Seans back on monday. The ingraham angle is up next. Have a terrific night. Welcome to washington. Im Laura Ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. We have a spectacular show for you tonight. You wouldnt know it watching msnbc, but there was another great economic report tonight. Well expose the blatant bias when it comes to exploring the president s accomplishments. That in a few moments. Plus, theres a new craze that involves jumping out of a moving car. What . Raymond arroyo will be here to explain it in the fridayay follies. Plus, some black pastors are facing backlash for meeting with President Trump. Unbelievable. Two of them will be here with me. But first, resisting for all the wrong reasons. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Butt in an age of trump, lets face it, we have seen what that all could entail. And heres the mayor of new orleans on what she hopes will happen next. Lets bring about the change that we know our people need. We need economic justice. We need criminal Justice Reform. We need health and environmental justice. We need racial equality, because we understand that no one matters if everyone doesnt matter. No one matters if everyone doesnt matter. I guess thats a double negative. That means no one matters, right . Ohi my gosh, ill diagram that later. But the real question is this why fight so hard to whip up change for an economy thats actually working for the people at every level of the economy . Lets just take a look at what were talking about here. Black, hispanic, and nonhigh School Graduate unemployment are now all at record lows. Job growth is also exploding across the country. We have more people employed now than at anytime in our history. O wages are up 2. 7 from last year. The Housing Market is making a massive comeback. And get this. Manufacturing jobs are back. Oh, how many times did barack obama say that couldnt happen . Its the strongest Manufacturing Job Market in 20 years, despite what all those naysayers told us. So whats the bottom line . Theres a glaring disconnect between the socalled resistance and just regular americans who want to work for a living. And those people are revelling in trumps economic renaissance. Just listen to some of my Radio Callers this week. I work for the Largest Shipping Company in the world. Im an outside sales rep for them. And im up 40, 60 this year. I think everybody sees a difference. Everywhere i go people talk about it. And i think its real. My family has a construction
theyve become basically the party of perpetual grievance and complaint. But how long will that actually play among an electorate that is so much more prosperous and from what i can gather, so much more optimistic than theyve been in years . Who will want to change that or reversee that . As for the netroots, i think they can use some water. The koolaid has gone to their head. This is why i call them nut roots. And thats the angle. Joining us now for reaction is Florida Attorney general pam bondi. Shes a a republican. And Teslan Vigoro who worked on the Bernie Sanders national campaign. Lets start with you, teslan, im trying to figure out, as just a person, forget republican or conservative, how democrats argue against an economy thats helping so many whos been kicked so far down on the economic ladderke for so long
whether its unemployment, wages going up, optimism, opportunity for Small Businesses . Why would you want to change that . Thats the problem, laura. Theyre not arguing it and having the debate to talk about the issues. Democrats have been Playing Platform Hopscotch for the last several years, which is why we lost the house and senate. Going from the center, first it was all about being in the center with clinton, then it went to the left with sanders. In 2020, theyll be back in the center. Im here t to say its time they pick a side or step aside. Decide which platform youre actually going to push and how youre going to push that narrative. Its ok to talk about President Trump and what they dont like about trump, but they do have to be able to sell the message to take the American People further than where we are right now. Getting into the debate on whether that was from the benefit of obama or whether it was from trump has nothing to do with what individuals are dealing with right now which is how arels we going to be able to move America Forward . Thats what youre seeing with the divide between themo far let and the middle of the Democrat Party. So important in my state, is at a low of 4. 5. The lowest it was ever under president obama was 5. 4. As you said about kids that have dropped out of high school, the record fell 5. 1 . How great is that unemployment so i dont understand how they wouldd not root for the success of america, because when you do, its rooting for the success of all of us. Laura tesla, i want to play a sound bite for you about what the democrats are missing. Lets watch. Their message to me and the five and a half million americans who are demanding Donald Trumps impeachment is that its bad politics, its off message, and it will galvanize the republicans. Not a Single Person in the Senate Democratic caucus has shown the common sense or the
