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00:00Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingram. This is the Ingram Angle from Washington tonight.
00:03Strippers, stilettos, and drag queens. We're going to take you inside the award show honoring
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00:16the Peace Warrior and the Chaos Agents. That's the focus of tonight's Angle.
00:22The Peace Warrior never stops. He's relentless.
00:26I just care about saving lives. But this will be number nine. But every time I solve one,
00:32they said, sir, if you solve one more, you're going to be known as a peacekeeper.
00:35Not even a week after his historic Middle East peace agreement,
00:39President Trump was back in the peace business again today. He chatted up Vladimir.
00:45I think that President Putin wants to end the war, or I wouldn't be talking this way. I think
00:51he wants to end the war. I spoke to him yesterday for two and a half hours.
00:54We went through a lot of details. He wants to get it ended. I think that President Zelensky
01:00wants to get it ended. Now we have to get it done. To the best of my knowledge,
01:03we've never had a president that solved one war. Not one war. Bush started a war.
01:09A lot of them start wars, but they don't solve the wars.
01:12Trump understands leverage and that no matter how challenging the situation,
01:17effective negotiations require that the doors to peace are always propped open.
01:22And his leverage? Well, first, he's riding really high in international affairs after last week.
01:29Second, he's using tariffs to squeeze India to stop buying oil from Russia.
01:35And the third point of leverage involves a certain type of weapon we could begin shipping to Ukraine.
01:42Trump's floated the possibility of sending them long range missiles,
01:45and that seems to have gotten Putin's attention.
01:48They're a very powerful weapon, but they're a very dangerous weapon.
01:52And it could mean big, you know, escalation. It could mean a lot of bad things can happen.
02:00Tomahawks are a big deal. But one thing I have to say, we want tomahawks also.
02:05We don't want to be giving away things that we need to protect our country.
02:11We have a very strong country right now. We have a strong military.
02:14We have the greatest military in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world.
02:19I want to get this war over.
02:21Of course, the press still doesn't understand Trump's negotiating style.
02:25Aren't you concerned that maybe the Russian president is trying to buy himself more time?
02:30Yeah, I am. But, you know, I've been played all my life by the best of them.
02:36And I came out really well. So it's possible. Yeah, a little time.
02:42It's all right. But I think that I'm pretty good at this stuff.
02:47I think that he wants to make a deal.
02:49I made eight of them. I'm going to make a ninth. I think he wants to make a deal.
02:54Well, tomahawks would be a severe and very dangerous escalation.
02:58I personally think it's a terrible idea. And yesterday, thankfully, Trump seemed to be shifting his position.
03:04I mean, we we can't deplete for our country. So, you know, they're very vital.
03:10They're very powerful. They're very accurate. They're very good.
03:13But we need them, too. So I don't know what we can do about that.
03:18But again, Trump's keeping everyone guessing here. Most importantly, Russia.
03:22And that is a classic art of the deal style move.
03:25I did actually say, would you mind if I gave a couple of thousand tomahawks to your opposition?
03:31I did say that to him. I said it just that way.
03:35He didn't like the idea. He really didn't like the idea.
03:39No, I said it that way. You have to be a little bit lighthearted sometimes.
03:44The main point here, Trump's working overtime on issues that really matter, not just on peace abroad, but on safety and security here as well, by taking out deadly threats before they even arrive on our shores.
03:58Venezuelan drug traffickers got another unexpected surprise last night in the Caribbean.
04:03Boom. Another vessel and its lethal contents destroyed.
04:07These strikes have suddenly gotten Venezuelan President Maduro's attention.
04:12It has been reported that Maduro offered everything in his country, all the natural resources.
04:19He even recorded a message to you in English recently offering mediation.
04:24What should we do to stop that?
04:26He has offered everything. He's offered everything. You're right.
04:30You know why? Because he doesn't want to f*** around with the United States.
04:34Thank you, everybody.
04:35That's how it ended today.
04:38Bombs and the F-bombs.
04:40At least we know President Trump will never stop trying to save American lives.
04:46But over in the Democrat Party, the opposite seems true.
