Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. This is a confusion and an unelected judge trying to supersede and impose his values over the president. Thats what the census is for, to count the people in the country. Laura theyre counting all people. Count the immigrants. Laura hold on, scott. Theyre counting all people. Theres a question about whether youre a citizen or not. Now, what is the problem with answering the question . I dont understand that. What is the possible constitutional argument here . Well, because its racially offensive, first of all. Laura what does it have to do with race . Its directed at brown people and black people. Laura youre making that up. Of course it is. Laura its directed at all people in the country. You ask a question. I get asked the question. You get asked the question. We got another case. Does that mean ill right . Laura out of portland involving transgender bathrooms. Weve heard the transgender case and issue a long time, this is interesting because its a Parents Group gotten together and said we understand that transgender kids have rights but we represent families whose students, Sons And Daughters dont want to share a bathroom with a transgender person who is born of the opposite sex. This judge said you dont have any Privacy Rights here. If you have a problem, leave the district. Harmeet, would that take the scrutiny . I know its the ninth district. Its a harsh ruling against that Parents Group. Maybe im misreading it. I agree with you. Its harsh and wrong. Transgender students who may need a number of supports and medical support are they have
rights obviously. The vast majority of them are not transgender and they have rights, too, including Privacy Rights. People transgender in their youth, they may switchback and forth. The spector has been raised, which is a real one, of people abusing this transgender labelling and electing it in order to peep and get into the girls bathrooms. Its not really goodness gracious. Its not appropriate to look at one side or the other. I can tell you in girls locker rooms, weve been there. Everything is showing. Its not really something that you want as a guy to have hooking at your body. Sorry to say. Laura i dont want anybody looking at my body. I dont like anybody. Im one of the shy people. Its a slap in the face for the judge to say the the parents are taxpayers. They have a right to have their kids educated laura scott, do the parents have rights here . Or just the transgender kids . Not compared to the
congratulations also. Laura and a bomb shell that was nothing. Cnns reporting surrounding trumps knowledge of the 2016 russian meeting rests on Michael Cohen. You remember what the media thought of him, right . Its a group of scumbags like Michael Cohen sitting around in cahoots with each other. Michael cohen, the goon that he is. Is he serious about becoming president . Michael cohen does him no favors. This guy is a thug with a law degree and a billionaire boss. He shouldnt be a lawyer. Thats not the way you communicate. You Dont Go To Law School to act like a thug. Laura so a thug. Then you dont take what a thug says to heart, right . The media would have questions about his credibility . No, no, no. What he says now has got to be right. If he is willing to talk to robert mueller, which sources
say that he is, is that a game changer . Michael cohen talking to robert mueller. Isnt he a gold mine . This is collusion. This is an attempt, a fraud on the american people. If this is true, this is collusion. Theyre colluding with a secret kremlin plot. This is it. This is the ball game right here. Wiley coyote almost has the roadrunner. Acme tnt. Goodness. We have a lot to get to with two of my favorite people. Could this be enough to get the president this time . Here to react, sarah carter and the federalist molly hemingway, fox news contributors. Molly . Its interesting. People on this story day after day, month after month, year after year finally think they found the thing that will bring donald trump down. The idea that Michael Cohen is the lynchpin to the entire case and everything will crumble is fascinating that people would cling to that. Probably if he was so important to this, bob mueller wouldnt
today. I thought what is cnn talking about . Theyre so much news across the globe and all cnn could do is talk about cohen over and over and over again. They pounded this. Cohen has to be right. Now he has information that, you know, he has on President Trump. But they called him donald. Laura i noticed that. They disrespect that hes the president. They say donald must have known about this meeting with natalia and don jr. And these russians. They were trying to get information from the russians. Well, its something that molly and i talk about frequently. We talked about it before we came to see you. If donald trump jr. Went to that meeting and even if they were going to offer him something, why dont we just go back to hell Hill Hillary Clinton paying a foreign spy to collect information to the russians to
spread this information . This is an important point. If you think theres something nefarious about collecting information the whole point is trump knew that we were going to bring him down, if you believe that, you should have a problem with Hillary Clinton and the dnc secretly buying and paying for an operation where you hire a foreign spy and he according to his own claims sourced that to the kremlin. He says he got his information from the kremlin operatives. So if you think this is a horrible thing you should be concerned about the dossier. Now we learned the dossier wasnt just used by the clintons. Laura thats right. It was used by the federal government and used to spy on an american citizen. Part of a large laura remember when civil libertarians used to care about big brother, big brother spying on us. Now suddenly anything goes. If an intel agent or an intel agency says something, its saying it can never be questioned. To the point of laura, they
