united states. runaway inflation devastating family budgets now. crime waves terrorizing our cities, the fentanyl explosion killing thousands of americans every month, millions of illegal aliens brazenly walking across the border and our own homeless population is exploding. how could this be happening in america? we keep asking night after night, how low can present abiding go in the polls before his team or schumer or pelosi admit it's time for a course correction? a political party that's actually interested in success and results -- you know, that whole making life better for the average person thing, would know by now that it was time for a change. but apparently that time still hasn't come. instead, they stick with the same antigrowth, pro-crime policies that have driven biden to a staggering 33% approval in the latest quinnipiac poll. and i guess they think that they can turn this around by, i don't know, appearing to feel your pain? >> we understand some realities happening now. >> president biden: i grew up in a family, not a joke, where the price of a gallon of gasoline what's up, it was a conversation at our kitchen table. it mattered. >> he understands, he understands of this impact people's pocketbooks and creates uncertainty in our lives. >> laura: the sad truth is the part of 2022 is not the party of bill clinton anymore. if the party of black lives matter, climate crazies, and trans activists. so how exactly does joe manchin even fit inside this twisted tend? they seem to be engaged in a brazen act of self sabotage. if the democrats extending mask mandates when americans say it's time to move on from covid. democrats are turning the border into an open market for the cartels. of course they are using the doj for vindictive political crusades and they are threatening the states that are actually protecting girls sports. it's insane. and pelosi's house, that's not even requiring people to show up to vote. and schumer over in the senate apparently think that's fine if one of california's senators it's just unable to perform regular duties. more on that disaster later in the show. and then biden, he just throws more money at student loan forgiveness, driving inflation up even more. and the only thing they change is there messaging. >> the vast number of american people believe that the main reason for their increase in prices and at the pump is in fact price gouging. there is overwhelming support, 80% of americans, for a windfall profits tax. we cannot tolerate in any industry price gouging. >> president biden: i'm doing everything in my power by executive order to bring down the prices to address the putin price hike. >> laura: okay, gouging, putin price hiking. none of it works. even nbc admitted it. >> in reality, inflation has been soaring above 5% for nearly a year and our latest nbc news poll shows just 6% of americans blame rising prices on the russian invasion of ukraine. 38% blame president biden and his policies. >> laura: the beltway media that did everything in its power to take down trump and boost biden's obvious my now very worried. this all begs the question, when will pelosi, hoyer, and schumer trudge up to 1600 pennsylvania avenue to tell biden he needs an immediate policy and staff shake-up? why does ron klain come to the chief of staff, still have his job? how about secretary of the treasury janet yellen? >> i see important transitory influence. and i don't anticipate it will be permanent. we see inflation expectations by most measures and by most measures see those expectations as being well anchored. >> laura: i wouldn't hire her to collect change of the tollbooth. we needed treasury secretary that knows basic economics. and what about all those democrat mega dormers? are they happy with things the way they are going out? or are they just happy censoring speech? if they are, they just love america the way the rest of us do. the only conclusion that the angle can draw at this point is that the democrats and their various constituencies out there just don't care about any of us. and they aren't interested in compromise. even if it means getting shellacked in november, which is coming. and they called trump supporter's fanatics? and f the angle. joining me now is louisiana -- senator john kennedy. a senator, as i said at the outset, this seems almost vindictive at this point. what's your read? >> laura, i'm trying to be more careful now that i know you can be slapped for telling a bad joke. but in my opinion, unless you have untreated mental illness, most fair-minded americans understand that while republicans are not perfect, the other side or at least most members of the other side are crazy. and the leader of course of the other side is president biden. president biden has been an almost perfect example of ineptitude. the biden administration stands for more government, higher taxes, more spending, more debt, more regulation, a weaker military, abortion on demand. they want to turn cops into social workers. the biden administration has mismanaged congress, it's mismanaged covid, it's mismanaged immigration, it's mismanaged crime, it's mismanaged afghanistan, and mismanaged inflation. but it's worth asking why. there are some smart people in the biden administration and he think the answer to that is clear too. the biden administration has embraced and is being run by the woke. it's easy to recognize the wokers. they hate george washington, thomas jefferson, dr. zeus and mr. potato head. the wokers also hate america and they want