Laura thanks. Awesome show. I am Laura Ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. A powerful lineup, including the continuing battle against the censorship of conservative voices. What role exactly has facebook played . Jeffrey lord is here tonight to answer it. Speaking of facebook, how much involvement do they actually have with muellers investigation. Have you or anyone at facebook been interviewed by the special counsels office . Yes. Have you been interviewed . I have not. Others have. I believe so. I want to be careful here. Our work with the special counsel is confidential. Speak to the question we had is to what end . Were going to examine it. In the air over syria is eerily quiet. We are learning a potential strike on assad loyalists could come at any moment after he reportedly used chemical weapons once again on his own people. Where will those missiles originate from . And we will get to tonights angle in a moment which includes a message and some advice for the president. But first, the heavyhanded fbi raid of President Trumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen continues to reverberate at this hour. Tonight, cohen is speaking out saying this unprecedented act is upsetting to him and his family but that he will cooperate, adding he still stands by the legality of what he did with that payment. So is cohen using the media to communicate now with President Trump . Coming up tonight, we are going to talk with house intel chair devin nunes on what he thinks of the president s next steps with the justice department. First, lets analyze all of this with john iannarelli. He is a democratic strategist and attorney, scott bolden. And byron york. We have a lot to get to tonight. Byron, i want to start with you. Very interesting that michael who was kind of chased down the street today with that jacket of his, i dont know. Men in puffy jackets. We dont like it. Dont wear a puffy jacket. They catch up with him eventually but its on the phone with don lemon, the reporter from abc. Why is he going to Media Outlets that are fairly hostile to the president at this point . What do you think . Its a good question. To some degree, there are a lot of people in the white house who communicate with the president through the media. They are trying to send him a message to the media, through the media. One of the things about cohen, if he talks about the hardship this has been on him and his family come obviously one of the issues here is if he were charged with a crime, would he cooperate and would he be a bigger part of the Mueller Investigation . These are all messages that are flying around as he talks tonight. Laura this is part of what he said in one of his interviews. I think we have a full screen. He was talking about not only the hardship for his family. He was asked, was he worried. He said i would be lying if i told you im not. Joy need this in my life . No. Do i want to be involved . No. Scott bolden, when the fbi knocks on the door and says hello, thanks for your phone, sit down and put up your feet for a while. It is worrisome. Not just my office but my home and hotel. Lets remember one thing. Michael cohen has been probably the most aggressive defender of donald trump. He is a very aggressive lawyer. He has a lot of swag, if you will, attitude. This is a humbling experience. Remember one thing. Before my republican friends start blaming mueller, this was delegated to the u. S. Attorney, another trump republican appointee. Laura who recused himself. Had to review this along with a federal judge. Whatever they have on Michael Cohen, whether its the women are bank fraud, wire fraud, they have a lot. Laura does it bother you . This started as presumably some type of russian collusion investigation which sounds pretty nefarious and disturbing. People who dont follow this. Russian collusion . Oh, my god. Now we are looking through lawyers, hotel rooms, daughters, his house, his office. Looking for some porn star payment. The democrats were complaining and the republicans were not complaining when an investigation into whitewater, a land deal commands up in a blue dress. Now the democrats seem to be salivating over an impropriety, personal impropriety that mightve been paid off by some lawyer. It is an odd deal, is it not . A lot of republicans who might be salivating also. As a former prosecutor and whitecollar criminal defense lawyer, the investigation goes where the facts take them. What we dont know is what they have. Thats the bottom line. Laura byron, we are going to get to the piece you wrote about but i want to go to john iannarelli. Set the stage for us if you would. The fbi has a separate team that goes in to the office of Michael Cohen, to his residence, and to this temporary, i guess he is in a hotel room part of the time. They go in and they take what . How long does this typically take in a raid like this . Lets keep this in perspective. First of all, that is unprecedented. Never before have we had an attorney for a sitting u. S. President be the subject of a search warrant and an investigation by the fbi goes in, they are looking for