike film, right? your dots go to kushner and then the president. there really have no other dots here. >> they're is a case that reaches directly in tout heart of the trump administration. into the oval office. >> people now who have believed that the president sort of loose way with information and facts was his best defense now think that the president is in danger and exposed. >> i do agree, this is a big moment where if you are on the fence you start to think, jeez, is this whole thing going down? is it watergate? >> laura: so the contrary. everything is watergate. nothing is watergate when everything is watergate. here is how famed federal prosecutor andy mccarthy put it, his own perspective in national review. he said for awrlt fewer roar, we have furor we have a so plea just as we did

>> >> laura: it has everything to do about it. >> leading by example, laura. >> laura: really?o the democrats who have linized ted kennedy for decades. the democrats who build. >> conyers. franken are going to resign. >> laura: going to continue to take money from the hollywood pornifiers shocked there is sexual harassment behind closed doors. message out of hollywood is sexualizing and objectifying and misog lyrics and words. >> what are you saying to these women president trump? are you saying they are wrong? >> laura: i have no idea whether they are wrong or right. american people voted on it all i know is the democrats have no message because you still vngts said any message. >> i just gave you one. >> laura: what are the three steps to economic growth in the democratic party. >> first of all we have to provide healthcare for people. >> laura: that's economic growth. >> yeah, because a healthy population. >> laura: they got no economic plan. go ahead, herman. i mean, you gout no economic plan. >> clinton economic plan. i'm sure you just don't want to hear it. >> antwon, i l

we will toss it back to laura.ra, to your point on your ankle, i think that this is going to embolden democrats to use this issue, specifically against this president. you are already seeing it as you predicted last week. but it's only intensifying in recent days. >> laura: i would like to hear from the panel about this. it may be brit hume can weigh in on this. if they are able to take out a senate candidate in alabama with these allegations as lurid as they were, what does this mean for the umpteen number of democrats who will inevitably come forward to urge the president to resigned. the constantly airings of the old allegations from october 2016 and putting this pressure all the way from 2018 midterm elections, the war on women. i think we see this all the way through 2018. >> we may, laura, but there's one thing that is clear here, and that is that whether you believe that the women are not, nothing new really has emerged about donald trump. what we are hearing is a re-airing of allegations that were made befo

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laura is utterly distraught, as far as family. laura is utterly distraught, as farasi family.dful of the fa ct we have got to be mindful of the fact that this was very much at the lower end of the scale, but people are very disappointed, not least, laura. she has been incarcerated since the 9th of october, she is a woman of good character, stupid decent and honest hard—working british woman from hull, who has not so british woman from hull, who has not so much as had a parking violation, and she has found herself in this terrible predicament, where sears facing a custodial sentence, in a foreign prison. it is terrifying for her. what do you make of the misunderstanding which led to today's, well it was not a hearing, was it? because she was sentenced to three years. the conviction was there already. how do you understand that any appeal would be taken forward ? that any appeal would be taken forward? i don't know that that is correct. i spoke to the lawyer, yesterday, and they communicated with him today. as a understand it, there was something lost in translation. thejudge th

we are skeptical about -- -- >> laura: you >> laura: you saw the turnout in the alabama race. african-americans came out, women came out. >> if the president was sitting here he would say we are going to get delivering. they will keep talking, they will keep resisting, we will keep delivering. and as the american people see us with a stronger america at home and abroad, a safer america. think about the progress on the international stage. our hours are contributing as never before. north korea has been isolated. we put iran on notice and has not certified the iran nuclear deal. and the isis caliphate has collapsed. we've actually taken back with the capital of their so-called caliphate was thanks to the courage of our armed forces and the leadership of our commander in chief. we made incredible progress. >> laura: that's why asked the question about the polls. that is an unbelievable record in one year. by any standard if people are being objective. but the media, the establishment media doesn't want to give a shred of credit to this administration. many of them are actually c

laura: maybe.he president is presenting it with something that could actually kickstart the peace process by getting rid of a politically thorny issue. >> he is getting rid of a politically thorny issue for himself, but he is injecting a massively thorny issue into the israeli and palestinian politics at a moment where they do not need it. the israelis are not even asking for this. when you go to israel, this is not a high priority. obviously they will he happy about it. for palestinians, how can the president meet with president trump and be seen with him after trump has done this? how can the crown prince of saudi arabia be seen closely with trump publicly, embracing an american plan now that this is happened? it seems to me to put the cart before the horse. it doesn't make sense. laura: ultimately do you think there could be a peace process unveiled by jared kushner? he has worked on it for months -- that it could work after this announcement? >> we will have to wait and see. it's always possibl

laura has the option.o submit foran appeal in she only had 16 minutes to submit for an appeal in front of the court commission. you are her lawyer, are you advising her to appeal? of course i advise laura to appeal. can igo course i advise laura to appeal. can i go back to the first question. some newspapers here are suggesting that because of the poor translation yesterday, she accidentally pleaded guilty, is that true or not true?m is true. what happened, it is a misunderstanding between laura and thejudge. thejudge misunderstanding between laura and the judge. the judge asked misunderstanding between laura and thejudge. thejudge asked laura are you guilty or not guilty but there we re you guilty or not guilty but there were three for smuggling and 34 tramadol, laura said yes, that i am charged with smuggling and tramadol, thejudge thinking that charged with smuggling and tramadol, the judge thinking that laura a nswered the judge thinking that laura answered that she pleaded guilty. he is thinking that

