he is going to have a great labor day. i hope you do too. see you tuesday. i'm megyn kelly. this is "the kelly file." welcome to "hannity." donald trump officially ruled out a third party run for president today. i'm tucker carlson in for sean. he signed the rnc loyalty pledge meaning if he doesn't win the nomination, he claim he will not run independent. >> the chairman just left as you probably know. and he's been extremely fair. the rnc has been absolutely terrific over the last two-month period. and as you know, that's what i've wanted. i've wanted fairness.

i don't have to be treated any differently than anybody else. i just wanted fairness from the republican party. we're leading in every single poll. a new poll came out where we're over 30%. we've hit numbers as high as 35 and 40%. i felt the absolute best way to win and to beat the democrats and very easily, i think, beat the democrats no matter who it may be, whether it is hillary or anybody else, and i think hillary will have a very hard time frankly with what's happening, getting to the starting gate. the best way for the republicans to win is if i win the nomination and go directly against whoever they happen to put up, and for that reason, i have signed the pledge. [ applause ]

so i will be totally pledging my allegiance to the republican party and the conservative principles for which it stand and we will go out and we will fight hard and we will win. we will win. and most importantly, we will make our country great again. because that's what it is all about. we have to make our country great again. i think the big thing that has changed, and it has been obvious to all, number one, after i announced, we went up like a rocket ship. nobody thought i was going to run and he said, he won't run and he won't put in his papers. i did that. the payments, in terms of the company turned out to be spectacular. a great company. i built a great company. and all of the other papers have turned out to be very well received. and i think the thing that changed is the fact that i went to number one place very quickly

after i signed and after i, in this building, notified everybody that i would be running for president. i think the biggest thing is that i went early to number one. and the rnc has treated me with great respect. one of the things i want to do, and i feel very strongly. a country based on borders, and our country is based on laws. and when people come into the country illegally, we should not allow that. and this is not from south america, this is not from mexico, this is from all over the world. when people come illegally, we cannot allow that. and i want people to come legally. i want very much to take care of our border. our southern border is a total mess. that has been proven. and interestingly, a couple of moss ago when i announced, i made some very strong statement about the crime and the problem that's were happening. and i've been proven right. and many of the people in this audience have apologized to me which i very much appreciate.

they haven't done it publicly but these are minor details. one day they will. we are a nation that wants and needs borders. we're a nation that wants and needs and is based on laws. and we will make sure that that takes place. with that being. i want people to come in to our country legally. i want to have a big fat beautiful open door. i want people of great talent to come in for silicon valley. i want engineers, i want physicsists, people with great talent to come into the united states. when people graduate from college, you can be number one at yale or harvard or principleton or stanford. if you're not a citizen of the united states, you get thrown out of the country. we want them to stay. we want people of great talent to be in the united states, to work here and ultimately, to

become a citizen. we have a lot of problems. we have to take care of our vets. we have to build up our military. just the other day, the general said the army is in the worst shape in its history in terms of preparedness. now, for them to be in bad shape with the way we are and with the world hating us, and you look at hillary clinton, and i've said, she is the worst secretary of state in the history of this country. now, in all fairness, because of the agreement that is about to be finalized with iran, john kerry may very well take her place. i think that agreement is a disaster for this country, for israel, for the middle east. it is going to lead to nuclear proliferation, the 24-day clause. we don't even get our prisoners back. you say who negotiates a thing like that? that won't happen, i can guarantee you, with a president

trump. jeb bush is a very nice man. i'll be honest. i think he is a very nice person. i think he is a very low energy person and i don't think that's what the country needs. i hear that he's going to spend a lot of money on negative ads on me. and honestly, look, he is getting the money from special interests. he is getting the money from lobbyists and his donors. and they're making him do it. he is crashing in the polls. so i don't know what will happen. if he spends $20 million or $25 million on negative ads, i don't know. i know that my life will continue. i just don't know. nobody has ever spent money on ads against me. he probably has to do that. it would not be the way i've double it. one of the thing that i'm most honored about. so far everybody that has attacked me has gone down the tubes. you have lindsey graham attacked me. he was at 3%. now he's at 0. perry was at 4 or 5%. now he's getting out of the race.

