like. if you change yours, i'll change mine. >> laura: okay, yeah. yours looks kind of like -- you kind of have it it's almost like a lost in space theme in mind you. i am expecting the robot and will robinson to pop out of the background. it fits you well. it fits you well. >> sean: you're on your game. everyone loves to torture me. it must say "hit me." >> laura: they are telling me i've g got to go with a new graphic. i am laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. welcome to your covid police state. new york mayor bill de blasio is dropping a vaccine mandate on private employers in manhattan. good luck with that. he's also coming for your kids. we are going to break it all down. plus the father of a 4-year-old autistic boy is asking the supreme court to block the biden administration transportation mask main date. he is here exclusively. the harry potter reunion is missing one key figure. who could it be? raymond arroyo cassis fell in "seen and unseen." first, no more war. that's tonight angle. president biden is getting to bed extra early tonight i am told there last night's kennedy center honors had him out way past his bedtime. hobnobbing with beth midler and lorne michaels was thoroughly exhausting anyway. tomorrow he's going to dial into what's being dubbed a virtual summit with vladimir putin. at the top of the discussion list is ukraine where russian troops are a mass of the border. speak with the latest satellite images suggest moscow is engaged in unprecedented buildup near the ukrainian frontier paid enough to mount an overwhelming invasion. >> u.s. intelligence has russia is preparing to invade ukraine with nearly 175,000 troops. >> tens of thousands of russian troops have deployed on its border with ukraine, revealed in the satellite images. >> laura: the sad fact is biden is so weak that putin feels perfectly competent to start issuing demands even before the talks begin. president vladimir putin is expected to issue president biden an ultimatum during their video meeting tuesday. guarantee that nato will never expand into ukraine, or russia might soon launch an offensive against its neighbor. the ukrainian defense in a stir on cnn giving biden advice. >> i would like to ask him to very understandable articulate to mr. putin that no redlines from kremlin side could be here. redline is here in ukraine. it needs organizational weaponry. we need electronic warfare. et cetera. >> laura: the et cetera is what costs a lot of money. he claimed ukraine won't need u.s. or nato boots on the ground, we know how risky this situation is. especially with incompetents like general mark milley and defense secretary lloyd austin in charge. they couldn't beat the taliban. we were humiliated in afghanistan but they are going to scare off putin? by the way, all this is unfolding as americans trust in the military is declining. one recent home i found that just 40% of americans placed a great deal of trust in the u.s. military. that's down -- from 70% in november 2018 and dropping 11% since february. for some reason, the biden team thinks putin will be intimidated by state department spokesperson ned price. >> if russia chooses to fail to de-escalate, if russia chooses to move forward with any plans it may have developed to continue with military aggression upon ukraine to violate ukraine sovereignty, its independence, territorial integrity, we end our allies would be prepared to act. >> laura: is it just me or does he seem to be like a little boy who just rummage through his dad's closet and is walking around the house wearing his suit as a gag? the much more passive tone leads clones use when they are talking about china. >> we are clear-eyed about the challenge china presents. china is not 10 feet tall. >> do you think it's time to speak more boldly or clearly when referring to china and its communist ambitions? >> i think we are doing a lot of that. we'll continue to speak very clearly about our concerns. but again, we are in a competition with china. we don't have to be in a conflict. >> laura: but conflict is precisely what plenty in the military industrial are itching for in the russia-ukraine situation. publicly, austen kept the conversation very general. >> we are going to remain engaged with our allies in the region, our partners in the region. we are going to continue to do everything we can to help provide ukraine the capability. >> laura: translations: america will foot the bill again. the ukrainians know this and they are gleefully fanning the flames. >> i will not believe that russia will have a victory. russian guys also will come back in a coffin. >> laura: coffin. this type of rhetoric is really foolish. if our so-called european allies were so worried about russia, where are they buying so much natural gas from them? why do nato countries invest a little in their own military? the e.u.'s economy as multiples bigger than russia. germany's alone is more than twice as big. so why isn't german funneling troops eastward? the answer is they don't really care about ukraine. if russia is such a menace, why did biden approve nord stream 2? if you are really worried about russia, he would want to keep our energy prices low here at home. the truth is biden gave putin a huge amount of leverage and he's about to use it to embarrass biden on the world stage which we told you what happened. declaring war on