front pages this morning. while that picture does remark historic inflection point. trump's legal saga is really just beginning. >> convicted and put behind bars and, we know that's trump's greatest fear. >> trump's primal fear of just this being held criminally accountable. terrified of what chris christie describes the clink of a jail cell. >> laura: the clink of champagne glasses over at cnn or msnbc. now like all the left choice this decision by d.a. fani willis to force a former president of the united states to get a mugshot last night totally unnecessary, it has backfired spectacularly. i love it. every day americans see this farce for what it is. it's one more chapter in a four-year vendetta against donald trump. and trump himself is using their soviet style persecution to his political advantage. he not only posted the mugshot on his truth social account. he shared it on x, formerly known as twitter. it was his first post there since january 8th, 2021. the hyperventilating blow hard on msnbc they are frustrated by this. they are relegated to lay historical parallels and understated as usual. >> there is an appeal to running, if you are donald trump, to running for president as the outlaw president. he would be the jesse james strategy. take that and wear it like a badge of honor. bad guys as heroic. you laugh at that because jesse james was an actual hardened criminal who killed people without any apparent fear of being -- grabbed. >> laura: well, the truth is these that therring ninnies can't see past their own self-righteousness. in the fog created by their own hot air, they are missing real america. >> i think most fair-minded people see the spectacle for what it is. it's the ultimate in election tampering by the far left. a politically ambitious local prosecutor and a supporter of kamala harris who believes that prosecuting trump puts her on a fast track to the governor's mansion. so this hounding of trump from robert mueller to jack smith to alvin bragg and now willis has never been about justice. it's about political revenge and a warning. in a way, trump's seething in the mugshot kind of capture what is many americans are feeling these days as well. because they, too are seething. because whether it's the economy, crime, or natural disasters, the government seems to either make things worse or not care at all. like in maui. >> to date i haven't had any money come in. i haven't had anybody call me back. i didn't have anything -- i have no idea. i lost my house. i lost my car. i lost mayan malls. i mean, come on, man. we're not getting anything. so, today, i still didn't get my meds. i cannot get my meds yet. i have no money anymore. i think joe biden should take his $700 and get back on the [bleep] plane and go home. that's what i think. the $700 compared to all the millions he is giving to ukraine? why? we need it. that's why we don't understand why. we are citizens and we cannot get money. but if they are not citizens, they get bazillions of dollars from the u.s.a. fix your house before you fix somebody else's house. >> laura: and they are mad about the cost of living. >> everything is literally through the roof. >> i'm middle class and i am concerned about, like, the inflation. >> it's not just food that's going up. everything is going up. >> it's going up and it's getting worse and, yeah, i think everybody is getting like a hit with that. >> laura: and they are mad because biden seems callus, even when speaking to gold star moms. >> how many more parents have to go through this nightmare if we don't do anything with this administration? we deserve the truth. we deserved it two years ago. and we definitely deserve it today. >> laura: so the public's anger toward the establishment is growing faster than they anticipated. it's not just against the white house, either. when he was at that annual fancy farm picnic earlier this month in kentucky, did mitch mcconnell really think that he would be greeted like this? [boos] [chanting retire] >> i love how he stood there frozen smiling. the democrats for decades have taken the urban and the minority vote for granted. but they are running into anger there as well. it turns out that city dwellers are just as outraged about crime as anywhere else. >> i'm more cautious. i'm probably not out as late anymore or always looking behind me and things like that, unfortunately. >> laura: others have just decided to leave their crime-ridden cities. >> the hood is weighing up. i used to live in atlanta for a majority of my life. grew up there. one of the reasons i left and came out to the country is because of how these liberal cities are ran. atlanta has gone down hill, bad. >> this is a problem for the democrats. >> laura: so the fury is building. it's always amazing to me that corporate america, with all their fancy high paid consultants couldn't see all this coming. now, some moron at anheuser-busch actually thought that the beer drinking public would be okay with the little branding experiment with a trans activist. >> i didn't really want to make this video because i feel embarrassed. day 17 of being a girl. >> and i'm the bearded lady. >> laura: consumers had the last