I get buried in the basement here. Laura hannity, youve got to come see this. Were in a childs desk. Sean we dont have margaritas here. Laura great show tonight. Good evening from new york. Im laura ingraham. And this is the the ingraham angle. Maybe its all the snow, but the blizzard of news like hannity just said from washington, it seems more blinding by the day and night. Attorney general sessions fired Andrew Mccabe for, this lack of candor, but now it looks like the former deputy fbi director was actually investigating sessions for the same thing. Isnt that clever . Kim will help us dissect it all from the wall street journal and analyze the latest unhinged rum ruminations by john brennan. Jim carrey, wasnt the mask the last good movie he did, is painting himself into a corner. And were going to wash the canvas for you. You wont believe this. Then old amtrak joe biden tries to bolster his vir ril ti who wrote that toeby picking a random fight with the president. A restraining order may be required. Wait until you hear the latest. But first, the president has second thoughts . Kind of . About congressional spending . Thats the focus of tonights angle. All right. Last night we told you about the 1. 3 trillion omnibus spending bill under consideration by congress. This is it. Look at this. Look at this thing. This is a tenth of it right here. We dont want to kill all the trees, so we only printed out a tenth of it. But we did the math, and this is how big it is. How many people are reading this bill . No ones reading the bill. This is what it is. Okay . This is the republican congress. Its a business as usual spendorama where the voters expected the opposite. Well, is the sequester cap gone . What are the republicans doing . Theyre linking arms with democrats. Yes, theyre spending more on things we should not be funding at all. And things the president vowed to defund. So how on earth do republicans expect the voters to turn out in november for them if they cant live up to the basic precepts of what they campaigned on . This ridiculous omnibus, lets keep moving the camera angles here, but people have to see what this is, because you dont really get it if you dont see it. Look at this thing. Again, i want you to see this. This is your tax dollars at work. This is it. 1. 6 billion in this disaster is devoted to border security. Thats it. A paltry 641 million to the wall the president campaigned on. And not even close to what the president requested to ensure the wall actually got built. I raised this concern and others to majority whit steve scalise. This is an opportunity, congressman, to defund sanctuary cities and to get the real money for the wall that the president campaigned on, and he won the election on that wall. Defund planned parenthood, half a billion dollars. I know you agree with me on this. The republicans are in charge and they punted. That is mind bog wiboggling to. He said, he agrees with us. Perhaps the president was actually watching the angle, i hope so. Earlier today, he reconsidered his support of the omnibus bill and called ryan and mckonld to the white house for a meeting. In a statement, White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders announced the president and the leaders discussed their support for the bill, which includes more funds to rebuild the military, such as the largest pay raise for our troops in a decade, more than 100 miles of new construction for the border wall, and other key domestic priorities, like combating the Opioid Crisis and rebuilding our nations infrastructure. Hmm. Now, this is curious. Ryan and mcconnell obviously pushed the president to support the bill there are some good things in the bill but the big push was mr. President , you cannot afford a Government Shutdown on friday. Thats how they do it, they make you agree to blow your promises and principles to put a gun to your head. This will be terrible, shut the government down. It pains me to say this, but the president is buying a pig in a poke here. He won on calling out the establishment, on naming names, yes, even when it made things uncomfortable. So i have a question. Where did that donald trump go . And where does all our money go in this bill thats even too big for us to show on camera regularly . Its money we dont have that we will have to borrow from japan, germany. The pentagon budget balloons to an obscene 700 billion. Thats more than 80 billion over current limits. Yes, i said 80 billion. Sanctuary cities . Fully funded. Jerry browns happy. Planned parenthood . A half a billion dollars. And something called, get this, Community Development block grants to cities. Thats, by the way, what President Trump wanted stripped from this budget, nearly doubled to 5. 2 billion. And then theres the obama era Transportation Grant Program known as tiger. I dont know what that is. I love tigers, but i cant love this. This would have its budget tripled to 1. 