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♪ ♪ >> welcome to this special edition of "hannity." i'm tammy bruce in for sean. it's the friday before christmas and the u.s. supreme court just offered up a giant lump of coal to biden's doj. in order to fast-track its case against former president trump out of washington, d.c., and get a verdict before the 2024 election. federal prosecutors frantically ask the court for an expedited review of trump's presidential immunity claims. today that request was flat out denied, and many experts are saying there is little chance this case will go to trial before the election. here now with the very latest, george washington law professor and fox news contributor jonathan turley. jonathan, your columns are always informative. i'm always treating them out and telling people to read the whole thing. this was not necessarily a complete surprise, but give us your point of view with your legal background on what this

really means and how good of a christmas gift this is to president trump. >> it was not a surprise. many of us felt that this was the correct decision. what the court did is it stayed with regular order. it said that you haven't stated grounds why we should deny this defendant an entire layer of appeal. that's what smith was doing. he was saying, i don't want you to allow trump to have his case heard before the d.c. circuit. that has a huge impact on a defendant. that's part of the record that goes to the supreme court. there could be concessions made in an oral argument, there could be mistakes made. more importantly, you have more eyes looking at this issue as these appellate judges state their view. so what the court did is it said, we are not going to treat trump differently because he is trump, and you haven't stated a reason why this has to be expedited. so all smith was saying is this

is a really, really, really important case. and what the court was saying is, all right, if it's important, why shouldn't we take the time to make sure we get it right to? >> tammy: exactly. the one argument was, because it is important, we should rush this through in a blur. and trump's argument was, because it is important, you want to look at it more carefully. i mean, wouldn't that be the natural thing? in addition to what you have said, which is the natural process that everyone gets to go through the appellate court, the supreme court sees the issue mature, if you will, and they hear those other issues and thoughts, and then they'll make a decision if they have to. but wasn't it obvious at this point? didn't this really kind of highlight the partisan nature of what smith is doing here? >> well, i mean, the argument that this is so important, you

should have less of judicial review, it really didn't sit well, obviously, with the court. they didn't share the sense of urgency. more importantly, knocking out an entire level of review for a defendant is no small matter to that defendant. so i think they did stick with regular order. is this going to upset the plans of jack smith? yeah. if you crunch the numbers on this, it's not good. so you now have an oral argument set in january. even if they put this on the rocket docket and get out a decision in a week or two, trump can appeal for an en banc review. they have to file those briefs and it has to be reviewed by the judges. that's pushing you into february. then trump is allowed to go to the supreme court, and if the supreme court sticks with regular order, that can take

months. so the march date is gone and all practicality, but so too may be the chances before the general election. >> tammy: this is a very serious issue, why you would want to tie it to an election. smith says he worries trump would be president. well, that is a given, or at least they are admitting that this is a man who the majority of americans might want to have be president. so this is good news regardless of what you think of donald trump, that this is about regular order despite the efforts to change that. professor, thank you for joining me. i appreciate it. to a major problem brewing in colorado as this lawfare continues where four activist judges has a very unusually of the u.s. constitution. in order to save democracy, they have decided to usurp democracy. to protect us, of course, from ourselves. in a 4-3 decision, the colorado supreme court removed trump from the 2024 colorado ballot,

pending an appeal. there are now growing calls for biden to denounce this authoritarian act, which we expect he'll never do. as i pointed out in my column, desperate democrats have gone nuclear and want to blow up our democracy by buying trump from running for president. instead the effort will blow up in their faces. joining us now with reaction, the author of the new book, "the war against jews: how to end hamas' barbarism," alan dershowitz, and the author of the explainer and other patriotic documents. gentlemen, both of your books are incredibly timely, and thank you for joining me tonight, as well. professor dershowitz, you are effectively the professor of america for us. it is a remarkable turn of events in colorado that this would happen, and especially

