i got my kids. first thing i got my kids. and i thought about my ribs. i didn't want to let my ribs burn and stuff. utake pride many what i do. >> amen. robert wright 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 tonight for sean. earlier the billionaire businessman signed the rnc loyalty pledge, meaning if he doesn't win the republican nomination, he claims he will not run as an independent. we've got some highlights from mr. trump's press conference today. take a look. >> 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 today where we're over 30%. we've actually hit numbers as high as 35 and 40%. and frankly, i felt that 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 hillary or anybody else, and i think maybe hillary is going to have a very hard time, frankly, with what is 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. >> yeah! [ 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. well, i think the big thing, dana, that's changed, and it's been obvious to all, number one, after i announced, we went up like a rocket ship. nobody thought i was going to run, and they said oh, he won't run, and he won't put it in his papers and he won't do all of this. i did that. the papers in terms of the company turned out to be spectacular. 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. so 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. it's a country based on borders, and our country is base 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. because our southern border is a total mess. that's been proven. and interestingly, a couple of moss ago when i announced, i made some very strong statement about the crime and the problems that 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.

of course, they haven't done it publicly, but these are minor details. some day they will. the fact is we are a nation that wants and needs borders. we are a nation that wants and needs and is based on laws. and we will make sure that that takes place. with that being said, 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 physicists, i want 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 number one at yale or the wharton school of finance or princeton or stanford, and immediately if you're not a citizen of the united states, you get thrown out of the country. we want those people 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, general odierno 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. everything about, 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. because 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. but he probably has to do that. although it would not be the way i've done it. you know, one of the things that i'm most honored about is that 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. you have perry attacked me. now he is getting out of the race. he was at 4 or 5%. now he is getting out of the

race. he was at 0. rand paul attacked me. i see the last poll, the monmouth poll came out. where i'm leading by double figures. and rand paul is down to less than 2%. and he attacked me. now jeb bush also just went down in the monmouth poll very big. so i don't know. they're going to spend -- 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 that are 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. you know what? i'll never say bad about him. you know why? because he loves trump. he loves trump. he goes around saying, trump is

my all time hero. he says it to everybody. so kanye west, i love him. now maybe in a few years, i'll have to run against him, i don't know. so i'll take that back. but you know what? he has been so nice to me. you people have sort of seen, because i've been a counterpunch here. i only hit people when they hit me, only. and kanye west has been so great. i would never say bad about him because 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'm not going to let japan rip us off. japan is devaluing their yen very hard for caterpillar and other companies to compete against komatsu, their big tractor maker and others. we're not going to let this happen anymore. they do -- you talk about a trade imbalance. 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's going to end, and they're going to like us. in this building, i have the largest bank in the world right up in these elevators. it's a bank from china. by far the biggest bank this the world. i get along great with china and i get along great with japan. i get along great with mexico. i love the people. i 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. i have unbelievably great relationships. and in the package that we gave you, you'll see there is a poll. i'm number one with hispanics. you saw that 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. we're going to be terrific. our military is going to be unbelievable. all of these things, we're going get rid of obamacare and come up with something that is much better and much less expensive. we're going to get rid of it.

we're going to repeal it. it's going to be out. it should have been out a long time ago. it should have never 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 that we can afford to do the kind of things that we have to do to make america great again. ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. and here is your -- here is your pledge. [ cheering and applause ] >> donald trump, ladies and gentlemen. here now with his reaction is republican national chairman reince priebus. reince, great to see you tonight. >> hey, tucker. >> i remember when trump first announced i was hearing from people at the rnc and other people republican in washington, this guy is a buffoon, he is a disaster, he is going to 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 detente come about? >> it is a job to treat them

respectfully and fairly. if i wasn't doing that, i wouldn't be worthy of being chairman of the republican party. my job is to make sure we have a party that is ready for whoever the nominee. at the same time, i have to make sure all of our candidates pledge their loyalty to the party. and also pledge that they 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. >> well, it was definitely a good day for donald trump because he got the other candidates agree to support him. he cannot be kept off the ballot now. >> it works every direction. >> right. >> i mean, you're right. it works every direction. >> so 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. but i think that when someone puts their name on a piece of paper and says to the american people that i give you my word, and when the other candidates raise their hand and say i'm not going run as an independent, i think that means something. i think it means something when you run for president. >> yeah. >> and when donald trump was asked today is there anything that would change your mind, he said there is nothing that would change my mind. this is what i'm doing. so you're right. it's 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 talking about what we need to do to change and to lead in this country. obviously a lot of people are frustrated with washington, frustrated with a system that doesn't seem to be looking out for the little guy. and i think you're seeing that across the country. so yeah, there is a lot to learn. you've got 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. >> yeah, i think that's true. i hope so. reince priebus, thanks a lot for coming on tonight. appreciate it. and congratulations. >> thanks. 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 to the american people about what happened. but one of them is refusing. he is pleading the fifth. ed henry has a full report on that. and then a kentucky county clerk is sent to jail for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses. senator rand paul is here later

