Internet applauds Pelosi's silent statements during Trump's State of the Union

This is a rush transcript from "The Ingraham Angle," February 6, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

LAURA INGRAHAM, HOST: Great show, great coverage last night. I'm Laura Ingraham, this is the Ingraham Angle from DC, another show chock-full of news that you can't miss. By the way, what about believe all women? Right? They said that.

At least until they came after one of their own, of course. We're going to expose the shocking double standard swamping the Virginia Democratic Party tonight plus despite being a victim of gun violence, Congressman Steve Scalise will tell us tonight that the Democrats are refusing to let him testify, get this, at a gun violence hearing.

He's going to testify here, later on in an hour. And Raymond Arroyo is here to discuss the media's lionization of Nancy Pelosi after her pathetic antics, was she reading a Chinese menu, I don't know, you be the judge, last night.

Plus a modern art installation that is attacking a member of the first family, you will not believe it. It involves a vacuum cleaner and that's all on Seen and unseen which is also coming up but first, the great disrupter becomes the great unifier, that's the focus of tonight's Angle.

As the President has discovered, being a disrupter has its personal downsides, whether it's the border wall or troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan, the swamp is committed to holding him back.

The antagonism he continues to face from his political opponents is vicious but as we saw last night, when they are calmly confronted with clarity, they're often flummoxed. Trump has co-opted some of their big issues like fair trade, criminal justice reform and opposition to endless military interventionism.

Now last night, Trump though tried to find some common cause.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise and the common good.

We can bridge all divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions and unlock the extraordinary promise of America's future.

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INGRAHAM: Nancy Pelosi smirk notwithstanding last night, the President did something few expected. He attempted to unify the country, he was even magnanimous toward his most hostile critics, giving the ghost gals the throng of white suited lefties their do.

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TRUMP: Don't sit yet, you're going to like this. We also have more women serving in Congress than at anytime before.

CROWD: USA - USA.

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INGRAHAM: The President accomplished something there that his enemies may have missed there. Now while they were clearly chanting USA as a celebration of themselves, Trump got them to take up the refrain usually reserved for you know, his rallies.

Now for a moment even the Democrats experienced what so many Americans around the country of experience at a Trump rally, a sense of vibrant community, a patriotic chanting together, not something nasty but something positive, our country.

But the good feelings didn't last too long. NPR repaid the President's magnanimity with a phony fact check where they insisted that the number of women in Congress was "almost entirely because of Democrats, not Trump's party." Speaker Pelosi attempted to make the same insipid point.

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REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: He forgot to acknowledge that there's only 15, what is it? 15 Republicans in 91 Democratic women in the Congress of the United States. It was - it was like weird you're bringing this up.

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INGRAHAM: Now this is a woman who looks like she was reading a menu at a Chinese restaurant during the speech and she's saying that was weird. The President never said we have more Republican women serving in Congress than any time before.

He only saluted the fact that there were more women serving. I guess some people can't even take a compliment but it doesn't matter, I think because the American people saw the President trying to reach out.

They also saw a side of him that often gets lost, the caring grandfatherly and yes, even tender side of Donald Trump.

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TRUMP: Joining Melania in the gallery this evening is a very brave ten- year-old girl, Grace Eline. Every birthday -

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INGRAHAM: He saluted our World War II veterans, Holocaust survivors and Buzz Aldrin. It was a thoroughly American evening where people felt good about the country and I think just the average person not the jaded people in Washington LA and New York but the regular folks, they just reveled in seeing our heroes from decades ago and even some new ones.

Once or twice the President even managed to get both sides of the aisle to rise in support of a legislative agenda and an item that some people laughed at a year ago including Paul Ryan, paid family leave.

Look at Chuck Schumer even jumping to his feet.

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TRUMP: I'm also proud to be the first President to include in my budget a plan for nationwide paid family leave.

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INGRAHAM: Now when it was over, I think the left was kind of grasping for something, anything, please help them, give them something to criticize.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That the President of the United States at this moment in the world did not mention climate change in even a sentence is just frankly a disgrace.

VAN JONES, CNN HOST, THE VAN JONES SHOW: There were soldiers who were transgender, who have been thrown out of the military, he didn't mention them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the same speech Donald Trump always gives.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is an angry, racist platform that has been surrounded by sweet stories and World War II veterans.

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INGRAHAM: Oh my God, I mean, they sounded so ridiculous like sex trafficking and criminal justice reform and we're going to get into this but that is just dishonest, it's ridiculous for them to say that.