5 billion. I could go on and on and on. Weve only got an hour tonight. If i were advising the president , i would tell him, take this as an opportunity tonight to challenge the gop leadership. There would be no signature on the omnibus bill without a guarantee of full funding for the wall, and a total defunding of the sanctuary cities across this country. And another thing, he should never sign this omnibus spending bill without first securing a commitment from democrats to allow confirmation votes for all of his major nominees, which are clearly stuck in committee. And im talking about ambassadors, like rick rinel to ambassador to germany, and others, judges, District Court judges, and assistant secretaries, deputy secretaries, other key personnel. This is the bare minimum that the president should agree to. This move would also have the added benefit, not the primary, but added benefit of taking the focus off Stormy Daniels and company and all the other people putting on tv on the other cables, and return the focus to substance. Thats where trump does best. The American People did not elect trump, or the gop congress, to fill the swamp. We elected them to drain it. And the fact that the military contractors, the lobbyists are clinking s ining champagne glas tonight should concern everyone. The conservative approach is to shrink government, not expand it. Spending more and perpetuating obama era programs is a recipe for fiscal and electoral disaster. Even with some of the good stuff that is in this bill. And thats the angle. Joining me now for reaction is republican congressman mark immediate os chairman of the House Freedom caucus, and a democrat from illinois, great to see both you. Lets start with you, congressman meadows. I delivered some tough medicine, but thats what im going to do. When i look at this legislation, i call it legislation, but its more than there it is. I think this is not draining the swamp. Whos actually reading this, congressman . Who has read this entire bill tonight . I can tell you, no ones read the entire bill, some 2,230 pages that we got over a little over an hour ago. Im about 200 pages into it. Obviously we have staff going through it. But really, this is not about draining the swamp. When you look at this particular bill, were you too harsh . The answer is, no, you could be a lot harsher. We continue to fund sanctuary cities. We continue to fund planned parenthood. We dont build the wall, but we put money in for a tunnel. When the president was campaigning, he wasnt campaigning for a tunnel between new jersey and new york. It was for a southern border wall. Were still going through this. But im not very optimistic there will be conservative wins in this. Congressman murphy, if im a democrat and i see the house is in republican hands, the senates in republican hands, we have a republican, a conservative republican like donald trump in the white house, and i see planned parenthood funded, sanctuary cities funded, Chuck Schumer gets his mega tunnel, new jerseynew york, and a bunch of other stuff gets funded, theres not a bunch to get excited about. Your reaction . I think the president is supportive on a lot of shared priorities. It funds military and domestic programs, additional funding for the Opioid Crisis which is ravaging our district. And then it helps to increase funding for nih as well as making sure our veterans are taken care of. I havent read the whole bill, as mark mentioned, but im optimistic. Im hopeful that we can come to a compromise by tomorrow. Laura now, you havent read the bill and im not criticizing you because theres no one the evelyn wood aplus citation student couldnt read this bill, okay . Im not criticizing you, because you just got this. But given what we know about our current debt levels, its exploding, exploded under president obama, exploded under bush, now its set to increase, could be another 1 trillion, mark, tell me if im wrong about this. Dont we have a moral obligation to be honest with the American Public about where were getting the money to fund all these important priorities, china, japan, germany, all the people were borrowing it from . We dont have this money, do we . No, we dont. Laura, heres one of the interesting things. Yes, well end up with a 1 trillion deficit that will probably come out in october of this year, 1 trillionplus. Heres the other interesting thing, you dont have to read the fine print to understand that were going to grow the size of government by 12 to 13 . When youre looking at that kind of growth, i dont know that his district or my district, anybody back home saw a 13 increase in their wages but somehow were going to give government a raise like that . Heres the other problem, laura, is this. We have a republicancontrolled house. We have a republicancontrolled senate. And we have a republican in the white house. And we have a democrat here tonight saying how great this bill is. There is a problem there when you have that. I think the right honorable gentleman from North Carolina laura hes smiling. Congressman, first of all, i already like you, because you came on the show. A lot of your colleagues wont. But i already like you, because youre being honest. This is a good bill for democrats. Its good the military gets tons of funding and thats all great. Military needs a raise, i understand that. But youre smiling, not just because youre hanging out with us on whatever the heck this is, a wednesday night, youre having fun. This is a good deal gor democrats, im sorry. How can you not smile when youre standing next to congressman meadows. Look, i havent read the full bill, i havent made my final decision on this, but if its fully funding the military programs, right now or military readiness is at alltime lows. Secretary matis said we cannot good on another continuing resolution stopgap budget. It would hurt the military. Laura maybe we should think about that the next time we commit our troops to some godforsaken country. Maybe we should think about what it will cost when we commit our troops to another multiple deployment intervention. Its nice to say were in the hole 5 trillion, but heres the other thing. If we wanted to fund the military, why didnt we put forth the funds to fund the military and deal with the nondi fence discretionary separate. But somehow we put them together because we grow the size of government. Weve got to take care of the veterans. Laura the veterans, we always its veterans, veterans, veterans. Anytime i raise an issue about the bill, people say veterans. But we have other issues weighing down on the American Public. I do believe tonight the American People have to understand this, were going to have, you know, 438 congressmen, 100 senators will vote on this legislation in the next, what, 72 hours, guys . 