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way. this is getting better and better. congressman devin nunes is here. word tonight, i think, biden is jumping into the 2020 race. i'm so happy. someones should tell the democrats their two front runners are white men with the combined age of 153. it's good if you are a first growth bordeaux. that debate and highlights from today's wacky biden event with the firefighters. and an important "ingraham angle" update. portland state isra responding o this show after we covered the anti-free speech thugs at school erlast week. first, the elites admitting privileges. that's the focus of tonight angle. we have heard a lot about white privilege lately from the social justice crowd. this idea that whiteness itself can be an asset, a proxy for a class or othern social privileg. but today we saw what the real abusive privilege looks like when elites of different ethnic backgrounds and races use their money to buy status. educational status, that is, for their children. what do manuel henriquez, ceo of aphercules capital, doug hodge, former chief operating officer of pimco, actresses felicity huffman, loriie, loughli of t international law firm willkie farr and gallagher all have in common? they were among the 33 parents and nine athletic coaches across the country charged in a $25 million bribery scheme to get their kids into top colleges. >> numerous parents paid singer between $15,000 and $75,000 to have someone take the exam for their child or correct the answers afterwards. parents paid singer money he used to bribe coaches and administrators to designatee their children as recruited athletes for various schools. these parents are a catalog of wealth and privilege. this case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud. there can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy and i will add there will not be a separate criminal justice system either. >> laura: dubbed operation varsity blues, a web of fraud and chaos perhaps going back to 2011 until just last month. celebs and titans of industry shelled out huge money to university staffs at prestigious universities who would designate their kids as athletes. athletes' applications get considered under lowered standards at many schools. >> every year hundreds of thousands of hardworking, talented students strive foror admission to elite schools. the students work harder and harder every year in a system that appears to grow more and more competitive every year. that system is a zero-sum game. for every student admitted through fraud, an honest, genuinely talented student was rejected. >> laura: another man at the center of this fraud is the guy you heard referenced earlier, william singer, otherwise known as rick singer, the founder of a college prep firm calledng the edge college and career network, a.k.a. the key. he pled guilty today and is cooperating. "the sacramento bee" quoting local college admissionsin counselor,r, margie ammot, as saying singer would tell parents that he could get their child into the college of their choice. professional education consultants don't say i can get you into a specific particular college. part of the singer magic was allegedly having expert testtakers take act and s.a.t. tests for his clients. also the added bonus of photoshopping applicants' heads onto random athletic-looking bodies. in "the new york times" piece about this, the focus was partly on how today's high-pressure application environment affects this. the charges underscored how college admissions have become so cutthroat and competitive that some have sought to break the rules. well, guess what. the process has been super competitive for decades especially since universities have f increased admissions of foreign students. this is no excuse, though, for gaming the system. in this case, that's not just breaking the rules but breaking the law. >> something you long believed to be true but realize isn't. >> good behavior is rewarded. >> laura: don't you miss larry king's laugh? that's what i call a desperate housewife. apparently driven to desperate and illegal measures. just a few years earlier, huffman was tweeting this photo of herself demanding respect and equality. you see the hashtag about our daughters. i guess that equality wouldn't apply to the girls applying opposite of her daughters for lsthe same college slot. here's how i see all of this. there was a time when colleges used to mostly admit on merit, mainly test scores plus athletics and extracurriculars. then they started various legal forms of corruption. legacy admissions, lowered standards for athletes, admission for big donors, and of course affirmative action. but this latest bust takes the corruption to an entirely new level where the elites played the process, turning what was a partial scam into a full-scale bracket. once college admissions is perceived as a scam, well, guess what, it attracts scam artists. the solution is to bust these scammers but also to reconsider the legal schemes the elites have used and abused for years which only hurts the hardworking qualified kids, who deserve admission like the prosecutor said. the reputation of elite colleges was built on merit, and these institutions were envisioned as rungs for those with the qualifications for those to climb up the ladder. they were not supposed