0 >> because of the crazy people you had on. >> sean: we love you. all my best to my adopted nephews, marcel, your kids are great. and -- >> you're great. >> sean: and anthony. tell them i said all the best. that's all the time we have. call my radio show between 3:00 and 6:00. 1-800-941-sean -- >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. thanks for watching us. newt gingrich on the latest madness on capitol hill. but, first, the future isn't here. that's the focus of tonight's angle. all right, six votes later, republicans who are supposedly the majority party in the house still couldn't reach the requisite 218 votes needed to elect a speaker. but, i was thinking about this today -- what looks chaotic and kind of seems counterproductive to many is actually in it's own way refreshing. because it's democracy in action. now, it does remind us, this isn't china. party fall in line with whatever the dear leader decrees. in the gop unlike in pelosi's party, there is a lively debate about policy and tactics. so, everyone has a chance. in this process, to have his or her voice heard and have their vote counted, ultimately. and, plus, what's crazier? what we witnessed in the past two days in the house, or what we witnessed right before christmas, with congress jamming 1. 7 trillion of spending in a giant omnibus bill that by the way no one read. my message is simple. don't get distracted by what's happening in d.c. things will settle out. life will go on. the exciting stuff by the way is not happening inside the beltway anyway. ice not happening here when we have a federal government run by out of touch octogenarians like biden and mcconnell and the sep septagenarian chuck schumer. they ran the nation in a debt stratosphere, stoking damaging inflation, empowering china, two wars -- a proxy war with russia? that's great. no wonder young people are fed one politics. no wonder they tune them out. i don't blame them at this point. the good news -- there is good news coming out, it's happening far beyond the beltway. it's happening in states where governors are rising above the woke and broke politics of the left because they're focused on pragmatic policies that address the needs and concerns of regular people, people who are right now, tonight, worried about losing their life savings, their freedom, and their ability to raise their families in safety. and the right and the need to go back to work. >> freedom lives here in our great sunshine state of florida. it lives in the courage of those who patrol the streets and keeps our communities safe. it lives in the dedication of those who teach our children. it lives in the dreams of the historic number of families who have moved from states across this country, because they saw florida as the land of liberty and the land of sanity. >> right. so we have in florida, in texas, in iowa, virginia, we're seeing real success. and what we're getting in washington is just a lot of dysfunction. >> fighting for freedom is not always easy because the threats to freedom are more complex, and more wide spread than they have been in the past. the threats can come from entrenched bureaucrats in d cs, jet setters in davos, and corporations wielding public power. some even say that failure is inevitable. florida is proof positive that we the people are not destined for failure. >> failure is what woke teachers unions specialize in delivering. supporting lockdowns, all of the radical and race things on our kids. randi weingarten and the game have held our kids in a vice grip of underperformance for decades now. kim reynolds in iowa, doing more than just complaining teacher's unions, they're working on choking off their funds with portable scholarships that parents can use toward the schools of their choice. and in texas, governor greg abbott has done more for border security than biden will ever hope to do. not even close. >> a dramatic scene on texas' u.s.-mexico border. before sunrise, texas national guard troops arrived to put a razor wire fence alongside the banks of the rio grande. >> texas governor greg abbott sending 00 more national guard troops to the el paso border in an attempt to block the flow of migrants to the u.s. >> laura: unlike biden, abbott has designated the mexican cartels, the ones driving the uninflux, labeled them domestic terrorists and shipped more than 16,500 migrants to some of the biggest cities in the country. why should texas be stuck with the bill and all of the problems that the biden administration created with this illegal immigration disaster? so, abbott right now is standing up for his people. and the rule of law. no wonder he beat old beto boy by 11 points. let's not forget what's happening in the commonwealth of virginia. that's a state that political pundits a few years ago thought it was irretrievably blue up until '21 when glen youngkin won there. he's broadening the reach by taking on the lunatics on the left whose goal is to separate the children from their parents and have the attorney general launch investigations to the schools behind it all. >> i'm not going away. i'm going to make sure we stand up for parents' rights and make sure children have parents engaged in their lives fully and when we see a problem, we're going to go to work and root it out immediately. >> this is where the battle for the future of america is being fought, in the states, where americans are fleeing to, not fleeing from. and the states led by men and women not afraid to speak basic truths, who are not afraid to bevillified by the press, and, oh, are theyvillified. and not afraid to go up against powerful forces in big pharma and challenge the authority of big government when big government tramples on states' rights. i'm telling you, do not fret about washington. when there's so much that's actually working out there. i'd say almost, what, 20-point victory for desantis in florida? that's a clear indication of how much momentum we can have if we play things smartly. and that's the angle. joining me now is virginia attorney general jason myaris. as i mentioned in the angle, mr. attorney general, you announced today you're investigating a story we've been in front of which is thomas jefferson high school in fairfax county, virginia, a school known for the talented and gifted students. they're intentionally withholding knowledge of national merit scholarship awards from the students who receive them who needed the information to use on their college applications, i guess, all in the name of equity? what are we learning? >> well, listen, thank you so much for having me. the first public reports of this were shocking. this is resonant for me as the only person ever elected as a child of an immigrant, as attorney general. i know for the immigrant story, so many, education is the doorway to american success. and thomas jefferson high school is considered one of the best high schools in the entire country. and it's majority/minority. but as we saw with the national