Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Hear planes flying fairly low over my deck, fighter planes. This is my personal home deck, and i wondered what this was about and shortly after that i got a phone call. One of the nice things about working in Pierce County is we work closely with west pierce and tillicum police department. And we had people who responded from jblm who did great stuff. I get to work with people who are willing to when as soon as something goes down immediately respond and immediately cooperate closely. Thats what weve seen tonight. Next 24 hours im sure we will have some of our people there. We will have people from the federal government. We will have people from the
bureau. Im sure as i said they will be looking at every i to dot and t to cross to find out what happened, why it happened and how it happened. This will be an issue if it was determined and likely to be determined there was a theft involved at Seatac Airport. There may be State Charges as well but its most likely the person who perpetrated this theft is no longer with us. Thank you and your colleagues. Thank you. [ Phone Ringing ]. You were listening to a Press Conference of a Pierce County sheriff official talking about a plane that was stolen by a mechanic at an airport there. So we are closely following this situation, as he said. A plane crashed near seattles Seatac Airport a horizon airplane taking off from Seatac Airport. Witnesses saw the airplane being followed by Military Aircraft near the airport. The plane is a regional Turboprop Airport that can seat up to 76 passengers. The plane was stole bane 29yearold mechanic and that no passengers were on board. It appears to be some sort of
suicide attempt. They say at this point with what theyre seeing with the damage and the flames it appears that the man on board that plane who was flying it, died. The sheriff also telling us tonight this was not a terrorist attack this was a single suicide male, no others were involved. Coast guard is responding to reports of large plumes of smoke in the area. Alaska airlines tweeting we have confirmed that a plane has gone down near Patron Island in Pierce County, washington state. They believe they know who was on board. They are not releasing the name. There were no other people on board, no crew, no guests on that plane. We will continue to follow this break news out of washington state. We go back to laura ingraham, already in progress. Laura we cant allow our guy
week. There has been a lot of drama in the Paul Manafort trial. I know you have been following the ins and outs of judge ellis. Muellers team filing a formal complaint about the behavior of judge ellis. The courts reprimand of governor counsel suggested to the jury that the government acted improperly in cont contravention of court rules. The judge is a cantankerous, oldstyle judge but there seems to be a real effort to kind of smear him now since he has been tough on the mueller case. What is your take here . I agree, laura. You clerked for the Second Circuit and for judge thomas. You dont win fights with
federal judges and you dont try to pick fights with federal judges. I dont mind that the prosecutors are being aggressive and standing up for their position. I dont know if i would have filed Something Like that and would have asked for a side bar and say you told the jury you said something yesterday could you remind the jury that what you say is not evidence and you dont have an opinion in this case. Thats how i would have handled it. One of the uncomfortable exchanges and there are many in the past few days, some of it is just entertaining. Lets just say that. Theres one point where judge ellis thinks that one of the lawyers for mueller is not looking at him. And so the judge says, im here. From the bench. And he says im sorry, im listening. And ellis says i know when you look down, its as if to say
down for an interview with muellers team or mueller will have to issue a subpoena and everything that entails. James, go ahead. Well, look, i dont think mueller, himself, feels like he has that strong a hand to issue a subpoena here or to get the compliance he wants. Laura why . Theres a lot of layers of why he doesnt have to follow a subpoena while in office. The fact they call the president a subject makes it tough to understand how they can ask questions about obstructions. Obstruction is purely target. What theyre look at is what are our chances if we subpoena him. We were going to get a motion to quash. Whats it going to read like . It would be damning and powerful addressing everything they want to complain about when it comes to the Mueller Probe calling him
a subject but treating him like a target. Laura is there any way that the special counsel will accept the terms that trumps leal tga team offered . No it in a million years. The president will never sit down and speak to these guys. Hed be crazy to. The special counsel, bob is tough as a nail and hard as a rock. He will issue the Grand Jury Subpoena and theyll file their motion to quash and it will make itself way up to the Supreme Court. Laura fantastic conversation, guys, have a great weekend. If you heard heads exploding in hollywood, theres a good reason. Kanye west doubled down on his support for donald trump. Keep it comin love. If you keep on eating, well keep it comin. All you can eat riblets and tenders at applebees. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. What it represented to me is not about policies, because im not a politician like that but it represented overcoming fear, and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone said, saying you cant bully me, news, hip hop community, they cant bully me. Laura remarks from kanye west on jimmy kimmel are giving a new bout of angina to hollywood. He claimed his support for President Trump and clearly hes got no plans to stop fighting against the antitrump group think and as he said the bullying of the Entertainment Industry. Joining us now to analyze is Radio Talk Show Host and lets start with you, eric, kanye west, he is an interesting cat, an interesting character. He has a huge following. Very much so. Laura i find it just fascinating that its controversial for someone to say i think for myself. You wont put words in my mouth. You wont tell me the how what to believe or for whom to vote. Im my own person. Somehow thats a point of controversy in the group think that is the Entertainment Industry today. I think hes just smashing the stereotype, and i think its freaking people out. Your reaction . Well i dont think its freaking people out. I think kanye is trying to l to both sides of the fence. Hes always been a free thinker. A long time ago he stood up on national tv and said george bush didnt care about black people. Hes always thought for himself. Hes trying to cater to both sides of the fence. He wants to maintain the fact he does Support Trump but in such a way that could possibly apiece appease his followers who may not Support Trump. So really it seems more like a
tactical Marketing Skill on his behalf rather than bullying. Hes a multimillionaire. There is no way that he can feel bullied for who he chooses to vote for. Kevin you understand what this is ultimately all about. Absolutely. Laura theres a certain subset of the american political world that says if you are of a certain background or certain ethnicity, certain race there is only One Direction you can go in, whether its Clarence Thomas or Walter Williams or tom sole or any given number of Free Thinkers out there. Theyre vilified in some ways. Yep. Laura kevin i find it to be a fascinating conversation. It is. It is not Just Entertainment laura the way you set it up. Its the black community that will ostracize you. And kanye got it right. He will be bullied. He named everybody in the mix. The liberals will bully you, the media will bully you, guys like
this guy will bully you. Kanye said what he said. There was no upside for him in this. He wasnt catering to any particular side. He said im a human being, im going to think for myself, im not going to let anybody determine what i say as a man. Good for him. He does talk for himself. I let you talk. He only impacted himself. Not only has donald trump raise the the level of black support. He doubled to 29 now because people are finally starting to wake up. Kanye brought a level of consciousness to many Blacks In America who feel identically the same. I have been a conservative my entire life. I dont know what that wake up means but there are many people who need a kanye to say Something Like that. It is the left that are the biggest bullies on the planet. Theyre not bullies just because they disagree. The simple fact of the matter is theres not a disagree with the Republican Party more says but the black Community Feels have not been in their best interest. If kanye wishes to align himself with that, the issue is if he is aligning himself with the ones that most africanamerican communities dont support, thats the reality of the situation. Not the same. Laura i think whether its the violence in chicago, it had a huge spike under rahm emmanuel, democratic leadership, democrat is a protege of obama, things have gotten worse. You see the Africanamerican Community in the hardest Hit Neighborhood saying we want new leadership, its not working. Absolutely. Laura let me respond to one other thing. No, no, no, you talked earlier. It is an issue. Kanye west but threatened. Black conservatives like myself get threatened all the time. I have never threatened anybody that differs from me politically and i never will. Just because you havent doesnt mean that liberals are not threatened. You said kanye west hasnt been threatened, there were rappers that came out and said you have a concert were going to be there. A guy that was a crip said he
wanted to kill him. Thats the it will r vitriol that happens on the other side. Dont pretend this doesnt happen. Laura i think debate is a good thing. I think its positive. If its just more chatter there is nothing positive that comes of it. Lets hope something good comes of this. I want to get to another issue. I want to get our take on this National Anthem protest, because its reigniting now in the nfl, last night really cool, fun preseason games, a handful of players took knees or raised their fists during the anthems. The president , i guess not surprisingly tweeted out, in part, quote, numerous players from different teams wanted to show outrage at something most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love. Find another way to protest. You have kenny stills out there saying look at my twitter feed. I explain why im doing what im doing. Look at my social media. Its not just a whim. I mean this, and hes sticking up for his right to do what he does. And i think that when we speak about bullying in politics, we have the biggest bully in the white house right now, given the fact that this situation has turned on racial lines in the fact that by trying to make it about the military. The players have been very adamant over and over it is not about the military, some of them have fathers, uncles, brothers, mothers, sisters, who have served in the military. It is about bringing attention to the racial injustices that have been done by the police and other instruments of government in this case. I do agree they need to transform to a more Political Base similar to what we saw happen in st. Louis where the prosecutor was defeated by a democratic, more progressive opponent, maybe some of these athletes should take their protests to the polling places
