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00:00Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingram. This is The Ingram Angle. Thank you as always for spending some time with
00:05us tonight. My angle in moments, but first happening right now, big news, Israel launching a new wave of strikes
00:13in Tehran and Iran and Hezbollah are coordinating their strikes and firing simultaneously over Israel. Just 10 minutes ago, they
00:24sent missiles over Tel Aviv where our Fox's Nate Foy is standing by.
00:29Nate, what can you tell us? Last night it was more of this, but it seems even perhaps worse.
00:36Yeah, Laura, good evening. So just minutes ago, Israel began widespread airstrikes in Tehran, and this is after an IDF
00:44senior official confirmed with Fox News that Iran and Hezbollah are coordinating strikes against Israel and firing simultaneously tonight.
00:52You mentioned just over 10 minutes ago at this point, we had rockets intercepted over Tel Aviv, and a senior
00:59IDF official says before that, Hezbollah fired roughly 100 rockets into northern Israel from southern Lebanon earlier tonight, and we
01:07have some video of that.
01:08So take a look. This makes well over 850 rockets and drones fired by Hezbollah since the group joined the
01:15war eight days ago, and Hezbollah announced earlier today a plan to expand its attacks on Israel.
01:21But Israel is also firing back in Lebanon. They're targeting Hezbollah positions near the border, and tonight they're also striking
01:28the Dakhia neighborhood of Beirut, which is known as a Hezbollah stronghold.
01:32Meanwhile, U.S. airstrikes continue nearly every hour in Tehran, along with these new Israeli airstrikes.
01:39Central Command says the U.S. has achieved near-total aerial superiority. They've struck 5,500 targets in Iran so
01:48far during Operation Epic Fury.
01:50They've sunk 60 Iranian boats, and today U.S. forces are warning Iranians to avoid ports used by the regime
01:56that may be used to attack shipping.
01:58Iran also targeted more energy infrastructure in the region today. Iranian drones hit oil storage tanks in Oman.
02:05Oman's Energy and Minerals Ministry says oil supplies were not impacted as a result of that.
02:12Now, tonight, Iran's President Mzupazeshkian is laying out some possible terms to end this war.
02:18He is demanding international security guarantees to prevent future conflicts and reparations for the damage that Iran has suffered so
02:28far in this war.
02:29We'll send it back to you, Laura.
02:32Nate, thank you very much.
02:34Averting the unthinkable, that's the focus of tonight's angle.
02:41The ye of little faith.
02:43Now that tankers are being attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, how are you going to ensure the safety of
02:48oil flowing through there?
02:49I think you're going to see great safety, and it's going to be very, very quickly.
02:53With tanker traffic, though, in the Persian Gulf still jammed up, and it's still jammed up tonight due to these
02:58Iranian threats and spooked insurance companies, the usual suspects see their opening.
03:04You've got Democrats, Trump haters, and their media allies are all wish-casting an economic disaster that will bring America
03:11to her knees.
03:12Iran's greatest leverage right now is the Straits of Hormuz, and the new extremist supreme leader is not going to
03:21give up that leverage very easily.
03:24Okay, this is all too predictable.
03:26The truth is, President Trump is betting that short-term market disruption is worth long-term prosperity and security.
03:34And he's helped bring the world together to try to stabilize the spiking price of energy.
03:40Earlier today, the International Energy Agency agreed to coordinate the release of a record 400 million barrels of oil from
03:47various national petroleum reserves around the world,
03:50which will substantially reduce the oil prices as we end this threat to America and this threat to the world.
04:01Well, this had to be done, and consumers should see relief soon, especially, as the president just said, he's tapping
04:07into those strategic petroleum reserves, other countries as well.
04:11Bloomberg is also reporting that President Trump is going to invoke the Defense Production Act to get offshore oil producer
04:19Sable Energy to ramp up its production of oil off the Santa Barbara coast.
04:25Now, remember, California's anti-fossil fuels crusade has destroyed its once vibrant oil production business.
04:34So now Californians are dependent on, you got it, foreign oil shipped from the Persian Gulf.
04:41Totally nuts. It's insane.
04:43And, of course, we know California's gasoline costs are among the highest in the nation because of these ridiculous policies.
04:51So I'm going to make a prediction tonight.
04:53When all is said and done, Operation Epic Fury may, and I say may, actually have the added benefit of
05:01opening the eyes of Californians to how radical environmentalists have destroyed the oil industry there,
05:08and with it, affordable energy.
05:10But, look, as far as this war is concerned, one of two things is true.
05:14Now, after this momentary blip, the U.S., working with our Gulf partners, can keep the straight-of-horn moves
05:21open, reopen it,
05:23to ensure that there are no more disruptions in oil tanker movement, which will smooth things out with the global
05:28economy.