america's energy independence will only make us weaker across the board. so right now republicans on the hill should be laying down a marker on this russia-ukraine issue. the g.o.p. position should be that we will not support any significant military action against russia unless number one, congress specifically votes to approve it and number two, we have the new leadership of the defense department and the joint chiefs that we need. getting into some big dispute with russia over ukraine would be incredibly moronic. i'm sure allies would see the -- would love to see the u.s. tied down in eastern europe. we have to resist any effort to sure up -- stir up tensions. our military, economic, national security focus has to be on the danger presented by the cct. we just can't afford to waste time in resources. if anything would be looking for ways to peel russia away from the ccp. instead, russia and china seem to be getting closer under biden. he's bringing the world together after all. it's a nightmare scenario for the u.s. in october it was joint naval drills between our biggest adversaries. we biden people are clueless but the american people are not. that's a same survey noted 52% of americans see china has the top threat, up from just under 40% in february. just 14% of respondents said russia was our biggest threat. finally, even if we did have good reasons for a conflict with russia, which we do not, biden and his team are totally in over their heads and would certainly fail at any military action, just as they failed in afghanistan. national security advisor jake sullivan, general milley and general austen should have all been booted the day after he lost 13 brave troops guarding the kabul airport. of course no one was held accountable and they seem to have no regrets except that of course lives were lost. that refusal to take responsibility for failed strategy alone is a disqualifier from future public service. let's not forget another terrifying prospect. america at war or on the brink of war and then something happens to biden, making kamala harris our commander in chief. imagine that for a moment. the woman can't even keep staff let alone keep track of military movements in eastern europe. having someone as unqualified and untalented and on light is itself an ongoing national security threat to america. the biden people didn't take any of these jobs seriously. it was one big exercise in diversity, equity and inclusion, not merit. and now america is paying the price. the bottom line is: biden's gang who cannot shoot straight must not be allowed to squander american lives or resources on a desperate and unnecessary conflict with russia. any republican that is stupid enough to approve such an effort will end up exiled from the party. ask liz cheney how it feels. that's the angle. joining me, victor davis hanson. victor, lives if you like them drums of war are being beaten once again? >> yeah. i think we are forgetting the lessons of dealing with booted in the last 20 years. it was pretty simple. whether it was the soviet union or russia, we always have this, everybody agreed on this policy that neither russia nor china would be friendlier to one another than they were to us so we would balance one against the other. the russian collusion hoax, the that destroyed that tactic. we had the idea that you don't gratuitously insult putin. you don't say, is joe biden, that i looked in his eyes and he has no soul. and yet we saw in the obama administration. biden and obama said tell vladimir to ease up and then they dismantled missile defense and there was a reset and what do we get for all that? the invasion of crimea and eastern ukraine. when donald trump came in, he didn't attack gratuitously biden by name or say he is a killer, as biden has called him. but what did he do? he killed 200 mercenaries that attacked us in syria. he got out of an asymmetrical missile deal and job owned against the pipeline with germany and russia. flooded the world, as you said, with cheap oil. putin didn't going anywhere now we are back to the idiocy of the past. biden is talking tough and putin is looking at biden and as you say, he's looking at afghanistan, his ratings, his cognitive challenges, looking at coming back u.s. oil and rising oil prices and he thinks it's an opportunity and we will play it by ear. so you have to be quiet and carry a club. you don't want to be loud and carry a twig and that's what the biden administration has done. >> laura: yeah, about this. hold on a second. victor. victor. the team he has in place, general milley, austin, kamala harris, ned price, none of these people should be in the positions they are in. none of them, not one. and we don't think that president xi and china knows this or putin doesn't know this? they were all chosen for a variety of reasons. general milley was kind of a holdover. it was not based on merit or experience or gravitas. none of it. and now we the people are paying the price. >> we are losing deterrence. when austin and milley say one of their chief tasks is to root out so-called white rage or white supremacy, what to putin and xi say? the number of dead in afghanistan and iraq and they think wait a minute, if you're going to stereotype men generalize about white supremacy, how come you had these white males dying in doubled the numbers in the general population. they think what's going on