laugh, didn't they? they let him have it. bud light will probably never recover. clueless of them. big companies no better than big government. the sales team at target. they didn't know what hit them when parents responded with boycotts after target unveiled their gender nonconforming marketing blitz. it's like the lefties dominating school boards as well. they weren't ready for the moms and dads rising up against their perverted curricula. >> kids are mine not the state's, they are mine kids. i have the moral duty and legal rights to shape my kids' future. >> laura: so establishment politicians, weak-kneed ceos, leftist he had do you democrats, they are all under estimating the power of the silent majorite the way trump looks in that mugshot. they are very, very angry. when the left kind of rebels what they see trump's mugshot humiliation, they are missing the building wave of fury building down on them. and that's the angle. joining me now is florida congressman byron donalds and ben domenech editor-at-large of the spectator and fox news contributor. congressman, i think this is in the process of back firing on the democrats. they really did think that trying to humiliate trump in fulton county would be just one more nail in his coffin, his political coffin. i don't see it. >> neither i do, laura. what people are looking at is this system run by the democrats, the justice system run by the democrats, is being wielded for pure politics. just so they can get their proverbial scratch itched. it's ridiculous and frankly destructive of our country. meanwhile, all the things that are going on in america that are affecting poor americans, middle income americans, white americans, black americans, et cetera. is being ignored. and the press covers it up. this is going to backfire in a major way. because americans want our country to function. they don't want it to be used as a political weapon against political rivals. >> laura: now, ben, you made some of these great points on my podcast this week. i want to reiterate something here. once in a while, even one of the reporters at the other networks gets a light bulb. watch this. >> this primary electorate really wants someone who they feel is fighting for them. they want. >> exactly. >> someone who is flexing their muscles and showing that in fundraising, in fighting the establishment, even though the establishment here is the criminal justice system. >> laura: that's a cnn political reporter actually seeing what the g.o.p. electorate wants to see. >> he is a lot better than that trash analyst john hileman how made me watch more than i have had to see in many years. >> laura: sorry. >> i accept your apology. they have run into something i think here that they have completely under estimated, which is they have devoted so much of their time to trying to go after the former president that they have failed to have any kind of agenda that was promised by them in the 2020 election. anything that would actually satisfy the demands of working people across this country. the demands of the middle class, they have treated the failure of the inflation reduction act as if it was something that was just, you know, a speed bump. something along the road to just inevitable re-election, when, in reality, what they have done is taken their eye off the ball. now they are trying to make up for it you can't reelect this guy because is he so dangerous. is he so dangerous to democracy and the constitution and the like. when people see something like this, i think it makes things very real for them. the idea of looking at an image, a mugshot of a former president it's kind of disgusting in a way that i think will actually lead to a backlash. a serious backlash against the democrats who have pursued this. no one wants to see this. they don't think that it's the right thing to do. to any former president. you know, republicans didn't go after bill clinton, you know, after he left office. we didn't see the kind of, you know, going after george w. bush, you know, over iraq war, war crimes or whatever you want to suggest. the same with barack obama. and now donald trump gets this kind of treatment. this may be the first mugshot that we have of a former president. but they are setting it up so it won't be the last. and that's the thing that i think they are under estimating about this whole scenario they have opened up a pandora's box and they don't know what's going to come next. >> laura: i don't think they do know. and congressman donalds, i specifically wanted to say the mugshot itself mirrors the mood of the public because i'm sensing it across ethnicities, racial lines. and african-american men after telling them for years that the justice system is corrupt and crooked, they are looking at this, you know, and some of the videos we have seen today and featured, they are looking at some of this and going whoa, whoa, whoa, now they are targeting him. do you see that or am i overstating it? >> no, you are absolutely right, laura. that's what's happening. and, look, americans are pissed off. you are talking about a government, a department of justice that ignores the crimes of the president's son