to draw people out to vote out some of these people, the prosecutors, the district attorneys, the people judges. Laura hold on. Eric, i think that people i dont think people dont the fans feel everything is so infected with politics. Can we just get together and root for our teams without a political thing. I think thats what more people are kind of irked by, not the fact that theyre speaking out but they want just one zone where its no politics. But mine im off base. I think thats part of it. The idea it became racial because donald trump is the president is ridiculous. He was protecting the flag. America first, make America Great again. He have the pointed out the inconsistencies in the black lives Matter Movement and the fact that these guys really were more self indulgent. Let me just finish. The fact of the matter was it is
self indulgent move by Colin Kaepernick and hes hurting the league and people understand that. Look, you can try to make this black and white. The same problems that were persisting in the community, socalled policing issues, were happening during the time of obama. Why Didnt Somebody take a knee then . They waited for donald trump so he could be the person to do it . Who said they waited for donald trump . Laura this has been stirring for some time. It just happened to coincide with donald trump. The question is if this had happened while obama was president , do you think he would have take the same position that donald trump is . Laura of course not. No, he wouldnt have at all. Youre right about that, eric, he would have probably supported the players and what theyre doing. But the owners had this policy in place and theyve put it on the shelf now hoping to figure it out. Guys have a great weekend. Have you noticed recently how often some liberals invoke Ronald Reagan to make a left
wing political point . A reagan cabinet member and biographer reveals the truth. A five Year Old Girl molested by an Illegal Immigrant in philly. The u. S. Attorney lays blame with city officials, hell join us. The plane was stole bane 29yearold mechanic and crashed while he was doing stunts. He reportedly told air Traffic Controllers that he was a broken guy and was joking about whether the airline would hire him if he landed safely. The coast guard is responding to the crash site at this moment where a large plume of smoke can be seen there. The coast guard confirmed. The plane has gone down in Pierce County washington. We believe there were no guests or crew on board other than the person operating the plane and the Sheriffs Deputy has said we can confirm that there was no one on the plane other than the 29yearold mechanic who was on the plane on some type of
suicide mission of sorts. He spoke with air Traffic Controllers saying that he knew people loved him. He was a broken guy and at one point he says he has a lot of people that care about him. Police are looking into this. We will continue to follow this story out of seattle throughout the night. For now we go back to laura ingraham, already in progress. Back then, serving with Ronald Reagans and the liberals in the media. He is good being god, but one has to say, whatever criticisms came down during the reagan era and there were a lot of them. I got some. You got some, you were working for me. Ronald reagan got plenty. Nothing compared to what donald trump is getting. If they can use Ronald Reagan to beat up donald trump, they will do it and they will do it with a straight face i dont know how they pull off the straight face. Laura you remind us that the left will do anything to regain power. I want to play flash back sound from some of our favorites in the media. I believe this was during the administration or right after the president right after he passed away. Lets watch. Did his vision include extraordinary deficit and cutting the budgets for education and back of the hand in terms are you saying we have been unkind to him . I dont think history be kind to him or have any reason to be kind to him. I thought if you got into the oval office, mr. President im down on my luck he would give you the shirt off his back and he would sign legislation
throwing your kids off the school lunch program. Laura he wanted grandma to eat alpo. Remember that . And Catch Ketchup was a vegetable too. And he becomes a paragon of virtue, Barry Goldwater was attacked by psychiatrists in the newspapers and denounced as crazy and now he is a paragon of virtue. The left hated richard nixon. I saw a Historian Favor Nixon Comparably to donald trump. Then they become convenient tools to bash the current occupant of the white house. So its nothing new. Especially but its especially with reagan. Because they know nothing about reagan. As i said earlier, theyre in
over their head. They dont know what theyre talking about. Laura we all worked for President Reagan and we all know on the issue of immigration, th