Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. The outcome of the midterms. And even future president ial elections. Essentially, alex jones has been deleted from these websites. You wonder if hell have any influence Going Forward because the private companies who have an incredible amount of control over the internet. Laura thats the point. Controlling who has a voice and who doesnt on these Monster Platforms is tantamount to limiting speech and its also viewpoint discrimination. Back in february, facebook launched a new algorithm that would cause top conservative pages to see a dramatic drop in traffic. And this included personal pages. President trumps Facebook Page saw a 45 drop. Diamond and silk said their content was similarly blocked on facebook. Facebook along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence conservative voices by deliberately distributing and weaponizing our page with algorithms that censor our free speech. Laura then it was youtube who only ended up limiting channels, temporarily, demontizing them with no warning at all. This has happened to ben shapiro, dave ruben and dennis frager. For many on the left the view has become if you cant beat them, prevent them from speaking. Just look at what happened to conservative speakers on college campuses. And after liberal radio hosts on air america, some democrats thought to revise the Fairness Doctrine to snuff out conservative talk radio. Thankfully that went nowhere. But now they have moved on to the internet and squelching political speech there. A leaked proposal outlines a detailed plan to take over the internet by Regulating Digital Platforms and purging content they deem harmful or inaccurate. In other words, information they dont like. They would require social media users to be tracked and labeled according to how reasonable their content is deemed to be. Democrat senator chris murphy even hinted at this yesterday, tweeting, info wars is the tip of the giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses facebook and youtube to tear our nation apart. These Companies Must do more than take down one website, the survival of our democracy depends on it. How dramatic. Translation, the survival of the Democratic Party depends on it. There is an old saying in tv radio that content is king. Simply to silence the speaker. Your words float off into oblivion and nobody hears them. Hes right about their power. The Big Five Tech Companies are now worth an estimated 4 trillion. That figure puts them above the gdp of all but seven countries on the planet. The immense size of the companies is concerning. So, too, is the speed with which they can succumb to external pressure. Point in case, just three weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg defended keeping info wars on his platform. Look at the things getting the most distribution. If people flag them as hoaxes we send those to fact checkers. And if they say it is provably false we will significantly reduce the distribution of that content. Why dont you just say get elizabeth, lets start with you. I watched your campaign ad and you had some images from your parent country of birth, cambodia. And you know, the brutality of cambodia, the cambodian purge and facebook, you know, blocked it. They said what to you when you brought this up . This is some of the images from the ad. What did they say to you when you brought this up . They said that my the ad was shocking, disrespectful, and too sensational to be on facebook. And that is that was absolutely not in so many ways for me. When i decided to run for congress, i got into the race because i and part of my message was that great things can come from great diversity. My parents lived through the genocide in cambodia, and came to the United States as refugees. And so, for some reason, facebook found that offensive and removed my ability to advertise the campaign message. Laura dan, this is problematic. I think for civil libertarians. This is where democrats, aclu has been quiet on this. They have a statement on their website but i dont see them on television shows. They are too busy representing Illegal Immigrants. Where are the civil libertarians on this issue . The holocaust are we not able to talk about that and the horrors perpetrated on jews on these Social Media Platforms . I think you need to back up a little bit and restate something you said earlier which is really important that none of these companies youre talking about, theyre not state actors or the government. This whole First Amendment thing is out the window. So what youre talking about here are decisions by companies on their content. Something that fox news does, something that every media outlet does. And i think for you to say, listen, this is all about because were republicans or laura where is the discrimination or the similar actions against a myriad of leftists . Let me give you an example laura Why Isnt Antifa blocked from facebook . They are smashing windows. You just asked me a question, let me answer it. Back in 2015, being liberal was knocked off facebook. I have a lot more liberal friends on my facebook feed than a lot of your viewers do, and they are griping time and again every night about facebook acting against them too and knock them off for stupid things they say. Facebook has made a decision and its not hard to understand, given the history and the 16 billion that mr. Zuckerberg took a hit on, hes made a decision that his company is going to start making different decisions on content than he did before. But info wars is still out there on instagram. Its still there. And instagram is huge. Twitter is out there. Laura you see no difference between a Cable Channel theres how many Cable Channels out there . I dont even know. Theres a lot. From a Cable Channel and youtube. Or facebook. Or the entire apple platform worth 1 trillion. You see no difference as far as their control of information . Really . What is the equivalent of youtube. Im not sure where youre going. Laura its controlling information. I