host. went from dealing with mobsters to hayes. thanks for watching everybody. i'm megyn kelly. see you tomorrow night. this is "the kelly file." welcome to hannity. we have a jam packed edition of this show. america are you ready? time to roll. uconn students riot in the streets after last night's big ncaa win. so why do big sporting events provoke mob mayhem. our panel reacts. new bomb shell report claims al sharpton was once an be fbi informant against the mob. former nypd detective is here to

respond. and seaworld is under fire as california bill seeks to put an to end psychotic whale shows. all of that plus we unveil the first installmen of our great american series. >> what was it like when you woke up and found out what happened. >> it was heartbreaking. >> hannity starts right here, right now. welcome to hannity. a nail biter to the finish but in the end the uconn husky defeated the kentucky wildcats. what happened off the court after the game is getting just as much attention back in connecticut. fans celebrated on campus which wreaking havoc. according to a university spokesman windows and streetlights were smashed. police arrested 35 people 20 were uconn students and in kentucky law enforcement was forced to use tear gas to control the rowdy and disappointed crowd. officials said 17 couches were

set on fire and there were approximately 18 injuries resulting in seven arrests. sadly this is simply the latest in long line of post-championship violence. why tonight we're examining what exactly fuels this bizarre phenomenon. here to break it down, arizona cardinals placekicker is here. and our senior entertainment reporter for hollywoodlife.com is with us. look, i understand everyone identifies with their teams. when you were with the jet i was your biggest fan. now you're my biggest enemy. we care about our sports teams. why always the violence that happens again and again after a game. >> we love our sports and we celebrate them but we need to celebrate them in the right way. it's this entitlement mentality we're bringing kids up with lack of accountability. they don't feel rules apply to

them. we tell them that in college. college is narcissistic and we breed this mentality nobody can tell you right or wrong. there's no moral absolutes. >> you went to auburn, my wife graduated from alabama. >> here's the thing, though. i didn't see this at a school of 30,000 kids with auburn. we rolled the corner with toilet paper every time we won a gym. we western lighting couches on fire. >> it happens after laker games. this is common now. >> i spoke to a state of the union today who goes to uconn and he told me that everybody knew they were going to flip cars. everybody knew they were going to rip down lamp posts. this is their way of showing school pride. >> why is this okay? why destroy a cop car. >> i spoke to a psychologist today and she told me the reason

is that if you were to do this just by yourself you would get in trouble. but when you are with thousands of people you say it's thousands against one i'm not going to get caught for doing this and it has to do with adrenaline. >> doctor, you deal with this. what's the psychology behind this? >> people want to say there's something different about this generation. this generation has degenerated. the brains must be different to engaging this mob mentality. the difference is that we have taken god out of schools, we've taken personal responsibility out of life, kids do have an entitlement -- >> the culture has changed. >> more than anything they have no real house to go into to understand what honorable behavior is. that's a thing of the past. >> there's no reits or wrongs. when there's no absolutes. when you can't tell a person that's wrong, they are told whatever i choose to do, whether it's drugs or drinking or sex i make that decision so it's okay. they feel they can do anything they want to anybody.

>> we did this whole series on spring break. same thing going on there. >> this is by design. this is what this government wants. the government has -- >> why your blaming the government. >> i'll tell you how. the government has sent a clear message. ers of all everybody is entitled to everything. everybody gets a trophy. >> i blame the parents. >> i do too. >> because the bottom line is my sister told me at penn state everything we showed on spring break every thursday, every friday and saturday and sunday night. >> i between michigan. michigan is a liberal campus. we won a championship in 1977. we didn't see this. i have four kids. i would be distraught if my kids engaged in that kind of behavior and i would be out there kick their butts. >> i don't have kids. here's the thing. people are drinking at these games and people are going out afterwards and just having so

much fun and they think this is good fun but it's not it's harmful and they are hurting their school they love and have pride for. so it doesn't make much sense. these people, the kids knew thfthis was going to happen. studio audience said if we go we'll flip over cars. they don't think about it. the reason they don't is they think somebody owes them something. the man. the rich guy. it will just come out of the rich guy's post if they go ahead and destroy this right now. no sense of responsibility. >> you see adult men acting like this after the lakers win where people are lighting couches on fire in california. this is nothing new. i don't know why this is a sense of pride. it's now almost mainstream. that's problem. after the world series boston last year. >> other people do it they think they can do it as well. >> that happen when the cardinals lose? >> we'll win this year.

