On the cannabis than to see Kathy Griffin flashing anderson cooper. Sean you cant make this up. Happy new year. Laura congrats on the ratings. Sean you too. You had an amazing year. Laura welcome to the 2018 edition of the ingraham angle from washington. Liberals are using Sexual Harassment beyond a shadow of a doubt for political end. The predictions about the president that were all wrong. Thats the focus of the tonights angle. Before we get to our main topic, its a new year. Signs of progress made by the president and his administration are everywhere. They are blooming. Its like spring time. Its so coldoud. Remember a year ago when the liberal prophets of doom predicted that a Trump Presidency would tank the stock market and kill jobs and mark americas retreat from the world. Boy, were they wrong. A year later even the New York Times is grudgingly admitting due to trumps rollback, Business Leaders are awash in a wave of optimism investing in new plants, equipment and factory upgrades that bolster economic goth. Growth. Forecasters are going upward with trump. Todays wall street journal reported that wages are rising do you believe the National Average in areas with low unemployment. Paychecks are starting to swell. Heres my predic. As trumps policy and tax cuts settle in, our Economic Forecast will get brighter. Now to the latest Sexual Harassment opportunism out of hollywood. They got star treatment in magazines and newspapers. A couple of 300 female power players announced the time is up initiative. An effort to fight Sexual Harassment and other gender issues across the country and in the Entertainment Industry itself. Its convenient that these powerful women that knew about Harvey Weinstein and others like him are seeking to cleanse themselves from any guilt by social media correspondent to this type of gesture. Beheath the girl power platitudes and recruiting anita hill to write up a blueprint to end Sexual Harassment, this feels like another leftist hack group. Like a Political Action committee. At the heart is a Legal Defense fund with a 13 million war chest that will be used to litigate Sexual Harassment claims. Donors . To fund this. Meryl streep, Reese Witherspoon and other hillary backers. Like what Jesse Jackson used to do with operation push. The defense fund is led by tina chest. Her only previous game to fame she was chief of staff to michelle obama. The whole effort is being overseen by the National Womens law centers Legal Network for gender quality. Thats a mouthful. This Legal Network was just created last october according to the see. Ceo. She said the group was founded in response to the Trump Presidencys all out assault on womens rights. Lets be clear what this is all about. This is not an effort to protect women although the trappings are there. There is an obvious attempt by hollywood leftists to organize for 2018 and 2020. Times up members include evalongeriar and others that should a hilarious challenge. At the Golden Globes on sunday, women are being asked to swear black and use the red carpet to argue for racial and gender equality. Black . Black is classic, but its kind of depressing. Their entire box office was dependent on the 40yearold franchise of stars wars and 60yearold wonder woman. Women are expected to look beautiful and smile and not say much. Longeria said we are not willing to just be ornaments and cell this awards show without asking Big Questions about power in hollywood. Laura maybe this is an attempt to bring up the golden globe sagging ratings. Many of these women made Million Dollars flaunting their bodies. In the awards shows, there are talented people there, women and men. But at times the dresses defy the laws of physics with double sided tape. You can wear whatever you want, but dont be shocked when people including men stare. It is going to happen. These seam people, producer, writers and actors who objectified women. They are the moral conscience of the entire country . Are they looking like pilgrims . Oh, okay. Thats eye good look on her. Perhaps a little house on the prairie collection will make a premier on the Golden Globes. Dont hold your breath. You know who will do more to help women, they wont admit it, but i tell you who. There he is, donald trump. An improving economy is good for all women. Women are half the work force if not more. They need a growing economy. Wages going up and optimism and confidence. The hollywood crowd is great at stomping their feet and fundraising for liberal causes. If they really cared there their industry, hypersexualizing women and young people, hollywood, times up. Thats the angle. Joining me now for reaction in new york is monica crowley, from the London Center from policy research and julie, the digital director of lifestyle titles at times inc. I said a lot. Tell me what i got wrong. Correct me. Tutor me. Go ahead. Frankly, i think its bizarre that you believe that this is some sort of liberal conspiracy constructed to collect emails addresses to campaign for 2018. These women are standing up for women who are unable to speak up for themselves. Low paying jobs working in farms, hospitals, hotels and restaurants. Women who dont have the platform to talk about Sexual Harassment but experience large amounts of