to be clubs for the elites. now we need to return to the principle of merit-based admission again. make the lawbreakers pay in this case, but also i it's time to lk at the institutionalized abuses of the admissions process across the board, especially since a lot of these schools are being subsidized in one way or another by the taxpayers. and that's the angle. all right, joining me now, harmeet dhillon, attorneyt' and republican party official. dan lee is the cofounder of solomon admissions. christopher hunt is a college as a consultant for college essay mentor. all right, i a don't know who ts story is more damaging to, universities who've moved far left and obviously this is terrible for them. or the elites who are so desperate to get their kids into what they think are the best schools ever. thinking to myself is it worth going to jail? is it really worth it? what really is going on here? >> i don't think these parents ever thought they were going to get caught. when you look at some of the secretly recorded testimony, it's clear they kind of thought they were going to get away with it and it's wink, wink, nudge, nudge. that's one issue. as you mentioned, these kids have this entitlement mentality and everybody gets a reward. everybody's number one. there is no such thing as competition anymore.s so kids are already spoiled brats, just to be very frank. parents are waiting, maybe they weren't paying attention. i think it's very bad for these iindividual parents but you know this is the first shoe that's going to drop. it's probably a much bigger scandal. >> laura: christopher, you were quoted in "the new york times" piece written about this today and i know there's a lot of good college consultants out there who are just trying to advise parents who i think right now are very overwhelmed. people are overwhelmed with his process. if i had a dollar for the number of friends of mine -- my kids are young still. friends of mine are m like oh, y god, i'm doing this college admissions. it's a nightmare. if you don't know somebody. a friend of mine kid's got an 800 on the s.a.t., 790, incredible kid. didn't get into princeton. got into a couple really good schools but was basically goose-egged at the ivies. i'm, like, good for you. go to a great state school. what are your thoughts here?oo how deep is the corruption? >> well, in terms of criminality, think it's pretty shallow. i doubt this guy is the only one who has bribedi or attempted to make a direct payment, but in terms of how you want to define corruption, in terms of a process, clearly there is something other than merit at work across the board at ivy league schools. perhaps that's even what the harvard lawsuit was getting at. >> laura: we are going to get to that in the w moment with a guest who was denied a position at harvard because of what they described to be discriminatory practices. regarding the criminality, we have tax fraud. bank fraud. c we have people making charitable contributions, getting write-offs for charities that didn't exist really as a charity. it existed pass-through. we don't have to debate the legal issues here. this goes right to the heart of this question that a lot of parents today are asking. is this really worth it, this struggle to get into these top 50 schools? is it really worth it in the end? >> it can be worth it depending on what your current goals are. for instance a lot of the students we work with want to go otinto investment banking. so for investment banking recruiting, you definitely want to go to a set of target schools. those target schoolsei being the ivies. for a lot of students, we work with them in eighth or ninth grade. we basically plan their activities.an >> laura: can i say something about that. we plan. i have a problem with this. we have chatted. we plan their extracurricular activities. how about pick up a rake? that is my extracurricular activity. go play softball down the street. pick up aes rake. this whole thing is a scam. if they want to play a sport or if they want to push themselves to volunteer, good for them. but when adults are telling kide you've got to have this check, this check, the kids like what? maybe those particular kids should go to a state school or maybe they should go to an ivy league school even though they don't know someone really well-connected to the university. that legacy thing, i'm sorry. i was privileged to go to a great school. i worked my tail off to get there. i don't think my kid should have any special treatment at the school i went to. t i absolutely do not think they should. i am on the record saying that, by the way. >> i completely agree with you. a lot of the students we work with, they are very self-motivated and so they will come to us and say, you know, i would likend to go to stanford or harvard and they want us to tell them literally how to get there. >> laura: parents want to live vicariously through their kids and this olivia jade giannulli talked about her college experience on march 8th. she was on a television show. she is the daughter of felicity huffman and -- excuse me, lorind loughlin and her husband, mossimo giannulli. let's watch. >> mostlyo my parents really wanted me to go because both of them didn't go to college and then -- >> they did all right. >> they did fine. hypocrites. [laughs] so happy they made me go. it's