to beat it. and they think they are smarter and more virtuous than the rest of us. they think all nonwokers are racist and ignorant and misogynistic. they think they -- we should shut up and listen to them and let them run our lives. and they will let us ab eat meat occasionally and that is a long-winded way of explaining why the majority of the american people right now trust the biden administration like they trust a kmart bathroom. >> laura: that's an insult to the kmart bathrooms out there, senator. but i will leave that be. speaking of the inflation problem, earlier today the president suggested once again that it's not really his fault. >> president biden: putin invasion of ukraine has driven up gas prices all over the world. we saw that yesterday in inflation data. what people don't know is that 70% of the increase in the inflation was a consequence of putin's price because of the impact on oil prices. 70%. >> laura: we are not sure where he got that 70% line, but the inflation rate was at 7.9% in february versus 8.5% now. senator, they are trying to spin this like it's a messaging problem. this is a policy problem. through and through. but they keep doing what obviously isn't working, given these disastrous poles for them. >> here's what the american people see. first, the president blamed inflation on covid. and then he blamed it on greedy businesswomen and greedy businessmen. and then the president said inflation is caused by unemployment, and now he is saying putin did it. as i've said before, i wouldn't be surprised if the white house tried to claim tomorrow that inflation originated in a bat, but the truth is that president biden has no one else to plausibly blame but himself, and all the american people know -- let me put it another way. when a honey bun costs 20 bucks in your home was on the beach eating seaweed, most americans are going to blame president biden, as they should. >> laura: senator graham it's great to see you tonight as always. thank you so much. and speaking of gimmicks, the democrats are scrambling to recover young voters who are abandoning the party en masse into the student loan forgiveness scam. >> we were saddled with a lot of unethical and immoral -- immorally kind of created student loan debt, and for those people we really want to make sure that we cancel student loan debt. >> it was a crisis before the covid-19 pandemic and it is an even bigger one now. i can't think of a better opportunity to cancel student loan debt. >> laura: this is a fake crisis. brookings institution study says that about a third of the student debt is owed by the wealthiest 20% of households with only 8% by the bottom quintile. and it's disproportionally held by -- it's held by those who have especially high lifetime earning potential. journeyman how is ari fleischer from the white house press secretary, fox news contributor, and omelette f nova, former left-wing activists. ari, this is so transparent, what they are doing with the student debt forgiveness. it's insulting, and obvious we just adds to our economic woes. >> and it's just morally wrong. why is it student debt? why is -- why isn't that your car debt? why isn't it your home debt? what a burden, nobody should have to pay any of their bills. it's wrong to make people pay the bills that they incurred. what about all the rest of us who do pay our bills and do pay our debts? on appointment, as president biden loves to point out, is low. people have jobs, they have money, so they need to pay their bills. if this is just buying votes as the democrats always try to do, but this is also an example of how the democrats are increasingly becoming the party of the rich. these are the well-to-do college graduates, master's degree-holding college graduates, just like they want to bring back the relief if you pay your state and local income taxes, to deduct all those, which benefit wealthy people with big houses and those mostly coastal states. democrats have changed their roots and base, they are the party of the rich. >> laura: they are losing young people, they are losing hispanic voters. but the student loan forgiveness, as already said, that's targeted towards the young voters who are saying what, this isn't what we thought we were buying. my question comes to august they are of is the going to extend it again. is this going to work? are you guys cheap dates? >> [laughs] you know, you'll be hard-pressed to meet a young person who doesn't love the word "free" and when it comes to student loan debt they love to hear that. they love to hear that it's going to be forgiven, but what about all the other families and students who have already paid off their loans? i didn't force anybody to go and sign a loan for $50,000 to go to school. they can keep trying to run on the sly that they are going to forgive this to people, but that's all it is. it you see people like chuck schumer put out on twitter, said he would be a great day could to cancel student loan debt, i do want to tell people, that's all it's ever going to be, it's only ever going to be a tweet. they are not going to do this for you, and you should be full to thinking that they will. it's the very same thing that they do with black lives matter. every single election cycle, suddenly they care about black lives and they are going to all this stuff for the black community, and as soon as they are voted in, nothing happens. people need to start waking up to this. >> laura: speaking of schumer, ari, he just continues to reveal, for a man who's been