tonight. thanks so much for being with us. the phony democracy defenders, that's the focus of tonight's angle. all right. just as they scrambled to stop the rising trump campaign back in 2015, they're back in administrativing mode again. making wild and scary predictions. >> trump is promising to resort to authoritarian tactic should he become president again. if you don't think he is dying to silence his critics in the media think again. >> his top priority if he becomes president again is vengeance. >> donald trump uses nazi terminology to dehumanize his opponents. >> laura: now the headlines are so bad they are actually funny. from the "new york times" today why a second trump presidency may be more radical than its first. well, he has long exhibited authoritarian impulses blah blah blah. you get it. over the weekend trump responded in a speech in iowa turning the tables on biden. >> over the past few years critics, criminalized decent. and even attempt to leading electoral ryan by far on bogus charges. >> we love you! >> somehow i'm not worried. that's why we are doing. this we have to straighten out our country. >> laura: of course the "new york times" poo pooed president trump's attack. accusations against mr. biden, which he referenced repeatedly throughout his speech veered toward the twirl. he claimed american people. behavior on social media and purchases of cars and dish wash herbs i'm reading it going how is any of that untrue it's totally true. good to see that trump was pushing back on that charge that american lead so some apparently their argument goes like this. by giving the president more power over the federal bureaucracy, we would be marching toward a dictatorship. but, think about this for a minute. in the first place, it's nice to see that the media finally admits that unelected bureaucrats we would significant amount of power just as they all of a sudden claimed. let's talk about whether that's appropriate. biden supporters want to make sure that those bureaucrats are not chosen by the democrats or any elected official. they want a system whereby the bureaucracy hires its own members and promotions come from withinner with all that power held by unelected bureaucrats is wielded as the bureaucrats themselves want not as the voters want. welcome to the administrative state. now, of course, the press would tell you that bureaucrats are proud civil servants, they are trustworthy because they are chosen by a neutral process and they are supposed to act in accordance with the law but no one not a single person knows anything about how washington works believes that our bureaucracy is neutral. everyone understands that the bureaucracy is just another branch of the democratic party. now, for as long ascii remember, it's always been socially progressive like the democratic. china like the democrat party. very friendly to plutocrats who donate to the right politicians and like the democratic party it despises middle motorcycle it sees as fundamentally evil. now, ask yourself this are they going to promote people who believe in homeschooling? at the department of treasury, are they going to promote people who worry about the trade deficit? at the state department are they going to promote people who don't trust the eu or the ccp? and at the pentagon, are they going to promote anyone who opposes having a woke military? of course not to any of those questions. we know that in every one of those agencies, you cannot reach the highest levels of the bureaucracy unless you buy into the woke establishment agenda. and what that means is obvious. if the american people vote for like the run of the mill president, the weestles burrowed into the bureaucracy won't cause him or her too much trouble. if the american people vote against the establishment candidate then the bureaucrats will fight the president every step of the way time and again the media told us how brave the soles democracy how bravely they fought president trump. remember alexander vindman. once again the allies of the permanent bureaucracy are trying to frighten you, saying if trump wins, the world as we know it will end. >> do you think this is a vote about whether or not we still have democracy in this country? >> it certainly is. you know, and donald trump has told us exactly what he will do. he will not abided by the rulings of the courts. he will certainly appoint people to office whether or not they can be confirmed by the senate. >> laura: oh really? she is worried about that? i didn't hear liz kick up any dust when the gao ruled that the biden administration had allowed five appointees to serve unlawfully, three of whom were still in their portions as of last february. by the way, the post all needed senate confirmation. and then even though trump left office per the constitution on january 20th, 2021. the trump derangement sufferers have to leapfrog to 2029. >> do you believe if donald trump were elected next year that he would try to stay in office beyond a second term he would never leave office. >> there is no question. >> do you think he would try to stay in power forever. >> absolutely. >> laura: forever and ever and ever. what a silly woman. notice how she never makes a positive case for anyone else or makes any substantive arguments against trump's economy? or his views on foreign policy or argue for spending cuts? does she ever do that or has she ever taken on the bureaucracy this is because liz and the 13 republicans are so think like her actually like the appearance of a democratic process. one where the government remains a system where the voters get to choose