Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Hear planes flying fairly low over my deck, fighter planes. This is my personal home deck, and i wondered what this was about and shortly after that i got a phone call. One of the nice things about working in Pierce County is we work closely with west pierce and tillicum police department. And we had people who responded from jblm who did great stuff. I get to work with people who are willing to when as soon as something goes down immediately respond and immediately cooperate closely. Thats what weve seen tonight. Next 24 hours im sure we will have some of our people there. We will have people from the federal government. We will have people from the
bureau. Im sure as i said they will be looking at every i to dot and t to cross to find out what happened, why it happened and how it happened. This will be an issue if it was determined and likely to be determined there was a theft involved at Seatac Airport. There may be State Charges as well but its most likely the person who perpetrated this theft is no longer with us. Thank you and your colleagues. Thank you. [ Phone Ringing ]. You were listening to a Press Conference of a Pierce County sheriff official talking about a plane that was stolen by a mechanic at an airport there. So we are closely following this situation, as he said. A plane crashed near seattles Seatac Airport a horizon airplane taking off from Seatac Airport. Witnesses saw the airplane being followed by Military Aircraft near the airport. The plane is a regional Turboprop Airport that can seat up to 76 passengers. The plane was stole bane 29yearold mechanic and that no passengers were on board. It appears to be some sort of
suicide attempt. They say at this point with what theyre seeing with the damage and the flames it appears that the man on board that plane who was flying it, died. The sheriff also telling us tonight this was not a terrorist attack this was a single suicide male, no others were involved. Coast guard is responding to reports of large plumes of smoke in the area. Alaska airlines tweeting we have confirmed that a plane has gone down near Patron Island in Pierce County, washington state. They believe they know who was on board. They are not releasing the name. There were no other people on board, no crew, no guests on that plane. We will continue to follow this break news out of washington state. We go back to laura ingraham, already in progress. Laura we cant allow our guy
week. There has been a lot of drama in the Paul Manafort trial. I know you have been following the ins and outs of judge ellis. Muellers team filing a formal complaint about the behavior of judge ellis. The courts reprimand of governor counsel suggested to the jury that the government acted improperly in cont contravention of court rules. The judge is a cantankerous, oldstyle judge but there seems to be a real effort to kind of smear him now since he has been tough on the mueller case. What is your take here . I agree, laura. You clerked for the Second Circuit and for judge thomas. You dont win fights with
federal judges and you dont try to pick fights with federal judges. I dont mind that the prosecutors are being aggressive and standing up for their position. I dont know if i would have filed Something Like that and would have asked for a side bar and say you told the jury you said something yesterday could you remind the jury that what you say is not evidence and you dont have an opinion in this case. Thats how i would have handled it. One of the uncomfortable exchanges and there are many in the past few days, some of it is just entertaining. Lets just say that. Theres one point where judge ellis thinks that one of the lawyers for mueller is not looking at him. And so the judge says, im here. From the bench. And he says im sorry, im listening. And ellis says i know when you look down, its as if to say
down for an interview with muellers team or mueller will have to issue a subpoena and everything that entails. James, go ahead. Well, look, i dont think mueller, himself, feels like he has that strong a hand to issue a subpoena here or to get the compliance he wants. Laura why . Theres a lot of layers of why he doesnt have to follow a subpoena while in office. The fact they call the president a subject makes it tough to understand how they can ask questions about obstructions. Obstruction is purely target. What theyre look at is what are our chances if we subpoena him. We were going to get a motion to quash. Whats it going to read like . It would be damning and powerful addressing everything they want to complain about when it comes to the Mueller Probe calling him
