set your dvr 6:00 p.m. on the east. this weekend shannon bream on "fox news sunday." her guest south carolina congresswoman nancy mace, republican presidential candidate north dakota governor doug burr government thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. "the ingraham angle" is now. ♪ ♪ >> laura: hi, everyone. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from minneapolis tonight. still the economy, stupid. that he was the focus of tonight's angle. >> laura: working class people are a heck of a lot smarter than politicians and political consultants think they are, like this man i ran into in minneapolis yesterday. >> bidenomics they say is working. >> you know what, as long as you are blind. because half of them like biden they can't think.

they have can't think straight at all. it is important that people of all race and color need to wake up and look at the issues. it's not about racism. >> on a national level it ho could make a difference just to get the economy going. >> the only person that can save our bee loved country, this bee loved country is our bee loved president donald trump. it's important for us to get him reelected so he can get this country back up on the right track. as you see, all these democrat states like chicago, minneapolis, san francisco, they all got democrat mayors and look what is hang. >> laura: that guy should have his own show and we all know what happened to our once great cities. there's no spinning it. any honest person who spent time in urban america can see the decay. we can see it with our own eyes. just like they can see that their own standard of living has declined since biden took office. >> my salary has not kept up with inflation. so, even though i'm working, i find that my money is buying less and less when i go to the grocery store, gas station,

anywhere. >> the biden administration came out saying that bidenomics is working for the middle class. what are your thoughts? >> it's not. it's not working for my small business. it's not working for our family. >> i personally was thinking about retirement and now i'm thinking about how long can i work? >> laura: every poll is showing that the economy is the number one issue for the american people. and biden gets terrible ratings on his handling of the economy. even in the cnn polls. so republicans, especially donald trump, consistently out poll democrats on the issue that biden is weakest on. this is something that the white house is so worried about that they're now winding biden up and sending him out to brag about bidenomics. now, in the process, he is trying to outpopulist trump on the economy which is hilarious. like he was america first, first. let's see if you notice the similarities here. >> joe biden shipped millions of your best jobs overseas.

hollowed out the black middle class. >> they decided to send the jobs overseas where the labor was cheaper, entire towns and communities got hollowed out. >> after many years of decline, american manufacturing is coming back bigger and better and stronger than ever before. >> american manufacturing is back, folks. american manufacturing is back. [applause] >> the united states lost 60,000 factories after china entered the wto materials needed for critical products. we are in a real race. china is ahead of us. >> laura: first, remember biden has a long history of previous tending that he is someone he is not. right? we know that second, of course he is going to fake a trump-like approach to the economy. because trump's policies actually work. and because biden's numbers are in the toilet, look, the facts

are undeniable here. americans were making more when trump was president. and they felt more optimistic about the future you barely any inflation. it met happier more hopeful families. the progress biden was out touting today in maine it's a fantasy. inflation may be declining slightly but big deal since he is the one who punished us with inflation in the first place. and the recent slight improvement in our g.d.p. certainly wouldn't have been possible without the red states that are filled with all those maga republicans biden thinks are so terrible working as hard as they have. the governors in the red states rejected lockdowns and frank live the entire biden approach to covid and, of course, at the same time they are pushing bureau growth policies. all those policies that biden hates. biden right now globalist and a populist. but it doesn't work. in the past month.

blinken, kerry and yellen all traveled to china not to help main street but to reassure wall street. look, you can't be a populist and suck up to the ccp at the same time. and biden's supposed support for "made in america" today is all just talk. he already told the eu that he was going to tweak the made in america provisions that would hurt their imports that he inserted in that so-called inflation reduction act. so those are out the window. in the real world, facts are facts and despite democrat spins on the economy, look, reality bites here. courtesy of biden's destructive domestic and foreign policy, gasoline is now at an eight month high as russia now is working with opec to drive down supply. and all of us who go to the grocery store know that food costs are still way up. they are up a year ago. bread, pet food, all of it, it's a joke. and it's all on biden's shoulders. and who can't help but notice

the spike in homelessness all across america? it's heart breaking and it's infuriating and it should not be happening in the united states of america. but, sadly, that's what you get more of with a bad economy and an open border. yet, the insulated elites in the media, they are still flummoxed that joey and kamala aren't getting economic credit. >> the economy seems to be doing fairly well. why is it that so many people are walking around in this country today saying it's terrible. >> it takes a long time for people to get over economic shocks of bad news. when they see a lot of inflation they assume it's bad for them. >> they kept hearing reports for the last year and a half that we were headed into a recession. that kind of fear put the stress from covid that's really held biden's economy numbers down. >> laura: yeah, people are down on the economy because they are hearing reports that we are going into recession? really? again, they think you are that

