Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. With 66 shot and 12 killed in just a 63 hour period, including a boy riding his bike and a this 14yearold, and two 17yearold girls just standing on the sidewalk. We have a heavy heart. Our souls are burdened. What happened this weekend did not happen in every neighborhood in chicago, but it is unacceptable to happen in any neighborhood of chicago. Laura so far this year, 1785 have been shot in chicago and 318 killed. Believe it or not, shootings are actually down 30 from 2017 and murders are down 25 , but still those figures are well above what chicago experienced earlier in the decade. In 2011 when democratic mayor rahm emanuel was elected, there were 436 murders in chicago. By 2016 that number had
ballooned to 771, a 77 increase and while 2017 was down from the high watermark it still saw a devastating 650 slain. As you might imagine there is enormous political pressure now on rahm emanuel to offer solutions to this heartbreaking cycle. Its about time. With that election just months away, he responded today sound more like tom sold than an obama liberal. Can talk about the weather come up with the weather didnt pull the trigger. You can talk about jobs, and they count, but in parts of the city where there arent drops, people did not pull the trigger. There are too many guns on the street, too many people with criminal records on the street and there is a shortage of values about what is right and what is wrong. What is acceptable, what is condoned and what is condemned. [inaudible] get over here now did you hear what i said . Get over here laura thats actually a mothers love. Maybe she used a fourletter word but she could have saved his life that day. Remember barack obama as My Brothers Keeper initiative. It was launched in 2014 and it started out as a way to assist at risk boys mostly of color. In the first year he raised 300 million in corporate donations to help get young men jobs through mentoring and other work fairs, work projects. No real measure yet of the programs real impact, but to the extent that it stresses hard work and personal responsibility, i think its
great. I started caring about my grades and the difference between an a and a b. I started demanding more out of myself. I know experience, excellence is possible and i need to strive for that. Laura too often however the Social Justice warriors fall into the Grievance Trap of excusing rather than punishing what ends up being criminal behavior. Remember the looting and the violence that we saw in ferguson and baltimore a few years ago during what were supposed to be protests about the deaths of Michael Group and freddie gray . President obama used a My Brothers Keeper event to provide context, almost to explain away the violence. Some communities have consistently had the odds stacked against him. But there is a tragic history in this country that has made it tougher for some. That sense of unfairness,
powerlessness, that has helped fuel some of the protests weve seen in places like baltimore and ferguson and too many places in this country black boys and black men, latino boys, latino men experience being treated differently by law enforcement. Laura im sure a lot of them do, but at some point this becomes race baiting and the king of this is al sharpton. Remember his contribution to stemming the violence in chicago . His contribution was renting an apartment in the city for some period of time in 2013. Going to take an apartment On The West Side. And stay among the people and walk children to school. Laura im sure that after he
rented the apartment things got worse. Great idea, al. I dont doubt that young People Living in englewood of the West Garfield Park neighborhood of chicago can feel really hopeless and even distrustful against the police, but the real problem isnt aggressive policing, the real problem are gangs with memberships that have become generational. Young boys without fathers or any male role models, anyone who cares about them who is a male are too often sucked into the cults of criminality. Rudy giuliani, the former mayor of new york who knows a thing or two about cleaning up the city thinks its time to show the man they once called rahmbo the door, tweeting, chicago murders are direct results of one Party Democratic world for decades. Policing, genius, he can do for chicago what i did for new york city. He was one of the architects, it slashed homicide over 70 , Tens Of Thousands of lives saved. He cares more about noncitizens, africanamericans, we are citizens and our ancestors, we built this country. He got some good things but he come to come to the people where the crime is. You know what im saying, the crime is on the south side and the west side. Laura and there is abysmally low percentage of murderers brought to justice under his leadership. In 2017 the police solved only 114 of the 650 murders that occurred in the same year. Thats 17. 