'The Ingraham Angle' investigates Bambi Larson's murder and the problem with sanctuary cities

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'The Ingraham Angle' investigates Bambi Larson's murder and the problem with sanctuary cities

Bambi Larson's friend Diane Collman goes one-on-one with Laura on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

This is a rush transcript from "The Ingraham Angle," March 19, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Bill De Blasio announced he wants to take billion dollars of hard working money, Americans' money to fight climate change. Unbelievable, now time for your viewer comments. All right, Ron says, 2020 Democrats, "Are these people trying to out radical each other. Well, each fantasy is getting wilder and wilder."

Let not your heart be troubled. Here's Laura.

How are you?

LAURA INGRAHAM, HOST: Hannity, I'm great, great show. The radicals have taken over and we're going to unhack it.

HANNITY: The radicals have -- they have taken over all over the place, way beyond the place.

INGRAHAM: Well, guess what? We're looking at McGovern Redux, 1972 and if you don't know what I'm talking about look it up. Hannity, great show tonight. Thanks so much.

HANNITY: All right, Laura, have a great show.

INGRAHAM: I'm Laura Ingraham. This is “The Ingraham Angle” from Washington tonight. Our coverage of the heinous killing a Bambi Larson at the hands of an illegal alien in California garnered an incredible reaction from viewers. But how did local politicians and the media reacted to the story, our update ahead plus how to Muslim reformists in this country feel about Representatives Tlaib and Omar representing them in Congress.

You don't want to miss what our panel says later in the hour plus Joe D is back tonight and his response to the latest in media malfeasance. But first, the radicalization Olympics, that's the focus of tonight's ANGLE.

Now their first primary is 11 months away, yet the 2020 Democrats are already trying to stand out in an ever crowded field. The first event is long distance Trump bashing.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, I-VT, D-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The country is polarized. That has a lot to do with Trump's fostering a division and hatred.

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN, D-MASS, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I see him as what happens when corruption invades a system.

SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, D-N.Y., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He has spread fear and hate and degradation across this country.

SEN. CORY BOOKER, D-N.J., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There's moral vandalism and just tearing of the fabric of this country.

SEN. KAMALA HARRIS, D-CALIF., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The bullying attack of free press and undermine our democratic institutions.

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR, D-MO, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He keeps undermining the law in this country.

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INGRAHAM: All right, well, with an economy on fire, most Americans are feeling good about that. The sprint to hit Trump is already a bit of a bore. I mean, if you want to see Trump slammed, you can just turn on CNN or MSNBC any hour of any day of any week. So how to stoke excitement among the Democrats voters?

Well, it's easy, you just go where the action is, to the radicals.

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REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, D-N.Y.: Are you all ready to make a ruckus?

Are you all ready to fight for our rights? Are You all ready to say that in United States of America, everyone is loved, everyone deserves justice and everyone deserves equal protection and prosperity in our country.

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INGRAHAM: I could see Annie and Jimmy, my little dogs putting their paws over their ears. Well, to channel all that greatness, you need to start undoing our constitution you know, that whole electoral college thing.

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WARREN: My view is that every vote matters and that means get rid of the electoral college and everybody.

SANDERS: We might want to take a look at the whole electoral college in which case is seating a man for President who do not get the most votes.

BETO O'ROURKE, D-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We had an election in 2016 where the loser got 3 million more votes than the victor. It puts some states out of play all together, they don't feel like their votes really count.

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INGRAHAM: You mean like Republicans in California today or in New York or in Massachusetts. A lot of people feel shut out, don't they? This is truly scary, if they think we're this stupid. The electoral college was devised by the framers, Hamilton actually, to spread the power to elect the President among all the states. It was meant to prevent states with just the largest populations from choosing the President, cycle after cycle, not fair that way.

And by the same reasoning, it's why we created the Senate too, two senators from each state regardless of population. So do the Democrats like to disband the Senate as well? Well, with this climate who knows? Maybe, they'll flow that idea during the primary season, that'll be fun.

But this new radicalized field believes that you can treat the constitution, kind of like my kids have like projects on Google docs. You just change it when it suits you in the moment. So if the base is worried for instance about Trump getting more court picks, just highlight the offending language, like the words life tenure and then click delete.

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BOOKER: Term limits for Supreme court justices might be one thing to give every President the ability to choose three people holding on to those seats in ways that I don't think is necessarily healthy.

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INGRAHAM: Okay and that guy from South Bend, Indiana, he wants to try court packing for the 21st century.

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MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG, D-SOUTH BEND, INDIANA: One idea that I think is interesting is you have 15 members but only 10 of them are appointed in the political fashion.

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INGRAHAM: Well, my friends, this is all about politics and power, there is nothing altruistic about any of this. Because they see Trump's bold stamp on the judiciary and it fills them with fear.

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GILLIBRAND: I do think what President Trump has done with the judiciary is shocking and is so destructive.