with such a close dynamic. you have all democrats they are. you would think this kind of decision would have to be handled like how we handled death penalty cases, where the jury needs to be unanimous in making such a dramatic decision. what is your take on what's happened here in colorado? >> well, it wasn't a jury at all. article five of the 14th amendment requires that congress, not the courts, not states, certainly not the colorado supreme court, and force that provision article three. now, imagine the framers of the 14th amendment. they were a bunch of radical, lake county and republican people who wanted reconstruction. can you imagine them saying, "maybe we'll leave it to the states." to mississippi, alabama, virginia, south carolina, north carolina, louisiana. let them decide who the next president is going to be." it's the most antihistorical absurd legal argument i have heard in my 60 years of teaching

and practicing criminal law. that doesn't mean jamie raskin doesn't support it, and the others who can always be counted on to manipulate the constitution to come out the way they wanted to, they won't support it. the american public won't support it, and objective legal scholars should not support this by a state against the authority of the federal government federal government. >> tammy: well put, professor. greg, it's fascinating, because you think, if this were to continue on or be acceptable, what sector of the american voter framework would accept the end result of an election with this being part of that process? they never think about the next day. is that the kind of dynamic? do you think democrats have thought about what the next day, the day after, would look like? >> no, they are myopic. they can barely see in front of

themselves. if joe biden were smart -- and he's not -- he would denounce kicking trump off the ballot. his refusal now looks like he is so desperate to hang onto power he is willing to win by hook or by crook, which means banishing his opponent from the ballot. that colorado ruling was absurd to the point of being laughable. you know, i brought out the popcorn to finish reading it. it is already backfiring to the benefit of donald trump. biden is tacitly endorsing something that looks anti-democratic and the equivalent of election rigging, but it is also a very slippery slope. already there are some republicans who are drafting bills to remove joe biden from the ballot in various states. so this is the stuff of dictators and tyrants who banned their opponents from running by expunging their names from the

ballot. republicans should not go down this road, although democrats, tammy, certainly set the precedent, and they all but invited it. >> tammy: professor dershowitz, i think they are trying to make a point in the certain way that this is what would occur, but isn't the worry that we had this state supreme court apparently not even considering the damage that could be done? like the mutual deterrence strategy with nuclear weapons. you could do something, that you don't, because of the impact that could be had. is this a bad sign for the judiciary in general, or is this just a one off because of the hysteria surrounding trump to? >> well, it's about the hysteria surrounding trump, but it's not a one-off. we have seen this over and over again, punishing lawyers, going after people, doing anything to keep trump off the ballot.

failing to acknowledge that article five of the constitution, article five of the 14th amendment, which says congress as the power to enforce, and magically the colorado supreme court says, "oh, you don't need legislation to enforce it. it is self-enforcing." >> tammy: [laughs] >> do you need to have a prior conviction? "no, it is self enforcing, so we can ignore the text of the constitution." policy issues, this is against the text of the constitution, the meaning of the constitution, the history of the constitution. but that doesn't mean the supreme court is necessarily going to overrule this. i think it probably will. i think it will take that case on a fast track because there is no immediate court of appeals there, but it did the right thing today by not taking the

case from d.c. on the fast track, especially since the judge in that case had already said over and over again that we are not treating trump as if you are running for president, but as an ordinary citizen. then jack smith comes in and says, you can't treat them as an ordinary citizen! he's running for president, you got to speeded up and get your act together, folks. >> tammy: we appreciate you being here. thank you, gentlemen, for that assessment and critique. the wild, wild world right now. even some of the mainstream media are denouncing colorado's ruling as foolish and are openly worried that it will do nothing to help biden's ailing reelection bid. there's no other way to put it, his numbers are historically bad. for an incumbent president who's running for reelection at this point in time, he's got the record now. americans are worried about the economy, of course, the chaos overseas, the border crisis, and the shady biden family business. even nbc news is reporting