05:29Or, with all of our military might, with all of our influence, the U.S. can't force Gulf traffic to
05:36move,
05:37and things remain balled up there for a long time.
05:40Now, I think this option is highly unlikely.
05:44But at any rate, it, too, demonstrates how critical it was for President Trump to act when he did.
05:50Because if Iran is so much more powerful than even the establishment and all its experts thought,
05:57imagine how much worse this situation would be if Iran had a nuclear weapon
06:02and could grind traffic to a halt in the strait at any time it wanted.
06:07And it merely reconfirms how disastrous the Iran policy was of both Biden and Obama.
06:13They should never have let Iran get this powerful.
06:17But Trump was not about to idly sit by and watch as Iran developed nuclear weapons
06:22to threaten all of us, and then could further threaten us with economic Armageddon in the Gulf.
06:28We had to take a little trip to get rid of some evil, very evil people.
06:33It should have been done for 47 years they've been killing our people.
06:38You know, they're going to try and take over the whole Middle East.
06:40They were going to knock out Israel.
06:42They don't know what the hell hit them.
06:46Now, the brilliance of the Trump plan to have strategic control of key waterways,
06:52this cannot be understated.
06:54And the press doesn't seem to get this, so let me help them tonight.
06:57I'm talking the Strait of Malacca in Indonesia, the Panama Canal, remember China wanted it,
07:03and now preventing Iran from choking off the Strait of Hormuz with an eventual nuclear threat also hanging over our
07:10heads.
07:10So if bad actors managed to take control in any of those key oil routes,
07:17it would be a living nightmare.
07:20That wouldn't end, frankly.
07:22So it looks like Donald Trump, his team, the U.S. military, and the American taxpayer may have saved the
07:28world
07:28with Operation Epic Fury.
07:31Why do we think China has been scrambling to fill its own oil reserves, by the way?
07:35Obviously, President Xi knew Iran would eventually try to take the Strait of Hormuz.
07:40So now it's time for the U.S. to lead a multi-nation Gulf security force, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Saudi
07:49Arabia, Kuwait,
07:51to force Iran's hand here.
07:53Either they drop their threats and attacks, or they truly will lose everything.
08:00And, of course, until this shakes out, the disruptions in the global markets are real and may be painful.
08:06But the long-term benefits, again, are incalculable.
08:10And only President Trump had the brains and, frankly, the guts to see the entire battlefield.
08:15And that's the angle.
08:17Joining us now, Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
08:20All right, Mr. Secretary, today, one of the Iranian officials, still breathing, issued a warning.
08:27Watch.
08:30We will never allow even a single liter of oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz
08:35for the benefit of the United States, the Zionist regime, or their partners.
08:40Any vessel whose cargo or oil shipment is destined for the United States,
08:45the Zionist regime, or their hostile partners, will be considered a legitimate target.
08:51So, Mr. Secretary, three ships near the Strait were hit by projectiles over the past 24 hours.
08:58What now?
09:01Yeah, well, what now is I think you've seen what Iran is all about.
09:06The world is seeing what Iran is all about.
09:08When this regime took power, the first thing they did was hold 66 American hostages for over a year.
09:16Three years later, they killed hundreds of our Marines in Lebanon,
09:19all with us taking no action at all against Iran.
09:23It is a murderous, terrorist regime that's threatened peace and security and prosperity in the Middle East for 47 years.
09:31And as you just outlined, as they ramp up their missile program to shield a nuclear weapons development program,
09:38you simply can't let them become this superpower that can't be knocked off its pedestal,
09:44or else the world is forever held hostage to Iran.
09:47So, I'm very proud of the president's courage to fix it.
09:51Yeah, well, I said that in the angle I couldn't agree more.
09:56And we understand that history.
09:58It's murderous.
09:59But what now?
10:00Ask the question again.
10:01They're launching projectiles still of some sort at ships.
10:05We have an insurance market that's still messed up, even with, you know,
10:10Chubb, I know, is stepping in, $20 billion fund.
10:13The DFC is partnering with Chubb.
10:15But if you have crews on these ships that are afraid for their lives,
10:21how do you break this log jam in this critical waterway?
10:28Well, the most critical thing right now is the U.S. military degrading their ability to project power,
10:35not just missiles for long range, but also their assets that impede travel through the Straits of Hormuz.
10:42So, it will take us some time to do that, but there's an awesome power of the U.S. military.
10:47Soldiers are doing a great job, and we are every hour of every day degrading their military ability
10:53to threaten ships in the Straits of Hormuz.
10:56And as you saw, we announced earlier today, the president announced just recently,
11:00that we will release collectively 400 million barrels.
11:05This is to tide the world over while these flows are restricted by Iran.