in this country? it's crazy. there has been a lot of discussion about that. we are kind of insulting middle america. middle america seems to die inordinately. not that we care about percentages but the left short notice. all of this social justice, diversity and equity. deterrence is gone. it's going to be very dangerous because it's very easy to lose deterrence. but it's very hard to recover. and it's dangerous to recover and we have lost it now. >> laura: victor, "the new york times" is reporting tonight. yeah, yeah. "new york times" is reporting tonight that mr. biden and mr. blink and have been working to convince nations that a clear warning to mr. putin is needed. to present putin with a united front and persuade him that sanctions would be widely employed. european officials are worried putin could respond to pressure by diminishing gas supplies to europe as winter approaches. victor, this is a total set up, right? on the oil and gas stuff. >> it's surreal. it's orwellian. germany can't spend 1.4% of its gdp on defense has this crazy green program that requires, it's not working so they need natural gas and they are buying it from russia and then we are supposed to think that germany is some military power that's going to stand up to nato and when they need the gas? they are going -- they are not going to do anything. >> laura: we have to roll. this is unbelievable. thank you so much. another progressive prosecutor is bending the law to score political points for the far left. mollie hemingway and nash desousa explain it all in moments. stay there. kevin! hey, guys! they have customized solutions to help our family's special needs... giving us confidence in our future... ...and in kevin's. voya. well planned. well invested. well protected. ♪ ♪ >> laura: the 15-year-old who ruthlessly gone down his classmates in michigan should be punished to the full extent extent of the law. the prosecutor has decided to make a bit of a political statement. the oakland county prosecutor filed terrorism charges against the shooter because of the impact the shooting might have had on the community. then the prosecutor made the questionable decision to charge the shooters parents with involuntary manslaughter. her reasoning makes it clear she isn't solely targeting the parents. >> as a mom and a prosecutor, interested in trying to figure out how they don't have it at all. that goes back to the weapon. with the right to own a gun comes a responsibility to safely secure it and make sure it doesn't end up in the hands of somebody who's absolutely exhibiting signs that he is not okay, that he wants to harm somebody. >> laura: she doesn't sound like she's running for office or a tv deal. joining me is that an attorney. involuntary manslaughter involves an element of negligence, right? it doesn't have to be with malice. it doesn't have to be purposeful. but what about the state case law and the facts of the case? do they line up? >> first of all, my sympathies to the families of those killed of course. i have four children of my own. i can only imagine the horror and the loss. ethan crumbling, the shooter himself, should be held to the fullest extent of the law but the charges against his parents are nothing but politically motivated. involuntary manslaughter requires recklessness, a heightened degree of negligence. you have to have intentionally created a risk, foreseeable risk of death so others and have disregarded the risk. there is no evidence of the parents did anything of the sort in this case. >> laura: here is how the nbc legal analysts explained it. watch. >> this may be part of a trend for prosecutors who may want to hold parents closer to automatically liable for what their kid is doing. that's not what this charges. it's not automatic liability. the prosecutor is alleging these parents were aware there was a risk of knowing there was a risk consciously disregarded in. that's gross negligence. >> laura: based on the evidence we have seen thus far, is the prosecutor on shaky ground? you heard his comments. >> he properly defined what recklessness is but there's a lack of evidence to support that and that's the difficulty. the prosecutor is throwing out this theory of criminal liability in the absence of evidence and we see prosecutors do this all the time and politically motivated cases. we saw it in the george zimmerman case, with george floyd, kyle rittenhouse. getting the case to court we have a new bag of tricks they can use but i have to get to court first and so they'll make these accusations, inflammatory accusations with about evidence and they will get the defendant into court and then the accusations are forgotten. they are not proven in court. it's become a playbook that politically motivated prosecutors have done again and again and again. they make false narratives that drag a defendant into trial and the false narrative that got the defendant there is completely forgotten. >> laura: they are going to have to deal with fleeing when they knew they were being arraigned. the prosecutor did say this morning that the obvious, that the school could be held civilly liable. they didn't check the backpack. zero expectation of privacy for students and schools. >> who is better position to evaluate the psychological state of the child, boat parents with no professional training or resources or the school that has all the training