in congress since the '80s, he continues to reveal basic economic ignorance. watch. >> it's amazing to me that we could just take a burden off people's shoulders so easily with the flick of a pen, the president can do it. student debt is one of the very biggest things holding our economy back. i have told the president this is one of the most important things he can do to help our economy grow. >> laura: is just reading whatever speechwriter or whatever wrote for him. it's pathetic reading it. but that's the biggest thing we could do -- what did he say, get the economy going or healthy -- really? that's their idea for growing the economy? >> they never talk about economic growth, than ever talk about circumstances and the environment to let the private sector bloom, give people higher-paying, better paying jobs. that'll comes from the private sector, not the heavy-handed government. but the common three theme through these socialist policies is that life should be free and that we and the government are here to make sure that you have no financial burdens, requirements, needs, because the government will forgive you. it can't work that way. this is why socialist countries got doomed. they gave away too much free stuff. we as americans are too sensible, we know this won't work, we know it's not right and when you incur a debt you have an obligation to pay the debt. it doesn't get work obligated than that. if you lose her job, you are unemployed, there are emergency systems that kick in to prevent you from having to go under or pay those bills, but as a general matter, no, you incur a debt, you pay a debt. >> laura: what you can't pay back, the old sayings of your pairings, that's what my mom used to say, don't borrow it if you can't pay it back. democrats do have some top priorities, and one of them seems to be prohibiting hair discrimination. a "washington post" op-ed, critics have argued that the crown act is redundant because the civil rights of act of 1964 protects against racial disco nation, but supporters of the bill rightly point out the clear language is necessary. this is geared towards minority voters, african american women. i know this is popular with some of them. will this help stem the tide of black voters who are also looking at alternatives other than the democrats? >> you know, i think they're just grasping at straws at this point. a bill surrounding discrimination around black hair? are you kidding me? i have never heard of a more ridiculous thing and advising that people should be discriminated against based on their hair? absolutely not, but is it a pervasive problem that we need to be focusing our time, our money, and our resources on as a country? absolutely not. and i think because they are realizing that black voters are looking up the words that they are saying and if not matching up to their actions. so again, they are grasping at straws trying to push this racist red supremacist narrative that they run with every single election cycle in hopes of gaining those votes back. and i don't think it's going to work. >> laura: no, it's sad. you know what else was sad? today at the end of another biden speech, this happened. ♪ ♪ first of all, he went to shake the hand of someone who wasn't there in any kind of does that -- what's going on? of course bush would never allow -- his staff would never allow something like that to happen, it wouldn't happen, but where's the staff? why does this keep happening? >> let me try to be kind. they be he was just just to kill and with his hand, maybe it wasn't really him shaking the air. i don't know. but man, laura, he's lost. he's wondering, lost on the stage. presidents don't do that. you have crisp, clear instructions. you finish, your turn, go out, stage left, steve right. there's usually a chart back states that actually shows physically with arrows. so he was lost. he was lost on the stage after giving his speech. physically, mentally sad to see. >> laura: thank you so much. remember, if you can't watch us live, make sure to set series recording your dvr so you don't miss out. every weeknight, 10:00 p.m. up next, dinesh d'souza on why the left is really mad about elon musk's attempted purchase of twitter. and later, part two of the angle's exclusive with mel gibson and mark wahlberg. stay there. let's take a little test together. which looks better - this... or this? this... or this? seems clear to me. saving cash beats spending it unwisely every time. which is why you'll love this offer from america's best. buy two pairs of glasses for just $69.95, and they'll throw in an eye exam for free. it's a savings of at least fifty bucks. that's not just a better deal, it's america's best. book an exam online today at americasbest.com. ♪ ♪ >> laura: the activists left and their big tech benefactors have engaged in a hostile takeover of the culture and the constitution for decades, but today, they got a taste of their own medicine when elon musk announced a hostile takeover bid of his own of twitter, for $43 billion. the crazy freak out among liberals and never-trumpers about the move is a thing to behold. >> there are real and devastating consequences for using that platform to live. >> it's kind of funny, elon musk wants to buy it. >> massive life and globe altering consequences for just letting people run wild on the thing. >> laura: run wild. but she wasn't alone. neocons who want america to find freedom fighters abroad, they are happy to limit freedom here at home. the fedora warmonger max boot tweeted "i'm frightened by the impact of society on politics. for democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less." of course china and russia, they do a lot of moderating of their opposition content too, don't they? and then there's this from axios. the world's richest man, someone who used to be compared to marvels iron man is increasingly behaving like a movie super villain. kind of ironic that axios of asterisk mission statement when it launched a few years ago included a pledge to bring smarter coverage to the news. joining us now, dinesh d'souza, conservative commentator and host of the dinesh d'souza podcast. whom do you think washington fears more now, the ccp or elon musk? >> well, you have to go with the latter, wouldn't you? the markable thing about musk is that he is someone who is on our side and appreciating the importance of free speech, but he's also a cultural warrior and that's kind of a rare combination. because typically it's the leftist billionaires who understand the importance of cultural activism and are willing to put their money, even when there aren't big profits to be had. i think for example about when jeff bezos bought "the washington post," asking price $250 billion, and he didn't care. for him it was like i own "the washington post." but normally the conservative billionaires are like well, what's the return, with the return on journalistic venture and so on, but elon musk is looking at it as twitter is, of all the social media platforms, perhaps the most influential in shaping the cultural agenda. that's why he wants twitter, and i think the effective it is going to be electric. >> laura: another thing that really, really worries them, well, it all goes back to donald trump. watch. >> the first order issue is i think when you're ready to think about free speech, but what elon musk wants to actually do with twitter, lots of people speculating, for example, that perhaps president trump will be back on and elon musk-owned twitter. he really believes in his sort of laissez-faire version or view of this. raises question about information, misinformation. >> laura: disinformation, really? that's what they're worried about? they are worried about trump's influence in the tattered state of the democrat party, obviously. >> absolutely. when the principle of laissez-faire became kind of a curse word -- it applied to economics and the left was pushing for economic regulation. but even then, at that time, they weren't pushing for deleting speech. i mean, whatever you think of trump, he is the de facto leader of the opposition party in a democratic give and take. the idea that he doesn't belong in a public debate or it's okay to shut him up, this is such -- this is so deeply authoritarian and undemocratic and get all these people who make this kind of statement think that they are fighting for democracy. >> laura: i like ththese wimpy neocons that look like they couldn't bench press 100 pounds are always flexing on going to war and we've got to fight for freedom abroad. but they are fine with circumscribing freedom here in the united states. taking down their own autocratic stance of limiting opposition of freedom of speech. isn't that what putin and xi do all the time? >> well, this is why in some senses it is wrong to think of these people even as warmed over reaganites, because in the reagan era, there really was a free world and there was on the other side a totalitarian world, but now that there's a blurring of the differences, all the old slogans are meaningless because the very bad things that are being done abroad are also being done here at home. >> laura: right along with surveillance. dinesh, thank you. and i want to stay in california now for a second, because twitter isn't the only controversy roiling that state. a new report from "the san francisco chronicle" sites anonymous senate colleagues who are worried that senator dianne feinstein is mentally unfit to serve. for more on that, we fronted facts chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher in our west coast newsroom. >> let me start by saying we've been hearing concerns for years about the 88-year-old senator's cognitive ability in this new report by "the san francisco chronicle" will certainly add fuel to the fire. the paper anonymously interviewed four current senators, three of them being democrats, a democratic member of congress, along with former staffers. the common denominator is that senator feinstein's memory is, quoting here, "rapidly deteriorating," and that she can no longer fulfill her job duties. for example, the anonymous democratic house member claimed that during a recent meeting had to re-introduce themselves to several times and that she repeatedly asked the same questions. the rep told the chronicle, "she was an intellectual and political force not that long ago, and that's why my encounter with her was so jarring, because there was just no trace of that." the meeting even prompted the congress member to suggest an intervention to get feinstein to retire. but others say her memory lapses are not constant and that someday she is as sharp as ever. but one source told the chronicle her memory status is a disservice to the people of california. make no mistake, feinstein still has her defenders like senator alex padilla, who says that she remains at the top of her game, and house speaker nancy pelosi, who said, quoting here, "it's unconscionable that just weeks after losing her beloved husband of more than four decades, and after decades