11:10But ultimately, the United States military will prevail.
11:14We will end their ability to impede traffic through the Straits of Hormuz, and ships will flow again.
11:21And the SPR release, in total, is about a third of all reserves, other participating countries, about 30 countries or
11:28so.
11:29Europe was hesitant about doing this, but it looks like most people have gone along with this.
11:34How long will that last us, and what is your prediction about when this Gulf traffic will resume?
11:44Well, the releases, certainly out of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, they'll go over about four months.
11:50But this conflict, I don't think, goes that long.
11:53I think we will have the Straits of Hormuz open well before then.
11:57Exactly when, you know, I can't say, but we are working 24 hours of every day to get there.
12:04But hopefully in the next few weeks, we will see ship traffic returning to the Straits of Hormuz,
12:09the world going back to normalcy, but not the normalcy of before,
12:13normalcy minus a heavily armed, wildly empowered murderous regime.
12:19They will be near completely defanged and will not be able to threaten U.S. soldiers in the region,
12:26the neighbors, and traffic through the Straits of Hormuz.
12:28But as you said in your angle, we've got to get through that transition period.
12:34The New York Times, no surprise.
12:36Of course, they're always going to root against success here.
12:38But they claim that you and other top advisors dismissed Iran's strength and ability to respond
12:47to missile attacks and military strikes, dismissing concerns both in February
12:54and during the 12-day war back in June.
12:57Was there a miscalculation here?
13:02Absolutely not.
13:03I read a lot of things in the New York Times.
13:05I just wonder where they come from.
13:07But no, no reality whatsoever with that statement.
13:11Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for joining us tonight.
13:14Here to weigh in, Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow.
13:19Victor, I mean, I love Secretary Wright, but having you on the show tonight is a gift to me
13:24and all of our viewers.
13:26I'm so grateful that you're joining us.
13:28So good to see you.
13:30What is your take on Trump seeing the whole battlefield here?
13:35Iran, global energy markets, China, all of it?
13:41Well, I think there's been an asymmetry.
13:44We don't know what the Iranian people are feeling.
13:47We don't know the level of damage.
13:49We don't know what's going on in Lebanon.
13:52We don't have any really credible Western journalists or media.
13:55They know everything that's going on.
13:57And we're attacking military targets.
13:59They're attacking civilian infrastructure and commerce.
14:02So we kind of get caught up in the hysteria.
14:05But just to take one rubric, they've launched about five times more missiles at Israel than they did in the
14:11summer war.
14:12And they've achieved a lot less results.
14:15The fatalities are less.
14:16And so we have a list of targets that we can expand if we want to.
14:21We can start hitting their infrastructure, what they're doing, or their power, their communications.
14:26And I mean popular communications, transportation.
14:31But we haven't done that because we are on the side of the Iranian people.
14:34So it's a little bit more difficult to hit targets to the degree that you're going to demilitarize the country,
14:41but not to the degree that you're going to make life insufferable for the people you want to liberate.
14:46And that's what's taking a little bit more time than everybody thought.
14:49If we just were at war with, you know, Iran as we were with Iraq, say, in the first Gulf
14:56War,
14:57we could do a lot more damage and get a lot quicker results.
15:00But we're not doing that.
15:01And we can't get that message out because there's no reporters talking to people.
15:05There's no reporters looking at this type of damage.
15:08And we have, and we have, there's also geostrategic.
15:13You mentioned these waterways, but there's a lot of actors that are really involved in here,
15:19not just North Korea or Russia or China who have built this arsenal,
15:23but they, they, they are out of the picture now.
15:27That's, that's just incredible.
15:29There's no Russia in Syria.
15:31There's no China that's involved.
15:33And the same thing happened in Venezuela.
15:36The same thing happened in Panama.
15:38So this is part of a larger, and that's hard to communicate,
15:41a geo-strategic effort to reclaim the Western Hemisphere,
15:45to reclaim the Middle East for the West and for liberality and free commerce.
15:50And people are kind of forgetting that there's an existential side to all of this,
15:56this tactical back and forth.
15:58But I think the energy secretary is right.
16:00There's three possible outcomes in our view,
16:03and they're all better than the pre-war one.
16:05The first is that we did so much damage to the military and discredit.
16:10There's a popular revolt.
16:11I'm not sure that's going to happen, but it could.
16:13The second is the Venezuela situation where you're somebody emerges that
16:17we're not really in favor of,
16:19but they're going to put a lid on the theocracy and work with the West.
16:23And the third is you're just going to do so much damage
16:26to the command and control and the military infrastructure
16:30that you just let them stew in their own juice.
16:33And then you say to the Iranian people,
16:34these people did this to you,
16:36and we're here to help sometime, but go to it.