certain officials but where the permanent bureaucracy carries out the orders of the democratic party no matter which party has the white house. we know what their idea of a perfect representative democracy looks like. the doj works every channel to put the president's chief opponent in jail. the doj flags parents who protest at school board meetings and devout catholics as well. the dod purges staff who aren't on board with the woke agenda. and, of course, the atf, they try turn lawful gun owners into criminals. they censor people with bogus misinformation labels and so on and so on. liberals and completely deranged never trumpers love this set-up. and they don't want someone like trump to expose this scam. they are so funny. they try to scare voters by warning if trump wins, there would be mass resignation. >> a rot of people who would gum up efforts by trump and trump's people to subvert democracy will just simply quit in disgust or horror or whatever you want to call it from places like the justice department and so on. >> laura: bureaucrats would quit? that's a big loss. here's the bottom line, democracy should mean a system in which the voters have power in our system it's the government can be used against the people. president trump is right. that system has to be changed. the louder the press squeals about this plan to take power from the bureaucrats and give it back to the voters and the officials they choose, the more you can be confident that he is right and they are wrong. and that's the angle. joining us now delighted with us in the studio chris bedford executive editor of common sense society. byron york chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner" and fox news contributor. chris, is the left trying to scare people away from the polls because of a vote for trump in their claimed view would be system as we know it? >> scare the people to the polls to get the democrats riled up. more importantly when you see them call trump caesar or napoleon or hitler justify whatever actions they are about to take to stop him. byron great long winded and terrible. >> laura: i did it on the angle friday night. glad you were watching. some of the things he laments there is that the democracy won't turn against him. the military won't turn against him. law fare hasn't worked on him. he thinks all of these are goodies. the left is trying to prime themselves look if frump and his supporters are hitler they can do anything they want to try remove him. >> laura: i'm concerned the more you call someone hitler, some people might believe that. >> that's why they do it. meaning a danger to trump. they are claiming inciting violence happened on january 6th. trump incited violence. could the argument be made by ramping up this rhetoric like they are ramping it up, they are setting trump up for someone to take a shot at him. that's what i'm worried about here. >> absolutely. people are worried about that. because of the intensity of this rhetoric. i think this latest spate of stories was brought about by a bunch of polls that we saw a bunch of weeks ago showing one donald trump beating joe biden in head-to-head matchups. then we saw beating joe biden in key swing states. a "new york times" poll, remember that. there was a huge freak out after that. this is what results from that because you have to try these voters have not responded to other appeals. so let's try it like this. kind of like at the end of 2015, if you think back. >> laura: you tweeted that out today. you are exactly right. the same sentiment is kind of settling in. when they are desperate. they are dangerous. >> but in 2015, a lot of them thought well, i guess trump is going to win the republican nominations. there is no way he can win the election. hillary clinton is going to beat him. now with joe biden so weak they are worried already. >> laura: it's not just about trump that they are smearing and, again, trying to frighten voters away from supporting common sense solutions. james carvel, who frankly should know better, said this about the new speaker of the house. watch. mike johnson and what he believes is one of the greatest threats we have today to the united states. this is a fundamental threat to the united states. if is a fundamental threat. don't believe in the constitution. because there is a bigger threat than al-qaeda to this country. >> laura: that's an embarrassment. total embarrassment. james carville always gotten along with him. that's really embarrassing and weak. >> it's important to remember when you see these kind of prognostications. >> laura: hyperbolic commentary. >> joe biden went out and said mitt romney was going to put african-americans back into chains. this is something they have been doing forever. barry goldwater going back to the 19'6" 0s was going to push the elderly off of cliffs and bring the american people to nuclear war and destroy the american planet. psychiatrists coming out and signing an article that they put in "time" magazine saying he is setter finably insane without ever diagnosed him or met with him political violence. when you worry about the dictatorship is potentially coming, that is the risk. >> laura: by any means necessary keep the dictator out of power. that would be our duty as americans correct, byron? >> this is made worse by the particular weakness of joe biden. look at all of the polls. he is under water in everything. the american people disapprove of everything is he doing. the economy being the most important thing. and huge majorities believe he's too old for a second term. so if you are joe biden's campaign manager. if