of outstanding leadership to our city and state, she is being subjected to these ridiculous attacks that are beneath the dignity in which she has led and the esteem in which she is held." senator feinstein gave a statement to fox news saying, quote, "while i have focused for much of the past year on my husbands health and ultimate passing, i have remained committed to achieving results and i put my record up against anyone's close call. for context, removing her from office would require a vote by two-thirds of the senate and since 1789 the senate has expelled just 15 members, so it's a long shot, but if democrats still control the senate next year, feinstein would be the next senate president pro tem, a.k.a. third in line, laura, for the presidency. >> laura: raises a lot of questions, trace, thank you. be sure to tune in tomorrow night where raymond arroyo will have more on this feinstein story for the angle. but before that, he will join us next for part two of its exclusive sitdown with mel gibson and mark wahlberg. wait until you hear their response to a current trend spreading among some of the hollywood elite. stay there. are you taking a statin drug to reduce cholesterol? 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>> i said be careful, but hey, it's a good idea. there's no predicting where he'll end up. but i think he pulled the right reign in this case. >> you been working on this for years, trying to get this project made. it would have done it another way? sold the rights to somebody else and let them do it? >> that was never really an option. i would have done it another way but i think that everything happens for a reason in getting rosie to take a crack at the script and then give her her first opportunity to direct was the absolute perfect way to make the movie. even my idea of getting sony to release the movie, josh being the head of distribution and having released the fighter and movies i felt were kind of similar in tone, and all kind of came together. >> i want to talk about this relationship, and you can jump into this, rosie. mel and mark famously did "daddy's 2" before, where he played your father. what was that experience like, and i will start with you i'm a why did you want them to play your data in this movie, very different dad i might add. >> you know, who better for the part. i think to really kind of understand the subject matter, what we were trying to accomplish tonally, all that stuff but the first time around we just had so much fun and then we were talking about making something else that he was going to direct that she had already written. >> the world war ii epic. >> yeah, "destroyer," so we were kind of trying to push this appeal and i came back to them and here we are. >> why did you want to play his dad? this is a bit -- i mean, he's very understated. he is not the kind of over-the-top, you know, throwing it to the wind daddy that you play. >> he's a very deep guy, a guy from montana. not overly demonstrative, but, you know, very still waters run deep kind of thing. and rosie wrote an excellent character. >> you met bill. >> i met him on the phone. i've only spoken to him on the phone. >> i'm sure the weight of having that real person look at your performance, it does have to weigh on you a little bit. >> sure it does. you approach it with trepidation. you're representing someone and you know, it isn't exactly -- the film doesn't represent exactly who he was. >> he was thrilled at the idea of mel playing him. he really got a chuckle out of that and i remember him just kind of laughing and i thought he might be upset about it. >> the brilliant competition as an audience number watching it i thought was a place like a comedy for the first half of this movie. it kind of takes everybody by surprise. that was deliberate. >> yes, absolutely. but i took my cue tonally from the real guy, from stu. he was an edgy guy and he had rough sort of life experience and he was able to talk to people, you know, in a very relatable way. geico here's the real question, how did you direct these two guys, and what did you learn from the experience? >> pushed us around. [laughter] >> no, look, both of them are such dedicated, prepared, but mostly instinctive actors and they are so nuanced and i think, you know, it's no secret that both of them bring a level of personal experience to their respective roles, but inevitably helps. >> mark, there were some reports that you talked to mel and got his advice on the use of that violence and how to use it. is that true? did that happen? i think going to you -- going to get permission from him about violence is like paula deen to ask for more about her. of that's my first thought. >> we just always felt like the language, just kind of making it realistic and truthful as possible. i've seen tons of -- i was kind of getting pushed in that direction and they all don't seem to kind of move the needle with anybody else unless they were already kind of converted, so we just felt like we needed to do something that was edgy and real. >> going to give you a got full of reasons to be angry. you only need one to be grateful. >> i have to your reaction to a few contemporary stories before i let you go. there is a trend among men in your industry, oscar isaac, harry styles, wearing skirts in public. i know you've worn kilts. >> i tilted. >> is not a fashion choice you can embrace? >> i've dressed up in my sister's tutus and ballerina costumes. >> that was a long time ago. >> whatever you're up to. >> going