stupid. now, we all know that americans that are well-off they can absorb the i object sane prices in food, travel and energy costs. biden's policies we know caused all of this. for the vast majority it's all just more hardship. >> for those living paycheck to paycheck, it's all they think about. and people wonder, gosh, why does donald trump have such a hold on g.o.p. voters? why does he have such a loyal following? well, first, because he has a record of delivering a strong economy, and, second, because, for the most part, he is the only candidate really focusing on the economy. >> so many young people here are being utterly extinguished. in the biden economy, 1/3 of gens gen z and millennials have no savings accounts whatsoever. they have nothing. >> he is absolutely right about that. he has laid out a clear economic agenda. >> when i'm back in the white house, i will immediately

unleash reduction. slash regulations like i did just three years ago and repeal biden's tax hikes to get inflation down as fast as possible and it will go quickly so that interest rates can get back under control. i built the greatest economy in the history of the world, and now we will have to do it again. >> laura: check out of the headline that i found today when i was writing the angle from 2018. trump has set economic growth on fire. here's how he did it. well, during his time in office the economy had achieved feets most experts thought impossible. g.d.p. growing 3% plus rate. unemployment rate near a 50-year low. the stock market has jumped 27% they wrote amid a surge in corporate profits. yeah, that's where we were it took a pandemic to stop the trump juggernaut. the amazing thing everybody did

better, wall street, blue collar workers, wall street, everyone. if the republicans leave this lane, economic lane open for biden's message on the economy that somehow things are all getting better and he gets all the credit? if they forget to remind everyone that real wages are down 3% from 021, and if they get caught up in the debate over cultural issues, i am telling you don't, they will be disappointed in the results in 2024. biden family corruption i think is really important, that effort should not overshadow serious work on the pocketbook issues that are most important to the voters. trump is in the lead now by a lot. trump has credibility on the top concern of americans in both parties today. >> the american dream is dead under biden. we will have the american dream back very soon. row will rapidly rebuild the

greatest economy in the history of the world. >> this is what the voters want, more money in their pockets and jobs that are not going to be ships overseas. here's a novel idea. let's give this message to all of them in all 50 states and inner city philadelphia, here in minneapolis, in los angeles, and chicago. no city or state left behind. and that's the angle. joining me now is victor davis hanson, hoover institution senior fellow and malik, founder and ceo of partners. i have said this for a while that as much as i love these cultural issues and school curricula issues and trans, you know, stuff in the military and it's very posh. what about the economy which biden clearly sees as big vulnerability and the republicans relative lack of focus on this other than trump? >> yeah. i think they have to break out. i think in the case of donald trump, all they want to talk

about are the indictments and, of course that doesn't allow him to compare and contrast his economic record and what his future agenda is now with what we have now and desantis. all they do is fixate on disney and transgender stuff and critical race theory and not what he did in florida. i think all of them have to really be blunt and say, you know, gas has gone up 1.50. and this is despite draining 30% of the strategic petroleum reserve, which we never replaced and interest rates are 7% on 30 year mortgage. they used to be 1.8. and inflation is cumulative. it's not just 8% the first year it's 5% the next year biden ran it up and it's probably going to be another 4 or 5 this year. when you total it up on certain items that's 20% or 30% more than what we paid for. and this is after we barbed $5 trillion and tried to pump up the economy. so it's been pretty much a disaster and that's why biden never really wants to speak about it and we leave this

vacuum where he steps in and pretty much lies about the benefits and joys of bidenomics because nobody is talking about it. that -- there is really only four issues, laura. there is the wide open border, 7 million entrants, the biden economy what he did with the trump boom, crime, and what he did with energy. energy, gas, economy. crime, border, that should be it and those are all winning issues. they poll consistent live with conservatives. >> laura: yeah, i want to do a comparison on the -- a quick comparison on bidenomics and trump. the average mortgage rate under trump was 3.75%. now it's 6.81%. average price of gas a dollar less than july 2019 than it is now. inflation, of course we all know groceries last month was 4.7% under trump but wasn't even 1%. so isn't that what bidenomics is

and as someone who has been psycho successful in business as yourself. what do the republicans need to do here to make sure that is their winning message? >> they can't let this orwellian notion that biden is a populist continue because it's exactly the opposite. the good news you have a 50 year track record for biden. the irony was lost on people that he did a speech in maine today. maine has lost 50% of their manufacturing jobs during this period of globalization and embracing china. that biden has been for his entire career. he has always been a globalist. he was for nafta. he was for giving china most favored nation status. all was these have been disastrous. >> he was a u.s. senator while this was going on and vice president of the united states for 8 years pushes these policies. it wasn't until trump came in that we started counter acting some of this stuff. make no mistake about it, the reason why we have had inflation, the worst in a lifetime is because of the biden administration's policies.