details about the unusual and frequent communications between then vice president biden and one of hunter's top associates in 2014. of course another major problem voters have with joe biden is his age, and of course mental acuity. so what is the biden campaign strategy moving forward? apparently he plans to call trump and his supporters, of course, a threat to democracy, over and over again. that's it. joining us now with mark, fox news contributor joe concha. wyoming congressman harriet hageman, and advisor to bill clinton, democratic pollster doug schoen. thank you for joining me tonight. he would think that the only big news is santa getting ready, something going on in the north pole, but it's great news. let me ask you first, doug. you are a democrat, you know how both sides of the aisle work. was all of this and what is transpiring now even shocking to

you? or is none of this a surprise considering with the last few years have looked like? >> it is shocking and disturbing, tammy, because i have felt all along that our democratic system was not in question. what the colorado court did, and what jack smith tried to do, are antidemocratic, and i would make the argument, from the point of view of my party, with the colorado court did helps donald trump and hurts joe joe biden. in my judgment, this is a new low for our democracy, bad for my party and bad for the country. >> tammy: it's a very good way to put it, because i think people don't realize that, joe, this is not just something for all of us to talk about and tomorrow will be another day just like any other day. this is very serious, and we have to watch it, and we thank god for the supreme court at this point, which is maybe

why the left is always going after them at this stage. do you agree about the seriousness of what this means and portends as we move forward? >> tammy, seriousness is a perfect word. irony is another word to use here, as well. here's the irony of ironies. democrats want to end democracy by crushing it, to save it by crushing it through weaponizing the legal system through partisan means. the word "democracy" used to have some weight, to mean something. now democrats in the media use it as a punch line. democracy to them means a one-party government, and trump is portrayed as antidemocracy when he is simply the biggest threat to their power, not to the united states, but to their power, which, in the end, this is a hail mary of political stunts, because they know joe biden, at 33-34% approval, doug schoen is exactly what that means. that is nixonian levels we saw into some in 1973 before he

resigned in 1974. in this president cannot win when he is pulling this low among black voters, hispanic voters, young voters, and independents. this will have a boomerang effect serving as jet fuel to the trump campaign because people see this for what it is. >> tammy: we have seen it in the polls as president trump got indicted. he was running a little ahead of ron desantis in the beginning of the season, and then he gets indicted, and then there was more support moved to trump. some people said it's because he's portraying himself as a victim. i don't see it that way at all, obviously. but what americans are seeing is a confirmation of what his complaint has been, which is a two-tier system of justice, a rigged system of justice that the government has weaponized against who it views as its opponents. is that what you see in this framework? >> absolutely, i do, and i think

what is important for people to understand is, under our constitution, we are actually guaranteed a republican form of government. what does that mean? it's a representative form of government and we are the ones who get to choose who our representatives will be. so this is just a classic example of the democrats weaponizing the courts to make it so that we are not allowed to choose. my view is get the information out there. you disagree with donald trump, let's have the debate, let's have the discussion. but what we are seeing is weaponization of the federal government, they want to shut down the debate because they know they can't win on policy. >> tammy: the details of the issues are key. you can make your play and argue and point out what matters, but it seems at this point that they believe biden can't win at all. it is clear with the polls

that -- certain averages and various other polls, he's beating biden, but so is nikki haley. ron desantis at least is tying in. is this the only way they feel they can win? or do you think they will finally try to replace him with someone else? where do you leads for the democrats? >> well, i think there is muttering about replacing him. the problem is kamala harris is as weak if not weaker than joe biden. joe biden's run around the country talking about bidenomics, i think looking at those, we would all agree that hasn't worked. and the biden campaign basically has taken the attitude that they have to go negative on trump, say he's antidemocratic, say he's corrupt, et cetera, et cetera, which is their right to do, and that's fine, but they don't have a positive argument, so anything that d legitimizes trump in the views of my party

is fair game. i don't think it's going to work because the democrats see joe biden actually know weaker than jimmy carter was in 1980 when he faced a historic -- >> tammy: joke, people have seen crazy things happening to. they thought he would leave when he got indicted, more than al capone. there is the raid at mar-a-lago, this stuff about insurrection. it's almost as though, i would argue, that americans have topped out when it comes to things that are said about trump, the anything else said now is going to just go in one ear and out another, because of the shenanigans we've been watching. >> absolutely, tammy. even to go back before the end of this presidency to the trump-russia collusion dominating the news cycle for three years, the robert mueller report comes out and there is one big nothing burger without the bun, and now we have a situation happening here, to

