are definitely looking out for you! >> tonight the clock is ticking toward high noon tomorrow when the obama justice department must explain to a federal court exactly what the president meant when he appeared to question the sovereignty of the u.s. supreme court. we will have analysis of this developing story. plus in a has been ski exclusive, the father of george zimmerman will be here tonight as we take a step by step look at the tragic night that killed trayvon martin. and we take a walk down memory lane back to a time when hope and change and soaring rhetoric ruled the day. remember this. >> i don't want to -- i don't

want to pick black america against blue america, i want to be the president of the united states! >> and to say that the president's message has evolved since 2007 would be a very serious understatement because as he eyes a second term of government he's pitting the rich against the poor, religion against religion and he intends to divide this country in order to conquer it for four more years. it wasn't more there when tried to vilify the canning men. >> the congressmen running congress right now have doubled down and proposes a budget so far to the right it makes the contract with america look like a new deal. it's a troughiage horse disguised as deficit reduction plans. it's really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country.

it is thinly-veiled social darwinism. >> keep in mind this is the same person who looked you people in the american eye in 2008 and promised he would unite this country. times have clearly changed because it's very clear he's going to convince anything to convince the people of this country that republicans are the enemy. watch this. >> if this budget becomes law and the cuts were applied evenly, starting in 2014, over 200,000 children would lose their chance to get an early ed indication in the head start program. 2 million mothers and young children would be cut from a program that gives them access to healthy food. there would be 4500 fewer federal grants at the department of justice and the fbi to violent violent crime, financial crime and help secure our borders. hundreds of national parks would be forced to close for part or all of the year.

we wouldn't have the capacity to enforce the laws that protect the air we breathe, the water we drink or the food that we eat. >> and joining me now with reaction to the president's irresponsible speech is the author of suicide of a superpower, the one and only patrick j buchanan. you know, pat, let me adjust two more sound bites to this and then i will give you full time to give your explanation. in my view its simple to analyze. off president who cannot run on his record so the very thing he ran on in 2008 he can't run on today, hope and change and bringing the country together. he's gone as far to say that the republicans' plan is for dirty air and dirty water and kids with autism, down syndrome and the elderly will have to fend for themselves. watch this. >> my plan says we are going to put teachers back in the classroom, construction workers back to work, rebuilding america, rebuilding our schools, tax cuts for small businesses,

that's correct cuts for hiring veterans, tax cuts if you give your worker a raise. that's my plan. and then you got their plan which is let's have dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance. >> who are these 50 million americans? many of somebody's grandparents. maybe one of yours who wouldn't be able to afford nursing home care without medicaid. many are poor children. some of middle class families who have children with autism or down syndrome. some of these kids with disabilities are -- the disacts are so severe that they require 24 hour care. these are the americans we would

be telling to fend for themselves. >> patrick buchanan, you have heard a lot of this in your lifetime, what do you think? >> sean, i think you are correct. this is device i have and it's demogogic. it is also foolish. we are seven months away from the presidential election and barack obama is crippling the most vital asset he has, which is the presidency of the united states and the aura that surrounds it and the fact the american people give deference to the president. he's coming down and making himself a pretty savage partisan n so doing he is also damaging his reputation which seems to be deserved that he's a very likable individual. he is polar eyeing and dividing the country. quite frankly, it is not credible to portray mitt romney as some kind of social darwinist that is going to order them to shoot down the strikers in the street. i think ice own people, quite

frankly, are probably going to pull him back from this kind of rhetoric because it's the end of campaign rhetoric of somebody who is losing. as you said, if you have a great record to run on, run on it. you don't go out and try to demonize your opponent. >> i disagree with you. i don't think it will stop. they will accelerate it. remember the republicans were going to reduce the cost of medicare to 7% for seven years. i bet they double down on. it the one thing we have to focus on, he cannot run on his record by any objective discerning record. his record is a failure. he's failed it on every measure. so now the president, you know, they are losing the arguments on the issues in many ways so they have to propagandize. demonize, destroy the opposition. the question is how vulnerable will the american people be to

this? >> i don't think he can do it. i have been in the campaigns, the nixon campaign of '92 where we ran a tainted george mcgovern outside the mainstream of american politics as they did to barry gold water are in '64 and i was part of that. however, the president himself doesn't do it. nixon didn't mention mcgovern's name. if the president wants this done, he ought to have biden do it and have his cabinet officials do it but for the president of the the united states he's just damaging himself. >> and add to this now the second attack, and we will get into this in more detailbut we are vetting the president, we are showing him in his own words then and now. but now he's attacking the supreme court of the united states. what do you think? >> think we have a radical returning. he has moved up and beyond that. the one thing he's got going for him, he's a likable guy, he's the president.

