have a rebuke for her. >> laura: now, standing ovation for her. great show, hannity. i'm laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. the democrats thought that this spectacle was going to help? our legal eagle will be here in a moment to break it all down, just how damaging it was for the democrats today, and ed henry has new reporting about potential cracks forming in pelosi's caucus. also tonight, i think he is one of only two sitting congressman who was front and center in the last impeachment of a president. he is here to sound the alarm over the current sham proceedings. plus, raymond arroyo will reveal how the style of today's witnesses could actually hurt their arguments. and the media attacks melania's wardrobe. all that in seen and unseen. but first, you know it's over when... that is the focus of tonight's "angle." okay, i was just saying to hannity, if you or anyone you love is thinking of applying to law school, you must be having major second thoughts today. three professors prattled on about how trump must be impeached 11 months before an election. their delivery was alternatively angry, dismissive, and tedious. despite the wall-to-wall coverage and relentless height by the democrats, today's soporific symposium cratered any hope that they are going to coax americans into supporting impeachment. here are the top five reasons you know it's over. first, today's legal experts tried to pass off as fact flimsy theories and unsupported inferences, and they use those theories and inferences to conclude that the president should basically be removed from office. speak of the phone call itself of july 25th is extraordinarily clean to my mind, in that we hear the president asking for a favor that is clearly a personal benefit, rather than acting on behalf of the interest of the nation. >> acting on his own personal benefit and not for the benefit of the country. >> he invited the russians, are longtime adversaries come into the process the last time around because he has invited the ukrainians into the process and because he suggested he would like the chinese to come into the process. >> laura: into the process. stanford law grads should demand refunds for any class taught by karlan. an equally plausible motive could be that president trump has every right to know whether ukraine meddled in the last election, and it's for that theory that the president somehow was trying to personally benefit from his dealings with zelensky. joe biden wasn't and still is into trump's political opponent in the next election. he is one of several. so how can they so definitively claimed that this is president trump's guiding, sole motivation? answer, they cannot. second, you know it's over when 3 out of 4 legal eagles were trump-hating partisans. basically elizabeth warren gave $1,000 to her last summer and trump's rapid response brought this up when she admitted she was triggered by the mere sight of the trump hotel building in washington. >> i got off the bus and i walked up to the hotel and as i was walking past what used to be the old bus office building and is now the trump hotel, which, i had to cross the street of course. [laughter] >> are you just saying that? >> god no. >> laura: triggered, as she was in the obama doj as well. from unc law school, he wants media efforts for al gore. he also worked for the bill clinton presidential transition team in the 1990s. a professor at harvard law school has been arguing for impeaching trump for years. he even once speculated that trump could be impeached over a tweet that he sent claiming obama had wiretapped his campaign. but beyond their bias, there was a nasty, bitter undercurrent that bubbled to the surface again from professor karlan. >> while the president can name his son baron, he can't make him a barren. >> laura: she later apologized but still couldn't resist taking a jab in her apology at the president. now, contrast those partisans with the g.o.p. witness. professor jonathan turley. he is not a trump supporter, he voted for clinton and obama. but that made his methodical takedown of the impeachment sham all the more convincing. speak of the record does not establish obstruction in this case. if you accept all of their presumptions, it would be obstruction. to impeach a president on this record would expose every future president to the same type of impeachment. if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. it's your abuse of power. >> laura: you know it's over when even the democrats' press are admitting this thing is a hard sell. >> the notion of having four academics in the broader goal that democrats have to pull the public along on the idea of impeachment, that can't be changing. >> laura: you know it's over when the democrats were hoping to invoke the founders. >> the founding father said, shall any man be above justice and alexander hamilton rode that high crimes and misdemeanors mean the abuse or violation of some public trust. >> john adams once rode to thomas jefferson. >> james madison said that impeachment was needed. >> he got a whole musical and we are just going to get this committee hearing. >> laura: are you just devastated that obama didn't put her on the supreme court? you've heard of school of rock, right? will they were starting in law school of