he went from ci 7 to msnbc host. i would take that trade too. tha thanks for watching, everybody. welcome to hannity. tonight we have a jam packed edition of the show. america, are you ready? it's time to roll. uconn students riot in the streets after last night's win. why do big sporting events spark acts of mayhem? i was not and am not a rat because i wasn't with the rats.

>> former nypd detective is here to respond. sea world is under fire again as a california bill seeks to put an end to its iconic whale shows. all of that, plus the very first installment of our new great american series. >> what was that moment like when you first woke up and found out what happened? >> hannity starts right now. it was a nail biter to the finish, but the uconn defeated the wild cats. what happened on the court after the game is getting just as much attention? fans celebrated on campus by wreaking havoc. windows and streets were smashed. police arrested 35 people. law enforcement was forced to

use tear gas to control the crowd. at least 17 couches were set on fire. there were approximately 18 injuries resulting in seven arrests. this is the latest in a line of post championship violence. here to break it down is our panel. all right. look. i understand everyone identifies with their team. when you were with the jets, i was your biggest fan. now you're my biggest enemy. we all identify with 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. part of it is the entitlement

mentality. the kids don't feel like the rules apply to them. we breed this mentality that no one can tell you right or wrong. that creates a volatile mix. >> you went to auburn. my wife graduated from alabama. >> i didn't see this at a school with 30,000 kids at auburn. we weren't lighting couches on fire. i don't understand the mentality personally behind the violence. >> it happens after the world series, laker game. this is common now. >> i spoke to a student actually today who goes to uconn. he told me everybody knew they were going to flip cars and ripping down lamp posts. this is their way of showing school pride.

i spoke to a psychologist who told me the reason is if you were to do this by yourself, you would get in trouble. when you are with thousands of people, you're not going to get caught doing this. it has to do with adrenaline and feeling pride. >> tell us what's the psychology behind that. >> well, there's something different about this generation. this generation has just deg deginrated. the difference is we have taken god out of schools. we have taken personal responsibility out of lives. that's a thing of the past. >> there are no absolutes. when you can't tell a person that's wrong, they're told whatever i choose to do whether it is drugs or drinking or sex,

it's okay. they feel they can do anything they want to anybody. >> we did this whole series on spring break and the same thing is going on there. >> this is exactly what the government wants. i'll tell you how. the government has sent a clear message that everyone is entitled to everything and everyone gets a trophy. >> the bottom line is -- at penn state, everything we showed on spring break was every thursday and friday and saturday and sunday night. >> i went to michigan. michigan is a very liberal campus. we didn't see this in 1997. i have four kids. you have five kids. i would be distraught if my kids engageed in that behavior. >> i'm with you. >> people are drinking at these games and people are going out

afterwards and having so much fun. they think this is good fun, but it's not. it's harmful. they're hurting their school that they have love for and pride for. it doesn't make sense. these people, the kids knew this was going to happen. this student told me everybody was talking about the fact if we win,,ok we're going to flip ove cars. >> and burn them and put them on fire. >> they don't think about it because they think somebody owes them something. the man, the rich guy. it will just come out of the rich guys pocket if they destroy this right now. >> this is nothing new. you see adult men acting like this after the lakers win. this is nothing new. i don't know why this is a sense of pride. >> i don't know. i think it is almost mainstream. after the world series boston last year -- >> it builds upon itself. they see other people do it and

they figure they can do it as well. >> did that happen when the cardinals lose? >> we're going to win this year. >> good to see you. thank you. appreciate it. coming up next -- i can get you know -- >> al sharpton is he a mob rat? we'll play more of that. the new sh >> al sharpton, is he a mob rat? the new shocking report claiming the civil rights leader was an informant for the fbi. hannity continues.