>> i'm pulling for your old jets. i don't know. guys good to see you. thank you. coming up next on this busy newsnight right here on hannity. >> now i can get pure coke or, you know -- >> al sharpton is he a mob rat? we'll play more of that. the new shocking report that the civil rights leader was an informant for the fbi and was that really a drug deal on tape? did that cause al sharpton to maybe work with the fed? we'll ask those questions some more tonight as hannity continues. in the nation, reward safe driving.

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♪ welcome back to hannity. the smoking gun website is reporting al sharpton aka president obama's number one cheerleader worked as an fbi informant spying on new york mob figures in the 1980s a report featured on dye's cover of the "new york post." earlier today he responded to those allegations during a press conference. take a look. >> i was not and am not a rat. because i wasn't with the rat. i was never told i was an informant with a number. in my own mind i was not an

informant. i was cooperating with investigations. >> now tonight we also have gotten our hands on an hbo sports video of an undercover fbi agent acting as a drug trafficker negotiating a cocaine deal with none other than al sharpton himself. take a look that. >> i can get you 99% for about 35,000 a kilo. but i got to get more than one. if we're going to do this. you know, 10. that's a drop in the bucket. we can go bigger. how does that sound? >> i hear you. >> but that's a drip in the bucket. we can do it hundred times over.

>> that video is reportedly from 1983. al sharpton threatened to sue hbo for millions of dollars. guys, good to see you. thanks for being with us. i don't know what -- you were on the streets at that time. >> yeah. you know, this is not new revelation. it was all over the streets at that time. and people that i know from east harlem, everybody knew he was an informant so this was out on the street right when i retired. >> but genovese family knew. >> there was a lot of involvement with the music industry that al was involved in. then we passed through east harlem. we used to call him the fat rat. >> what do you make of that video with cocaine? >> video stands for itself. he was talking about buying

kilos of coke with an undercover. so who is he representing. >> you think that resulted in him becoming -- he was flipped as a result of that because they threatened to indict him. >> majority of the times when we develop informants you get them on a felony case and flip them and they become an informant. when he says he didn't know he was an informant that's a lot of baloney. al sharpton knew what he was doing. >> don't they still usually go after you anyway -- >> no. you got to keep working. you keep working for them. you keep delivering stuff. i don't believe he's an informant any longer. around that time into the 1990s when that who tijuana brawl exploded. the howard beach case. he said why don't you go to your italian friends. i grew up in ozone park with johnny gotti and he knew that. i became a cop. and that's it.

>> michael, let me go to you. did the mob know at the time, in your opinion? i mean obviously your family is associated with the colombo family. did the mob know, do you think at the time when he apparently had this suitcase that was wired? >> sean, i can tell you firsthand. i was the subject of the investigation that you just saw on television there. and sharpton was speaking to, at that time, his name was guerrero but his real name was agent guentano. i introduced them to the undercover operation. i didn't know they had this on me and don king. i brought sharpton in. unbeknownst to me he tried to make a drug deal with the agent. >> as a result of this videotape that they said either you wear a

wire, you become an informant or we're going after you on this drug charge? >> i know that for a fact because i got the information afterwards and it was a whole story about this in "sports illustrated." that's when he became an informant and flipped. prior to that i had known reverend al for about two years and i was working with him on various things and i had to go to danny pagano who was a genovese soldier and get permission and let him know i was working with al. sharpton with associated with the family. >> how deep into this life were you and why did you get out of it? >> i was a captain in the family. and, you know, spent almost 20 years of my life in that. i married a young girl. and she was a christian. i became a person of faith. but, you know, i realized that life was over. you know, the government really