doug's point. can joe biden run on his record? can he run on inflation and the economy? no, he cannot. can you run on crime in major cities driving people out of cities to places like tennessee and florida? no, he can't. can he run on foreign policy when the world seems like it's on fire at this point? no, he can't, and he can't run on the u.s. southern border, which is past crisis point. we are in a place where no one likes what's going on there, there's no record to run on, no core base to support biden. therefore, this is where we are at. >> tammy: representative hagemann, you took office in a state that is very unhappy with its previous representative. you are in there now with the republicans in the democrats together. we know what's wrong with the democrats and with their policies. and yet, '22 was a blowout.

are the republicans recognizing that it is one thing to point out everything that's wrong, but it is entirely another to say what you're going to do to fix it? like, who are you? we know trump is able to do that, to define what matters to him. what can you tell us about what the republicans are thinking about this coming year and how they're going to communicate with the american people? >> well, actually think that the republicans in the 118th congress have been quite successful in adopting and pursuing policies that are in the best interest of the american public. hr2 is the very best border security bill that's ever been passed by the house of representatives. the problem is that the democrat senate will not take it up. many of the seven appropriations bills that we have passed for the first time in many, many years, we have been passing individual appropriations bills. they are good conservative policy bills that are in the best interest of the american public. again, this senate will not take

them up. the democrat-controlled senate will not take them up. we have been pursuing good policy and we will continue to do so in 2024, but we are being blocked by both president biden and the democrat side. >> tammy: coming on television and speaking to someone like me, tilt the american people what you've been doing and what won't get to the pipeline so we have a sense of what's coming up in what the republicans can offer us next year. thank you, everybody. appreciate you being here. coming up, is biden's border crisis spiraling out of control? i think that might be a trick question. and there's no end in sight. we react to the latest as the special edition of "hannity" continues. ♪ ♪ it's where we gather as a family. it's where we experience the excitement of opening day. it's where we caught our personal best. and this tree is where it all began.

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>> tammy: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." our southern border is completely overwhelmed with illegal immigrants, forcing the federal government now to shut down key border crossings. because, you know, they can do it when they want to, so agents can process the massive flow of migrants. those closures are starting to have an economic impact, potentially billions of dollars of international trade at stake along with the livelihoods of small business owners along the border and as the crisis spirals out of control, i.c.e. is sending agents to the border to assist the border patrol, for, i guess, management. the bureau of prisons is sending people, as well. house republicans are also planning a trip to see the dire situation for themselves, but according to karine jean-pierre, this is all totally normal. take a look. >> what we are seeing at the border, the migration flow, the increased migration flow, certainly it ebbs and flows, and we are at a time of the year

where we are seeing more at the border, and it's not unusual. this is an immigration system that has been broken for decades, and the president has taken this very seriously to try to do more. that's why we have the comprehensive immigration policy, legislation the president put forth on day one. so yes, there's more to be done. >> tammy: wow, no wonder american voters are looking funny at the biden administration. here with reaction, fox news contributor sara carter, former acting i.c.e. director tom homan, and fox news contributor leo terrell. leo, let me start with you. it has been absurd for quite some time. she might as well be that meme you see on the internet where the dog is sitting at a table and the whole room is on fire in the line is, "this is fine." it's not fine and they keep lying. what is your take on their continued approach to gaslight the american people? >> thank you for having me, tammy, and merry christmas. let me be clear, there's no

border policy. there's an amnesty policy. they want immigrants to come into this country. karine jean-pierre is a professional liar. she is sitting there knowing she's lying. and the american public has rejected these lies. these are historic numbers, historic numbers, and the number of illegals who are crossing the border. we don't need to import crime. you look at democratic cities where the governor of texas is sending these immigrants to chicago, there is more crime, and there are now democratic cities who are begging for president trump to take over, because we had a policy to control the border. we had tom homan in charge. and this is what is destroying america right now. the border policy or the lack thereof is the number two issue in this country behind the economy, and that is why joe biden is going to lose, and we are going to stop the lying from the white house press secretary. >> tammy: it's a remarkable thing to watch, tom. you know these numbers, i think.