documents. Electronic devices, computers, anything that might have information for the target of the investigation of what they are looking for. All of that is taken, depending upon the size of the house which i imagine, a large one, its going to take hours. It will be a team of agents gathering everything and bringing it back to the fbi office for review. Laura what happens to the attorneyclient privilege . People were laughing about this today. The attorneyclient privilege is sacrosanct. Nevertheless, that is sacrosanct when youre talking about personal attorney. You would imagine they have information, significant information. They better have significant information that implicates this attorney in criminal wrongdoing. At least probable cause. Laura if they dont, this stinks to high heaven. If i was doj and i was looking at it, they would have to have a higher level which would scare me if im the republicans. Lets not forget about the paint team. When they go into a Lawyers Office, i can tell you its a rare but its not unprecedented in general terms across the nation. Laura the team says these documents are privileged communications. But these documents are about the porn star payment. Well put these over here. They will remain secret. Trusting them. Laura three piles, four piles. You are a former prosecutor. I was a former criminal defense attorney. Prosecutors have too much power. If they want to indict you, they can indict you. Byron, you wrote about happened to the russian collusion. We are not even talking about russian collusion anymore. Were talking about Stormy Daniels and the other networks spending all their time on it because you can imagine porn star five times a minute and get ratings. Collusion remains the heart of the investigation. Its the big question. These two things that have happened in the last 20 farmers suggest that its really not in the middle of the investigation anymore. One, the fact that Robert Mueller found farmed out this investigation to the Southern District of new york suggests is not in his core area which is collusion. The other thing is we found out about the search warrant for that raid on Paul Manaforts house last summer, it included looking for information about the trump tower meeting. That was in july. We are 9plus months later. He has been charged with lots of other things but nothing involving collusion. Laura i wish we could do an hour. I wish we had a three hour show. Thats why i do radio. Thanks so much. We need to get to another issue. Trumps instincts versus the swamp. Other issues actually matter out there. Thats the focus of tonight angle. Despite the unless Media Chatter about fbi raids and porn star payments, there are actually far more important stories that are similar being ignored by the mainstream media. By the way, they are the ones that most affect the american people. In spite of all of the sideshow drama, i have to tell you tonight President Trump is getting real results by largely following his instincts. Think about it. On the immigration front, when all the others were afraid, well, trump called for serious border enforcement and he named the threat facing the United States. We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Its the policy of this administration to dismantle, decimate, and eradicate ms13. I told mexico very strongly youre going to have to do something about these caravans that are coming up. Laura what became of that caravan . That caravan was largely dispersed. Whatever stragglers make it to the border, well, they will be graded by our friendly members of the national guard. Then there was north korea. The pundit class attacked President Trump for daring to threaten rocket men with fire and fury. If, in fact, kim jong un persisted with his nuclear ambitions. Now north korea is at the negotiating table and willing to discuss denuclearization. Winning. Remember the chorus of naysayers that greeted trumps announcement to slap tough new tariffs on china . China is hitting back after President Trump appeared to raise wait a second. It is such a surprise. Who could have imagined we will be put in this terrible position . Simply saying jobs, jobs, jobs is as convincing as saying trade wars are easy to win. The person negotiating this has has facts day in and day out wrong. The person im talking about, mr. President , is you. Laura much more persuasive when you do that to the camera. Well, china is blinking on trade. President xi Just Announced china is going to be lowering tariffs on auto imports, including those from the United States. He also promised to protect the intellectual property of those doing business in china. Why would he be making such sweeping changes . I wonder. President trumps political instincts. Lets face it. They are really good. But there are two major forces seeking to frustrated. First, congress. It was congressional leaders who lashed the president over those proposed china tariffs. They also refused to fund his border wall. In fact, they misled him on the border wall. They are the same people who railroaded the president into that 1. 