put a lot of pressure. too many guys becoming informants. i knew if i stood in there i would earth be dead or in prison for the rest of my life. i was fortunate to get out the way i did. it wasn't easy. it was a struggle. >> do you think sharpton as a result of this revelation is in any way risk. >> no. he's finished. hi, michael. ralphy jr. passed away a couple of months ago. >> i feel i'm on the set of the "sopranos." >> it's different with the mob. everybody is a rat now. everybody is a rat. anybody that comes out of the joint after 20 years irtell them don't talk to nobody because everybody is trying to work off deals. there's no real loyalty any more. i think what bothers me is the cowboys trying to be something like that. >> wannabe. >> michael went through a lot.

michael's dad was an important figure in that. >> michael, wasn't your dad the head of the colombo family? >> my dad was the underboss of the family up until probably two years ago. >> how old is your dad? >> today he's 97. he's back in prison. >> i remember him from rocco misselli. >> we haven't spoken for quite some time but we patch it all up and now we do have a relationship. >> when they leave their thing and all of a sudden michael left his thing you become a suspect then and no one wants to talk to you and his dad didn't talk to him for a lot of years. michael is still your father and always love your father. >> all right. >> coming up next, we go the hannity big board.

president obama signing executive orders for equal pay for women but we have the number that his white house and senate democrats are the ones waging a war on women and they are quite hypocritical on the issue. activists petitioning to end killer whale shows at seaworld in california. we have a former trainer who was involved in the making of black fish. he goes head-to-head with an official from peta. that and much more as hannity continues. [ hypnotist ] you are feeling satisfied

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board for the numbers. let's start with president obama. the gender pay gap. look at the obama white house, males on average $73, 729. females, $65,000. 12% difference. if you go back just to 2011, that was an 18% gap. now we turn to the senate. democratic senate staffers, look at the pay difference. 63,366 for men, 58,449 for women. kay hagan north carolina, $15,343 difference higher average salary than men. sounds like a war on women going on in north carolina. colorado, we got mark udall. men higher average, male salary $9,783. one more. we'll check in with mark pryor, arkansas, $5,799 difference.

they keep saying republicans have a war on women. i'm not sure it's true. we'll go to our panel and hear reaction author of the new book called "the big tent" debuting number thee on amazon.com. we love dana's new hair cut. >> most important thing is you're here. >> i love being here. >> how does the president do this? didn't this just blow up in their face today? >> this is one of those policies boomerangs they would have liked to have a clean run. something that's a noble goal but the facts are what the facts are. the explanation the white house tries to use is the exact explanation -- >> did you see jay carney's explainition. we're less discriminatory than

anybody else. >> they are looking for that flexibility all businesses are looking for. bigger problem is larger policy issues, tax reform, education. >> boomerang -- >> there are lies, damn lies, statistic, hypocrisy and pure spin. what we got today was an element of hypocrisy and big time spin. the president just introduced this to fairness week, this gender pay gap. i call it obama doesn't pay women fairly. >> fairness wake where you try to raise the minimum wage, push for an extension of unemployment benefits, hop on the gender pay gap. anticipate step on the stage of subject. >> he's doing it, obama is doing a great job preparing the way for a female candidate. i think he's just doing a hell of a job like that. more important the left knows

that they work together with no enemies to the left. one like the republicans where we would rather kill heretics than going after infidels tearing our country down. >> this is the strategy. they set up the senate for a vote later this month on this very issue. they thought they would run on the war on women. we know the race scattered played every campaign. we know it's rich versus poor, old versus young, men versus women. so this just blew up in their face. the facts blew up in their face. >> it did. however you can't underestimate what a white house can do to speak directly to women who feel aggrieved and been told they should feel that way. i just remember something earlier today. we worked at a small pr firm in

