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Gabriel Rench joins 'The Ingraham Angle' to discuss his arrest

Idaho man arrested for not wearing a mask at outdoor religious service.

Sept. 24, 2020 – This is a rush transcript from “The Ingraham Angle” September 24, 2020. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

INGRAHAM: Sean, fantastic show. Alright, we will see you tomorrow on Laura Ingraham. This is "The Ingraham Angle" from Washington tonight. We have a big exclusive for you. Amy Coney Barrett's friends and family speaking for the first time to our own Raymond Arroyo about the woman and the mother they know, and they respond to the anti-Catholic, anti-Christian smears being circulated by the media.

Also, Dr. Scott Atlas on why the schools should open and how he schooled the White House press corps on COVID. I know you didn't see that. And a man arrested on camera for singing church songs outside without a mask. OK, both are here tonight. But first, the Midwest big choice, that's the focus of tonight's angle.

These scenes playing out over the last 24 hours, Sean and I were just talking about it, across our country show us once again just how much is at stake on November 3rd. So we saw that diners at St. Pete, Florida in a restaurant there, outside, they were treated this way by BLM thugs who don't believe you have a right to be happy, ever.

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INGRAHAM: In Seattle, an officer fell off his bike and then this happened.

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INGRAHAM: Imagine if that police officer didn't have his helmet on. And in Portland, Oregon, it wasn't bats.

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INGRAHAM: But rather a Molotov cocktail used by these animals against the police. And we all know this, two police officers were shot in Louisville last night. The suspected shooter, Lorenzo Johnson, age 26 - there is his mug shot. Now, he was charged on multiple counts but not for attempted murder, at least not yet. Officer Robinson Desroches, an African-American, is still in the hospital tonight. He is expected to recover.

But Major Aubrey Gregory who was shot in the hip, he just walked into the department roll call Thursday morning to a round of applause. Sean and I were talking about, that's the real America and it's awesome.

Now, as we get closer to the election, it is interesting, is it not, to see things moving, may be moving with the events, moving with the recognition of what's really been happening. And things usually do, right, they tighten, even when the polls don't always reflect what's happening on the ground. But on the betting market site, Predict It - check it out, President Trump is now favored to win 240 electoral votes, remember you need 270 to win.

Now, you look at the RCP approval trends for President Trump since June 30th, which might give you a sense of where things are headed. Now, back on June 30th, he was upside down in his approval by 15 points. But after the summer of love, that number has been cut in half. And the new ABC News- Washington Post poll has a pro-Trump friend in Florida where he is up four points and in Arizona where he is up one point.

Now, the Fox and the Quinnipiac polls show that the Ohio race is anyone's call at this point. Trafalgar Group has Michigan, plus one for Trump, very close there. OK, let's keep this going now. So if Trump carries Florida, North Carolina and Arizona along with the other states that he is already expected to win, he'll have more than 250 electoral votes.

Now at that point, the only way for Democrats to win would be to sweep Pennsylvania and the Midwest with mail-in ballots. The Democrats have gamed the South, believe me. They see this coming, which is why they are trying to delay the count in the Midwest for as long as they can. So think about this. After being the punch line for liberal elites for years and years, the Midwest finally has its moment in 2020.

If you're from Wisconsin and you're an independent, but Trump's tweets bug you, OK, I get it. But focus on what matters - your family, their future, your and their safety, and prosperity. The 2019 economic numbers, we've gone through this, are irrefutable proof that Trump's policies work. Yet liberal mayors and governors have done their darndest to screw it all up.

Now, COVID of course brings out the worst in the already underperforming politicians. And the Midwest poster boy for failure is Illinois Governor J.

B. Pritzker. Of course to Joe Biden, Illinois counts as a shining example of success. The liberal billionaire Governor is a genius. And Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot, she's a courageous trailblazer. Well, that's the Democrats' ideal Midwest city. Chicago - high taxes, pro-pot, anti-gun, anti-business.

Here's how Illinois Policy Institute's Adam Schuster describes that's slide. In 1980, Illinois has $4.5 billion in unfunded pension debt and a perfect credit rating. Today, Illinois has nearly $140 billion in unfunded pension debt and its credit rating is just one notch above junk status.

That debt now eats $31 of every $100 taxpayer dollars sent to the State.

Now, Illinois is so anti-business that it ranks only above New York and California on Chief Executive Magazine's list of most anti-business states.