16:39And whatever happens will be better than having them
16:42close to a nuclear weapon and with all the assets they had.
16:46So we're in a good position, Laura.
16:50Victor, the split in the Republican Party,
16:54and there are some who are extremely antagonistic
16:58to this idea of getting involved in any real,
17:00any foreign wars that don't have a direct imminent strike
17:03on the United States.
17:04What do you make of that as any long-term damage
17:08to the Republican Party or Republican chances
17:12in the midterms and beyond?
17:16Well, they have a point in the sense
17:19that they thought that MAGA meant no optional forever wars.
17:23But if you look at them and dissect them,
17:25they're more like the Soleimani or the Wagner group
17:29or the al-Baghdadi bombing of destruction of ISIS,
17:32all of which they approved.
17:34And by that, I mean, the first time we went into Iraq,
17:36we were there for about, what, 25 hours,
17:39and we had no casualties,
17:41and we degraded their nuclear facilities.
17:43That was excellent.
17:44And then we went into Venezuela.
17:47We were there about a day of actual kinetic activity.
17:50We didn't lose, we had some wounded,
17:51but we didn't lose anybody.
17:53As tragic as it is to lose seven lives,
17:55I mean, you went to war with a country that's huge
17:59and has 90 million people and was armed to the teeth.
18:02It has more jet fighters, some of these countries do,
18:06than European countries.
18:07They have more missiles than probably France or England,
18:11you know, ballistic missiles and drones.
18:12And yet, we lost seven people.
18:15That's tragic, but that's unheard of in military history.
18:18So I don't think these qualify as forever wars,
18:21and they have benefits for the American people
18:24to be freed of this nightmare of 47 years.
18:28You never know when you're going to kill them
18:29or we're going to get a nuclear weapon and all of that.
18:32So, and I think also there's an element,
18:34I'll be frank with you.
18:36Yeah.
18:37Yeah, I think they are very distrustful of Israel.
18:42And as far as Israel is an ally,
18:45I don't think they're running the United States.
18:46I think they've been a good ally.
18:48They're very competent.
18:50We've never had an ally that competent.
18:51That's just, that's just a fact.
18:54And Victor, before I let you go,
18:57you and I have been communicating via text
18:59for some months now.
19:01How is your health and how are you doing?
19:06Well, I had a problem all year with a,
19:09they didn't know what it was, a lung.
19:11I was probably coughing.
19:13And then it was a very rare non-smokers cancer.
19:17And they decided to take most of the right lung out,
19:21the right lower lobe.
19:22And it's an aggressive cancer.
19:24It can come back.
19:25And it has a very strange mutation.
19:27So you can't treat it with chemo or immunotherapy.
19:30But I'm upbeat.
19:31You know, you play with the cards that are dealt with you.
19:34So my attitude is that that's not going to come back.
19:37And if it does, I'll do my best to keep working.
19:39But I got to keep working.
19:41And I can't think about it.
19:42You and I talked about that.
19:44You had the same experience.
19:45And you just kept working.
19:47And that was inspirational to me.
19:48And I appreciated it.
19:50Well, Victor, you're the best.
19:53We love you.
19:53And we missed you.
19:54And we're so happy you're back.
19:55And you look fantastic.
19:57So keep walking every day.
19:58Get those steps in.
19:59I don't know about that.
20:00All right.
20:00And coming up, he'll do that.
20:02Coming up, where's Iran's new supreme leader?
20:05Why haven't we heard from him?
20:08Where'd he go?
20:09The new Ayatollah.
20:11Come on.
20:11He has a succession rally this week.
20:14Iranians were met with a very manly flower-adorned portrait.
20:19The bell of the terror ball missing his own party can't be.
20:23We haven't seen Mushtaba Khomeini since the war started.
20:27Well, maybe no one's missing him.
20:28Because one expert in the region says he has the charisma of a boiled potato.
20:33Talk about an insult to that vegetable.
20:36But details are finally starting to trickle out about where he is.
20:40An Iranian official telling Reuters that he was lightly injured during the strikes
20:44but is continuing to operate.
20:47And Tehran's ambassador to Cyprus says he was hurt in the strike that killed his dad.
20:51I think he's in the hospital because he's injured.
20:54I don't think he's comfortable in any condition to give a speech.
20:57Hmm.
20:58CNN's reporting that he has a fractured foot bruising around his eye.
21:02Poor baby.
21:03Here's what's really going on.
21:05Iran is never going to tell us how badly injured he is.
21:09For all we know, he's, you know, grievously injured.
21:12But the fact that he's not out on the streets appearing in public
21:15or even putting out a video statement tells you how desperate they are.
21:19But they're trying to keep up this fantasy of the Iranian regime is strong
21:22by shooting off rockets, threatening people,
21:25but they can't do that forever.