rand paul attacked me. i see the last poll, the monmouth poll came out. and rand paul attacked me. and now jeb bush just went down very big in the monmouth poll. he's going to spend lobbyists' money and special interests money. remember this. they have total control over jeb and hillary and everybody else that takes that money. nobody knows the system better than me. they have total control. you understand it very well because you've been covering it for a long time. those people putting up those millions of dollars have total control over your candidate. i will tell you this. nobody is putting up millions of dollars for me. i'm putting up my own money. kanye west. i'll never say bad about him. do you know why? he loves trump. he goes around saying, trump is my all time hero. he says it to everybody.

so kanye west, i love him. maybe in a few years i'll have to run against him so i'll take back. but he's been so nice to me. you people have seen, i've been a counter puncher. i only hit people when they hit me. only. and kanye west has been so great. i would never say bad about him. he says such nice things about me. my supporters are really supporting me because i'm very competent. because they know that i won't let china rip us off. i won't let japan rip us off. japan is devaluing their yen very hard for caterpillar and other companies to compete against their big tractor maker and others. we won't let this happen anymore. they do, you talk about a trade-in balance. they have in japan, the biggest ships you've ever seen pouring cars into los angeles. pouring them in. i've never seen anything like it. we send them beef and they don't even want it. it will end and they will like

us. in this building, i have the largest bank in the world right up in these elevators. a bank from china biffle far the biggest bank in the world. i get along great with china and japan and mexico. i love the peoplism love the people of mexico. i love the hispanics. i have thousands of hispanics right now working for me. over the years, i have employed tens of thousands of hispanics. many from mexico. in the package that we gave you, you will see there is a poll. i'm number one with hispanics. number one with hispanics. so look, for our country to be great, we have to be able to make great deals. we're going to be great to the vets. terrific, our military will be unbelievable. all of these things, we'll get rid of obamacare and come one something much better and much less expensive. we're going to get rid of it. repeal it. it will be out. it should have been out a long

time ago. it shouldn't have happened. but we are going to take care of our country and bring back jobs. and we're going to bring back wealth to the united states so we can afford to save social security which i'll save without cuts so we can afford to do the kind of things we have to do to make america great again. ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. and here is your pledge. >> donald trump, ladies and gentlemen. here now with his reaction is republican national chairman president reince priebus. i remember when trump first announced i was hearing from people at the rnc and other leading republicans in washington. he is a buffoon, a disaster, he will destroy the republican party, what can we do about this. he opened tonight by saying, i've been treated respectfully by the rnc. how did that come about?

>> it is a job to treat them equally and respectfully. if i was not doing that, i wonderful be chair of the republican party. so my job is to make sure we're ready for whoever the nominee is. at the same time, i have to make sure all of our candidates pledge their loyalty to the party. and also, pledge that we wouldn't seek a third party bid because what would we be preparing the party for? so i'm happy that today happened. we've got complete unity with the 17 candidates now saying that we pledge our loyalty to the party. and i think our activists and our donors and everyone in between need to know that. and that's why today was a good day for our party. >> definitely a good day for donald trump. he got the other candidates to agree to support him. he cannot be kept off the ballot. >> it works every direction. it works every direction. >> do you believe it? just a quick thought experiment. let's say three months from now, the middle of the primaries, donald trump starts to lose. and then he loses.