dont know laura there isnt one. Instagram. Laura you dont know social media. It does not compete. Youtube and instagram do not compete with each other. Thank you for that information. Laura monica, of course they are not state actors. When you have a left wing director, employees, 100 of all twitter employees for instance in 2014 contributed to democratic causes. Thats not a conservative website piece. Thats a factual determination. Twitter admitted it. Doesnt have any effect . I guess. Common sense points to the truth about this. Look, these internet companies, theyre giants. They are incredibly influential and dominant. And thats the point. To your point about twitter, the guy who used to run tech for twitter is now running tech for the Democratic National committee. That is just one example. Were not talking about particular content or info wars, et cetera. What we are talking about is that a few select companies that have near monopolies in the digital sphere have control over the Information Available to you and its only going to get worse. We are on the Slippery Slope where they are controlling the info wars website and so on. But go a couple years down the road and they and those Leftists Overlords in the digital sphere will be able to deem anything they consider unacceptable, and thats a subjective standard, inappropriate for consumption, whether that is statements about islamic fundamentism. Pro life. Support for the police. They will be able to use a sliding scale based on what they think is appropriate, rather than the First Amendment standard and that is a very dark and dangerous place for this country to be. Laura elizabeth, Mark Zuckerberg was questioned about this by ted cruz back in april. And he said, look, theres no bias. But we are going to have standards in place. Lets watch. So a great Many Americans that appears to be a pervasive pattern of political bias. Do you agree with that assessment . I understand where that concern is coming from because facebook and the Tech Industry are located in Silicon Valley which is an extremely leftleaning place. And this is a concern that i have and i try to root out at the company is make sure we dont have any bias in the work that we do. And i think it is a fair concern that people would let me ask laura that was a moment of candor from zuckerberg. I mean, anyone who has spent time in Silicon Valley its a political monolith. They dont want to say theyre conservative when they work there or they probably will lose their job. Ive heard those comments. Not at facebook but other hightech companies. Its undeniable that facebook has algorithms that lean toward and incentivize those that have more liberal tendencies and the algorithms will promost Chuck Schumer and my opponent, jim costa. Why did it take five days and the whole National Movement for facebook to respond to my ad here . This is my story. This is this is the story in which i told that they im assuming had trouble with in the beginning where it showed glimpses of genocide, those are just photos. My family had to live through this. Laura you think youre being targeted as an asian conservative candidate in liberal california because you represent a dangerous possibility for the left . Is that what youre saying . Yeah, we constantly see this time and time again with conservatives, that from these tech giants, that the algorithms that are in place do not support conservative ideologies. It is so the important part about all of this is that it is so incredibly important for platforms such as facebook who claim to be the Online Community space to have diverse political thoughts on there. Time and time again we see this is not the case. Laura more speech is better for everybody. Dan, go ahead. A poll today, 43 of republicans support trumps idea of shutting down Media Outlets that dont behave. This goes both ways. This is not a republican versus democrat issue. I mean, you mentioned the aclu. I know the aclu really does not like any infringement on laura where are they . Theyre nowhere. Theyre focusing on illegal immigration and partisan issues. Monica, we have 30 seconds. I really feel for elizabeth. Shes trying to tell the story of her family which is the American Dream and these tech giants are trying to crush that message which is particularly appalling. But as elizabeth points out. Theyve got the algorithms set in a certain direction and then theyll say we have a next barrier of humans, human beings who are trying to review these decisions to make sure theres no bias. All of those people are on the left. Laura theyre on the left. And jack dorsey said that alex jones didnt violate their policy. Up next, President Trump made a Campaign Stop for him in ohio, can he pull off a win . You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from any one else. Why accept it from your Allergy Pills . 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. President Trump Tonight Laura President Trump facing a political test of his influence in a house Special Election in ohio. And this race is neck and neck at the moment. Fox news correspondent Christen Fisher joins us from the headquarters of Troy Balderson who is fighting Danny Oconnor for that ohio house seat. What is the latest there . Everyone is on the edge of their seat here at baldersons headquarters because this race is shaping up to be exactly how the polls predicted. It is razor tight. Literally everybody in the room has their eyes on one county. There is only one county that does not have all of its precincts in and that is Delaware County. This is a big deal. That its the county that President Trump came to on saturday, where he held his big rally for republican Troy Balderson. This is also a county that has been reliably republican over the years. But Danny Oconnor, the democrat won the early vote by 2,000 votes. That has everybody here nervous. Watching Delaware County very closely. And the unofficial results im looking at right now on the Ohio Secretary Of State website we have 95 of the precincts in Delaware County