So, if Illinois was a fabulous place to live and start a business, why has its population been declining now for six years straight? And in Chicago, if Chicago is the place to be, why did the Obamas spend all their time in their other homes and rarely visit there? Now the fact is, if you live in the Midwest and if you vote for Biden, you're voting for the policies that ran Illinois into the ground. If you are from Wisconsin, from Iowa, or Michigan, why would you want to follow Illinois' lead?

Think of it this way - one party, the Republicans, have already shown that they know how to help you. Trump really is just all about returning power to people, the people - the American people, and that means respecting your freedom to live your life, raise her family, and yes, pursue your happiness.

On the other hand, Chicago-style Democrats, they are not up at night worrying about any of that. After all, why would they? Their supporters think that you are a bunch of racists who are destroying the planet. So, more freedom for you means less control for them. They don't like that at all. Now, Governor Pritzker seems to relish wielding his expanded authority under COVID. His state's hospitals and ICUs are well within manageable levels, but he still won't let kids play sports.

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GOV. J. B. PRITZKER (D-IL): While parents might choose to send their children out onto the playing field, I can tell you that someone else who becomes ill because of that decision wouldn't call that your personal choice. I want our kids back on the playing field or on the ice as much as anyone, and we will get there when the doctors say it's safe.

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INGRAHAM: Complete fraud. So if you live across the state in Ohio, across state lines, or in Indiana, guess what, your kid can play football this fall, but not in Illinois. But what Pritzker's state lacks in field sports, it makes up for in street crime. In Cook County, there have been 677 homicides so far this year. That's 200 more murders than during the same reporting period last year. Overwhelmingly, the killings take place in Chicago and most victims are black. But at least, Pritzker has his priorities straight.

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PRITZKER: Almost all states that have legalized have done so in a way that produced a multibillion-dollar industry dominated by a handful of corporations and individuals that lack diversity. But Illinois is attempting to produce a cannabis industry that actually looks like Illinois.

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INGRAHAM: He's worried about pot diversity, oh my God. Democrats want you to sacrifice your entire future in order to do what? Well, control your decisions and punish Trump. And they are going to vice grip on hardworking Americans, while they enrich their friends and of course fund their social justice pet projects. So forget Biden's homespun tales; his puppet masters don't like Midwest values.

Consider the makeup of the Democrat Party leadership today. You have Biden, Harris from California, Schumer from New York, Pelosi from California, and AOC from New York. Is there any Midwesterners in there? Neither do (ph) I.

The Midwesterners know that Biden will bring back outsourcing, open the borders, cater to the AOC crowd and suck up to China.

But if you vote for Trump, you're going to send a message that even the swamp cannot ignore, which is the following - In America, the people come first, and that's the angle.

Joining me now is Ben Shapiro, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Wire and author of "How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps." Ben, you say that this election is no longer a referendum on President Trump, but on the Left; explain.

BEN SHAPIRO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE DAILY WIRE: Joe Biden's entire campaign was rooted in the idea that he was going to be some sort of bulwark of moderation against the radical left, and yet time and time again he has refused to condemn the radical left. He did it a little bit when he was running against Bernie Sanders. He was just the default, not Bernie Sanders.

But now, he won't condemn Antifa by name; he will not condemn Black Lives Matter by name; and now he won't even answer some questions about whether he wishes to end the filibuster ad states to the senate willy-nilly of a sheer majority, or pack the Supreme Court of the United states, which means he is tacitly promising transformational change. That means that moderate old Joe, the back to normalcy campaign, that is done. The question right now is how radical will the transformation be?

INGRAHAM: And I think the implicit promise to America, not just moderation, but that all the scenes you are seeing playing out tonight in Brooklyn, in Louisville, across the country, Seattle, Portland, that all of that, Ben, was going to magically go away because Uncle Joe gets back into The White House.

SHAPIRO: That's exactly right.

INGRAHAM: Explain why that's never going to happen.

SHAPIRO: Well, it's never going to happen because once you put your head out there for the radicals to chop it off, they are going to chop it off.

The first people who lead the revolution are always the second people to the guillotine, and that's what's happening here with Joe Biden.

Joe Biden proclaims that he is going to be some sort of gradual push into change, but people who are behind him are not looking for anything gradual.