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INGRAHAM: Well, what's destructive would be putting our history and our founding documents in a shredder maintained by the likes of her and by the way, she was in upstate New York pro-gun rights, pro-deportation for illegals moderate before she set her sights on the radicalization Olympics, totally different person, don't even recognize her.

But these games don't end at the court. They're also racing to buy off the black vote.

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JULIAN CASTRO, D-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If under the constitution, we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn't you compensate people who actually were property.

HARRIS: Look, America has a history of 200 years of slavery and so we have got to recognize that and give people a lift up and there are a number ways to do it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you are for some type of -?

HARRIS: Yes, I am, yes I am.

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INGRAHAM: A gold medal performance indeed. No need to grapple with practical questions about the proposal like how you determine who receives and who pays for the reparations, how much it would cost, whether Nigerians who just arrived here and would new immigrants from places like, I don't know, Serbia have to chip in as well.

But still competing in the radicalization games is a heck of a lot easier than trying to convince voters that Democrats will put more money in your pocket, with a faster growing economy and they're going to take on China in a better way than Trump. How would Kamala or Bernie or Elizabeth do that?

Democrats were once the party of ideas, the party of the little guy. Well, the little guy is actually doing much better under Trump and they know it. So what's their answer? To replace you, slowly but surely with new voters. To replace the old system that elected Donald Trump with a new system that they'll say is fairer.

The Democrats' plan is pretty cynical. To convince hardworking immigrants that they need an ever growing government in order to thrive and survive. The 2020 radicals believe these new voters will be more pliable and more amenable than the traditional American voter who still believes in the rule of law, public safety and borders.

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GILLIBRAND: We should protect families that need our help and that is not what ICE is doing today and that's why I believe, you should get rid of it.

HARRIS: We need to probably think about starting from scratch because there is a lot that is wrong with the way that is conducting itself.

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INGRAHAM: Now understand this, the new radicals competing today believe enforcing immigration law is the new evil, it's racist. Ditto for the entire electoral college and actually the founders themselves, they were racist too. So why would anyone be bound today they think, by a bunch of old white guys that dead white guys and what they wrote 250 years ago.

The radicalization Olympics is going to be a lot of fun to watch as the candidates elbow each other out of the way and contort themselves into positions they rejected just a few years ago in order today to placate the new mob. But for all their scary talk of Donald Trump destroying our institutions, these fanatics if given a chance, are perfectly willing to burn them all down for political advantage.

And are there really that many Americans who want to go all in for European style socialism here in the good old U.S. of A? If the Democrats keep this up, they could be facing their worst nightmare in 2020. A Trump victory larger than 2016. And that's THE ANGLE.

All right, joining me now it's Kevin Chavous, former President of the DC Young Democrats and Matt Schlapp, Chairman of the American Conservative Union and Fox news contributor. Kevin, why is your party so intent on altering the very foundations of this Republic?

KEVIN CHAVOUS, FORMER PRESIDENT, DC YOUNG DEMOCRATS: Well, when you say alter the foundation, I think it's a bit of misleading because a lot of the ideas you mentioned like reforming the electoral college or even placing a term limit or even a retirement age on Supreme court justices is something that's supported by a majority of Americans.

I mean, recent polls have shown, think The Hill had an article late last year that showed almost 80% actually supported the idea of a term limit or maybe even a retirement age on Supreme Court justices. So when we try to paint the democratic candidates as if they're the ones on the fringes, actually it tends to be the Trump White House that's more on the fringes.

INGRAHAM: So okay, so you think today the Democrats would embrace, let's say, why not make it retroactive? So maybe term limit for supreme court justices should be 80?

CHAVOUS: In terms of age -

INGRAHAM: Well, that'll be Ginsburg is -- doing a lot of aerobics at that point, is that what you guys want? Or is it just that you're worried about Trump? He's going to get another pick maybe?

CHAVOUS: No, I think this is something that even before Trump got into the White House that people seem to be increasing their support for.

INGRAHAM: MSNBC's Jean Pierre admits that this wouldn't be happening if there weren't problems on the horizon for the Democrats, let's watch.

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JEAN-PIERRE, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: Hillary Clinton the -- her loss winning 3 million more votes for the popular vote clearly and losing electoral college, absolutely put this -- put this issue in kind of in the forefront.

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INGRAHAM: I mean, come on, if people crossing the border were raging conservative, the Democrats would be the first ones who would be like, we need more ICE officers, we want ICE, we want more border patrol, seal the border down but I think they're worried about 2020.

I think they're freaking out and they're trying to play it cool. I don't think they have a lot of solutions for the American economy better than Trump.

MATT SCHLAPP, AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION CHAIR: Why can't they simply win? If Trump is so bad and he's so cancerous and caustic, just beat him. They can do it, they have plenty of money. They have all these candidates running, it's the cream of the crop, just beat it but what they want to do Laura, is change the rules.