he talks about red state, not blue state, the united states of america. why would you throw all that away seven months before the election? it looks like almost a panic if it's not an effort to define romney because they are afraid romney will be able to define himself as a pretty decent guy who is going to come in and do the job. >> i think, pat, i think that's very well-said. i think the president is hurting himself but i don't suspect. i think they will double down. pat buchanan, go to see you. >> good to see you, sean. >> this ladies us to the text poll question, was the president out of line with his supreme court comments? you can text us at 36288. we will have the results coming up later this hour. and coming up tonight an exclusive sit down with the father of trayvon martin's shooter, george zimmerman. he will tell us what his son says happened that night. don't miss this exclusive interview. when we come back we continue to vet the president, we will talk about his comments and the supreme court justice was

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court is comprise evidence a group of unelected gusties. he must spell out what the president meant and if the justice versus the right to overturn obamacare. joining me is the author of the new york city best teller michelle malcolm. have you ever heard of march barry madison, chief justice john marshall, quote, a law repugnant to the constitution is void, unquote. >> well, now we have the 5th circuit assigning homework not only to obama but all of his lawyer minions at the department. it is a humiliating spanking for the obama administration and it's about time. it's also not a coincidence this order is coming from the 5th circuit court of appeals. because this judiciary knows probably more than any other

across the country how this administration has shown determined disregard for the law. and that is a phrase that came from one of the judges that the 5th circuit court of appeals upheld when they were having to deal with the obama administration flaunting the law on the drilling moratorium. they know how it operates and they are making them pay a price and it's a good thing. >> this is unprecedented because it is in the middle, you know, the court hasn't even decided here. and he can make his opinions known. he's free to do so. but it's at the time when this decision is not final. it seems to me to be intimidation. this is not first time the president did this. if you remember at the state of the union address you could see justice skalia say not true. >> last week the supreme court reverse add century of law that i believe will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our election.

>> you know -- >> he's a repeat offender. >> yeah. why do you think the president has doubled down on this? why do you think the president would do this? what do you think is, you know, he's out there attacking anybody and everything because his policies have failed, now attacking paul ryan. he did not attack in the senate that has not done their constitutional duty and voted on a budget in a thousand days and passed one. >> yeah. clearly he's not trying to intimidate the supreme court. that's the conventional interpretation of this. you know, from what we understand they already had these deliberations. >> they have already decided. >> so what is this about? eats about pandering to the left wing flank and trying to make obama look like he isn't, a strong, competent president in charge of himself, his administration and the country. let me just say something about this word unprecedented because it's one of those weasel words and phrases that come out of the mouths of politicians and they can't help themselves. it's like a verbal tick that he

has. and we've had every last liberal journalist and liberal law professor now disavow themselves from obama's commence. he's walked them back, his press secretary has walked him back because history is certainly not on his side. even his mentor, the liberal law professor, lawrence tribe, had to admit that obama made a quote, unquote, mistake. why is he repeating it? he believes if he repeats it often enough people will believe it. >> thank you as always. plenty more to come tonight. george zimmerman's father opens up to us about what his son happened the night he shot trayvon martin and then another installment as we continue to vet the president of the real obama. straight ahead. aaaaask me.