♪ welcome back to hannity. the smoking gun website is reporting al sharpton aka president welcome back to hannity. the smoking gun website is reporting al sharpton worked as an fbi informant back in the 1980s. the report was featured on today's 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 rats. i was never told i was an

informant. in my own mind, i was not an informant. i was cooperating with investigations. >> 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 al sharpton himself. >> i can get coke for 35,000 a kilo, but i've got to get more than one. >> you know, i mean ten kilograms is a drop in the bucket. >> we can -- if he can do it 100

times over. >> that video is reportedly from 1983. after it aired, al sharpton threatened to sue hbo for thousands of dollars. guys, good to see you. thanks for being with us. i don't know what to -- you were on the streets at that time. >> you know, this is not a new revelation. it was all over the streets at that time. people i know from east harlem, everybody knew he was an informant. >> did the genovese family know? >> everyone knew it. we used to call him the fat rat. >> what do you make of that video with cocaine? >> the video stands for itself right there.

he was talking about buying kilos of coke with an undercover. >> do you think that resulted in him becoming -- that he was flipped as a result of that because they threatened to indict him? >> the majority of the times we develop informants is when you get them on a felony case. when he says he didn't know he was an informant, that's baloney. you keep working for them and you keep delivering stuff. around that time into the 1990s, when the tijuana thing exploded, he was an informant at that time. i investigated the howard beach case. i grew up in ozone park with johnny gotti and all 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? obviously, your family is associateed with the columbo family. did the mob know at the time that he had this suitcase that was wired? >> sure. i was the subject of the investigation that you just saw on television there. sharpton was speaking to -- at the time his name was guerro. h i introduced him to the undercover operation. i brought sharpton into it. unbeknownst to me, he tried to make a drug deal with the agents. as a result of that, he became an informant because they said they were going to indict him.

>> you think that was as a result of the videotape. you wear a wire or we're going after you on this drug charge. >> i know that for a fact. that's when he became an informant and he flipped. prior to that, i knew reverend al for about two years. i had to go to a genovese soldier at the time. it was on the street that he was 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. i spent almost 20 years of my life there. for me, shawn, i married a young girl. she was a christian. i became a person of faith.

i realized that that life was over. the government put on the pressure and too many guys became informants. if i stood in there, i would be dead or in prison for the rest of my life. >> do you think that sharpton as a result of this revelation is in any way at risk? >> it's all finished. how you doing, michael? >> good. >> ralphie jr. passed away a few months ago. it's different with the mob now. everyone is becoming a rat now. anybody that comes out of the joint after 20 years i tell them, don't talk to no one. everyone is trying to work off deals. there's no loyalty anymore. what scares me is the cowboys trying to be somebody like that.

>> the wanna-bes. >> yeah. >> michael, wasn't your dad the head of the columbo family? >> my dad was the underboss until about two years ago. >> how old is your dad? >> today he's 97. he's back in prison. >> did you still have a relationship with him? >> i do. we haven't spoken for quite sometime, but we patched 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 and no one wants to talk to you. his dad didn't want to talk to him for years. he's your father. always love your father. >> thanks for being with us. coming up next, we go to

hannity big board. president obama signing executive orders to bolster equal pay for women, but we have the numbers to prove that his white house and senate democrats are waging the war on women. activists petitioning to end killer whale shows at sea world california. we have a former trainer who was involved in the making of "black fish." that and much more as "hannity" continues. ded. ok well then jerry here will take you through all of the features then. why don't weeeeeeeeeeee go out to the car. ok, i'll just be outside... ok, yeah. his dad is my boss. yeah. vin scanning to add a car. just a tap away on the geico app.

welcome back to hannity. president obama bypassed welcome back to "hannity." president obama bypassed congress again and signed two orders to strengthen equality pay laws. now the truth is it's actually the obama white house along with senate democrats who are waging this war against women and

they're paying females far less. we'll start with president obama. the gender pay gap. the obama white house, you have males on average $73,729. 12% difference. go back to just 2011, that was 18% gap.to just 2011, that was senate, democratic senate staffers, $63,366. difference $4,916. who's waging a war on women? kay hagan, $15,343. then we move on to colorado. we have mark udall, 9,783 bucks. we'll check in with mark pryor

arkansas. that's a big difference. they keep saying republicans have a war on women. i'm not sure it's true. we're going to go to our panel tonight. author of the book "the big tent" and stewart varney and dana marino. how does the president do this? didn't this just blow up in their face today? >> this is one of those policy boom ranges they would have liked to have had a clean run. 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

explanation? we're less discriminatory than everybody else. >> the bigger problem is larger policy issues -- tax reform and education are the things that would help women more. >> we got an element of big time spin. the president has introduced us to fairness week. >> i call it obama doesn't pay women fair week. >> you push for an extension of unemployment benefits. you harp on the gender payment gap to divert attention for the d disaster of obamacare. >> obama is doing a great job to pave the way for a female