3 trillion fiasco of omnibus spending bill. Remember, that last day, his instinct was to veto the bill. Under pressure from congressional leaders, the generals and military industrial complex, he signed it. They sold this bill of goods to the president with the promise that it was going to bolster the military which it does. Protects the country, but now the president has buyers remorse. I say to congress i will never sign another bill like this to prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again. Im calling on congress to give me a line item veto. For all Government Spending bills. Laura i have a question here. How does mounting debt and rising deficits make us stronger . How does that make America Great again . It doesnt. And now, even the g. O. P. Leaders who created this funding nightmare are looking to pass a few, i dont know, show votes to demonstrate how fiscally responsible they are before the midterms. Thats going to work. The second floor is frustrating the president s instinct is the war lobby. He is being dragged into a conflict in syria which is a dangerous, complex International Situation fraught with trouble. Assad is certainly a vicious, horrible dictator. The civil war there has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. But he also helped wipe out isis, and he is protecting the christian minority in syria. No doubt about that. Assad is aided and protected also by iran and russia, further complicating matters. Any military action, even targeted, limited air strikes, they can lead to unintended consequences and International Conflict that we cannot predict from this point. Dragging us into another desert war . It is not with the president campaigned on. In fact, he ran against military adventurism in the middle east. In my opinion, we have spent 4 trillion trying to topple various people that frankly, if they were there and what if we could have spent that 4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all the other problems, our airports and all the of the problems we have, we wouldve been a lot better off. I can tell you that right now. We have done a tremendous disservice not only to the middle east. Weve done a tremendous disservice to humanity. The people that have been killed, the people that have been wiped away, and for what . Its not like we had victory. Laura the president s most successful when he sticks to his conservative, populist instincts. Even when he was assaulted by the bush, graham, mccain establishment, he did the right thing and why . The people were with him. Part of the reason why he won this election, a major reason why he won this election. He is also best when he follows his political instincts, those raw political instinct he has. Hes not talked into things by cardcarrying members of the swamp who despise his agenda. Every time he lets the swamp lead, disaster follows. My advice tonight to the president , stick to your agenda. Do not let investigations or congress do you relate or distract you. At a time when your numbers are up near 50 and congress . They are cratering. You should be giving them advice, not the other way around . That is the angle. Joining me now for reaction is historian victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. All right, usually heavy on on the morning. On the radio. We have you now. Your reaction to the angle and we will get to other topics. I think you are right. The inverse of what the socalled deep state establishment says. They say the post where this guy came in without prior exper. What if it was the other way around. It was chaotic and didnt make sense. What if he came in and said this is ridiculous. Thats what hes doing. These instances you pointed out, whether it was the crazy open border or the knot with the guns and the missiles. Whether it was nato members. On and on. Syria, to reply, hes got a lot of dilemmas. He didnt create this situation. Russia was brought in after 40 years by susan rice and john kerry and they assured us there were no wmds. Susan rice said that last year. Trump comes in and there is wmd and weve lost all sense of deterrence because of this leaving behind. He doesnt want and cant get involve the way we did in afghanistan and iraq. He is in between those. Everybody who was suspicious of going in there with the people who supported trump for just the reasons you said. They are going to get angry about it because they are going to see it as a betrayal. On the other hand, all the people pushing him forward are never going to vote for him. They despise him. A nowin situation. Laura he is in a box. Got to find a way to restore deterrence without getting involved and thats hard to do. Laura adam kinzinger, congressman, we invited him on. He was asked today about whether congress should give its, military action in syria. I think what the president did a year ago in destroying one fifth of Assads Air Force was good. It was right. I think we have to do that again. People are going to say any use of military force is going to be world war iii or its going to mean 300,000 troops in syria. It isnt. Does that president need to e to congress . Laura thats convenient for congress. They