We get two picks, two real constitutionalists to the Supreme court after getting nearly 50% of our picks knocked back over the decades and I don't know where now we got to go back to the 1940s idea of packing the court and giving the next Democrat, 5-6-7 slots, this is insane/

Just play by the rules.

INGRAHAM: Who was saying 15? Was that Cory Booker who said, floating 15 with -

SCHLAPP: That was half bending it actually-

INGRAHAM: These are not the burning issues on the minds of most Americans. I think just as a matter of political analysis, Kevin, I don't think that's the way to win. The way to win is to say I'm going to put more money in your pocket, you're going to have a more thriving economy under me, your family is going to be safer and your life is going to be very happier.

But people are sitting around where there's like Brier versus Justice Thomas or I don't think most people live that way so I think the Democrats are kind of caught in this. We called it the radicalization Olympics, it's kind of -- I think they gotten themselves in this trap on the left and I don't know to whom it appeals other than A. O. C. and kind of the reverberations of activists out there.

CHAVOUS: Well, for a lot of the initiatives, I think it appeals to a lot of people even in the middle because they see a lot of our institutions and our systems that haven't been updated in some time that could use a refresher like you say the electoral college and you talked about how some people criticized as being racist or sexist.

But the truth of matters is, it was founded under terms that were guided by slavery.

INGRAHAM: So Obama was elected twice.

CHAVOUS: Right.

INGRAHAM: Obama won the majority of white voters, I believe. Made a lot of Democrats- Bill Clinton was elected twice.

CHAVOUS: Right.

SCHLAPP: We passed three civil war amendments to change this.

INGRAHAM: If anyone has anything to complain about, I think with electoral college, probably the Republicans. I mean California, New York, most of New England, like they're impenetrable so the Republicans are the ones who have to cobble together like oh my gosh, how do -- we got to win Texas. If you lose Florida, it's over so the Republicans have a much heavier lift.

The Democrats just run really bad candidates except for Obama and Clinton who are both great candidates so I think -- I think the Republicans are the ones in the hole every electoral season.

SCHLAPP: I agree with this. We realize this with one of these big states in the Trump majority, he's in big trouble, just it's very important you said about Democrats, about putting more money in people's pockets and making their lives better, that's how Jimmy Carter became President, that's how Bill Clinton became President.

I believe that's how Barack Obama became President with the economy tanking under George Bush at the end. These Democrats are running on ideology, it's not about how they make a blue collar guys life better, it's about how the change what is America and I think it's a very dangerous.

INGRAHAM: And Kevin, do you think that again appeal just those voters that didn't turn out last time, are there enough of the new immigrants and the kind of more radical Democrats to turn out to flip Ohio, if Ohio's economy is booming or you know, Pennsylvania is still blooming.

It just seems like you guys are going all in for the socialism thing that's crushing Europe, right now. Europe's economy is tanking, ours is thriving so why do we want to copy them?

CHAVOUS: Well, I don't think we want to copy them, it's just certain common sense things like raising the minimum wage which hasn't been raised in over a decade.

SCHLAPP: It's getting raised every day in the Trump economy, that's the good news, right?

CHAVOUS: Well, for some -

INGRAHAM: Wages are going up, there's a 3% increase in wages people said that would never happen under Trump, they said it was pie in the sky. I'm not trying to pig pile on you but I'm actually curious about how you run against this economy and what there seems to be is ICE is racist, the founders were racist, electoral college is racist, Trump's -- I mean, it's just kind of all racist.

And I think if everything's racist then it's nothing's racist because real racism is diminished and I wonder as just a strategy, how that actually works. This could go down, I guess as a incredibly smart strategy and I'll be wrong or it could be, Oh my God, whoever came up with this socialism thing, really just killed our only chance to beat Donald Trump.

Because this is the guy who they have to defeat, am I right? Matt, if they don't defeat Trump time, I don't know, these people will - I'm worried about the health and safety of some of the people on the left.

SCHLAPP: You don't agree with me but if Trump is the focus and some of Trump's tweets which maybe people don't like and some of his you know, some of his eccentricities as a politician, they don't like, if that's the focus, they feel like they'll have a better chance but instead they're making the focus be this radical agenda.

SCHLAPP: Well, I would say Trump has also brought a lot of this on himself with the things he's done like the way he reacted to the Charlottesville riots or when he made the s-hole countries remark.

INGRAHAM: Do you think anyone's voting on that and really, I remember, I mean The Washington Post, The New York Times, MSNBC obsessed about that but if you're an African-American in Chicago and you have a new opportunity zone in your neighborhood and your wages gone up and Trump's trying to get these other gangs out of the street, they having a problem, to get rid of any other game.

And he's like, I'm here for you. I mean, I'm not perfect. I might not say all the right things but I've been there for you. I don't see how that argument of let's do more socialist stuff and let's undo the constitution, let's pack the court.