5 , only. In the early 1990s that figure was 60 . No wonder people in the south side are frustrated. So many have promised to try to help chicago, but few have delivered solutions. Maybe because hard truths are uncomfortable. And maybe because theyre not politically correct. Ive been saying since the campaign of 2016 that we need to see more Bold Thinking conservatives in the inner cities of this country. The risk is not in showing up. The risk is in not showing up. Solutions, not politics, are what is needed. Have to make sure that President Trump recognized that not everyone believes that chicago is a trumpfree zone. If hes serious about helping the people in chicago, especially On The West Side of chicago, i accept his help, we cant turn any help away. We have to make sure that people understand that criminals cannot have their way with our streets. If Chicago Police department and all the other Law Enforcements cant do it, we should seek other help. Laura everyday radicals claim that President Trump is racist. If someone who has known him for, i dont know, 15 years or so, i can tell you that is 100 false and its a slanderous and
defamatory charge meant to deflect attention from liberals own abject failures in leading urban america. Trumps booming economy is benefiting africanamericans and latinos and allamericans who wish to better themselves. The one thing we do know, racial hucksters do not have the answers to prevent another weekend just like we saw in chicago. Thats the angle. Joining us now with reaction gianno caldwell, fox news political analyst and chicago native who conducted those illuminating interviews you just saw with the chicago resident. Illinois state Rerep Leshawn Ford and a former Chicago Police sergeant. Great to have all of you with us. I just want to say to you first, i think what you did was so important in talking to the people who live in the most dangerous parts of chicago. You didnt go up to the fancy neighborhoods, you went to where
the people are, so congratulations and thank you for doing that report. It was really important. Give me the sense from what you experience, and you experienced a lot growing up, you are from the area. Are they blaming any one group of people or are they looking for solutions at this point . Today i come with a very heavy heart and a special message for every chicagoan. Rahm emanuel as we know has been in office since 2011 and since 2011 he has failed. Hes failed to keep us safe, hes failed to keep our family safe, our friends and even outoftown visitors. My family has personally been impacted by the violence in chicago. During memorial day last year my Little Brother was in the car with two of his friends went to a man walked up and shot the car 25 times. My Little Brother thankfully lived with his best friend, bloodied in his arms, died. Considering rahm emanuel has been mayor since 2011 and murders have gone up, what weve seen is a mass genocide in the streets of chicago. The only Silver Lining i see to a solution in terms of reading this outside of President Trump coming in is the fact that weve got an election coming up in the city of chicago and several short months and with that being the case, every chicagoan needs to get out and vote and vote rahm emanuel out of office. It certainly true he didnt pull the trigger. I get that. But his policies and his enaction, rather, has enabled those that pulled the trigger. You know that because the murders have gone up since hes been there. Laura i want to go to representative ford at this point and read for you something that was written a few years ago. This is a piece that was just written today, excuse me, the american thinker. The title of it is its time to hold democrats responsible for chicagos violence. The citys famed violence is all
the result of gangs and democrats being in bed with each other. One hand washing the other. Democratic politicians sidle up to gang leaders for votes and use their thugs as substitutes for their political organizations. They muscle voters to the polls for the democrats and anyone who rebels gets a beating. The left benefits so it gives the gangs what they want. Thats Monica Showalter quoting Glenn Reynolds piece from 2012. Your thoughts on that given the bloodshed that we have seen, representative ford, over the last several years, even with a modest decline in the last year or so . I have to say that chicago is worse than the days of al capone. Its the bloodiest city in america and i have to say that democrats have to step up. Im a democrat and im saying that democrats must step up. All of the democrats, all of my colleagues must step up and put politics aside. We must work with president
trump and we must demand that we get help in the city of chicago On The West Side of chicago and in our Southside Community so that we can bring safety to all communities in the city. There are 77 communities in the Chicago Community and every community is feeling the trauma from the violence and destruction thats happening in the bloodiest city of chicago. Laura representative ford, i remember during the campaign that Candidate Trump in March Of 2016 had a speech scheduled in chicago and they had to cancel it because of threats of protest, violence, people say we dont want you here. I thought that was such a shame because i actually think the more ideas obviously the ideas that have been employed have failed. Hes done pretty well with the economy, maybe he can bring some new thinking and some fresh ideas to this current situation. I think its beyond tragic. I think you are brave as a democrat for speaking out. Thats courageous. Laura i know youve already gotten blowback and i want to hear from former Police Officer in chicago who tell us the way things are on the streets for the police, oftentimes demonized. But he was not allowed to come to chicago, an american city. That was outrageous. That told me a lot about chicago back in March Of 2016. Less than a year less than a year ago i lost my cousin On The West Side of chicago with his girlfriend in the car. I never told gianno that, and i havent told anyone publicly. But they lost their lives in a car with some type of driveby On The West Side of chicago to leave to kids without parents. Laura sergeant unfortunately, its a horrific