What the State of the Union did was remind the American people of how much good the President has done over the last two years, not perfect but he's done a lot of good things, not only economically either, it's not what I'm talking about.

Also on foreign policy which he's derided for by the smart set over at MSNBC and also for the cause of life, the most vulnerable among us. The speech vividly revealed the contrast between his vibrant policies that are very clear and the pale, colorless agenda of the Left.

Now they're now the party of what, think about the left, the Democrats, infanticide, open borders, drug legalization, racializing politics, everybody's a racist, right? Banning cars, the green agenda and for some, socialism.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's your view of your party's drift, not entirely but in many prominent members towards socialism?

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, D-N.Y., SENATE MINORITY LEADER: I wouldn't quite call it socialism. There are others who want to leave a little more to the private sector.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Democratic Socialists.

SCHUMER: But yes, but the bottom line is that all of us believe that when you look at the State of the Union on the economy, it's not good for middle-class families and so you know, you have to focus on what's really happening here and the President is just not doing that.

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INGRAHAM: It's a softer version of socialism, Schumer style. Well, the President may not have United Congress last night but he unified many, I think out there watching, the American people by kind of pulling off the mask off some of these naysayers, the negativity purveyors, the Democratic Party today during that speech.

And it was - it was kind of long, people were saying it was too long but I got texts from people saying, they wanted it to go on longer, they loved the stories and they loved the hope in that speech.

And I think many saw perhaps for the first time, the reality of what the Left represents and how opposed they are to the common-sense good policies that Trump has brought to Washington. The petulance and the nastiness that Democrats displayed last night, I think is going to be remembered well into 2020.

So will Donald Trump's confident kindness, but don't worry, the Dems were hard at work trying to repair their reputations today. As the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler chalked up a big win for his party, he eliminated the ‘so help me God' line from the hearing's swearing-in until well, a Republican colleague insisted that he put it back in.

Heck of a job, Jerry. You go knock yourself out, he was trying to eat away at the fabric of America. I think most of the country would rather celebrate our traditions as Donald Trump did last night and that's the Angle.

All right, joining me now with reaction Fox News contributor Dan Bongino; Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary under Bush 43 and Dave Bossie, former deputy campaign manager for Trump.

Ari, I want to start with you. You were at so many of these State of the Union speeches over the years. Now I think thinking about it, it wasn't just that the President you know de-delivered, he delivered the rhetoric and the examples.

I think the other storyline is how much the Democrats seemed just immature, the word petulant and childish and self-absorbed comes to mind, out of step with the rest of the country.

ARI FLEISCHER, FORMER WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Yes, they wouldn't even cheering when the President was talking about how unemployment for African- Americans and Hispanics is at an all-time low, growth for middle-income, wage earners, 10-year high, they wouldn't applaud for that because of the bitterness of not being able to acknowledge that Donald Trump has led the economy in a good direction.

You know Laura, I went back and I'm trying to look at the arc of Democratic opposition and it started the moment President Trump was elected, they said not my President. Immediately the streets of Fifth Avenue, protesters, resistance, a term that was used against the Nazis in France and then you go to attempts to get the electoral college to undo the results of the election.

And then a record 65 Democrats, one-third of the Democratic caucus boycotted the President's inaugural. He's never had a chance with these Democrats, no matter what he does and when you talk about breaking norms in Washington, this is a huge part of it that media doesn't like to talk about that Democrats have been the ones who led that edge in breaking those norms.

INGRAHAM: Yes, the olive branch, he reaches out with it, the President and it's snapped off by them before he even gets going with it. Dave Bossie, it's not just you know what Ari said, it's this resistance, the revolution, stop, obstruct, demonize.

They're now comparing him in just like casual manner to Richard Nixon as they did today on Morning Joe, let's watch.

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TRUMP: If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation, it just doesn't work that way.

RICHARD NIXON, FORMER PRESIDENT: One year of Watergate is enough.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Wow, so would you call that Trump's Nixon moment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I wouldn't call it - I would call that Trump goes to Nixon. Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, full Nixon.

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DAVID BOSSIE, FORMER TRUMP DEPUTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER: That's ridiculous, look, there's a big difference here, there's been no evidence of collusion. This investigation has been going on for two years, not one shred of evidence, not one scintilla of evidence that shows any collusion between us, the Trump campaign, the President -

INGRAHAM: Well, I would say they're similar though, I mean, they're trying to - they have a lot of bodies working over there at that show so they can cut like okay, you go cut this, I'll try to find and so they're working overtime to rush it but I don't think it's connecting.