They see him as an obstacle to change or at the best, may be some of facade that they can push aside when the time is right. He's made a bargain with the radicals in his own party and they're going to eat him up.

INGRAHAM: There is a story out of Minnesota that began to get some traction today and it was very disturbing. And this was a homeowners who woke up to find that their garage basically was on fire, had been burned down. They had a Trump flag or poster up, and had been burned and then Biden 2020 graffiti and the Antifa symbol, and this is Minnesota nice. There's a message being sent, Ben, by the far left and I think people are beginning to see that arsonist behavior, looting, even murder, none of it is off the table.

SHAPIRO: Well, the fact is, again, generic statements about violence and looting being bad are not going to cut it. We all know that at this were right-wingers who are performing this kind of violence, Joe Biden would be out there on the front lines proclaiming that right-wing ideology was innately linked to violence and cruelty.

But as soon as it is left-wingers in his coalition are out there harassing people at restaurants or burning things down or perhaps shooting police officers as we saw in Louisville last night, well then the movement that they are linked to, the broader ideological movement they are lined to, he refuses to condemn.

It's one thing to condemn generically violence and looting. I was told by the way that when Donald Trump did that back in Charlottesville, that was not enough. He had to specifically condemn one specific ideology, which by the way he kind of - he absolutely did actually in his text. Now, you have Joe Biden generically condemning violence and the media have declared it - well, I mean, I guess we're done here, there's nothing more to see.

INGRAHAM: Now, the left's - one of the left's biggest media stars is reading the current situation as follows.

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RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: President now saying insistently that the election will not be decided by the voters and he expects the Supreme Court, to which he is trying to appoint a new Justice right before the election, he expects that it will be the Supreme Court which handles the question of who the next President is. And he expects that the conservative majority will throw out the ballots and then we won't have to worry about any transition of power.

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INGRAHAM: Ben, the hyperbole notwithstanding, this is pretty standard now in the left.

SHAPIRO: It is. The manufactured garbage, by which they have saying for months that this election is going to be stolen by Trump, that it is going to be a coup. You had John Podesta gaming out (ph) what it would look like if Biden didn't accept the loss. Hillary Clinton has openly said there are no circumstances under which Biden should accept the loss.

I mean how - they had Stacey Abrams strutted out as Governor of Georgia at the DNC and then they have the temerity to turn around and said that Trump is the threat to the institutions, that it is Trump who is going to generate some sort of constitutional crisis. I think it's pretty clear that Democrats are making way for an awful lot of chaos in the aftermath of this election.

INGRAHAM: Ben, thank you so much tonight. And coming up, the COVID stats you are not seeing, White House COVID advisor Dr. Scott Atlas is here to expose the real truth. Plus, an Idaho man arrested for refusing to wear a mask at an outdoor church service. I guess he wasn't protesting hard enough. He's here with me next exclusively.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dr. Redfield today said that more than 90 percent of the population remains susceptible to coronavirus. Do you agree with that assessment?

DR. SCOTT ATLAS, WHITE HOUSE COVID ADVISOR: Yes, I think that Dr. Redfield misstated something there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was misstated last time--

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ATLAS: I'm going to answer your question, let me finish.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Please.

ATLAS: The data on susceptible that he was talking about was his surveillance data that show that roughly 9 percent of the country has antibodies. But when you look at the CDC data state-by-state, much of that data is old.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who are we to believe?

ATLAS: You're supposed to believe the science and I'm telling of the science.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, he is not telling you the science?

ATLAS: I'm telling you the science and that's the answer. And if you want to look up all the data, you're free to.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Americans are looking for the best information right now.

ATLAS: Yes, I'm giving you the best information.

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INGRAHAM: That was a perfect exchange. White House COVID advisor Dr. Scott Atlas joins me now. Dr. Atlas, thanks for joining us tonight. Why was it so important to correct that reporter's line of questioning?

ATLAS: Well, thanks for having me, Laura. It's very difficult these days.

Honestly I just want to say, I emphasize with the American People who have been told conflicting information from a variety of sources, some of whom should know all the facts, but not everybody knows the data. Not everyone is hands-on with reading the data and the Media has done a poor job of explaining - allowing the data to be brought forward.

Having said that, the facts are that people like me are reading as much as we can, we are trying to do the best we can because the truth is critical here. We are in a pandemic and it's a bit of tragedy and 200,000 people have died. On the other hand, the truth - the facts have evolved since this started. This is not March.