they to the supply side by putting draconian lockdowns on when they were unnecessary and couple that with $2 trillion spending bill to put demand on fire. and that causes inflation and then his fed has done the most interest rates that we have seen also in a lifetime. that is why you have inflation. it's because of his policies. and they are not pro-american. the inflation reduction act pushes us towards electric vehicles. vehicles dependent on lithium which the chinese control. so it's actually undermining our national security. how is that a pro-american message? >> laura: yeah. i love this, victor that we know populism works, economic populism because biden was pretending to be an economic populist today to omeed's point. bee moaning the outsourcing of jobs to china and other places, who is responsible for that?

this is terrible we are going to do made in america stuff now as he vetoes the tariffs on solar panels. >> yeah. everybody in the democratic party, the left, the hyper rich, the bill gates, bloomberg multi million dollars invest thements in china. bill gates was praising the chinese policies. i think there is a change, laura, if you look at the mayor of san francisco the other day london breed said if i had my druthers i would get rid of all taxes on business. what she was really saying is we have created a desert in san francisco. high crime, smash and grab. defund the police. businesses are leaving. it's a desert. same thing is happening in oakland. there was a huge protest of people who said we can't live in this city anymore. it's too dangerous. it's not working. these are not conservatives who are saying this. these are independent and liberal democrats. they created it. and now they roux very seriously what happened. i think there is a lot of

opportunity for republicans to appeal to independents and say do you really want the blue state model the california model is coming under biden and if you don't stop anymore in 2024. >> laura: omeed do you think republicans especially those trending hispanic and places in new mexico are going to be buying this new biden on the economy really quickly? >> no. absolutely not. yeah, no. not at all, laura. they see what is going on in their own pocketbooks. they are feeling it at the pump as you said. they are not buying. this they are losing minorities, actually, particularly first generation immigrants and hispanics and even african-americans they have done this at their own peril to victor's point people feel the crime in those neighborhoods and they are not for it. >> laura: victor and omed thank you very much. what's next for hunter biden most would throw the book at him

after plea deal fiasco. does the legal team believe that is going to happen? we will find out next. stay there.

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just in the last 72 hours about hunter biden. will this shame the doj into actually bringing new charges? what's your gut tonight, after all these days that you have been on all week long on the angle, what's your gut? >> absolutely not. i mean, the fact that they would even sanction this attempted deceit on the court and on the public tells you all you need to know about that. the fact that the attorney general merrick garland hasn't gotten to the bottom of it and told the public this is what really happened all of the stonewalling going on, no. i'm totally skeptic of anything resulting from it. >> laura: well, it seems like, david, that the white house is falling back and we'll play the soundbite on how much the bidens love their son.

okay? they love their son, that's all that matters. it's a private matter. he needs to be able to recover in peace, the process is under, i guess it's still under investigation. they are going to fall back on that, correct? i there that's right. hunter biden ought to be outraged his deal was broken. lawyer outraged when he said rip it up. they ought to file a motion for specific performance of the plea agreement they understood they had had under santa bellow. the judge may not accept it. this is the only way to get at what promises were made to him. this looks like this broad immunity deal through diversion. if that's what he think he was entitled to, i think he ought to litigate it. >> laura: we learned something really big about hunter biden in court. listen to what he told the judge. i started a company in 2017 called hudson west, your honor, and my partner was associated with the chinese energy company

called cefc. the judge then said who was your partner? hunter biden answers i don't know how to spell his name. it's yi gin ming, the chairman of that company he made over a half million dollars that contradicts what his father told us back in 2020. >> my son has not made money in terms of this thing you are talking about -- what are you talking about -- china? >> laura: david, what's your reaction here? >> well, i think. >> laura: or sol, i'm sorry. we're on sol. sorry about that. sol, go ahead. sol, what's your reaction there? that seems like a direct contradiction. >> well, my reaction is what else is new? virtually everything the president has said about this, about the business dealings that his son had in china and ukraine have been shown to be false. and it just doesn't seem to

effect him. i guess everybody just looks at him as dotterring father and they don't have any problem with it. so, i'm not surprised at all. >> laura: well, let's move to this trump issue with jack smith, the prosecutor, releasing a superseding indictment yesterday. there were three new charges against trump. attempting to destroy, alter, mutilate or conceal evidence. also inducing someone else to do so and a new count under the espionage act related to classified national document security. david, let's go to you. help us break these down because it looks like they have either on tape or a witness recounting conversations about trump employees and perhaps a notation that the president spoke with one of those employees about going in and allegedly asking for servers to be deleted after the government requested them.