It connects maybe with ‘The New Yorker' said, the people who read New Yorker and have it in their bathroom -

BOSSIE: Well, they want to say that this President is trying to intimidate, this President is trying to do -

INGRAHAM: They were threatening. They said last night at The Midnight Show, Dave - they said Brad Sherman sat here, I'm glad he came on from California but he said, they were threatening us, rather the President was, he was threatening us.

I said what? What did you watch?

BOSSIE: Yes, he was - these people have Trump derangement syndrome, they hate the President more than they love the country, it's - you could see it, what Ari was talking about as far as the applause, the bitterness, the anger, the hatred since election day.

We saw those mobs in the streets in the New York.

INGRAHAM: Did he have to mention the investigation, why mention it at all?

BOSSIE: No, I think - I think, you know what, I think it's a good thing because the President understands what the American people are hearing every day from the fake news. It's one of the things that this President has done is educate the American people on the fake news and this President has said enough is enough and there's been no evidence, none whatsoever that he's done anything wrong.

INGRAHAM: All right, Dan Bongino, another moment, Adam Schiff and the President went back and forth today. Again this is the glow of the State of the Union so they have following on the State of the Union, it didn't feel very glowy to me, let's watch.

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REP. ADAM SCHIFF, D-CALIF.: Allow us to investigate any credible allegation that financial interests or other interests are driving decision-making of the President or anyone in the administration. The American people have a right to know and indeed have a need to know.

TRUMP: Did you say Adam Schiff?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Adam Schiff.

TRUMP: Oh, never heard of him. He has no basis to do that.

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INGRAHAM: Oh, we cut out, he said, it that he's a partisan hack. Yes, he's a partisan hack, Dan. Partisan hack the day after State of the Union Adams Schiff's basically is like, we're going to turn over every document, we're going after your businesses, going after your family, going after - it's way beyond Russian collusion.

DAN BONGINO, HOST, THE DAN BONGINO SHOW PODCAST: Yes, I think the President was being nice calling him partisan hack, he's a loser, he's a discredited Adam Schiff, third-rate conspiracy theorist who has - Laura, let me ask you a question, what has Adam Schiff been right about, about the Russian collusion probe, anybody on the panel, has Adam Schiff said anything about the collusion hoax that is actually anything.

Does anyone out there in the audience have anything that Adam Schiff, an utterance from his lying lips that has actually turned out to be true. Now what's really disgraceful is he did it the day after the State of the Union which - what I thought was a really terrific speech.

I generally think these speeches come and go but I think he really moved the needle. It's probably just temporary but he did a good job and what did Schiff do? He's got to go back to his debunked nonsensical conspiracy theories because Laura, he's embarrassed, he's been on other networks, trumpeting these nonsense theories for months.

None of them have come true and he's got a safe face so now he's on to Trump's financial records.

INGRAHAM: He's looking for an assist from the Southern District, he's like help me out Southern District of New York, we got to do something, you got to give me something, give me some document, give me some you know, intense -

Give me some intention to leak a garage.

BONGINO: What else have you got? It's be Trump got a parking ticket next, it will be his driving record.

BOSSIE: It's exactly right, it's the continuation of trying to delegitimize this President since election day to Ari's point and that's all they have, they have nothing else but to try to damage him because it's all politics to them.

INGRAHAM: I think, his numbers are pretty good. I mean people think all those numbers were low and you took a dip, Ari, a month ago or so. His numbers had gone down, you know you don't want them to go below 40, you just don't.

I mean you know that from Bush in 2006 when his numbers started to go down, that was a warning sign for the 2006, excuse me, midterms and it was a disaster for Republicans, you don't - you can't just blow off the approval numbers.

You do have to keep them up. I think this speech last night, I think it did though, I think it showed him as very hopeful and optimistic. I think people want optimism about the future of the country and there was stuff that Democrats can work with him on if they're honest.

FLEISCHER: But Laura you're - you're raising a fundamental issue and make no mistake, the President's numbers are not good. In an economy this strong, the President's numbers are quite low and the reason is because the President has also made himself a bit of a bull in a china shop and everywhere he goes he brings a china shop with him.

And there's one thing to be the outsider who came to Washington to disrupt, the other is if he goes too far and never allows himself to grow over the middle and to bring in independence and centrist.

Last night's speech was very good in that sense but it can't just be a once a year event and that's the issue with the President. He's got the base, the base is loyal, the base is solid but I wish he had a base plus strategy and get more people in the middle of the country to beat for that.