do you really think he'll be able to decelerate? do you believe he wouldn't run third party? >> it really doesn't matter. what matters is today. sure. people, you can rip up whatever agreement you want and say i've changed my mind. i think when swunl puts their flame on a piece of payment and says to the american people, i give you my word. when the other candidates raise their hand and say i won't run as an independent, i think that means something. i think it means something when you run for president. when donald trump was asked, is there anything that would change your mind? he said there's nothing that would change my mind. this is what i'm doing. so you're right. it is possible. but i would rather be where i am today than in a place where you have candidates that wouldn't pledge. so i have to do what i have to do to put the party in the best position to win next year. >> that's a good point. very quickly. is there any message? anything to be learned by republicans in washington from the trump candidacy? >> well, i think there is a lot to be learned from a lot of

these candidates out there with what we need to do to change. a lot of people are frustrated with washington, with a system that doesn't seem to be looking out for the little guy. and i think you're seeing that. there is a lot to learn. you have obviously a whole lot of frustration out there. and i think people are seeing it. and you're seeing it on both sides of the aisle. so i think both parties are learning a lot through this process. >> i think that's true. i hope so. thanks a lot for coming on tonight. appreciate it. coming up next, more on donald trump signing that rnc loyalty pledge. plus, key hillary clinton aides called before congressional committees to testify about the private server to tell the truth about what happened but one is refusing. he is pleading the fifth. and then a kentucky county clerk is sent to jail for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses. then rand paul is here later with reaction.

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>> the cherairman of the rnc. mr. trump said he supports you over hillary clinton if you get the nomination. would you support him? >> yeah, i would, of course. of course i would. we need to be unified. >> i thought there might be a sore loser role. you can't be a sore loser and then run as an independent. i will sign the pledge. and i don't need reince priebus to come meet with me before deciding whether to do this or not. there you go. september 3, i'm in. >> i will sign it. i've signed something similar when we entered into data sharing agreements with the rnc. i think the point is if you're going to run as paubl in a republican primary, then you're declaring that you are a republican. it is not simply a run of convenience. >> i'm going to work very hard for the republican nominee to be me. regardless, i'll going to support the republican and i think a third party race,

particularly in this cycle, would be very damaging. >> joining me now to respond to all of this, two of our all time favorite people from the washington times, charlie hurt, and here in the studio, long time on and off donald trump adviser, author and columnist, roger stone. first to you, party loyalty what voters are really looking for this season, do you think? >> it's amazing. the fact the party has put such emphasis on this i think, it reveals just how lost they are. in terms of understanding what voters are really upset about. that is the party being, the politicians doing stupid things and being disloyal to their principles and things like that. so what they did is they're trying entrap trump and he of course completely outfoxes them. completely calls their bluff on it. then turns around and turns it into a big media win for him by holding a press conference on it which none of the others managed to do. so yet again, donald trump has

completely managed to outsmart everybody. >> a good point. part of point of the trump candidacy is, he is not a loyal party guy. he is mad at the party and so are a lot of the voters. what was the idea hinlds doing this in. >> talk about the art of the deal. this was brilliant. trump wanted to be sure they didn't use the tactics on him they used on ron paul three years ago. he want equal access, a totally open shot at the rubble nomination. the new york times reported only a month ago that rubio, bush and walker's campaigns were talking about boycotting the fox debate if trump were involved. what he had to do here was to get fairness, an even level playing field for himself. in return, what he got was the committal of all the career politicians to support trump if he is the nominee. and right now, he is the front-runner to become nominee. so it is win/win for trump. and then a public relations coup by having a press conference

that everybody cuts live to. so in response, the campaign sent out a tweet, a picture handwritten by jeb bush saying i voted republican since 1972. i think of jeb bush is a good guy, a smart political guy. hard to see him winning a single vote by doing that. who thought of that? who is running that campaign? >> i think that jeb bush, the attack on jeb bush about being low energy is absolutely devastating. and of course, at the beginning of the campaign when his advisers were all sitting around talking about, what were his liabilities going to be in the campaign, nobody thought, well, maybe low energy. maybe this is going to be a problem. but this attack has been utterly devastating. when he come back with some, you don't even know if that is a who or who it is a hit on. when donald trump hits you, the person knows it.

