chris, and the other new astronauts are now eligible for flight assignments. group was selected in 2021 out of a pool of more than 12,000 applicants. candidates completed two years of basic training, space walking, robotics, space station systems and more. congratulations to chris and the rest of the new class. that's awesome, juan. >> i will tell you my brother and his wife ginger so proud. >> bret: that's awesome. tomorrow on "special report," i will have an exclusive interview with texas governor greg abbott ahead of the state of the union address, what he thinks about the immigration issue and what would be said. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. in the eastbound, 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. it's a busy week and politics and policy "the ingraham angle" is now. ♪ good evening everyone, i'm

laura ingraham. trump thompson, biden bump. that's the focus of tonight's angle. _ gsh now, just for fun, i went back to read what some of the experts were saying in the weeks and months after the 2020 election. a politico headline blared the day that trump broke the g.o.p. well, it predicted a reckoning over trumpism. and then trump is finally finished the "new york times" declared triumphantly. okay. surely all those experienced beltway pundits got it right though. >> the demise of trump and there will be a demise, you got it from me here. >> the trial alone, even without a conviction, will be enough to end donald trump's political career. >> moment he is very serious and with president trump you always have to put asterisk on statements like that because he does change his mind. that doesn't mean he will still be here as serious in two years.

>> laura: last night after trump won every super tuesday contest except in the socialist loving open primary state of vermont, they still couldn't get their minds wrapped around it all. >> it doesn't matter trump's party it's a cult. >> it's almost like a cult like we are seeing. should trouble us for the sake of our democracy. >> laura: sake of our democracy. what most of these people have never understood this really isn't about trump and he himself on says he is just a vessel for the hard-working americans who feel forgotten. and even tormented by the corrupt d.c. uniparty. >> every time the radical left democrats marxist, communists and fascists indict me i consider it a great, great badge of honor because i'm being indicted for you, the american people. they want to silence me because i will never let them silence you. and, in the end, they are not after me. they're after you. and i'm just standing in their way.

>> laura: it's not about a man. it's a movement. and the claims that maga is just a consultjustoccultive personal. totally misses the mark. >> wrm skeptical of building a border wall or decoupling from china or were doubting that we should stop fighting and funding so many unnecessary wars. but now, after three years of biden, and remembering how things were under trump, well, those views of his just seem more common sense to more people. one would think that the idea of putting america first, you think that would be fairly noncontroversial? you know, put your own oxygen mask on before you try to save others? but, no, most in the swamp just think that's selfish to put america first. but the truth is, trump's been right on the issues over and over again and it's paying off politically. also, his prediction about what

would happen to america under biden, it was spot on. > if biden wins, your borders are gone, which means your healthcare is gone, the middle class is gone. your safety is gone. your country is gone. that's what's going to happen. >> laura: only in washington would they consider a president's economic record a success when from january 2021 to december 2023 real wages declined 2%. unbelievable. now, as much as team biden tries to spin, this you can't spin it. his record is horrendous. the cbsu gov poll came out tells the tale. 65 percent said the trump economy was good. only 39% say the same about biden's economy. biden's bumps along well he bumps along because the plutocrats are opening their wallets big time to fund his campaign. the last thing they want is trump who will get tougher on china and shut down their supply

of cheap migrant labor flooding across the border. rich people don't like that. which brings me to what's next for biden's puppet tears. because, as big as trump's wins were last night and as bad as biden's record is. biden's people do have a plan to win. first, they are going to use their money advantage to drown trump in ads, in voter outreach, returning mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting were legal. second, they will hope for a conviction in one of those ridiculous criminal cases, thinking that that's going to turn off enough voters to hurt trump. third, they are going to play endless loops of january 6th, the so-called freedom agenda and argue that trump will be the agent of anti-democratic chaos. and, fourth, they will play the race card as usual, including arguing that requiring voter i.d. is somehow racist. fifth, you can expect even more mail-in ballots than the last election, part of the overall