INGRAHAM: I think, you need those independents, they have to show up for you.

FLEISCHER: Right.

INGRAHAM: You need the base that's why you got to get that wall built, National Emergency, I think it's good we're going in that direction. Got to get that wall built, you just have to do it, there's no ifs ands or buts about that.

But I got to say, Ari's making a great point, both you and Dan, I want you to quickly comment on this. You need to reinforce this message and I'm going to say this every night until they come on, where is Ben Carson? I saw him at the State of the Union.

Where is Rick Perry? These guys have to be out pushing the President's agenda, they are not doing it, why?

BOSSIE: The President's doing a great job.

INGRAHAM: He can't do it alone.

BOSSIE: I know and his team needs to be out there -

INGRAHAM: Cannot do it alone.

BOSSIE: - helping him more.

INGRAHAM: Reagan's cabinet was all over the place.

BOSSIE: The 5.2 million new jobs, 3 -

INGRAHAM: Numbers don't move the needle.

BOSSIE: No, but that's what the Democrats are trying to run against. Look, they're trying to say the economy is broken, we need to do more for the middle class and this President is delivering.

INGRAHAM: But what did he do? He connected emotionally last night with people.

BOSSIE: Of course, he did.

INGRAHAM: You need the emotional connection, Dan. Dan, you have a lot of emotion, that's why you connect with the Fox News viewers but you bring passion, they want to see passion not just directing I think to Ari's point, hitting - the hitting shift, it feels good to call him a partisan hack, it does feel good, I get it feels good when I said but you know as the President, focus on the American people that's what he did last night.

Dan, final word.

BONGINO: Yes, well, the President understands politics are two things, it's snapshots and sound bites, it's good photos and it's good sound bites. What was the President's soundbite last night?

You were born free and what will remain free as U.S. citizens. What was the snapshot for the Democrats? Sitting on their hands while he was talking about preventing the late term death and destruction of infant children from the womb, that's a snapshot I don't think the Democrats really want.

I think the President gets that.

INGRAHAM: We're going to see how this all develops, he's going to El Paso on Monday, we'll be covering it here on the Ingraham Angle, very smart move, keep it going. I would hit the road today though, I would have gone right on the road today, that's what Bush and Obama did and I think next time, next year.

It was a great speech. All right, a sexual assault accusations, of course they're swirling around Virginia, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax. Now where are the Democratic senators though who demanded Kavanaugh's head on a platter just a few months ago.

Where are they? Michelle Malkin on that next.

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SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN, D-MASS.: I believe Dr. Ford.

SEN. KAMALA HARRIS, D-CALIF.: And it's going to be about listening to what each party has to say but I believe her.

SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, D-N.Y.: She told the truth and that was very clear. I think he wasn't telling the truth and I don't believe him.

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INGRAHAM: Now has anyone heard from those 2020 contenders and the rest of the #metoo brigade. Now that a fellow Democrat is embroiled in sexual assault allegations. The ‘believe all women' mantra has hit a new snag though, hasn't it?

Now the Democratic rising star Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax is himself accused of a serious sexual assault. Now we at the Ingraham Angle have been consistent in our cause for due process, don't rush to judgment.

I don't like when people do that. I don't care what your political party is and Fairfax deserves the same but just five months after the Kavanagh smear job, I can't help but find the Democrats contortions on this issue very amusing.

Joining me now a conservative commentator Michelle Malkin and Democratic strategist Monique Presley. Michelle, we'll start with you now aside from Cory Booker who did say today that these accusations need to be investigated, where are the women? I mean, Elizabeth Warren's busy on the you know, the Indian stuff but where's - where's Kamala Harris and Gillibrand?

MICHELLE MALKIN, CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR: Yes, where are they, they're AWOL and they're sitting in some corner, hiding from the few intrepid independent journalists in the Beltway who dare ask those questions.

There was a very amusing video from the daily callers, Henry Rogers hounding Bernie Sanders who had to pretend to be on the phone to try and avoid those questions and Cory Booker only addressed it again after being hounded by independent journalists who are doing the work that most of the mainstream media won't do.

Now belatedly, we're finding out, I believe it was ABC News that reported that a Democratic state legislator Bobby Scott was apparently informed of these allegations a year ago. I join your expression, Laura of carefulness in dealing with any of these allegations because over the last several years, I've made it one of my missions to -

INGRAHAM: Fairness.

MALKIN: - talk about the consequences of false allegations but in this case, the question is, was there a cover-up and was the mainstream media complicit.