candidate. the left knows that they work together with no enemies to the left unlike the republicans where we would rather kill heretics that are slightly different in terms of policy than go after the infidels that are trying to tear our country down. >> this is their strategy. they set up the senate for a vote later this month on this very issue. we know the race card is played every campaign. it's rich versus poor, old versus young, men versus women. the facts blew up in their face. >> it did. you cannot underestimate what a white house is able to do, especially with new technology to speak to women who deal feel

aggrie aggrieved. i found out that a man earned $5,000 more a year than i made. i went to my boss and asked him how could this be. he made the excuse he's a father and he's a couple of years older than you. i was able to get it equal. i think the white house is doing something smart here. >> do as i say, not as i do. >> there's hi pock ra si. >> they're starting with federal contractors. that's just the way of getting the camel's nose under the tent. they're going to try to bring this to all businesses.

>> by the way, congrats on the book. >> there's one blurb on the book. >> yeah, it's mine. good to see you. did you like her haircut too? >> it was the first thing i said to her. >> come on, dana. >> thank you. >> we're going to have our dog contest soon. coming up, a showdown between a former sea world trainer and a peta official. it's a debate you don't want to miss. nancy pelosi says former vice president dick cheney set the tone for the torture in the cia. we want you to set your dvr so you never miss a show. each night at 10:00 eastern on fox.

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♪ welcome back to hannity. a california bill has been proped welcome back to "hannity." a california bill has been proposed to force sea world in california to stop using killer whales and release them from their tanks. their tanks. this is thetc from the film "black fish." it told the heart breaking story of a trainer that was killed by a whale at sea world. a state assemblyman said he was inspired by the film. joining me is a former sea world trainer bridget davis and lisa lange with peta.

you went to sea world when you were three, right? >> that's all i wanted to do, was to take care of the animals and work alongside them. >> your dream came true. >> yes. >> this woman that was killed, dawn, in 2010, you admired her. >> she was very much my hero. i emulated my water work after her. she inspired me as much as she inspired everybody who knew her at sea world. >> 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 like the animals were mistreated. while i was at sea world, i felt there were opportunities that we could improve the circumstances of the animals in care.

my decision to leave was because my family was worried and i had sacrificed so much for them to do this job and i felt like i owed it to my family to close that chapter of my life and begin a new one. >> i've had an opportunity to swim with dolphins with my kids. i think it actually helps people to understand these animals better and it gives them an opportunity to fall in love with them the way you did as a kid. would you agree with that assessment? >> i agree with that. i just recently came from hawaii and was able to see humpback whales in the wild. it helps you understand the capacity of the emotional and the connection you can make with these animals. there's a lot of benefits to seeing them. >> lisa, does peta really stand for people eating tasty animals, is that true?

>> it's people for the ethical treatment of animals. >> i'm kidding. >> i know. it's mostly children now that are rejecting the animal cruelty that is sea world. in preparation for this interview today, i was really thinking about it. these animals in the wild, they'll swim 100 miles a day. they choose their mates. they choose their pods. all this is taken from them at sea world amusement parks. >> we're talking about a very few number of animals here. it does increase the appreciation that people have for them. >> we're opposed to all forms of cruelty to animals. what we're teaching kids is these animals are there for us

to be forced to perform for dead fish. >> they like fish. >> the thing we're teaching children when we take them to amusement parks like sea world that it's okay to take these animals from their homes and that's a dangerous message. >> aren't you against the consumption of all animal products? for example, people in your world wouldn't eat chicken or meat and we wouldn't have leather shoes or belts. >> as i said, we're opposed to all forms of cruelty to animals. >> in your world you would make it illegal to eat chicken or steak? >> in our world, we would make it illegal to slit the throats of fully alive chickens.

>> would make it illegal to consume animals? >> we're against all forms of cruelty to animals. most people who have taken a look inside slaughter houses, you can do that. >> first off, every day i'm still in contact with children who still have this dream they want to take care of these animals. you made a reference that these animals are forced to perform. they're taken care of by the trainers every day. they get the amount of food to sustain them. >> they're living in a concrete tank filled with chemically

treated water. >> ladies, ladies. one at a time. you're saying the animals are happy and the animals are well taken care of, right? >> yes. very much so. we have a sort of language that we have the animals. we use sign language. we ask the animals to participate in shows. if they make the decision to not participate, they're not forced and food is not withheld. they're given top quality care. vets are on staff several times a day. the animals make the conscious choice to participate. >> that's just false. >> don't you think this increases peoples' awareness and appreciation for animals?