story after horrific story after heartbreak after parent losing a child. Peter. Give us your insight, please. Mr. Ford saying the democrats should step up. They should step out. The problem is we have a democrat sheriff, we have a democrat states attorney, kim fox. We have a cook county president that is a democrat. And what theyre doing is reducing bonds, people getting out that commit crimes with guns and they are given no bond. They are left to walk out. A man walks out after doing an armed carjacking. Two days later he does a carjacking again. Now they want to put him on a monitor. You cant do this. I mean, the policemen, they get in a car, they work for eight and a half, nine hours. They get no breaks, they get nothing. Marchers, al sharpton. He rented an apartment, he never was here. Rahm emanuel. He promised he is going to hire 1,000 policeman at seven years later he hasnt hired the policeman. You have marchers that march down lake shore drive. If you have marchers that march down the dan ryan. They didnt close expressways in ferguson. The ministers and the false prophets and everything that we have in this city unfortunately it comes down to one thing, its black young man killing black young men and these two gentlemen talking about my father was murder by a gangbanger in 1969. A 15yearold kid went into a store and shot him so he could pay for the gun that he used to kill him. Im on both sides of the fence. Ive been a victim of it and now i fought against it. You are you hit it with your opening monologue, just perfect. Democrats are doing nothing and i dont care a nonpartisan person running for mayor, you get somebody like lightfoot or somebody like that that actually knows how the system works. Laura politics have to get
out of it. Real common sense solutions. We have to do an hour on this topic because theres so many elements of it. Fantastic panel, i wish we had more time. Coming up, ante far out of control. We will tell you the story others arent. When i touch you like this its so hard to believe but its all coming back me. Baby, baby, baby. All you can eat is back, baby. Applebees. Laura Antifa Strike Out at new conservative targets. This morning in philly, a mob from the radical left group one after commentators charlie kirk and Candace Owens at a cafe. Watch this. [crowd screaming] laura to be clear, this is what looks to be a group of mostly white antifa protesters chanting f White Supremacy at a black conservative. Theyre really bright, too. Joining us now with reaction, dan bongino along with radio host, former Chuck Schumer aid chris hahn. Okay, we are to hit this and this other antifa issue at the marine Recruiting Station in just a moment. I almost think these are paid performers working for the rnc because its so damaging to the democrats. They are always targeting conservatives and for what . Because they are organizing a bunch of young conservative people across the country . Whats their beef with Candace Owens . What their beef with her . If theres a bigger issue than just their beef with Candace Owens. Its not just about Candace Owens. Its about the radical left. I want to be clear here. Im not talking about all democrats. There are a lot of democrats that are fed up with this too and are trying to move away from this because they realize, like you said, that they should be an rnc ad all the time. No one wants to be associated with this kind of insanity but
the radical left, this is who they are. This is who theyve always been. Understand there is no Emergency Brake on their behavior. They are godless people who believe in the brutal force of the state and when they lose state power, which they have, their only outlet is violence. This does not apply to conservatives who have that Emergency Brake. They believe in the rights granted by god, including rights granted to their liberal ideological opponents. Thats why conservatives dont do this. They have the Emergency Brake. Radical liberals dont. Laura chris, if this type of behavior were being conducted against a minority liberal by a group of people chanting the same type of thing, i think the left would rightly be quite upset and probably would hold all sorts of vigils and demands Community Meetings and prayer