INGRAHAM: Now that's an entirely different and new wrinkle on this case and we're following up on that. Monique, how does this work in the Democrat Party today. I am confused because I've consistently said, you can't do this, you can't destroy someone's career based on a 30-year old costume or based on an allegation that nobody can corroborate it.

So he said she said unless there's something else that we don't know and these allegations against Fairfax are really gross. I mean, I'm not going read them on the air, other networks are doing that tonight. I refuse to do that but isn't there a double standard here with the Dems?

MONIQUE PRESSLEY, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Well, there's not a double standard until they come out and say something that's different than what was said where Kavanaugh is concerned or different than what was said where Al Franken was concerned.

I mean, if anybody's got a double standard, it's the Republicans who are right now saying sexual assault allegation, he should resign, he should resign. I never heard any of those things. I agree, you've been consistent and I think my records pretty consistent on the fact that I believe there should be due process and I believe that you have to have corroboration.

So I don't think any of us disagree about that, this is something that should be taken seriously and something that should be investigated.

INGRAHAM: The old sound bites don't lie though, they were rushing to the camera when a Supreme Court seat was on the line. I mean, they had to get with it. The document was leaked out of the Senate, it found its way to ‘The Washington Post' and then Brett Kavanaugh was there talking about what he did when he was 17 years old.

That's how that worked.

PRESSLEY: Because the time was so short and if -

INGRAHAM: Then why is Bobby Scott - why did Bobby Scott not come forward? He's another Democrat star in Virginia, people love Bobby Scott, he knew about this a year ago.

PRESSLEY: Right and not a state legislature, he's a member of Congress but what he's saying is that he first learned from her that she was a victim of a sexual assault and didn't know who it was and then later put the two and two together. She provided information after that.

I don't believe where something is not corroborated that it's the place of any one particular person to report if the person who is the victim of the alleged assault decides not to.

INGRAHAM: You're right, I think the most fair-minded people though Michelle, I agree with much of what Monique just said. Don't rush to judgement. I did a whole monologue on that Friday night but it never applies the other way, there are a few really honest liberals who were just paused before the Kavanagh thing and said they were uncomfortable but not many.

And it was - he looked - look at the way, he looks smug, it's like the Covington Catholic kid, he had to be guilty of something, look at him.

PRESSLEY: Yes.

INGRAHAM: They rushed to judgement.

MALKIN: That's right, they indicted him, they hung him, they smeared him before any of the real substantiation and corroboration was in and a lot of it still isn't in, that's the point. And you can just look at the disingenuousness of Cory Booker over the last 24 hours.

Because when he was asked about it yesterday, he didn't want to talk about it. Oh, we need to focus on something more important. Well, he never said that when it came to taking advantage and exploiting the uncorroborated allegations against Judge Kavanaugh.

So is it believe all women or is it believe some women, some of the time when it is politically expedient to do so.

INGRAHAM: Yes, I think everybody's looking for some consistency and fairness across the board on this whether it's costumes or whether it's things you've said or wrote when you were in college or this. I think people - everybody's like wanting to take a pause but this is where you go when you get into this PC puritanism game and it just ultimately goes into a really bad place. Great conversation and by the way, stay there because Congressman Steve Scalise is saying that House Democrats are refusing to let him testify at a gun violence hearing. That can't be right. His response ahead.

Plus, Raymond Arroyo is here to bring us, well, the nasty State of the Union clap that lit up social media today. Why was that? And a story of 10-year-old launching his own kneeling protest. Wow. "Seen and Unseen," next.

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INGRAHAM: It's time for our "Seen and Unseen" segment where we expose the big cultural stories of the day.

Pelosi lighting up social media as queen of the clapback, a modern art installation demeans the first daughter, and 10-year-old Cub Scout taking a knee? Joining us with all the details, Raymond Arroyo, FOX News contributor, "New York Times" bestselling author of the upcoming book almost out, "Will Wilder and the Amulet of Power." Raymond, Pelosi did her very best to steal the president's thunder last night. But it's the clapback that's getting all the attention. We are hitting the news that all of you really need to hear on FOX.

RAYMOND ARROYO, CONTRIBUTOR: Well, a lot of people didn't see this. Anyone who watched the State of the Union and is familiar with Speaker Pelosi's attempts to steal the focus all evening, realized that she has perfected the art of subtle contempt, or maybe she just needs some Fixodent. Whatever the case, she was gnawing on something in her mouth all evening. Was it a Luden's, beef jerky? We may never know.

INGRAHAM: Beef jerky.