i think people are finally understanding the extent of what's happening here. the number of illegal immigrants since joe biden has come into office is now the equivalent of 41 states, individual states. it is a huge number of people, and the people on the known or suspected terrorist list, over 700 have been apprehended this year. you can imagine the cot-away from work. that gives you an idea of the number of people trying to move through when we know that september 11th was implemented by 19. so this is national security, and economic dynamic. many of these people's lives are going to be destroyed, as this country does not know how to get out from under this. what do you think our moves are right now, and what should the biden administration be doing? not that they'll do it. >> look, they've got the

game plan, they've got the book. they just have to dust off the trump policies which were proven effective. joe biden is the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecurity border. immigration was down at a 45-year low, 83-90%. then he came in and purposely -- this isn't mismanagement, this is incompetence, this is by design. the scariest thing about this, for two years i've been screaming, this is the biggest national security vulnerability i have seen since 9/11. you just said it. under the trump administration, for four years, we had 11 off the terrorist watch list. they had 18 in one month. >> tammy: wow, that is a huge difference. and that's what we know. we now have to get down to -- or at the border a lot, you talk with these people, you know the dynamics from the beginning when they were still trying to hide it from the american people.

what is your take on the seriousness and the impact on the country? this isn't just an inconvenience, this changes everything for the american people. >> it absolutely does, tammy. to put it in perspective, we lost over 112,000 americans this last year to fentanyl poisoning and fentanyl debts and overdoses. at the border, i was just there this week, you can see the government once again is still trying to hide it from the american people. they obviously think that we are stupid. karine jean-pierre goes up on stage, talks to the press corps, and says, "it's just the ebbs and flows." no, karine jean-pierre, this is the flow that president biden purposely made when he came into office and eliminated all of president trump's executive orders. he just removed them completely,

and he basically said, "come in, our board is wide open." the drug cartels, the human traffickers, and every other nefarious organization working overseas said, "thank you very much, president biden. thank you for partnering with us." and since that day has happened, people have flowed into our country, our nation is facing, just as tom and leo said, a massive crisis. we are literally breaking at the seams. cities like chicago, and this is just one child, that got attention, but the death of a 5-year-old child in a shelter, in the freezing cold. do you know how many children i have seen sleeping in the streets, sleeping with people that aren't even their parents? aren't even their guardians? go overseas to mexico, president biden. look at all the children that are dying there before they even reach our shores. the united nations is now saying the most dangerous land crossing is between the states and

mexico. the facts are the facts. the american people see it, and the american people are going to make the decision in 2024 based on what they are seeing. i truly believe that. but god help us before that. >> tammy: we are participating in this, just karmic, thank you for joining me tonight. it's a horrible dynamic. but we've got to know about it so we know it has to get done. thank you all. straight-ahead, big updates out of the war in israel. plus, is barack obama the reason harvard's president hasn't been fired yet? carol markowitz and deroy murdock join us next. ♪ ♪

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are democrats failing israel and jews in america? today we received the sad news that the first american has died and hamas captivity. his wife is still being held as a hostage there. earlier today, the u.n. security council voted to increase aid to gaza, demanding a humanitarian pause. the u.s. abstained from voting. so called palestine protests continue to arise across the country, including this one in detroit during a local michigan democrat christmas party. this brawl sent at least one attendee to the hospital, leaving others injured. get this, according to a new report, former president obama has quietly lobbied in support of harvard president claudine gay felling backlash over her controversial testimony on anti-semitism. it's a lot to unpack here.