groups and so forth, but the democrats, they kind of act like they just want this to go away, whereas i think we need more of a broadbased condemnation of this group. I dont support this kind of protesting. I want to be very clear. I think protesting is important and i think it should happen, i think theres a time and place for it. Going work people are eating breakfast i dont think thats the time or the place. That said, i was very dubious on this protest. I dont know how these people found charlie kirk and mrs. Owens, Candace Owens in philadelphia. Im suspicious of this whether or not this is real or not. Im not saying i know for sure, i dont. But its kind of weird to me, theyre not exactly laura, youre a much bigger star. You can go out to breakfast and nobody is protesting you. So im a little dubious on this whole thing but this kind of protest shouldnt happen. We also Shouldnt Have A president was out there calling the media the enemy of the people. That is a real problem in america and i think that everything has got to calm down
and weve got to debate like were doing right here, right now. Dan and i disagree about just about anything but i love dan and i enjoy debating dan about issues that affect america. And thats what we need right now. Not yelling and screaming. Laura i think what dan is getting at is important. I think with this antifa group is trying to do is intimidate people from actually being in public. I dont know how they knew they were having breakfast, i have no idea. But its an attempt to keep people like shuttered in their homes. I thought everybody was supposed to come out of the closet, now youre supposed to stay in your home, not be able to leave and not be able to go in public or they will literally scream the most horrible words in front of your children, it Doesnt Matter what you are doing because you are part of the how is this fascist to be speaking around the country. I dont understand how that makes me fascist. They dont know their history. They are doing it now to the marine Recruiting Station, which again does not surprise me one bit. You saw that event in berkley over the weekend. Berkley, you can always count on them for profreedom, pro liberty stuff. So we thought. A couple things here. On the enemy of the people, i dont make it personal, i never have but on the issues, the enemy of the people, thats not what trump was saying. What he was talking about with the fake news people. I want to be clear on this. If the fake news people want to stop being insulted and they want to stop the cnn sucks stuff, its very simple. This isnt difficult. But secondly, chris mentioned you having a profile and you being able to eat lunch. My profile is smaller than yours, and ive been confronted im not a victim, let me be clear. Im not a snowflake, i am not in any way whining about it. Everybody, Horse Blinders on you. Im just saying ive been confronted in public many times, one time in an airport where the tsa had to ask a dude to leave the line because he recognized
me from fox news and absolutely lost his marbles. Im not kidding. At no point in my life have i ever he did. They said sir, youre going to have to get out of the line if you dont calm down and jfk in new york, people started clapping because he was given the boot. Now, im just saying, i have never in my life as a conservative and i mean this sincerely, ever, thought about approaching approaching somebody i ideologically disagreed with and aggressively confronting them in a public space. Ever. That is morally and ethically verboten. You just dont do it. Why do liberals think this is okay . I dont get it. Laura also, the left melting down after President Trump admitted that 2016 trump tower meeting with the russians was meant to get dirt on hillary, but if that actually illegal . And what with that Legal Standard mean for Hillary Clinton in that dirty dossier . We are going to debate that coming up next and we have a lot more to get to, including that
crazy story of the radical muslims in new Mexico Holding children against their will, starving them, depriving them of water, what is going on with the story and why is it being under cover . Well get to all of that and debate clinton and the dirty dossier issue coming up next. Called an inkind contribution. And the law has always looked at that just as seriously as theyve looked at you know, as theyve looked at money exchanging hands. Laura oh, joe. Joining me now to discuss this, former Deputy Trump Campaign manager dave bossi, john solomon and attorney leo terrel. All right, take it away. Joe was definitively putting his legal skills to work, definitively declaring it is illegal to meet with a Foreign National who promises opposition research. Wouldnt that call hillarys behavior in question . Thats what the Clinton Campaign did. If theres any collusion, its their campaign with the fake russian dossier and paying him through the state department, through other places, through the fbi. Look, they are the only ones the Clinton Campaign are the only ones that colluded during this campaign. Don jr. Did nothing wrong. Theres nothing wrong here. Laura why did they get the story a little mixed up there in the early days . It wasnt about it didnt help with the statement. As a lawyer who did criminal defense work, this is what i tell my clients. Do not talk about your case. [ speaking Foreign Language ] do not talk. Talk about economy, talk about other things, leave the legal stuff to me. You cannot litigate this in the press because the press hates you. And youve got 17 lawyers on the other side who dont care about what you tweet. Again, the president is going to do what hes going to do and hes really smart but in the legal realm its a different ball game, its a different ball game. And i think he has caused himself a world of pain and not heartache, but a headache because of talking to the press. I dont want to ever discourage someone talking to the press. They should always talk to the