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ARROYO: Several times she pulled out what might have been a large menu, and she looked like she was trying to decide whether to have the foie gras while or the pea soup, or maybe she's reading Obamacare. We don't know yet.

INGRAHAM: Brown rice.

ARROYO: But now Nancy Pelosi's mouth tick seems to be catching. This is Kamala Harris, Laura, reacting to the president's calls to put coyotes out of business at the border. Look at her mouth. She's got them out to

INGRAHAM: It's obnoxious.

ARROYO: I know, it's spreading. But nothing quite caught the attention of Democrats at this moment at the State of the Union. It's being called the Nancy clapback. Watch.

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ARROYO: You see, it is this extended with shoulders up. They are reading a lot into this. Pelosi's daughter Christine took to Twitter to say, "Oh, yes, that clapback took me back to the teen years. She knows. And she knows that you know. And, frankly, she's disappointed that you thought this would work. But here's a clap" for you.

INGRAHAM: Why do we care about what Christine Pelosi, the walk down memory lane with mommy is all about?

ARROYO: I will tell you what this is really about.

INGRAHAM: She was a scold then and she's a scold now.

ARROYO: "The Washington Post" had an article on this, the exquisite shade of Nancy Pelosi's applause. This is Democrats desperate for something good on a good night for the president. And let me tell you, the other point here, when Stacey Abrams is your mouthpiece, Nancy Pelosi clapping seems like Maria Callas in the last act of "Tosca," OK. They are looking for help. They are looking for something they can -- a bit of performance art they can latch onto.

INGRAHAM: By the way, I couldn't sleep last night, we were up so late during the show, and I kept thinking of that commercial.

ARROYO: What was that?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kent French is the world-class clapper, 721 claps a minute.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With the clapper, I only need two claps.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Clap on, clap off.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Clap things on, clap things off.

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INGRAHAM: So when they lose the majority in the House in 2020, she can be the new clap on --

ARROYO: I also thought -- it may not be anything conscious. She might have just been osteoporosis or something, and she's just clapping. It might just be the way she claps.

Anyway, Laura, there is a new exhibit, talking of performance art --

INGRAHAM: Art exhibit. Contemporary.

ARROYO: -- that just opened in Washington. It's called "Ivanka Vacuuming." That's right, an Ivanka Trump look-alike is in a gallery, and patrons are invited to throw crumbs of her, trash --

INGRAHAM: At her.

ARROYO: -- that she will vacuum up. The gallery says, quote, "Ivanka vacuuming is simultaneously a visual celebration of a contemporary feminine icon, a portrait of our own relationship to that figure, and a questioning of our complicity in her role playing." You know what I discovered about this cultural group putting this on? Not only is it sexist and misogynist, this group is taxpayer-funded. They get $120,000 in government funding in 2016. Imagine if they put Michelle Obama and people were encouraged to throw produce at her in a garden, or, let's say, Hillary Clinton, where you through email servers at her, and she picks them up. That would be seen as what it is, sexist, misogynist, and inhuman. This stuff should not stand. This is really --

INGRAHAM: And I never was big into performance arts.

ARROYO: Me either. I came from an acting background, and --

INGRAHAM: No, no, no, it's always like, there is like a woman with a red dot on the wall, and she stares at it.

ARROYO: How is a woman vacuuming art? This is called domestic chores. We have to do this. We all do this.

INGRAHAM: It's idiotic. If they did it for Michelle, there would be protests out front.

ARROYO: You're right.

INGRAHAM: Now finally, a Cub Scout -- my kids are in Cub Scouts. See him right there, he's a cutie. He took a knee at a city council meeting in North Carolina during the National Anthem. Local media picked up on the story. The kid and his father explained the stunt this way.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What I did was took a knee against racial discrimination, which is basically what people are being to other people of different colors.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I did it, I was really surprised and also really proud of him.

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ARROYO: The father discussed this with him beforehand. He says -- the city council said, I'm glad the kid showed -- exercised his conscience. This is not conscience. This is propaganda and political child abuse.

INGRAHAM: You think kids like that?

ARROYO: He's not an NFL player, no reason for him to kneel. If he wants to protest, go help poor people, or better yet, take your Cub Scout troop, go to the inner-city and help people out there if you're worried about racism.

INGRAHAM: They do do that.

ARROYO: Do more of it.

INGRAHAM: I think a lot of veterans I saw commenting --

ARROYO: Yes, they were not happy.