rock. >> i don't think we have any idea what they would think. >> if you are going to make a case to george washington that you could impeach over a conversation he had with another head of state, i expect his powdered hair would catch on fire. it's a form of necromancy that academics do all the time. >> laura: nice use of the word necromancy. you know it's over when democrats, after all of their outlandish claims, still won't say how or even if they will vote. >> i'm going to reserve any kind of mode of public judgment. >> i'm going to reserve judgment. >> no decision has been made as to whether or not we go forward with impeachment. >> laura: maybe they are lying, i don't know. but a better explanation is that they want to give themselves an outcome or perhaps some wiggle room. got to see what those latest polls are looking like. they say the founders but what they are really relying on is focus groups. this thing has gone south and they all know it. but this has been a great 24 hours for trump and yesterday he was dominating agenda over at the nato summit, pushing for more member donations to pay their fair share. we all love that. last night he was mocked by foreign elites in london. today he was mocked by academic elites on capitol hill. chalk up another win for the white house. is there anyway we can get that lady from sanford to come back and lecture us some more tomorrow? and that is "the angle." joining me now our legal power panel, former whitewater deputy independent counsel. former student of pam karlan and trump 2020 advisor and attorney, constitutional scholar, senior fellow at the claremont institute. they are a bit has a lousy on the panel, the three democrat lawyers, the law professors are all friends. i agree with pam. did the democrats help themselves today? >> no, i don't think so. i think it was a really bad mistake, first of all, to have three against one because turley is very good. he's been doing this a long time. >> laura: he is a liberal, that is why he is really good. >> and old-fashioned liberal and he is very quotable. and you know, the fact that there was only one. they only let republicans have one person, particularly at the beginning, when the scholars were being questioned for 45 minutes. at the other three, aside from the substance of what they were saying, they were getting broken down. they each had a certain amount of time, whereas turley, who is very articulate, was just allowed to talk on and on and on and he made a tremendous amount of sense, so i think he definitely got the better of them. >> laura: i mean being mocked by justin trudeau yesterday in london, most people, that is great for trump. they've been trashing american presidents forever and now he is being mocked by the academic elite. how does that fly in all these battleground states? >> think the president thrives on it, first of all. that is his superpower and i think you are absolutely right. middle america, normal people do not count out and love what these foreign leaders are saying, disrespecting our president is really going to backfire on them. i and many americans love that he is demanding accountability from these wealthy foreign powers who are refusing to pay their fair share. >> laura: in the beginning of that phone call with zelensky, which gets overlooked, they were talking about the missiles and he said, these countries have got to pony up some more money. obviously much more close than the proximity of the united states. one democratic witness today compared trump to a cane, that tired old analogy. can you imagine it wasn't in a complementary way? watch. >> when the president asked for a favor he was using the royal we. it wasn't asking for a favor the united states. he should've said, do me a favor. only kings say "us" when they mean "me." >> laura: by the way, she seems extremely angry all the time. angry, bitter, angry, angry, bitter. >> if hillary had one make the election she might've been on the supreme court, who knows. this is almost as bad as a ridiculous comment about barron trump. the president's statement was due us a favor because our country has been through a lot lately and ukraine know something about it. we would like to get to the bottom of that. that has nothing to do with the royal we or anything else. maybe she didn't read the whole transcript. it's short. they are coming in with such a bias and an animosity and venom against the president that they can't even think straight. i was invited to be a witness by the republicans several weeks ago and it got blocked. i'm glad they went with jonathan turley because he's been the democrat go to guy for decades. i testified with him at a senate intelligence committee hearing back in the bush administration. he was on the opposite side of me. he did a tremendous job just kind of analyzing the legal analysis without the political bias in this thing. kudos to him. >> laura: i want to say something now, this is also from karlan and we are going to skip forward. she was asked about the timing of all of this, and if it's so important, why the rush question require they rushing this to say you had academic witnesses today. and she basically waved off any concern about rushing because of next year's election. watch. >> i think the evidence to this point shows that the per