selects. Sexual harassment. They are connecting these women with legal experts and money. They are lobbying organizations for legislation that help peo e people. I am confused why you seem to think this is a nefarious process. Laura the National Womens center was just started in october. One of the core Mission Statements of this group is focussed on donald trump. You dont think that lends some political taint to the otherwise laudable goal of protecting women in the work force . This from an industry that made Million Dollars hypersexuleizing women . Taking advantage of young women who are naive and ignorant of the way men are in the workplace. Now they get Million Dollars for an organization that is populated by all liberal actresses. We are supposed to believe they just found their moral conscience . Thats not bizarre. They focussed on trump right from the beginning. The things you point out about this industry, hypersexualizing women and treating them poorly, i think thats exactly what part of this mission is trying to address. 80 of Board Members in hollywood are men. 96 of directors are men. These stories are told by men. Part of what this initiative is doing laura these stories are not just told by men. Women write their own stories about [overlapping talking]. 96 of the directors are men. Laura monica, they have a group called 5050 for gender parity for 2020 an election year, your thoughts . Yes, this looks like the late mobilization of never let a good crisis go to waste. The Sexual Harassment crisis is real. Women do suffer at the hand of superiors and men across every industry as we have seen. But what we are seeing in the last couple of weeks and with these latest groups is an effort by the left to take this genuine crisis and hijack into 2 directions. One the liberal left wingdirection and have women that supplant man in positions of power and authority. If Women Deserve those positions, more power to them. If they dont, then we have a problem. The other direction that this is being mobilized in is the direction of donald trump. In many ways the accusers of donald trump in late october right before the election, that was ahead of its time. Right before the Harvey Weinstein story broke this wide open. They want to make those accusers relevant again. They will try to reanimate this whole thing to target donald trump. Laura of course. You guys are the only ones laura we have to get into another issue. I want to show you how this can manifest itself. The big dollars being raised and dedicateed to derailing the Trump Presidency, this happened before the election on. New years eve the New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton backers gave 700,000 to any woman who came forward with allegations against donald trump. Not one woman came forward. Is there any taint with that money from hillarys good friend . I understand where you are coming from. I dont like the idea of exploiting or digging up that sort of dirt. It wasnt like this money would go directly to the people who made accusations. This was money to go toward legal fees and things like that. I dont like the idea of exploiting people who have been sexually harassed. There evidence that there have been lots of allegations against donald trump. He spoke about touching women in a sexual manner without their consent. There is smoke there. There are women out there who have been mistreated by donald trump and our country deserves to know about that. Laura david brock is a long time pal of hillary. Runs all of these groups that support hillary. Wrote a book exposing anita hill. Now its ironic she is brought in by hollywood to oversee this effort to expunge all sexual bias from hollywood. Monica, i agree what you say. Men in position of power take advantage of young women who need an opportunity. There is also a political element running right through. This as most of the people, most not all, have been people on the left. Thats just a fact. All of these hollywood people who have been accused, is there one conservative. Most. Of the people have been democrats. The story on brock and the m mony that went into lisa blooms firm, we are seeing a weaponiation of Sexual Harassment this is a tragedy because they are really cases. The women victimized by this bad behavior will have their credibility fall into greater question. Thats the real tragedy here. Laura ladies, cnn lended the year on a ridiculous high note. A reporter marving about the ways to get legally high in a pot den. I am taking heat from the media after calling them all out. This one is one you will want to stick around to. Stay there. Liberty mutual saved us almost eight hundred dollars when we switched our auto and home insurance. With liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. Hey. Oh. Thats my robe. Is it . You could save seven hundred eighty two dollars when liberty stands with you. Liberty mutual insurance. Has been a problem for me. Mouth im also on a lot of medications that dry my mouth. 