omitted information in the fisa that showed that even Christopher Steele himself one was bias because we know bruce ohrs testimony proved that and he worked for the Department Of Justice and demoted twice and nellie ohr worked for fusion gps. Not only that, Christopher Steele himself couldnt verify the information that he was collecting from the russians. Okay. Were going to believe it, were going to open a fisa Warrant Investigation on carter page, water going to spy on President Trump and drag the entire administration for more than 1 1 2 years into this mess with robert mueller. Laura and this is cohen from 2017. He said in a tweet, im so proud of donald trump jr. For being open, honest and transparent to the american people. This nonsense needs to stop. That was at the issue with the meeting came out initially. Cohen says he has no evidence to support his own claim. You people that say otherwise. This points to the actual issue
of cohens credibility. Laura who cares if he knew. The point being the entire case of the Russia Collusion hinges on him going to prague to conspire with the russians. He said he didnt go. If hes a truth teller around denies this central claim that underpins the Russia Collusion theory, how come it didnt matter . Now it matters because molly is right on that. Laura do either of you find it curious that no one in the sort of more Mainstream Press does any like serious reporting on this . Serious reporting on mueller, on what is taking so long and why this Attorney Client privilege material is dropping out, lanny davis past associations, the countries and the foreign entities that hes represented over the years . Theyre going after manafort for ukraine. But what is lanny davis clients
list looks like . The most terrifying thing laura yeah. You have a week like this where all the things we heard about the fisa court being misled are confirmed by documents. The media doesnt report it. Theyre gaslighting and making reality seem the opposite of what it is. You have a case like that, the media should i get they dont like trump but they need to report on this issue of whether not even whether. We know its established. The Trump Campaign was surveilled in multiple ways. Wiretapped, human informants, National Security letters. Laura if they were done with hillary, they would be all the resources, laura, that the New York Times has, the Washington Post have, with the great history theyve had as well which is why people became journalists, to do investigative reporting. They stepped back and let our
narrative role laura the amazon post is dedicated to one thing. Getting trump out of office. They want to recreate the old glory days. Its about impeachment. Laura theyre not going to report on the other stuff. Great for being here. Trump defies the critics again. The gdp report, wow just the latest example that the economy is roaring back to life under this president. So why is the media not cheering the results . The white house is here to respond next. Around quarter to quarter. Its good to see but will it last. President trump will take a lot of credit for the numbers. Dont believe him. A lot of people that bought things because theyre worried about his tariffs and a lot of false growth from tax cuts juicing the economy. Laura i heard people saying it was all obamas economy. All of them were really excited about his chance for more american success. Here the react, kevin hasett. Thanks for being here. Thanks. Laura i know youre not surprised. This number comes out after were going to play the great predictions from last year. And these media types do everything in their power to down play it or give the credit to president obama. Its stunning. Yeah. After President Trump, its Laura Ingrahams policy. How long have we known each other . Laura 20 plus years. The fact is we said if we cut corporate taxes the jobs would come home. If we had energy dominance, there would be exploration and drilling. If we had better trade deals by showing were tough, we would reduce the Trade Deficit. So we have a Capital Spending boom, structures investments sky rockets because of the drilling and the Trade Deficit went down and contributed to higher gdp growth. Everything about the trump agenda is working and that will drive the critics crazy. Id like to add one last thing. There can be a sugar high in economics. You remember cash for clunkers . They bought a bunch of clunkers and people had to buy a new car. So gdp growth went up a lot in that quarter. After that they had a new car and it went back down. That was a sugar high. What we see is Capital Spending and Capital Spending increases supply. So all of those factories being
built this quarter will have output in the next quarter and that will sustain the growth. Laura some of the doubters are saying, well, a lot of this has been juiced by other countries buying our soy beans in anticipation of the tariffs that are now not going to happen as far as europe goes. So theyre stockpiling the soy beans, a huge increase in u. S. Exports of soy beans. They say in the months coming, these countries wont need to buy as many soy beans, so that will put downward pressure on our gdp and thus the 4. 1 very high level of today is not sustainable going forward. The president says look for higher numbers today. You know, i dont know higher numbers, but i dont want to disagree with the president either. The fact is, that we understand farmers and the white house. We know the Soy Bean Crop is about to be harvested in september and prices have gone