We know a lot about this disease; we know who to protect; we know who has high risk and we know who does not have high risk. And when you get facts that are sort of partial truths, I think it's very damaging. The American people are very afraid. No one wants to be afraid and the way to calm fear is to actually know the data and explain it very clearly and logically.

INGRAHAM: And Dr. Atlas, I know you reference this in this exchange, but there are other types of immunity that we wave, we humans have, and one of them is T-cell immunity, which could protect against this coronavirus.

Could you explain that very quickly for us, so people will understand that?

We don't currently test for T-cell immunity, but a lot of my medicine cabinet thinks we should be, because that would allay a lot of fears.

ATLAS: Yes, I mean there's basically two broad categories of immunity, one has to do with B cells and that antibodies, and the other is T cells and that is actually immunity that lasts longer. It turns out that antibody tests are done and we see how many people have antibodies, but antibodies are transient. They only last for months usually and what we see here is that we make an assessment of how many people have been exposed by doing this test for antibodies.

But it turns out, the literature has shown that there's a lot more than that population that is actually resistant to the infection because of either T-cell response from this infection or a T-cell immunity from a related similar virus. And this is very important because the statement that 90 percent of people are still susceptible would make me afraid if I was one of those 90 percent, but it's actually untrue.

And when you look at all the data, whether it's from Sweden or Singapore or La Jolla or University of Washington, all over the country - and now we see it from Japan where most of the immunity for this virus is felt to be due to T-cell immunity and it explains a lot, it explains a lot about perhaps why children have very, very low risk from this. It explains perhaps why people in Asia didn't have as much of a problem because they had prior coronavirus exposure.

INGRAHAM: Bingo.

ATLAS: It really is a story that's evolving here.

INGRAHAM: Yes.

ATLAS: But we need to understand it because we are not all susceptible to the infection and we know now, it looks very likely that at least three times that number of people with antibodies on testing have immunity and perhaps even more. It depends when you do the antibody test for instance because as I said, it's transient.

INGRAHAM: Yes. Exactly. And I want to -

ATLAS: So, even the CDC, if I can say--

INGRAHAM: Yes, Go ahead.

ATLAS: Laura.

INGRAHAM: Now, I just - we just have to move along. I want to put this up.

We talked it about it briefly last night, but this full screen that I'm about to put up is very important because you're right, there's still a lot of people afraid out there. Here are the survival rates for different age groups, the best estimates at present, these are Government numbers.

From ages 0-19, the survival rate if you get the infection is 99.997 percent. Ages 20-49, 99.98 percent. 50-69, it's 99.5 percent. Even if you're over 70 or older, the survival rate is 94.6 percent. This is not to say, it's still not a horrible tragedy; it is. How many people died; it is a horrible tragedy. But, those statistics, do they not indicate, Dr. Atlas, that schools should be opened, sports should be played, and we've got to get back to normal life here? People just don't even know these stats.

ATLAS: Yes, and I know, and this is a failure in my view of the public health officials who have not come forward with all the knowledge that we have, like I said that we have learned. The disease is very, very low risk for children; it's extremely low risk other than those few children that have some sort of an underlying condition. It's low risk for young adults like college students, extremely low risk. And this data is known, it's proven all over the world and I really help Americans take the time to listen to some of these epidemiologists from Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, you know, Cambridge. These are some of the best epidemiologists in the world.

The data is out there and we don't all have to be paralyzed with fear. We have to do very, very diligent protection of the people who are vulnerable, and those are usually older people with other co-morbidities and we need to open because we know the harms of not opening.

INGRAHAM: Dr. Atlas, thank you so much for your service to this country and for your perspective. We really appreciate it.

ATLAS: Appreciate that, Laura, thank you.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I will not put (inaudible) wrong. Get off of me! What the f*** is wrong with you?

Get off of me.

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tase somebody over a mask.

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INGRAHAM: Is this America? For the crime of not wearing a mask outdoor - outdoors? It is a Ohio woman tased and handcuffed at her son's football game. Good news, he's playing football; bad news, mommy is getting tased.

As left-wing anarchists set fire, they smashed windows, they harass diners across the country, largely with zero repercussions. We had a police officer shot last week or the week before in California, it's all a blur.

We don't even have him in custody.