campaign and, sixth, they are going to have biden and the surrogates try to get under trump's skin with various insults and maybe draw a nasty foul that they hope turns off suburban moms. seven, finally, there is always the unknown. the deep state. they know trump is determined to bring change to how the intelligence community operates. and they do not want that to happen. now, asked about nikki haley today. she made herself irrelevant in my view. she dropped out about a month too late. and now she is getting closer and closer to liz cheney land. >> she is being praised all day long on cnn and msnbc by democrat strategists. she might have had a little bit of leverage shortly after iowa, but most of her voters, we know, were never trumpers or democrats or leftists who will never ever vote for trump. >> is it likely that haley supporters out there could eventually wind up voting for

biden? >> absolutely. and, look, she has appealed to more moderate republicans and certainly the independent voters. she was appealing to the independent voters and democrats who might vote for joe biden. she appealed to them. so the fact that those are the voters that may have come out for her, they could potentially go to biden. >> laura: okay. that's absolutely false. this is the spin that the media is putting out there. she has no power over her supporters. she has no leverage to use those voters to try to pressure trump in one direction or another on any issue. but that's the spin you heard all day long. now, even mcconnell and thune, the ultimate g.o.p. establishment figures in the senate, they had to wake up to reality and endorse trump. so where does that leave nikki haley in no man's land or no woman's land? all you need to know is that haley's only victories again were in the socialist-loving vermont and in the swamp. so, this is going to be fascinating.

trump, to see the ultimate come back kid versus biden the octogenarian all up for grabs. future of america, trump vs. biden. by now we all know what that means, trump has nailed it on every major issue before us on the economy, immigration, military intervention and reelecting biden will mean no more borders, more debt, lower wages, and more racial division. of course, more radicals telling us just to hate america and more prosecutions of christians and other social conservatives. of course, yeah, you can bet more wars. for too long we have been governed by people who don't really care what we think and don't have our best interest at heart. we can and should change this in november. and that's the angle. ♪ >> laura: joining us now is ned ryun, founder and ceo of american majority and davis founder and ceo of the federalist. ned, let's start with you. i loved hearing this all day long and some last night nikki haley has this big, big group of

supporters to offer donald trump. and they were catering to nikki all day long on cnn. watch. >> i'm told going forward she does plan to play a role, trying to shape this party. she does believe that this sort of, you know, isolationist view that is really emerged in the republican party is not good for the country. >> nikki haley said it's now up to trump to earn the votes and i hope he does that. >> yeah. >> that was significant. >> laura: ned, the guy who pretty much had an historic series of returns is now the one who has to cater to nikki haley? what? >> that's absurd and we all know it, laura. any serious person knows that's not a serious comment to say that nikki haley can bring voters to the tactical because we know that most of them are democrats. crossing over vote tore nikki. those voters are not coming to

vote for donald trump. what we saw last night definitive rebuke of the old republican establishment. the old bush neocon days in the republican party are over. trump's triumph shows america first is resen dent and nikki haley and those have to accept that. this is trump's g.o.p. moving forward. one of the other questions central part of this campaign going into the general election is are you better off now than you were four years ago? and the answer is definitively know. you are not better on your economy. you are not better on immigration. you are not better on trade. everything has collapsed under biden. i think the real question moving forward is donald trump and republican party are they going to be able to wed those winning policies with winning politics to be able to win in november? >> laura: yeah. cnn today, they were bothered by mcconnell's endorsement of trump, sean, watch. >> you could almost see the imagery of him putting this to paper through gritted teeth. >> this is not just mcconnell falling in line. this is the republican party establishment. >> i think we have got -- going

to have a united ticket going into the fall. >> i think president trump is cleaning joe biden's clock. >> there's a lot of drama there. many, many subplots. >> laura: a lot of drama there, many, many twists and turns. sean, these people, you know, the banner, all the experts get it wrong. these people predicted that donald trump could never unite the republican party again after january 6th. his obituary was written, his political obituary, all of them were wrong. they always fail upward and still on tv saying nonsense. >> they don't want right they want people to believe what they want them to believe. if you spend time talking to actual voters outside the swamp talk to them what they're concerned with. it was obvious trump was always going to win this primary running away. absolutely obvious. that's why he is the odds on favorite to actually win the general election right now because somehow d.c. is so out of touch it, took a relates star

and real estate tycoon from queens to actually demonstrate he was the one who cared about what the american people cared about, which is an end of the chaos and end to the crime, secure borders, strong economy, and no more wars. that's what he is also a delivered on. >> laura: last night msnbc was really annoyed. one of their anchors in particular, because msnbc decided to actually cover a breaking news event. watch. >> it's a balance between knowing that that's irresponsible to broadcast and, also, knowing that as the de facto, soon-to-be de facto nominee of the republican party, this is not only the man who is likely to be the republican candidate for president, but this is the way he is running. >> laura: ned, they want him silenced as the g.o.p. presumptive nominee, period. >> right. no, no. i mean, if they had their way, of course, there would be a media blackout. donald trump would not have any coverage moving into the summer and through the fall.