and resources and by the way spends vastly more time watching that kid's behavior, conduct and interactions with other students, other teachers in the course of the school day than the parents do. anybody who has had a 15-year-old knows you don't see much of that 15-year-old is apparent. >> laura: andrew, thank you. we'll see how this goes. the media zeros in on the michigan shooting case. the waukesha, wisconsin. one case involved a gun and the other didn't. writing ms. mollie hemingway, fox news contributor, senior editor at "the federalist." dinesh d'souza, host of the due nash desousa podcast. the prosecutor doing the media rounds. it's kind of the antigun narrative. even if it means ignoring another truly horrific killing. >> every time you have a horrible incident like this it's fascinating to watch how the media handles a. some incidences of local crime become national news stories, a way to talk about large issues facing the country in communities across the different states. that's what waukesha is. that's something where we are dealing with local prosecutors having bad policies that enabled violent criminals to return to the streets and commit crimes again. it's a natural thing that should be covered in a widespread fashion and yet it's just being memory holds because it doesn't fit the narratives the media would like to push. they like to have some of these reforms that have been put in place. they don't want to talk about what the repercussions of these reforms are, even the people as far away as los angeles and people on the east coast are dealing with rampant criminality as a result of too much being done on these criminal justice reforms. then you have of course the gun issue which makes the media decide to go crazy every time it happens. >> laura: what you don't cover is just as important as what you cover and dinesh, "the daily beast" has gone out of its way tying the michigan shooter to trump. in one article, they claim jennifer penned an open letter to president-elect trump which she posted on her blog. she was in favor of trump's long favored border wall but a few days before the called out right wing trolls for daring to point out that darrell brooks, antiwhite stuff he was doing. and dinesh, why the selective coverage? >> i think the way to understand it is to make a distinction between stories which are the specifics of any particular incident, and meta stories. the meta-story is the controlling ideological narrative. from the mainstream media's point of view, determines whether the story deserves acres of coverage or whether it should be quickly passed over. two of the controlling meta-stories are number, a white perpetrator,/white supremacist of the second one is the gun. in the rittenhouse case you have both. the white guy dumped a white supremacist and you have the ar-15 and no wonder the media went berserk. you had tons of coverage even before the trial began. in the waukesha case, it's inconvenient on every front. the black perpetrator, the antiwhite, probe blm to elect out on $1,000 bail and his deadly weapon wasn't a gun. it was a car. so this essentially means that the story contradicted the meta-story and the media was quickly eager to dispense with it. now with the school shooter once again they are trying to rev up that same narrative. it's the white kid, not a white supremacist but he's a troubled kid and he's white and so the focus now is on the gun. and of course any association that can be made with trump which kind of revives the embers of the white supremacy narrative. what do you see here is that these meta-stories control the way in which the media covers everything and the story isn't really a big story if it doesn't fit the meta-story. >> laura: mollie we have to go back to a previous segment, the kamala harris problem which i think is getting bigger by the day for the biden administration. they are clearly freaking out about the likelihood that they are going to have to figure something out on the vice presidential front if something heaven for bid should happen to biden. >> they have a very bad situation. joe biden's ratings are very bad because the media presented him as a competent moderate individual. he's governing with incompetence. the policies he pushes are very far left and not appealing to the american voter and the backup plan is not going well. kamala harris has even lower ratings invited us. people were fed a bunch of lies because people wanted to do whatever attempt to oust the previous president and we are dealing with the reality that people were sold a bill of goods. >> laura: we are stuck. the media claiming biden has brought normalcy to the kennedy center honors. who has been struck from the harry potter guest list? raymond arroyo has it all next. >> laura: it's time for ""seen and unseen"" exploring the cultural stories of the day and we turn to the author of "the spider who saved christmas," raymond arroyo. joe biden attended the kennedy center honors. >> before the event "the washington post" was raving biden's presidents at the kennedy center honors signals to many a return to tradition and normalcy. cnn said the bidens were reinstating the tradition. this is of course reference to president trump who did not attend the kennedy center honors during his four years in office. a point not lost on david letterman. >> it's quite nice, very nice to see the