ingraham angle" from washington tonight. thanks so much for being with us. americans say no. that's the focus of tonight's angle. this is what americans are facing this christmas. the cost of living in the biden economy is so high that more people are raiding their 401(k)s to pay their bills. of course, our border total chaos. 8 million migrants from across the globe and counting, including violent criminals and suspected terrorists. the government releasing 5,000 migrants into the country every day this really stunned me. 670,000 known got-aways in fiscal year 2023 alone. the open border helped sink our cities into squalor and deadly consequences in small town america as well. >> raffaele romero is now behind bars in jackson county charged with capital murder in the death of 16-year-old medina. he is undocumented. >> nobody ever wants to see your child in the bathtub the way i found her. nobody. the curtains were closed i didn't see her. when i opened those curtains, i just want justice for my baby. >> laura: murdered her and left her in the bathtub. if all of that is not bad enough for you. there are new concerns that the tens of thousands of chinese nationals, mostly young men lined up at the border in recent weeks to see the video could be coming here to join sleeper cells to hit our critical infrastructure. more on this later most heart breaking of all this christmas more americans believe the american dream is out of reach. even when you work hard and do the right thing. this is the america that joe biden and the globalists have created for us. spend us into boifl, borrow and print known like there is no tomorrow. weaken the dollar, drive up inflation destroy faith in institutions like the doj and the fbi. oh, and poison our kids, yeah. with radical anti-american propaganda. then divide the country into pools of racial, ethnic and sexual victims. and then when all of that is done, expect those americans to rally around the ukrainian flag? in order to give them a better life? trust the same people who had us mired in iraq and afghanistan and then botched the withdrawal? what volodymyr zelenskyy, chuck schumer, mitch mcconnell and biden want us to all believe if we don't pony up billions more to ukraine, all hell will break loose and vladimir putin will declare victory. >> if we don't stop putin, it will endanger the freedom of everyone almost everywhere. putin will keep going and would be aggressors everywhere would be emboldened to try to take what they can by force. >> laura: then it's a ground war. your sons and your daughters. their blood is going to be spilled. they are going to die. this was the message from the ukrainian president as well who met with lawmakers and the president of the united states in washington today. and this entire sad saga shows us that once again 77 years after the end of world war ii europe is still not capable of or interested in we are told ukraineens freedom depends entirely on the united states borrowing billions more to keep them fighting russia and paying their government workers. >> fighting for freedom. we stand for no matter what putin tries. he hasn't won any victories. >> laura: thomas jefferson, right. there is nothing like having a foreign leader travel here to in and more money after he has failed to hit any benchmark of progress for which the original funds were appropriated. but if you don't give him more money right now, you're going to lose your entire investment. he is the bernie madoff of war time presidents. what are we funding exactly? ever think about that? his much ball whod summer offensive was ineffective. refuses to allow an election next year. speaking language of russians of millions of its own citizens seen ministers in own country embroiled in major corruption scandals that the u.s. taxpayers have already given. even the ukrainian people see the problems with billions in aid floating around in the hands of incompetent zelenskyy insiders. opinion poll commissioned by transparency international found that 77% of ukrainians see corruption as a major concern. another poll found that ukrainians see corruption as even higher than the threat of a nuclear strike by russia. now, if the grift and if the corruption issue doesn't bother the white house, i guess that shouldn't surprise any of us given what we knowed about the greed and sleaze of the biden family. while zelenskyy has taken some modest steps, we have to be fair to address the corruption issue, americans are so fed up they want us to focus on administration our own problems right now. that means problems here at elm who. contrary to what president biden said late today at his press conference, a bipartisan majority does not any longer support continuing the flow of money to ukraine a new cnn poll shows overall 55% say the u.s. congress should not authorize additional funding to support ukraine versus 45% who say congress should authorize such funding. and by the way 51% say that the u.s. has already done enough to help ukraine. 