are not on the hook if stuff goes awry. Thats exactly what congress does. They are against something and they say you have to come. They are against it and you dont have to. What trump has to do and he has good advisors. I sleep soundly tonight because of that. They are advising him that we have to stop this idea you can hijack u. S. Boat or send a missile at a u. S. Carrier or Point Nuclear weapons but we cant go in and try to nationbuilding make them like carmel california. Between that, weve got to do something. There is no way to shock the russians in syria and sweden looked to get in there on the ground but its not easy. Weve got to ascertain whether there was wmd. The Obama Administration said chlorine doesnt count. That was the first gas used, world war i. Its not really wmd so we were right so weve had nothing but misinformation about the status of wmd going back to the iraq war. We have to ascertain, did they use wmd ended they kill innocent children . Did they break their word to the russians and the syrians. If it does, we have to send a message and we have to do it in such a way that we dont. Laura very complicated situation. We appreciate your analysis. Up next, house intel chair devin nunes first interview since the fbi raid on Michael Cohen. Laura we have the fbi raiding the president s Lawyers Office to find Stormy Daniels documents. Our next guest is spearheading the effort to find out why the department of justice open the russian inclusion probe in the first place. Surprise, surprise. The doj wont give us straight answers. Joining me now exclusively, House Intel Committee chairman devin nunes, a republican from california. Congressman nunes, thanks for coming on. Youve been trying to get documents for as long as ive been doing the show. Thats all you do is try to get documents. People have been asking why is it that you havent yet held anyone in contempt of congress. Thats a big deal to do that. Eric holder was held in contempt of congress, as i recall, over the fast and furious documents. What gives here . Its trickledown documents. We issued the subpoena in august. Piece by piece, every time we get a little bit more. As you know, we had to get out the major information which was the information on the warrant against carter page was a trump associate. Since that time, weve been investigating the state department and we have an interest in this electronic communication. Laura the document that establishes that justification for ultimately naming the special counsel. This whole thing ended up. Opened the counterintelligence investigation. Laura initially that ultimately led to the special counsel. Its a two page document. I sent chairman gowdy to see it. It was fully redacted. I called back several times, had conversations with Rod Rosenstein and fbi director wray. There was a few more things unredacted. Most of it was still redacted. Now we are at this point again where the boiling point where we need this. Whats only a two page document. Its only two pages. Its less than two pages, from what i understand. If the record wasnt that every time they hide something from us, that that when we find out it was bad and they hit it from us. Laura like the judge contrera issue. The trickle down information. Oh, no, thats why you redacted. They are not giving this to us and it tells me there something wrong. Laura robert costa from the Washington Post is speculating tonight on twitter that you are on the verge of moving to hold Christopher Wray and Rod Rosenstein in contempt of congress. We have a deadline of tomorrow apparently. Is this a real possibility . I can tell you we are going to get the documents. We are going to get the two pages. They can either cough them up now or it will get really complicated starting tomorrow night and we will have to take all the steps necessary in order to get the documents. Laura what are you thinking might be in them . Heres heres our challenge with this. If you believe whats in the New York Times and Washington Post, sometimes they actually do get leaked information. In the information that came out in december was the information on an australian diplomat talking to mr. Papadopoulos. Thats what they say is in the ec. We havent been able to see the ec to confirm it. Somehow the maritimes has it but the u. S. Congress does not have the information. Laura are you disturbed by these leaks that seem to be emanating from that special counsels office about the intent of what the raid on the cohen office was, what they were really looking for, what they are speculating. Theres a lot of information that came out yesterday. The bigger problem, the special counsel i wouldve thought wouldve gotten to the felony leaks of general flynns name being leaked to the press with highlevel information. Seems like the special counsel is good at leaking but not so good it actually finding major felony leakers. Laura what are the chances you are going to hold them in contempt of congress right now . We are not going to just hold them in contempt. We have a plan to hold in contempt and impeach. Laura impeach Christopher Wray . Absolutely. We are not messing around. Laura they are going to say that you are trumps lackey. The democrats have been demonizing you from the beginning. Ive been the subject of demonization myself so i know how goes. They are going to demonize you. Welcome as i said before, whenever i see evidence of russian inclusion, ill be the first person standing out there on the steps of the capital that i found the russian collision with the trump campaign. I havent found it yet but i have found a whole lot of other stuff that puts doj and fbi in a bad light. Laura other Media Channels are salivating tonight in a frothy frenzy over once again, trump is going to fire Robert Mueller. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about this today. Rod rosenstein oversee special counsel and only he has the power to fire the special counsel. Again, weve been advised that the president has the power to make that decision. Laura i dont think theres any sign trump is really going to fire mueller but republicans are freaking out about it as well. They said this before. Laura he has the authority. They said he was firing all kinds of people and it never came to fruition. Laura this is what he said. The regulation is clear. It says special counsel may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the attorney general. He may remove the special counsel for number of reasons. Dereliction of duty, incapacity. Has to provide reasons in writing. Its very clear if the president of the United States, as long as these regulations are in effect, calls up bob mueller and says im firing you, i suspect bob mueller would not heed that. Laura we have an executive branch, judicial branch, legislative branch. In which branch does bob mueller reside . The executive branch. Again, i think it would not be smart at all for the president to fire bob mueller. I do not think it makes sense. As tempting as it may be, i dont think it makes sense. The idea that he doesnt have the Constitutional Authority to do that. Berra this is how far weve e down in the last eight or nine years where courts have become activist courts, activist judges. The fact the doj and fbi think they are above the law. Congress, the legislative branch, we created these agencies. They have the responsibility to give us documents when we ask. We have the appropriate clearances. Thats why the House Intelligence Committee exists. At the end of the day, we are going to win on this. Its just a matter of how tough they are going to make it for congress to actually do our job. Under the constitution and the priorities we are given. Laura to hold someone in contempt of congress, i dont know the process. You are the head of the Intel Committee. Do you need to have signoff from others in the Intel Committee . Ultimately members have to vote on it. Laura whats the chances . I dont think we are going to have to get there. I think they are going to give us the documents. Laura we are going to follow it and check up on it tomorrow. April 11 is the deadline. Thank you so much, congressman. We are doing Something Different tonight. We are holding a caption contest. Alabama won the College FootballNational Championship last season. Head Coach Nick Saban and the team were honored at the white house today. I was there. Do you have a caption idea for this . Tweet me ingrahamangle and we will read some of the best at the end of the show. I took the photo. Up next, our defending their first series. You do not want to miss this. This. Is. Lobsterfest at red lobster. With exciting new dishes like dueling lobster tails. And lobster truffle mac cheese. Classics like lobster lovers dream are here too. So enjoy these 10 lobsterlicious dishes now. Because lobsterfest ends april 22nd. Laura welcome back. Its time for our inaugural defending our first segment where we expose the enemies of the First Amendment. Check this out. Last month, Rockland High School in california placed history teacher Julian Bendel on paid administrative leave after she had the gall to question whether the school would let its Students Walk out. To protest abortion. The same way it did to promote gun control. Now one of her students is putting her question to the test by organizing a prolife walkout set for 10 00 a. M. Local time tomorrow. Joining us now for more, is juliann benzel herself. This is good because this is like, you are a hero of the First Amendment in my view because the students in all of these organizations who organize and they did really well, the march for our lives. The various walkouts that have occurred over the last month or so, they got huge participation. They got huge media coverage. Most of it was overwhelmingly positive. Glowing. What have you found with your effort at your school . Well, basically, the only large entity that i know of that has taken up this prolife walkout because is tony perkins of the Family Research council. I was thinking, and to your point there, perhaps there would be other, maybe a Clint Eastwood or a brave movie star from hollywood because they had George Clooney funding the gun protest walk on. I was hoping maybe for a few other people to join. But you know