But, law-abiding Americans are being arrested for violating COVID dictates by petty dictators. And yesterday, police in the town of Moscow, Idaho, arrested three people, including my next guest, after they were cited for being maskless while singing songs in a church parking lot.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You guys should not be doing this and doing this kind of

c*** for the Mayor, this is embarrassing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You guys are stronger than this.

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INGRAHAM: Was that Moscow, Idaho or Moscow, Russia? Joining me now, the man whose arrest you just saw, Gabriel Rench, Latah County Commissioner candidate as well. Now Gabriel, police are arresting you for singing maskless outside, while the protesters are given free rein over city and suburban streets. I keep saying this; I don't even recognize this country.

How is this making any sense?

GABRIEL RENCH, LATAH COUNTY COMMISSIONER CANDIDATE: It's unbelievable, the Juxtaposition of rioters being able to go in to streets, maybe if I had a gun or a Molotov cocktail, I would've been fine. But what happened here was, we had a resolution that are, like you said, this petty, tyrannical resolution was initially signed on July 2nd and then it was renewed or upper extended on this last Monday through January 5th, where you have to wear a mask where you can't social distance.

And so my church had been song sings like this throughout the shutdown, or throughout the face mask and social distancing resolution. And so we organized a song sing. After it got extended to January 1st. We all went out there. I had no clue. I did not think I was going to be arrested. I did not think I was going to be cited.

And so we are singing the songs. We just started singing the songs, and they come up to me and my mom first. And then the guy standing next to me was my friend, and I put my arm around him and said this is my friend, and that's why they proceeded to arrest me.

But here's the deal, the mayor on September 5th, was at a religious ceremony officiating it with no mask on, not social distancing. The mayor on September 2nd was at a public gathering -- excuse me, a little private party, about 50, 60 people there, with no mask on and not social distancing. When I was getting released from the jail, when the deputies were releasing them from the jail, I looked across the office on the other side, and our deputies were in the office not --

LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS HOST: Looks like he jammed up -- jammed up. We'll see if we can get Gabriel back.

I just want to reset this for you, OK? So we have city streets across the United States, OK, for the last -- during the whole summer of love, filled with hundreds and, at times, thousands of people smashing windows, running into buildings --

RENCH: Are we here?

INGRAHAM: And you're back. OK, Gabriel. So I want to put up something on the screen for our viewers. These are the COVID stats for your county, Latah County, Idaho. Confirmed cases during the entire pandemic, 392.

Confirmed deaths in Latah County, zero, thank God.

RENCH: Yes. And no hospitalizations, zero hospitalizations in my county.

INGRAHAM: What do you think is motivating this, this heavy-handed approach?

RENCH: Well, tyranny is stupid, and tyranny requires force. And so what happens is once you kind of put your foot in it, your pride and your arrogance is kind of starting to drive the rest of the edict. And so now when we test that tyranny, when we come up and test that tyranny, it pushes them to actually bring force to the issue, and that's why they arrested me.

The cops did not want to arrest me. They did not want to arrest me. The officer didn't want to arrest me. The deputies at the county jail did not want to arrest me, and yet this is what tyranny forces the issue.

INGRAHAM: Maybe they should be conscientious objectors. Your message when people say you're part of a death cult, that's what one of our dear friends over at MSNBC said about the anti-maskers, you're part of a death cult, Gabriel.

RENCH: Well, again, you've got to define the emergency. There's no emergency in our county. There's no death cult in our county. And when you look at it -- the problem here is we all believe this big lie, and everyone has to say that the emperor has no clothes on. That's what we're being told in my county, the emperor has no clothes on. And I have to say the emperor has clothes on. They're trying to force me to say the emperor has close on, and that tyranny is why things are stupid. Tyranny is stupid.

INGRAHAM: If people, good people don't stand up and resist, guess what, tyranny prevails. Moscow, Idaho, looking like Moscow, Russia. Gabriel, thank you for being on with us tonight. Keep in touch with us, please, as this story there developed.

Raymond Arroyo's big exclusive is next. He spoke with the family and friends of Supreme Court frontrunner Amy Coney Barrett, and they respond to all the anti-Catholic, anti-Christian smears that are already being leveled against her by the left. This is something, you don't want to miss it.