People don't vote on packing the court, they vote on their pocketbook unless we look - I'm in a totally different world now, which I guess could happen but -

SCHLAPP: This is the number one reason, when you have a CNN poll saying that over 70% of respondents say they feel good about the economy, it's the number one reason, unless we're in a war, that people vote to re-elect a President. If they feel like they have greater economic opportunity.

Green New Deal, being against cops, being against gasoline, that just doesn't match.

INGRAHAM: Yes and I think that more Republicans are enthused about voting in 2020 right now than Democrats. It's -- I mean, everyone thought they were sitting pretty for 2020 and I just think it's hard to defeat an incumbent, even if one that you think is you've softened up with all the attacks.

It's great conversation from both of you and by the way, I incorrectly labeled you a Fox news contributor, sorry.

SCHLAPP: I thought maybe I was getting a check in mail.

INGRAHAM: I don't know, I don't think, all right I'm making Kevin a Fox news contributor for the day. I'm getting it both wrong. All right guys, I want to drill down on this ridiculous idea from the Democratic fanatics to abolish electoral college, we talked about a little bit with Kevin and Matt.

But the supporters say that the body of electors established by the constitution is actually rooted in racism. Former Sports Journalist turned left wing writer, Jemele Hill is tweeting, "People who live in cities that truly represent the diversity of America should set the course. The electoral college is outdated and was there to preserve slavery."

And she wasn't the only one jumping to that conclusion.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is all conceived and said in perpetrating -- perpetuating slavery on the American people and on the African-American people directly.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The electoral college is rooted in in some interesting sort of way, the original sin of the country. We need to understand that and perhaps take seriously the idea of getting rid of it, finally once and for all.

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INGRAHAM: Joining me now is John Yoo, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of legal counsel, a DOJ and law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. John, what is the truth about the electoral college's origins and purpose? Is this a racist vestige that needs to be done away with?

JOHN YOO, FMR DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTY GENERAL: I hate to say it Laura, but I think once again progressives are showing that their main object is just to tear down institutions that get in the way of just simple democracy. If the electoral college is racist then the whole constitution is racist because the constitution contains lots of devices that slow down democracy, not just electoral college, why not get rid of the Senate.

The Senate advantages states, it limits democracy. Let's get rid of the Supreme Court and judicial review, let's even get rid of the states, all those institutions slow down democracy, that's why progressives hate them.

The second thing is, the people who are criticizing electoral college, it's almost as if they forget the entire 19th century and the key moment in American history. The civil war. If there was an original sin in creating the electoral college in the constitution, Abraham Lincoln and the North fought a war where 600,000 Americans died to end slavery and to correct the mistakes.

Three amendments were added to the constitution after the civil war and wiped out. I believe anything that had to do with racism in the constitution's original birth.

INGRAHAM: I want to play for you something that former RNC Chair Michael Steele said today, let's watch.

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MICHAEL STEELE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, the electoral college needs to be reformed, what I support and I think a lot of us out there are beginning -- right now about 13 or 14 states support, it's the national popular vote.

Because right now all we do is elect the President from the battleground states.

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INGRAHAM: First of all, is that true? All we do is elect Presidents from the battleground states? Every vote counts in the electoral college, that's why Republicans have to work harder because, because of their stupid policies, they've lost pretty much all chance, almost all chance of capturing California these days.

So I don't -- I don't get that argument John, maybe I'm missing something and I'm willing to be proven wrong but I do not get what former RNC Chair Michael Steele, I still can't believe he's RNC Chair, thinking that way, says.

YOO: I live in California. I don't think the Republican Party wants any part of us, you should let the Democrats have us, we're so messed up out here but seriously, the thing is the electoral college just forces you to campaign in regions and states, you actually can't write off the states and go to where would -- if there were just popular vote nation -wide, you would just campaign in a few of the major cities and few of the states.

So the electoral college actually creates a good incentive for presidents which is they can't ignore regions, they can't ignore say - so they have to build a broad based coalition that's geographically wide as well as popular so I think, I'm afraid, I think Mr. Steele is wrong on that too.

INGRAHAM: Well, otherwise we just are governed by like what pajama boy thinks or someone like pajama boy so as a whole Metro social justice warrior type, no, thank you. John, I appreciate it, thanks so much.

And there are new developments on our “Ingraham Angle” exclusive reporting on the illegal immigrant accused of stalking and killing a California mother in her own home, we're going to tell you what one local California politician is telling us tonight before Bambi Larson's friend joins me exclusively.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our office will hold him fully accountable for this brutal murder so that he can die in prison.

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PAUL KELLY, PRESIDENT, SAN JOSE POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: People need to be held responsible. Is it the legislators? Is it the leaders of California or other states making these decisions? I think they should be held responsible.

Are they just as much to blame as the person who wields the knife? Maybe.

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INGRAHAM: That was San Jose Police Officers Association President, Paul Kelly on this show, last Thursday night explaining just how damaging these sanctuary policies are for Americans, especially in the case of Bambi Larson, who was murdered allegedly by an illegal immigrant with a long criminal history.

