Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Census. Up until 1950, we did have it on the census. The census changes and we didnt ask that question. Tell us about the posture of this case and this police judge, jesse furman. Laura what is happening here is that these judges are, you know, taking these cases and imposing their own judicial philosophy and new standards that are not written into the law into these cases. You saw the exact same reasoning that judge furman used here, which is that wilbur ross, in charge of the census in his department, had made some remarks about the reasoning behind wanting to count citizens that raised an issue of animus. Well the United StatesSupreme Court recently ruled that this Animus Theory is bogus and one of the elements that shouldnt be applied. Clarence thomas has spoken out on nationwide injunctions. So basically, this is a
confusion and we have an unelected judge trying to supersede and impose his values over what the president gets to do, asking a very reasonable question in the executive branch. 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 . Whether youre a citizen . Its directed at brown people and black people. Laura youre making that up. Of course it is. Laura how is it directed at brown people in its directed at all people. You ask a question. I get asked the question. You get asked the question. You couple that with donald
trumps regardless of the prourt Supreme Court laura okay. Can i say this . That case didnt also wasnt just rested on discrimination issues. The apa was violated. The court found despite the advisory committees as well as staff ruling against it or recommending against it, wilbur took it upon his own to put it in place. The case is not over. They just got passed a motion to dismiss. Its not the final decision. Laura its not the final decision. But to say its racial so now you cant scott, now youre saying a question asked of all people is racist . All americans would have to answer the question. Thats unbelievable to me. Youre a smart guy. It might not be racist but has a racial disparent impact. Laura why . Its absurd. Laura we have to move on. All right. We have to move on. We got another case. Does that mean im right . Laura out of portland involving transgender bathrooms. Weve heard the transgender bathroom case and issue for a long time. But this is interesting because its a parent group that has gotten together and said we understand that transgender kids have rights. But we represent families whose students, sons and daughters do not want to share a bathroom for whatever reason with a transgendered 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. Anything goes in the Ninth Circuit. Its a harsh ruling against that parents group. Maybe im misreading it. I agree with you. I think its harsh and its wrong. Obviously transgender students who may need a number of
supports and medical support, 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 teenager to have a guy looking 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 parents are taxpayers. They have a right to have their kids educated fairly. Laura scott, do the parents have rights here . Or just the transgender kids . Not compared to the protective class that the transgender student rests in. Look at this way. The judge is following the law. They have no politics here. Every federal judge that has looked at this case and similar cases across the country, you check the record. They have sided with the transgendered student because they cannot be discriminated against because they identify with being a woman or identify with being a guy. Its not anatomy that counts. Theyre in a protected class. This decision is based on the law. You dont like it but you have to live with it. Laura harmeet, last word. Anatomy does count and its relevant and the other students have Privacy Rights too. Laura there has to be some balance. The judge said that was conjecture. Pure conjecture. Youre going to be naked. Come on, stop it. Maybe the judge is not living in reality. Give me a break. Laura scott, the Fraternity Brothers where i when i went to college, the Fraternity Brothers are like pranksters. Okay, i identify as this today and tomorrow and people playing jokes all the time too. Its a serious matter. Then theres pranksters out there that take advantage of it. I dont think you and your guests take it seriously the plight of these young people who identify with a different gender. Laura come on. Theyre in a protected class. I have friends who are transgender. Laura read the research i read the opinions on both of these cases and their accurate laura harmeet, i want to congratulate you on the Ninth Circuit ruling that your civil rights case, the people that beat up the trump supporter and you represented them and pro bono the whole way. They said your case can go forward. Were going to watch that closely. You had a great argument. Thanks for being here. No thank you. Congratulations also. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. 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 secretly 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 something he said might somehow be 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 . Lets look at that. This is one of the most terrifying things about this story. Laura yeah. You have a week like this where all the things we heard about the fisa court being misled are confirmed by actual documents. The media doesnt report it. Theyre gaslighting and making reality seem the opposite of what it is. When you have a case like this, we should have the media pouring all its i get they dont like trump but they need to report on this issue 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 roll because we we came up with the narrative. Laura the amazon post is dedicated to one thing. Getting trump out of office. They want to recreate the old glory days. The big anniversary of starting the impeachment today. Its about impeachment. Laura they want a Pulitzer Prize for that reporting. 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. 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. Around quarter to quarter. Its good to see but will it last. Exactly. President trump will take a lot of credit for the numbers. Dont believe him. Hes a lot of people who bought things because theyre worried about his tariffs and a lot of false growth from the 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 to react is the chairman of the White House Council of economic advisers, kevin hasett. thanks for being here. Thanks. Laura i know youre not surprised. This number comes out and 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 economy, right . Because he pursued the policies
you have been advocating for years and years. 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. We said if we pursue Energy Dominance there will be exploration and drilling. If we had better trade deals by showing were tough, we would reduce the Trade Deficit. If you look at the numbers that came out. We have a Capital Spending boom. Structures victims skyrocketed because of all 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. I promise not to filibuster. There can be a sugar high in economics. You remember cash for clunkers . Their brilliant idea . They bought a bunch of clunkers and people had to buy a new car. So gdp growth went up a lot in that quarter. But then 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 output 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. Just because they were stock piling. They were, yes. Laura they say in the months coming, these countries wont need to buy as many soybeans and that will put downward pressure on our gdp so 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. And in part theyve gone down recently because the chinese did stockpile a lot of soybeans in anticipation of a trade dispute. That is true. 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. Right . So if everybody decided theyre optimistic about the country and theyre going to buy stuff, firms will ratchet up their consumption. Theyre selling stuff off the shelves because production cant adjust so far. So Inventory Adjustment subtracted 1 from gdp growth this quarter. Laura we turned into fox business tonight somehow. 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 thing has just happened. May of 2017, l. A. Times, if trump thinks he can get more than 3 economic growth, hes dreaming. Those 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. On the trade deals. Remember, the objective is to open up european markets, open up other markets for agricultural products. And other products from the u. S. You saw the great news from the e. U. This week. That would have never happened
if the president hadnt fought for americas workers. 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. An Economics Professor at booth school of business. Tell us why we should be discouraged by a good gdp number . Which to listen to some of 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 to find that sad and you could see there were a bunch of democrats 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 return to the 2 . 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 thats been flat lining for 18 years. 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. The gdp today is 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 laura remember the increase in trade hasnt kicked in yet. I mean, when this european deal gets done yeah. Laura i understand that 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 it does i hope youre right. Every day we dont have a trade war is a good day for america. Laura i am right on that. Bob lightheiser was on capitol hill. He was in front a of the senate committee. Critics on both sides about the tariffs and how were trying to take on china, this is brian schatt, democrat from hawaii. Lets 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. I believe that 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 that mean the state capital no. Sir, it just 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. I thought that that encapsulated so much of what the trump economic agenda is all about. Dont cede. Fight for every job. Fight for every opportunity. And lightheiser is an underrated rock star in this administration. Close it out. Well, all i will say is if your main thing is about confronting china, dont pick seven fights while carrying a six shooter. Thats a gunfighters credo and thats 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. Theyre all work with us. 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. They cut a new deal months ago. 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 china to file grievances against us laura thats just nonsense. Were out of time. We have to find a way to confront china