the focus of tonight's "the angle." donald trump lawyer paid off a porn star before the 2016 election, democrats inferred trump had intent to falsify records. they did not care the president ordered it himself. trump was guilty before the jury was enpanelled. how different their approach is with their demagogue dr. anthony fauci. although never officially charged with a crime, he had a senior adviser who found himself in hot water recently. he deleted e-mails and helped keep evidence secret. when the good doctor was asked about supporting this guy, we know he received federal grants for his work with the wouhan la. >> i may have discussed him because he is a grand -- >> you made that up, you are testifying he made that up? >> excuse me. >> you are testify ing the doctr made that up. >> i don't know where he got that, that is not true. >> laura: democrats were outraged dr. fauci were asked questions at all. >> dr. fauci, we owe you an apology for the way we have raked you through the mud and none have said, here is where you go to get your good name and reputation back. thank you. you are a world-renowned scientist and patriot. >> your leadership to administration saved countless lives and resources, we owe you a debt of gratitude. >> laura: a debt? he was highest paid and received first year pension payout according to open the books. "the angle," pat ourselves on the back a little bit, before anyone, we focused on the fauci game. way back in february of 2020, before a pandemic was declared, fauci came on the show and seemed to go out of his way to give chinese benefit of the doubt. >> laura: why should we believe them when billions or trillions are dollars are riding on the idea all is going to be okay. >> the chinese authorities have been explicit they would not tolerate misinformation going out. >> laura: you are satisfied with what is coming out of china with trajectory of the disease? >> in my direct interaction, not party politics, medical people and scientists, i can believe what they are telling me. >> laura: it gets funnier every time you hear it, or more infuriating. my spiedy sense about him and the scan-demic were accurate. it was about pushing manipulation and control than saving lives. we knew from early data from lombardi data, covid was not a threat to most people, only those with two or three comorbidities were at risk. >> two groups of people do poorly with covid-19, people with underlying conditionless. bigger group, not in size, in the effect are elderly, particularly those living in nursing homes. they often have comorbid illnesses. >> laura: that was the case and knew it was unwise to have a life-long democrat like fauci lead their response. it was doomed from day one. closures were pushed, maindates validated and did irreparable damage to education. all this wreckage was collateral damage, to a narc cyst in a white coat, man used to having no oversight to his action. this is why he thought he could get away with this to keep schools closed. to say every child has to go back to school is not realizing we have diversity of viral activity. there may be be some areas the level of virus is so high, it would not be prudent to bring kids back to school. >> laura: among most of anti-scientific recommendations, a recommendation he's trying to distance himself from. don't blame me, it was the cdc's fault. >> did you feel indication to go back to the cdc and said let's base this on science and get rid of this decision? >> it was cdc decision and it was clear -- cdc was part of the coronavirus response team. >> you didn't feel obligation to say, woo are providing americans with misinformation. >> we had discussions at the white house with that. the cdc decision and their decision to make and they made it. >> you didn't feel obligation as lead scientist at nih to challenge that? >> i have challenged cdc multiple times. >> publicly on this regard? on the six-foot distance rule. >> it is not appropriate to publ publicly challenge an organization. >> >> laura: really? had no problem challenging chief executive officer, president trump, his bos. >> i was put in a very difficult position i didn't like of having to contradict publicly the president of the united states. i felt it was my responsibility to preserve my own personal integrity and major responsibility to the american public to tell them the truth. >> laura: it gets better and better. we gave too much power to a power hungry bureaucrat with a fancy title and abandoned constitution and common sense. beyond social distancing, truth that guy abandoned or down played, cloth masks don't work, natural immunity is real, shots that don't prevent transmission is incomparable. you can't leave liquor stores open and closed churches and finally we have a first amendment. even today, you think fauci wishes there was more not less censor. >> we have to do a better job of reaching out to get correct information. that is difficult when you have energetic group of people continually spreading misand disinformation. >> laura: inconvenient first amendment, after all we've learned about the virus. alternative treatment, harm done to kids, one would think that tony fauci would show a little humili humility, even a little bit. no. if he had rathers, he would still have rolling lockdowns. >> one thing that was a problem with the response was degree of divisive ness about a lack of co coherent response having people for reasons that had nothing to do with public health or science refusing to adhere to public health measures. >> laura: they wanted to survive. perhaps best comment on fauci reesh reemergence from clifton duncan. your business went under while fauci went to ball games, fauci did photo shoots and hobnobbed with celebs. people got divorced and severed relationships and lost decade long careers, people overdosed and killed themselves, lost out on prom and graduation and lost loved ones that could have been saved. people are injured by a shot they didn't want because we chose to trust the science that being anthony fauci according to anthony fauci. we can never and i mean never let happen to this country again what happened under him. we're going to be paying for the fauci effect for a generation, perhaps more. his impuruousness on the hill today shows he was wrong man to help formulate a common sense plan to deal with the wuhan flu. that's "the angle." joining me is congressman winthrop and dr. peter mc mccullough. congressman, what do you think is the most important fact is you have uncovered in all your investigations? >> i think that the numerous facts that we have uncovered led to the very notion that dr. fauci as director of the naaid takes no responsibility for anything that seems to happen when it comes to the grant process, nefarious b behavior, lack of control within his agency tells us everything. messaging was absolutely horrible and so was bed-side manner through this entire process. we've seen so many incidents of things tamake no sense. you look at us having mandate for the vaccine when we have people coming across the border unvaccinated and disbursed around the nation. >> laura: that is most important fact, not to be a brat here, but what is most important fact we learned? number one fact we learned about anthony fauci? >> we learned he was overseen and coordinating a u.s.