"new york post" columnist and a host of "the carol markowitz show," carol markowitz, and deroy murdock. let me ask you, immediately out of this israel situation. we run the risk of becoming inured to news of americans in peril, especially out of afghanistan. there was outrage, understandably, over 13 troops being murdered in that environment. but in all of this we believe this is the first american to die in captivity, that we have 30 americans killed in the hamas attack itself. how do you view this unfolding now as more and more details come out and we have this horrible news? >> it is so pathetic. they released a statement of condolences, but where is the outrage that an american has been killed? where is the american president to have some harsh words for the killers? we are seen as weak on the world stage because of joe biden. americans being murdered abroad cannot go without mention.

a lot like to misunderstand when a jewish american like me says there needs to be a reaction. i want to be clear i do not want american boots on the ground. how about some harsh language, a hard look at, anything? >> tammy: that's a great point. this also transcends whether you are jewish or not. in fact, all of us should be fine to identify as jewish because this is about a minority that people think will be abandoned, as it has been in the past. so this is what is fascinating. deroy, again, we've got americans, over a dozen now. 30, who knows how many have been killed that we don't know, or will be. but the white house shrugs. we have shipped being attacked to the iranian proxy group, houthis. they put out a video earlier threatening america. where does this go? how much worse can this get?

>> it can get worse, i'm afraid. first let me express my condolences to his family. i'm sure this is very painful for them and nobody involved in this deserved to have what happened take place. but this could come here. hamas is not just a problem for israel. it's a problem for americans. 30 were killed there and 14 held hostage, some are still held hostage. the germans, dutch, and i believe the danes just a couple weeks ago broke up a hamas plot to engage in terrorism in europe. they are people crossing the border from all over the place. got her bid hamas decides to put pressure on the americans on american soil. so this is not just an israeli problem, it's already become an american problem as of october 7th and it could become one if, god forbid, hamas decides to come spread their terrorism into this country. stealing and considering the open border, years ago the state department told us about how hezbollah and hamas were running some of the drug cartel rings from south and central america up into this

country. for the money. so this -- people have got to be ready for horrible news, and we have to be prepared for it. i do want to move on to the politics happening now regarding obama and claudine gay and harvard. obama is a very influential man, obviously. she has been, i would argue, a failure. as a feminist, it was wonderful to see three women speaking to congress. and they all failed. they all kind of jumped in with the establishment, and for women who understand bias and unfairness and problems getting good jobs and being treated equally, we should be on the side of everyone who has been attacked or faces hate crimes or distinctive bias.

why is obama spending some of his cache for her? >> obama lobbying for her isn't a surprise. claudine gay is on the team. woke politics is a team sport and cheese on it. i'm so glad so many of my jewish liberal friends have been realizing their application for the team has been denied, please try again next year. she's going to be pushed out for her plagiarism, and that is fair. i'd be fired for far less if i did even close to what she did, but i hope she is remembered as a woman who argued that calling for jewish on campus had to be put in the proper context. her inhumanity towards jews should be her legacy. i know it's going to be the plagiarism that actually forces her out, but i want it to be that. >> tammy: that's a good point. i'm going to give you the last word, because this is not about just that women or the situation with harvard. this is a systemic problem, especially with the rise of anti-semitism. >> if the question had been if

it violates the speech code or the regulations at harvard for somebody to say let's have genocide and wipe all the black pearl us out, they wouldn't permit that. but against the jews, it depends, put it into context, who knows, unbelievable. the fact that they botched that shows how deep anti-semitism has crept into the left, and it's one of the reasons she ought to be booted as well as 40 different examples of plagiarism. any harvard freshmen knows you don't do it. she ought to be booted. >> tammy: and the double standard with administration versus students and who gets booted and who doesn't. but also the commitment, maybe it's the commitment that this is the symbol of the failure of that theory and perhaps they just don't want the american people to see that. carol, deroy, thank you very much. up next, senator rand paul released his annual festivus