presidential box once again being occupied. >> laura: santa claus? >> i love how dr. jill has to explain they are standing up for him. trump didn't come to this kennedy center honors. stand up. they make it sound like trump just wanted to ruin the party but the truth is in 2017, kennedy center honoree norman we threaten to boycott the traditional white house reception over trump's policies. he had others politicize the event. it was always bipartisan so trump stayed home out of respect to the kennedy center. if he shouldn't have. >> laura: he should have gone and been the skunk at the picnic. why not? he should have done it. >> i always say the arts should not have a political party. the streisand-bush line. they hugged, they disagreed horribly but there was a moment of togetherness. that's what the arts should do. should biden have been out? he admitted he had a cold but he's fraternizing up the kennedy center. here he was today. >> we are saying to drug companies if you're finally doing it to be accountable when your prices to the american people go up, you're going to be accountable. without making substantive change in the medication itself, the medicine itself. >> he needs medicine, starting with a cough suppressant. good lord. stay home, mr. president. >> laura: tell us about who is staying home from the harry potter reunion. >> yeah, as you know the 20th anniversary of the first harry potter movie is coming up. warner bros. and hbo macs are planning a big reunion. the only invitation that's not shown up is the one for j.k. rowling who created harry potter and the entire wizard being world that all these people owe their careers too. the cast, the director are invited but someone at warner bros. has apparently performed a vanishing spell on miss j.k. rowling likely due to her comments defending women which her critics say are anti-trans. she tweeted if sex isn't real, there's no same-sex attraction. if sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally as he raced. i know i love trans people but a reason the concept of sex removes the ability for many to meaningful discuss their lives. he doesn't hate to discuss the truth. statements like that have made rowling she who should not be named. >> laura: couldn't daniel ratcliffe made her disappear. made her disappear. >> i think that's what they are saying. >> laura: is it true that they invited all of the groups from the movies? but she wasn't -- makeup artists? >> walk-in characters where two lines are invited to the union. it's like the friends reunion. j.k. rowling is still working with warner bros. he wrote the script for this upcoming fantastic beast moving. they have billions on the line. you think you'd want to keep this woman happy. i guess they are trying to push her to the side and vanished her. who >> laura: you have an update on something far more important than elite hollywood t of touch snobs on the home was that story in l.a. we we have been covering. >> these events are off the streets and inside the veterans campus. some were still living in the tents that we showed you. they are on the ground indoors but they are still intense in large part due to our coverage of the story, real estate company, hudson pacific properties, has donated a million dollars to build 1600 units of real housing on the ground for these vets. this is the government's responsibility and that land was donated. they should be building these units, not outside people. god bless them. i'm glad they are doing it. >> laura: i'm glad the hudson folks stepped up. that's amazing. you're right. we are about to send hundreds of millions of dollars of weaponry and so forth overseas to ukraine. you can debate that. but we can't help the vets? it's ridiculous. >> there is great group. am vets. they are great people. >> laura: we will tweet it. thank you for your work on this topic. covid tierney in the u.s. has hit disturbing new lows. a dad suing the biden tsa for blocking his artistic 4-year-old from boarding a plane. don't go away. ♪ ♪ >> laura: michael is 4 years old and on the autism spectrum which means he can't tolerate wearing a mask. he has an official note from his doctor exempting them from mask mandates but that's not good enough for the covid police. at least twice now michael has been blocked from boarding flights to boston where he undergoes special medical treatment every few weeks. what's also shocking is how the airlines reacted when michael's family presented his doctor's note. >> until then. he has to wear a mask or he can't fly. >> i have a physician's documentation. >> the physicians documentation does not override the corporate approval. >> laura: michael's family is suing to airlines in the biden tsa. joining me exclusively is michael, young michael's father. he's asking the supreme court to hear his case. michael, thank you for joining us. has the tsa or the airlines reached out to you at all to try to explain further or make things right? >> no, they have not. they have not tried to rectify the situation and they continue to deny him mask exemptions are not only that they completely banned him to use frontier airline's for life because he refused -- we as the parents refused to comply with the federal transportation mask mandate. >> laura: so wait, your son? your little boy has been denied -- weight. my breath is taken away. he has been denied flights for life? flying