a subject but treating him like a target. Laura is there any way that the special counsel will accept the terms that trumps leal tga team offered . No it in a million years. The president will never sit down and speak to these guys. Hed be crazy to. The special counsel, bob is tough as a nail and hard as a rock. He will issue the Grand Jury Subpoena and theyll file their motion to quash and it will make itself way up to the Supreme Court. Laura fantastic conversation, guys, have a great weekend. If you heard heads exploding in hollywood, theres a good reason. Kanye west doubled down on his support for donald trump. 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. What it represented to me is not about policies, because im not a politician like that but it represented overcoming fear, and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone said, saying you cant bully me, news, hip hop community, they cant bully me. Laura remarks from kanye west on jimmy kimmel are giving a new bout of angina to hollywood. He claimed his support for President Trump and clearly hes got no plans to stop fighting against the antitrump group think and as he said the bullying of the Entertainment Industry. Joining us now to analyze is Radio Talk Show Host and lets start with you, eric, kanye west, he is an interesting cat, an interesting character. He has a huge following. Very much so. Laura i find it just fascinating that its controversial for someone to say i think for myself. You wont put words in my mouth. You wont tell me the how what to believe or for whom to vote. Im my own person. Somehow thats a point of controversy in the group think that is the Entertainment Industry today. I think hes just smashing the stereotype, and i think its freaking people out. Your reaction . Well i dont think its freaking people out. I think kanye is trying to l to both sides of the fence. Hes always been a free thinker. A long time ago he stood up on national tv and said george bush didnt care about black people. Hes always thought for himself. Hes trying to cater to both sides of the fence. He wants to maintain the fact he does Support Trump but in such a way that could possibly apiece appease his followers who may not Support Trump. So really it seems more like a
tactical Marketing Skill on his behalf rather than bullying. Hes a multimillionaire. There is no way that he can feel bullied for who he chooses to vote for. Kevin you understand what this is ultimately all about. Absolutely. Laura theres a certain subset of the american political world that says if you are of a certain background or certain ethnicity, certain race there is only One Direction you can go in, whether its Clarence Thomas or Walter Williams or tom sole or any given number of Free Thinkers out there. Theyre vilified in some ways. Yep. Laura kevin i find it to be a fascinating conversation. It is. It is not Just Entertainment laura the way you set it up. Its the black community that will ostracize you. And kanye got it right. He will be bullied. He named everybody in the mix. The liberals will bully you, the media will bully you, guys like
this guy will bully you. Kanye said what he said. There was no upside for him in this. He wasnt catering to any particular side. He said im a human being, im going to think for myself, im not going to let anybody determine what i say as a man. Good for him. He does talk for himself. I let you talk. He only impacted himself. Not only has donald trump raise the the level of black support. He doubled to 29 now because people are finally starting to wake up. Kanye brought a level of consciousness to many Blacks In America who feel identically the same. I have been a conservative my entire life. I dont know what that wake up means but there are many people who need a kanye to say Something Like that. It is the left that are the biggest bullies on the planet. Theyre not bullies just because they disagree. The simple fact of the matter is theres not a disagree with the Republican Party more says but the black Community Feels have not been in their best interest. If kanye wishes to align himself with that, the issue is if he is aligning himself with the ones that most africanamerican communities dont support, thats the reality of the situation. Not the same. Laura i think whether its the violence in chicago, it had a huge spike under rahm emmanuel, democratic leadership, democrat is a protege of obama, things have gotten worse. You see the Africanamerican Community in the hardest Hit Neighborhood saying we want new leadership, its not working. Absolutely. Laura let me respond to one other thing. No, no, no, you talked earlier. It is an issue. Kanye west but threatened. Black conservatives like myself get threatened all the time. I have never threatened anybody that differs from me politically and i never will. Just because you havent doesnt mean that liberals are not threatened. You said kanye west hasnt been threatened, there were rappers that came out and said you have a concert were going to be there. A guy that was a crip said he
wanted to kill him. Thats the it will r vitriol that happens on the other side. Dont pretend this doesnt happen. Laura i think debate is a good thing. I think its positive. If its just more chatter there is nothing positive that comes of it. Lets hope something good comes of this. I want to get to another issue. I want to get our take on this National Anthem protest, because its reigniting now in the nfl, last night really cool, fun preseason games, a handful of players took knees or raised their fists during the anthems. The president , i guess not surprisingly tweeted out, in part, quote, numerous players from different teams wanted to show outrage at something most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love. Find another way to protest. You have kenny stills out there saying look at my twitter feed. I explain why im doing what im doing. Look at my social media. Its not just a whim. I mean this, and hes sticking up for his right