04:49They're fine with sacrificing American lives if it means flooding our country with illegals and protecting even the most sadistic criminals from deportation.
04:58That's what they were doing today near an ICE detention facility outside Chicago.
05:03He still has the Hamas scarf. I love that.
05:30And the Mexican flag is still flying.
05:32Nothing but perpetual agitation against law and order on the left.
05:37And, of course, perpetual agitation against an America they loathe.
05:42Because their ultimate goal, especially those who are funding these things, the takedown of the Trump administration.
05:48And, as usual, their arguments are both tired and illogical.
05:51They tried the Trump's a dictator theme all last year and they lost huge.
05:57But they're still sticking with it.
05:58But how exactly is Donald Trump a threat to democracy?
06:03Because he's, what, tackling wasteful spending?
06:06Or removing illegals?
06:07Or reshoring manufacturing?
06:10Negotiating peace and trade deals? What?
06:12Of course, it's all goofy.
06:13Of course, it's all goofy.
06:15Just like this weekend's coming attraction.
06:17More protest theater.
06:19Even supporters are kind of underselling it.
06:22I don't think you're going to walk away from this weekend and come to the conclusion that America doesn't care about the destruction of our democracy.
06:30To the extent that there aren't millions of people out there every single weekend, well, maybe that's because at times this year, Democrat elected officials haven't acted like the crisis is urgent.
06:44This is the first moment where Democrats are having a fight.
06:49No agenda, no leader.
06:52Unless you're inspired by this guy.
06:55No kings.
06:55A declaration of independence.
07:00Against the tyranny.
07:02Against lawlessness in the context that there was no rule of law.
07:07It was the rule of king.
07:10And I think increasingly people are waking up to the rule of law in this country increasingly appearing to be the rule of dawn.
07:18Oh, no, Gav, you're precious.
07:20No kings, no message.
07:23Democrats are always underestimating the common sense of the American voter.
07:27If Trump is such a threat to American stability, why is he more liked at this point in his second term than either Obama or Bush?
07:38My friends, Democrats are in a flat spin and they can't turn out of it.
07:43And imagine the ride if Kamala were in the cockpit.
07:46But even when President Trump faces turbulence, he manages to rise above it and keep his eye on the horizon.
07:55And that's the angle here with reaction.
07:59Ohio, Senator Bernie Moreno, Senator, you get ready for that.
08:02No kings protest.
08:04Getting your getting your mask and your keffiyeh.
08:07And you got the whole costume going.
08:09Is that that what's going to be happening?
08:11You expect a big turnout in in Ohio.
08:13What's what's going on with your friends on the other side of the aisle?
08:17I think they've lost their mind, Laura.
08:19I mean, this is a rally sponsored by George Soros that has the Communist Party of America as the headline headline organization.
08:27I'm old. I'm young enough to remember when, hey, I didn't think America wanted communists on our public square and didn't want this country to be communist.
08:36But there's Chris Murphy and Bernie Sanders.
08:38They're going to be the two headline speakers of a rally in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Communist Party of America.
08:44Think about that.
08:46Well, when you think about what President Trump, you know, we already talked about the huge successes and world peace.
08:55He continues to march toward peace.
08:58But that's just it's so profound what he's trying to do.
09:01These are big issues.
09:03And a lot of presidents just punted on them or said, oh, we can't.
09:06You know, it kind of a half hearted effort.
09:08But he is really trying to get this stuff done.
09:11And everything else seems so it's it seems like theater.
09:16It seems inconsequential or maybe a bad high school production at this point.
09:23Yeah, I mean, they're very petty.
09:24That's the reality, because they have no message.
09:26They have no compelling message to the American people because President Trump just preached his common sense.
09:31It's common sense to try to end wars, to try to get peace and stability around the world, to protect American citizens.
09:38And it's really hard.
09:39Look, at the end of the day, wars are very easy to start.
09:42Joe Biden proved that President Trump.
09:45What he's doing is the unpredictability, the strength of the American economy, not just the strength of our military.
09:51He's putting both of those together.
09:53And that's a force that the world just won't has no choice but to follow.