INGRAHAM: A lot of the veterans, they were like, I was an Eagle Scout, our whole thing is patriotism. Patriotism is service to others. And look, Daddy, he's like a little pawn there.

ARROYO: I don't --

INGRAHAM: That's sad.

While Steve Scalise, he was, as you remember, almost killed when a Bernie Sanders fanatic shot him in the summer of 2017. So why do Democrats reject the idea of his testifying at a gun-control hearing? I kid you not. They are keeping them out. But he'll be here, next.

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INGRAHAM: Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday on new gun-control legislation that they hope to push on the American people. The top Republican on the committee asked Democrats if Congressman Steve Scalise, himself a victim of gun violence, and a proponent of Second Amendment rights, could testify about his unique perspective.

Democrats denied him the opportunity. We reached out to the Senate Judiciary Committee because it sounded like it can't be true, and we got a comment back tonight. To their credit, they did respond, saying "The Republicans chose two other witnesses other than Scalise, but Scalise's testimony is going to be entered into the record." Steve Scalise wants to testify. We can't spend 10 minutes and let them testify?

Here now is Steve Scalise. So how do you respond to their pushback on the narrative tonight, Congressman?

REP. STEVE SCALISE, R-LA, HOUSE MINORITY WHIP: Laura, it was pretty bizarre. Historically, when Republicans were in charge, even when Democrats were in charge prior to this more radical leftist majority, if a member of Congress wanted to testify on a committee, they always provided a venue for that to happen. In this case, they were having a hearing in the Judiciary on reducing gun violence. And I've got a perspective. Clearly mine dealt with something that happened to me, and I saw how guns were used to save people's lives. And it should have been able to be part of the testimony. They wanted to focus on taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens, which their bill ultimately does. And so because my presentation would have been --

INGRAHAM: It would have been extremely dramatic. But my question is, again, everyone watching, they don't care about House procedures, bogged down there. But why didn't Doug Collins, the ranking member, insist that you go first? If I'm the ranking member of Judiciary, no one is stopping you from testifying. And I don't get what Doug Collins did there. Who are these other people testifying better than you? No one is better than you. Sorry, I'm biased. I'm biased.

SCALISE: Ultimately, he wanted me to be able to testify as well, but in the end, if the Democrats want to --

INGRAHAM: Be sticklers about this.

SCALISE: I will tell you about this, Nancy Pelosi tried to rescind the president's ability to go give the State of the Union.

INGRAHAM: This is petty. You are saying this is patty. This is not necessary.

SCALISE: This is how they are playing. They think they can silence conservative voices. But you know what, they can't silence our voices. We're going to get this message out anyway. Go read their bill, by the way, HR8. If you loan your shotgun to a friend of yours to go hunting, under certain circumstances in their you could actually go to jail for a year and have a $100,000 fine.

INGRAHAM: If you loan a shotgun to a friend --

SCALISE: If you loan your shotgun to a friend to go hunting, you go read their bill, their bill would under certain circumstances actually allow that to be a felony where you could get a year in prison and $100,000 fine.

INGRAHAM: What are the circumstances?

SCALISE: Basically, if they think it was part of a gun transaction, if you selling your gun or loaning your gun to somebody else. The gun-control is what they are trying to get at. They want full-grown registration, they want to take away your rights.

By the way, if their bill would have passed, it would have done nothing to stop the shooting that happened in my case, the shooting that happened in Parkland, a lot of these other tragedies.

INGRAHAM: But they want --

SCALISE: They want to take away the rights of law-abiding citizens to have a gun. So they are trying to hide behind, we don't want rights taken away, we want to limit gun violence.

INGRAHAM: Bit by bit, chip it away.

SCALISE: It's about taking away your rights to have a gun. We're going to call them out on it. They're not going to be able to silence these voices. So let them play these charades and have kangaroo courts, but in the end the American people are watching.

INGRAHAM: This is a loser issue. I know they think it's a winner. It's never a winner for them.

All right, the "under God," explain this very quickly. We only have about a minute. Now Nadler went with the, was it the resource council, Natural Resources Committee, and Democrats who wanted the "so help me God" taken out of swearing someone in to testify?

SCALISE: So this is something new that Democrats are doing in their majority. Every House committee sets their own rules and the rules for swearing a person in. The Committee on Natural Resources last week literally tried to change their swearing in oath that you take to remove the phrase "so help me God."

INGRAHAM: What are they worried about?

SCALISE: Republicans on the communications, Garret Graves on the others, objected and they put it back in. But they tried to sneak it through. So then in the Judiciary Committee today, they tried to do the same thing that the Natural Resources Committee did. They literally tried to take away the phrase "so help me God."