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our text poll pole. he asked if you thought the president with a out of line with his comments. thanks to all of who voted. breaking news as our vetting of obama continues a congressional hearing will convene to investigate the nearly $1 million spent by team obama on a government retreat to las

vegas last year. it's the same vegas he told everybody else they shouldn't go to. it was organized by the general services administration and the agency head's in line for resignation. it includes an cheese display that cost $19 per person. $7,000 worth of sushi. a t-shirt bill of 4 grand, and bottles of water under three grand, and favorite item, a mind read they're cost $3,200, and a team exercise that involved building bicycles and it happened under the eye of president. >> it's time for this to end. >> we can scour the budget for every dime for waste and inefficiency, by reforming government spending. >> one of the commitments i made to the american people that we would do a better job here in washington in rooting out

wasteful spending. >> the only way to tackle our deficit is to cut excessive spending wherever we find it. >> now to help vet the president, herman cain. herman, hang on a second. i'm reading the minds of the american people. they are saying waste of money. i don't even know what to say about the mind reader. what do you think? >> karnak says -- >> wait a second. waste of money. >> wait a second. karnak says outrageous. >> i'm opening it up. >> it is outrage us. how does the president getaway with this again? he lectures us on civility and takes $1 million from people. and take tack supreme court justices and he says he doesn't like the courseness of tone. does he not see his own

hypocrisy here? >> he does not see it, sean, but the good news is some people see it. look, that agency works for him. when you as a president, they work for you. for him now to say that it was, you know, despicable and they need to get it out and on and on, if you become the president or if you become the ceo of the company, you should lay down some guidelines to make sure that this sort of thing doesn't happen. he didn't do that. now he's going to try to find a way to shift the blame. i guarantee you. >> it's just like oil, he's saying oil production, we are producing more oilbut not with any help from them. it's happening on private lands. you want to talk about the biggest waste of money, solyndra, sun power, green energy. we have nothing to show for it, and it goes to his big bundle of friends that bought access to the white house. >> sean, as you know, and i have said this before on your show, voters are divided into two

groups. clueless 50% who look the other way anytime this president makes an excuse or puts blame on somebody else, and the 50% of us who know what's going on, we see this, and we are trying to basically inform other people. this is just another example of the arrogance of this president and the arrogance of this administration. >> what did you think of the attack on the supreme court now, the second attack? >> outrageous. the same thing. they act as if we don't have three branches of government. remember valerie jarrett before they took office, she made the statement, and neal, my good friend and your good friend, he pointed this out. he said that she made the statement "we will be ready to rule from day one." they aren't rulers, they are supposed to govern. the problem is they see themselves, he sees himself as a

ruler of this nation. this is not a nation that you rule. this is a nation that you govern according to the constitution. >> but he's already whisper to go the president in russia, if i -- i got to get elected and then i'll help you with this. he's whispering to sarkozy and whispering to friends that are angry about bib expels guns and religion. >> what that says is that's more important to him than the interests of the united states of america. for him to make that whisper to a russian officials, he cares more about getting re-elected and pandering to other countries than he does the interests of the united states of america which gets back to the arrogance of this president and this administration that a lot of people have got to wake up to. >> all right. herman cain, you are a great american, and we appreciate it. >> thanks, sean. >> and coming up. >> thank you. >> you don't want to miss this,

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>> much has been debated about the tragic night trayvon martin was shot. here's the 911 calls. >> we've had some break-ins neighborhoods and there's this suspicious guy, this guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs, he's walking around -- >> it's raining and he's walk walking around. >> okay, and this guy.

>> he's running. >> which way is he running? >> down towards the other entrance of the neighborhood. >> which entrance is that that he's heading toward? >> the back entrance. >> are you following him? >> yeah. >> okay. we don't need you to do that. >> okay. >> all right. sir, what is your name? >> george. he ran. >> now minutes later trayvon martin was dead and a controversy was ignited. here to give us his son's side of the story is george zimmerman's father. and thank you all for being here. mr. zimmerman, i know obviously you don't want to be on camera and there is a reason for it. can you tell our audience why? >> well, we received numerous death threats.