sense of right and wrong to support impeach him. Not one. Laura is that what the democrats really need to rally around . Impeachment . Thatll turn people out to the polls . No, it wont turn people out to the polls. It does drive a lot of emotions, but to run complete Campaign Platforms on Dumping Trump is not going to speak to the heart of the voters. We have to remember, everybody i was an independent on the sanders campaign. Im not a socialist so when people start believing that just because someone supported someone else prior to and think youre going to be able to talk on talking points that address that issue, theyll find me completely wrong. Po you have to be able to speak about what youre for, and thats what the party is missing. Laura i think today, the number i saw was the africanamerican Approval Rating i believe this is correct today, and its a Daily Snapshot Isi at 29 . A couple of months a i believe it was at 15 . Pam, i mean, if if bombed trump can move the a africanamerican opinion if
donald trump can move the africanamerican opinion, even if he moves itic 5 , thatll bea significant plus for the republicans and i think it would be good for everyone. The idea that just because youre one skin color, you have to vote for one party, to me it seems doesnt make any sense given how great the news are is forse africanamericans. Pam, the issue of impeachment. Theres a lot of netroots enthusiasm for pushing the i word. Theyre just trying to inflame emotions. Theyre just trying to inflame emotions in the netroots conference. I was just here in tampa with the president. I rode in the car with him. I watched him and i watched ivanka. No one mentions that he just gave 1 billion in grants. He signed that into law. 1 billion for stem jobs. N for on the job training, for technical jobs. Whos that help . That helps minorities that helps everyone in this country. Laura i dont think well
be able to pay that back. I hope well have the money for that i hope well be able to pay that back. Ta i want to bring in howie curtis. Howie, i mentioned at the top of the disconnect between the politicos and the far left, the Everyday Americans theres this one crazy moment today of many crazy moments on television involving our friend john meacham, historian and also chuck. Seems like theyve moved from Invoking Hitler as far as trump goes to Nowit Invoking Another famous dictator, lets watch. Its simply a stalinist phrase for gods sake, to declare that a free press is the enemy of the people. Its in their selfinterest to stop playing this totalitarian card. Tonight im obsessed with. President trumps repeated stalinera assertion. That the press is the enemy of
the people. Does he really believe that . Laura stehlin. Is this working the stalin, hitler i guess the hitler thing Wasnt Polling well so they brought in josef stalin. I also think the president shouldnt refer to fake news. But the coverage is so onesided. When journalists and commentators use the Stalinist Analogy and call the president unlimited, undermining world peace and danger to western civilization, theyre lowering the discourse in precisely the way they accuse the president whom they detest. Laura josef stalin atrocities for fun on a friday. 25 million killed under stalin. Additional 40 million killed often linked to him. Had millions of people, of course, sent to labor camps, Concentration Camps and expanded the secret police and all sorts of other atrocities. Its patiently ridiculous. Theres another moment today when all the good Economic News came out when a number of
figures in the media were doing their best and its unbelievable given the news to kind of downplay whats kind of happening on the economy. I want all of you to react. Lets watch. 157,000, which is somewhat healthy but also disappointing. It shows a slowdown in hiring. This is not the strongest gain weve seen. Just 2. 7 year over year. This is a big problem for american workers. Laura a big problem for american workers. I want to go to you, pam. Its 2. 7 year to year. It was flat under obama. We hadnt seen a median Wage Increase for i think 18 years. And its tough. Theres a lot of downward pressures on the economy. But this is good news and this is after revising numbers in may and june upward. They had to go back and reviseun those job numbers upward. So that was good news. In both prior proceeding months, they believe the number was bad for this month because of the toys r us. They lost a lot of jobs in
retail because of the toys r us closing, so that didnt help. Does this seem transparent to you as it does to me . Yeah, it does. I like the term fake news because thats what were hearing and seeing every day. Our economy has very strong footing right now. Consumer spending is going up. That means creating more jobs. As a prosecutor, the more unemployed, i feel the fewer people committing crimes. Its great for our country. I do believe in the term fake news. Yes, its extremely transparent. When they have nothing to go on, thats what they go on, referring to our great president as hitler and stalin is unpatriotic and horrible. Laura and this gal, angela rye, was on with jason miller on cnnso, teslan, and they were discussing President Trump and whether he was everyones president or certain peoples president. Lets watch. Im calling this process, this procedure is absolutely based on bigotry and fear mongering. If you dont understand that your president announced his campaign by talking my president . Hes our president , angela. Not mine. Not mine. I will never claim a bigot eve laura do you subscribe to that . Hes not your president . Do you like that approach to politics . I dont think i ever would dream of saying that. A i definitely didnt say that when president obama was president. He was our president. I disagreed with him on a lot, but he won the presidency, and he was an amazing campaigner and communicator. And i never took that away from him. But thats kind of the thats like the common parlance on the left now. Hes not our president. Saying hes not our president doesnt make it the reality. It doesnt make me lebron james. The reality is hes the president of the United States. To piggyback on pams point,