21:27For more on the mystery, we're joined by Chuck DeVore,
21:31retired Army intel officer, chief national initiatives officer,
21:34the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
21:37Chuck, we've learned that some of those videos
21:40that were circulating of him were super old, okay?
21:45They were old videos.
21:47Going back to 2019, apparently, when he's in the streets,
21:51it reminded me of kind of the old Iraq propaganda videos
21:55during the Iraq war as well.
21:57But what's your sense about how he's actually doing?
22:02Well, I mean, the first thing that you outlined,
22:05he has a broken foot, lacerations to the face,
22:09supposedly light injuries.
22:10That, on one hand, could give him some credibility, right?
22:14I mean, he was wounded in battle with the great Satan.
22:16On the other hand, the regime is taking huge blows right now.
22:21He hasn't been seen in some 72 hours and counting.
22:24And you really need proof of life at some point,
22:27especially, Laura, because his appointment
22:30as the supreme leader is a double betrayal
22:34of the Iranian revolution of 1979.
22:36It's a double betrayal because he's not a grand ayatollah.
22:40He was only a Midland cleric,
22:42so he hardly had his clerical studies in the bag.
22:46And secondly, it's a dynastic succession.
22:49And remember, the whole revolution toppled the Shah's family.
22:56The whole point was to get rid of the royalty.
22:58Well, they've gone back to that now, haven't they?
23:01So you would think that he needs to appear in public.
23:05Yeah, I mean, hold up a copy of, you know,
23:09Terrorism Times with the date on it.
23:12Well, another expert told the New York Post, Chuck,
23:15that in Khamenei's will, he explicitly asked Mushtaba
23:19not to be named as his successor.
23:22The expert described Mushtaba as an impotent young cleric
23:25who has achieved nothing in terms of political life.
23:28The late Khamenei felt his son lacked the experience
23:30or capability to run Iran.
23:33So even that evil, ruthless leader
23:37thought his son was a deadbeat.
23:39So that all of this, to me, none of it makes sense.
23:45And again, we're looking at a photo on the screen now
23:48that's several years old.
23:51None of this passes a straight face test.
23:54That's correct.
23:55And you have to, though, understand
23:56that he's very close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
24:00He did do some fighting in the Iran-Iraq war,
24:04just a little bit, enough to get some credibility.
24:07And he's quite close to them
24:09with their smuggling operations,
24:11with their corruption,
24:12with basically feathering all their nests,
24:16with offshore bank accounts
24:18in all kinds of different countries.
24:19And so if you think of this as a mafia clan
24:22with a little bit of religion sprinkled on top,
24:25that gives you some idea
24:26as to how they might close ranks
24:29to try to keep this good thing going
24:31that they have at the expense of the Iranian people.
24:35This is a fantasy.
24:36They're trying to keep the fantasy alive.
24:38It's this fantasy island, okay, on the Gulf.
24:40Chuck, great to see you, my friend.
24:42Thank you so much.
24:43And coming up, this is a horrific story
24:45we talked to you about last week,
24:46the week before.
24:48A mom, 41 years old,
24:50stabbed to death at a bus stop
24:52in Northern Virginia,
24:53allegedly by an illegal alien
24:55with 30 prior arrests.
24:57So why was he on the streets?
24:59Her grieving mother is here next.
25:09Not as much as the legals do.
25:11Trump has turned ice into secret police.
25:15I think it's important
25:15that we come to our senses
25:16when it comes to the role of immigrants
25:19in the future of America.
25:20Sanctuary policies actually make communities safer,
25:23healthier, and more prosperous.
25:25Of course they're not going to mention
25:27all the horrific crimes,
25:29opportunities stolen
25:30by their favorite constituents.
25:32Like Honduran national Bayron Hernandez,
25:35accused of shoving two men
25:37onto the subway tracks
25:38in New York City this week,
25:40including an 83-year-old vet
25:42who's now fighting for his life.
25:44And there's Samuel Antonio Maldonado Arazo,
25:47who came in illegally under Biden.
25:50He's now accused of violently abusing
25:52and murdering his own three-year-old nephew.
25:56We learned that this young boy
25:58suffered extensive bruising about his body
26:00to include 17 strikes to the head alone.
26:05Additionally, there were several burn marks
26:07consistent with heating a lighter
26:08and then pressing that lighter against the skin.
26:11He had several broken ribs,
26:14one of which was detached from the backbone.
26:17He also had a transected pancreas,
26:20which is consistent with severe blunt trauma.
26:23There was a broken collarbone
26:25and signs of possible sexual abuse.
26:29These are animals.
26:31Like Abdul Jaloh,
26:33a criminal illegal from Sierra Leone.