-chinese conspiracy to create sars cov 2. the doctors in wouhan, china co-conspired creation of a sars-like wuhan of virology virus poised for human emergence and fauci is on capitol hill deceiving america and deceiving the world. >> laura: congressman, that is quite a charge. i would tend to agree with what the doctor just said there. the united states of america, perhaps there is an argument to be made, fairly strong argument, indirectly funding research that ended up causing this lab leak. do you think the truth is headed to that, the evidence is heading to that, congressman? >> i think so. taken back by comment that was made. our work has been thorough and looking at what has been going on in wound wound, china. i'm on the intelligence committee and started looking in february of 2020 as physician on the intelligence committee, i found out there was virus created by ralpartly cloudyh barrick and in china. efforts have been going what happened there. dr. fauci said it came from nature. behind the scenes, he and the people that wrote origins said this looks engineered and could have come from the lab. guess what, we will never get a definitive answer unless somebody speaks up and china and if they do, they won't survive very long. >> laura: fauci denied a lot of things, he admitted one. >> mask mandates for children under five, specific research did that? >> no study did masks on kids, you couldn't do the study, you had to respond to epidemic killing four to five million americans. >> laura: you and i talked about masks in march of 2020, they had done the influenza study that showed cloth masks did not work. hes like, we didn't have a study. congressman has exposed all of this. >> it is true. masks never work, they should never have been primary intervention, focus should have been on early treatment to p prevent hospitalization and deaths. it was a giant distraction focusing on contagion control. everyone got covid-19. we all got it, should have focused on early treatment. >> laura: chairman, are you concerned that if joe biden were re-elected heaven forbid and we had another dangerous outbreak of some type of disease, that we'd be back at square 1 here with this mentality we saw at the nih? >> unless we're able to put in place recommendations and suggestions and legal authorities we're going to want to put in when we finish our report, we'll be in big trouble, like you just said. >> laura: thank you both. when we come back, the havoc being reeked upon america, this time in new york city. coming to a town or city near you. florida senator marco rubio reacts next. n because of your credit? here's great news. at newday we've been granted automatic authority by the va to make our own loan approval decisions. in fact, if you've had credit challenges and missed a payment along the way, you're more than five times more likely to get approved for the newday 100 va cash out loan. no one knows veterans like newday usa. marco rubio /* >> laura: bring me your tired, your poor, your criminally inclined. an illegal from venezuela charged with shooting two nypd officers this morning. no one should be surprised to hear this. biden is allowing millions to march into our country. the 19-year-old was driving the wrong way down a one-way street. when the cops to tried to pull him over, he ran away on foot and opened fire. >> the suspect fired multiple rounds at police officers who returned fire. one officer was shot in the vest and the other officer shot in the leg. >> this is a bullet hole. because of this vest, a young police officer is going home. >> laura: this is what a biden era dreamer is capable of. b bernardo matof crossed illegally in july three eagle pass, texas and made his way to the big apple. why not. this is par for the course, happening millions of time. joining me is florida senator r marco rubio. that is what biden border crossers are bringing into the country. >> it is knowa example why it is never a good idea to allow nine to 10 million people come into your country illegally. say 95% of people are not here to commit crime, that is still 5%, a lot of people. this criminal element is coming over, i had no way to quantify it, now we see it. truth of the matter, these people are criminals in venezuela and are here now. idea they are being vetted at the border is a joke. some of these people are part of a gang working toward the united states. add one more piece, a lot of people come from central asia. we have no background information. we know isis is running a trafficking group. they are in the business of moving migrants to the u.s., why do we not think they would move migrants to move terrorists. we have to assume and built on common sense. in addition to criminals, there are people who have links to terrorism and will commit terrorist acts sometime in the future. it is a daufrjous situation that biden and kamala harris and this administration have allowed to happen. >> laura: they are floating an executive order that will supposedly, after saying he did not have power to do so, crack down on asylum scam. will voters look and say yeah, better late than never? good on them. >> i don't think so, they spent three years denying there was a border crisis. they have power to reverse all executive decisions that joe biden took when he took office in the first month, close to 100, all reerce having trump policies. he campaigned on the message he would be more welcoming and more people came. this is -- people think it will be easier to get here and stay, they will come. if they don't, they won't. joe biden was elected on the promise of making it easier to come illegally and easier to stay and result is we've seen close to 10 million people cross the border illegally in just 3-1/2 years. >> laura: senator, scale of 1-10, 10 most important, how important for republicans to win control of the senate just on this issue alone? >> it is