Last week we brought you exclusive evidence that Santa Clara county not only ignored an ICE detainer request that let Carlos Carranza go free but they lied and blamed ICE in the process.

Tonight we're learning more disturbing details about the suspect that should have been kept off the streets. Now in moments, a friend of the victim's mom - victim, excuse me joins me in an INGRAHAM ANGLE exclusive but we begin tonight with Trace Gallagher from our west coast news room who impacts all the latest for anyone who hasn't been following this, Trace.

TRACE GALLAGHER, CORRESPONDENT: It's a lot too, Laura, the evidence against Carlos Arevalo Carranza is growing. On the day he allegedly killed Bambi Larson, he appeared on several of her neighbors video surveillance cameras and was seen walking up to the victim's home at 4:30 in the morning.

Bambi Larson was later found stabbed to death in her bed and the suspect was later found with her kindle tablet, her cell phone and the alleged murder weapon. His boots also match a bloody shoe print from inside Larson's home but why he was in this country and in that neighborhood, has sparked a furious debate about California sanctuary policies.

Consider the following. Arevalo Carranza entered the U.S. illegally in 2013. He was deported by Homeland Security. At some point he re-entered the country. In Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties, Arevalo Carranza has been arrested six times for burglary, battery, false imprisonment and various drug charges.

He once told a probation officer, he used $40 of meth every day. He is also an admitted gang member and between 2016 and 2019, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued 9 detainers with police in LA and Santa Clara, not a single one of them was honored and yet the Santa Clara county council, James Williams pointing the finger at ICE, criticizing the agency for not issuing warrants.

ICE responded by releasing a statement reads in part, "How many more people have to be killed or injured before California lawmakers will open discussions to revise the state policy prohibiting local law enforcement agencies from working with ICE to apprehend dangerous, criminal aliens."

And the Santa Clara county Sheriff, Santa Clara county Mayor and San Jose Police Chief sided with ICE, indicating the state of California needs to use some common sense. Watch.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are not here nor should we be here to shield admitted gangsters or violent criminals, regardless of immigration status.

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GALLAGHER: Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty against Arevalo Carranza, they say Governor Gavin Newsom's moratorium on the death penalty will not be a factor in their decision. Arevalo Carranza was arraigned last week but did not enter a plea.

He's back in court on May 17th. Laura.

INGRAHAM: Trace, thanks so much and at 4:10 AM on Wednesday, March 13, CNN did a 38 second news reader on the case, noting the arrest of Carranza. The next day we at “Ingraham Angle” brought you exclusive new information that local sanctuary policies tied to this criminal being able to roam the streets freely and illegally even after officials blamed ICE for their pathetic policies.

Now since that exclusive, not one network, cable or otherwise has brought you even a single second of Bambi Larson's story and why is that? Well, here's just a snippet of stories that they deemed more important than the brutal murder of an American by an illegal immigrant.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tonight we have an inside look at a new vertical landmark with it's awe inspiring views you can't miss.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Turning back, Kareem Hunt has now been suspended for 8 games punished by the league for a pair of physical altercation.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Unlike other left handed guitars, Dale didn't restring right handed guitars. He played them upside down.

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INGRAHAM: The media is one thing but the officials tasked with keeping their citizens safe is quite another. Now, on Friday we brought you a list of Santa Clara elected officials who refused to appear or offer any real statement on the record to us, and only one of those officials responded tonight. That's James Williams, the county counsel, who blamed ICE in his news conference. He pointed us to a statement he gave the day before we revealed those exclusive documents showing that county policy was really at fault. They provided no update and no explanation.

One person demanding answers is one of Bambi Larson's close friends, Diane Collman. She's wondering how this guy was ever allowed to go free, and, also, he claimed asylum, claiming credible fear when he came into the United States, set free. And she's even calling for him to get the death penalty. Here now exclusively is Diane Collman. Diane, I'm so sorry for your loss and what you're going through, and of course, Bambi's son, who undoubtedly is too grief-stricken to speak. Tell me about her.

DIANE COLLMAN, FRIEND OF BAMBI LARSON: Yes. I would love to tell you. And first of all, thank you for having me, Laura. Thank you for covering this story, because everything you just said is what I've been feeling for two-and-a-half weeks. I would love to tell you and your audience about my beautiful friend, Bambi Larson. She was one of the kindest, gentlest, classiest, most decent people that I have the honor of saying was my friend.

We met as yoga students in 2004, 15 years ago. And then I became her teacher, and then we became friends. Bambi was a woman who was my true friend. She showed up for me in really good times in my life, and she showed up for me in really hard times. And the thing that I feel was especially extraordinary is that I never had to ask this woman to show up for me.

