laura: all right. sean, awesome show i ll take it over i m laura ingraham this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. mother nature s laughing, that s the focus of tonight s angle. feeling hot hot hot lat moffett was the hottest june on record. that heat then carried through to july as a new global high average temperature was set on monday and then broken the very next day. triple digit heat index through the end of the week. laura: it s hot, hot, hot all right. after all we re in the middle of a season called summer. now, fast forward a few years and imagine that one morning you wake up, cook breakfast. you turn on the stove and the gas doesn t work. and your living room is kind of cold so you try to turn up the heat. but the thermostat won t goat past 64. then you re just so fed up, you jump in your car you drive to get gas because the tank s empty but every station you pull into is closed. then an emergency bulletin comes across your cell phone say
all right, john on the show, i ll take it over. i m laura ingraham. this is ingraham angle from washington tonight, mother nature s laughing. that s the focus of tonight s angle. last month was the hottest june on record heat, then carried through into july as a new high. global average temperature was set on monday and then broken the very next day, triple digit heat index through the end of the week. it s hot, hot, hot. all right. after all, we re in the middle of a season called summer. now, fast forward a few years and imagine that one morning you wake up to cook breakfast, you turn on the stove and the gas doesn t work and your living room is kind of cold so you try to turn up the heat, but the thermostat won t go past 64. then you re just so fed up. you jump in your car you drive to get gas because the tanks empty. but every you pull into, it s closed. then an emergency bulletin comes across your cell phone saying that for the foreseeable future, americans are ins
i always had a few questions about it. reporter: the campaign, pretending to be your chief of staff. you know, i didn t know about that. it happened i was not notified about that until a later date. reporter: did you speak to him about it at all? yeah, i didn t know about it until a later date unfortunately. house speaker kevin mccarthy thought george santos resume was questionable before revelations about his lies were discovered and there are so many lies. some of them. others, like the fact that his political person pretended to be mccarthy s chief of staff. there s so many. i m sure he s not thrilled about that at all. as for santos, have we gone from ridiculous lies to russian ties? the bizarre saga takes another turn with new reporting that links him to the family of a sanctioned russian oligarch. hold on now. meanwhile, republicans remain focused on president biden. they re laser focused on biden and his handling of classified documents. the
russia s brutal war and his visit, russia s former president, former foreign minister, former president dimitri medvedev has reacted publicly stating kishida has shown a complete subservience to the u.s. and should ritually disembowel himself, which i admit is a little harsh to be discussing on sunday morning tv. we will have more on russia s war in the chaos inside russia in a few minutes, with russia s foreign foreign minister, but first, back to the brief history lesson i brought up, because japan is interesting for another important reason. one which should serve as a stark reminder to american lawmakers at what happens when you play with fire in a fragile economy. sometimes, as fire goes out of control, and has catastrophic consequences. coming out of the 1970s and 1980s, headed to the 1990s, japan was the fastest growing economic power in the world, a global financial club manufacturing all sorts of things. think about watches, panasonic tvs, toyota cars. when our stuff
about trump s plans, which would move the country away from democracy and into full-blown autocracy. also tonight, expelled from the house of representatives, former congressman george santos begins his revenge tour. and he s already cashing in on his infamy. we begin tonight with notes on a florida scandal. a hot mess sending shock waves through the state s republican party. the florida man in question is not donald trump for once. instead, this is a scandal involving christian ziegler, the chairman of florida s republican party. this is ziegler, a longtime party official who served as vice chairman of the state party prior to his election as chair. he is now under criminal investigation for allegations related to sexual battery, including rape according to a complaint filed with the sarasota police department. ziegler has denied the allegations. a heavily redacted report was released thursday. as you can see, it includes mention of rape, sexual assault complaint, and se