san diego. just by chance i found out he earned $5,000 more a year than me. i remember my face got very hot, my blood ran cold and i said to my boss how could this be. he made an excuse well he's a father and he has a couple more years -- few more years older than you. i was able to get it that's why i think -- i think the white house is doing something smart here. it blew up in their faces because they are asking for the same flexibility. >> do as i say not as i do. it's hypocrisy. it did blow up in their faces. >> they don't want to change i want around. they just want -- what they are doing is they are starting with federal contractors. that's just the way of getting the camel's nose tuned tent. they will try to bring this to all businesses. >> by the way, congratulations on the book. number three on the amazon.

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♪ welcome back to hannity. a california bill has been proposed that would for the theme park seaworld in san diego to stop using killer whales and to release them from their tanks. this is the very latest blow back since the release of the 2013 documentary "black fish" which criticized the animal welfare practices. and told the heartbreaking story of a trainer who was killed by a whale at seaworld in orlando in 2010. the legislation of ban orca shows was introduced by an assemblyman who said he was inspired by this controversial film. former seaworld trainer who involved in the post-production of "black fish" and peta senior vice president. guys welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> bridgett, so this was a dream of yours since air pressure kid to work at seaworld. you went there when you were 3,

right? >> i was 3 years old and since that day forward that's all i wanted to do was work with the animals. >> you're dream came true. >> yes. >> this woman that was killed, dawn in 2010, she was a very -- you admired her. she was like your hero to you. >> she was very much my hero. i looked up to her. i emulated my waterwork after her. she inspired me as much as she inspired everybody who knew her. >> after this incident your family wanted you to get out of this business. they feared for your life. and you did about a year later. did you feel in jeopardy? did you feel the animals were mistreated? >> i didn't feel the animals were mistreated. while at seaworld i felt there were opportunities we could improve circumstances for animals in our care but i never felt i was in jeopardy or the animals were in jeopardy. my decision to leave was because my family was worried and i had sacrificed so much for them to

do this job for seaworld and to take care of the animals and i felt i owed to it my family to close that chapter of my life and begin a new one. >> i've always gone to these shows, dolphin shows. i've had an opportunity to swim with dolphins with my kids. and i think it actually helps people to understand these animals better and it gives them an opportunity to kind of fall in love with them the way you did as a kid. would you agree with that assessment? >> i definitely agree with that. i just recently came from hawaii and able to see humpback whales out in the wild. as amazing there is there's a connection in the component of the shows that you see at seaworld that helps you understand the capacity of the emotional and the connection you can make with these animals. >> they really like you. you have a relationship. lisa, does peta really stand for people eating tasty animals, is that true? >> it's people for the ethical treatment of animals.

>> i'm just kidding. >> i'm listening to the conversation. thinking about it's mostly children now that are rejecting the animal cruelty that seaworld in preparation for this interview i was thinking about it and thinking how this is such a basic issue. these animals in the wild they will swim 100 miles a day. they choose their mate, they choose their pods. they live with their families all their entire lives. all of this is taken from them. >> i think it does increase the appreciation people have for them but aren't you against the use of all animals for consumption and animal products used for clothing. you're against all of that aren't you? >> we're opposed to all forms of cruelty to animals. in this case what we're teaching kids is that these animals are there for us to perform for dead fish. the very first thing -- >> that's what they like. that for them is a steak

sandwich. >> it's not, actually. >> when they are living with their families in the wild the thing we're teaching children when they go to seaworld it's okay to take them from their families and force them to perform. it's a dangerous message. >> i debated many people in your group over the years. aren't you against the consumption of all animal products, for example, people in your world wouldn't eat chicken or meat, no leather shoes or belts. isn't that true? >> as i said we're opposed to all forms of cruelty. >> i'm asking you. in your world would you make it illegal? >> some of the -- >> in your world you would make it illegal to eat chicken. >> in our world we would make it illegal to slit the throats of fully conscious chickens on factory farms. >> would you make it illegal to consume animal products.