09:58And he's setting that example.
10:00You would think that the Democrats would be on his side saying, hey, look, this is good for America.
10:04But, of course, they care more about politics than they care about this country.
10:08Senator, yesterday we just learned that a Gazan individual was arrested for his involvement in the October 7th attack living in Lafayette, Louisiana.
10:21The DOJ says that he fraudulently obtained a visa to obtain entry into the United States last year.
10:30Why the heck are we giving visas to anyone coming from Gaza?
10:35I mean, we can't take a risk for anyone coming from that part of the world.
10:40What what happened?
10:41Imagine what we're going to discover over the next several months when you had 10 to 12 million people that Joe Biden allowed into this country.
10:52We have no idea where they came from, what their intent were or where they ended up.
10:57We're just at the beginning of finding out.
11:00And again, the Democrats are blocking deportations at every step of the way.
11:04These are your hardened criminals.
11:06We should never allow them in.
11:08We should all be united in getting them the heck out of this country.
11:10All right, Senator, great to see you.
11:12Thank you very much.
11:13And coming up, debate night turns into a train wreck for the Democrats in big races.
11:19Virginia AG debate last night was one for the ages.
11:23Finally, Democrat Jay Jones apologized for those texts where he fantasized about the murder of his Republican rival and his children.
11:31But the most stunning part?
11:33And the last pillar is very important to me as a father, keeping our children safe.
11:38We need to establish a dedicated child safety unit to crack down on predators, domestic abusers, and the folks who make our kids less safe and less secure.
11:46And we also have to protect them online because we know that those are emerging threats that we face every single day.
11:52Okay, this is funny.
11:54He's going to keep our kids safe after fantasizing about the murder of children?
11:59No one is buying this.
12:01These vile text messages and his response to them are destroying his campaign.
12:06In September, Jones was leading 48.8% to Meares, 45%.
12:11Now, Meares is up higher than Jones was and with a bigger spread, 49.5% to 44.6%.
12:20Still, it's very close within the margin of error.
12:22Here to discuss is Virginia Attorney General candidate Jason Meares, who wants to be reelected because he's currently the Attorney General of the Great Commonwealth of Virginia.
12:33Mr. Attorney General, thank you for joining us.
12:36How were you actually able to keep a straight face when Jones bragged on about protecting the kids?
12:44I mean, really?
12:45I mean, I thought it was one of those moments of read the room in, you know, what he's trying to avoid is this discussion, how he's disqualified himself, that every single major police organization now in the state of Virginia has not just endorsed me.
13:01They have actually said that he should drop out of the race.
13:04And if he's elected, he shouldn't even take the oath of office.
13:07Because one thing the media is also vastly underreported is that Jay Jones told a colleague that he also wanted to see and he hoped cops would die, law enforcement would die.
13:18Why?
13:18Because then they would stop hurting people.
13:21And in his mind, that goes again to this idea that violence brings about change and his worldview is somehow justified.
13:28And so I think it was a spirited debate.
13:30I think we had two contrasts, even separated from the text messages, that I've had the policies that lower crime by going after violent offenders.
13:37His policies have actually raised crimes by having a criminal first victim last mindset.
13:42So as I've noted before in the debate, if Jay Jones was to apply to be a line prosecutor in my attorney general's office, he would never have been passed a background check.
13:51It's totally disqualifying.
13:52No, I mean, it's actually so embarrassing for the Democrat Party that this is where they are today in such a great state such as Virginia.
14:01But he wants everyone to understand, and people might have missed this last night, that he really wants to be the next Letitia James because he's running on using lawfare to get Donald Trump.
14:14Watch this.
14:14How exactly is that protecting Virginians to try to get Trump, who's removing illegal alien gang members from the Commonwealth of Virginia, people who've raped, pillaged, terrorized residents of the Commonwealth?
14:40How is that keeping Virginians safe and making their lives better?
14:44I'm missing something.
14:46Well, he wants to pick political fights in Washington.
14:49I want to protect Virginians.
14:51But it just goes to show you he doesn't even understand what this office is.