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INGRAHAM: Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett is widely expected to be President Trump's pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But who is she? For answers we sent our own Raymond Arroyo to New Orleans to talk to some of the people who know her best, her friends, and her sister. For the first time a member of the Coney family responds to the savage criticisms surrounding the People of Praise prayer group, and unbelievable stuff that's been written about that.

Here's Raymond's report.

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RAYMOND ARROYO, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Amy Coney Barrett's story starts here in Metairie, Louisiana, it's a suburb of New Orleans. She went to school at St. Catherine of Siena behind me, and her father Mike has been a deacon in this parish for nearly 40 years. She grew up in this neighborhood in a big family of seven -- a loving family -- where she learned some important lessons, as her sister Megan shared with me.

What was Amy's role in your family?

MEGAN CONEY EDWARDS, AMY CONEY BARRETT'S SISTER: I think leadership probably. She used to be the one to organize games and things. We'd get together at my grandparents' house and she'd take charge. But I think now -

- although she is still a good leader, I think now, I would say today, that her role is unity and love, because she just makes such an effort, despite her busy schedule, despite everything that she has to juggle, her love for people is remarkable. Amy, I feel like has an incredible wisdom. She and Jesse actually together have an incredible wisdom and patience. Amy was always very quick to admit a mistake, to come back, apologize, and want to try to fix it.

ARROYO: Headlines have been filled with criticisms of the People of Praise, a charismatic prayer group that members of the Coney family have allegedly been members of. The media has suggested that the group is a cult, and erroneously the inspiration of Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale."

EDWARDS: I think anything can be misconstrued, and you can always pull things from a different angle. But what I can say from my experience, though I'm not actively member right now, some of my fondest memories are of the friendships that I had growing up, for the activities that we did.

We did have prayer time together, and that has been an inspiration, honestly, to me as an adult. And I still maintain friendships with those very friends who I grew up with in the People of Praise.

So I think really what people need to know is this isn't a crazy group. My experience with it has been that these are people who deeply care about one another and about other people.

ARROYO: Amy Coney attended high school here at Dominican in New Orleans.

She was a leader here, a V.P. of the student council, and very close to a group of girls whom she's remained friends with for 30 years. They called themselves the Fearless Foursome. I spoke to two of the foursome, Angelle Adams and Renee DiGiovanni.

RENEE DIGIOVANNI, AMY CONEY BARRETT'S CHILDHOOD FRIEND: Amy and I served on student council together. Our senior year we were on the executive board.

And so we had a lot of opportunity to come up with some creative ideas. Amy was all was coming up with great stuff. One time for Halloween she said, I think we should decorate the locker room and make it into a haunted house.

So of course, Dominican, we had never done that before. But we put together a proposal, and we went to administration. And I remember Angelle even said

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ANGELLE ADAMS, AMY CONEY BARRETT'S CHILDHOOD FRIEND: I said they're never going to approve that. You're never going to get the do that ever, they're never going to say yes.

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DIGIOVANNI: Yes. But as it turned out, we were successful in our pitch, and they let us turn the locker room into a haunted house. I think it was a one-and-done. Pretty sure they didn't do that any years after ours.

ADAMS: It might have been one of the wildest days at Dominican ever.

ARROYO: There is the storyline being advanced that because she may or may not be a member of this People of Praise group, that somehow she's a submissive woman who only takes orders from men, and the man in her life.

Your thoughts on that?

DIGIOVANNI: I mean, I know that's just not true.

ADAMS: I think honestly laughable. But in the same breath, she's really approachable. And most everyone who's ever encountered her says, wow, this is a powerhouse. This is a person of integrity. And I don't know if you get those two words and then in the same breath say submissive. I don't see it.

It's just not the girl I know.

EDWARDS: I don't think you get to where you are, where she is, as a submissive person. I think that kind of speaks for itself. I don't feel like I really need to give words to that.

ARROYO: Jenna Martin was mentored as a freshman by Amy Coney in her senior year at Dominican.

JENNA MARTIN, MENTEE OF AMY CONEY BARRETT IN HIGH SCHOOL: At Dominican we're taught to be strong women. Our motto is veritas, which means truth.

So first and foremost, Amy will always get the truth. She will always look for the truth. And her faith is very strong in her.

I never remember Amy without a smile on her face. The smile that you see on TV now is the same smile that she had when she was 15, 16, 17, 18 years old.

ARROYO: Granville Morse, the deputy coroner of Jefferson Parish, was a friend of Amy Coney during high school, and even went on a few dates with her.