She needs me to show up for her now. If you will indulge me, I would like to tell you a really personal story that will give you an idea of just who she was. So, I mainly taught Bambi in a large class capacity. But five years ago my family and I moved, and I had the opportunity to have my own very small yoga studio in my basement that my husband built me. And I will tell you, Laura, I could not beg, borrow, or steal to get people to come to class. And I was a woman who had thousands of yoga students.

INGRAHAM: So what did she do? So what did she do for you?

COLLMAN: Except for Bambi Larson. So Bambi Larson came to my home studio two times every week. Now, that's nice enough, right? But she actually had this incredible decency to email me and register online for every class she took. And she would ask in those emails if I might have space for Bambi Larson. Can you imagine that?

INGRAHAM: She's a true friend.

COLLMAN: She was a true friend.

INGRAHAM: And it's hard to find them. But I have to ask you to speak for her, if you could say one thing to these county officials that are trying to pass the blame --

COLLMAN: Sure, sure.

INGRAHAM: -- to a government agency that had nine times requested that this guy be held until they could pick him up and get him processed out of the country, they never turned him over. What's your message to these local officials tonight?

COLLMAN: I'm happy to speak for Bambi. Shame on you. You have blood on your hands. There is no reason this beautiful, incredible human being should have been butchered the way that she was, in her own bed, in her own home, defenseless as she could be.

And what I was trying to finish, Laura, was to tell you that what Bambi did for me in 2014 and 2015, is she restored my dignity at a time in my life where it had been stripped for other reasons. I am here tonight to restore hers, because she was killed, she was murdered in the most undignified way possible. And that is not OK with me. And I don't want to hear that she's a one-off. I don't want to hear the buck being passed from one department to the next. I want people to know this was a real person who deserved to be safe in her own bed. She was law-abiding. She was a taxpaying citizen. She was a homeowner. She was a mother. She would have loved to have become a grandmother. She was incredible. She was as good as she looks in the photograph that I have provided for you.

INGRAHAM: And she has that warmth. She has that face, you could just tell. You just exudes. You can see it in the photo. Photos tell you, she just exudes --

COLLMAN: She does, Laura.

INGRAHAM: Happy, nice person, which you can see.

COLLMAN: Happy. Nice. Open.

INGRAHAM: I have to ask you about the sanctuary policies that allow these kinds of things to continue in the state of California. Should this be a lesson?

COLLMAN: They are crazy. Are you kidding? Of course. And the best part about being on your show is I want President Trump's ear, and he is my president. And I'm proud to call him that. And there are goodhearted Californians who think this is crazy, immigrant friends of mine among them, who think this is crazy, because it is. People tell me that I'm courageous to speak. This is not courage. This is a right and wrong. And there is - - it's absolutely black and white. It's beyond common sense. She was raised by good parents.

INGRAHAM: Diane, Diane, we're out of time, but we're going to follow this story.

COLLMAN: OK.

INGRAHAM: I'm sure we're going to have you back. Diane --

COLLMAN: Thank you. And my message is, please, President Trump, I beg of you, keep us safe. This is insane, and I am not going to stop speaking up for Bambi Larson. Thank you, Laura.

INGRAHAM: Diane, thank you very much. Thank you. We ran long on that.

We're going to take a break. We have a really important segment coming up. But remember that face. That's one of our American sisters. And she's no longer here to speak for herself, so I'm glad we had her friend here tonight.

Up next, Muslim reformers.

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KIRSTEN POWERS, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: I think you can blame Donald Trump for really trafficking in bigotry and Islamophobia.

MAX BOOT, CNN ANALYST: So the fact that Donald Trump is really an Islamophobe is something that a lot of his base applauds, and he doesn't want to --

MEHDI HASAN, COLUMNIST, "THE INTERCEPT": We're talking about Islamophobia. The world's most prominent Islamophobe sits in the White House.

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INGRAHAM: You heard a lot of that in the wake of that horrific attack in Christchurch, New Zealand on two mosques. And when we saw they were targeted, Chelsea Clinton is getting now all this grief at a Friday night vigil, it's not just the president that's in their sights. Radicals on the left are using a horrific tragedy to turn the page on anti-Semitic tropes disseminated by some of the newest Democratic Congresswomen. And this is perhaps best exemplified by activist Linda Sarsour, who tweeted "I am triggered by those who piled on Representative Ilham Omar now giving condolences to our community." Here now to put all of this in perspective are two scholars, two Muslim reformers. In New York, Dr. Qanta Ahmed is a member of the Muslim Council of Foreign Relations, and here in Washington, Asra Nomani, a co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement. Asra, this deal with going after even Chelsea Clinton last week, what was that?

ASRA NOMANI, CO-FOUNDER, MUSLIM REFORM MOVEMENT: It was right out of the tool box of this network, this global network, that wants to collect wounds in order to justify more demands on the left. We call them wound collectors because --

INGRAHAM: Wound collectors, I like that.

NOMANI: It was an FBI agent, Joe Navarro, who came up with this term. And there was a tragedy that happened in New Zealand.