when jeb bush comes back with something like, this it is a low energy response. and it perfectly encapsulates all of jeb's problems, as he decent guy and it is almost sad. but he has become the personification of everything that is washington, everything that the. >> reporter: the republicans and voters are sort of projecting all of that on jeb. >> he's been in florida for 20 years but he is the embodyment of washington. what was the idea behind trump's slam on jeb speaking spanish? >> i think the idea is english is the official language. >> it's not. the democrats have called that racists. >> most republicans believe it is and i think it is the right position for the primary. at the end of the day, trump will either win hispanic votes or not win them based on an economic vision. he is either going on offer

hispanics and all americans prosperity, jobs, a chance to recapture the american dream or he's not. i think that is a more powerful message than illegal immigration. most of the legal immigrants that i think, they're concerned about illegal immigration. >> i want to put up jeb bush's response. >> what was your first thought when you heard him criticize you for speaking spanish? >> i laughed. i mean, this is a joke. i was in a press gaggle where people asked me a question in spanish and i answered it in spanish. i was in a classroom two days ago, the high school where these young beautiful kids all speak english but they also speak spanish. and one asked me a question in spanish. i answered it. >> it was a joke. do you think his campaign thinks it is a joke? or do they believe it hurt him? >> it absolutely hurt him. and i think the reason it hurt

him is not just what roger just said, and i think he is right about that. but also because when a politician does something like, that it come off as somehow pandering. he is doing it for a reason. and trump, if there is nothing in the world that he is able to zero in on like, with almost an animalist inge intelligence, it is when a politician starts pandering or starts trying to be politically correct or someone in the military tries to be politically correct. he just goes in for it and goes for the jugular and kills on it. and i think that that more than really anything is why that was so hurtful for jeb. >> i think you're right. he has a high feral i.q. >> also, jeb says more in grisham than spanish. >> we nonspanish speakers get

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server is pleading the fifth amendment. standing by, ed henry. >> reporter: the stakes were just raised big time. the former aide who set up her server and decided to plead the fifth to avoid subpoenas compelling him to testify to three different congressional committees, including the special house panel investigating benghazi. he is former aide pagani. he then became an i.t. specialist at the state department and helped set up the server at her new york home. the clinton camp insisted today they wanted pagliano to talk and talked about other aides, cheryl mills, the former chief of staff who went behind doors to testify before the baeng panel. yet republicans are wondering if this shows people around clinton have something to hide. while democrats on the benghazi committee say he only took fifth to avoid a political spectacle. >> i know in the past why people invoked their fifth amendment privilege but you'll have to ask

him why he did it. and you're free to glean whatever inference you want. >> am i surprised that he has decided to take the fifth? no, i'm not surprised. i am a disappointed? yes. because i would have loved to have heard what he had to say. >> republicans note it is harder for clinton allies to cry politics when there is an fbi criminal investigation still looming. clinton aides said she is eager to testify in public to that benghazi panel in late october. that also means the story might have legs as we head closer and closer to the early caucuses and primaries next year. tucker? >> ed henry in washington. thanks a lot. joining me now, the editor and columnist, monica crowley, both are fox news contributors. welcome to you both. >> so monica, it is kind of a big deal to the former aide of the leading candidate to plead the fifth. he must have a lot to hide if he's doing this. >> well, you know, one of the

key questions involving this entire scandal is what the state department i.t. team knew and when they knew it. i had been told a couple weeks ago that the state department i.t. guys warned mrs. clinton before she became secretary of state not to go down this road of having a private server and private e-mail. they repeatedly warned her against doing it. she went ahead and did it any way. one of the fresh e-mails we just got in the last dump shows that that i.t. agency had no idea that she did go ahead and have that private server and e-mail. so the question is, how many others apart from mr. pagano were aware that she did this despite the state department delegate her not to, and my feeling is, based on what i'm hear, is that mr. pagliano is the first of many of what you may see is a whole parade of state department i.t. guys who warned her against doing this, now being subpoenaed, called to

testify and taking the fifth which would be absolutely atrocious for her which may in fact be the point. >> really almost without precedent. here's what shocked me maybe more than anything. you had elijah cummings, the ranking democrat on that select committee. he issued a statement praising bryan pagliano for not testifying. when was the last time you saw a mental of congress for not testifying being praised for not testifying? >> i am a trained lawyer. if there was an fbi investigation going on and my client was called before a congressional committee, i would tell him to take the fifth amendment. you learn the first day in law school that there is no inference of criminality. we don't even know if there is a criminal investigation going on. can i finish? >> the question is -- >> it may well be. can i finish? and what hillary clinton did, tucker, when she did it, was appropriate and allowed under