DR. GRANVILLE MORSE, AMY CONEY BARRETT'S HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND: Amy was outgoing, engaging, warmhearted, kind. And the thing that struck you about her, she's hyper intelligent. You could just tell in conversations with her, she was ahead of other people's thoughts. But she was humble about it.

Her upbringing and her balance is very important, and her humility is only matched by her wit and her warm heartedness.

EDWARDS: One thing that struck me even amidst all types of people from all walks of life, all political parties, all viewpoints, supported her and have come and have said despite our differences, I respect you. And I think that you are fit for this job, and I think that there is no one better who would be able to separate herself from who she is, what her beliefs are, to be able to see all angles and be fair.

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INGRAHAM: Up ahead, we attempt to answer this question -- is Joe Biden OK?

Don't go away.

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INGRAHAM: Wouldn't you know, Joe Biden called another early-morning lid on press coverage in the morning. He's done so nearly 40 percent of the days in September. It's just weeks until Election Day, and this all has my next guest asking, is Joe OK? Joining me now is David Marcus, correspondent for "The Federalist." David, wonderful to see you tonight. The most shocking part of Biden's disappearing act is the lack of curiosity from the press corps, and even a defense from the media, saying he's just doing debate prep.

DAVID MARCUS, "THE FEDERALIST" NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: No, this has become bizarre. It's like Joe Biden is Sandy Koufax and every other day is Yom Kippur. That's just, it's not going to work. A big reason why we have presidential campaigns, especially with older candidates, is to make sure that these people are fit for what is a growing and rigorous job. The only thing Joe Biden looks fit for right now is the early bird special at Luby's. I think he might need a teleprompter to order because he'd get unusually difficult questions, like would you like a salad with that? So I don't know how anybody can be confident right now that this man is capable of being president of the United States. I certainly am not.

INGRAHAM: I think, David, he knows that the press, they are basically doing is campaigning for him. So if he thinks he's ahead, and they know he screws up when he goes out and campaigns, then they'll just pick up the slack for him. But he was asked about this in North Carolina, about his health into stamina, and this is how he answered.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For those North Carolina voters who buy into that, who may question whether you're physically, mentally fit for this job, how do you respond right now?

JOE BIDEN, (D) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Watch me. I'm not the guy who can't run up or down the ramp to get to -- to deliver a commencement speech. Just watch me and make your decision.

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INGRAHAM: David, we are watching him, and he's nowhere to be found.

MARCUS: No. Look, what's amazing about this is that the Biden campaign could end this story by just getting the guy out on the campaign trail for

10 or 12 days to go because the country, the way we've seen literally every presidential candidate operate before him. The fact that they won't do that and put this story to bed, and instead they seem to be putting him to bed at 9:00 in the morning, it's going to raise questions for voters. It doesn't matter what the media does. People understand that he's not out on the campaign trail. It's a problem.

INGRAHAM: Sam Stein over at MSNBC said come on, guys, he's doing debate prep. That's all it is, period. But yesterday Biden was asked about this, are you doing a lot of debate prep. And let's play it so people see what happened.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Have you started preparing for the live debate next week, Mr. Vice President.

JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I've started to prepare, but I haven't gotten into it really heavily. I will be beginning tomorrow.

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INGRAHAM: OK, so how does that explain all the other days he hasn't been around?

MARCUS: It doesn't. This is nine days in the month of September. Sam Stein might've explained one of them, but it doesn't explain the other eight.

This is unprecedented. And you're absolutely right that the media is going to do its very best to cover for this, but the American people aren't stupid. And if they continue not to see this man out on the campaign trail, they are going to ask serious questions, and they're going to be absolutely right to do so.

INGRAHAM: David, come back soon. Great to see you tonight.

And coming up, "The Ingraham Angle" gets results for college football fans, or was it the president? We'll show you when we come back.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm the football guy. I'm the one that wants to have football.

Are you watching? I want football.

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INGRAHAM: Well, once again "The Ingraham Angle" gets results. The PAC-12 announcing today that football is back on. What is it, just the Ivy League that's left out of the game now? And with that, all five of the major college conferences will let teams duke it out this fall, with some restrictions of course. But thank you to President Trump for putting the heat on the commissioners, and thanks to all the viewers for making it so we couldn't be ignored.

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