as an employer who actually signed the front of the check in orlando, florida, i wish we would have had the economy we had to stop me from closing my business in 2012. I put over 300 people to work as temporary associates. Most of the associates, pam, were People Thatsi were secondchance citizens, people who got out of prison who actually wanted to be put to work when i was put out of business, we put out individuals that were on probation a lot of women in the shelters at the time. I was a twotime Award Winning business own were the orlando business journal. Those are the stories we dont hear about. Those are the stories that affect Small Business and particularly africanamerican businesses who have went back into the community to do the hiring that maybe corporateco america cannot. Im interested in the numbers. Im interested into what could actually beri done specifically, africanamericans which the Democrat Party still others that address which is why tom perez was on Tour Apologizing to women youre going to want to see a segment we do later about Prison Reform. They tried this about a year ago
with donald trump, that hes in declining mental capacity. Amorosa is coming out with a book on that well. Desperate for attention laura this is what a host on nbc said this morning. A dangerous, blustering bigot on the stage last night is more borish and less connected to reality than he was 10 years ago. Donald trump is not well and everyone close to him w says it. I think all of those adjectives dont help the lefts position. And in understand pundits going after President Trump on immigration or putin but when the Economic News is clearly very good for almost everyone there were pockets where it hasnt reached and youre trying to argue the skies are dark, that seems to me to be, you know, journalists almost rooting for a bad economy. The most appalling thing here, laura is when some of the journalists and commentators go after trump voters. Theyre yahoo s and idiots. That kind of hatred, theyre smearing 63 million americans for voting for donald trump. Thats even worse in my view than going after the president. Laura thats what they dont understand. They turned out to vote for trump because they know those folks look down on them. Trump didnt. How condescending elite institutions, which includes the elite media are, when it comes to the forgotten men and women. Fantastic panel. Thank you for joining us tonight. Why a former cia moscow station chief say john brennan and jim clapper are doing putins bidding . The answer when we return. And six is greater than one. Flonase sensimist. Clappers case that clappers interference won the election to trump. Senior Intelligence Officers know we speculate at our own peril. Tr joining us now with reaction is lee smith, the real clear investigation reporter who wrote that piece. Were joined by former cia covert ops Operator Baker and wall street wall street [ indiscernible ] it seems a lot of conservative have seen what happened to john brennan and a lesser extent to James Clapper. What else did you find in your reporting . Theres a number of Different Things going on here. One of the key things is is that the American Public is losing their Con Stannance right now when they see former intelligence chiefs like john brennan and James Clapper get to tv and talk about the president. It enhances the idea and encourages the idea as President Trump has said that these guys were up to no good that brennan
and clapper as well as othersrs including james comey and other intelligence officials were up to no good. Laura and theres a couple of moments over the last month or so that really jumped out at me where the criticism of the president well, it was particularly nasty it involves both clapper and brennan. Lets watch. Mr. Trump is not sophisticated enough, unfortunately, to deal with these foreign leaders in a manner that is going to protect u. S. National security. This past weekend its what a great case officer putin is. He knows how to handle an asset, and thats what hes doing with the president. Lawyer lauer kimberly, for clapper to say that the president of the Laura Kimberly, for the president to say that the president of the United States is an for clapper to say that the president of the United States is asset to Vladimir Putin . Yes, i mean, how can you look at these people and not view them as partisan . And that gets to lees piece, which is you go back and look through the history of cia directors. You might not agree with all of their policies. They might have had someor critical words after they got out of office for a president here or there on a serious policy question. But these were serious cia directors who know how important it is to remain neutral in the office and allow americans to have confidence in the cia and its assessment. Brennanou and clapper are destroying that. And its why you have the fbi officials who privately confess so much concern about comey too and his comments since leaving office. Laura mike, the president has hit backwh and hit back hard when he does hit back, hes criticized for himself tarnishing the reputation of the Intelligence Agencies ands hurting theirir credibility. This was