>> okay. one of the things that's come out of this case is there has been a bounty that has been put on your son's head. you know that famous hollywood star spikily roseanne barr tweeted out, at least in the case of spikily what he thought was your son's address. how difficult has that been for your family and do you think this has been a rush to judgment by the media? >> it's absolutely been a rush to judgment. >> yeah. why don't you walk us through. because you obviously have spoken to your son. tell us his side of this story on this night. tell us what happened. >> well, it's customary on sunday night for george to go and do grocery shopping. he had been texting his sister and told her that he was going to go and do grocery shopping.

he got in his vehicle to leave the community. he saw somebody that did not live in the community walking behind some townhomes. that small gated community has had a lot of problems with burglaries and people coming into that community to commit crimes. so he thought that it was suspicious. >> okay. so and i understand it was raining that night, and when you say that he saw trayvon martin walking behind townhomes, are you saying he was up-close to where the homes were? is that why he was suspicious? >> i -- i don't know exactly where trayvon martin was walking. i'm not real sure of that. >> there have been implications of that been made. one was that on the 911 tape that we just played, that he might have used a racial slur.

that has been countered by other people. two stories that i recently read, and one is that is it true that your son would tutor african-american and minority children on the weekend, and is it also true that there was a case involving the sanford police in which a son after police officer hid an african-american -- hit an african-american homeless man and he spoke out against the police officer. is that true, sir? >> it is true. he went around to churches and put flyers on people's cars. he felt sorry for this homeless man not having anyone to support him. and he -- >> has he ever used any racial slur that you know of, sir? >> none whatsoever. let me ask you, when the dispatcher said to him on that

911 tape, we don't need you to do that, meaning because he said, yes, i'm following trayvon martin, did he follow him? did you ask him if he followed him at that point? and what happened from that point forward? tell us the rest of the story. >> from where george's vehicle was, there's a sidewalk that goes to the next street over. >> okay. >> off of that sidewalk there's another sidewalk that goes between two rows of townhomes. it's my understanding that trayvon went between the two rows of townhomes, and george was walking down the main sidewalk to see if he could see where trayvon was going. he continued walking down that sidewalk to the next street. he wanted an address.

all he could see was the back of the townhomes and he could not see an address. so he asked the dispatcher to have the responding unit call him, and he could tell him the address. so he walked down to the end of the street -- i'm sorry, to the end of the sidewalk to the next street to get an address. he did not know at that time where trayvon martin had gone. as he was walking back to his vehicle, there was a sidewalk that goes to his left and trayvon came from that area where the sidewalks meet. he asked my son if he had a problem, and george said, no, i don't have a problem. trayvon said, well, you do now. he punched him in the face, broke his nose, knocked him to the sidewalk, and got on him and started beating him.

>> so he was walking back to the car, is what you are saying. trayvon confronted him. he reached for his cell phone and trayvon, this is confirmed -- his nose was broken. is it true he had lacerations and injuries to the back his head, sir? >> yes, sir, de. >> and his nose was broken that night. but he denied medical care although he was treat ted scene. is that true too? >> i believe the medics cleaned him up at the scene. following that the police took him to the police station for several hours. >> all right. walk us through it. first of all, did he stop when the dispatcher said, "stop" and how did we get to the point where the shot was fired. explain that part of that because that is obviously the key moment in this thing. >> when the dispatcher said we know longer need you to do that, and george acknowledged okay, he

no longer knew where trayvon was. so he continued walking down the sidewalk directly in front of him to the next street to get an address. he got an address. he was walking back to his vehicle. trayvon came from his left side, asked him did he have a problem. george said no. at that point trayvon said well you do now. he punched him in the nose, knocked him to the concrete, and started beating him. george was there yelling for help for at least 40 seconds. it's clearly him on the tape. there's absolutely no doubt about who it is. a neighbor came, saw what was happening. saw george being beaten. heard george yelling for help. and the neighbors said he was

calling 911. that's what he went inside and did. >> how do you know, sir, that that was your son on the 911 tape? i know there's been conflicting reports about this. >> well, when i first heard -- first i her the martin family say that that was their son, and i thought, well, they are a grieving family and maybe the tapes were not too good. but then when i heard the actual recording, me, my family, friends, everybody knows absolutely that's george. >> okay. we are going to take a break and we're going to come back. much more are robert zimmerman and we will check in with the zimmerman defense team and governor haley coming up next.