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laura: thanks so much for joining us. alexis: thanks, laura. laura: amid tension over north koreas nuclear program, representatives from pyongyang and the u.s. addressed the un's security council today. the secretary of state said the north must stop threatening behavior for a sustained period before talks can take place. pyongyang's envoy claims his country was no threat. themore on this, i spoke to bbc's u.n. reporter at u.n. headquarters a short time ago. it is pretty rare, isn't it, to hear north korea's representatives speak in front of the un security council? what was his message? reporter: absolutely. the ambassador usually doesn't engage the security council, and he was really trying to paint the u.s. is the main problem in the region. he said his country was a responsible nuclear power, a peaceloving state. he said the program was set up as a self-defensive measure against the united states' nuclear program. he promised members of the security council that is country posed no threat unless their own rights were infringed upon. now, th

welcome tou, laura. >> laura: it's great to be here today. i'm laura engel in for sandra smith. the senate committee anxious to talk to bruce ohr about his links to the trump dossier. one of several committees investigating collusion between the trump campaign and russia and anti-trump bias at the justice department and f.b.i. senator james langford talking about mueller's russia probe earlier on "america's newsroom." >> he is trying to clean up a credibility problem by firing some individuals on his team that had a political bias of the president. he can stay out of the media, avoiding leaks and making sure everybody on his team treats everyone fair. >> laura: jays rosen live in our nation's capital. what are you learning today about these interrogations? >> deputy f.b.i. director andrew mccabe, the number two-man at the f.b.i. faced seven hours of questioning behind closed doors. it was mccabe who oversaw the hillary clinton email probe after his wife accepted nearly half a million dollars from a clinton-allied group. mccabe said he couldn't recall when the dnc paid for the do

they are entitled to their opinion, they don't know laura. had had an accident. he didn't know she was bringing them, she was doing it to be kind. how can you be sentenced to three years just for being kind? what are you going to do now? we're just going to... sorry... we are going to have to repeal. your sister isn't doing so well, can you tell us about that? she is on the verge of a mental breakdown, and so is my mum. it is just horrendous. i cannot believe that the country has done this to us. what do they gain by sentencing laura to three years, to be mixing with real criminals. she's just a normal girl who works in hull. she sells clothes, she comes home, she watches telly, then she goes to bed. she doesn't drink, smoke, she doesn't go out. she just lives to go to egypt's. she loves the country and she is in love with her partner. we are absolutely devastated this has happened to her. that was jane sinclair on the plight of her sister, laura plummer, who has been sentenced to three years in jail in egypt today. the headlines on bbc news:

laura: i'm laura keller.k founder masayoshi son has invested in more than 1000 companies, but one investment looms above all the rest. an early been on alibaba. he talked about the deal on a david rubenstein show. one of the investments you made is considered by many people to be the most accessible investment in the history of mankind. you invested roughly $20 million in alibaba. at the time it went public, it was worth roughly $90 billion. $20 million of $90 million, a return of 4500%. jack ma is a distinguished individual, one of the most successful burners in the world. what made you feel this was worth putting in $20 million? >> he had no business plan. [laughter] zero revenue. , maybe 35, 40 employees. his eyes were very strong, strong, shining eyes. i could tell from the way that he talked, the way that he looked, he had that charisma, leadership. his business model was wrong. the way that he talked, the way that he can bring young, chinese people following him. >> before yahoo! was famous, you made an

laura: i'm laura keller. welcome to "bloomberg markets."berg world headquarters in new york, here are the top stories around the world that we are following. shery: running the bitcoins roller coaster year the cryptocurrency rally past 50,000 after last week selloff, but what does it mean for heirs of a bubble? saudi arabia pinning its hopes on oil, the kingdom expecting a major boost in oil revenue to the first budget surplus in a decade. has call it it's talking this christmas. analysts lowered iphone x lacking projections, holiday demand. halfway into the trading day. let's take a look at where the markets are trading. markets are feeling a little bit of downward pressure at the moment. the dow trading at

laura is utterly distraught as far as family. laura is utterly distraught as faras i'm family. is utterly distraught as far as i'm aware, and clearly, we have to be mindful of the fact that this was very much at the lower end of the scale, but people are very disappointed, not least laura. she has been incarcerated since 19th of 0ctober. she's a woman of good character. she's a honest, hard—working british character. she's a honest, ha rd—working british woman character. she's a honest, hard—working british woman from hull. she had never had a parking violation and she has found herself in this terrible predicament, where she is facing a custodial sentence, ina she is facing a custodial sentence, in a foreign present. it is utterly terrifying for her. what you make of the apparent misunderstanding in court that led to did a's hearing, but it was not a hearing, was it, because she was entered the three yea rs, because she was entered the three years, the conviction was there already. how would you understand that the appeal will take forward? i'm not sure if that is correct. as