resident is soliciting foreign involvement in our election, you need to act now to prevent foreign interference in the next election like the one we had in the past. >> laura: it's urgent. must act because apparently ukraine and russia and china are all now helping trump. >> this is one of the real problems they have, which i thought turley did a really good job with this. at the rush. you know, they don't even know, they haven't even written the articles of impeachment yet. the intelligence committee report that all of these three professors had read it was not even prepared 24 hours before the testimony. that is just unheard of and i just think it hurts them and they don't have a good explanation. >> laura: ap reporting tonight that although no date has been set, the democrats are hoping for a christmas time on removing the 45th president. is a stark partisan undertaking. a situation pelosi had hoped to avoid but now seems inevitable. by the way, they are throwing in robert mueller. they might throw him in the mix as well. they must've watched my impeachment angle last night. >> this is desperation. they don't have enough of anybody or even put together enough. and the desperation shows. i can say in a real court these people would not be allowed to testify even as expert witnesses. no knowledge, we don't know what the facts are, unable to get beyond the law, and it really shows. interrelated the right thing, which is stepping back from their myopic vision and what harm they are doing to the constitution because these are the new rules that are going to happen to every future preside president. >> and more portly, turley says and i agree, this is not a perfect phone call to him. he is disturbed by the phone call, as i am, too. but guess what? >> laura: i am not disturbed by it in the slightest. >> i know you are not, but i am. on the point is people can disagree about that and still realize that you can't impeach a president of the united states a year before the election based on this. >> they can vote him out if they don't like it. >> laura: 11 months from now. as i mentioned just a few moments ago, nadler laid the groundwork. you listen closely, for resurrecting. people are going to think this is just ridiculous. like a fantasy. the mueller report from the grave. watch. >> president trump welcomed foreign interference in the 2016 election. he demanded it for the 2020 election. on july 24th, the special counsel testified before this committee. he implored us to see the nature of the threat to our country. >> laura: adam schiff said this investigation is ongoing, by the way. over in the house intel, so this may be a rolling investigation. maybe they will keep it rolling, maybe not christmastime. kick it over to the new year and see how that works out for them. >> maybe we ought to look at adam schiff actually digging out the phone record on john solomon. this is an extraordinary violation of constitutional rights that adam schiff has now admitted to. jerry nadler and professor carlin made this point, and it's a laughingstock point. that trump invited russian hacking when he said hillary destroyed the emails on her private server. maybe we should ask the russians for them. the notion -- they are making this into the big lie that he somehow invited the russian hacking, which is utter nonsense. he was making a laughable joke about hillary keeping emails on a private server that every government of the world had access to because it was unsecured. it would be laughable if it wasn't so deadly serious, and what they are doing, undermining this country. the president is over at a nato meeting and they are pulling this crap. this is stunning to me. >> laura: i will say it again, any time the president of the united states can be mocked the way he was by academic elites. he looks like he is right out of nicholas nickleby from 1997. one is angry and the other one is flat and boring. i think people are watching this and going, how are the patriots doing? what is going on with the saints game? >> the appearance of this, they did themselves no favors, politically. who wants to hear professors prattle on? >> laura: what i love is they are always undermining the framers, the founders. as old dead white guys. then today, as george washington said in his farewell address. >> they were all originalists today, so that was refreshing. but ideology aside, the utter stupidity of bringing barron trump in is just mind-boggling to me. >> let me tell you, that is who she is. that was a planned and choreographed line. that was a set up question, she knew she was going to say it. she got applause. absolutely. >> from the stanford law faculty room. >> laura: exactly. thank you very much. a real legal eagles. two key testimonies that could've heard the democrats. a member of the judiciary committee, and a member of the clinton impeachment is here to respond. henry says yes, he is here with exclusive reporting next. >> tech: so you think this chip is nothing to worry about? 