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The Network Coverage included live shots from randi kaye in denver who reminded viewers its legal in colorado. I came prepared this year. I thought maybe i would bring a gas mask with me so i would not get the contact high. Look at what is on the other end of the gas mask. Yes, a bong. Okay. Now what . You will celebrate new years early. I dont think this is what a gas mask is used for. Wow. Randy this is for andy. This is for you. Oh my god. [laughing] on cnn laura what a total dope. A dope smoking dope. A mother of a girl affected by marijuana called cnns coverage a free infomercial for that group. I was on the dance floor dancing the night away with friend and others. I didnt watch a minute of television. But, you as a mother who lost a child to someone impaired while taking medical marijuana, i cant imagine your reaction to seeing that. It was very outrageous to see what i would call the irresponsible journalism on behalf of cnn. Laura they are saying, its fun and games. Corrine, its legal in colorado and now legal in california. They did a big Ribbon Cutting ceremonies and lovely moments all over television that night. Tell us about your own family tragedy as difficult as it is if you dont mind. Sure. My daughter jennifer had just graduated from college. She was 22yearold on the verge of a wonderful career. She wanted to fight drugs. She began her first job. Not in her field of study, but she was called into work as a district manager into one of the stores when an alrm off. As we went in, she was tboned in an intersection by a man traveling 82 Miles Per Hour through a red light. Her car was pushed across the road through shrubbery and the doors of a building and the building on collapsed on top of her car. My daughter lost her life that night. The man that did this was uninjured, but he was high on medical marijuana. He was given a very light sentence of just 2 years in jail. Only spent 17 months there. Now he is out and off parole. Laura its infuriating. All we hear about is how marijuana is the only thing you can take to ease pain. Anyone criticizing it is heartless. Newsweek attacked me, i wear that as a badge of honor, for having a similar reaction to the cnn coverage as you i tweeted out we will see how this works out for our country. More pot heads and increase in psychosis and more impaired driving. Newsweek ran a peiece saying Laura Ingraham roasted. I was hardly roasted. Oh, i am scared. This is what they do to you if you take on big pot and the multimillionaires funding this effort nationwide. Your comments to mothers who are seeing this Legalization Movement grow nationwide. How to get involved given your own loss. I cant imagine. I have a daughter who is 12 years old. We dont want anybody else dying on the road. I think we need to contact our senators and governors and state officials and tell them that we need more education in this area. A lot of people are filled with misnommers put out by the medical the Marijuana Industry. I think we need more education. This is not the weed from back in the 70s. This is a very powerful drug. It causes psychosis and many other things in people that smoke it. The more we legalize it, the more younger people are trying it at earlier and earlier ages. Laura evidence is building and growing. I appreciate that you have the courage to come on tonight. Even though even hateful things are said about you and the victims of this legalization effort. I appreciate it. Lets debate this issue. Is this a blight on the nation we should fight to reverse. In washington is will jones of the group of smart uses of marijuana when opposes legalization and a legalization of marijuana who teaches a marijuana class. Professor you are depend on this legalization effort. We have seen the evidence building, the American Academy of pediatricians of young people trying it at earlier and earlier ages. They have a likely to get addicted to pot and the developing brain. Are you concerned about any of that . I am certainly concerned that almost 100 years of prohibition set us back. The questions about how marijuana affects the human body, we have not been able to answer those because of prohibition. Now that marijuana was legalizeed in california, we expect to answer some of these questions. The reason we dont have road side tests is because of prohibition. We were kept from doing any of the science involved. My concerns are about educating the public in the right way and people understand that Legal Marijuana is not dangerous. Its not dangerous to the individual. Not nearly as dangerous as the policy of prohibition has been for 100 years. I dont like using the word prohibition. Thats not a great analogy. People think of what we have with alcohol. We had stories and a whole industry that was around. Then we tried to shut it down. That was prohibition. Right now we dont have a Huge Industry that is ingrained in society. We dont want to see an industry that profits off addition. Addiction. In colorado we are seeing how they are profiting on addiction and we are seeing negative consequences from that. The Marijuana Industry that exists today is the underground marijuana market. Laura oh, really . Wait, wait, wait. Professor, this might work on your students, but you for my classroom now. We have hollywood looking to brand marijuana in california. In other words, celebrity endorsement. Oh, no. Laura we have Willie Nelson and snoop dogg. What do you think that says to the kids . If your kids show up high, you probably