like the coolest thing getting dms from girls. i'm applying to college. what do you do? >> what do you do? these daughters have, they are big on instagram. >> laura: big social media influences and they make a lot of money. it's capitalism.ig free market. i've no problem with that. >> it's great.is you should pursue it. they didn't not take a slot away from someone else. a couple things going on. one thing is to supply of students has outstripped the demand. you talked about foreign students, but the federal government subsidizing anybody who wants to the college means that people who shouldn't be college are going to college and that's really crowding g out legitimate competition. and quotas, the reason the scam was able to go on is that they are set aside at each of these top schools for sports and apparently there is no actual standard. they don't check whether they're good at sports or anything like that.. they let them in. then they proceed not even participate in those ports at all. p i just wonder, there's absolutely no quality control the schools. >> laura: the foreign students are part of it. that was different from when you and i, we both went to dartmouth. it's b big and it's opened up ad a lot of them pay cash. colleges like that. chris, there's a lot of factors. forbes has published pieces by people who say is it worth it. you still make more money in general if you go to college than if you don't go to college. but we have this huge weight of college debt. $1.5 trillion outstanding college debt today. i think the average kidod was tabout $28,000, which most peoe probably will be able to pay off but a lot of people won't. what about that? what about that aspect of it? and a lot of these kids don't even e get jobs in the areas of study that they majored in. that's another issue that keeps getting raised in forbes and beyond. >> well, the group you are talking about here is elite colleges. you're talking about the ivy league and stanford. >> laura: we are talking about wake forest, u texas. it's not just ivy league. chris, it's wake forest, it's ut. usc, and a number of others. i was kind of surprised to see them on the list. they are great schools but again, you're going to commit a federal crime. you kind of blew off the crime but you're going to commit multiple federal crimes? maybe this is the job you do and everybody bribes everybody but it's against the law to do what they did. that's why we had 200 investigators on the case because regular kids don't get into the schools because the elite kids, coddled kids, that harmeet was talking about, gets the doors open for them where mommy daddy pay for it.ha the taxpayers subsidize it to. >> i think you would want to divide the elite into, it's not uniform. there's the elite who have power and influence, and they aree already getting into schools as legacies. for example, if your name was bush, it was pretty easy to get into yale. >> laura: i pointed that out in the angle. that's the first level of corruption. we are now at the actual illegal level of corruption. >> so probably the people who are committing these crimes were the elite who felt they didn't have access and then were tempted with an angle, which was through the sports window. it's a smaller group. clearly it's a search for access where you have none. >> laura: yeah, i think that's a fair point. what happens to be illegal. harmeet, are they going to make an example out of them? felicity huffman was trotting around the court sketches today. >> they need to. this is federal tax crime, wire fraud. taking advantage of other kids. racketeering is part of this as well for some of the participants. >> laura: two cooperating defendants both pled, one of the coaches and singer himself. >> the prosecutor said their other shoes that are going to drop as well. >> laura: yikes. panel, thank you so much. fascinating topic. and our ne pla think that's a fair point. >> so probably the people who are committing these crimes were the elite who felt they didn't have access and then were tempted with an angle, which was through the sports window. it's a smaller group. clearly it's a search for access where you have none. >> laura: yeah, i think that's a fair point. what happens to be illegal. harmeet, are they going to make an example out of them? felicity huffman was trotting around the court sketches today. >> they need to. this is federal tax crime, wire fraud. taking advantage of other kids. racketeering is part of this as well for some of the participants. >> laura: two cooperating defendants both pled, one of the coaches and singer himself. >> the prosecutor said their other shoes that are going to drop as well. he>> laura: yikes. panel, thank you so much. fascinating topic. and our next guest graduated number one from his high school. he aced 17 advanced placement classes in high school. show off. excelled in extracurricular activities and scored high in. his college admissionsxt test. despite that, harrison chen was rejected from harvard. he is supportive of a lawsuit against harvard claiming determination against asian-americans saying the college process has "created institutions that fail to reward merit." harrison chen joins us. harrison, when the story came out and you saw complicity of some college officials, did that surprise you at all? >> not really, i guess. >> laura: what