72 hours, Something Like that . Quicker than that. Laura okay, 48 hours. I would say 98 of them, and im being charitable, will not have read this. Were going to have to mass it to see whats in it. Were back in that stage. And i know theres good stuff. People will get some help. But weve got to go back to the regular order, where each department i agree with you. Laura each department gets a budget. And each budget is voted on. We can have some transparency. Maybe its this long. Maybe its this long. I really think speaker ryan im disappointed speaker ryan didnt present it with a budget this particular bill sooner than tonight. We need regular order around here so im rank and file, im not leadership. Laura i got it. I dont run the trains around here. All i can say is, i need more time to read this thing. I would like to work with people like congressman meadows and make it a better bill. But if the choice is not funding the troops, taking care of the veterans laura but theyre putting you i cant do that. Laura congressman, theyre putting you in that position. Its the way washington works. Youve got to do what youve got to do, youve got to pass it its ridiculous. We cannot do this to the american taxpayers and our future generations. Its great to have you both on. Fantastic segment. Its complicated. So we really appreciate it. Coming up, what a fired fbi official may have done to try to bring down a member of trumps cabinet . Yes. 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Laura the personal lawyer for attorney general Jeff Sessions is pushing back tonight against the startling new report. The lawyer tells fox news that Jeff Sessions is not under a criminal investigation for perjury, allegedly committed during his confirmation hearing. But abc news reports former fbi official Andrew Mccabe investigated whether sessions did tell the truth about his contacts with russia. Sessions fired mccabe last week for what the fbi called his own lack of candor. Lets get into all of this with wall street journal reporter, democratic strategist and scott bolden, and deputy independent counsel in the bill Clinton Whitewater investigation. Great to see all of you. Good evening. Laura kim, lets start with you on this. This is wild. So weve got mccabe, who reportedly was investigating, or wanted to investigate Jeff Sessions for what he said about his contacts with the russians. This took a wild turn today. Yeah. Well, isnt it a coincidence that this story leaks just as you have a number of Senate Democrats that are trying to revive this whole argument that they made months ago that sessions misled them. Of course, that was a bunch of nonsense. He was very honest that he had forgotten that he had bumped into a Russian Ambassador at some event, that he misspoke. But now we find out that at the bequest of two democratic senators, the fbi went so far as to investigate whether or not sessions had lied in front of congress, which is astonishing to think that the fbi was doing this. Laura now, sol wisenberg, i want to go to you here. When i first heard this story today, i thought were now on a completely different planet. Deputy fbi director, investigating sessions on a, i guess perjury, lack of candor and he gets fired for the same thing. Whats your pulse on this now, given what chuck cooper, sessions lawyer said today . I am absolutely appalled by this. Laura, this is to me the most scandalous thing ive ever talked about on your show. There are three big stories here. There are three big parts of this. First, as kim said, its highly unusual for Something Like this to happen. The Administration Officials from both parties go before congress all the time, they make misstatements, theyre accused by the other side of perjury, there is almost never an investigation. There wasnt an investigation opened of eric holder when he made false statements about the fast and furious investigation. I dont think he was perjuring himself. There wasnt even an investigation of jim clapper when he said the nsa didnt collect data, and Everybody Knows he was intentionally lying. So thats the first thing. Thats highly unusual. The second thing is, Andrew Mccabe, by the time he opened this investigation, was already toxic. He had already been outed by the wall street journal for his role in the clinton investigation, and had already been forced to recuse himself. And then months later, after all of that, he doesnt recuse himself . This clinton person affiliated with, his wife is affiliated with clinton cronies doesnt hi something, i want your viewers to know this, this isnt talk show b. S. , this doesnt happen. This is highly unusual. It is highly corrupt in my view. The third thing that i dont want people to forget is that chuck cooper, Jeff Sessions lawyer, doesnt lie. And he made it very clear, bob muellers told him, Jeff Sessions is not under investigation anymore. He was spoken to. He is not considered to be under investigation for perjury, which is good, because the whole concept of it, as kim said, is preposterous. This is, actually, to me, an amazing story, and you would have to know how the doj works and fbi works to know how totally improper and unusual