26:36He is accused of killing,
26:37stabbing, 41-year-old Stephanie Minter to death
26:40here at this bus stop on Richmond Highway.
26:43Fairfax County police found Stephanie Minter
26:46with several stab wounds to her upper body.
26:49Just a little more than two weeks ago.
26:51By the way, he wasn't unknown to the police.
26:53He had 30 prior arrests, rape,
26:55malicious wounding, assault, and more.
26:58Police warned Fairfax County Commonwealth's attorney
27:00Steve Descano's office
27:02at least three times about this individual,
27:05saying it was only a matter of time
27:07before he hurt someone or worse.
27:10Here with me now is Stephanie's mother,
27:13Cheryl Minter.
27:14Stephanie Minter, 41-year-old mother
27:17who was brutally murdered
27:19at that bus stop in Fairfax County.
27:22Cheryl, I've thought about you and your family.
27:25I mean, every night,
27:27I think about you and all those families
27:29who've been affected by this.
27:32If the prosecutor, Steve Descano,
27:35had listened to police,
27:37do you think your daughter
27:38would still be here tonight?
27:41Yes.
27:42I mean, he would have been locked up
27:45and not able to do it.
27:51And wouldn't have been on the streets
27:53to be able to do what he did.
27:58Sheryl, your daughter was beautiful.
28:03As a mom myself,
28:04I cannot imagine...
28:06I don't know how you put one foot
28:08in front of another
28:09after what happened to her
28:11in this senseless, horrific killing
28:13by an individual who should not have been
28:16on the streets or in this country
28:17in the first place.
28:20Tell us how you are coping
28:22with all of this.
28:25Hour by hour, day by day,
28:28lots of prayers,
28:32lots of...
28:34saying I love you and I miss you.
28:40Sheryl, was she on her way to work,
28:42I believe, at the bus stop?
28:45I'm not actually sure where she was.
28:47We were in Fredericksburg
28:49and she was in Alexandria.
28:51So I'm not really sure
28:53where she was headed
28:54or anything, actually.
28:59So I can't answer that.
29:01Uh-huh.
29:02Yeah, her son is 17, I believe.
29:05How is he...
29:06He is 17.
29:07Holding up.
29:09He's toughing it out,
29:12quiet,
29:13but he's getting through.
29:15I talk to his dad a lot
29:17and make sure he's okay,
29:19and he seems to be doing okay
29:23right now.
29:24But we have, you know...
29:26Your message...
29:27Plenty of people...
29:27I'm sorry, Sheryl.
29:29Oh, we just have plenty of people...
29:32...we just have plenty of people,
29:34you know, ready if he needs them.
29:40So...
29:40Sheryl, your message
29:42to politicians,
29:45prosecutors,
29:47who run on having
29:50victim-focused,
29:52you know, prosecution.
29:54I mean, they really...
29:55They care about the people.
29:57Steve Descano,
29:59prosecutor in Fairfax County,
30:01he's not living up to his promises.
30:03What's your message
30:04to him tonight?
30:05Um, do your job.
30:10Do what you said
30:12in your vision
30:13on your web page.
30:17Get your act together.
30:21I'm...
30:22Don't know...
30:24You know,
30:25he needs to do something.
30:28He needs to help protect
30:29the people
30:30and get these people
30:32off the street
30:33any way he can.
30:37Have you heard
30:38from Governor Spanberger?
30:40She was, you know,
30:41recently elected.
30:42I have not heard
30:43from anyone, actually,
30:45just news people
30:48and the detective.
30:53Tell us about
30:54your daughter.
30:55What kind of person
30:56was she like?
30:58Share some thoughts
30:59on her.
31:00She was amazing.
31:03She had lots of struggles,
31:05but she always
31:07fought through them,
31:09battled through them,
31:11always with a smile
31:12on her face
31:14and always gave it
31:16the best that she could
31:17and looked to her Bible,
31:21looked for the word
31:22and tried to follow it
31:23the best she could.
31:24and that's all
31:26any of us humans
31:28can do.
31:32And was there a Bible
31:34as a present
31:35at Christmas
31:36as I was reading about?
31:38Yes.
31:39I had given her
31:41a Bible for Christmas
31:42in December of 24.
31:47and I don't have it
31:48with me.
31:51I can't read from it,
31:52but I think there was
31:54a shot taken of it
31:55at some point
31:57along the way.
31:59But it was,
32:02she thanked the Lord
32:04for me giving it to her
32:05because she knew
32:06how much she loved it
32:08and would use it.
32:10It was a journaling Bible
32:12and there were
32:15many, many, many
32:16highlighted areas,
32:18lots of written
32:20areas throughout
32:21the Bible
32:21that she had
32:22jotted notes
32:23and written
32:25to the sides
32:26of things
32:27that she wanted
32:27to remember
32:28or do
32:30or put into play.