so a couple things many in the media are falling all over themselves this is a whole new chapter and they have really got him now for two reasons mainly. they have got this document about iran that was on the recorded call. we don't know that that's the case at all. in any event, his same defenses would apply to that document if there were a document. but we don't know that that's the document. but then there's the bit about the deletion -- purported deletion of the video. that's classic. the witness says de oliveira that maybe nauta told him that maybe trump told him it's hearsay on hearsay on hearsay. there are reasons we have rules of evidence. reliability, credible of the process. let's see how this plays out frankly. the judge ought to be quite angry. they just had a scheduling conference there was no mention apparently of the superseding indictment. what happened? did they have this and hold it back or just turn the screws to tavares now. remember, the government decides

what the truth is. and if you are not cooperating with them, then you are not telling the truth from the government's perspective. at least the prosecutor like this. it's all your take on that. >> that's outstanding point, they had a scheduling conference and recall that jack smith wanted the trial to start in december of this year. and said nothing about this -- this plans to do a superseding indictment tore even present this evidence. so, it's -- david's point is outstanding. and, you know, on the issue of hunter biden, i don't think that the opposition should give up. i think, by all means, there are people who need to be hauled in front of the house and put under oath and answer questions about this because hunter biden, the hunter biden, the whole investigation, the whistleblowers and now what's happened with this plea is, make no mistake about it, it's a terrible, terrible scandal.

>> laura: and we have leslie wolf, lisa monaco and a lot of other characters we need to get to the bottom of it. sol and david, thank you. one senator freezes on camera. another forgets how to vote. and biden thinks he cured cancer. so, what's going on with our aging political class? my medicine cabinet is up next. plus, i'm back here in minneapolis three years after the floyd riots. has anything changed? >> while it might be good news for one neighborhood where a homeless encampment is removed by city and state officials and police. it becomes a blight and frankly a danger to other neighborhoods where new homeless encampments pop up. they are the site of rank crycripplality. this continues to be a problem for minneapolis and frankly with no real answers in sight.

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>> in a string of -- >> laura: that went on for another 10 seconds or so and it was really disturbing and upsetting. and this week, more than ever, i think we saw an obvious decline in our leaders on both sides of the aisle. what happened with mcconnell was concerning because, look, if that happened to your 81-year-old dad or your grandfather, wouldn't you immediately bring him in to get checked out? if it happened to any of us would call the doctor right away. but that was hardly the worst of the week. watch what happened when it was time for 90-year-old dianne feinstein to cast a vote yesterday. >> say aye. >> pardon me? >> aye. >> yeah. >> just say -- >> -- i would like to support a yes vote on this. -- >> just say aye. >> okay. just. >> aye.

>> aye. >> joining me now is dr. janette nesheiwat who is a fox news contributor and medical director at city m.d. and dr. poor the mccullough epidemiologist and cardiologist doctor nesheiwat, feinstein's spokesman told fox that the senator was preoccupied and didn't realize debate ended. she has been absent from the senate for many, many months with apparently a case of the shingles but she has been basically absent for a long time now. what did you see? >> yeah, you know, laura, i think you are absolutely correct. this is quite disturbing. it's devastating. it's very difficult to watch. and when it comes to senator feinstein, you're right. if you recall, she suffered the most severe complication from shingles not long ago that complication was encephalitis, which means inflammation of her brain. although she is recovered and back at work, some of the long term sequela shingles complication are mood swings, headaches, problems with your

memory, confusion, difficulty walking. that's why we see her in a wheelchair. when she is 90-something years old. where is the humanity. where is the compassion. we are at a point in time where family needs to step in. her doctor needs to step in and say hey, let's focus on your health rather than see this deteriorating health that we see right before our eyes. we want a leader that is capable of leading that is, you know, cognitive stable, physically stable and mentally stable so that they can carry out their task as needed to serve americans. >> laura: yeah, i think it's an insult to the voters, frankly. it's just -- i mean, no one can let go of power. a former mcconnell adviser, dr. mccolumbus, reacted to what happened to him in this way. >> he met with the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy. took a call from the president. he called me. he had some meetings in his office. he went down to the floor and did the ndaa amendments. weighs the keynote speaker in a big dinner in washington that night as well.