and, frankly, the president himself. they ignore those crimes. there's no investigation. there's no serious effort by the department of justice or the fbi to get to the bottom of that. meanwhile, they are going after the chief political rival. that is unfairness to the nt degree and all that is happening with the back drop of an america that is failing around us, border policy, inflation, fentanyl in our streets. questioning the gender of children. that is something that speaks, frankly, to all men, not just black men, because we just want the country to function. this foolishness by the democrats, they are going to roux the day that they wasted all of our time with this because i believe there will be a backlash in '24. >> laura: i don't like the phrase pissed off but it really does apply here the way most people are feeling about what they are seeing around them. congressman, ben, thank you so much. >> this mugshot is something, i think, that for a lot of the americans was something that was necessary why the hell does he need a 80 motorcycle motorcade? you are going to get processed as a criminal defendant. this mugshot becomes important because it says the process is actually acknowledging that this guy is no different than the rest of us. >> laura: joining us now jonathan turley, professor of law, g.w. university. fox news contributor. it's stunning to me that michael steele was actually head of the rnc at one point with his commentary pretty dim whited if you ask me. fani willis, obviously, jonathan, did not need to do what was done yesterday to president trump. but that was an important marker for the left and it was like kind of a preliminary part of the scalp on the wall. do you see this legally in any way necessary or a mistake on their part? >> well, of course. this was a moment that was not required in new york. i'm not familiar with the procedures in the fulton county jail. but it seems to me rather i cagratuitous to get a mugshot fm someone who is probably the most recognizable figure in the united states. but the level of joy that people got from this moment as have you noted in your monologue is really pretty depressing. we have gotten to this point in the country we are so divided. people look at that picture and they will feel passionately but in very different ways. some people will be extremely angry. some people are going to be delighted. but we now have to deal with the merits of this indictment. and the serious constitutional questions that are raised when you criminalize challenges to election how we distinguish between challenges. you have people like jamie raskin try to oppose the certification of donald trump in 2016. there were violent riots after that election. nobody is suggesting that was a crime did shouldn't be, you had marc elias, hillary clinton's general counsel who overturn an election in new york alleging that the machine flipped the result. no one said it was a crime because it wasn't a crime. the question is where is that limiting principle here? and i don't see it we will see in the coming weeks some judicial review of these issues. >> laura: november of 2020 a facebook post that appears to be from an account belonging to fani willis said. this georgia could determine who is our next president. a team of lawyers needs to watch them count every single vote. they can start in fulton county where we are having water leaks. what ballots are they throwing out? georgia, let's have an honest accounting. no stunts. again, professor, again, this appears to be her facebook page. we reached out to her office to confirm. they haven't gotten back to us. but, she seemed to have some concerns initially about the process in fulton county. ing. >> well, look, these are heated elections. you and i have seen those unfold. i disagreed with president trump on his allegations of widespread fraud. but that doesn't mean that making those allegations is a crime we have to ask ourselves what happens next? willfully blind to the implications of what this case could mean there are some serious charges connected to individuals with regard to specific crimes. they are using broad sweeping team to trump. citing every tweet, meeting, phone call that they have. they are bringing up that georgia call again, clean-up was misrepresented originally when people said that trump ordered the -- the georgia officials to find, you know, 11,870 votes. in reality, that walls more like a settlement call. those were fairly antagonistic parties. they were trying to see if they could resolve their differences. trump was saying that what he wanted to find were that number of votes which he didn't think was that significant if they did further investigation. i disagreed with that. but, is that now going to be a crime because i can name off the top of my head about 10 other politicians that have made largely sort of free willing challenges like that. >> well, professor now apparently any county d.a. across the country can indict a former president of the united states who happens to either be a private citizen or running for office. maybe when they are even president of the united states. i mean, if a county d.a. can do this, all bets