laura: i like hanging out with old people and young people. all the people in the middle forget it. that s awesome. sean: laura is abandoning these handoffs. isn t that sad? laura: including right now. including right now, sadly. all right, hannity, great show. i m laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. my angle on the fraud that is bidenomics a little later in the show. but first has vladimir putin been weakened by recent events. hard to tell but he s clearly losing the war in iraq losing the war at home and become a bit around the world. i spoke to a white house official about that who really downplayed that who said look presidents spent a lot of times talking so there s moments they confuse words but there s no doubt those moments will be under heavy scrutiny. laura: but joe s addled mind isn t the only thing to heavy scrutiny the new york times among others extensive pieces on damning hunter biden whistleblower tomorrow morning.
around the next guest has interesting perspective on the hunter biden news, both as a remain for u.s. attorney prosecuting these types of cases and former director of the national intelligence agency that dealt with the fbi and its handling of the hunter laptop in 2020, joining me now john ratcliffe former trump director of national intel. john, now you ve heard all of this. when all the details of the hunter biden laptop came out back ini 2020, everything on it was quickly labeled as disinformation get everyone off the scent. but this whistleblower says something the fbi and the irs knew before the laptop went public. what can you tell us? laura i ll say first of all i watched theed whistleblower today, credible, competent in everything that he said added up, made sense, consistent with department of justice and u.s. attorney manual policies. where as what merrick garland said doesn t add up and as you