but it's goings to be a little hard to ignore donald trump. and, again, laura, it's because his message resonates. despite what some of these people are saying, it not only resonates obviously with the republican party and the base as we saw definitively last night in which a lot of these primaries were decided by 40 or 50 points but with independents. the fact of the matter is, despite what they say, he is leading joe biden with independents by 15 points in some of these polls. his message actually appeals to the independents who are realizing, again, our lives are not better under biden. >> they were better under trump. life was better under trump. and i think a lot of people, including independents, have really firmly come to that conclusion. >> laura: sean, that's an example of media censorship of one candidate, one party, because, as ned said, they are actually afraid, african-americans, latinos, who might catch clips, if they're not watching television, everyone might catch a clip on youtube or on x or on instagram. they don't want those clips out

there. the only question is whether, you know, tech world is going to join in and try to put their finger on the scale as well. >> right. it shows that they actually know deep down how much trouble they are in and how unpopular the president is right now. and how bad things are. because they know that if people hear the alternative message from someone like trump, they're toast. their only real solution right now, they can't prop up biden. they can't fix the economy. they decided they are not going to secure the border. all they can hope to do is shut up trump or throw him in prison. and they have said as much. that's their campaign plan. >> laura: january 6th. shut trump up and put him in prison. that's basically the whole campaign. no change in policy. ned, sean, great to see both of you. all right. even more unhinged reaction from the press over trump's big wins. it's so hilarious we want to share it with all of you. mike huckabee, sean duffy desecond it all, next. ♪

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>> laura: tdf is a real affliction. and the media is taking their trump derangement syndrome to new highs or lows after last night's big trump win. this morning on mess nbc. they liken trump to this. >> why did they do it?

they did it because we were americans and we were there to save europe from hitler. and now all of these years later, we have to get together as a country and save the country from the threat that donald trump proposes. >> laura: and just before the polls closed, some overeducated yale professor explained just how dangerous donald j. trump really. >> you think this is going to be your strong man but he is not going to be your strong man. is he going to be your own strong man. once you choose the strong man there is no way back. it's done. once you burn this bridge, you get this guy or whoever follows him forever. and since you voted not to vote anymore by voting for a strong man. you have to be aware that he has no reason anymore to pay attention to you. >> laura: this is almost as good as election night 2016. joining me now mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas and republican presidential candidate and also sean duffy fox news contributor, co-host of fbn the bottom line.

governor huckabee, i really did enjoy last night because trump is either to them trump is either hitler, paul pots stalin. is he anti-democracy but they are worried about people voting in november. your take on just how crazy it's all gone? >> these guys are like cartoons. i mean they really are they are caricatures of reality. here's what amazing. they talk about hitler and totalitarianism. donald trump, in his presidency, never used the department of justice, the fbi, the cia, the irs, to go after his political enemies. joe biden has. obama did. remember lois lerner and the irs? remember the tapped phones of james rosen and his parents and the associated press under obama? look, these are people that just hate us. >> and when i say us, i'm talking about half of america who kind of likes freedom. who enjoys being able to go to church and maybe go hunting and own firearms and eat wild game because it's good and healthy

and who just love america and believe in borders that are controlled. welcome legal immigrants. but hate the idea that somebody would use government to stem on our necks and keep us from breathing. and tell us that we were safe if we went to a casino but we were going to die if we went to church. and a lot of us have had it up to here and we are saying that's it. we want donald trump because he will actually defend america as we love it, know it, and as it's depicted in the constitution. what a novel idea. >> laura: john, joy reid was at it again. she got into the minds of the millions of voters who actually turned out for trump. watch. >> republican voters don't vote that way. they don't vote based on economics. they are voting on race. they are voting on this idea of an invasion of brown people over the border. the idea that they can't get whatever job they want a black person got it therefore drive all the blacks out of the colleges, get rid of dei.