are off. do you agree? >> well, i think that -- yeah. i think the problem is you are going to have the copycat syndrome kick in here. why wouldn't a local prosecutor want to have that distinction, have their own mugshot on the wall? and we have to ask ourselves as citizens of good faith from the right, from the left, from the middle, is this really the path we want to take? >> laura: well, i appreciate it, professor, thank you so much. all right. the weaponization of the doj does not stop there, though. now, they are going after another perceived faux, elon musk. david sax one of his close friends is here to explain the furry fury. stay there. ♪ acellus courses for parents independently homeschooling their children. i really love how flexible the program is. it allows my child to work at her own pace and on her own schedule. join the growing community of parents who have discovered the power of power homeschool. visit our website at power homeschool dot org to learn more and start your child's educational journey. 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is it really a principled disagreement about the statute itself or something else going on? >> well, laura, i think, first of all, they are basically saying that spacex is hiring too many americans. they believe fewer americans and green card holders and hired more refugees. the really crazy thing about this as you heard in your video, it's not like elon wanted to have that policy. what he said is that they were required to. there's a law called itar which is the international traffic and arms regulation act which controls the -- it controls how companies that are involved in manufacturing rockets and advanced weapons have to deal with classified information. and it was widely understood. this was the belief of the entire industry, not just spacex and elon that they could not hire basically foreign nationals. that they could only hire american citizens and green card holders. it wasn't until april of this year that the doj issued what they called a clarification saying that these companies had to hire, again, refugees and asly lees category of u.s. persons they want to say space f is liable for 15 years before they issued this clarification. >> laura: i want people to know what this entails as david referenced there the doj's spacex to pay back pay including interest and all other relief available to each individual discriminated against who was actually qualified. >> amount of money. again, this seems really punitive at this point. this does not seem like a fair application of clarified statutory language. >> right. yeah. the remedies here are unprecedented. first of all they want spacex to pay the doj civil penalties more than that like you said they want to go pack and say anybody who was screened out you have to pay them lost wages for all the years since they were screened out. so, essentially what the government is assuming that somebody who was screened out definitely would have been hired. definitely would have stayed at spacex all of those years and entitled to all of the back pay. as we know spacex has a very high bar for hiring. very difficult place to get jobs. people who can't get jobs there can get jobs in lots of other places. they are assuming these incredibly draconian remedies that i don't think they would be aby mring to any other company. >> laura: that's the kicker. i think he is being targeted for what he is, what he believes about free speech and for, of course, x formerly known as twitter. that's what this is about. david, thank you for your insights on this. now, we told you before about that florida town being invaded by bunnies. well, this next story is even more bananas. a few hours north a wild monkey is apparently on the loose. kevin corke is here with all those details. kevin, what is happening now? >> hey, hey, it's a monkey. people say it's monkeying around. okay, apologies to mickey dolans and the rest of the group. this particular monkey, laura, isn't cruising around with a convertible with his friends singing songs and sporting a page boy hair cut. this monkey has residents in the city of florida on the run and calling for help. gators, bears and snakes, oh my. got it. that's florida. monkeys, really? apparently it's true. and for those of you wondering it's been identified as a wild recess mccalculate monkey. >> i see out the corner of my eye and i look over is this real? this cannot be possible. i'm telling my other co-workers. i'm like, i can't even think of the name of the animal because i'm shocked that i see it. it's a monkey. >> this is the weirdest thing i have ever seen not only working here, in my life. >> kim, i lived in florida that's not the weirdest thing i saw. now you probably figured out this part. officials are urging the public to to the feed or acapture the monkey or monkeys. we don't know how many there might be out there. if you see something, say something. call fish florida and wildlife and stay safe. all the things you see in florida wild monkey probably didn't end up on your bingo card, laura. laura laura kevin, who would win the gators are on the loose. you imots the large snakes in florida. now