14:55The largest division in the attorney general's office in Virginia is the criminal division.
15:00So it's clear to me he's running for the wrong office.
15:02He should be running for Congress.
15:04He should be running for U.S. Senate.
15:06He has no business running for attorney general.
15:08And it just goes to show, you know, how can we trust Jay Jones?
15:11Not just what he said about Todd Gilbert.
15:13But listen, he pushed the early felon release program in Virginia signed by Ralph Northam, the last Democratic governor.
15:19We had 9,638 felons that got released early, Laura.
15:24Oh, my God.
15:24In less than two years, 49.8 percent have already been rearrested.
15:28Seventy Virginians have died because of a policy Jay Jones champion.
15:33And so it just goes to show he's not qualified with his judgment, his record, and certainly not his worldview of violence against children.
15:40Well, Republicans are known to turn out most, I think, strongly, enthusiastically on Election Day.
15:48But people are now just tuning into this race, and it's going to be a nail-biter.
15:53Mr. Attorney General, we really appreciate your time tonight.
15:55Good luck out there.
15:57And 800 miles north, another display of political fireworks at the New York City mayoral debate.
16:03This was interesting.
16:04So it was Zora Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa on stage together.
16:09And it was revealing how sad a dissent for the financial capital of the world that these are their options, where two of the three candidates could not answer and apparently listen to a simple question.
16:23Who is the best modern-day U.S. president?
16:25I would say Bill Clinton.
16:26Okay.
16:27Mr. Mamdani?
16:28I would say FDR.
16:32The greatest governor we've ever had in my lifetime, George Pataki.
16:35Three terms, no chaos, no corruption.
16:38This is the modern-day U.S. president.
16:39This governor and this president, Curtis.
16:42Oh, who's the...
16:42Yeah, who you thought the best modern...
16:43Best president in our lifetime?
16:45Yeah.
16:46Or I would say the best president in our lifetime that I've experienced, I would go back to Ronald Reagan.
16:52All right.
16:53Well, they got there eventually.
16:55Then there was Dilran Mamdani's religious test for Andrew Cuomo.
16:59It took Andrew Cuomo being beaten by a Muslim candidate in the Democratic primary for him to set foot in a mosque.
17:05He had more than 10 years, and he couldn't name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited.
17:11And it took me to get you to even see those Muslims as part of this city.
17:15And that, frankly, is something that is shameful.
17:18I've worked with the Muslim community for many, many years.
17:20Name a single mosque you went to when you were the governor.
17:23Can you name a single mosque you went to in 10 years?
17:25Before you were ever here.
17:27Before I was here.
17:29Before you were even in state government.
17:30Okay, the mosque test.
17:33That's a new one.
17:34We also learned that free buses, well, they're not exactly free.
17:39I've put forward two proposals.
17:40The first is to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers by 2%.
17:44That would raise $4 billion.
17:46The second is to raise the state's top corporate tax rate to match that of New Jersey, which would raise $5 billion.
17:51Oh, but come on.
17:52There were some high notes.
17:53Have you ever purchased anything in a cannabis shop?
17:58And if so, what did you buy, Mr. Mumdani?
18:00I have.
18:02I have purchased marijuana at a legal cannabis shop.
18:06Does anyone else really get annoyed by the smiling through every answer like this?
18:12I don't understand that.
18:13I find that to be so phony.
18:15And, you know, you want to be proud about buying cannabis?
18:19Okay, fine.
18:20Here to discuss, Matt Towery, political analyst, pollster.
18:22Matt, Cuomo said he had not purchased marijuana, and Salewa said he used it after, I guess, an injury, medical marijuana at some point, for a medical condition.
18:34But what were your thoughts last night in watching this?
18:38These are our choices.
18:40Well, first of all, it was a very poorly moderated debate.
18:43It just went all over the place.
18:45Some of the questions were just idiotic.
18:46Really, is cannabis, if you bought cannabis, they're not really the major issue facing a city that's crumbling.
18:52I thought that the candidates performed as follows.
18:56I thought that Cuomo was trying to push the fact that he was experienced and he did some of that, but he seemed sort of old and tired in the way he was doing it.