that is what they're voting on. they are just voting specifically on racial animus. >> laura: she also said that biden's policies are benefiting republican voters. okay. sean, i must have missed that and all those economic polls or the border polls. >> as that news flash to joy reid you have a huge significant increase in black voters who are voting for donald trump. by the way, joy reid who is talking about republicans, i don't think she has ever met a real republican, a republican in flyover country, a hunting republican, a pro-life republican. she has never met them so to comment on why they vote, she is completely off base. but, what you are playing, laura is this screeching media. they are used to be in charge. they are used to picking our presidents and deciding who we can and cannot vote for. in 2016 they realized that the american people for the first time made the decision for themselves and they are going to do it again. they can't stop it. they are besides themselves.

add on governor huckabee's point the fact they would try to kick donald trump off the ballot. republicans never did that they would try to impeach. they would try to do a coup from the intelligence community to shut down a president. republicans would never do that or -- listen, we want democrats to speak. we think they are crazy. we want all americans to hear the nutty things they say. but they try to silence us on social media. so, when they talk about this radicalism or strong man, it's unbelievable republicans are the exact opposite. we believe in democracy and freedom of speech and individual rights. we believe if you want to take a vaccine that doesn't work that's not going to save your life good for you. but if you don't want to take it you shouldn't have to. that's called freedom. >> laura: governor, do you know what is fascinating to me is that despite all of the polls on these subjects that matter, the issues that concern voters from the economy, the immigration, to even ukraine, there is not an inch of movement in that senate border bill is a complete, you know, joke.

we knew that from the beginning. still let in almost 2 million people. that didn't count. that was a complete political play. so they won't move an inch toward where the people are so though say we are not going to put him on tv or put him in jail. miss report what the american people think call them racist. they call trump a fanatic. they are the most fanatical globalists out there and they will not budge one inch toward the people. they wonder why people are mad? >> well, think they honestly believe they are just better than the rest of us. that's really what it comes down to, laura. think are better than us, they are smarter than us. you know, they're like the old character in "saturday night live" that was played where he said by golly, i'm good looking, i'm smart, and i'm a good person. you know, i think that's that what they look in the mirror and say to themselves every day. the fact is we need to quit apologizing for who we're. boldly stand for what we stand

for because i think a lot more americans stand for it than maybe they know. but they do control the media, they control social media. and so we are going to have to get our message out to the people every way possible. but one thing is clear after last night. donald trump has revised this republican party as a working class party. >> laura: you bet. >> fair to blacks, to browns, to every single american. i like this kind of republican party better than the stodgy old smoky room corner office elite snobs who looked down their noses while nibbling cheese and sipping wine and talk about how horrible middle america was. >> laura: speaking of that, i think there was a moment last night you know is going to end up in a donald trump campaign commercial about what west virginians, the people who vote for trump, what they care about. watch. this i live in virginia. immigration was the number one issue. i mean, again, these could change in virginia. >> well, virginia does have a

border with west virginia. [laughter] >> laura: yeah, so, virginia voters are laughing at them for caring about immigration. anyone who lives in northern virginia knows it is an epicenter of illegal alien activity in northern virginia. we have ms-13, we have increased crime. it's a bad situation. but they laugh at it. they just say oh, it doesn't really matter. >> they laugh at it, laura, because illegal immigration, those illegals, those crimes aren't coming into their gated communities. aren't coming into their neighborhoods. so they don't see that as a problem where the rest of us have to live with illegal immigration and the feces on the street and the homeless encampments or the government encampments, and the crime. and so, again, when you don't see it yourself, you don't see that others would think it's a top priority. but do you know what? when you poll anyone, republicans, democrats, independents, it's a top issue for all voters. by the way, i think you are not going to change joe biden's age. he's not going to get any younger. if he actually changed course,

if he was actually going to secure the border. if he was going to stop spending and work on bringing down inflation, actually i think he has a great shot at winning this election. because is he not going to change course, there's no way he is going to beat donald trump. donald trump is going to mop the floor with him because joe biden is committed to these radical loony ideas. they are -- >> laura: unbelievable. both of you, awesome to see you tonight. thanks so much. well, there is the sign of life in progressive america. this could be more bad news for biden in san francisco? yeah. we're going to explain it, next. ♪