to do what he does. And i think that when we speak about bullying in politics, we have the biggest bully in the white house right now, given the fact that this situation has turned on racial lines in the fact that by trying to make it about the military. The players have been very adamant over and over it is not about the military, some of them have fathers, uncles, brothers, mothers, sisters, who have served in the military. It is about bringing attention to the racial injustices that have been done by the police and other instruments of government in this case. I do agree they need to transform to a more Political Base similar to what we saw happen in st. Louis where the prosecutor was defeated by a democratic, more progressive opponent, maybe some of these athletes should take their protests to the polling places
to draw people out to vote out some of these people, the prosecutors, the district attorneys, the people judges. Laura hold on. Eric, i think that people i dont think people dont the fans feel everything is so infected with politics. Can we just get together and root for our teams without a political thing. I think thats what more people are kind of irked by, not the fact that theyre speaking out but they want just one zone where its no politics. But mine im off base. I think thats part of it. The idea it became racial because donald trump is the president is ridiculous. He was protecting the flag. America first, make America Great again. He have the pointed out the inconsistencies in the black lives Matter Movement and the fact that these guys really were more self indulgent. Let me just finish. The fact of the matter was it is
self indulgent move by Colin Kaepernick and hes hurting the league and people understand that. Look, you can try to make this black and white. The same problems that were persisting in the community, socalled policing issues, were happening during the time of obama. Why Didnt Somebody take a knee then . They waited for donald trump so he could be the person to do it . Who said they waited for donald trump . Laura this has been stirring for some time. It just happened to coincide with donald trump. The question is if this had happened while obama was president , do you think he would have take the same position that donald trump is . Laura of course not. No, he wouldnt have at all. Youre right about that, eric, he would have probably supported the players and what theyre doing. But the owners had this policy in place and theyve put it on the shelf now hoping to figure it out. Guys have a great weekend. Have you noticed recently how often some liberals invoke Ronald Reagan to make a left
wing political point . A reagan cabinet member and biographer reveals the truth. A five Year Old Girl molested by an Illegal Immigrant in philly. The u. S. Attorney lays blame with city officials, hell join us. The plane was stole bane 29yearold mechanic and crashed while he was doing stunts. He reportedly told air Traffic Controllers that he was a broken guy and was joking about whether the airline would hire him if he landed safely. The coast guard is responding to the crash site at this moment where a large plume of smoke can be seen there. The coast guard confirmed. The plane has gone down in Pierce County washington. We believe there were no guests or crew on board other than the person operating the plane and the Sheriffs Deputy has said we can confirm that there was no one on the plane other than the 29yearold mechanic who was on the plane on some type of
suicide mission of sorts. He spoke with air Traffic Controllers saying that he knew people loved him. He was a broken guy and at one point he says he has a lot of people that care about him. Police are looking into this. We will continue to follow this story out of seattle throughout the night. For now we go back to laura ingraham, already in progress. Back then, serving with Ronald Reagans and the liberals in the media. He is good being god, but one has to say, whatever criticisms came down during the reagan era and there were a lot of them. I got some. You got some, you were working for me. Ronald reagan got plenty. Nothing compared to what donald trump is getting. If they can use Ronald Reagan to beat up donald trump, they will do it and they will do it with a straight face i dont know how they pull off the straight face. Laura you remind us that the left will do anything to regain power. I want to play flash back sound from some of our favorites in the media. I believe this was during the administration or right after the president right after he passed away. Lets watch. Did his vision include extraordinary deficit and cutting the budgets for education and back of the hand in terms are you saying we have been unkind to him . I dont think history be kind to him or have any reason to be kind to him. I thought if you got into the oval office, mr. President im down on my luck he would give you the shirt off his back and he would sign legislation
throwing your kids off the school lunch program. Laura he wanted grandma to eat alpo. Remember that . And Catch Ketchup was a vegetable too. And he becomes a paragon of virtue, Barry Goldwater was attacked by psychiatrists in the newspapers and denounced as crazy and now he is a paragon of virtue. The left hated richard nixon. I saw a Historian Favor Nixon Comparably to donald trump. Then they become convenient tools to bash the current occupant of the white house. So its nothing new. Especially but its especially with reagan. Because they know nothing about reagan. As i said earlier, theyre in