19:05You've got a very glib, peppy, little revolutionary in Mondani, and he's going, you know, that's what he is.
19:11He's the peppy revolutionary.
19:13He debated fairly well, but he dodged anything of any substance.
19:18And then you had Curtis, who actually had the best performance of the three.
19:21I have to say, I thought he was the best of the three.
19:24Now, my pollster friends tell me, I talk to them all the time, no chance this thing's going to do anything but go Mondani.
19:30On Mondani, I still can't say his name after a year, Laura.
19:34But, you know, that's the way it's going to be, unfortunately.
19:37The Republicans win, though, because he's going to be the poster child for that future Democratic Party that we're going to be looking at over the next 10 years or so.
19:45Now, Mondani, when he wasn't doing the name the mosque test, okay, he was addressing sending social workers out, his view of using social workers instead of police.
19:58Watch.
19:59The line is also going to be one focused on violence and the threat of violence.
20:04And I also trust the operators who will be receiving those calls to make that determination as they do every day today for so many emergency services.
20:12And just two really quick points, please.
20:14There has been a lot of discussion that you would send social workers to domestic violence calls, which police are concerned about.
20:21So you're saying no.
20:22Okay.
20:24How does that play, Matt, the social worker explanation?
20:29Well, first of all, you know, that's been tried in other cities and has been an absolute abysmal failure.
20:35It just does not work.
20:37And, of course, none of the police in New York City are for this guy anyway.
20:40So as soon as he's elected, assuming he is, you're going to have a police department, a fire department, a lot of people involved in other areas of government who have absolutely no confidence in this guy.
20:52He has never run anything.
20:54He's very young.
20:55And he's going to be, I think, drifting even further to the left once he's elected and knows he can get away with it.
21:01So social workers in a domestic relations situation, that's a good way for a lot of people to get killed.
21:08Well, and, Matt, it reminds me somewhat of what happened in Minneapolis, although Jacob Fry is nowhere near as hard left as Mamdani.
21:14But he's liberal.
21:15But they had they had a massive exodus from the police force.
21:19They have not been able to bring that city back.
21:22It's it's deteriorating before our eyes.
21:25It's a it's so sad because it's one of the great American cities.
21:29But this is going to happen to New York.
21:30And apparently it has to happen to New York, you're saying, in order for the Republican Party to come roaring back.
21:36Well, you know, I guess, you know, I think what's going to happen is this.
21:42And I think you probably have guessed this as well.
21:45The first few months he's in, he'll try to pretend like he's not as bad as everyone thought he was going to be.
21:49And then the media will write all these puff pieces about how he's not as bad as everyone thought he was going to be.
21:55It takes about a year and a half before you find out that you've elected someone who has absolutely no business to run the largest city in America.
22:02And once that happens, it's Katie bar the door.
22:04Mm hmm. Just be a tick. Just stick to tick tock influencer job that that he's probably really good at.
22:10Matt, have a great weekend. Great to see you, my friend.
22:13And coming up, a blue state set to pay the price for protecting illegals who are driving 18 wheelers.
22:18Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy here next.
22:24Trump targets massive investments in first Middle East trip.
22:28President Trump's Persian Gulf tour is his first major foreign visit of his second term and comes amid regional war and nuclear talks.
22:39President Donald Trump is embarking this week on a high-stakes tour of the Persian Gulf region,
22:45targeting business deals and strategic partnerships with three oil-rich nations, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
22:54The trip marks Trump's first major foreign visit of his new term and comes as nuclear negotiations with Iran drag on
23:03and as war continues between Israel and Palestinian terror organisations, Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.
23:09While business in the official focus, the backdrop is anything but calm.
23:14White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt described the mission as part of Trump's broader vision
23:21that extremism is defeated through commerce and cultural exchanges.
23:26Under former President Joe Biden, U.S. relations with the Gulf states cooled,
23:32particularly after Biden vowed to make Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a pariah over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal.
23:40But Trump has reversed course embracing a more transactional approach that has worn ties with regional leaders.