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>> this is a fox news update i'm kevin corke in washington. the lawyer behind the efforts to

disqualify fulton county d.a. fani willis testifies before georgia lawmakers. ashley merchant who represents one of the former president's co-defendants in the election interference case there walked lawmakers through her investigation into willis' romantic relationship with a special prosecutor. she argues willis paid the prosecutor large sums of money for his work and then personally benefited when he paid for things like fancy trips. willis calls the removal efforts political. a jury convicts rust armor morer hanna with regard to the shooting death of cinematographer. she was in the line of fire when alec baldwin. he fired. she died. battalion win also charged in the case. he will face a trial by jury in july. i'm kevin corke in washington. now back to the ingraham angle. ♪ >> signs tonight urban america after years of living under far left policies may be slowly waking up. in washington, d.c., the city

council passed a sweeping anticrime bill after, of course, homicides and carjackings there have been skyrocketing. in oregon, the great liberal experiment with the decriminalization of hard core drugs is coming to an end. lawmakers just voted to recriminallize drug possession after fentanyl deaths have soared 1500 percent since 2019. a total nightmare there. then, down the coast in san francisco, voters approved prop f. tying welfare payments smartly to drug testing. and then proposition e, that also passed, that pandz police powers. the democrats supported defund the police era was obviously an unmitigated disaster. but not all the news is rosy. in harris county, texas, a soros backed former prosecutor sean tier unseated a term incumbent d.a. tammaro ogbueze.

ogg opposed to ending cash bail. in other words, she wasn't pro-criminal enough. i kid you not. in travis county, texas, the home of austin, of course, another progressive one jose garza he clinched his primary. that's not all george gascon, i can't believe i'm reading this who survived two recall attempts leads the crowded field there and headed for a runoff. is he leading in that overall field. my question is how much are the people of l.a. willing to suffer with high crime? i guess we will see. joining us now jason rantz, seattle radio host, author of "what's killing america inside the radical left's destruction of our cities." jason, this is right when your wheelhouse. san francisco chronicle writing today in the after mouth of those ballot measures in san francisco they said for now, at least, san francisco can no longer be be called a progressive city. jason? your reaction? >> i love that. that's great news.

because, if you are now defining photographickism the way that all of us have seen it, then that can only bode well for conservatives or even just moderates who want to take politics out of a lot of these decisions and simply focus on what makes sense like going after criminals, cleaning up homeless encampments, telling the people who are using sidewalks as toilets or smoking fentanyl in front of a business, that maybe we don't want to preach the that in any sort of way. we don't want to push that. we don't want to see that anymore. we don't want kids to see that anymore. so go after it. i love it. let's start calling what you just did progressive. >> laura: yeah. and there are some moderate democrats that were elected to the democrat committee, a very important body that will go offer endorsements for years to come. that's also somewhat good news in san francisco. but, l.a. is apparently just, you know, it's absolutely stamping its feet. they are not going to give up on george gascon. how bad does it have to get in

l.a.? friends of mine's cars got lit on fire in a nice neighborhood. police don't show up. fire department doesn't show up unless it's a real, real ongoing emergency, lots of complaints, but doesn't look like any action there. >> let's see. because what is actually kind of interesting here, gascon ran against 11 other candidates. if you look at the 2, 3, and 4 as their vote tallies, these were all candidates who ran against george gascon in a significant way pointing out the soft on crime policies. saying pretty clearly this is the wrong direction. they garnered a nice bit of support, right? at the end of the day we will see when all the ballots are in, what that percentage is, he are hovering around 21, 22, 23%. that's obviously not great incumbent have a lot of money behind you. have a lot of the base behind you who are doing the organizing on your behalf. but the problem that we have in a generally seen in a lot of these cities which is why it takes so long for change, local media, god bless them, some

people who are upstanding. a lot who are really bad. not connecting the dots. they are not connecting the dots to say this policy is responsible. >> laura: yeah. what we are seeing in harris county and travis county, texas. they better watch what's happened to these other localities and not let texas go down the tubes like california started to see themselves go down the tubes. hope that doesn't happen. in new york, jason, governor kathy hochul under huge pressure because of the crime and filth there made an announcement today. watch. >> to rid our subways of people who commit crimes and protect all new yorkers. i'm redeploying nearly 1,000 members of the new york state police, mta police, and mta national guard to conduct bag checks in the city's busiest transit stations. >> laura: jason, we have to not forget that the bag check announcement, notwithstanding, these are the people who favored defunding the police, who demonized the police, and who