give them an aplus . My class is more boring than you could imagine. Laura it sound it. The idea of just decriminalization doesnt get to the heart of the matter. Will, address this. The academy of pediatricians have dwelved into. The effects on the young developing brain. Schizophrenia and psychosis. It goes up to 50 when people begin daily use at a young age. Its not having a beer every now and then. This is a powerful drug that is addicting in a percentage of americans. Definitely. [overlapping talking] chris, let me get a word in here. [overlapping talking]. We are talking about addiction. Addiction is the wrong word to use with marijuana. [overlapping talking]. What i am concerned about as an africanamerican and why i started to talking about this issue, lets look at them targeting communities of colleges. Minority communities have 8 times as many liquor stores. In denver, colorado, there are more pot shops in minority communities. [overlapping talking] we are talking about the police that in philadelphia the reason we decriminalized marijuana. Laura we are up against a hard break. We will have you both back. We want to make sure. Laura we want to make sure we have real data. 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The fact that they were reckless and sent it over public email whether it was Hillary Clintons server or huma abedins server doesnt create criminal intent. Laura is that a statue . Yes. Laura sal, you are the legal eagle. Dont you have a standard of intent. [overlapping talking] one of the statutes as we know gross negligence is all that is required. Its very difficult to compare military cases to the case of secretary clinton and miss abedin. The key is how i would not look at the different outcomes, but how was the email investigation of mrs. Clinton conducted . We absolutely know now that it was an abysmal and disgraceful investigation. Conducted not in the normal way. Thats very, very troubling. Listen, heres the deal. Its gross negligence or general intent, these investigations are different. If you compare Hillary Clintons investigation to the other investigation, there are lots of problems. There are people in the office that would agree with any criminal prosecution and thats why you have more than one person looking at the case. Laura what john solomon reported tonight on the hill. The evidence include passages and fbi documents stating the sheer volume of classified information that flowed through clintons insecure emails was proof of criminality. It goes on and on. Thats one investigators opinion. There was one decision maker. Whether it was comey. Laura or peter strzok. No, dont go there. They have can their opinion. Any investigation will difference of opinions. That doesnt mean the case had to be reprosecuted. The doj is not a political animal. Its an independent entity that stands for justice. How would you reinvestigate this . All of those cases you brought up, they are not comparable. Those individuals had no business with the information. They did other crimes like computer crimes. [overlapping talking] they found the pictures in a du dump. Laura are you saying . He lied about it and covered it. Laura the fact they destroyed all of these emails. She didnt destroy the emails. Laura does the sheer volume of emails here from a yahoo account, does that tell you anything more about intent . Its a piece that goes into the decision on intent. Scott said Something Interesting that the doj is not a political organization. The doj at the highest level and the fbi at the highest level understand the Obama Administration was highly political and the clinton email investigation was a farce. Scott knows this. He is a former prosecutor like i was. Anybody who knows anything about how the department of justice does investigation can point to 9 things in the clinton email investigation that were not by the book and are deeply troubling. You dont give immunity to people when you dont need to. [overlapping talking]. Laura we are almost out of time. Compare to what happened to michael flynn. You dont defend flynn. He told a barely material lie and gets a felony. They have a computer person who they knew had obstructed justice and then gave him immunity to tell them how he obstructed justice. [overlapping talking]. Laura to be continued. They were handing out immunity deals like popcorn flying around the room. Its pathetic and scott, you know its pathetic. Laura happy new year. On the the ingraham angle. Protestors in iran. And trumps message to north koreas rocket man next. My experience with usaa has been excellent. They always refer to me as master sergeant. They really appreciate the military family, and it really shows. Weve got auto insurance, homeowners insurance. Had an accident with a vehicle, i actually called usaa before we called the police. Usaa was there handson very quick very prompt. I feel like were being handled as people that actually have a genuine need. Were the webber family and we are usaa members for life. Usaa, get your insurance quote today. Laura President Trump is strongly supporting the freedom speaking protestors flooding the streets of iran for the 6th straight day. Obama gave them a Cold Shoulder in 2009. There is a danger here. Just as president reagan