on the airlines for life? >> he has been banned for life on frontier airlines. >> laura: okay. just hope it will follow this coming is what happened when he tried to get your son to wear a mask in front of the frontier employee. >> can you wear your mask? can you wear your mask? >> their way you're approaching it is not going to help. >> laura: crack me if i'm wrong. the employee telling you how to approach her own son. >> it was appalling and condescending and totally out of control for a representative to tell me that i am to force my child and parent my child who has autism who has no understanding of the mask mandate, forced to wear a mask or he will be denying travel despite having a physician documentation is totally just mind-blowing to be refused travel for medical care this child could not board a flight and then the frontier representative banned him from flying on frontier again and anyone that he is on an itinerary with will be banned from flying, if he's on the itinerary. i was specifically banned as well as he was banned from using frontier airlines. incredible. >> laura: you are banned for life. >> yeah, i am banned from frontier for life. i cannot use the airline and neither can him. we refused to comply with the federal transportation mask mandate. >> laura: this is sick. i'm just going to say. it's child abuse and its sake and the federal government has the primary role in this and the companies are running scared for the most part. they are afraid of liability on the federal front so they are getting hit each way and your son is caught in the middle. michael, keep in touch with us on what happens. it's a total outrage. go from one tyrannical covid rules to another. >> we in new york city i've decided to use a preemptive strike to really do something bold to stop the further growth of covid. our health commissioner will announce a vaccine mandate for private-sector employers across the board. all private-sector employers in new york city will be covered by this vaccine mandate as of december 27. >> laura: joining me now is joy, the organizer at new york freedom rally.org. enjoy, this guys on his way out of office. completely out of control. it's going to be struck down. but he calls it a preemptive strike against the people? certainly not against the virus. >> it's beyond belief. i can't begin to understand how the city and that i have known, the city i've grown in, generations of my family that have lived in new york city. to see it come to this point. he said public servant. how dare he say that this is a preemptive strike? are we at war with the people. is this his declaration? that's what it sounds like. >> laura: what do you think it's going to do tourism in new york especially now with the new rule about young kids? because de blasio is also trying to ruin the lives of kindergartners. watch. >> previously for the kids 12 years old and up, the rule has been in place for high risk extra curricular activities. that has applied to kids 12 and up. we are going to now apply that to kids in the five to 11-year-old range. >> laura: joy, if you don't want to inject your healthy child with a vaccine he or she doesn't need, then your life is about to essentially be ruined inside of new york city. heaven forbid you are a tourist who had plans to come to new york city with your child. >> he is beyond his reach. to think that he needs to mandate which first of all doesn't apply to anyone because of mandate is not a law. he thinks he can mandate a rule especially on parents with children. so imagine, you have a child and we know that children, the way they develop, social interaction. you are going to stop the development of children because of what? children aren't spiders. now you're going to force vaccination on children that they can't be a part of society, as a young child, how does that affect them? how is that going to improve their social development. >> laura: we have become one of the unwashed. you've become one of the unwashed. even if you have no problem with vaccines, if you're against these mandates, you become part of the unwashed. your message to people across new york who watch this unfold today, your message to all of them? >> my message to new york city as a new yorker, start getting out in the streets and standing up. i am a pissed off new yorker. new york, they need to start standing up. freedom rallies outside. if people don't like what's going on, if new yorkers don't like what bill de blasio is doing, then they need to get outside and they need to start speaking up. they need to show up. >> laura: you bet, joy. eric adams better be watching tonight as well, the new mayor of new york. joy, thank you. how bad are things for biden? a new poll is ugly. >> laura: we are not even 11 months into his presidency and according to a new poll survey just released, 40% of voters say they would back trump compared to 45% for biden. finally. so, trump would beat biden of the election were held today. get your usa made freda manors gear on lauraingraham.com. all proceeds to the month december go to -- up next is "gutfeld!." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: happy monday, everyone. what a great show we have two kick off week. but first, some sad news to report. chris cuomo is dead. lifting a lot of weight now that he is unemployed. yes, this dumbbell has taken his aggression out on the bs.