>> welcome back to "hannity" as we continue with george

zimmerman's father. mr. zimmerman, let me go back. obviously you are telling the story of your son and none of us were there and i know people are trying to put this together. but i would argue there's been a rush to judgment. by that the president has weighed into this. members of congress has used terms that trayvon was hunted like a rabid dog, racial profile was involved in the case, that was rush, and jesse jackson, he killed an unarmed 17-year-old kid and then, quote, walks away. this is racial profiling and lies. see many things have been said that he was executed for wwbgc, walking while black in a gated community. what do you say to the president? what do you say to these members of congress? what do you say to all these activists and people who have, quote, rushed to judgment here? >> i just believe it's very sad that so many people are not

telling the truth on purpose for their own agenda. i really thought that we had gotten past a lot of racial problems. >> you said about the president, you didn't see so much hate, you didn't expect or foresaw so much hate coming from the president or members of congress. what did you mean by that, sir? >> well, immediately the congressional black caucus, the naacp, i don't know how many organizations were calling for the arrest of george. >> they are still calling for it. >> and 95% of the facts -- yes. 95% of the facts of that been verified by sanford, the city of sanford, they said that george's story is consistent with every eyewitness account and every piece of evidence they have.

>> let me go to the attorneys here. craig sooner and hal, yes, thank you both for being with us. appreciate you being here tonight. let me talk about the eyewitness in this case. wasn't that eyewitness available from that first night? and didn't he say that he saw trayvon beating on george zimmerman? >> i'll let you start with that one. >> as far as, know, those were the reports that came out. you know, a lot of information on this case was released from the beginning. no one is going back and saying, well, what do we know? because i believe trayvon martin's father, i saw an interview that was dated some time back, and he relayed what the police had told him. we've heard several accounts by mr. zimmerman and george's brother, and those all line up the same way. there are police reports. there's evidence that has been released that shows a story of

george zimmerman acting in self-defense. and how the other -- how these other things, how these other conclusions is drawn is really a mystery as to how the media could put that kind of a spin on a story. and first and foremost, there is really -- none of this evidence that's been released so far would even be admissible in court yet. there will be evidence in this case that will be admissible in court and we need to wait until that comes out instead of rushing to judgment. >> one of the things is, you know, i think the most important thing is that this eyewitness does exist. it seems to have been ignored. then you have the doctoring of take place by nbc news and then you have abc news making a conclusion about the videotape. let me ask you this question. i have been told, and there's a lot of rumors, that there is more evidence that is out there that has not come out. can you tell me, can either one of you attorneys confirm that for us? >> well, there's -- the police have done an extensive

investigation. i know that. there is more evidence that will come out. i'm not at liberty to discuss that because -- >> how big an impact would that have on the case then? >> i believe there's enough physical evidence to draw the conclusion that everything that has been said in these -- that we've learned so far, that george zimmerman was acting in self-defense that night, is all going to match up, it's all going to be confirmed by physical evidence. >> sean, if this case -- >> go ahead. >> if this case comes down to a case of the law and the facts, then george zimmerman is going to be justified in what he did. unfortunately it's been turned into something it was never intended to be. on the morning of february 26th we had a peaceful town people went to church and sat together in multi-racial congregations, they stood in line in the grocery store and we didn't have a town of unrest because of race relations. jesse jackson and al sharpton

brought that to town. they turned it into a racial event when it never was one. once all the evidence is out and you understand what the law is and what the facts are, this is a pretty clear case. >> i go back, mr. zimmerman does not have any history of racism that we know of. he doesn't -- he did tutor minority children, he did, in fact, stick up more a minority that was hit outside that bar incident? >> all of that is true. when you have the conclusions that are drawn, these rallies are the loudest vos and supposedly the most intelligent voices but they are unsupported by history or fact. >> what about the bounty that has been put on mr. zimmerman by the new black panther party. i haven't seen any evidence that that person has been arrested. are you demanding the arrest of the new black party panther member that put that bunt at the out there? >> none of us are recovering attorney generals so that's not

my job to do that. i would hope some justice would be brought. i'm not going to stand here and say you should go and arrest him. i think the law enforcement community is competent to know their job and know what they need to do. so i think they are breaking the law and eventually law enforcement will get them for doing the wrong that they are doing. >> gentlemen, thank you for being with us. i urge everybody, in the media and those who have not heard all the facts yet we want to get to the truth. and in time i think we will. mr. zimmerman, thank you for telling your story. we appreciate you being with us and for your attorneys. >> thank you. >> she's the pride of south carol, nikki haley is here. we will get her take on the election and why if she could make it in america, anybody can. how would you describe the event? it's big. no,i mean in terms of savings how would you sum it up? big