really just a momentary, i think, post lunch lightheadedness. >> laura: dr. mccullough, does that satisfy your concern about this? >> as an internist and cardiologist, i see and care for seniors who have events like this. it was a significant neurologic event. it was about 20 seconds where he froze. there was no blinking. recall that he had fallen and had a concussion back in march of 2023. so we can't make a diagnosis on tv but i can tell you there is a list of serious problems that could have caused that spell. and i wouldn't have any senator or representative take mcconnell's word for it or have them provide assurances to america. i agree we need family and doctors to step in when there is physical and mental decline. >> laura: and now on to another topic. fox obtained shocking internal facebook emails, doctors, on how

the biden administration pressured them to censor americans. now, on july 2021, emails from the head of global affairs asked why facebook suppressed the covid lab leak theory. and the answer was because we were under pressure from the administration. another email said the surgeon general wants us to remove true information about side effects if the user does not provide complete information about whether the side effect is rare and treatable. we don't recommend pursuing this practice. dr. nesheiwat, quickly, on this? >> you know this should be illegal and criminal in my mind. since day one there has been no transparency, no honesty. we should have been encouraging communication and conversation to help save lives not stifle debate. how many millions of thousands of people whose lives have been up ended because of the mandates, because of masks, because of vaccines, because of this lack of information. so we need to work hard to make sure that this doesn't happen again. and it's good to see, for

example, elon musk on twitter exposing the files and the literature back and forth so that we could see and hold accountsable those who were engaging in type of activity of censorship. >> laura: and, dr. mccullough, i know a thousand doctors gathered at the supreme court yesterday. a big show of force. protesting, really, the lack of accountability for dr. fauci and his role in this covid misinformation, the real misinformation. but, how dangerous is this government collusion which now, you know, has been essentially struck down by a court. but what does this reveal about potential future problems related to this type of issue? >> the house select committee has really unveiled a terrible, deep culpability of government agencies in biological threat to. co-v 2 there are countless other

biological threats out there that our government agencies have their hands on. we need an immediate suspension of all gain of function research, outsourcing of this key biological information technology and medical technology to foreign governments. we need to rein it in and keep america and the world safe from these. >> laura: dr. nesheiwat, dr. mccolumbus, thank you both. well biden couldn't do a big economic speech like did he today without treats for us, blunders. raymond arroyo has it all. friday follies is next. ♪

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♪ >> laura: it's friday and that means it's time for "friday follies." and for that we turn to raymond arroyo, fox news contributor. all right, raymond, we reported this earlier. the president had another big bidenomics speech. yea. >> yeah. but, laura, there were a few moments you won't see anywhere elms. at least the president is on alert that he should avoid falling in public. >> when i came to office i was determined, determined to end the trickle down economy. excuse me this little stand is out. well, make sure i don't trip over it.

maybe if i stand on it make myself three inches turrell. buck sport. you can see exactly where to go if did you go i can't for online invest.com. invest.com. punch him whatever neighbor you want to find out about. raymond raymond maybe not. when we went to invest.com. like bidenomics, the page ♪ working. >> then the president fought to sign the executive order in manufacturing he had to double back sort of like kamala harris who may need to double back herself. this is her explanation for the success of bidenomics. >> most americans are $400 unexpected expense away from bankruptcy syntax is difficult for her. >> no specifics. >> maybe she can get into the atlantics, laura.

look, we have a fox news alert. sorry to break. in tonight the president finally recognizing his 4-year-old granddaughter navy. hunter biden's love child in a statement to people, the president says this is not a political issue. it's a family matter. jill and i only want what's best for all our grandchildren, including navy. late better than never. does that mean she gets the christmas cookie or perhaps a stocking at the white house next year or later this year? >> raymond: we will have to check on that. we'll see. >> laura: all right. i'm granting you three wishes. >> raymond: oh, good. okay. i know we are tight tonight so here we go. my first, if you are going to rob a bank in huron, ohio, i wish you wouldn't make the recycling bin your accomplice. [shouting] on the ground! >> hands behind your back.

[scuffle] >> tom cruise was definitely not involved in this heist, laura, why didn't he just crawl into the police station overhang? >> laura: okay. what's the second wish? >> okay. my second wish, that people would spend more time embracing who they are rather than playing dress up and demanding affirmation, this japanese guy dresses as a hole collie in a $15,000 dog outfit and, yes, he is taken for walks. [cheers] [laughter] good boy. amazing. >> get one of those.