do you think about this? how does this make you feel after having got rejected at harvard? harvard is not one of the schools, i believe, implicated. not yet, harmeet says. yale is and a number of other top schools. these are wealthy people who can pay peoplee either to take their tests. you actually took your own test, correct, harrison? you didn't pay someone to take your test? you took your test. and they had people pay or they photoshopped heads on athletic bodies and falsified athletic records. this clearly is a far cry from the merit-based system you're asking for. >> definitely. i would definitely say that. >> laura: what are the students' reaction? any scuttlebutt on campus? >> excuse me? sorry. >> laura: excuse me? >> sorry, i didn't get that. >> laura: are students reacting? >> i had a friend talk about it. we weren't really surprised. >> laura: not surprised because you're used to this type of, you're used to this type of privilege being flaunted and utilized to try open doors? >> i guess it wastr kind of an unsaid thing that most college students wouldn't be surprised to hear about this news. >> laura: unbelievable. harmeet, it shouldn't surprise you, right? >> it doesn't surprise me because you've got people who have all the money in the world wand you have all these loophos that are there for exploitation. this is what smart people do. esand desperate people. these people are desperate to get this badge, if you will, that's required to proceed in our society. maybe it shouldn't be, but in any event, what they did was totally illegal on multiple levels. take aside the illegality, you still to let people participating in sports just for getting into college. that's a form of corruption. you have -- >> laura: it's supposed to be aboutru learning. i played three sports. i was a big athlete, loved sports. love them. big part of my life. academics was always first. >> academics is always first. when you look at the profile of these people, most of them are white, okay, they are taking spaces from asians. spaces from asians. >> laura: this is a kind of privilege that alexandria ocasio-cortez and the crowd, that they should be focusing on because this truly is the use of positions of privilege to open doors. i don't think it has anything to do with the color of your skin. it has everything to do with the money and the -- in some cases, celebrity. big time financial. willkie farr. did you interview? >> chairman of willkie farr. so many of them had two homes. that's the level of privilege we are talking about here. >> laura: well, all of you whoth didn't get into one of those schools and applied, well, at least you're not in jail. panel, thanks so much. up next, you won't i believe it, we have another case of corruption on our college campuses. this time involving a foreign foe. and then, well, it now is semiofficial. amtrak's joe biden is said to be entering the democratic primary field in the coming weeks, but does he still have it? up next, highlights from a truly bizarre speech the vice president gave this morning. stay there. into action... the bookers. the doers. the 'hit that confirmation button and let's go!'- ers! because bookers know that the perfect place to stay... is right there for the booking. be a booker at booking.com no >> laura: more attempted cheating of the american education system tonight, if you can believe it. we brought you the outrageous stories of birthright citizenship motels, abused primarily by the russians and chinese, but now the plot has thickened. today the doj revealed that federal authorities arrested five people in a scheme to help chinese nationals obtain student visas in the u.s. investigators say students hire the defendants to take the required english proficiency test for the visas by using fake passports. the u.s. requires foreign citizens who wish to enter the country on a temporary basis to study at a college or university to first obtain an f-1 student visa. members of the cheating ring are accused of impersonating chinese nationals atin test centers acrs southern california. is there something in the water in california with all this cheating on tests? they face up to ten years in federal prison if convicted of conspiracy, identity theft, andd using a false passport. >> i appreciate the energy you showed when i got up here. save it a little longer. i may need it in a few weeks. be careful what you wish for. be careful what you wish for. >> laura: okay, well, a congressional source revealing to "the hill" newspaper that joe biden is definitely jumping into the 2020 race, as he appears to allude to in the remarks we just played. the biden you saw today is not necessarily striking fear into the hearts of potential democratic opponents. he gave a bit of a rambler of a speech, one in which he repeated himself over and over and over. >> my name is joe biden. i am jill biden's husband. community, community, community. not hyperbole, not hyperbole, not hyperbole. literally, literally, literally. not a joke. not a joke. not a joke. not a joke.te not aa joke. >> laura: [laughs] okay. wait a second. is that a real montage? his potential entry into the 2020 race is important becauseea it means the two current democratic frontrunners nationally in iowa and new hampshire have a combined age of a young 153 years old. it is not going to fly in this