INGRAHAM: Horrific.

NOMANI: We all know it was horrible. I wanted to go to the mosque on Friday, but I too felt afraid to go. And that should not happen. But what happened immediately, this network that includes Linda Sansour, the Council on American Islamic Relations, they exploited this situation to push their agenda forward, to try to build more victimhood for Muslims, and ultimately silence any criticism of Islamic extremism.

So these last few days, I've been hearing a lot about we need to go after the supremacists. We need to go after the ideology. But for 10 years we've been talking about trying to do that against Islamic extremists and the Muslim supremacists. And this network has shut us down.

INGRAHAM: So it's only one type of extremism.

NOMANI: Exactly.

INGRAHAM: All that extremism needs to be exposed for what it is.

Dr. Ahmed, you were actually on CNN. Asra was talking about how people are silenced into submission. I want to play a clip of your appearance on CNN and what they did to you. Let's watch.

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DR. QANTA AHMED, MUSLIM COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: This president and this administration is often castigated as Islamophobic, but I move in the Muslim world, in Egypt, in Oman, in Jordan, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where this president is beloved. So it's very important not to lose so much perspective that we start believing our entire government is Islam. That's not the case.

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INGRAHAM: They actually went immediately to break after that. They didn't want any more of that conversation.

AHMED: To be fair, Laura, Fredricka had given me a number of minutes, and this was the final point. But this is a message nobody wants to hear, and I do say that. The president is beloved when I've met Egyptian soldiers in Giza, when I've been with the Peshmerga in Kurdistan who are armed by the United States and greatly helped by President Trump. But there is something much more important going on, and that is the normalization of something called Islamophobia, which is portrayed as a lethal anti-Muslim bigotry. What we saw in New Zealand is lethal, appalling, repugnant, anti- Muslim xenophobia. What Islamophobia is, is what silences women in Iran, what has imprisoned 200 Christians in Pakistan, what is holding a Muslim Fulbright Scholar, Junaid Hafeez, in prison for six years in Pakistan. It's the fictional defamation of Islam. We are not having it here in the United States. It is completely un-Islamic to not to be able to question Islam. Islam is absolutely robust and can stand up to scrutiny. But Islamists crumble under scrutiny. And that's what I'm opposed to.

That means I am grieving for Muslims that have been executed by a white supremacist just as I would when they are executed by a jihadist. But does not mean we allow Islamophobia to control our speech in the United States. And worse, Linda Sarsour is taking credit for modulating the House Resolution 183 and equating Islamophobia to anti-Semitism, which is diabolical.

INGRAHAM: Also, but they are trying to represent you. They say Tlaib represents Muslim Americans. And I have a lot of Turkish friends. They're like, she doesn't represent me at all. They do not represent my friends who are more reform-minded Muslims, women and men.

NOMANI: When I saw your graphic tonight of 2020 radicalization, I thought I was going to see the faces of these Muslim radicals that have taken over the Democratic Party, Linda Sarsour, the CAIR representatives. They are trying to bring ISIS brides back to America. That doesn't represent us. That doesn't represent mainstream Muslims in America. What has happened now is the Democratic Party has been hijacked by radical Muslims, and this is something that has to stop.

INGRAHAM: It's antithetical to egalitarianism, women's right, rights across the board. We have to do an entire hour on this topic, because we're always up against a hard. I want to hear more from Dr. Ahmed, and also on my podcast, I'm going to have you both appear on that. We can do a whole hour, because this is such a big issue, and he's not being covered well. And I can't do it justice in a short segment. Would you both come back? We just have to do this. You're both fantastic.

NOMANI: Absolutely. We want to tell people keep thinking. Don't stop --

INGRAHAM: And Dr. Ahmed, keep speaking out. We need you to keep speaking out. Thank you so much.

AHMED: Laura, as a broadcaster, do not drop this subject, because the silence is what the Islamists seek.

INGRAHAM: Don't worry. I will not. They will have to take me up. But they're not going to, don't worry.

A social media giant, by the way, snuffing out conservative beliefs, and a media organization celebrated by journalists for a disgusting town hall. Joe diGenova is here to sound off on both.

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INGRAHAM: Also tonight, yet another sign that journalism is dead. The Lear Center at the University of Southern California is awarding its Cronkite award to CNN's Parkland town hall for, quote, "advance the national conversation on gun control and violence." I seem to remember that town hall actually advancing not all that much behind a one-sided hate fest directed at NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch and Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

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SEN. MARCO RUBIO, R-FLA: But I want to explain to you why --

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DANA LOESCH, NRA SPOKESPERSON: Let me answer the question. You can shout me down when I'm finished.

That's a huge -- wait a second.

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RUBIO: I --

LOESCH: To be able to defend ourselves.

I was 20 years old when I lived on my own.

Here's the caveat, if anyone wants to listen to the caveat.