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>> tammy: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity" just in time for christmas. senator rand paul released his annual festivus report, which breaks down a whopping -- get ready, you guys -- $900 billion in wasteful government spending from 2023. the senator holds both parties responsible. of course, both parties are, for this careless spending, stressing how members on each side voted to raise the debt ceiling, leaving our country $34 trillion in debt, up from $30 trillion a year ago. without further ado, here are some of the ridiculous ways the

government is spending your money. for example, nearly $500,000 for the forest feminization of a type of male monkey. great. $200 million on pandemic support to small business, concert venues, and family-owned theaters, which actually went to big stars like post malone, lil wayne, and chris brown patent $6 million to boost tourism. oh, but in egypt. i don't now, this is just the beginning of a long and shocking list of how the government spend your money this year, and we are going to discuss it now with the cofounder of the committee to unleash prosperity, steve moore, along with fox news political analyst gianno caldwell. steve, your committee, i think you understand we don't increase prosperity by spending -- let's see here -- the national institutes of health allocated funds to study russian cats on

treadmills. they should have spent that money on me, to put me on a treadmill, but they didn't. [laughter] steve, how much longer can we sustain this? because this is not a sustainable way of behaving, is it? >> we laugh at this, tammy, but it's deadly serious. if you want to understand why americans are so infuriated by what's going on in washington, why they hate bidenomics, it is this. $900 billion of waste in the budget. by the way, americans know that. we are not stupid. and that is three times the entire california budget. that's how much is being wasted every year. i'll just give you an example, there is a $300 billion -- not million, billion -- slush fund in the biden budget. no one knows what's going on with that money. it's all going to his friends and the green environmental groups. it's not changing the temperature of the planet. there are 40 different programs, 50 different programs that deal

with job training. the left hand of the government doesn't know what the right hand is doing. it's outrageous. not a penny, tammy, of new taxes until we get rid of this waste in washington. >> tammy: that's a great point. gianno, you are from chicago, i'm from los angeles, i live in new york. we live in and no urban areas. what would $100 billion due for people in your city? $100 billion for crime, funding the police, education, air conditioners for people as the summer comes up. what do you think when we think about this for the american people, about what this money could mean to make life better in this country? >> you are exactly right, and i'll tell you, when i read this report, one came to mind, a song by chris brown called "under the influence." i wonder what bureaucrats in d.c. were under the influence when they decided to give chris brown, post malone,

lil wayne, and others almost $200 million. these are insane numbers. we are talking about almost a trillion dollars in wasteful spending which could have been better spent on the border, which could have been better spent at police department's across the country or with our veterans. as you just mentioned there. i've got to tell you something, because something else came to mind, and i know this is unpopular in some circles -- >> tammy: go for it. >> matt gaetz was actually absolutely right for raising the fact that we should be doing single appropriation bills, because we can cut through some of this waste if we are to do that. i have to tell you, for the 2024 budget, now earmarked for 4700 projects, $700 billion. we have to be considerate about our funding and what the government is doing. >> tammy: i look a little askance at things like what congress does, but this is monopoly money that becomes fungible, in a sense. it flows like water all around

the place and we never know where it goes. am i wrong to be cynical about that? >> i think everyone is cynical about it. i forgot to mention, there was $200 billion of fraudulent payments in covid payments and nobody did anything about it. look, the math is simple. we are running a $1.8 trillion deficit, $900 billion of waste. in other words, if we get rid of the waste, we could eliminate half of the government borrowing every year. >> tammy: gianno, what's interesting, i know we do turn to government with its process, but let me give you the last word about the fact that, you know, this is fraud like they need to have the money disappear, and then, like with the pentagon, they lose -- in one case, they said they lost $169 million worth of gear. don't you think this is more about fraud and malevolence than it is about just meaning well?

>> absolutely, there's a ton of fraud that is involved in government spending. that's why we need a forensic audit of government spending. i think it's extremely important. absolutely. >> tammy: that's a great point. gentlemen, thank you very much. more of this special edition of "hannity" coming up after the break. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> tammy: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." before we go i want to wish everyone a very merry christmas and a happy new year especially those serving our country abroad who are not able to be home for the holidays. please join us in prayers for israel and the jewish people all around the world. unfortunately that's all the time we have left for this evening. check out my column. have a wonderful weekend. gutfeld! is up next. [cheers and applause