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"the washington post" is reporting that the caucus erupted in shouts of yea approval when she said this. but our moderate democrats really on board? joining me now with exclusive insight, fox news chief national correspondent ed henry, host of "america's news headquarters with ed henry." what are you hearing from your resources tonight? >> i talked to several senior republicans and they told me that they think this hearing went so poorly for the majority. the g.o.p. leaders are hopeful they are going to get even more democrats voting no on articles of impeachment beyond the two democrats who voted no on opening this inquiry last month. the only two democrats to break with their party and vote no, remember, tom peterson of minnesota, jeff andrew of new jersey. he told minnesota public radio at the time what i've said all along is that you can't do this with one party. it's not smart, it's not going to work. if this is handled incorrectly it will reelect trump. that's what i think. republicans tonight including jim jordan, who i spoke to a few moments ago, think even more trump leaning democrats will agree with that sentiment and vote against articles because jerry nadler today opened the door to drafting a least one article of impeachment based on the mueller report. that article would be based on obstruction of justice charges that were never proven. remember, mueller decided not to make a recommendation one way or another. he also raised questions about the legitimacy of the probe by noting how quickly democrats are rushing through it. peter baker of "the new york times" noted today that the house impeach president bill clinton 101 days after receiving the starr report. we are now just 71 days after >> nancy pelosi opened up the inquiry. it's likely to go faster than the clinton inquiry. interesting that even some of the mainstream media are raising questions about the fairness of this. the image of three of the four witnesses being so strongly anti-trump, then the democrats largely skipping him over, he says it something that may stick with independent voters, wondering why democrats decided to stack the witness table. that if they are so sure of their narrative, so sure that they have the president on impeachment, they would be willing to test it before dissenting voices. instead it seems like democrats are sticking to the narrative. >> laura: fascinating. i did look like a bit of a pig pile, three against one. people will always like the underdog but he came across very incredible, i thought. good to see you. there was an important moment involving g.o.p. witness jonathan turley that did expose how impeachment norms were recognized during past inquiries have been completely abandoned. he made a distinction between this impeachment effort and those involving nixon and clinton. >> those were not just proven crimes, they were accepted crimes. even the democrats on the judiciary committee agreed that bill clinton had committed perjury. in the case of nixon, the crimes were established. nobody seriously disagreed with those crimes. >> laura: joining me now, he also served as house impeachment manager, i remember this well because i was interviewing him then when i was on another network. during all of that, all of those shenanigans back then. congressman, you are one of the few sane members of congress that can speak to the left. what are your thoughts on what we saw today? >> it was a farce and a sham. democrats keep redefining what a high crime and misdemeanor is. it all started with president zelensky. the quote, "can you do me a favor? that has now become abuse of power, asking someone to give you a favor. you compare that with a nixon impeachment and clinton impeachment where there were actual crimes being alleged, and the independent counsel in the nixon impeachment outlined what crimes there were. donald trump has committed no crime and they want to impeachment him because he asked zelensky to do him a favor, what a joke. >> laura: pam carter, professor of one of the top law schools in the united states made this comment about abuse of power. watch. >> drawing of a foreign government into our election is an especially serious abuse of power because it undermines democracy itself. >> undoing an election year before the next election undoes democracy. 63 million people voted for donald trump. he was duly elected. and this cabal, which influenced jerry nadler and schiff, right from the time trump put his hand off the bible and gave his speech, they said impeachment starts now. the lawyer for the so-called whistleblower called it a coup. democracies don't have coups, and i think we are protecting democracy by saying, hey, high crime and misdemeanor has got to mean something, rather than this moving target based on focus groups that the democrats are using. >> laura: she keeps saying that the president was drawing foreign powers into the u.s. election. at one point, as i played on "the angle," she is referencing the chinese, the russians and the ukrainians. to draw foreign interference, that is a classic definition of abuse of power. >> i don't think the president was doing that. with ukraine we have an assistance treaty. and joseph biden, when he was bragging about the fact that he held up a billion dollars, they fired the prosecutor within six hours. he was doing something that was more abusive when he was vice president than donald trump has ever been alleged to. now, if ukraine has evidence of any violation of law by a u.s. citizen, they are to cooperate with us and vice