press. Laura i mean about his case. Listen, my profession on this very law when the Whole Hillary Dossier was coming out, you didnt see any stories of reporters looking at that law saying it must apply here. Someone says it applies to donald trump and everyone goes with the pack over here. No one really goes to talk to lawyers, ive talked to lawyers, prosecutors, a great column, on the hill site tonight. Theres no chance the meeting violates the law. Laura he said at the russians had evidence of criminal conduct by Hillary Clinton, or campaign or family foundation, the Term Campaign had every reason to want to know about it. Thats precisely what Clintons Campaign spent millions to do talking to russians and other foreigners investigating from. Under this interpretation of federal election laws, clinton and her surrogates would be equally guilty and using a former foreign spy to gather info on trump from foreign sources, including the russians. Period. Leo terrel, your reaction to that . Im glad you are a lawyer and
you know as well, donald trump jr. Better lawyer up because he, along with jared, sat in that meeting and ive got news for you, that is conspiracy. That is conspiracy to defraud laura to do what . To defraud the election. Laura whats the statute, leo . Give me the code. Whats the statute . Dear colleagues, judge napolitano agree. Donald trump jr. Is in trouble. Mark my words on this. The idea of using the clinton dossier, clinton never met with any Foreign Nationals like donald trump jr. What a false distinction. Laura you cant cite a statute, i will give you that. I will let you off the hook for that. Number two, you are saying if you use intermediaries to gather information from foreign sources, then you obviate from having any responsibility in any conspiracy . I think that would just make
fusion gps, hillary and anyone else in the Justice Department who knew about this who facilitated the production of the dossier. Let me respond to my favorite talk show host. Im saying to have a conspiracy, jared, donald trump jr. , conspiracy law. Remember todays date. There is no thats a false distinction. Laura you have to have an underlying law. You and i are the only lawyers on this panel. Fortunately. Laura im recovering leo. Im recovering. But again, we have a situation where i agree on this point, dont litigate this stuff in the press because politically people say a lot of things politically and they come close to the truth, none of that matters as a legal matter. It might be unwise as a legal p. R. Strategy, but it doesnt mean a crime was committed. That is totally different. They also uncovered they also uncovered the Text Messages from Jared Kushner to his assistant saying get me out of this meeting after 5 minutes. Thats called exculpatory evidence. I would hope that you would say theres no conspiracy when people are trying to not be in a meeting. Laura i think its funny, john, maybe you will respond to this. This was on cnn. I think i was on like the treadmill this morning watching this. I almost did the Fred Flintstone thing and fell off the treadmill because im listening to those going, wait a second, which one of these is a lawyer coming to this conclusion . Lets watch. To me, there are two coke big important things here. First of all, the law, which says thats a big one. Illegal to take anything of value from someone for them. I feel thats an open and shut case. Laura open and shut case. Its completely over. Ive said this many times on the show, on hannity show. I dont recognize the profession i practice in today. There are so may reporters who say things in the moment without a basis of fact. You have to have a law to create a conspiracy. If there is no law that it wouldve been against the law for barack obama to have arranged all of those foreign trips in 2008 to make himself look good on The World Stage before he got elected president. It wasnt designed to prohibit those sort of things. It was designed to prohibit the sort of things that the clintons were doing in the 90s. Donald trump jr. Knew he was talking to agents of the russian government. Remember that text . I love it i love it remember that text . Laura so are you making the joe scarborough, Edward Bennett williams argument that this is an inkind contribution, because if you make that argument, then Jonathan Turley said its the same liability, Criminal Liability on Hillary Clinton for an inkind contribution that she received from a foreign source. She paid for it, but it Doesnt Matter. Its a conspiracy to get the