new, more diverse democratic party and what exactly does biden bring to the table? he was vp for eight years under president obama,ig who was grand unlimited goodwill and is beloved to this day. tt what did they actually achieve? well, joining me now is doug schoen, fox news contributor and former advisor to president bill clinton. and rochelle ritchie, former congressional press secretary for house democrats. great to see both of you. doug, let's start with you. that was an odd address. i wish we had an hour to play the full sound bites, but let's just say maybe he's a little rusty. could that be -- >> i think he's rusty but there's also, with joe biden, laura, let's be frank, a history of let's call it rustiness, inappropriate remarks, rambling. and he's already offended this activist left-wing by saying nice things about two republicans, most recently vice president mike pence. there's the "not ready for prime time." this is may be past prime time ready. >> laura: i was wondering, ed rendell, he is a beloved former governor of pennsylvania. ed rendell is actually very excited about the biden candidacy. let's watch.ct >> we will have trouble winning if we don't get back some of those white working-class democrats who voted for donald trump. the best person in our field without any shadow of a doubt to bring them back is joe biden. >> laura: rochelle is that the future of the democratic party? 153 years combined of the two front runners. >> they are still in a position to run our country, but i think biden is the hope for the democratic party right now. the reason why i say that is he's going to be more of a moderate candidate than what we are seeing right now from someonero such as bernie sander, who was also leading. i think the problem biden, however, will have is that people are going to continue to associate him with obama. so you're going to have a lot of obama supporters coming out saying yes, go biden. then you can have those people they don't like obama or didn't like obama saying i don't know. so he's going to really have to put out his plan if he becomes president where he focuses -- >> laura: honestly. again, don't turn it into a thing on trump. >> why not? >> laura: because i'm focusing on democrats right now. we know what you think of the republicans. there could be a drinking game with how many times joe biden uses the word literally. it's one of my pet peeves. people use the word literally incorrectly all the time but it's usually the kids like in the colleges or the ones who didn't get into the colleges. >> he gave a rambling speech, as trump has given rambling speeches as well. i don't really think this is an indication of his ability to lead or to speak in front of a crowd. as doug said, biden is kind of a wild card.d. he kind of does his own thing in reality. i think what democrats are going to have to do is they're going to have to take, i would say, some supporters some advice from someone like congresswoman cheri bustos who i worked for in the house and -- >> laura: no one knows who that is. i'm sorry. why are they taking advice from her? with all due respect. >> she won a district trump won and she won it by 20 points. >> laura: got it. l senator gillibrand, she's also concerned because the party is changing. everybody knows it. >> so is she. she started out as a moderate conservative democrat. >> laura: pro-gun rights. remember her? ti>> worked for tobacco. look, the democrats need a moderate. ed rendell is right. the question is, is joe biden, at a time when the party is, as you say, more diverse, more oriented towards women and minorities, going to go for a man who will be 78 at the end of the campaign? doesn't make a lot of sense, though we don't have anybody else because of the party for me has left moderates like rendell and myself far behind. >> laura: literally when he's criticized for saying i worked with republicans and we could get things done, that's considered completely radical. he's a radical for saying that. kirsten gillibrand is upset.cod she's not upset about her own problem with the sexual harassment scandal in her office but she is upset about something else. watch.th >> does it worry you to see the top three being white guys? >> yeah. i aspire for our country to recognize the duty of our diversity. at some point in the future, i hope more people of color not only aspire and win the presidency, because that's what makes america so extraordinary. we are all of that. we are everything. i think a more inclusive america is a stronger america. >> laura: is that, is that, is that it? >> i don't believe in identity politics, and i think in this election, people need to vote bfor who they think is the best candidate.nd don't vote for someone because they are black. don't vote for someone because they are white or a man or a woman. kirsten gillibrand, she's the -- she said she wanted more than 's50% of congress to be made upf women. she really does pander into this sort of identity politics that i don't agree with at all. >> laura: i want to take a trip down memory lane because when i was a few years out of yllege, joe biden ran for president. let's watch. >> i do it with incredible reluctance, and it makes me angry. i'm angry with myself for having been put in the position, put myself in the position of having to make this choice. >> laura: his choice at that point was to drop out because he had plagiarized a book by neil kinnock. it shows you how long these guys been around. i could make the argument, give a new person a try. you are a little long in the tooth. >> i think that's what democratic primary voters are inclined to do. the problem is they are not really electable. he is more electable but he's going to have a tough time getting nominated, laura. >> harris is a -- biden and harris is a winning ticket. >> laura: i'm going to make a prediction, biden-beto. is nancy pelosi losing control of her own party? doug was referencing it. how the radical newcomers are taking the career congresswoman to the brink in a push for impeachment. congressman devin nunes here to react next. ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy with trelegy and the power of 1-2-3, i'm breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to... ...open airways,... ...keep them open... ...and reduce inflammation... ...for 24 hours of better breathing. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. trelegy is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling,.. ...problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. think your copd medicine is doing enough? maybe you should think again. ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy and the power of 1-2-3. ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 save at trelegy.com. no no >> laura: the democratic party becoming even more divided as far left lawmakers continue to break with speaker nancy pelosi onon her opposition to impeachig the president. >> do you agree with nancy pelosi? >> i think i've already made that very clear. >> i know a lot of members in the caucus have a different opinion. but that's why we caucus. >> do you have a different opinion? >> i happen to, yes. >> i'm confident the impeachment should go forward. >> laura: here with reaction, california congressman devin nunes. congressman, is pelosi losing control of her party at this point? >> i would look at it as more of a tactical move. nancy pelosi definitely wants te impeach the president. they just want to find more evidence. so she is taking out of position that ultimately i think she will come around if they do in fact find their mythical animal they are looking for on collusion, obstruction, or any of trump's business deals. i see it as a tactical move. i wouldn't read a lot into it other than that it's something they normally do. she's just saying something publicly that privately she probably is not saying to her members. >> laura: the congressman into the tactical play. very interesting. your colleague, house intel chair adam schiff, has spent the better part of two years claiming thef president was in bed with the russians, right? >> there's clear evidence on the issue of collusion. >> for people who wonder what does collusion look like, bob mueller has told us. >> have democrats found any evidence of collusion? >> yes, we have. >> laura: wow, this is amazing. he had evidence, but given all that he laid out, congressman nunes, it was surprising to hear schiff offer this. >> what will be necessary to make an impeachment of bipartisan process would have to be extraordinarily clear and compelling. i don't foreclose the possibility that the mueller investigation will produce that or that our own will, but i think the speaker's absolutely right. >> laura: is he part of this tactical kind of underplaying this now because they don't think mueller is going to deliver all the goods? or is there something else going on? >> they have been all for impeachment. if they really believed the president of the united states is being controlled by the enenlin, this is what they've said. this is what they promised mueller would produce. this is why we spent tens of millions of dollars of american taxpayer money to prove collusion. so now that they are moving off of that, i wouldn't take it as that they are giving up. remember, they have opened up an entire investigation where they are going to supposedly go after all of trump's businesses. i think what this is is a tactical pullback from mueller, and they're going to go once again out drilling wells looking for the oil, the gold, whatever you want to call it. >> laura: congressman, i want to move on to another startling development with the hillary, you know, nonprosecution of hillary and the private email server, destruction of emails anand so forth. lisa page's full testimony, her transcript was released today. i think it was congressman collins who pushed for that and here's a part of what she said. she said "we had multiple conversations with the justice department about bringing a gross negligence charge -- meaning against hillary -- that's the advice we got from the department. they did not think it was constitutionally vague and not sustainable." in other words, they discussed charging hillary but justice said no, no, no that won't work. what do the american people need to understand about just that one excerpt? >> well, let's just take other cases that are very similar. we have many cases where you have sailors, for example, who took some pictures that appeared to be fun pictures but they had toclassified equipment in the picture. they got kicked out of the navy and sentenced. multiple examples where somebody takes classified information accidentally. they