over their head. They dont know what theyre talking about. Laura we all worked for President Reagan and we all know on the issue of immigration, the Republican Party, donald trump, if only again they were more like reagan on immigration. So lets play a few of the choice sound bites from President Reagan on immigration. The simple truth is we have lost control of our borders. I have spoken of a shining city all my life. But it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind swept, god blessed and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace. If there had to be city walls the walls have doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. Bill, take a hit at that one. I get shivers when i hear him
speak talk about the city on the hill. The city had walls and a door. The left takes that part of city on a hill. Ronald reagan wanted everyone to come but they forget about the part about the wall and the country without borders is not a country. It occurred to me while you were talking to craig, two, three, four elections in the future we will see videotape of donald trump and liberals saying those were the days when people had heart and soul. Laura i dont think so. Just a Thought Experiment here. Could it be worst until it gets worse. Bill might be right. Theres so much the two share in common. You know, craig was saying the other day, or maybe i read it in his book, the commitment to a defense, to a Defense Buildup which was essential to both of them, the focus on a wall. Reagan wanted to tear one down, the right one. And trump wants to build one up and thats the right one, too. Theyre very different personalities but going in the same way. But i would be interested in craigs opinion on this, i think this is a more Conservative Cabinet than Ronald Reagan had, dont you . I think so, but dont forget, bill, the bench, you were a great conservative in the cabinet and the bench was a lot thinner. This is a byproduct of the reagan presidency, theres a lot more talent now available for the Trump Administration that wasnt available in 1980. Laura think about that. Think of all the people waiting in the wings to get appointed to the appellate court. All of these people were children of the reagan era. I wouldnt be doing if what im
doing. The left would have loved that if not for reagan. I wouldnt be doing any of this. Aaa and aa leagues are highly populated with the right people. I remember, laura, at our place, we were known as ft. Reagan. We had 134 political appointees. And senator wiker said what are you doing with these appointees . And i said we won. We won the election and that was a great Training Camp and its interesting to see where they have gone. Television personalities. Bill, they can blame you. Thanks so much. And the socalled blue wave for democrats may already be fizzling out because of nancy pelosi. Details after this. May be fading out a little bit. The House Minority leader is becoming the shining star of the gop attack ads leading up to the midterms. Here is a little sample. Failed liberal policies is at it again, this time running for congress, this time hes not alone. Now nancy pelosi and her washington democrats are bankrolling his campaign. Because davis record in topeka is the pelosi agenda in washington. A vote for paul davis is a vote for nancy pelosi. Laura Democratic House members smell blood. Dozens of them and counting will not commit or out right they refuse to support pelosi continuing as the donald trump democrats house leader. Joining us now to analyze Rachel Campos duffy and dezlin figurer row. Tezlin, all parties have their person who you want to kind of move on. Its just the way it is. Republicans have had the same
issue, you know, not so much with boehner but the republicans wanted him to move on and ultimately he did. What do you see, though, you have this incredible number of democrat incumbents now at 51 who say, huhuh, will not supporter. Well its funny you asked me what do i see because i feel like im a prophet. Last week i prophesized that the blue wave was bound to drown. Just call me noah, laura. At the end of the day people are ready to move on. Not just democrats saying they want to get rid of nancy pelosi, but also republicans and independents as well. Third quarter of americans have been polled and say the time is over for nancy pelosi. Its sad because poorly tim ryan when he tried to run against nancy in 2006, people thought it was a joke. Over 20 democrat leaders say they will not support her in june. Now in august its over 50 who are asking nancy to move on. It reminds me of that old stalker girlfriend that just refuses to stop calling on the phone and repeatedly doesnt understand the relationship is over. Laura you crack me up. I needed to laugh on friday that cracked me up. Rachel, first of all the republicans kind of putting all their eggs in the antipelosi agenda . They have a great agenda on Economic Prosperity and relative peace out there. The policy thing gets a little old for me. Nevertheless i guess its kind of good, i guess. But dont both parties have these people who just refuse to move on . Well you can walk and chew gum. You can tout all the good news that the republicans and donald trump agenda has brought about in their district and remind voters, make no mistake, i dont care what those 50 democrats are saying, if democrats take