>> that's what happens to get stake on your plate. >> why don't you say yes. >> we're opposed to all forms of cruelty to animals. most people who have taken a look inside slaughter houses you would do that. >> first off every day i'm still in contact with children that still have this dream they want to take care of and be with these animals and make those same connections and want to do it in a responsible way. you made a reference that the animals are forced to perform and that's far from the truth. these animals are taken care of by trainer each and every day. they get food to sustain themselves nutritionally and when we ask them to do their behaviors they make the choice whether or not they want to do that. i can't tell you how many times -- >> they are living in a concrete tank filled with chemically treated water. you can't argue that they would choose a pool versus the ocean.

you simply can't. >> you're saying that the animals are happy. and that the animals are well taken care of. right? >> yes. very much so. the animals do. we ask them. we have sore of a language that we have with the animals. we use sign language. we ask animals to participate in shows. if the animals make the decision not to participate they are not forced, no food with held. animals are given the food they need to stay healthy. they are given top care. they are not forred to do shows. the animals make the conscious choice to participate. >> i have the last question. lisa, don't you think this increase people's awareness and appreciation for animals. sort of like a zoo. >> no. >> your against zoos also? >> we're against keeping animals in captivity. it doesn't foster -- >> does that mean dogs and cats can't be in captivity.

>> dogs and cats are domestic animals. >> what about fish that live in fish tanks? >> i think -- >> am i holding them captive. >> they should live in the ocean as well. why not choose -- why not when you have a choice either eat an animal or keep an animal in captivity choose the thing that will benefit the animal. consider where they should be living and how they should be treated, what's natural for them, what they desire. >> i feed them. it's a nice environment. it duplicates the environment where they normally would. they are happy fish. >> absolutely the bill introduced in california is a death sentence for these animals. you're going to expose them -- you're going to compromise their health. >> thank you guys. coming up next tonight right here on hannity -- >> i do believe that during the bush/cheney administration the vice president cheney set a tone and an attitude for the cia.

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♪ welcome back to hannity as we've seen over the years loud mouth liberals have never been afraid to besmirch principle leaders in the bush administration. the former san francisco speaker nancy pelosi, she saw an opening and decided to use to it attack vice president dick cheney of advocating torture. watch this. >> i mean i do believe that during the bush/cheney administration that vice president cheney set a tone and an attitude for the cia. many people in the cia are so patriotic, they protect our country in a way to avoid conflict and violence, et cetera. but the attitude that was there was very, i think, came from dick cheney. that's what i believe. i think he's proud of it. i think he's proud of it.

>> here to respond is liz cheney. welcome back. >> hey, sean. >> we water boarded three people. three. you know what? i would have done i want myself for the three people considering the information we gathered. why do you think they keep going back to this? >> you know, it's one of those things where, you know, maybe they don't want to talk about the threat that we face today. maybe they are trying to distract things like benghazi. they rather focus on the enhanced interrogation techniques. it's amazing to me the way they keep going back to this. we have this president that cut defense spending, weakened us across the board. and the enhanced interrogation program clearly been investigated time and time again. as you said we water boarded three people. we know that the program in general provided information that saved lives and prevented attacks and she's right in terms of saying that my dad is proud of the intelligence that we

gained from that program. he's proud of the steps they took to keep this nation safe after 9/11. he's a steadfast supporter of the program. speaker pelosi was briefed about the program and couldn't remember supposedly that she had been briefed. >> you have senator king saying your dad should be water boarded himself. this is an administration that says what happened in ft. hood in 2009 is workplace violence, talks about overseas contingency instead of war on terror. they are afraid to say there's a war on terror. >> i just came back from the middle east. you travel across that region and you realize and you hear from people there the extent to which we're facing a very real threat. if you look just at syria, al qaeda is using syria as a training ground and bringing terrorists in to syria from across europe, from across the western world to train them. to scene them back into their