>> we're against animals being held in captivity. >> what about fish who live in my fish tank? >> i think fish belong in the ocean. why not choose the kind response? why not choose the thing that's going to benefit the animal? consider where they should be living, how they should be treated, what's natural for them, what they desire. >> i feed them. it's a nice environment. it duplicated the environment they would normally be in. >> ultimately this bill that's being introduced in california is a death sentence for these animals. >> no, it's not. >> thank you, guys. coming up next tonight -- >> i do believe that during the

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♪ welcome back to "hannity." loud mouth liberals have never been afraid to besmirch those in the bush administration. the former san francisco speaker nancy pelosi saw an opening and decided to use it to attack to vice president dick cheney on advocating torture. >> i do believe the bush-and cheney administration that the vice president set a tone and attitude for the cia advocating torture. but, the attitude that was there was very, i think -- 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, shaean. thanks for having me. >> why do you think they keep going back to this? >> you know, it's one of those things where maybe they don't want to talk about the threat we face today. maybe they're trying to distract from things like benghazi. it's amazing to me the extent to which they continue to go back to it. we have this president who has cut defense spending and weakened us across the board. the enhancement interrogation program, clearly it's been investigated time and time again. we brought a board of three people. we know that the program in general provided information thatwnh3 saved lives and preven attacks.

she's right in terms of saying that my dad is proud of the intelligence that we gained in that program and he's proud of the steps he took to keep this whole nation safe. >> this is an administration that talked about ft. hood being workplace violence. >> i have just come back from the middle east. you travel across the region. you hear from people there that we're facing a very real threat. al qaeda is using syria as a training ground ñn to send them back into their own countries in

order to spread violence and terror. you've got benghazi. you've got people like morrel who just testified and the testimony is inconsistent in many ways. you have an administration that's not taking responsibility and spending an awful lot of time talking about what this administration did right instead of focusing on taking responsibility for what's happening on their own watch. coming up next tonight right here -- >> i don't know if i would have been able to expect as much as i do of myself without it happening. >> the first installment of our

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>> welcome back to welcome back to "hannity." it's time to unveil our first installment of our great americans series. take a look at this. >> he grew up with a passion for sports. he was a great athlete playing baseball and football in connecticut, but in 2004 his athletic aspirations were crushed. >> i have this intense pain in

my legs and i knew something was wrong. i told my parents what was going on and they called the doctor as soon as they could. i went in. i woke up and i was on a stretcher. >> what was it like when you first woke up and found out what happened? >> it was heart breaking. a nurse told me what happened. my whole life changed in one night. >> john was diagnosed with a muscle eating bacterial infection. to save his life, doctors had no choice butew9euz amputate his l. >> i went from a perfectly healthy 17-year-old was doing in

high scho high school to this. i worked in rehab. i worked to give myself a shot at walking. >> shawn walked across that graduation stage and received his high school diploma. he had bigger things in mind for him. >> i have an opportunity if you're up for it. it was more or less the way that he talked to me that gave me the confidence he had in me. >> with confidence and a new set of legs, john was literally off and running. >> it was my senior year.

i did a triathlon. >> in 2009, john became the first dump amputee -- amputee to finish the new york city marathon. >> seeing him as a father, it's amazing to watch him grow that way. >> did it all come full circle? >> it was the unbelievable moment to hold her the first time. >> surprisingly, john says he wouldn't change a thing.

>> i don't think -- i 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. >> what an incredible man. he's gone on to do so much after tragedy. he's written a book. here's his book. he's 27 years old, married, a child. you heard it in the piece, he wouldn't change a thing. >> they say they don't know what caused this. >> because the bacterial infection was so rare, it took them a while to figure out what was going on. doctors didn't know what was going on.

his wife, he met her afterwards. she spotted him sitting down. she said, it didn't bother her. never an issue. his legs were amputated. normally you have a little bit of a leg to go down in a prosthetic. they had to amputate higher so he doesn't have that. >> he ran the new york city marathon. >> first double amputee to finish the new york city marathon. he's an awesome guy. you have to get his book. >> that's all the time we have

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