Im watching saturday college football. Laura i love my redskins. I am one of those redskin hopefuls. We will win one day again. Sean one day again. I know. I thought they had the best quarterback ever and sadly injuries got to him. Laura when you bring up football you are so right. When alabama came to the white house, nick saban shows up sean greatest coach ever. Laura the players were there, im sure a lot of people dont like trump, but they were respectful, they showed up, a great event, beautiful day. That is the way it should just respect the office. Sean i agree with you. Get the politics out of sports, period. I agree. Laura hannity, fantastic show tonight. Great job on the cnn issue. Well continue with more of that. Welcome to washington. Im laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle on a very busy wednesday night. Another black eye for cnn. Do they have any other eyes than black eyes . Its not just those stories they are getting wrong, now they are defending one of the most violent groups in the country. A former cnn contributor is here to tell us what the heck is going on. Plus some interesting excuses from catholic leadership as the Sexual Abuse Scandal widens. And what former trump official is unveiling a new musical offbroadway . I will give you a hint it will have a short run. F Raymond Arroyo joins us with that and more in seen and unseen and some exclusive details from inside that bruce a ohr hearing yesterday. Former prosecutor Andy Macarthur is here. But first, far left billionaires uniting to remake america. That is the focus of tonights angle. Remember when the Democratic Party had a shred of a belief in freedom and democracy . The far left Bernie Sanders contingent used to be existing kind of only on the fringes, while more establishment figures, like Hillary Clinton and so forth, they ran the show. But no more. Big democratic donors have begun to support some of the hard left socialist candidates that have emerged on the scene recently. Last nights election told us a lot. Top democratic billionaires tom steyer and george soros put their money behind far left tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum before florida governor. Defying expectations, he pulled off a primary victory last night against six other candidates. He is africanamerican male version of alexandria ocasiocortez. Hes young, dynamic, and hes running on a platform of universal medicare, legalize marijuana, and abolishing i. C. E. Exciting. And he is viewed by hard left democrats is kind of a savior from the stranglehold that the partys establishment had had on their desires, hopes, and dreams. They picked the perfect guy. His city hall under investigation, fbi, corruption, and tallahassee boasting floridas highest crime rate three years running. Good going, guys. That is something to run on. But lets look at who his supporters are. Of course, many of you will be familiar with george soros, the billionaire who has funded the liberal center for american progress, moveon. Org, and his open Society Foundation, which spreads money all over the place, globally by the way. In the 2016 campaign cycle, the New York Times magazine reports that soros spent 25 million while not lose their campaign of Hillary Clinton and other leftist candidates causes. This year, hes already blown 15 million to support Democratic Candidates and other causes. Now gillum knew a good deal when he saw it. So last year, he courted Soros Organization and spoke at a number of their gatherings. Then when they met at San Francisco, soros promised to back his gubernatorial run. He was impressed with gillum. Billionaire San Francisco financier and philanthropist tom steyer also bankrolled gillums campaigning and he saw him as basically a new and almost improved version of obama because he was more left wing. Now remember, steyer is the activist who just finished up a 30 city town hall tour. He is contemplating his own 202n run for president. Thats part of what hes doing here. And hes not letting the grass grow underneath him. Steyer is running as encouraging people to sign a trump impeachment petition. Steyer himself is kind of the impeachment pitch man. Hes openly urging the president s removal from office. How much more does Congress Need to see . Donald trump has not been implicated in two felony crimes, and hes all but confessed to them on fox news. No one is above the law. So we have to make sure thisbo president doesnt use pardons to cover up crime. If you agree that a president should not be allowed to pardon himself or his associates, join us at needtoimpeach. Com. The washington establishment doesnt have the courage to act, but the American People can. Laura i should add that funneled 800,000 to the get out the Vote Initiative prior to the gillum run. So he was critical in that gillum race as well. But listening to that impeachment commercial for a second, you think about the democratic establishment, they tried to keep the impeachment talk at arms length. Well, what they are really doing is letting the Billionaires Boys Club do their dirty work for them. Y because they know that this mobilizes the far left base, keeps them kind of happy. It gives nancy pelosi, maybe even schumer, swalwell, those types, plausible deniability. Thats not us, thats tom steyer. And steyer has promised to spend at least 30 million to elect progressives this campaign season. This means, by the way, he not soros is the most important democratic donor in the United States. But like soros, steyer is not content to support just any democratic candidate who commas long. Who comes along. Hes bankrolling far left radicals who will upend the political system. That is where his mind is. He was at that i like to call it the Nutroots Convention all of those far lefties i got to crack that. We have to crash that