what . Its all about grassroots and what we are feeling, the pulse of the nation right now particularly among young people is extremely exciting. Laura i think its interesting that we are talking about saving lives, which we all want to do. We all want to have sensible regulations that dont run afoul of the constitution. In this case, the dominant culture does not promote the cause of life. In fact, they call the cause of life antiabortion rights advocates. They dont refer to a prolife on cbs or msnbc. I know because i used to work at both places. They say you are antisomething. I am finding students across the United States, and you see this at the march for life every year, they are much more open to the idea of this really is a human being. Why are we doing this to a new generation of americans . We are snuffing them out a million other time. Every year, another million. By chemical or surgical abortions. Yet the media, they act like this doesnt even, this prolife viewpoint doesnt even exist. Correct. Thats why my very brave student chose to stage it as a prolife walkout. Not antiabortion. We are for all life, all students who have lost their lives bygones on school campuses. But this is a prolife, every life matters. You are precisely right. I forgot her name right now. The outgoing president of planned parenthood who said her goal was to es, her book. Her goal was to destigmatize abortion in the United States and im sorry. But that has not taken place. Two articles that i read gave very specific statistics that the majority of americans and the majority of women are prolife, not for abortion. Laura thank you so much. We will be following what happens to this brave push to advance life in a different type of walkout. Now facebook versus conservatives. It is a theme we discussed last night with internet stars diamond and silk who got some good press today. Came up on capitol hill during senator ted cruzs questioning of facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. Reporting that facebook had purposely and routinely suppressed conservative stories from trending news, has blocked the posts of a fox news reporter, has blocked over two dozen catholic pages, and most recently blocked Trump Supporters diamond and silks page with 1. 2 million facebook followers after determining their content and brand were unsafe to the community. Are you aware of any ad or page thats been taken down from planned parenthood . Senator, i am not. But let me say how about moveon. Org . Im not specifically aware of those. How about any democratic candidate . Im not specifically aware. Im not sure. Laura joining me for reaction is jeffrey lord. Continuing our defending our first segment. I thought that was a great exchange. He went on to say that he is concerned because Silicon Valley is very left. He said its a left of center place and thats what it is. He said we are very concerned about protecting and allowing all voices on the facebook forum. But he didnt really have a good answer to cruz. He kind of met his match in ted cruz about all of these voices that are having being heard. What was your reaction to that exchange . This is what concerns me. Someone else on that panel asked him whether or not he could discuss the political leanings of his employees and he said something to the effective well, he doesnt check. The point is he doesnt have to check them. He is getting his employees from a pool of people that he himself says are extremely leftleaning. Thats whats going to happen here. I have to laugh. Its the same argument i was hearing when i was a teenager from people like spiro agnew except it was about the technology of the day which was cbs, abc, and nbc. Its the same argument today except we are dealing with facebook or google or twitter. It doesnt change. What were dealing with here are people who have a liberal bias and diamond and silk. I could not believe that. I know diamond and silk. They are fabulous people. The notion that they are unsafe for the community. This is crazy. Thats the way the liberal mind works. Thats what you get. Laura when they Say Community the question is how do we deal with it. Laura exactly. When they Say Community, they mean the liberal community. They are offensive and unsafe to the left wing mindset dominates in Silicon Valley and most of california. They are very concerned about it and they are very concerned about it catching on through perhaps increasing popularity of President Trump. Zuckerberg, obviously hes a really smart guy but he did not have good answers when it came to those questions of why are these examples of conservative organizations ted cruz rattle them off, not getting adequate response on facebook. Their followers are not getting their notices. You get a mumbojumbo answer. Not a good response. Right. We need to be candid. The case of diamond and so, if they were africanamerican women who were liberal, no one at facebook would have blinked when they posted something. The fact that they are africanamerican women who love donald trump, thats not supposed to happen. So they have to be curbed. Thats the real problem. Laura we do