versa. it's not just getting the prosecutor fire. there are questions about corrupt practices act -- >> laura: apparently the democrats want to throw all that out the window. foreign countries, regardless of corruption, despite the fact that fiona hill was supposed to be the be-all, end-all of stopping corruption in a foreign country. that is what it is amazing, if you are running for office in a future presidential election and you do something that is perhaps not kosher when you were vice president, then you can never be investigated. apparently you can never have questions asked. full immunity. that is what it is amazing to m. >> it is amazing and if joe biden were not running for president he better lawyer up because i think he would be in big trouble. >> laura: a clerk for thomas, that is my little, in my view, better justice but he was up there saying that the fact that the white house would not turn over a single document or email or text message or appear demonstrates obstruction of congress, obstruction of justice that is very, very serious. let's watch. >> a president who says, as this president did say, i will not cooperate in any way, shape, or form with your process robs a coordinate branch of government, robs the house of representatives of its basic constitutional power of impeachment. >> why should anybody turn over documents to a group of people that have wanted from day one to kick you out of office and reverse with the voters decided in 2016. there are lots of privilege, lots of executive privilege involved in that. >> laura: did you hear it says it robs you and the house of your constitutional prerogative. speak of the president has constitutional prerogatives, too. jerry nadler and adam schiff really don't care about them. >> laura: when i watch this today it reminded me of why law school should've been like like, one year. you had to sit there and be lectured by people, what was it like in the room? jerry nadler was dozing off and we caught him on camera. >> this was like an eight and a half hour law school lecture. i graduated from law school over 50 years ago and was admitted to the wisconsin bar. i do not expect going to congress would send me back to law school. i went to law school today, and at least the three democrat witnesses simplified everything on major constitutional issues. >> laura: do you think there is buyers remorse from some of the moderate democrats? you probably speak across the partisan file every now and then with them. what is your sense? >> there sure is buyers remorse because the 31 democrats who represent districts that trump carried in the 2016 election think that because nancy pelosi is leading them off a cliff that they are going to be the ones that are not going to be reelected because i think that the defining issue in the 2020 election is the overreach that pelosi and schiff, and jerry nadler dead on impeachment. we need to have adam schiff appear. when he wrote the report that the democrats are using, jerry nadler had robert mueller to present his report. if mueller can do that, why can't schiff? >> laura: congressman, have a good holiday if i don't see you. merry christmas. coming up, revealing analysis of how the witnesses' style might have impacted their arguments today. and the lady under fire yet again for her wardrobe. i kid you not. raymond arroyo joins us next with all the details. seen and unseen. ♪ >> laura: it's time for seen and unseen where we expose the big cultural stories of the day. the style of these witnesses, and it must be christmas because the media, they are hitting the first lady again. joining us with all the details, unsavory as they are, fox news contributor, you notice the style of today's impeachment witnesses? >> i did. >> laura: why is that so important with all the founders being cited customer >> because this is basically a political exercise. >> laura: it is a performance. >> and they are trying to win over the viewers. and you are never going to win if they can't get past your style. look at noah feldman, who adopted what i'd like to call the charles dickens approach. >> my job is to study and to teach the constitution from its origins until the president. words high crimes and misdemeanors refer to abuse of the office of the presidency. again, the words abuse of office are not mystical or magical. they are very clear. shall any man be above justice. >> he desperately needs to reach out to masterpiece theatre. somewhere there is a jane austen villain waiting for him. >> laura: nicholas nickleby. >> from the '40s. you can't be that imperious and win people over sitting home, getting home from work in the afternoon. >> laura: .color, what is it called? >> then stanford professor and liberal leader got indignant when doug collins questioned whether she read the 30 page schiff report. she tried to, can you hear me, i am talking approach. >> i am insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor i don't care about the facts. i've been giving a lot of money to charity recently because of all the poor people in the united states. i spent all of thanksgiving vacation sitting there reading these transcripts. >> i don't think you are obligated to say anything about how we should discuss a ballot. >> laura: pleading never works. that is a man's idea of an