merit, also so many concerned parents in the asian american community felt like their children were losing their dreams and aspirations. and that's what's so heart breaking is that so many that come here that are immigrants, their children are living dreams that were denied them. education is the pathway to the american dream. we're conducting investigation to two areas -- the national merit recognition denied any of these students based on race or ethnic background? and in the admissions policy in thomas jefferson high school changed quite recently and we saw a huge drop in enrollment in asian american students. as one mom told me, listen, my daughter has done everything right since the first grade and i have to sit down with her and tell her you may lose your dream of attending thomas jefferson high school, not because of what you've done but because of your background, the fact that you're korean american. that should outrage every american. we're conducting a human rights investigation, that's the statute in virginia. we're tackling to get to the answers of what happened. >> laura: looks like the offers of asian students, this is according to "the washington post" today, dropped from the typical 70% to 55%. that's just in one year. that's weird. >> yeah, it was -- >> laura: what's that about? >> yeah, a 20-point drop. you're seeing it nationally all over the country it seems like the only state sanctioned form of bigotry in america today is anti-asian bigotry and a lot of asian americans are similar to where jewish americans were in the 1920s and 1930s, elite places of learning and schools that were capping and denying admission because of their ethnic background. it was wrong 100 years ago, laura, it's wrong now. so, that's what we had the office of civil rights in my attorney general's office. because we're going to root out discrimination. >> laura: oh, no, this is awesome, mr. attorney general. so glad you're doing this. and by the way, of course, they're going to say a lot of this is because of equity concerns. that is the new lingo and we're learning also that the principal at this school is paying a contractor $631,000 for, quote, equity training that includes an equity-centered strategic plan with a goal that equal outcomes for every student takes place without exception. this is a school for gifted students. they're paying $500,000 to learn about equal outcomes for all students? how does that compute at all? >> laura, equity without excellence is emptiness. that's why we're conducting the investigation. anybody who's part of my team investigating loudoun county, we ask them to be fearless and deliberate. so, we're going to go ahead. we're going to be hopefully they will cooperate with us. we have subpoena powers. we'll do the review of what is happening. to get to the right answers, you is to be willing to ask the tough questions. we'll be asking the tough questions and getting answers from the commonwealth of virginia on this. >> if you get ahead of this equity nightmare and expose it for what it is, it sounds great -- equity. who's not in favor of equity. it means discrimination. i hope other attorneys general follows suit. mr. attorney general, thank you so much. now to capitol hill where after six votes, as i said, we don't have a speaker of the house. here's kevin mccarthy moments after the house adjourned tonight. >> well, i walk -- >> i felt as though we had a very good discussion. >> well, where it is -- what happens next? >> i think what you should gauge is being able to do that vote that the discussions are going well and continuing. but that doesn't mean they're done. >> laura: joining me now is newt gingrich, former speaker of the house and fox news contributor. newt, i read somewhere today, i should remember where it is, i don't. i've been reading a lot, that there was the idea floated, which might have stirred this latest progress in the negotiations. that mccarthy at some point might say, okay, forget about this. we're going to form some type of coalition with some democrats and start moving things along. have you heard any of that? no, and i don't think kevin would do that. mccarthy is a solid conservative. the commitment to america was solidly conservative. the rules changes that he proposed were solidly conservative. there's no common ground. and if you give the democrats any sense of control, they're going to demand veto over the investigations, they're going to demand veto over the committee structures. it's not possible. so, i think mccarthy's decided he's going to wear down and work with the 20 members who who have been hostile. i noted that in a motion to adjourn, all but four voted with the conference. only four voted against the republican conference on the motion to adjourn. that's a good sign. i've been told all day from various phone calls that a lot of the members are looking for a way to come back together. they want some concessions. the most of the things they want are relatively reasonable. and that's part of the legislative process as your pointed out earlier. i did a tweet saying it's hard to explain to putin or ping or kim jung un what's going on. this is freedom. and freedom is messy and sloppy and also remarkable -- remarkably creative. we'll get there. and we'll have a speaker probably i think probably sometime tomorrow. and i just checked a few minutes ago, the last time this happened in 1923, it took nine ballots. the following election, the republicans picked up 22 more seats. so people shouldn't assume this the end of the republican party in any way. this is a healthy, tough, serious conversation and i think sometime tomorrow, virtually all, not all, but virtually all of the conference will have found a way to come back together. >> laura: i wasn't saying that kevin mccarthy was going to do that. but the possibility of that happening, obviously, that -- if that ever did come to fruition after 25 ballots, there would be one group that would be blamed for that. at that point, it wouldn't be kevin mccarthy. that's all i'm saying. that may have been a little bit of a car rot to get things to move. . >> there are some people, you know, congressman don bacon of nebraska has been very open that if the hard liners who are anti-mccarthy stay tough enough that he would, in fact, reach out to try to work something out just purely to try to prove to people, you can't have 10% of the conference dictate to 90% of the conference. lincoln warned in the first inaugural in 18 1, you get to secede, so does everybody else. that's the problem these guys created. any five republicans can decide to blackmail the conference. that's going to be totally unacceptable as a way of going forward. and it would make the house ungovernmentble and betray the trust of the american people. >> laura: i don't think many people campaigned on the spectacle we've had in the last few days. biden had something to say. this is his take. >> to have a congress that can't function is embarrassing.