you have the monkey to the mix. who would win that battle? i think we will leave that to another report. >> yes, indeed. >> laura: kevin, we love having you on on fridays for these wacky stories. >> great to see you my friend. have a great weekend. >> laura: you too. don't worry citizens of maui. fema is on the way. first need to make sure employees are up to date on the dei practices. shah shocking report, next. ♪ where students learn through an accelerated teaching model. one of the things we found is that many students who struggle are missing important foundational knowledge. learning is a sequential process. it's like a chain of interlinked concepts. if one link is missing, there isn't anywhere to connect. the next concept. acellus team responded by developing a technology called vectored instruction, which takes into account a student's existing knowledge gaps and dynamically provides targeted lessons to bridge those gaps. we had a student who was struggling in algebra. a summons go to recognize that the student was missing concepts from two grade levels before and automatically provided the basic lessons needed for the student to move forward. in acellus academy. we're seeing student lesson scores increase by as much as 25% after receiving assistance through vectors instruction. seeing students regain their self-esteem inspires me as a teacher. it impacts the parents, and that's the power of the acellus effect. a required thing for everyone. they are requiring thousands of employees to take these courses on diversity, equity and inclusion and they are also playing word games by saying thesing required to take one of them. like you said, laura, the devastation is historic, ongoing. family men's send in d.n.a. going through the rubble. it's devastating and the biden administration is focusing its employees valuable work hours on taking these courses that say things that are certainly not limited to that the u.s. has founded in white supremacy was founded in violence and that white supremacists are learning in the okay. this is what they are focusing on. the number still can. 850. now 388. the bottom line is i'm thinking if you are employee as the fema and you are someone who really wants to rise through the ranks in the agency, are you really going to come forward and say whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. this offends me for you to say that every system, every place, everything in the united states has this core of systemic racism in it. i just think the pressure is going to be on you to take this class and, frankly, in your own way to echo its belief system. that he was the problem here. it's an implicit pressure, if nothing else. >> right. that's exactly what it is. and, employees are upset about it. that's why they reached out to us. they are offended by the things that are being said to be facts. that they are not allowed to question these things and the moderators in these courses warn them to consider what they say or don't say. so, yeah, there is a lot of pressure on these employees but it's just in line with what the white house has been doing through its administration and prioritizing equity, even in matters of natural disasters, vice president kamala harris last year said with hurricane ian that equity should be taken into effect when we're responding and helping people who have lost lives and property and we see that all throughout the administration and all of the departments just as prioritization and, yeah, threatening people to take these courses. >> laura: this is insane. ben, thank you so much for joining us and for this piece. all right. the cultural and political impact of that trump surrender and the unhinged media reaction, what does that tell us? 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>> but, as you might expect, laura, the media reaction was resoundingly negative. i give you john bolton. >> he could have smiled. he could have looked benign. instead he looks like a thug. and i think it's intended to be a sign of intimidation against the prosecutors and judges. >> oh, come on. >> laura: what? >> how does expression on mugshot intimidate prosecutors. they prosecuted him? is bolton okay to pass judgment on how public figures look he looks like marty johnson from that old laugh-in show. >> laura: raymond, remember from the radio days where for years i have called bolton like the human scrubbing bubble. that's, to me, that's what he looks like, okay? the mustache. >> scrub hard so you don't have to. >> other media types decided to go after trump's stated weight and hair color and height on his fulton county paperwork. watch. >> he is listed as a white male. his hair color is listed as blond or strawberry. [laughter] and his weight is listed. >> 175. [laughter] >> 215. >> 215 is the exact dimensions of the lamar jackson of the baltimore ravens. >> it's a good -- let's just say it's a 70 or 80 pounds higher than what the staff reported. >> boy, i got to tell you, joe scarborough has co-hone miss to mentioned hair color. more hair changes than lady gaga. i love. this they compared trump to athletes of similar heights and weights on their morning show then gayle king