someday, matt. They were in new orleans earlier this summer. Check it out. How many people in this room think that the democratic establishment in washington is listening to you and doing what you want . Seriously. They are message to me and the five and half million americans who are demanding Donald Trumps impeachment is bad politics. It is off message and it will galvanize the republicans. To you and to me and to millions of americans, this is all pretty obvious. Laura he should have worn a hoodie instead of no tie. He is trying to be a really cool bluecollar guy, no tie, going to unbutton the shirt. B if you will have it open, just button the next button down thats weird. Im sorry. I have a question, was Maxine Waters out of town monday . Y . I no one is talking but impeachment. Some of them are. Steyer is using his billions to ensure the candidacy of these newly minted socialists who he hopes will swamp america. The whole electoral landscape for the democrats. And florida is a great place to start because if you can flip florida, keep it blue, or get it back to where they think it should be blue, they think theyr can take the presidency as well. That is what this is really all about. Its about 2020. Heres the irony both steyer and soros made all of their dough being aggressive capitalists, global capitalists. Remember, soros spent all that money in Eastern Europe where the soviet union fell, big money, these guys have an inside deal on the hardcore capitalism. But now that they have their billions, they want to spread the gospel of socialism, thats devastating countries like t venezuela, 2 Million People have left venezuela, huge crisis, and also in nicaragua, 2,000 people fled nicaragua. I will tell you more about that story as the weeks go on. Even europe is beginning to reject the old socialist way. In fact this is kind of funny george soros former protege, viktor orban, was just reelected Prime Minister of hungary earlier this year and he ran against soros old buddy. So this is, like, antisoros mania, they had big billboards up and he won big in hungary. The sorosbacked open Society Foundation in fact had to close its budapest offices less than a month after viktor orban, his former protege, got reelected. I love that story. Back here in the United States, it would be so foolish for us, the republican party, among conservatives, to just dismiss this as a bunch of billionaires wasting their money. Sometimes they have wasted their money, like on hillary. R but this is not a passing fad. Av this is a direction the democrats are going in. They got all these young people, they think socialism is just kind of a social club. They dont know the history of socialism. I so conservatives better redouble their efforts to educate these young about the false promises and the dangers of socialism. We know they are not being properly talked about the perils of socialism in the public schools, private schools either for that matter, or the universities. So we have to do it. And we have to commit realiv dollars to social media campaigns, exposing what socialism is doing, make them cool, make them sexy looking, make them educational. We have to plaster social media. We have to support conservative candidates who are great in front of the camera to repel the leftist advance. If we dont act now, you can expect tom steyers impeachment petition to grow, grow longer and longer. And thats the angle. Joining me now for reaction is matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union. Victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and eric johnson, attorney and democratic strategist. Vi all right, matt schlapp, lets start with you. Ive heard conservatives say oh, i do they helped us just i hope they do really just waste their money. Ye but when you see that steyer, its really steyer, lesser extent soros, steyer has picked this guy out as the person most likely to push forward the socialist agenda in the state of florida. That is not an exaggeration. And by golly, he won the primary. It worked, yeah. Er laura how serious should republicans take this lurch to the left funded by some of the richest people on the left in america . Ic very serious. One of the things about our campaign laws, laura, we dont know how much money he spends. You threw some numbers out there, that is what we have to account for with recordkeeping. We dont know what they are spending and they are dead serious, they want to spend their billions to really retakei these seats. You are right, its not just about winning the governors races or the senate races or house races. Its about taking back the white house, stopping the trump agenda. One final thing, the republican partys platform is actually pretty popular. But sometimes our leaders are worried to embrace it. The democrat, when the American People really know the Democratic Party is, it is frightening. It is left wing, it is radical. To a certain extent, i would like to see this completely exposed. Laura well, the media are saying that this is this is, like, mainstream, this is where the country is, and Victor Davis Hanson, i want to go to you. Soros and steyer, they made all their money on betting the markets, shorting the markets, going long in the markets, playing all these games in europe, and now it is oh, no, we got to bring america back to the failed policies of europe that are being rejected by the europeans that have devastated places like venezuela and now we are seeing whats happening in nicaragua. Your reaction to all of this . H steyer got his wealth in part to invest in coal plants abroadt and george soros, who was indicted and ejected in france, and convicted in france, responsible for the crisis of the bank of england, so they dont have sterling, ethical records. The point is, the Democratic Party of humphrey, jfk, or bill