23:50The overall goal here is that the United States is reminding our Middle East allies that we're here to stay,
23:56said Greg Rowan, Executive Director of the Middle East Forum.
24:00We're here to promote our joint interests rather than the abandonment policies under the previous administration.
24:06Big money, big expectations.
24:11Saudi Arabia has already pledged $600 billion in U.S. investments,
24:15spanning weapon purchases, technology transfers, artificial intelligence and the stock market.
24:23Trump has said he believes the Saudis may ultimately commit up to $1 trillion.
24:27While Saudi leaders aim to diversify their economy away from oil,
24:31those massive investments still depend on oil revenues,
24:34which could be threatened by Trump's push to lower global energy prices.
24:39In addition to economic deals,
24:40Trump and bin Salam are expected to discuss a possible civil nuclear program
24:45and expanded defense cooperation.
24:48Such as agreements were once linked to a potential Abraham Accord-style normalization
24:53between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
24:55But Riyadh has made clear it won't recognize Israel unless Palestinian statehood is on the table.
25:03Something Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin has strongly opposed.
25:08No stop in Israel is scheduled during Trump's tour.
25:13Israeli normalization in any Saudi U.S. project is an outdated option,
25:18said Saudi geopolitical analysts.
25:21The second Trump administration is doubling down on its strategically autonomous Middle East policy.
25:27In a possible goodwill gesture ahead of the trip,
25:30Ham has released Israeli-American hostage Eden Alexander
25:35and moved Trump called Monumental in the push to end the conflict in Gaza.
25:41And as the UAE seeks to boost its tie with the U.S.
25:44and become a global AI leader by 2030,
25:47it will need American microchips.
25:49The UAE has gone even further than the Saudis,
25:52promising $1.4 trillion in U.S.
25:55Investments over the next decade focus on AI, semiconductors, manufacturing and energy.
26:01Biden has tightened curbs on AI exports to keep such technologies out of the hands of adversaries
26:06at a time when China drew closer to Middle Eastern states, especially the UAE.
26:11On Thursday, he announced Trump would rescind the Biden error restrictions.
26:19Itinerary?
26:20Three days, three power centres.
26:23Trump's whirlwind golf visit begins Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
26:27where he'll headline the U.S. Saudi investment form alongside Saudi Arabian ministers,
26:32White House, CryptoScar, David Sachs and other business leaders.
26:37On Wednesday, he'll attend a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting
26:41before flying to Qatar for talks with Premier Tamim bin Hamad al-Tani
26:45and a visit to the U.S. military's Al-Urad airbase.
26:49Thursday's final stop is Abu Dhabi,
26:52where Trump will meet UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.
26:57The Qataris are pulling out all the stops to impress.
27:00They've over-Trumped the use of a Royal Boeing 747A,
27:04typically reserved for the Qatari royal family to serve as Air Force One.
27:09Since being named a major non-NATO ally by Biden in 2022,
27:14Qatar has deepened its tights to the U.S.,
27:16hosting American troops and mediating sensitive negotiations,
27:19including ongoing back-channel talks between Israel and Gaza.
27:23Doha also maintains close contact with Syria's new president,
27:27Ahmed al-Shahra, who ousted Bashar al-Assad
27:31and is now seeking sanctions relief and normalised ties with the West.
27:36Regional leaders will have an opportunity to address the situation
27:39directly with the president's regional expert, Jonathan Bays.
27:43Trump is the only man that can lead the way.
27:46Iran watching closely.
27:48While a fourth round of Iran nuclear talks in Oman over the weekend
27:52failed to produce a breakthrough,
27:54Tehran is expected to keep a close eye on Trump's Gulf meetings.
27:59Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi
28:02made unannounced visits to both Saudi Arabia and Qatar
28:06ahead of Trump's arrival,
28:08likely in the hopes of passing messages through those governments to Washington.
28:12But all three of Trump's hosts,
28:16nations, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar
28:19remain wary of Iran's ambitions.
28:22The region needs to openly address the problem of the IRGC,
28:26said Bays, referring to Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
28:31The IRGC is trying to undermine every single country in the region.
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