32:34Cheryl,
32:36first of all,
32:36thank you for
32:37telling us about Stephanie.
32:39Everybody has struggles.
32:40We all have struggles.
32:42It sounds like
32:42she was working
32:44through hers
32:45and she was at a bus stop,
32:47an American citizen
32:48and her life
32:49was brutally cut short.
32:52It's an outrage.
32:53Very brutally.
32:53She will not be forgotten.
32:55She will not be forgotten.
32:57None of these victims
32:58will be forgotten.
32:59And politicians
32:59who protect this system
33:01as it is
33:01should be ashamed
33:02of themselves
33:03and should be voted
33:03out of office.
33:05Cheryl,
33:06sorry to get political there
33:07but I'm infuriated
33:08about this
33:08and I appreciate
33:09you coming on tonight.
33:10I know it wasn't
33:11I know it wasn't easy
33:13and I very much
33:15appreciate your time
33:16and I will continue
33:16to pray for you
33:17and your entire family.
33:19Thank you very much.
33:20Thank you so much.
33:22When we come back,
33:24Seen and Unseen
33:24with Raymond Arroyo.
33:28It's time for
33:29Seen and Unseen
33:29where we reveal
33:30the stories behind
33:31the headlines.
33:31For that,
33:32we turn to Fox News
33:32contributor Raymond Arroyo.
33:34All right, Raymond,
33:35another famous Democrat
33:36has entered
33:37the memoir race.
33:39Wow.
33:39That's right, Laura.
33:40Look, following the path
33:42of Kamala Harris
33:42and Michelle Obama,
33:44Dr. Jill Biden
33:45is getting in
33:46on the act,
33:47dishing on her time
33:48as first lady.
33:51Serving in the historic
33:52East Wing
33:52was the honor
33:53of my life.
33:54View from the East Wing
33:56is an account
33:57of my time
33:57as first lady.
33:58I share the good moments
34:00that lifted me
34:01and the difficult ones
34:02that challenged me.
34:03I also reflect
34:04on how this chapter
34:05in our lives
34:06came to a close
34:07when Joe made
34:08the unprecedented decision
34:10not to seek re-election
34:12and pass the torch.
34:14And burn the house down.
34:16There's no saving
34:17this narrative, Laura.
34:19And didn't the party
34:20decide that Joe Biden
34:21shouldn't seek re-election?
34:23I mean,
34:23that's the way
34:23I kind of remembered it.
34:25Very interesting.
34:26How many,
34:27how much do they
34:28have to pay people
34:30to buy that book
34:31in bulk, Raymond?
34:33Like what,
34:34what, what, who,
34:36I mean,
34:36that's going to be
34:37a heavy lift.
34:38It seems like Biden
34:39was so long ago now.
34:40It's kind of,
34:40we're kind of,
34:41we've turned the page
34:43to quote Tim Walz's wife, right?
34:45So we're going back to Jill?
34:47I don't think so.
34:48Yeah, well,
34:48and she calls it
34:49the view from the East Wing.
34:50The East Wing
34:51is as demolished
34:52as the Biden presidency
34:53at this point.
34:54She should retitle
34:55the book,
34:56you know,
34:56view from the ruins,
34:57which would probably
34:58more appropriate.
35:00Ooh, that's a good one.
35:02All right, Raymond,
35:02Hollywood,
35:03we know,
35:04they just cannot,
35:05cannot skip a chance
35:07to take a shot at Trump.
35:09They can't stop.
35:10Actress Maggie Gillenall
35:11says that directing movies
35:13became her way
35:14to speak out
35:16after 2016.
35:18I will say,
35:19and I don't know
35:20if I've said this out loud before.
35:21When I really became a director
35:23was actually,
35:24I think,
35:24the first time
35:25that the morning
35:26that Trump was first elected.
35:28I think I was like,
35:29I have a lot more to say
35:32than I've been saying.
35:36Laura,
35:36her $85 million
35:37Mrs. Frankenstein reboot,
35:39The Bride,
35:40made $13 million
35:41at the box office.
35:43And now,
35:44Gene Simmons
35:45has had enough
35:46of this grandstanding.
35:47He's sticking his tongue out
35:49at these political celebrities
35:50as he told TMZ.
35:52Basically,
35:53shut the f*** up.
35:54Do your art
35:55and shut up.
35:56Nobody's interested
35:57in your opinions.
35:58People in America
35:59work hard for their living
36:00and they don't want
36:01to be lectured to
36:02by people
36:03who live in mansions
36:04and drive Rolls Royces.
36:08Laura,
36:08they have to stop.
36:09He's always interesting.
36:11Yeah,
36:11I mean,
36:12and you know
36:12the Oscars this weekend,
36:13this is going to turn
36:14into the Ayatollah Oscars.