>> laura: friday collies. i would have a labrador. >> raymond: adults dressing as babies. adult baby diaper lover communities. how would you like to that. >> laura: that's called getting old and wear depends. all right, raimondo, thank you so much. cut it a little short. i'm back in minneapolis three years after george floyd riots. how have things changed? i went around the city to find out. that video, next. ♪

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may 27, two days after the killing of george floyd, the autozone right here burned to the ground. that was august 2020 and i was standing here in this spot for the precinct over one shoulder and the burn down autozone over the other.

it was just 10 weeks after the george floyd riots that destroyed so much of this area. i decided to come back in the summer to find out what is changing. is the crime getting better or worse? is there a police presence here that is trusted? what about this third police precinct that was burned down during the riots? does it remain a monument to anarchy? we decided to talk to a number of people in different walks of life. what do they think? thoughts of looking at the old third precinct building three years after the riots? >> it brings back a lot of bad memories but also obviously the police officers that once worked out of this facility. it is sad to see three years later and literally nothing has changed. >> scott is a retired minneapolis police officer. he was one of the commanders who led the police response after george floyd's death. >> the last two years have been off the hook for a place of violent crime in minneapolis.

there have been signs of progress in some areas and some antiviolence initiatives. having said that crime is still high and anytime you have over 400 fewer officers than you had before, it is difficult to get a handle on street crime. >> it doesn't look like there will be a police precinct in this actual area that suffered so much after the floyd riots. the activists i think believe that is a surrender by the police or the city council. they consider it a victory. >> i totally agree. the activists and some of the city council members who are activists themselves consider it a victory to not have police in the precinct. some of the city council don't want police to begin with. their agenda is to eliminate the police and to disrupt law and order. the residents, however, if you talk to the residents that they want to see the police in their own community. >> it's been a tough couple years. >> mark is the owner of ace hardware is a business in the

family for 70 years. but life here is an easy. it is getting harder. crime and frankly a lack of political leadership doesn't help. i noticed you have blocked off some of the aisles. why is that? >> we have to help people down those isles. we have too much left. in the tool area a lot of the thieves breaking into houses around here cannot even buy tools of the trade. they have to steal the crowbars and screwdrivers. we have propane tanks that you exchange for your grills. we had all 18 stolen one night. >> homeless encampments have been a problem. how has that impacted the running of this family business? >> there was a lot of trash. a lot of needles all over the neighborhood. one of the young men that cuts the lawns in the neighborhoods. and most neighborhoods you pick up sticks and twigs before cutting the long. he had to pick up 20 needles that were in his yard. >> we had the encampments less

than half a block away for some of this stuff. unnecessary things that shouldn't have to happen. >> tony williams grew up in this area and he has noticed a lot of changes. >> where we grew up we had every race around this neighborhood. we head natives, black, white, hispanic, jamaican, we had them all together and we would hang out at every house altogether. all the time. it has changed. i don't know what happened, but something happens. >> some of the folks we talked to are trying to make a difference and saw a real reason for optimism. but then there are others who are longtime residents who see the fault not only with city officials and political leadership, but with the community itself. >> we have got to rake up and be more aware. everybody is not force.

you people like al sharpton lining their pockets every time people get killed they fly into town. we have to be wise. it's not about democrats or republicans. we've got to read the issues and studied the issues and see if anything changed out of the quality of life. ain't nothing changed since i been here. it is safe to say you have more churches. they want to say it's the white man fault. how about we say sometimes it's the black man's evolved. it is our community. ain't no white folks come in our community with trash. they don't do the killing. it is us killing each other. it is black on black crime. it is black on black crime. it's a shame we have all this money. this country has all this money into trying to get the african-american community back on track. it's not happening. where is the money going? we have potholes over here. if you come back next year, this city will still look the same. chicago, san francisco and all

over. it's not only minneapolis. it's all over. it's like a wave. >> we like to get out of the studio and talk to real people. we learn a lot when we do that. america is a great place and deserves great leadership. that is it for us tonight. set your dvr so you will always stay connected with us. thank you for watching. remember it is america now and forever. jesse watters is next. welcome to jesse watters prime time. tonight, joe biden has an offshore bank account? >> the destructive oak fire burning through thousands of acres near no samedy national park in california. >> wildfires, climate change or arson? white house cocaine. the list is missing.