information. Whether you pay for it or not. Im saying to you, attorney ingraham, that the meeting of the minds, the conspiracy between having that meeting you dont need they met to get dirt from a Government Agent and thats what im talking about. Laura don jr. Was on the radio show today in the morning and i asked him about i asked him about this meeting. Lets listen to what he said. The cycles of the media narrative. The other stuff isnt sticking so theyre back now. Tomorrow they will be back on the 25th amendment. Nothings changed. They dont talk about the genesis of that meeting and that these people were dealing with fusion gps before and after the meeting, et cetera, et cetera. 20 minute meeting, it ended up being about essentially nothing that was relevant to any of these things. And thats all it is and thats all theyve got. That is i guess the ultimate distraction from whats really going on in this country, which as you have a republican president , a very conservative
president whos getting stuff done. Can i just make one last comment . One last comment. Donald trump jr. Said that meeting was about russian adoption. His dad threw him under the bus today by saying thats not true and donald trump jr. Has a problem with the Senate Intelligence committee. Laura this is being repeated on tv all day long and its wrong. Heres what happened, this woman pledged to give dirt on hillary. She did that with the president said. However, she was trying to push for a removal or rescind the magnitsky act. Putin, when that act was passed, which put all the sanctions on the billionaires he said we are going to stop all adoptions of russians into the united states. I have two russian sons, i follow this very closely. We will give you adoption if you get rid of them of course she talked about the adoption. If that was true. They all documented that. She also met with fusion gps the day before the meeting and the day after the meeting. This is part of a conspiracy of what Hillary Clinton laura its ridiculous. By the way, john solomon, i want to find out maybe you can do the reporting on this, Why Hasnt Mueller interviewed her . Why havent they brought her in . Why . We dont know that he hasnt. Thats one of things. Laura i think she offered to testify. I dont believe shes been brought in unless something new has happened last week. Theres a lot of information flowing. This has been going on for two years and cost over 25 million of Taxpayer Money and this is where we are today. Talking about old news. Donald trump jr. Needs to lawyer up immediately. Laura we are going to go and im going to get in trouble. Thank you for the great panel. Youre the woman. We are shortchanging the women. Rapidly morphing into the year of the radical. We will explain next. He year of the radical. We will explain next. Laura remember back in 1992, they called that the year of the woman, the democrats did, the election. And then it was 2016 with hillary was the year of the woman. And now here we are again, 2018, lets try a third time around its being called the year of the woman by selling the media and of course on the left. If you listen to highprofile female democrats, including 2020 president ial candidates, you know this next person is running, you would be forgiven for thinking its the year of the radical, take a look. I am a democratic socialist. Republicans are going to call us socialists no matter what we do. So we might as well give them The Real Thing i have a problem, guys, with that phrase, identity politics. When people say that, its a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide and it is used to distract. Its purpose is to minimize and
marginalize issues that impact all of us. Laura are we back . Joining me now for reaction is publisher of Catalina Magazine along with columnist for the hill newspaper. Lets start with you, kathy. The socialist thing, cynthia nixon, okay, cynthia nixon, cynthia nixon, i get that. But when you look at the actual polling on this, it doesnt work. It doesnt work for women voters. It doesnt work for most american voters. Most people believe in the capitalist system, they dont think everythings fair, but nothing is fair in life, not everything is fair. So Whats Going On here with the socialist label and alexandria ocasiocortez and all that . Exactly. I think the cortez win has drawn everybody to be so extreme and this is not the party. This is not our party. Laura it is your party. Wait a second, thats kamala harris. Pretty much hugging up to the socialist thing. All of her policies are socialist, medicare for all, universal health care. Everyone gets free education, what you call that other than socialism . This is very extreme. This is not the heart of the party, not at all. As many, many democrats, many leaders right now are just cringing when they hear this s word. The democrats, my sources do not want to be associated with that word at all. Theyre hoping that this little Fringe Movement kind of goes away because its dividing the party. Its very extreme, just like donald trump made people so nervous and he was so extreme with the g. O. P. The same thing. Both parties laura donald trump represented the Heartland View of what conservatism should have been all along. He has pushed the movement for so long. So extreme. Laura on his policies, im sorry, but the policies are not extreme. They are standing up to china, tax reforms, conservative judges its not extreme, that the liberal dream of trying to do it. Here senator elizabeth warren. This is what she said on friday. She said lets just start with a hard truth about the criminal justice system. Its racist. It is. And when i say our system i mean all the way. Front to back. This is just not sentencing reform we are talking but here, we are talking about the front end on what you declare to be illegal and how you enforce it and who gets arrested. So she is now if Jesse Jackson or al sharpton, is this going to work, is this What Women Want today . No. The far left has totally hijacked the Democratic Party, the socialist message will resonate with some naive far left voters, many of whom are economically ignorant. A big part of this issue is that colleges today are more interested in teaching kids how to become professional protesters than they are in teaching them anything about economics or finance. The democrats in power, they want to keep it that way. Theyve learned that messages of free stuff and rich people are