the rules then in exist tense. six months later the rules changed. so while monica is certainly right -- >> we don't know that. >> to say people opposed it, what she did was allowed when she did it. >> we don't know that, doug. as you know. >> i think we do. >> we don't know the vast majority of the e-mails because she has cloaked them from any supervising authority. much less the public. >> how can she get up there and say it is totally valley that i had my former aide is refusing to testify before a congressional committee. i have nothing to hide except we're hiding stuff. how does she answer that question? >> i'm not sure how she can square that circle which is one of the reasons her poll numbers, particularly on honesty, trustworthiness are falling through the floor here. she admitted that she deleted over 30,000 e-mails and we're supposed the take her word for it that it was just 30,000. it could be 100,000. how do we know?

she said you have to trust me on this. i deleted e-mails that i deemed were personal. just about chelsea's wedding and yoga. then she will come out and try to defend a form he aide who helped install that private server and say it is okay. >> i think this is the beginning of the end. >> you're not just a lawyer. you're a long time democratic political consultant. you've worked -- >> i'll plead guilty to that. >> so this is the kind of scandal that won't go away until we find out everything there is to know. why isn't the clinton camp taking your advice and the advice of everyone around and get it all out there. just tell us what you know and let's end this thing. why isn't she doing that? >> first all the e-mails from whak tell are being vetted by the state department. at least the 30,000 that still exist. whether the other 31,000 are recovered, that remains to be seen. when you say get it all out, i'm not sure what getting it all out is. and i'm not sure what it is she

would say. i think she made a judgment to go after the republicans, to charge politicalization and to attack on women's issues. and use those as a means of deflecting attention. >> maybe just find the e-mails. they are recoverable. every tech person says that and turn them over. that would be nice. >> i have a feeling there will be more segments like this coming up. thank you. coming up next, senator rand paul of kentucky responds to donald trump's signing the rnc loyalty pledge today. plus, weigh in on something that happened in just his state this afternoon. the kentucky clerk who has been thrown in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses was thro. then tom brady and deflait gate. jimmy gray is here to sort it all out.

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welcome back to "hannity." earlier today a kentucky clerk was thrown in jail for refusing to issue marriage los angelicen gay couples. >> late today kim davis refuse ad deal that would have allowed her to get out of jail saying she would neither issue licenses herself nor authorize her deputy clerks to issue them. in a hearing earlier today saying she would be guided only by her conscience and religious convictions, she wound up behind bars. she said i myself have genuinely held religious beliefs. i took an oath and oaths mean things. >> as part of her job as a public official, she is required to follow the law and grand marriage licenses. >> davis, an elected democrat, cannot be fired.

they would have to impeach her. >> the success of our democracy depends on the rule of law. and there is no public official that is above the rule of law. >> but senator ted cruz asked this. where is the call for president obama to resign for ignoring and defying our immigration laws? our welfare reform laws and even his own obamacare? adding, when the president resigns, then we can talk about kim davis. five deputy clerks have agreed to issue the licenses. tonight deputy clerk who refused, kim davis' son. tucker? >> thank you. joining me with reaction, kentucky senator rand paul. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> as this county clerk was being led away to serve a jail sentence of undetermineat length, there were chanlts of love wins. >> you're not coming through clearly but what i would say

about the opinion is that i think it is ridiculous to incarcerate someone for their religious beliefs. i think we can have consenting adults and contracts without having to force people to sign on the notion of a new definition of marriage. so i think it is kind of crazy the federal government has gotten involved and i think marriage has been a local issue and ought to still an local issue. >> even though supreme court has ruled on this and legally this clerk has an obligation to issue the licenses. i acknowledge that. this is all a very new development in america. couldn't we have found, somebody have found another way? hire another clerk? maybe fire her. but jail? that does seem over the top. >> i think the thing is if you want to persuade people of the new definition of marriage, i think handcuffing them and putting them in jail and making a martyr of them is not a good way to persuade people. i think there are other ways