had added this. >> does anyone believe he weighs 215? >> no. >> nobody in this room. if he weighs 215 i weigh 102. >> now, laura, i thought fat shaming was forebaden. imagine if someone put gayle king and say, oprah on the a scale on tv. >> this is the right weight, 16 # .2? >> sure is. [laughter] >> sure is. >> glad i took off my watch. >> so 29 plus the 30% is fat? is that good? >> it's a good place to start. >> look at her face. it's a good place to start. >> they have always -- they have always been very upfront about their weight though. who cares? i mean, we have our country in a situation where people have no money saved for an emergency. they are maxing out their credit cards. we got our urban areas turned into war zones. we have stores being cleaned out. and we are talking about what someone puts down for their weight? by the way i weigh 110. [laughter] come on. >> gayle king is going to hate you for that they are upset because trump used this moment that was supposed to ensnare him and turned it into a theatrical springboard into the campaign season and it's, by the way, dominated the news all week and it will carry into the weekend. you just watch. >> laura: okay, raymond, how long do you think trump took to kind of practice that look? i mean. [laughter] >> probably the whole plane ride to fulton county. >> laura: think are telling me i have to tease. raymond, thank you have a great weekend. next, an orlando realtor going viral because he is explaining why it's so tough for young people to buy homes in biden's america. bidenomics, oh, yeah. and he's here next. ♪ >> if you talk to someone that's tried to buy a house lately or maybe you've even tried to buy a house lately. it's been not the easiest thing, but now, boy, it's gotten hard. u.s. mortgage applications just fell to a nearly three decade low. thank you, bidenomics. interest rates are nearing 8% and a 23 year high. people were trying to buy homes and they've given up. we've been seeing it with our own staff at the angle. and what's even more strike asking this headline and americans need to spend 43% of their income to afford a home. one realtor in orlando is going viral for sounding an alarm for his generation. >> 1970 the average home was $15,000 and now it's $436,000 and it's gone up 29 times and way more bang for your buck and way more children and got to expand your family and own a house. things are drastically different and the birthrate is plummeting because people can't afford it and we need to make a change to turn this around. >> joining me is freddy commit and cohost of freddy and alyssa show. great to have you on. how bad is it out there for young people? first home buyers and let's say coming from today, comparing to let's say november 2019 and then we can go back even further. >> yeah, i mean, that's the perfect time to start because in 2019, the average home in america was $260,000 and the interest rates were 4%. so your monthly payment out the door was taxes and insurances was around $1700 and could make about $60,000 a year and qualify for a home back in 2019. that same home today is going for $436,000, but the interest rates are 7.5% so that monthly payment is jumping to 3700. so you need to make today yourself or you and a spouse $115,000 in a salary with zero debt to have a shot at affording the average home in america today. if you have debt, cars, credit cards, it's more like $140, $150,000 and it's priced out a lot of amer americans just overe past four years. >> in the middle class, like when i grew up in new england in 1960s and 1970s and to the 80s, people could >> what happened to the kids in the middle class today and what's the middle class facing now? >> i mean, the cost of live asking outrageous and the housing prices and today there's more people in the household both of the people working. we're back in the day like i grew up in the 80s and 90s and my parents and friends parents and one person going to work, working 50 hours working tail off and what was waiting for them at home and three part time jobs and little league and saving for college and millennials today and working 40, 50 degrees and bachelors and trade jobs and driving uber or starting etsy store or something on the side and saving for a house and paying the rent and bills and middle class has been dwindling and then the past four years cost of house asking taking up so much of the average american's income and they're just kind of strapped right now. >> great to see you. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> that's it for us tonight. what a week it was. thank you so much for watching us. remember follow me on social media, stay connected with everything ingram angle throughout the ingraham angand will it is america now and forever. thanks for watching. jesse watters take it is all from here. craig:t welcome to jesse watter prime time and the trump mug shot is a super power. >> if a prosecutor is not fire department, you're not getting the money. well, son of a [bleep]. he got fired. jesse: well, son of a bitch, now he's talking. >> thank you, guys. i'll read your copies later. america's top fraud sterling frg heights out of prison and on