welcomed illegal aliens to the city. sanctuary locations. >> it's also the folks who told us crime crisis? what crime crisis. fox news is making it up. conservatives are lying. >> laura: good point. >> they said that this week. we heard that from eric adams this week that crime is actually going down. it's so remarkable that they will say that without understanding that it's gotten so bad that new yorkers have personally experienced it. or they know someone who has personally experienced a crime. and at that point, you can only get away with gaslighting for so long. it's precisely why the issue of the border is number one right now. at some point when you say there's not a crisis and everyone sees the video and everyone understands what is going on then they are like now you are just flat out lying to us. kudos to kathy hochul. shreve made the right decision here. it's very late. and there should be a political price to pay for democrats there. >> laura: i don't know what a bag check is going -- i mean, this is my problem is the inconvenience everyone in the subways because they welcome criminals into the city and are

soft on crime in general. then there is a revolving door back onto the street. then everyone who rides the subways, hundreds of thousands of people they have to be inconvenienced? i don't know, jason you are so great on all these issues, you predicted all of this, thank you so much. get ready for state of the union spin or as they are calling it the hate of the union. biden speech coming up. what should we expect? senator eric schmitt will join us. ♪

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>> it is clear he has got more done in the first three years than most presidents have accomplished in two terms. he will talk about the success and implementing his agenda from infrastructure to chips to lowering drug prices and getting rid of junk fees. >> laura: junk fees. what an exciting preview. doesn't sound like the white house has much to brag about but if biden's past speeches are any indication it will include some maga bashing. >> donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. trump and his maga supporters not only embrace political violence but they laugh about it. >> extreme of america maga republicans led by a defeated

president is trying to steal history now. >> laura: biden doesn't want to face up to what the american people feel about the state of the union. according to our fox news polling only 25% of americans think that biden's policies are helping their families. 57% of americans say they have less money in their pockets this year compared to last year. 58% of americans think that biden's policies are making the country weaker. joining me now eric schmitt, missouri senator, member of the armed services committee. senator, what's your reaction to this biden attempt to turn his re-election campaign into a defense of democracy and portray himself as the layer is of shrinkflation and junk fees? >> well, the first thing is i think for the state of the union turn it into a drinking game. every time joe biden says extreme or maga republicans, i think washington, d.c. will be drunk in the first five minutes. he's the most divisive president we have ever had. and i'm tired of hearing lectures about threats to

democracy when this is the guy that's literally trying to throw his political opponent in prisoner for the rest of his life, take him off the ballot and, by the way, started the largest censorship enterprise we have ever seen in the history of the country. the real threat to democracy is joe biden. but he is going to try again to cast a lot of blame for the problems that we see as a country that are of his own making, take immigration and him undoing all the success under president trump and try to shift that blame. that will be the purpose of the speech tomorrow but i think, laura, when the dust settles and those whoppers are told the american people are going to be left with the reality which is they are much worse off now than they were when president trump was in office. >> laura: that's just the classic, you know, barometer of how people usually vote are you better off now than you were four years ago? and as we said in the angle, senator, america's real wages declined from late, you know, 2020 to this past december 2023. i mean, going down.

not going up. and obviously inflation factored into all of that. >> that's right. and, you know, i think for right now, this is -- to me it's a new era, especially for the republican party. our anchor, core support are working people. that's how i grew up in a blue collar neighborhood. three issues on the top of the list. the economy. the american family right now they are having to pay about $10,000 more every year for the same stuff than just a few years ago. they are paying -- they are working harder to pay for benefits for illegal immigration. 9 million people come here from somewhere else. >> laura: at least. >> you look at war on dismesk energy production. no country in the rest of the world has declared war on natural resources. shipping those jobs to china and hallowed out the middle class and everything is more expensive because of it. >> laura: the race for the new senate g.o.p. leader is on. mcconnell comes out and endorses trump today. thune has already induced trump. cornyn has already endorsed