you are running the democratic party. what are you going to do? >> laura: you are willing to burn it all down. they are willing to burn it all down to stop him from becoming president. >> about the threat of maga. >> laura: do you think, chris, given everything we have heard and everything we have seen, that this next year could be a very dangerous year in the streets, again, if this continues the way it's continuing? yeah, i think it will be. 2016 mobs around washington, d.c. were burning automobiles and chasing people. once political violence let out and said ops by congress men and nancy pelosi at the time by governors when you make those people loyal to law and order feel like law and order isn't protecting them and people on the other side saying law and order is the enemy. you end up with a toxic, dangerous, increasingly violence. >> maxine waters drives them out where they're. i go back to that kind of language. drive them out wherever they are. >> neps. no peace anywhere. >> i think the people of this country want peace and prosperity and common sense solutions. that's what i think people want. they just want to live their lives and have things go back to like sanity and common sense. i'm not sure this going to work this time. chris and byron, thank you. all right. three commercial ships were attacked by houthi rebels in the red sea over the weekend. as we learn a u.s. warship there shot down three drones. joining me live from northern israel is fox's nate foy, what can you tell us now? >> laura, good evening, iran's proxies continue causing chaos in the region. and putting u.s. forces at risk in this case with the houthi rebels attacking those three cargo ships and then later shooting drones at u.s. forces on board a navy destroyer. take a look at this video. it is considered escalation by houthi rebels who have launched a series of attacks. seizing a cargo ship three weeks ago. cargo ship hit each ship with anti-blame missiles. uss carner responded to help while doing that shot down three drones coming for it also fired by houthi rebels. the u.s. says it doesn't know the ultimate target of those drones but it does know who is really responsible. listen to this. >> we have every reason to believe that these attacks while they were launched by the houthis in yemen were fully enabled by iran. >> so rein's proxies laura. they are responsible for at least 75 attacks on u.s. forces in the region. just since october 17th. 36 in iraq. 39 in syria. just yesterday attack drone against u.s. troops. the iranian funded hezbollah terrorist group continues attacking israel from lebanon. it's the most active this conflict has been since the second lebanon war back in 2006. and the two continue exchanging heavy artillery tonight. earlier today, laura, we were with idf troops as they went through a drill preparing for a possible escalation where they prepared for the possibility of pushing into southern lebanon to push les terrorists back. we'll send it back to you. >> laura: unreal, nate, thank you so much. now, what does florida governor ron desantis think about florida state being shut out of the college football playoff. we will ask him later in the show. plus, "the washington post" finally comes clean about, whether a? 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set adviser to joe biden who has been wrong at every single point throughout the ukrainian conflict. throughout what happened in afghanistan. and, of course, what is happening now with our greatest ally in the region and israel. he is wrong, but i have another message for jake sullivan and the white house, secure the southern border. that's it. if you do that, then there is people in congress who will be willing to listen and to talk to. before that's done, there is nothing to talk about. >> laura: the idea of tying more ukraine aid, given this -- everyone needs to read this story in the "the washington post." it is devastating from beginning to end. it's actually makes me really really sad and angry about what we have done in that region. but tying immigration, some immigration deal to ukraine, who why would he ever do that? as a republican party? two separate issues. i'm not tying anything to ukraine, if the administration wants to talk subject mental funding for anything, the southern border must be secured first. until that happens. >> laura: we don't have any money, congressman. >> the house appropriation bills for the federal agencies, no more, no less. got do their job. other operations world. if our border remains unsecured. that makes no sense. people's pocketbook of the people's nation. we are not going to do that. >> yesterday john kirby talked about i tying the ukraine funding to the border. watch this. >> in that letter request desperately need money for israel, also money for border security, day one of this administration, he put forward an immigration reform plan that has yet to be acted on. congress basically ignored it. if they are serious about immigration reform. they ought to take that proposal up by the president, they ought to also pass our supplemental request. >> take the deal. because we know that democrats can be trusted when they don't enforce the laws that are on the books. they can be trusted on it. immigration deal. >> john kirby will be sorry. that happened in the past. we're not doing that deal. you might as well get that one out of your mind. number two, border security does not require new money. it requires policy changes by this administration that broke the southern border. that's it. >> laura: congressman, switching gears. the oversight committee