48% say we should do more. but, look, we know. this the american people want a strong border, strong industrial base, safe streets. high educational standards. none of it matters to this white house instead cater to the needs of a country that is not even a nato ally. >> i just signed another $200 million drawdown department of defense for ukraine and that will be coming. congress needs to pass the supplemental funding ukraine before they break the holiday recess. before they give putin the greatest christmas gift they could possibly give him. >> laura: but if ukraine loses, america will be humiliated. our global status will be diminished, they say. well, i hate to break it to all the globalists we're using that old line. thanks to their policies, america already has been diminished. america already has been humiliated we are in a state of decline and everyone knows it. they spent the last decade telling us that we were systematically racist. how was that a country anyone would want to emulate if that'sl true. at this point china has to be laughing. biden sucks up to xi as xi is partnering with putin and then america goes into debt to help ukraine beat putin. can you explain that to me? makes zero sense. our only hope is to rebuild america. that means manufacture things here, decouple from china. grow our economy. cut government spending, and reform every major institution that has failed to deliver wins. and that includes the pentagon. and that's the angle. all right. joining me now senator eric schmitt, member of the armed services committee. senator ron johnson, member of the homeland security committee. senator schmitd, i know you were all in the meeting with zelenskyy today. were any skeptic minds changed? >> no. there was nothing new here. it was the same old, same old. what was striking is you had the president from ukraine in the halls of the capital talking about the importance of protecting the sovereignty of his borders. and here we have a president in this country that refuses to address sovereignty of our own border. millions coming across. total disconnect. struck me the conversations here in washington on this are so different than in real america. real americans are struggling. they want us to focus on that. not blank check for endless war. >> your colleague mark kelly revealed today there is really no strategy for ukraine. watch this. >> what does an obtainable victory look like in ukraine? >> there will be a clear winner and loser in this conflict. everybody needs to understand that i mean, there will be an end to this. and we need make sure that the ukrainians win. >> i'm still short on the pacifics of what victory looks like. >> well, let's start with them not losing is this eighth grade let's start with them not losing. what are the american people gaining here. >> no strategy for the american people to win they can't win. only way to win start lobbing missiles into moscow to reduce russia's support for the war. they can't do that. >> laura: the pentagon knows this. the pentagon knows they have lost the war already. >> this is 22 months. the summer offensive. it didn't work. this is a bloody stalemate. every day that goes by. more ukrainians i do. more russians con scripts die. i get no joy. this war should be brought to an end. the sooner the better. because every day the outcome ends up being worse. going to have to be a negotiated settlement. from the standpoint of what america want, we want a secure border. and that's what -- >> laura: two separate things. of course we want a secure border that was a fool's errand tie together what we do ukraine makes no sense. >> he wanted more money to more efficiently encounter, pros is process and disperse. we need to secure the border. >> laura: they have no credible on that. >> also worth noting we are already $112 billion in ukraine. they want another 60 billion. >> laura: that's down basement. >> we heard in other briefings, another $100 billion request coming next year. responsible to what end here? how does this serve -- there is no articulation of strategy what victory means sort of insulting. >> interesting because president zelenskyy did say if he doesn't get support from america, this will turn to guerrilla war. that's really what he ought to be telling putin. there is no way you are going to be able to completely take over ukraine. we will fight to the end and this will be guerrilla war i need to come to the table let's end this war. fiona hill, impeachment fame. in the trump white house, obama. also on the board of harvard during all of this stuff with claudine gay she is making the case that look, if america doesn't step up, we are going to have a diminished standing in the world senator schmitd, exexcuse me. what about that argument? that we have to do that for our standing in the world. >> tired old arguments, scare people into some sort of decision that doesn't make any sense. the truth of the matter this isn't europe's backyard. the european allies need to step up. they refuse to do it. we have legitimate concerns about corruption that you noted in your opening. the democrats have blocked any movement for an audit. >> inspector general on this. >> she is late. if you were asked to devise a strategy to destroy this country you couldn't ask for a better game plan than president biden and the democrats. >> is it purposeful to you. >> how could not be? open borders, 40 year high inflation. wash on fossil fuel. withdrawal from emboldened. that's why putin is in ukraine what we did in afghanistan. he saw the weakness, that's what president xi sees. they are destroying this country. >> cultural marxism you have seen danny take hold of institutes played out with dei and crt. you wonder why you see these things happening on the street on college gus there is the answer. indoctrination. >> laura: a woke pentagon. shovel them more money? they are woke like the colleges. all right. great to see both of you. thank you for coming in the studio and love the beard. >> merry christmas. >> laura: merry christmas. harvard decided to keep its president as exposed as anti-semitic and plagiarist. in moments i will explain why this a good thing for conservatives but terrible for the poor ivy league. stay with us. ♪ some of the best traditions start under a tree. it's where we gather as a family. it's where we experience the excitement of opening day. it's where we caught our personal best. and this tree is where it all began. this christmas start traditions under your tree... share the tradition of visiting santa's wonderland at bass pro shops and cabela's. and get your free photo with santa. bass pro shops and cabela's. 