around this. i don't know the clerks to have sign this. in alabama they got away from issuing marriage certificates, period, because they don't want to put the state in disagreement. why not just privatize marriage? have it in the churches and people will go to defense adefinition they agree with but people won't be forced to acknowledge a definition they don't agree with. >> that might be a solution. i wanted to go to the other news. the loyalty oath that donald trump signed to the republican party. what do you make of the idea of loyalty oaths in the first place? you're a freedom oriented kind of guy. are you for loyalty oaths? >> you join the party voluntarily so no one is forcing to you join it. when i ran for the senate, i was the pick of the establishment. i had 60-40 but i needed the other 40% to vote for me. so did i promise to vote.

and there was a certain amount of the team pulling together saying even the least of our candidates is better than the democrats. there will be people i will be very unhappy with. i think donald trump is a disaster. i think he will hurt the country and will lose in a land slide. but i will still pledge to port the nominee. i think hillary clinton is the worst person on the planet to run the country. and i think e-mails have cemented the notion that she's got bad judgment. >> even though you just described donald trump as a disaster, if he became the nominee, you would be up on the stage with him, good morning, louisville, here's donald trump! you would campaign with him. >> well, the thing is that there are relative degrees of enthusiasm when you support the nominee. and i won't be enthusiastic but i will support the nominee and i will pledge to support the nominee. but i think in the meantime, the next six months, i'll going to try to convince people that donald trump is a fake conservative. he is not really conservative at all. he has been for single payer health care system, he has been

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welcome back to "hannity." earlier today a federal judge issued a decision on the deflategate scandal that rocked the nfl and patriots fans. this time it has tom brady doing a victory dance. the judge said the punishment went, quote, too far. everyone is talking about it. even the republican front-runner. watch this. >> tom brady is a very good friend of mine. he's a great guy, for those of

you who don't know him, he's a very honest guy and truly great athlete. he is really a very good friend of mine. i just spoke to him a little while ago. he's so thrilled and so happy. tom brady, i think what they've done is terrible. and he has been exonerated, as i understand it, because i just heard about it. but i'm very happy for tom. as far as the commissioner's concerned, they're having a rough year. >> as for tom brady, winner. joining me for reaction, jim grave. thanks for coming on. >> good to be here. >> where is the ticker tape parade and will i see you there? >> the ticker train parade will probably be when they hang the banner up next week at the opening game of the season. he will run out with his team and the fans in new england and across the country who are for fairness and justice will be celebrating as well. if you look at the opinion polls, tucker, this has totally

flipped. 32% of the public believed that tom brady was right in telling the truth before. now, before the decision yesterday, a new poll came out and he's up to 68%. so with this decision, the public opinion has totally flipped. >> i believe that completely. i'm not a conspiracy nut, but it's starting to look a little bit like a setup. pushing the commissioner to invoke a rule that had never been invoked before. and punish the most valuable player in the nfl. is there any truth to that do you think? >> i don't want to indict the other 31 owners. i have no nl of any of them being directly involved. i would say that probably a couple of them pushed the commissioner, and he had their support. but i wouldn't say that the large majority, or probably a very, very few. let's just put it this way, it's a massive failure of judgment by the national football league, by the lawyers, and roger goodell.

this should never have come to this. it's all self-inflicted. they're the ones who sued in court in new york, now to get this total rebuke and to have this decision handed down by judge berman, they've done everything wrong in this case. >> can goodell keep his job and almost his unbelievably inflated paycheck? do things go on as normal, or does somebody change? >> it's not going to work just like that. i think roger goodell will go to work tomorrow and appeal the case. roger goodell has made the nfl a tremendous amount of money. let's face it, he's been just awful with these cases, with ray rice, domestic violence, that's what led him to this circumstance. he's now been reversed on rice, on hardy, and peterson, star caps, now with tom brady. he should stay out of federal court. this judge just went totally ballistic on the national football league. he said that they are dispensing their own brand of industrial

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