what do conserv . We are concerned about defending free expression, freedom of conscience, the First Amendment. These corporations are so big. They are like many governments. They can control, keep out. What do conservatives do . Do they stop using facebook . Just d list . I hate to go that route. I dont like it the boycotts and all of this. I spoke to a advertiser who was boycotted several years ago by people who didnt like rush limbaugh. He said to me this is not a boycott. This was an organized terror campaign. His life was threatened. His business was threatened. His employees were harassed. Laura if conservatives want to be part of the social media system, they want to be part of it, its important for connecting with friends or advancing your product line or whatever. Facebook is still really important. So is instagram, so is snapchat and all the other means of communication. What do you do . Youve got to, he got a question today about who was his competition. Effectively the answer was he doesnt have any. I would certainly hope there are conservatives out there who are young and enterprising and entrepreneurial minded to challenge this. That certainly can be done over time. Other than that at the moment, i think you are serious here on defending the first is excellent. Weve got to publicize it. Get the word out whether its on television or the internet or print and let people know how this game is working. Its not a good one. Laura i think thats right. Lets take zuckerberg at his word. He wants all voices to be heard. He wants the community, their information to be okay, take you at your word. Now lets see the proof. Jeffrey, thanks so much. Despite the constant hysterics, there is no trade were to report on tonight but we will tell you about trumps trade victory with china and what it means for you, your pocketbook, and our security, when we come back. Baby boomers, heres something you should know. Theres a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boomers has, yet most dont even know it. A virus thats been almost forgotten. Its hepatitis c. Hep c can hide in the body for years without symptoms. Left untreated it can lead to liver damage, even liver cancer. The only way to know if you have hep c is to ask your Healthcare Provider for the simple blood test. If you have hep c, it can be cured. For us, its time to get tested. Its the only way to know for sure. Laura a favorite scare tactic used by the establishment of both parties as to claim President Trump is about to start a trade war with china. You heard some of that at the top of the show. Rather than a war, chinese president xi jinping promised yesterday to cut auto tariffs and pledge to open chinas finance industries to foreign investors. Joining us now for reaction is east asia expert gordon chang. I have to say people think im weird but the china issue in my mind is literally the most important issue facing the United States today for so many reasons. This was astounding news yesterday. President trump has gotten literally zero credit except from a few senators. Tell us how significant this is. This is really important because over the last week, we have heard from Chinas Ministry of commerce and weve also heard from the Chinese Ambassador in the u. S. How everything is on the table. Really vicious language, how they wont negotiate. Laura the market was up and down, mostly down. What happened was that xi jinping blinked. He backed down on a very important issue, china tariffs. Also intellectual property. Its going to take some time for implementation but the important thing here is that President Trump has pushed him off the center, and i think that trump is going to continue to push them so we are going to get to a place where we need to be. Laura why trump took on china, so people understand how important it is. Chinese theft of American Intellectual property or trade secrets currently cost between 225 billion and 600 billion annually in the u. S. Trade deficit in goods and an end ses rose last year, the biggest since 2008. Imagine what we could do with the 556 billion. Marco rubio tweeted today this offer of opening china market is a total farce. Its unbelievable to read how xi said openness leads to progress while seclusion leaves one behind while his government has dramatically increased control of the internet. Commenting on why we still have to be very skeptical of what china is doing. This is just the beginning. Do we need to be cautiously optimistic . This is just the beginning. For the First Time Since eisenhower, you have an american president who understands the chinese threat, understands americas leverage, and is willing to use it. We look at these china tariffs that are so on reciprocal and that we are basically negotiating. We agreed to those in the Clinton Administration when china exceeded the wto, the Global Trading value. Thats our fault. Weve had a series of residents who thought that supporting Chinas Communist Party was more boring than supporting american interests. Laura the establishment turns out to be wrong again. Trump right on this tariff thing. Its the only thing they got