own countries in order, frankly, to you know, spread violence and spread terror. al qaeda is resurging, it's stronger. you got benghazi, four dead americans. we still don't know what happened. you got people like morell whose testimony is inconsistent. you got a situation where the administration has not taken responsibility and not implementing effective policies and spending an awful lot of time talking about what this administration did right but trying to somehow cast blame and cast aspersions on people who kept faith. >> well said. good response. thanks liz. good to see you. >> good to be back. >> coming up next right here on hannity -- >> i don't know if i would have been able to expect as much as i do out of myself without it happening. >> when we come back a heart warming story. it's the first installment of

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>> welcome back to "hannity" tonight our very own ainsley earhardt profiles a story of one great american and his incredible fight to triumph over tragedy. take a look at this. >> john grew up with a passion for sports a great athlete, playing baseball and football in willford, connecticut but in 2004, his senior year his athletic aspirations were crushed . i had intense pain in my legs

i got up and told my parents what is going on and they called the doctor as soon as they could. i went in. a bunch came into the room. i was put under and from the next time i woke up i was on a stretcher. >> when was that moment like when you found out what happened? >> heart breaking. my parents, they couldn't bring them selves to tell me what happened. so a nurse came in and told me. my whole life in one night, it changed. >> john was diagnosed with a rare muscle-eating bacterial infection. in order to save his life, doctors had to amputate both of his legs >> went from perfectly healthy, hanging out with friends doing everything a normal 17-year-old was doing to what is what my life is now like. >> faced with never walking again he was determined to

triumph. >> i set a goal. it started out to walk with to receive my high school diploma. i worked in rehab to be able to have a shot at walking. >> just four months after being robbed of his legs john walked across graduation stage and received his high school diploma. but that is just the beginning. >> he said i have an opportunity if you're up for it, have you ever thought about running? i said do you think i can do that? it was more or less the way he talked to me. it was with confidence he had. >> with new confidence and a new set of legs john was off and running. >> it was my senior year. i completed a 0 k which led to

triathalon. half high yorn man led to the marathon. he finished the new york city marathon without a wheelchair. crossing in 15 hours, 59 minutes. he never looked back. all of the years of hard work hads prepared him for his greatest challenge of all, becoming a husband and a father. >> john is a phenomenal husband and father. seeing him as a father is just amazing to watch him grow that way. >> after struggles did it come full circle when you held your little girl? >> seeing lilly and holding her is just the most unbelievable moment. >> surprisingly, john says he won't change a thing. >> i don't think boy have met the amazing people that i have.

i don't think i just don't know if i would have been able to expect as much as i do of myself without it happening. >> here to explain more fox and friends first co-host ainsley earhardt. puts our problems into perspective. >> absolutely. what an incredible man he's gone to to do so much after the tragedy. >> yes. >> he's written a book. here is his book. he's 27 years old married, a child, now finishing up his mba, and he said he couldn't change a thing. >> what they do, to this day they don't know what caused it. >> they say it's a rare bacterial infection. it took doctors days to figure out what is going on. he was in pain, put in icu. doctors didn't know what is going on. >> when did he meet his wife? >> in a bar with friends

she spotted him sitting down and i said you're an incredible individual you have a lot ahead of you you probably thought you did. and she said i won't trade it for the world. it never bothered me, she said. >> i noticed he has one prosthetic. >> yes. >> why? >> because he -- his legs were amputated normally you have a little bit of a leg but he doesn't have that option. right at his hipbone. so he doesn't have any hipbones they made a belt type prosthetic. >> he ran new york city marathon. >> first double amputee to finish the new york city marathon. >> from tragedy to triumph. >> yes. he's an awesome guy. you have to get the book. >> i'm taking yours. >> yes. it's auto graphed to me. we'll get you one. >> thank you. >> that is all the time we have left this evening

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