extraordinarily important. mayorkas and others in charge are complicit in this act, number one. number two, it gives us leverage over it is administration. great to have the house and senate, right now we don't have the senate and we can't even call hearings to investigate this. >> laura: what is to investigate? it is obvious, stop all funding of their pet projects. it would be great to subpoena internal communications and have those produced to see if there was collusion involved. they knew what they were doing, this is by design. >> laura: they think they have millions in new democratic voting. where did jill biden spend her birthday? she was in court with hunter. the details next. we love being outside, but the sun makes our deck and patio too hot to enjoy. thanks to our new sunsetter retractable awning, we can select full sun or instant shade. it's 20 degrees cooler and you get protection from harmful rays and sun glare. when you call, we'll rush you a special $200 discount certificate with your free awning idea kit! you'll get your sunsetter for as little as $799. but, this is a limited time offer! for over 20 years, sunsetter has been the bestselling retractable awning in america! call now for this free awning idea kit packed with great awning solutions. plus, get this $200 discount certificate to get your sunsetter for as little as $799. there are so many incredible styles to choose from. get a custom-built awning, without the custom-built price! turn your patio into an instant oasis. add led lighting for evening enjoyment. call now for your free awning idea kit, local dealer info and $200 discount certificate. “life is better under a sunsetter!” >> laura: hunter biden was in court today, in time for jury selection on federal gun charges case. joining us david spunt. david. >> we have a jury, 12 jurors, four alternates, from 250 potential jurors. opening statements begin tomorrow in wilmington, delaware. hunter biden arrived with his wife and other family members. they began this morning for jury selection. you see him leaving the courthouse. he is charged with three counts of lying when claiming he was not a drug user. hunter's attorney abbe lowell ex expected to argue that the form need to be examined if other people may have filled out the form and may be chain of custody questions. in the courtroom, jill biden showing sign of support to hunter. today is her 73rd birthday. her daughter and hunter's sister ashley biden in the courtroom taking notes. the president did not come to k0ur79, he did repiece this statement. i don't and won't comment, as a dad, i have love for my son, confidence in him and his strength. jill and i will continue to be there for hunter and our family with love and support. opening statements begin at 9:00 tomorrow. expected to go two weeks. laura. >> laura: thank you. joining me missouri senator eric eric schmitt, thank you for being with us tonight. jill biden in court for jury selection. you could argue that is pretty powerful message from the white house to potential jurors or just a concerned mom? >> what is important to remember about this case, laura, before it gets memory hold, department of justice wanted to give him a sweetheart deal. a judge started asking questions about pretrial agreement that would have allowed him to plea, deferred prosecution deal on the gun charge, take away the irs charge and any other federal crimes brought by the united states. they were willing to give him a free pass on everything, including influence pedalling by foreign government. that got unwound by this judge. as former prosecutor, attorney general of missouri, gun charges are usually slam dunk cases. federal government wanted to get rid of all this stuff and combine that with what happened to president trump, two tiers of justice. one for chief political rival, president trump, they want to put him away, versus a sw sweetheart deal for his son. will we be constitutional republic or banana republic? >> laura: two judges involved in this case are trump appointees, is that correct? >> i don't even know. >> laura: that is what politico is reporting, two judges overseeing the trials have a lot in common, both appointed by trump. law should be applied without regard to who appoints whom and who the defendant did, democrats may make hay over that. >> you have alvin bragg, who ran on getting trump. campaign was, i'm going to prosecute donald trump and couldn't articulate the underlying crime. it is riddled with error i think it will vin divindicate president trump. people are upset about this, can't believe this is happening to our country. gun charges are, they have got him dead to right, i wouldn't be surprised. what doj tried to do, give hunter biden free pass on everything and that got unwound. >> laura: will rely on conviction to say we're even steven now, that is obviously going to be the narrative. thank you tonight. >> president biden: war and pursuit of unidentified notion of total victory, will not bring israel, not bring down -- will bog down israel and gaza. >> laura: the wilmington wonder inspiring confidence coast to coast. maybe not. for good reason democrats are petrified, no matter what they do to trump, he gets stronger and think stroer. only option left is take him off the ballot, that is what socialists are trying to did, on grounds he is a convicted felon. anita vogel said i have clients lied up for a ballot challenge in this case. joining us is lara trump, frofrom the rnc. >> you are right, assessment that everything they are trying to do to donald trump is backfiring and making him stronger and galvanize ing suppt of him. this law in particular they are attempting to use here seems to only apply to local and state elections. of course, we know when it comes to donald trump, whether or not a lot legally applies really di doesn't matter, ask leticia james and alvin bragg. in colorado, they attempted to use similar law and supreme court said you can't do it, undemocratic measures they are attempting to use. i suspect, though, they are in full panic mode because they have inkcum upon incumbent president. just last month we had a poll out of washington state that donald trump was up one point on joe biden in deep blue washington state. yeah, you can try out there, these tactics, they will be struck down and donald trump will be nominee for republican party and any attempt like this will continue to galvanize support behind him. >> laura: stories we were seeing, things are getting close in virginia, a tough state for republicans. in new york state, within seven points, usually double-digit blowout