INGRAHAM: So help them, God.

SCALISE: Republicans called them out on it, Mike Johnson in this case, called them out on it. But these are Democrats that are now chairing committees, this is Pelosi's majority. So all those Democrats who won saying they are pro-life, pro-gun, and they're against Pelosi, they elected Nancy Pelosi as speaker, and now they are trying to take away God, they're trying to silence voices, they're trying to take away your gun rights. This is only in their first month, Laura.

Everybody pay close attention. What Donald Trump did last night to lay the foundation for what we need to do to get our country back and to reject socialism, and they wouldn't even stand up to reject socialism. That is where they are going. If they want to own socialism, let them own it.

INGRAHAM: Congressman, thank you so much for joining us.

And question -- why is CNN providing cover for Democrats supporting late- term abortion? And OB-GYN is here to tell us why the network at the left, and the left, of course, are engaging in unspeakable cruelty. Don't go away.

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INGRAHAM: Now, why is CNN providing cover for radical late-term abortion practices? In a piece published in their CNN health section -- that's rich -- author Jessica Ravitz interviews two OB-GYNs, one of whom describes pro- lifers as antiabortion extremists. Ravitz's conclusion in the end is, quote, "Misleading hypotheticals showed as regards and contempt for people who have had an abortion later in pregnancy. People who have had abortions deserve empathy and understanding, not judgment." Well, since CNN wasn't interested in an opposing view here, we thought we'd get one from Dr. Omar Hamada, an OB-GYN himself. Omar, Dr. Jennifer Conti is quoted in this CNN piece, and says that it's nonsensical to legislate late-term abortions, against them, because no one arrives at the decision easily. Does that hold water with you?

DR. OMAR HAMADA, OBGYN: Certainly no one arrives at the decision easily. But it being nonsensical to legislate later term abortions is crazy, because what we're doing is actually trying to protect the lives of both the moms and the babies. What they are trying to do, really, is just redefine the terms and play with the language. So they're saying that we are antiabortion extremists, but they are also calling us forced birthers. And whatever language they're trying to use to take the focus off of what's really happening, I really don't care what they call it.

INGRAHAM: Dr. Hamada, you think what they are doing is they are arguing that there are people like you and other pro-life people, doctors and so forth, who are heartless, lacking in compassion, they don't care, when the practice itself -- we are not talking about first trimester, a lot of Americans are OK with that. We are talking about when a baby is viable and even born. Already born.

HAMADA: Yes, exactly. Exactly. And we care deeply about these moms. We also care deeply about these babies. How can somebody look in the face of a baby and essentially kill it? And they are able to do that psychologically I think because it's -- they are doing it before the baby is actually out of the mom, so they are not seeing what they are actually doing. But it's just minutes away from being born. Those babies can exist and live without any problem outside of the mom.

INGRAHAM: A lot of women have seen them have had emergency C-sections, and it's a month before their due date, and the baby is fine. I've got kids that were born three months premature. They are incredible people. They're people. They're human beings.

Doctor, this is what Dr. Barbara Levy, another OB-GYN quote in this piece, she says, "It's important to remember, whether in a discussion about abortion care" -- that's what they call it, abortion care -- "or any other component of care, that these are complicated, nuanced circumstances that affect the course of real people's lives." In the case of the baby, the life is snuffed out. But you see they are using this kind of, well, it's nuanced, you guys are making this a black and white issue, it's not. So you are trying to substitute your judgment for the judgment of a woman and her doctor.

HAMADA: Right. And sure, it is nuanced, and there are a lot of things that need to be considered. But the primary thing that needs to be considered is, as obstetricians, we have two patients. We have the mom and we have the baby. And for us to be successful, both patients need to be taken care of. And ideally, we need to be able to protect the lives of both.

INGRAHAM: What happened to the Hippocratic oath? First do no harm.

HAMADA: It's gone out the window. Yes, it's gone out the window. I don't know what happens. Sorry, go ahead.

INGRAHAM: We're out of time, but we're going to expose this to med schools across the country, I've heard med students, are being forced to carry out and to learn about abortion, even though they have conscience rights protections, and they feel compelled to do that. Doctor, thank you so much.

We'll be back with your Last Bite, coming up.

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INGRAHAM: Tonight's Last Bite could really be called the last smirk. Here's Kirsten Gillibrand's reaction when President Trump stood up for ICE.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I pledge to you tonight that I will never abolish our heroes from ICE. Thank you.

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