chinas attention. Gordon chang, im going to have you on the radio this week. Next, despite the wrath of ms13 crime in the state, virginias democratic governor go soft on sanctuary cities. Whats going on with that . A debate next. Laura virginias democratic Governor Ralph Northam campaigned as a moderate but moved to the left yesterday. He vetoed a bill that wouldve banned sanctuary cities in the state. Thats a bold move for a state that is no stranger to violence from the notorious ms13 gang per joining us for reaction and debate, corey stewart, a republican running for senate in virginia. Mark h levine, a Democratic Delegate to the Virginia House of delegates. Great to have you on. Lets start with the state delegate. I live in virginia, i love virginia. Went to school at the university of virginia but i am appalled by this decision by the governor. I remember i think it was valentines day of last year and that recorded confession of an ms13 gang member and what she did in this murder. Lets watch it. You need to tell me what you did. I killed her. How did you kill her . With a knife. [speaking spanish] you are going to remember me until the day we see each other in hell. Dont forget my name. Laura a vicious, brutal murder. This is the first time this happened in virginia. Why would virginia want to welcome a legal immigrants to live in the state when you do not know on their desires are, what their aims are, what their goals are, or whether or not they are criminals beyond just entering the country illegally. If this bill became law, no one would celebrate more than ms13. The bill doesnt actually do anything. Its already preempted by the constitution. Federal law preempts state law. With the bill would do is it would encourage victims not to talk to the police. It would make Law Enforcement really hard because someone who was beaten up or tortured by ms13, they wouldnt go to the police. They would be afraid they might be deported. If you want to stop crime, let the local authorities stop crime. Laura if you want to stop crime, allow more people into your state that are illegal border crosses who have already committed an offense, and oftentimes commit more offenses through document fraud, taking government services. How is that making this state safer for the average person . Thats the argument. Its made by the hispanic community, either in the commonwealth illegally. We are already here, they say are working. Let us stay. Dont inflict this on us. We will report. Thats what the left always does. They pull it out of the air and theres no basis in truth. Weve been doing it in the county. The toughest crackdown in the country on illegal immigration. Right next to fairfax. So far, ten years later, we have apprehended 8100 illegal aliens, handed them over to i. C. E. The crime rate dropped in half and not a single case of racial profiling. The delegate here has said it would happen, it hasnt happened. Let Law Enforcement do its job. Apprehend criminals. If they are here illegally, we have an extra weapon we can use to remove them from our community so they cant commit brutal rapes and murders. Lets put lets put all criminals in jail. If your crimes are reported, victims are afraid and they take the domestic violence. They dont report it. Laura i know a lot of my fellow virginians who are afrai afraid. The log does nothing. Laura they are living in places like sterling, which used to be kind of a rural community. They are living in manassas, alexandria. And they dont even recognize the communities in which they live because there is more criminality. Theres less of a feeling of cohesiveness in the community. I have probably lived in alexandria as long as you if not longer and i find the attitude, they dont commit as much crime . I dont care if one american dies in virginia by the hands of an illegal immigrant who shouldnt be here. Are we going to say oh, but all the other people are good . One person is dead. Why do you consider one murder worse than another . Laura we dont need any more murders. We should let Law Enforcement be unhampered and go after everybody, enforce the law. Laura more problems in your community. Undocumented immigrants bring fewer problems. Allow people to talk to the police. It causes more crime. The sanctuary cities are trying to do, these leftwingers in richmond and charlottesville and now in fairfax county. There are no sanctuary cities in virginia. Thats not true. They are not going to allow i. C. E. To pick up these dangerous criminal illegal aliens. Let me tell you something. What you are talking about is letting Law Enforcement do their jobs. The problem with you liberals as you are telling them not to do their jobs. No, their job is not immigration enforcement. Laura we are out of time. I can do an hour with you guys. We are going to be right back with the winner of the caption contest from todays event at the white house with alabama football. Lose weight and keep it off. Contrave is believed to work on two areas of the brain your hunger center. Im so hungry. avo and your reward system. Ice cream. 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