encouraged freedom speakers behind the iron curtain, the u. S. Can ill afford to get involved on the ground in another middle east disaster. John bolton is in the studio and david who served under the state department under president obama. Where we are tonight on iran . These demonstration are significant. This is dramatically different from the 2009 demonstrations. What is at stake here is the future of the regime itself. The president is right to say the United States is watching what happens. I dont think there is any question of military involvement here. Laura regime change, i have to calm down about that. It can be just like our alliance with poland. There is a huge amount of opposition to this regime that has nothing to do with the United States. The young people know they can have a different line. This regime is more vulnerable than people think. Its dangerous. I think trump is on the right track. Laura david, lets turn to what is happening in north korea. The president put out a tweet. I think we put it up on the screen. There it is. David, your reaction to that . Well, thats kind of a funny tweet. Its good to see President Trump has a sense of humor, but this is a serious topic. He is right to remind north korea and its leader that he has a button we will use military strength against north korea if we cant come up with a diplomatic solution. There is an important point in iran. Lets note the difference between iran and north korea. Iran is an unstable government without Nuclear Weapons. North korea is unstable with Nuclear Weapons. Thats a very significant difference. The reason we have that difference is because we have a nuclear deal with iran that caused iran to give up its new orleans. Laura obama hung those people out to dry. I want to stay on north korea for a moment. I think there is Something Else going on with these tweets back and forth. I dont think its just firing off a tweet about north korea. Do you . The president made it clear the only solution to north korea is denuclearization, no new orleans. Oo Nuclear Weapons. Since there is zero chance of that, it requires dramatic action by china. Laura china is cheating. If you leave north korea with Nuclear Weapons or look at military force, that option has to be on the table. The president needs to not tweet about, but move forces to the region. The only way to get china and north korea to take this potential use of military force seriously is make it real. Laura if japan goes nuclear, china doesnt want that. The region doesnt want that. Thats what President Trump is saying to xi in his conversations. Thats correct. China has a lot of reasons to be more helpful. They have not been helpful enough yet. We need to continue to work with our closest allies in like japan and south korea. We have to Work Together and set goals for getting north korea to come to the table. President trump should not tweet as much. He should set an objective for north korea and get north korea to the table. Laura he is left with a mess and he has to clean it up. Thank you very much. Before the president meets with congressional leaders, i reveal my list of must do items before any daca deal. What the president must get in return for his country and the voters who voted for him in the last election. Stay with us. You wont believe how much is new at red lobster. That is, until you taste our new menu. Discover more ways to enjoy seafood with new tasting plates small plates, with big flavor like yucatan shrimp covered in chililime butter and caramelized pineapple. And if you like hot, buttery maine lobster, get your hands on this petite red lobster roll. 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America used to have a common sense policy of giving priority to immigrants based on merit and what they could contribute to our society. Now you need is a second cousin twice removed. We have to return to a practical season and endthe joke of the diversity lottery system. When National Security is threatened, what is the point of admitting immigrants at random. The lottery system should have never been enacted and must end. There is bipartisan support for that. Verify nationwide. And we have to cut the number of legal immigrants by reducing the number of green card holder by half. 50 . President trump was not elected to help the dreamers. He was elected to build the wall and protect the american people. Your move, mr. President. Well be right back. We have a great wind up. They came out of nowhere, sir how many of em . We dont know. Dozens. All right lets teach these freaks some manners good luck out there, captain thanks but i dont need luck, i have skills. 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They are the ones who put the story out. Come on, guys. Nothing can be wrong for the baby or the mother with pot use for pregnant women. Thats all the time we have for tonight. Shannon bream is back to take things from here. I am delighted to see her. Miss shannon, happy new year. Shannon happy new year to you. This is a drugfree zone. Heres what we have going up tight. We will make america strong again. We will make america proud again. We will make america safe again. Shannon as he returns to washington to begin his second year in office, President Trump