coast. we obviously had a big show today in that. israeli prime minister visited us after that interview between the saudi crowned prince and the israeli prime minister. reacting to that and the current situation with the war. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that s it for this special report, fair, balanced and still unafraid. the ingraham angle is now. laura: good evening, everyone. i m laura ingraham and welcome to the ingraham angle from washington tonight. all right. although republicans lost some races on tuesday night, they picked up a senate seat when joe manchin announced he would not seek re-election in west virginia. manchin saw the writing on the wall he was going to lose next november and lose big. i ve made one of the toughest decisions of my life and decided that i will not be rubbing for re-election to the united states senate. but what i will be doing is traveling the country and see if there is an interest in creating a movement to
laura: good evening, i m laura ingraham on the ingraham angle. joe manchin announced he would not seek reelection in west virginia. joe manchin saw the writing on the wall, he was going to lose and lose big. i made one of the toughest decisions of my life, i will not run for reelection in the united states senate. i will be traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is interest in creating movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. laura: the truth is, over time, voters saw through joe manchin s mask. he couldn t play good old boy in virginia and buddy up to schumer in d.c. democrats had grown tired of him. he has not been a reliable ally to the white house or democrats, i don t know if they shift strategy that we real democrats can play. he s been more reliable than a republican would be, though. better than to not have the seat at all. that is money that can go elsewhere. laura: joe manchin s exit is a huge problem for democrat
as iraq 2.0, which, you know, gave rise to isis, we saw that. in that regard, where you have such disparate views between the president and his military commanders, how much of this is just military commanders placating the president s concern about the cost of the u.s. military involvement without taking the steps that would be needed to execute a drawdown. that is a dangerous line for these generals to walk. i think they re going to focus on what the mission is now. i think you saw that with general votel. he was didn t want to answer that question. his mission is to defeat isis, not to overthrow bashar al assad. so it might be u.s. policy that assad has to go. but it might not be the american methodology to remove him. so you see votel walking that fine line. it is very, very troubling when we don t have a coherent policy because who benefits?
on fox where she said she s not at all in favor of negotiations and communications with iran in dealing with what s going on in iraq. we don t know where the administration is going to end up on that particular question. secretary kerr ary has opened some informal discussions with iran. i was a little bit surprised that hillary clinton drew a pretty clear line in the sand for herself on that. we ll see how events play out for the obama administration. this could be another area where they have a differing view. she s definitely to the right. she never pushed netanyahu on the issue of settlements. back to you, michelle. i respectfully disagree with you and jeanne in this area. if you look at the two interviews and interviews she s
found. time for the sideshow, of course. the advance of isis forces toward baghdad got many here wondering why the united states tried to democrat tiez iraq in the first place. jon stewart was on hand last night to have are a man to man talk about how it all began. as you know we went into iraq for one reason and for one reason only. that s what this fight is about, planting the seeds of democracy. that seed of democracy in iraq. it was about what happens when one country loves another country very much. and that country then deposits his democracy seed, typically laser-guided, into another country s let s say fertile crescent. next up the los angeles