get prosecuted. this was done on purpose, private server, emails being sent to the private server. the private server disappears. hater emails show up that are classified. any person in the military or in the intelligence agencies would have been fired or even worse, put in jail. those are the facts. >> laura: i think what happens is our viewers watch this. they have seen this all laid out over the last two years plus, congressman. then they get demoralized because they say all this stuff happens, going back to what they were accusing kavanaugh of, leaks from feinstein's office it looks like. no repercussions and no repercussions in a case where regular americans, military men and women, get prosecuted and get the book thrown at them. but again, going back to what we talked about earlier in theed show, the college admission scam, people seem to get away with the stuff. so people get discouraged. do you have confidence that the new attorney general, bill barr, should he and will he look into this? >> look, i hear it every day, but i want to give your viewers and use some hope. there are people here in l.shington every day going brick by brick trying to bust down through this wall. look, we've been doing this for two years.g the house intelligence committee republicans, everything we've done is now being proven to be true. everything the democrats have done and said in the reports memos that haves put out have proven to be false. you have them now changing their tactics from we're going to go down the impeachment road to now something else. we continue to work on the house intelligence committee, we will be making several criminal referrals and we hope that the justice department will take these up. >> laura: when is that going to happen? when are those criminal referrals going to be made? >> i would guess sometime in the next two, three, four weeks. we'd like to see what's in the mueller report. i would also remind you, laura, that we are going to have a deposition from both christopher steele and david kramer. these are two witnesses that either pled the fifth or wouldn't come to present before the congress. >> laura: okay, well, we are waiting with baited breath because this is just a joke. you're always trying to lay out the facts for us and we really appre s aleft-w ca week there comie sm>> w look double l spoke at por p st this mornw current jackals onngngeentthhari >> i would guess sometime in the next two, three, four weeks. we'd like to see what's in the mueller report. i would also remind you, laura, that we are going to have a deposition from both christopher steele and david kramer. these are two witnesses that either pled the fifth or wouldn't come to present before the congress. >> laura: okay, well, we are waiting with baited breath because this is just a joke. you're always trying to lay out the facts for us and we really appreciate it, congressman. a lot more to get to tonight. updates on the storyt, out of portland state that we brought you last week where a conservative speaker was shut down, the most disgusting display of rudeness and just left-wing usual alinskyite tactics. new details on the jussie smollett case. plus, as president trump is attacked for questioning climate change, let's speak to a man who has spent his entire life dispelling certain climate myths. stay there. no no >> shannon: there is new video tonight of jussie smollett ahead of his court date later this week on 16 federal charges connected to his hate crime hoax. "the empire" actor appeared in the chicago court room to "show his confidence" in his innocence. as the judge determines whether cameras should be allowed in the courtroom going forward, neither state nor smollett's defense team objected to the request made by the media. smollett's attorney says they want everyone to hear the real story. >> we welcome cameras in the courtrooms so that the public and the media can see the actual evidence and what we believe is actually going to be the lack of evidence against mr. smollett and we look forward to complete transparency and the truth coming out. >> laura: excellent. good for us and you. now despite the federal indictment, many high-profile individuals are still standing by jussie. queen latifah, tyler perry, even maxine waters have either doubled down on their support or refused to comment following the latest revelation. we will stay on this story. and we also have an update on the story we told you about last week about that anti-free-speech thug on a certain college campus. protesters with cowbells of course interrupted that conservative blogger as he spoke at portland state university during a college republicans meeting. we reached out to 17 people at that university to come on our show last thursday to provide a statement to us about free speech on campus, what they are doing to protect it. only the media relations department ever got back to us. as promised, we followed up on the story and we asked u portlad state officials today if there have been any arrests or any kind of action taken against that protester. well, we received another statement. "the individual who disrupted the meeting is not a current student at portland state. if he was a student, he would be subject to psu's student code of conduct that has sanctions for violating rules governing student conduct." now remember, police