greedy are easy brainless messages to send to the undereducated. Its shameless, but ive got to tell you, the vast majority of americans are terrified of socialism. If they see Whats Going On in venezuela and parts of europe, socialism does not work. But thats the whole point. The vast majority of americans, many being democrats, many being part of the Democratic Party do not want socialism. So the majority does not agree with the small group. This isnt a small group, its a Fringe Movement. This is far, far left thats not the far left wingers have hijacked your party. No they havent. No they havent. Socialism, open borders, and resisting donald trump. Thats not a message thats going to resonate with hardworking taxpaying americans. They have lost the former blue dog democrats and dont want to vote for you anymore. Laura i do think democrats have a lot of female candidates who are appealing across the board to a lot of people, conservatives, republicans,
better run smart campaigns and better be really sharp on the Campaign Trail because they have an Uphill Battle in some of these races. Great panel, really appreciate it. Up next, a horrific story out of new mexico, muslim extremists and child abduction. Flonase sensimist relieves all your worst symptoms, including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. Flonase sensimist. Keep it comin love. If you keep on eating, well keep it comin. All you can eat riblets and tenders at applebees. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Laura heavily armed muslim extremists are in custody in new mexico. Five adults including the two men on your screen are facing child abuse charges after authorities discovered they were hiding 11 children. Children between the ages of 1 and 15 in a remote compound. The sheriff describes it as the saddest Living Conditions and poverty he hass ever seen with the kids only having dirty rags for clothing and they were starving. Joining us now with more is monique i read to this morning. It took my breath away. Tell us what you know. So its certainly heart breaking. The children are in our custody now. And you know, our focus has been and continue to be, really, the safety and wellbeing of these
children. Laura what do they look like . We cant ever really talk specifically about the. Laura generally, their condition. It was written about they were starved, that they were deprived of water, basic sanitation, no education. You cant confirm or deny any of the details . I think the American People want to know about this. Its that horrific. Laura what we do in a situation like this, the very first thing that we do is really make sure we get the most basic needs met. So ensure that were getting the children food, water, that we get them cleaned up and clothing and we ask a lot of other assessments that need to occur, medical assessments, making sure that we are doing forensic interviews so we can understand what they know and what has gone on in their Living Conditions. We have been work, you know, around the clock, to get all of this done and again really focusing on what we can do to decrease the trauma that these children experienced. Laura i cant even i mean, you cant some of these we understand were related to them, parents but its not clear who they all were. Some of them were mothers who were allowed to live in this condition and the child they were looking for has been abducted by one of the parents, correct . Thats my understanding, yes, thats how they ended up coming to that site. Laura but theyve he hasnt been found yet, correct . Thats correct. Its not one of the children we have in our custody. Laura are any of the children saying anything about, you know, you know, why this happened to them . Especially the older children . Did they give you any insights yet . Again in a situation like this, we work with trained
forensic interviewers who are trained in how to talk to children and really get them to open up. But we do know it often times will take a good deal of time before children are comfortable enough that they will talk about what all they have experienced in their life up till now. Laura do you have any idea how long they have been held in these conditions . Those are all the questions we are working to gather information on as we speak. Laura we have to get more information on this. My viewers want to know and i know people across the country are trying to figure out how this happened, who the abductors were and what sick co motivation, including religious motivation there could have been. Well be right back