trump. do any of them, obviously mcconnell is out. but do thune or cornyn, do they represent that works class sensibility that you say and i believe is now at the heart of the republican party? are we going to be back to the establishment vs. the people again in the senate? we hope majority? >> well, that's the perspective that i'm reading, right? a state like missouri. i came here not to just go along, get along. to shake things up on behalf of american people. the conversations in washington are so different, laura, than the ones you have in real america. we have got to bring that to leadership here. so, as we go through this month-long leadership race, those two have indicated -- i don't know if the field is set, but i personally am going to be asking a lot of questions about how our agenda can actually lead to more prosperous america for more americans, right? and the foreign policy reflects where our people are at now as oppose to the elites in washington. >> laura: they are interviewing thune today. and this is nothing personal. i like all these guys. but he looks so unhappy today

after super tuesday. i mean, republicans should be thrilled that we have our candidate and we're moving forward. but everybody looks miserable up in senate leadership. i don't get it. senator -- i do get it. thank you so much. bernie sanders tries to bail out the big guy, no, not jimmy failla. but he does join us next. so stay there. ♪

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[♪♪] [♪♪] >> jesse: now it's time for wtf, joining me now, jimmy faila. the big embarrassment of the night for biden other than 18 percent of minnesota democrats voting for uncommitted. was losing to a guy that no one ever heard of. >> my phone started blowing up and when your phone is, you know, 20 text messages coming in at once, you immediately look at

your phone or the tv and i saw on the tv set in the hotel that we had won american samoa which was very surprising. [ laughter ] >> laura: so i know who were on the edge of your seat about american samoa's turnout but look at him. he's a clean-cut guy, he seems to have a lot of energy and he's not 81. >> and he spent a lot less money than michael bloomberg did to win american samoa. if you remember back to that disaster. but the most disturbing part of last night's when biden heard samoa he thought they were ordering goals -- girl scout cookies. he had no idea. ninety-one people showed up to vote in that primary! they had more carjackings in washington, dc last night than they had primary voters in american samoa. >> laura: biden, when he tweets by the way, don't you love when people say well biden tweeted. [ laughter ] >> laura: like you note trump is actually writing most of his own posts, he doesn't really

tweak, but on truth social he's writing most of that stuff. you can tell, it sounds like him. but the idea that biden's writing anything, give me a break. >> if someone typed the way biden talked, it would look like a cat walked across your keyboard. [ laughter ] >> i don't know how you type that word he uses frequently to be honest. >> laura: the white house is claiming that it wants to let biden off his leash for the general election. like commander i guess, but that doesn't seem to be the case. >> what's your message for voters... >> laura: he will get in trouble? like a dog that goes to the bathroom? he's going to get in trouble? >> listen, some of these dog comparisons are apt because he does sniff people a lot randomly. there's that. but here's the thing, when he

says i'm going to get in trouble, what i want to know is, by who? if you are the leader of the free world, by definition you are supposed to be the most powerful man in the world. do you think there's any world where any other leader is like oh i don't want to get in trouble? but in his case, he might get in trouble. they are like hey, you want your ice cream cone or what, old man? and he's like fine, i won't take questions, but that's what we are watching here. embarrassing. >> laura: could you imagine, i can't answer these questions or i will get in trouble? >> trump gets legally order to stop talking and keeps talking. he doesn't care, he's a leader, he's his own guy. >> laura: very good point. okay, biden is getting some hell swatting away voters concerns about his age from a fellow octogenarian. >> recent poll says 73 percent of registered voters thank biden is too old to be president.

you are one year older than him. are you worried about his age? >> i'm worried about a lot of things. but i think the media has fixated a little too much on age. >> laura: that's convincing. >> i don't know that they have, bernie. ages and the concern, it's condition okay? this is a guy who routinely makes the sign language interpreter shrugged. we've seen him shake hands with invisible people, we'd seen him quit talking in the middle of a sentence because he's done, okay, the point is not age, it's condition. if you saw the carfax on joe biden you would not purchase this vehicle. >> laura: okay mr carfax. [ laughter ] >> laura: that's really good. great to see you as always. don't forget to check out jimmy on the road in florida this week. that's it for us tonight, jesse waters takes it from here. >> jesse: welcome to jesse waters prime time.

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