36:16You know,
36:16everybody is suddenly,
36:17though they hate theocracies,
36:19they're suddenly going
36:20to be on the side
36:21of the Ayatollahs
36:22because they hate Trump more.
36:23That might make
36:24a good movie, actually.
36:25A Hollywood executive
36:26joins the Ayatollahs
36:27inner circle
36:28and becomes head of Iran.
36:29I'm going to write this up
36:30during the break.
36:32Oh, yeah,
36:32It's been a wild week,
36:33by the way,
36:33for travelers, Laura.
36:35You've been traveling a lot.
36:36Major airports across the country
36:38are jammed.
36:39Long TSA lines
36:40thanks to staffing shortages
36:43over the partial government shutdown.
36:45And the passengers
36:46are not happy.
36:48We came like
36:49two and a half hours earlier,
36:50but I think we should have
36:51gotten here perhaps
36:52five hours at this rate.
36:54We just literally made it
36:55back into the building
36:56and this is crazy.
36:58I thought to myself,
36:59oh my gosh,
36:59like I don't think
37:00I've ever experienced
37:01that much like chaos
37:02in an airport.
37:03Definitely did bring
37:04panic to me.
37:05I was really worried about it.
37:06That's why I'm here
37:07super early.
37:08I got here three hours early.
37:10Oh, my gosh.
37:12I mean, these lines
37:13are obscene.
37:13Look at them, Laura.
37:14TSA employees,
37:16by the way,
37:16have been calling off work
37:17more than usual
37:18over the past week.
37:20It's Houston Hobby.
37:2153% of the officers
37:23called out on March 8th.
37:2521% skipped out at JFK.
37:28I mean, pretty soon
37:29it's going to be like
37:30that picture I showed you
37:30a few weeks ago.
37:31People are going to have
37:32to put themselves
37:33and their baggage
37:34through the x-ray machines.
37:36This may be your future
37:37if the shutdown continues, Laura.
37:41Well, at DCA the other day
37:43or at Dulles the other day,
37:45there was no one there.
37:46It felt like it was COVID.
37:47It was weird.
37:48But then in New Orleans,
37:49you all always...
37:51That airport in New Orleans
37:52is the worst.
37:53I'm sorry.
37:54It is always a pain in the neck
37:56both to get to
37:57and to get through.
37:58But love the people
37:58of New Orleans,
37:59but not the airport there.
38:00The other day,
38:00it looked like Mardi Gras day.
38:02People were snaking everywhere.
38:04Pixar.
38:04Pixar, the Disney offshoot
38:06is hitting the reset button
38:08on their approach
38:09to movie magic.
38:10I saw this and thought
38:11Ingram will be interested
38:12in this.
38:13Chief creative officer
38:14Pete Docter
38:15is defending his cuts
38:17of LGBTQ content
38:20in recent films.
38:21According to
38:22The Wall Street Journal,
38:23doctors said Pixar found
38:25some parents didn't want
38:26entertainment to force them
38:28to have conversations
38:29they weren't ready for
38:30with their children.
38:32You don't say.
38:33We're making a movie,
38:34not hundreds of millions
38:35of dollars of therapy.
38:38This is, of course,
38:38this is what I think
38:39people have been crying
38:40out for for years
38:41after a string of flops,
38:43including last year's
38:44bomb, Elio.
38:45Doctors steering Pixar
38:46back to the themes
38:48that made it a powerhouse,
38:49Toy Story and Inside Out
38:50and the classics.
38:51And I think they're going
38:52to try to do that.
38:53The new movie Hopper
38:54is, by the way,
38:54getting good reviews.
38:57Well, you know,
38:57Stranger Things,
38:58the end of that,
38:59they had to do that.
39:00You know what I mean?
39:01It's just enough.
39:03Just give us entertainment.
39:04OK, we don't need
39:05proselytizing and propaganda.
39:07It's all it's all too much.
39:09Raymond, I'm not going
39:10to try getting go.
39:12I'm not going to try
39:13going through the TSA
39:14screening machine
39:15because, you know,
39:16when people put their shoes,
39:19people still take off
39:20their shoes,
39:20even though they're
39:21not supposed to.
39:22They take their shoes off
39:23and they put them on.
39:25It's I can't do it.
39:26I'm not going to put
39:27go face down on that.
39:28Nope, not going to do it.
39:29Raymond, great to see you.
39:30Thank you so much.
39:31And coming up,
39:32Trump just landed in D.C.
39:34has a new message for Iran.
39:38But we know where
39:39most of them are.
39:40We've got our eye on all of them,
39:42I think.
39:45That's a lot of people.
39:46I sure hope so.
39:47That is it for us tonight.
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