control of the congress, nancy pelosi will be the leader of the house. Democrats are in step all the time. She will be the leader. And by the way, she embodies everything middle americans hate about washington. She represents San FranciscoLooney Policies that never worked. The republicans are back home kind of enthusiastic now. I dont think they were feeling so good a month ago, theyre feeling good, back home, seeing the impact of their agenda, talking to constituents and facetoface reminding them of who brought them about, who said it was going to be armageddon nancy pelosi and who called their bonuses crumbs. Laura theyre personalizing it. Theyre working hard in their district. Laura they have to personalize their agenda. Speaking of real clear politics average. Lets put it up on the screen. Today the democrats have a 5 advantage. But a month ago they had an 8. 2 advantage, Bloomberg Opinion headline, by the way, kind of
extends this conversation on this. Pelosi is the wrong target for democrats. Joe cunningham saying the Democratic Party needs new leadership. If elected i will not vote for nancy pelosi as speaker. Time to move forward and win again. 34 say theyre neither for nor against pelosi but 42 of the parties nominees say they will not support nancy pelosi. Well who had the juice, though, to take on pelosi . Lets say the democrats pick up the seats they need to take the majority . You have to have something to beat you know, you cant beat something with nothing. Who beats pelosi . Its amazing that they continue to keep pushing nancy pelosi on people, its amazing she wont sit down. A lot has changed in the last two years. I dont know the answer to the question. I would like to see them support congresswoman barbara lee. They claim to love black girl
magic. Lets see if theyre willing to put an African American female in office. But that will be going a stretch. Laura i want Maxine Waters as speaker of the house. Aunty maxine, i kind of like her. Shes kind of fun. She doesnt like trump but they makes politics interesting. Were out of time, but well continue this conversation on radio next week. Thanks guys have a great weekend. Philadelphia Sanctuary Policies are slammed after a 5yearold girl sexual assaulted by an illegal alien. U. S. Attorney for philly says enough is enough. He joins us with his plans to take on local officials next. Maybe not. No. Maybe you could trust that during your fantasy draft. No, no, no. The computer wont autodraft a kicker, in the 7th round. Maybe you can trust you wont be kept at night because you autodrafted a kicker, in the 7th round. woman laughing maybe you could trust that for the next 16 weeks you wont think about autodrafting a kicker, in the 7th round. Or. You could just trust duracell. Duracell MnemonicOf Philadelphia. Tell me why from your perspective and then we will get into the specific case, Why Sanctuary Status is harmful for public safety. Well fundamentally those of us in Law Enforcement arent supposed to play favorites. Those of us who are prosecutors arent supposed to play favorites. Thats a fundamental principal. Were the supposed to enforce the law in a fair nonpartisan manner. The problem with the sanctuaries cities is they turn that principle on its head and they politicize Law Enforcement. Laura what do you mean . They stand for the proposition that a Certain Group of people are not going to be subject to our laws for political purposes. Namely were talking about Illegal Immigrants. Laura well they make the opposite claim. Those who are defending the sanctuary city policies,
including the mayor and his boosters, mayor kinney and his boosters. They say Sanctuary Status keeps the place safer because Illegal Immigrants wont go to the authority because they afraid of being desported. It makes the city less safe if you dont have it in place. How do you respond to that . I think actually they have it exactly backwards. They do say that they think that it fosters trust among the community and Law Enforcement in order to not enforce immigration laws. Actually what fosters trust between the community and Law Enforcement is when the Community Knows that Law Enforcement is not going to play favorites. If they know the rule of law is going to be respected the broader community, therefore, believes that Law Enforcement is doing their job. So when the proponents of Sanctuary Cities make that argument that you just articulated i think they have it exactly backwards. Laura the d. A. Of philadelphia is not too pleased
with your criticism of the Sanctuary City Policy. He said about your statement linking it rape by this Juan Ramon Vasquez who was released, ending up raping a member of his own family, a 5yearold child, he said, well, thats very dramatic to somehow link the Sanctuary Status to this rape. The Trump Administration has made it so immigrant children can get raped. Theyre linking trump to you, the deportation of actual victims of Domestic Violence and youre seeing this bubble up with the judge versus Jeff Sessions yesterday. So how do you respond to that . Hes hitting you hard saying youre basically, this is typical Trump Administration stuff from you. I think that fundamentally, the problem with that statement is that statement is a political statement. Hes going political. I am doing my best as a Law Enforcement officer to enforce