stood by for an hour while this man tried to derail a conservative event. the university says that protester didn't break any laws. free-speech experts however-s still beg to differ. and after a prominent greenpeace canada member took climateid alarmists to task this morning on "fox & friends," president trump quoted him on twitter. in response, the media immediately were like jackals on the president. the independent u.k. blaring "trump repeats false claims." cnn headline called the president's tweet his latest denial of science. "huffington post" claims trump tirrots antiscience misinformation. but is that accurate? we put that question to a man who studied climate change for 35 years. greg wrightstone is a geologist ands author of the book "inconvenient facts, the science that al gore does not want you to know." it should be noted that apple approved an app that he built for this book, but then they pulled it down. greg, i want to begin this, with dire warnings about carbon. the united nations issued a warning that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was at levels not seen in 3 million years. that's a long time, greg. no that sounds scary. why are you denying the impact of this? you denier. >> yeah, well, the fact of the matter is we increased carbon dioxide by about 120 parts per million since the beginning of the industrial revolution. we are a little over 400 now. to put that in perspective, throughout its history prior to our current period, the average co2 levels on earth were 2600 parts per million. six and half times what they are right now and we have thrived. so this is really a minor increase in carbon dioxide. it needs to be put in the long term perspective and we see it's really just a blip. the other thing is that when i'm talking around the country, my talks usually center around how rising temperatures and increasing co2 are benefiting the earth and humanity. >> laura: greg, i also want to get your thoughts on the idea that we will see massive famines because of climate change. here is bill nye the science guy. you denier. >> yeah, well, the fact of the matter is we increased carbon heg.ide by about 120 parts per f million since the beginning of the industrial revolution. we are a little over 400 now. to put that in perspective, throughout its history prior to our current period, the average co2 levels on earth were 2600 parts per million. six and half times what they are right now and we have thrived. so this is really a minor increase in carbon dioxide. it needs to be put in the long term perspective and we see it's really just a blip. the other thing is that when i'm talking around the country, my talks usually center around how rising temperatures and increasing co2 are benefiting the earth and humanity. we have seen tremendous benefits from increasing co2. co2 fertilization effect is benefiting the land. >> laura: greg, i also want to get your thoughts on the idea that we will see massive famines because of climate change. here is bill nye the science guy. >> the agriculture in north america is going to have to move north into what wouldd nominally be canada. we don't have the railroads and roads to get food from that area to where we need it around the world. the longer we mess around and not address the problem, the tre difficult it's going to be. >> laura: are you ready to tow fields in saskatchewan? come on. >> i don't think so. what we have seen is -- what he's doing and it's important to look at this, a lot of what we hear from people like bill nye is speculation about what might look at this, a lot of what we hear from people like bill nye is speculation about what might happen 30, 50, or 80 years in the future based on failed climate models that predate global warming. we know that throughout human history, warming periods like we are in now and yes we are in a warming period, it's been warming for over 300 years. those warming periods were hugely beneficial, with bountiful crops, bountiful food. it was the cold periods that were really bad in between. that's when famine occurs. completely opposite of what bill nye is telling you. >> laura: really quick. they claim that it's not just famines we need to worry about but massive droughts too. here's a nasa climate scientist. >> in our projections what we're saying is that with climate change many of these type of droughts will likely last for 20, 30, sometimes even 40 yearsd these droughts really represent events that nobody in the history of the united states has ever had to deal with. >> laura: okay, nasa is never wrong. really quick, greg. >> they are wrong here. if you have my app, you can see. i look at the massive a droughts of the 20th century and we've seen mostnd of those occurred before 1960. these were the really bad droughts, and they are in decline. >> laura: we'll be right back. we appreciate that. i hope apple reconsiders and puts your app back up. we'll be back with the last bite. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. >> student: i did mine on volcanoes. >> teacher: you did?! oh, i can't wait to read it. >> tech vo: so when she had auto glass damage... she chose safelite. with safelite, she could see exactly when we'd be there. >> teacher: you must be pascal. >> tech: yes ma'am. >> tech vo: saving her time... 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