to dust off the old william wallace outfit? >> i might skirts that issue. [laughter] >> this came out of your pen, your heart, and mind initially. what do you want audiences to focus on? >> i think it's subtle but very powerful is the message that everyone is capable of changing and in overcoming the darkest parts of themselves to become a better version of themselves. >> mel, i will end with you. >> at the end of the day you have no control over things around you but you have control about how you handle it and how it hits you and how you behave and support yourself in the midst of chaos perhaps. it's a good lesson. >> laura: i love it. raymond, thank you, we will see you tomorrow night. dr. peter mccullough has found something truly disturbing about what he's hearing from fauci in the white house's new covid director. he explains what it is next. stay there.o, that is more mid and maligned than the cross of christ. and yet it is on that cross that jesus died. and he died to give all confessing sinners peace here and now and eternal life with him. will you surrender to him? - [narrator] to find out more visit findingtruepeace.com today. 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>> we are three years into this. it's clearly endemic. for member the death count is inflated substantially. about 90% of the deaths have other contributory, so it's really about 10% of never number is tossed out there dying solely of covid. very importantly, the emergency phase of the pandemic is over. the emergency is edited on hospital capacity and hospital overruns and we have no threat of that. with actually made it through three years without having hospital overruns. clearly all emergency measures should be dropped, all emergency countermeasures should be dropped and we should return to normal. >> laura: this is a full two years -- we are on the third year, but msnbc's andrea mitchell is practically begging fauci for mask mandates to never end and she had someone agreeing with her. watch. >> we have a saying that the tsa is going to extend that mask mandate for public transportation. why only 15 days? >> i think making a decision for april 18th i would agree that we really do need more time. >> laura: doctor, do you believe if these folks have their way that we will ever be maskless on commercial aircraft again? >> i think everyone should understand that at that point in time, the masks have no role and just become an encumbrance. i think at this point in time, its symbolism and we should drop it, and the more we can return to normal, the best that is for the country. >> laura: on the other hand, under governor glenn youngkin, virginia seems to have learned some basic immunology, or relearn what they already knew. it's drafting endemic covid guidelines, doctor, and in just a few words, virginia's new health commissioner: green i think made a profound statement. he said we are getting to the point where we are spending a lot of resources trying to prevent colds. doctor, i love that line. it's a coronavirus, is it not? and as it mutates, it leaves this new sub variant, it seems less maryland and more transmissible, which is kind of what you learned in med school, correct? >> remember, omicron is the most highly mutated form of the virus. it's the least maryland, but because there are so many mutations, there's an opportunity for sub variance, so majority one now, there's also xt xp and xf. these are all in the omicron family. patients get durable immunity once they have omicron and we now have papers from university of california berkeley, less than 1% chance of icu or death. some of the randomized trials, i've been looking at them carefully on the vaccinations, many of the studies now report no hospitalizations, doesn't matter what arm you are in on the hospitalizations. >> laura: in other words, if you haven't been vaccinated, and just like when you got omicron, the first omicron, if you get this omicron sub variant, is it like a natural inoculation? and i'm probably not saying that right. is it like getting protection because you are infected? >> the european health agency said in omicron infection of any type essentially works as a natural booster for an antecedent variant, whether that be wild type all the way through delta. once one has omicron, there's not chance for second infection. >> laura: this new study is being touted showing that seniors over the age of 60 or 65 get some benefit from a fourth shot. would you agree with that, or do you take that with a grain of salt? >> it doesn't look like it's worth it. there's two papers, one by a met and collects, dealing with fourth doses of either pfizer or modernity. the vaccine efficacy overall is way less than 50% for all groups, actually as low as 10% in some groups and we don't know the cumulative toxicity now. >> laura: always good to see you, thank you so much. what's your favorite easter candy? the rankings are out, the new ones. today lineup with my? last bite explains in moments. my a1c stayed here, it needed to be here. ruby's a1c is down with rybelsus®. my a1c wasn't at goal, now i'm down with rybelsus®. mom's a1c is down with rybelsus®. 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"gutfeld" next. >> greg: hey! hello! it's thursday night! you can almost taste the weekend. i means, the days, not the singer. we have a great show had but we have to do this one. [laughter] all rights, joe biden and once again bringing back the most the despised covid. add that to 14 days to flatten the curve, we're