the law in a neutral nonparty apolitical manner. When you a proponent of Sanctuary Cities you are politicizing Law Enforcement. And the d. A. In philadelphia unfortunately takes a political approach to a lot of issues in Law Enforcement. What im saying is respect for the rule of raw is a nonpartisan neutral. Laura but theyre saying were not the immigration force. We have our hands full already. Well, the fundamental problem again, is that not only are Sanctuary Cities, in my view, wrong, but they are essentially unamerican. Let me explain that a little bit. When you come before the law in america, its not supposed to matter who you are, or where youre from, who your parents are or the like. Everybody is supposed to be treated equally. If you politicize the law and you say were not going to enforce the law against a Certain Group of people were
only going to enforce it against others youre essentially doing something i believe is unamerican because youre not respecting the rule of law. Laura its not equal justice under the law. 2014, arrested on an aggravated 2014, arrested on an aggravated assault, released, Illegal Immigrant. A year andahalf later he was found to have raped a five year old little girl, member of his own family. And then of course when hes released in 2014, that was sanctuary city time. And they say well, making that leap from his release to the rape and Sanctuary Policies, thats unfair. Do you obviously its his fault for doing the rape, hes liable, but do the Sanctuary City Policy facilitate the rape of this little girl . Not only facilitate it, its 100 responsible for it. That is noncontroversial. What happened in the timeline was mr. Vazquez was deported in 2009. He then illegally reentered the country. He was arrested for an assault in 2014. We placed a detainer on him which is a request that if he is released from local custody, give the feds a heads up, we take him into federal custody and deport him. Unfortunately philadelphia because theyre a sanctuary city do not respect detainers, so when mr. Vazquez was released in 2014, we didnt know about it. The philadelphia prison officials didnt tell us about it. Instead of him coming into federal custody and be deported to honduras, instead he went into the community and as you said, he raped a 5yearold. Laura mayor kinney reacted to that court ruling that affirmed the ability to have the Sanctuary Status without a diminution of funding. He did the big snoopy dance. Lets watch. A sanctuary city. Yes. A sanctuary city, yes. Laura so hes thrilled that they could cut off access to the feds. To the city arrest database. So the federal government, even if they wanted access in this sanctuary policy, they could not have access even to know who is in the state pen. Correct. And one of the larger issues at stake here is that in the post9 11 world its very, very important that all levels of Law Enforcement are talking to each other. Laura i thought after 9 11, everyone is supposed to talk to each other. Arent we all supposed to be working together as americans to keep our communities safe . I do not understand the sank sanctuary stuff. I dont. I dont get it. The problem is prior to 9 11 a lot of Law Enforcement werent communicating. Weve made a lot of progress. I think that having, for example, a Sanctuary City Policy where the locals are not
communicating with the federal authorities and are in fact defying federal law is a step backwards and we do that at our own peril. Laura youre not a political figure but you live in philadelphia, in the area, what is your sense about the constituents . I mean minorities, the poor, the disadvantaged are the ones victimized the most by Illegal Immigrant crime. Any sense about how theyre feeling about this mayor . Again i think that what people want is they want to know their Law Enforcement officers, whether federal or local or state, are enforcing the rule of law in a nonpartisan, fair manner, treating everybody fairly. Its fundamentally unamerican and unfair to not enforce the law against an entire population. Laura any sense about the nationwide injunctions, sanctuary city, defund . We have one Federal District court ruling and other federal
District Court rulings on immigration. Well first of all on that sanctuary citys case that you mentioned earlier, the last word hasnt been written on that. There was a case in my district that was ruled on. But theres lots of these cases going on around the country. They all sort of percolate their way up. Laura theyre supposed to. There will shouldnt be a nationwide injunction with one District Court judge, or should there be . No, there shouldnt be, you want several courts to look at an issue and eventually these things make their way to the Supreme Court will have have their final word. Laura are you having fun . The u. S. Attorney Of Philadelphia is a cool job. Its a lot of work but the im doing my best enjoying it. Laura thank you. Great to see you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Laura we appreciate the u. S. Attorney joining us and the job hes doing. Well be right back