in and balderson is ahead, 5445. The other county, franklin county. That is just outside the suburb of columbus. This is where Danny Oconnor is strong. Its also what the republican Troy Balderson said. He had a bit of a flub last night. And now oconnor is ahead there, 6535. Not a huge surprise there. But this is so close. The other thing im hearing from people in the room, the possibility of an automatic recount if the difference is. 5 or less that triggers an automatic recount. Is it very close but so far right now, still outside that automatic recount margin. It is very exciting in here but everybody is nervous and cautiously optimistic. Thats the phrase i keep hearing over and over. Laura certainly loud there. Well continue to monitor this race and others throughout the hour and the night and bring you the results as they come in. Even if balderson wins, the other networks will say its really a loss for trump. Even if he wins he loses. As we touched on earlier in the angle, one of your favorites and i know youve missed her on daily television, rosie odonnell, has gone into full Conspiracy Theory mode with regards to President Trump. And last night about how many blocks is it . 16, 17 blocks from here, odonnell led a singalong protest, i kid you not, in front of the white house with Fellow Hollywood and broadway stars, even though no one told them the president wasnt home. Were so thrilled to be here at the kremlin annex. On night 22. How many have been here every night . Lets hear it. And were going to keep coming back until hes out. Let the president know in no Uncertain Terms that we are alive, awake and we are woke. We are not going away. Laura raise your hand if youre sick of woke. I am. Mike huckabee joins us with reaction. First of all on my radio show i played all the really bad singing. These are great broadway stars with a lot of talent. But the chanting, no rhyming. They havent updated the chant since 1968 on the left. It was very disappointing. But what do you make of her resurgence on the scene . Tonight i went by the white house tonight. These people are still out there. I guess, until they feel like they can drive the president from office. I think its important that you noted he wasnt even there. I think they thought it was halloween and they were doing early trickortreating and they scared the daylights out of people around the white house. And i believe they perhaps solved this mystery, where did that noise come from that damaged the hearing of the people who were work for for State Department down in the cuban embassy, rosie and her team had gone down there and caused that physical damage. One other observation, i thought rosie had moved to canada. You know, she promised if trump got elected she would go. I dont know what she was able to do. I guess she was coming back for a brief visit. After all shes canadian now, isnt she . Laura shes a woman on a mission. She said to Chris Cuomo Last Night that donald trump and his organization paid people to attend his rallies. And chris cuomo says, what maybe, at some, but he has Tens Of Thousands of people. And she said no, he doesnt. I guess she didnt remember the mobile, alabama rally in 2015 in august where he had 70,000 people. I guess those are all card board cutouts. They are sure making a lot of noise. And i tell you another thing, its absurd to say they are paid. They just love their country. Rosie odonnell has as much right to protest and sing songs as anybody else but its i think what we find disingenuous is that herred a constitute is rather than accept the Election Results from 2016, their idea is lets invalidate the Election Results because we dont like how they turned out. This is the rantings of a 7yearold who got defeated playing baseball and decided were just going to overturn the game rather than learn how to play the game better next time. Laura not just that but now the Entertainment Industry on the left coast and the West Hollywood crowd has voted im sure the president is devastated to remove the president s star on the hollywood walk of fame. So no longer will they have to guard the star. This is how petty theyve become. I guess that makes them feel better. Thats their idea of victory. If theyre going to chop up everybodys star who has done something they dont like, they might as well rent a bunch of jackhammers. There are a lot of people on that sidewalk who represent some pretty crazy views and things that have gotten them landed with the me too movement. There we see goodbye from kevin spacey or roman polanski. How many elites will have their stars chopped up because they didnt exactly do the right thing to be charitable about it . Its a double standard. We have the if youre a star like james gunn like director of Guardians Of The Galaxy and you had bad tweets you get an excuse. But if you are a conservative, they never forgive you. The forgiveness only goes one way. Thank you so much. And the showdown between the Trump Legal Team and Robert Mueller over the president ial interview is about to take a dramatic tern. Dershowitz and wisen berg, next. Author of The Case Against Impeaching Trump and sol wisenberg. And we will get into the judge presiding over the Paul Manafort trial. Lets get to the biggest news. Giuliani seems to leave open the possibility of a narrow set of questions if it can be narrowed, on obstruction. Alan, ill go to you first. What might be the wisdom in that . Well, i think giulianis tactic is to say our president is willing to speak and mueller turned him down. He is making mueller an offer he cant really accept. He is putting forth a narrow window. If mueller accepts it, then game on. And well see some narrow questioning. But if i were trumps lawyer, im not. I would not under any circumstances allow him to te testify. All you need is one question where he answers truthfully but somebody else answers in a different way. Say he says i didnt know about the meeting at the trump tower involving the russians and cohen says yes, he did. Then you have an opportunity to spring that