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the business community, having shoveled really billions to harvard over the years, has a big, big decision to make. joining me now is rob, an independent documentary filmmaker who has been covering far left activism at american universities. now, rob, i watched one of your documentaries over the weekend. and i was rivetted by it. you know, nice job on that. it was about professor roll alan fryer at harvard. claudine gay embodies everything wrong with higher ed. explain that. >> rolland fryer's life you wouldn't believe it because it sounds like a movie script. right? he is this guy born into poverty poor section of florida. his dad goes to jail for a series of crimes in rolland is in high school. somehow he is able to pull himself from there to become the youngest professor to ever secure tenure at harvard university okay? he is in the economics department. he uses his considerable genius level iq millions of dollars to raise to investigate the most hot topic of buttons. he does not have a political agenda. there is no partisan agenda. is he not for any particular political team. but his research kept blowing up some of the core tenets of wokeness that happened to saturate a place like harvard university. and his career a couple years ago was suddenly cut short by a very opaque shower. case that harvard and it's narnenablers he was a sexual predator on some of thinks staff. we put out a documentary that people can see at harvard cancel roland.com which demonstrates that that was a cynical cover story and, in fact, roland got punished because he refused to ttoe the line that you are expected to tofu are part of the black establishment at harvard university and one of the two people that we specifically identified as one of the alpha architects of roland's downfall is claudine gay. >> laura: why was she threatened by him particularly? i have watched him, watched videos. i had comments about public schools and how we have to stop treating kids as victims and lower the bar. incredible stuff. why was that a threat to her? >> what you are talking about is his groundbreaking resneercht harlem children zone, right? what roland is trying to find, he is trying to find the vaccine for education. is he like harlem children zone is somehow able to take poor black kids from far-flung parts of new york city and get them to not only catch up to but exceed their white counterparts. he takes about a year or two and investigates what are the essential elements of harvard the harlem children zone and he finds five core things. notice, that's in direct contrast to what is fashionable in terms of education reform, which is if black students aren't meeting the standards, the standards must necessarily be racist or oppressive and they need to be sheffield. someone like claudine gave, almost all of her moral authority is based upon the problems of black community never being solved a bit of incident electric centralled me 00 i have at this. >> laura: he does not have she does have. really existential threat to use an overused phrase to the entire social justice narrative of harvard. rob, your documentary was terrific. i know there are others. i'm going to link it up on my instagram page. thank you for sharing your insights about this. we're not letting this go. another issue at play is the university wants ties to china. now, let's look at mit where they have an entire program dedicated to studying abroad in china. they also get students set up with internships to they can participate in the rapidly expanding world of chinese business and technology. now, none of this comes as a surprise to my next guest who says he was barred from speaking at mit in 2020. because of his views on the communist nation. joining me now mike pompeo, former secretary of state under president trump. mr. secretary, anyone banned from one of these elite institutions is okay by me. but, they say that you couldn't -- you wouldn't be -- you weren't speaking because of covid. but you say it was something else. >> well, laura, it's great to be with you. i know exactly what it was. i prepared remarks some b. exactly the topic we are speaking about. the chinese communist party influence in american academia. research money that at least the theft of intellectual property. hardworking americans lose. chinese students on campus feeding information back to the chinese communist party. all of the donor money that goes to win friends and influence people on campuses. i was going to give a speech. i was the secretary of state. we decided that mit was the best place to give that speech and a handful of weeks out before the remarks i was told i was no longer welcome there. i had to go down a pretty long list. ultimately gave the speech at georgia tech. go wrap bling rec and can you see it. it was not about my viewpoint it was about facts and influence how the chinese communist party is inculcating our next generation of leaders in the very ideas play out across the country. >> laura: mr. secretary, "the washington post" reported today chinese military in the process of disrupting degree structure including water and power utilities transportation systems ohio, a major west point if president biden doesn't respond to