audio nightmare. watching that. i thought that today. nobody likes to be yelled at and she kind of yelled and jacked through the whole proceeding. >> laura: she is unhappy. this is not a fact-based inquiry. this is speculative legal reasoning. >> laura: this is a 30 page report beautifully it was 30 pages. she was like, how dare you question me? >> and he tried the entire insurance salesman page. >> our generation pledged their lives and fortunes for a monarch who many saw as corrupt, tyrannical, and entitled to do no wrong. the house judiciary committee in 1974 approved three articles of impeachment against richard nixon, who resigned a few days later. >> okay. >> laura: what do you have? oh, we are back. well, it's nearly christmas in the first lady unveiled the white house christmas decorations this year, and amazingly, the media is not attacking the decorations as they have in the years past but they are attacking -- >> her jacket. "the washington post" fashion credit called the jacket ridiculous writing, "more than a silly fashion folly, the code is a distraction. it is a discomforting affectation taken to a ludicrous extreme. that a simple flourish exudes cold, dismissive aloofness." >> laura: such a hater. >> we are now politicizing a jacket thrown over the first lady's shoulders. by the way, the political venom that they hurl at this first lady, unbelievable. >> laura: today, barron trump, and her apology is not accepted, and then a melania's code. they've been hitting melania for the whole time. it's the same writer, i think we wrote about in the obama diaries. speak at the same writer who praises michelle obama. she could show up in a shower curtain and she would get garlands. during her recent book to her, obama wrote this and she wrote, "michelle obama can wear whatever she wants now. what she wants now is a sparkly thigh-high boots. it wasn't just an eye-catching ensemble. it was fashion, fashion, fashion." i'm not going to comment on this. i'm not a fashion expert. >> laura: neither am i. >> i'm going to let the audience decide. what looks more fashion to you and what looks like a silly fashion folly. go. >> laura: i'm not a fashion expert but i will let the viewers decide. >> i resent the idea and i think she got it right when she said, where the other first ladies coming out and defending? >> laura: why is it laura bush speaking? >> any of these women could come up and say first ladies are off-limits. this lady spend from july until now decorating the white house. >> laura: how many magazine covers has melania been on? michelle obama was on everything. >> melania leaving trump was probably on a cover. pitch that narrative. >> laura: no, but that robin is such a partisan hater. she can't stand trump. >> when you spend that time at the white house, there is a gold star in the spirit of patriotism. salute the patriotism. >> laura: they are not fun, they are not funny, they take themselves so seriously. and all these people who obsess all day long about trump, get a life. raymond, thank you so much. up next, the elite versus trump. both at home and abroad. dan bongino and chris hahn debate it next. . but this, this is the future. the future of communicating of hearing and connecting with life. and this, is eargo. no appointments no waiting no hassles. and they are practically invisible in your ear. now you see it. now you don't. if you have hearing loss now is the time to do something about it. because denying you have hearing loss, well that's the old way ♪ >> laura: we first played that for you last night but since then it has gotten even better. a fantastic 24 hours for this president. first, he infuriated foreign elites for making them late to a cocktail party. that is why they were really mad. then he was attacked by these unhinged partisan, bitter, angry academics who think he should be impeached for a phone call. >> president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. >> bribery, soliciting personal favor, obstructing justice, and obstructing congress. >> used the powers of his office to demand a foreign government participate in undermining up competing candidate for the presidency. >> laura: i wonder whom the american people will side with. here to debate, dan bongino, former secret service agent. author of "exonerated." and chris hahn host of the aggressive progressive podcast. i think this probably goes down as one of the top three or four best 24 hours for the president and the last six months. >> seriously, if it was legal the president should cut a check to these three. they were like central casting characters out of a movie about snobs like bonfire, i mean, jerry nadler, i didn't think anybody could get more incompetent than adam schiff but jerry nadler has rapidly prove me wrong. let's get away from the three snobby law school professors who thought it was funny to attack the president's teenage child, but on the other front, do you actually believe democrats out there that justin trudeau, their dislike of the president is a negative for a mechanic in pennsylvania oracle minor in west virginia? good luck with that approach. you are making same mistake you made in 2016. >> laura: they called him reagan, they showed up by the hundreds of thousands in germany when he made his final trip. they can't