perjury trap. In the end, i dont think lawyers will generally advise a client to testify or sit down with a prosecutor but its i think this client wants to be able to say i offered to sit down and mueller turned me down. Here are the previous conditions placed on any interview that giuliani has set out. And well put it on the screen. Could only be two to three hours long. Narrow set of questions on collusion. They provide info on fbi information first. Theyve want that information, show proof trump committed a crime. Show testimony is needed to end the probe. And curtail obstruction questions. That was flushed out a little bit more tonight in giulianis comments in politico. Sol, your reactions to these developments in do you agree . No prosecutor worth his salt is going to accept those kind of preconditions but theres a reason and i have long agreed with professor dershowitzs assertion that the president should not answer these questions. Its far too dangerous. But theres a reason that bob mueller has put up with this dance so long and people dont understand it. If he issues a subpoena to force President Trump to be interview by him to go to the grand jury, for example, certainly, President Trump has to accept that subpoena. You can subpoena a president. But then when President Trump invokes Executive Privilege, under the law, the current law in the d. C. Circuit, it is going to be very difficult and time consuming for bob mueller to ask the questions he wants to ask particularly about obstruction and there is no guarantee he will win. Youre talking about the heart of Executive Privilege here, president ial communications and thought processes and mueller would have to show that its very, very important evidence and he cant get it anywhere else. And dont forget when jaworski won the tapes Case Against Nixon and cox won the earlier case their subpoenas were narrowly drawn and they knew the tapes existed and there were potential conversations on those tapes. Mueller does not have that. And more than anything else, mueller does not have the right to litigate Executive Privilege. The first thing President Trump is going to say is im your boss, you cant be in court. The Reason Mueller has put up with these ridiculous preconditions is he cant win if he goes to court. Laura and they have gamed this out. You have emmett flood who is running this side of the legal prep inside the white house. He clerked for Justice Scalia and was my co counsel. They have gamed this out. This is already briefed. They game it out a long time ago. That was the firm that represented bill clinton in his efforts to prevent testimony. In addition to his claim of Executive Privilege there is a constitutional argument and that is since a senator cant be questioned about what they did on the floor of the senate, i dont believe a president can be questioned about what why he pardoned or why he fired or why he tweeted or why he exercised any of his powers under article 2 of the constitution or the First Amendment so although i think if the subpoena was issued and challenged i think mueller would be able to get some testimony from the president if he stayed away from issues that are covered by these privileges but in the end it would be a victory, it would take so much time it would guarantee that the report couldnt be written until after the midterm elections. This is going to be going on for another week or so. Hes a tough judge. Laura i love he says you have to look at me when i talk to you. Thats what i say to my kids. Im looking at you. And he does this with everybody. He does this with everybody. But it doesnt make it right. He needs to really hold back and let the litigators try their case. He did the right thing when they talked about manafort. He told a truth too few people need to recognize. He doesnt need to do that in front of the jury. When he is saying you have tears in your eyes. That was not in front of the jury. Laura it is very dramatic but it might be too much. That Ohio 12th Race is too close to call. But republican Troy Balderson has a slight lead. Well bring you updates when the race is called. But next, an Immigrant Set to be deported is now accused of putting a Police Officer in critical condition. The tragic story, next. Our countrys Immigration Laws lead to tragic laura breaking the laws lead to trainic consequences again. A colorado Police Officer is in critical but stable condition after a gun battle with an iraqi refugee. He was in federal custody awaiting deportation. But his removal was halted after a 10th Circuit Court of appeals decision invalidated the governments grounds for doing so. Joining me is dan kav oocholic. And former Acting Director of i. C. E. Is live in studio with me. He was arrested on a weapons charge. He was possession by previous offend. That was in january of this year. And lead to this horrific shooting of a Police Officer. Its a great privilege to be allowed to come into this country as a refugee or nonimmigrant and to knowingly violate the laws of this country, that is someone who needs to leave. They need to send him home. Laura the 10th circuit said the government didnt have the right, the description of a violent offense, its too ambiguous a term. So once again, the courts end up making the job of enforcing Immigration Law difficult. I disagree with the courts decision. But as a Law Enforcement, we have to salute and follow the courts order. Now its up to congress. If they say the definition is too vague its up to the congress to fix it. People who come to this country and commit crimes they need to go home. Laura dan, President Trump wants to reduce the number of refugees in the United States. Currently about 1,000, hillary wants it to be 100,000. Were going to do extreme vetting. But what is your reaction to this particular story and the broader issue . Well, first of all, my response is that its you can never extrapolate from one example. You know, there was a very good story in the Washington Post in june by Christopher Ingram showing that in fact Illegal Immigrants