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>> my next guest is south carolina's first female governor in 2010. she's the daughter of immigrant parents and per son guys the american dream. she chronicles her story in her amazing new book, can't is not an option. my american story. i sat down with her to discuss her new book and much more. joining us now is the the governor of the great state of south carolina and the author of

the brand new book "can't is not an option." good to see you. >> good to see you. >> you were strongly supported by the tea party movement. you had a big win, and i was reminded in your book, you were way behind and -- >> nicky who? >> right. and that was in february of 2010, the year you won. so you had to work very hard to get there. but you had strong support from the tea party. you went out and you very early on you supported governor romney. how do you feel after his three state win last night or two-state and district of column paw. >> i talk about my relationship with mitt romney and ann romney in the book and how i have known them. the whole goal of that endorsement is i didn't want anybody that was part of the chaos of washington and i wanted someone who knew what it was like to be on the other side of government. to watch businesses succeed and create jobs and knowing that sometimes businesses fail. i think what you are seeing with gov. romney, he has the

strength, he has the endurance, he has the fight. when he comes out of this, i strongly believe he will be our republican nominee and we will have a business person in the white house. >> you said unequivocally you don't want to be considered, if they say we would like to at least vet you, governor, you are on the short list to be chosen as being vp, you would say what? >> i would say thank you, but no. after you listen to the struggles of the campaign and the book and all that, i made a promise to the people of south carolina. they took a chance on me. i need to finish my job. i need to do what i promised them i would do. >> one of the things you talked about, we got into this with governor palin last night a little bit, and i think it's an important issue, and we see it with the president, at a press conference yesterday, and he has been telegraphing where the campaign is going, which is very negative, that republicans want dirty air, republicans want dirty water and they want the he wouldler and i people with down syndrome to fend for themselves and he keeps reiterating these

things and you talked about in the book, and it's similar, they accused of you having an affair. here you are married 13 years and you had to go out and explain, no, i did not have one. how hard is that to deal with, and how would you recommend if it's governor romney or the candidate, deal with that? >> i talking about it in the report and i talked about it last week. last week they said i was getting indicted for tax fraud and i had to come out with a letter saying it's not there, i am not. and the days of anonymous tips has to stop and it will only stop when the media quits picking it up. this is getting involved in politics. when you have people who may or may not be paid to say these things and do these things and to cause distractions. the number one goal for our republican nominee, the number one goal has to be stay on message. and that is this is a man who came in on hope and change and now he's going to do with gloom and doom and try to scare people into voting for him again.

>> you talk a lot about your background. it's actually very interesting, and where you came from and how you got into this crazy business. >> i mean this is the story of a daughter of indian parents, legal immigrants that's correct came here because they wanted a better life for their kids and they never let us how blessed we were to be in this country. and just imagine in that same state where we did face some challenges, i mean racial challenges, culture challenges, all types of challenges being the only indian family in that small town, to think that's the same state that elect add 38-year-old indian-american female for governor says so much about the state of south carolina and it says so much about our country and where we are going. >> isn't it the quintessential americans? >> it is. my mom was one of the first female judges in india and wasn't able to sit on the bench because of the challenges of females. to come to south carolina at that time when no one know who it was like to see a man in a

turbine or a woman in a -- and have them build their business, watch their children be successful and watch their daughter give the oath to go governor of south carolina, it's an amazing thing." and it says so much about this country. >> so if you are not going to consider or even allow yourself to be considered to be vice president, who do you like? >> oh, there are so many good vice presidential candidates. >> just name three or four. >> you've got a great ones you have heard, governor palin talked about west, and marco rubio is great, and chris christie, can be the fighter, and i think there are so many really great ones out there. i think romney is going to have a hard time picking. >> the book is called "can't is not an option." the governor of the great state of south carolina. good to see you. congratulations on everything. >> thank you very much. come visit us. we will love to have you. >> and as always, thank you for being with us.