stand reagan or most republican presidents. looking at the panel today, three against one, that was cute, but do you really think -- take your democrat hat off. just visually, getting lectured by three liberal law professors is really what was going to tip the balance for the democrats today? >> this is part of the impeachment process. it happened during nixon's impeachment. it happened during the clinton impeachment. in fact, two of these professors were on the panel during the clinton impeachment to talk about the constitutionality of impeachment. >> laura: that was after the starr report came out. >> there is no starr report. this is after the schiff report. a moment in time. it went so bad for doug collins, the ranking member today, that the governor made a movie about him donating to the seat that the president won, that is how badly they looked at the hearing. it's amazing. >> laura: nobody's going to follow that. let me tell you what some of those in the democratic party are saying about getting back to the look of this spectacle today. watch. >> what subliminal message are we sending to the world when we have experts but not one person of color. are we saying that there are no people of color? >> laura: that is what al sharpton was saying about the next democratic debate. no person of color about the debate. he said, we played that last night on the show, now agreeing, saying this about the hearing today. >> let me first say this, the point about doug collins was idiotic for that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. but for me to give advice to democrats, identity politics, i warned them a long time ago on my show and elsewhere, it is inherently cannibalistic. it eats itself and you are seeing it now. you're seeing the implosion in hollywood, you see democrats now attack each other because he didn't have either a black, and asia, or a hispanic. a law professor who was as snobby as the white professor. this is absurd, it is a total disaster for the democrats. >> laura: this is major garrett on cbs talking about what the candidates are finding and what they are finding going out into middle america, asking what voters care about. watch. >> polling in the campaign that shows when they present this question to independents who are not even aligned with president trump, would you rather have congress working on things you care about or impeachment, and the are very strong. get back to work. >> laura: get back to work. any concerns they are that this may be one big, huge backfire? speak of the house has passed 400 bills, including 250 or so that were bipartisan bills, sitting on mitch mcconnell's desk. if anyone can get back to work it is mitch mcconnell and the senate, who are just the graveyard to the legislation that the house of representatives, in a bipartisan fashion, has passed, so i agree, the senate should get to work right now. >> laura: so you are fine with u.s. nta being stalled out. you are fine with that. pelosi used to be for that but you are fine with that. by the way, the senate is back to work. they confirmed four new federal judges today. >> that is all they do. that is all they do, whatever they want him to do. the federal society of the senate. >> laura: our white house counsel is better at it than your white house counsel was and that is why they are dominating. >> i'm not arguing with that. >> laura: okay, good. okay. don't go away. i will be answering your emails into night ingram inbox when we return. every chip will crack. these friends were on a trip when their windshield got chipped. so they scheduled at safelite.com. they didn't have to change their plans or worry about a thing. i'll see you all in a little bit. and i fixed it right away with a strong repair they can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. >> customer: really?! >> tech: being there whenever you need us that's another safelite advantage. >> singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. i'm finding it hard to stay on a faster laptop could help. plus, tech support to stay worry free. worry free...boom boom! get free next business day shipping or ...1 hour in-store pick up shopping season solved at office depot officemax or officedepot.com. >> ♪ >> laura: don't you love that graphic? ingraham's inbox. the first email from from jody. my fear is that the horowitz report will be a comey and clinton repeat. we are tired of this routine. am i wrong? i don't know if you are wrong. it probably won't be everything you hoped for but there will be choice nuggets. he can't prosecute. john, politics found the way to our thanksgiving dinner table. i have fewer names to buy for on the christmas list. stop using the word great. every sean hannity show is not great. every panel is not great. i implore you to stop. that is a great idea! that's all the time we have. shannon bream and the fox news @ night team take it if here. we will have a terrific show. >> shannon: everyone someone asks me about going to law school, i say don't do it. >> laura: think long and hard. >> shannon: good advice. thank you very much. welcome to fox news @ night. i am shannon bream. in washington we begin with the fox news alert. are any lawmakers swayed? how about you. nancy pelosi moving the house to a christmas time vote. will senator mike lee