and legal immigrants commit much less crimes than natural born americans which needs to be kept in mind. But if we want to look at The Big Picture issues, you know, these wars the u. S. Has been fighting like in iraq, have exacerbated the immigration issue. If people want to deal with immigration, the u. S. Ought to start thinking about withdrawing from these wars and avoiding laura were not here to debate the wars. I probably agree with you on a lot of the wars issue. Thank you. Laura were talking about our right, our southern rigvere as a people to decide who gets to come in and when you are here as a privilege that we grant you, who doesnt get to stay. We have violent criminals who are released on to the streets, who people who are here illegally and tom, as you know, have been deported multiple times, come back and commit heinous crimes they have a Trail Of Tears behind them. And we have the aclu beating the drum for more immigrants in the United States. You is to stop. I dont care about statistics. I dont care. Thats a meaningless statistic. Theyre not supposed to be here. Not supposed to be here. He was a legal immigrant. He was legal. Let me respond to the meaningless quote he just made, you know, that illegal aliens commit less crimes than the u. S. Citizens. The issue how many could be prevented if they werent here. They commit less crimes. But how many could have been prevented if we had secure borders and Immigration Laws that made sense. And the John Locke Study In Arizona which was the most definitive of any ever done showed that illegal aliens are 142 more likely to be arrested for a crime. It was specific data culled through and painstakingly documented and i want to put it on one full screen. Issues important to the american voters. The top problem facing the u. S. , immigration, number one at 22 of the public. Government, poor leadership, 19 . Race relations at 7 . Health care at 3 . Immigration, dan, the number one issue for americans and i dont think they want more imcelebration into the United States. I think that immigrants are scapegoated for a lot of problems that are not theirs. I dont like the russians being scapegoated and i think this is that country of immigrants. Legal imgrans. Legal. Y, but i dont think there is an illegal immigrant. Laura thats very revealing. Borders dont matter. Lets do it all john lennon song. Lets no wars or countries or sovereignty and no freedom, ultimately. Love the segment. Thank you, both. Police bust a Man Threatening the life of Steve Scalise. He joins us exclusively with his reaction, next. Are you ready to take your wifi to the next level . Scalise facing laura Steve Scalise facing threats to his life a year after he nearly died an attack at the softball practice. A man has been charged with menacing the congressman after leaving violent voice mail messages. Police found weapons and bomb building information at the mans house. Joining us now with reaction is House Majority whip Steve Scalise. Its great to see you. Im so relieved this guy was found, this was prevented. Lord knows what might have happened. Were also awaiting the Election Results from ohio 12 which were going to talk to you about. But your reaction to yet another violent threat against your life . Its great to be back with you and clearly these kind of disturbing things theres no place for it in politics. I want to thank, once again, our United States Capitol Police. They were quick to act when my office received this threat. They sent the information on to the Capitol Police and the Capitol Police found out that this man had a some real serious concerns and it was hard to track him down because he was trying to use aliases but they found him and he is in custody in federal custody and hopefully he gets a serious sentence. You cant allow this kind of threats and violence against people based on political views. Laura did he have postings on social media about you . Did he have a was it a purely political axe to grind . Mentally deranged or a combination of both . Clearly he had some strong disagreements with my political views and others. He threatened others as well. Hes going to have to account to that. And the Justice Department has him now but my thanks and true appreciation goes out to our Law Enforcement and United States Capitol Police acting quickly and working with new york authorities to make sure he got into custody. Laura what you see with antifa across the country, taking over the portland i. C. E. Office, black hoods, the beatdowns of conservatives and intimidation of conservatives in public. You saw what happened to charlie kirk in philadelphia. This stuff seems to be ratcheted up. The left blames President Trump. They say hes calling the news fake news and calling them out and thats making people more and more anxious. No. You look at some of the liberal rhetoric from the left, they are encouraging and inciting in many cases violence. Its got to stop. Liberals need to call this a out and speak up. Theres no place for it on the republican or democrat side. Laura we were talking earlier about facebook and apple moving against more conservative voices beyond alex jones but to others who have seen their voices diminished on these mega platforms. Trillions of dollars of market cap in these countries. Are you concerned that groups like antifa which has incited violence at these rallies, i mean they continue on youtube and facebook seemingly with imprudent. Its clearly a double standard. We pointed some of this out. When Mark Zuckerberg testified just a few weeks ago i brought this up, the bias that were seeing in facebook as they put a algorithm in place to change the way people get their news feeds and where they are starting to filter in from what weve seen, a left leaning way. And having a bias against conservatives. We raised it to them and they said that this is something theyre looking into but we need to watch it closely. If it looks like theyre trying to become the platform of the left. 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