clinton, no longer exists. Its a pyramid with a few grandees on top that have enough money they can be immune from the consequences of their own ideology and a group on the bottom who depend on subsidies and they to the middle class. They alienated the middleclass. A lot of this passion comes from misreading the two elections of barack obama. Beer they felt like that was the trajectory that was going to be permanent and create a progressive future and really it was unique to obama and Hillary Clinton inherited allmi the downsides of losing the middle class under obama, who,us after all, lost the house and senate and local races. But she got none of the upside, that is record minority turnout and bloc voting. Finally, theyve so delegitimized trump, or attempted to, that socialism is sort of portrayed as a legitimate opposition to an abnormal situation. We normally dont like socialists but if we create enough chaos, analogous to theo 2008 election, or the watergate, then socialism looks sober and judicious as a foil. Laura its ignorance so victor, its what youve written about for years. Matt, youve talked about it. This is a level of ignorance about basic historical facts subverted in universities, subverted in our high schools, or not taught at all. Ve eric, you are proud democrat, and i admire that. If i were democrat today, while its exciting to have all this money funneling in, just like the republicans need suburban women voters, democrats need the american middle class to return to the democrat party, as sympathetic to their cause. Ur how does socialism answer the concerns of bluecollar america . The question is, if you label it as socialism laura no, no, eric, theyre calling it social limp what are you talking about . They are not necessarily calling it socialism not really. The thing is, if you want to label it g laura yes, she is many people can label things on the right as being sort of corporatocracy, or oligarchy and not for the American People. So the way you want to choose and put down these labels of the political system determines the political determines the Public Opinion on thesee particular subjects. Now if you look at the donations, what soros and what the other individual is doing is nothing different than what the Koch Brothers have been doing for years for the republican party. Laura i agree with you. Im not disagreeing. Lets take on the issues where we want advance the narrative. You are right. Koch brothers spent a lot of money on local races. Im not saying they cant spend their money. What im talking about the question is, you are labeling it as socialism. Laura its because to know what your own prime saying. Ocasiocortez says socialism is part of me. Part of what i represent. Bernie sanders did not run away from the socialist label. This Andrew Gillum in florida is for medicare, free medicare, Free Health Care for all, as most socialist countries have that, abolish i. C. E. , no border we will have no Enforcement Mechanisms to return people to their home countries i would say that is different than the way its being implemented right now. Laura yeah, effective. So we wont have an effective ok. Right now its not necessarily as effective, it can be done in such a way that its protecting the borders but also protecting those individuals whn are here and proper citizens in this country and those who are taking the proper steps to become citizens in this country. Laura all i can say for all you guys, we got to go to our next block but barack obama was called a disappointment by george soros, the big g New York Times magazine piece. He said obama disappointed him. He didnt consult him enough. He wasnt socialist enough for soros. Soros wants to open society is really about open borders. That is what it is, no borders, no restriction on movement, sovereignty is out the window, all these principles we hold dear as americans, they are supported in that world. Subverted in that world. I dont see how is great for the democrat party, i dont think its great for the country, thats where its going. Hasnt been so good for venezuela either. Laura thank you for raising that thank you for the incredible panel. We had a somewhat related topic here. Giancarlo sopo, democrat, theem son of parents who fled cuba, and in a usa today oped, hes boarding the party against embracing what we just discussed. Democratic socialism. He wrote, given the horrific record of human suffering, to be a moral disgrace to embrace socialism just win elections as some suggest. Giancarlo joined us now. We are happy to have him. Giancarlo, you heard the conversation, matt sharp and Victor Davis Hanson think, warning, history tells us, like a flashing warning sign, do not go down this path. They were embracing democratic socialism. I dont care what the are tryinh to call it but they are embracing it. Your reaction . Socialists love poor people so much that they duplicate them by the millions. Thats a philosophy of failure and its a moral disgrace, like i said in my oped. What has happened in countries like cuba and countries like venezuela, our human disasters. Thousands and thousands of cubans have died at sea trying to flee socialism, trying to get up United States of america. You have venezuelans, 2 million have left their country in the last three years alone. Yo what you are seeing is a mass exodus away from socialism, yet they are some i want to be clear, i think most democrats are honorable, good people. But i think there are some within the party that are trying to infiltrate democratic socialism and they are trying to confuse people by making them think its what the system they have in denmark. It is not what they have in denmark. Denmark is a freemarket capitalist country. What groups like the democratic socialists of america are proposing are is likely ideological counterparts of