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INGRAHAM: That's all the good stuff. Dana Loesch adding these details on Twitter today. "When the producers cued me to walk into the arena, it was to the Black Eyed Peas' song, "Let's Get It Started," adding, "After the broadcast ended, one of my detail had to stop a woman who rushed the stage to tackle me from behind." Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel spent the majority of this town hall using the NRA and Loesch as a scapegoat. And worse, when Loesch called out the fact that his department had dropped the ball on the shooter, he lied.

So in granting an award to what amounted to a sham trial, the Lear Center cheapens whatever value its journalism award ever had.

Here now, former U.S. attorney Joe diGenova. First of all, Happy St. Joseph's Day, the feast of St. Joseph, Giuseppe.

JOE DIGENOVA, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY: That is correct. Yes, thank you.

INGRAHAM: It's good to have you on. This is shameless stuff, after what happened just at that town hall, but a lot of emotion obviously. The Parkland horrific shooting.

DIGENOVA: A purposefully designed bad scene by CNN. It was not a moment of discussion and discourse. It was purposefully designed to create an anger fest and to embarrass rubio and Dana Loesch. CNN is going to get their little plastic block telling them that they were brilliant and they are getting this award. These awards are meaningless. They mean nothing anymore to the American people. These are pretty stupid, dumb journalists patting each other on the back for doing something pretty stupid.

And it's kind of embarrassing for journalism, but remember, when Jim Rutenberg at the "New York Times" after Donald Trump was elected said objectivity is gone, neutrality is gone. We have to get this guy, that's what it's all about. That crazy event on CNN tells you everything that's wrong with CNN.

INGRAHAM: Even Ted Koppel, a former ABC star, "Nightline," he said this at a March 7th event about the media event today.

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TED KOPPEL, FORMER ABC NEWS ANCHOR: When you talk about the "New York Times," when you talk about the "Washington Post," we're talking about organizations that I believe have, in fact, decided, as organizations, that Donald J. Trump is bad for the United States.

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INGRAHAM: And democracy dies in the darkness.

DIGENOVA: Oh, yes.

INGRAHAM: The t-shirts, Joe. They're warriors for the truth.

DIGENOVA: Ted Koppel, God bless him, has finally gotten to the finish line and crossed the goal line. The media has turned its back on objectivity and neutrality. They don't care about the story anymore. This is about destroying Donald Trump.

INGRAHAM: Where is the collusion now? Where's all the talk about collusion. Five seconds ago it was collusion, now there's collusion.

DIGENOVA: That story went away because it never happened. So naturally it's going to go away.

INGRAHAM: But no mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

DIGENOVA: They are changing the subject. And when you have the owner of the "Post" sending pictures of his private parts around, what kind of an organization do you think he's running? Democracy doesn't die in that darkness. I'm just saying to myself, if a guy that owns the "Washington Post" is sending around pictures of his privates, what kind of paper are you going to get?

INGRAHAM: We want that to die in the darkness. We're not interested in any of that.

DIGENOVA: So much for the style section.

INGRAHAM: You noticed that AOC, who is the star of the moment, the it- girl, and I mean "girl" in a very mature way.

DIGENOVA: Yes, of course.

INGRAHAM: She's the star, and she's the juice of the whole party, where the excitement is. But you notice that when she introduces herself, does she take on that Obama, Obama put on accent.

DIGENOVA: She does the Latina thing where she does her Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez.

INGRAHAM: That sounds nice.

DIGENOVA: And then when I introduce myself, I say Giuseppe diGenova. And I assume she's going to love that when I do that.

INGRAHAM: I like it when you say that.

By the way, big news tonight in the "Washington Post," speaking of the compost, that the White House has ignored document requests from Jerry Nadler, 12, just ignored them.

DIGENOVA: They've taken my advice. Ignore them or take the Fifth.

INGRAHAM: Just pretend they're not even --

DIGENOVA: Nobody should recognize -- 81 document requests with no thought being given to them, it was a disgusting display of congressional overreach and abuse, and they will find nothing.

INGRAHAM: And they had nothing to do -- family business, try to embarrass Ivanka and Jared. We're not going to let them play that game. Happy St. Joseph's Day.

DIGENOVA: Thank you.

INGRAHAM: And you dad, God rest his soul, his birthday, too. What a great thing. Mother's Day in Italy.

DIGENOVA: Good man. The best they come.

INGRAHAM: We'll be right back with the Last Bite. A 2020 Dem wants to give illegals, you kidding me, another benefit?

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SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, D-N.Y.: We need comprehensive immigration reform. If you are in this country now, you must have the rights to pay into Social Security, to pay your taxes, to pay into the local school systems, and to have a pathway to citizenship. That must happen.

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INGRAHAM: Anything else, Kirstin? Well, there you have it. She wants to expand Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants. That's all the time we have tonight. I dropped a brand-new podcast today. Be sure to check it out at podcastone.com or iTunes.

Shannon Bream and the fabulous "Fox News @ Night" team take it all from here.

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