down. Theyve gone down recently because the chinese did stockpile lots of soy beans in anticipation of the trade dispute. But theres other things like the reshoring of activity because were no longer an unattractive tax environment. The biggest news in todays gdp report which will frustrate the democrats, this old thing called inventories. If everybody is decided theyre optimistic and theyre going to buy stuff, the firms will ratchet up consumption. Theyre selling stuff off the shelves because production cant adjust so far. So inventory subtracted 1 . Laura we turned into docs business. I apologize. Were going to get the 1 back because the shelves are empty. Laura yeah. We have some fun things here,
this is what paul krugman said. This is after the 2016 election. He said were looking at a global recession with no end in sight. I suppose we can get lucky. But on economics as if everything else, a terrible things happened. L. A. Times. If trump thinks he can get more than 3 economic growth, hes dreaming. Nose are just the ones we found in five seconds in our search today. Jeb bush is saying yeah, this is great because of the tax cuts. But you now have to do Immigration Reform and you have to have free trade policies. So he was kicking the tariffs on the way to the praise there, kevin. Final comments. The president s strong stance on trade has delivered a lot of progress in these negotiations. Remember, the objective is to open up european markets, open up other markets for agricultural products. You saw the great news from the
e. U. This week. That would have never happened if he didnt stand strong as youve been advising him to do. Laura never, never. Thanks for being here. I appreciate it. Great to being here. Laura and his response, the same man that worked for the obama administration, austin goulsby. Tell us why we should be discouraged by a good gdp number . To listen to the commentary today, its like you want to take a prozac. This is great news and so many of the democrats could not deal with the positive news for the country or for trump, which is very sad. Look, im going to agree with you. I find it sad and you can see there were a bunch of democrats just trying to spin it in a partisan way. Theres nothing bad about having a 4 gdp growth number. Thats good. Good for america and the president is entitled to say this was a good number. You can see he was beaming with pride. The question now is how can we continue to sustain that. Its worth remembering just last quarter was a mediocre number. So we had around 2 . Now we got 4 . Lets hope we get more 4 s and not reason to the 2 s. I dont think theres anything that you should convince yourself that was bad about this number. It wasnt bad. Laura we arent saying wages rise as we want, especially with the tight labor market. Youd think wages would begin the uptick thats a problem. And i agree. Laura we havent seen real wages. Were seeing bonuses though, which is nice to see. But people want to make more per year and per hour. Were not seeing it as we should. But thats the toughest part of the recovery. It has been true for a long
time. Its not like this is just the fault of the trump administration. Its been a long period that we havent had enough wage growth for ordinary workers in the middle of the wage distribution, if you want to think about it. That doesnt take away from the gdp today. Its very good. But just be a little careful. Theres several aspects of the gdp number today that looks like theyre probably temporary. Were still growing well, but theres some parts of it that 4 laura remember the increase in trade hasnt kicked in yet. When this european deal gets done, i understand nafta is going to get done now my sources are telling me. If nafta gets done and looks much more likely now, which i cant believe im saying that, but i hope youre right. Every day we dont have a trade war is a good day for america. Laura i am right on that. Lets play this. Bob lightheiser was on capitol hill. Critics on both sides about the tariffs and how were trying to take on china, this is brian schatt, democrat from hawaii. Watch. First of all, you say the chinese are clever because they have a 50year view. We should be clever and have a two or threeyear view. That doesnt make sense to me. No. Im saying were a democracy, so we take a shorterterm view because were responsible to our voters periodically. So does that mean that democracies always lose to authoritarian governments . Does it mean sir, it means you dont pick stupid fights. If your conclusion is that china taking over all of our technology and the future of our children is a stupid fight, youre right. We should capitulate. My view is thats how we got where we are. I dont think its a stupid
fight. Laura that doesnt get enough play. That encapsulated so much of what the trump economic agenda is all about. Dont cede. Fight for every tight. And lightheiser is an underrated rock star in this administration. Close it out. All i say is if your main thing is about confronting china, dont pick seven fights while carrying a six shooter. Thats been our problem. Our natural allies to stop chinese Intellectual Property Violation would be the very country that were threatening trade wars with. Laura theyre working with us, austin. The e. U. Is working with us. Korea cut a new deal. Theyre not all working with us. Laura korea cut a new deal months ago. They did. Europe is renegotiating with us. Mexico is about to renegotiate nafta. Canada is realizing what is going on with the steel. And the europeans are joining with the chinese laura thats nonsense. Were out of time. We have to find a way to confront china to help us. Laura we tried. Were out of time. Well roll. Great to see you. Laura great having you on. And its is not snakes on a plane but socks on a plane. Are you confused . I am. You dont know what youre going to get on The Ingraham Angle. Stay there. Keep it comin love. If you keep on eating, well keep it comin. All you can eat riblets and tenders at applebees. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Scorching temperatures and strong winds and drought are fuelli