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who reacted to the rnc loyalty pledge earlier today. >> the chairman of the rnc. is circulating a loittety pledge among all the candidates. 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 think there should be a sore loser rule. if you run, 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 signed. >> all right, i certainly will sign it. iowa already signed something similar when we entered into data sharing agreements with the rnc. i think the point is if you're run as a republican 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. but regardless, i'm 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 chartley hurt, and here in the studio, long-time on and off donald trump adviser, author and columnist roger stone. welcome to you both. first to you, party loyalty what voters are really looking for this season, do you think? >> oh, 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. ff 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

managed to completely outsmart everybody. >> it's a good point. roger, part of the 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 behind doing this? >> 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 dr. ron paul three years ago. he wanted equal access. he wanted a totally fair open shot at the republican nomination. reporting only a month ago that rubio and bush and walker were talking about boycotting if trump were involved. 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 commitment of all the career politicians to support trump if he is the nominee. and right now, he is the front-runner to become nominee. >> smart. >> so it's win-win for trump,

and then a public relations coup by having a press conference that everybody cuts live to. >> amazing. >> brilliant. >> so charlie, in response to today's news, trump signing the loyalty oath, the jeb bush for president campaign sent out a tweet, and it was a picture, handwritten of a note by jeb bush saying basically i voted republican since 1972. i think of jeb bush is a good guy, a smart political guy. it's hard to see him winning a single vote by doing that. who thought of that? what's the idea? 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 if it's really a hit or who it's 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 is a decent guy, and it's almost sad, but he has kind of become the personification of everything that is washington, everything that is that are the republicans, and voters are sort of projecting all of that on jeb. >> yes. >> and donald is helping a whole lot. >> i know. it's odd. he has been in florida for 20 years. but he is the embodiment somehow in the public mind anyway of washington. what was the idea behind trump's slam on jeb for speaking spanish? >> i think the idea is english is the official language. >> it's not. english is not the official language of the united states. the democrats have called that racist and they stopped it. >> 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, opportunity, jobs, a chance to recapture the american dream, or he's not. i think that is a more powerful message than illegal immigration. because most of the legal immigrants that i know, they're concerned about illegal immigration. >> of course they are. i want to put up on the screen, charlie, jeb bush's response to trump's criticism that he spoke spanish. this is from gma. watch this. >> 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, la progresia, 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 and breaks out into spanish, it comes 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 animalistic intelligence, it's when a politician starts pandering or starts trying to be politically correct, or someone in the media tries to be politically correct, he 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. >>, no it's right. he has a high feral iq i would say. >> also, back story here. >> very quick. >> jeb says more things in spanish than he does in english. >> well, that is a really interesting story. >> trump knows it. >> we nonspanish speakers can't

get to another segment. thank you. coming up, another bad day for hillary. a former aide who helped set up the e-mail server, the private one she is hiding announced he will plead the fifth. ed henry joins us next to explain how the campaign is responding to this. how do you explain that away? plus, a big win for tom brady for justice for the american way of life. a federal judge nullified his four-game suspension over deflategate. the nfl is appealing the decision. we'll tell you what it all means. and later tonight, 2016 presidential candidate senator rand paul of kentucky is here. we'll ask about the kentucky clerk who was thrown in jail tonight because she refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses. it's all breaking. stay tuned. we've got trouble in tummy town. peptocopter!

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♪ welcome back to "hannity" the scandal swirling around hillary clinton and her server continues today. we just learned that former clinton aide who helped her set

up her private e-mail server is pleading the fifth amendment. standing by in washington with the latest on this is ed henry. ed? >> tucker, the stakes were just raised big-time in hillary clinton's e-mail controversy. this former aide who set up her server has decided to plead the fifth to avoid subpoenas compelling him to testify to three different congressional committees, including that special house panel investigating benghazi. he is former aide brian pagliano. he 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 the cooperation of other former aides like cheryl mills. the former chief of staff today went behind closed doors to testify before the benghazi panel. yet republicans are wondering if this shows people around clinton have something to had, while democrats on the benghazi committee insist the aide only took the fifth to avoid what they call 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. from the fact that he did. >> 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 today she is eager to testify in public to that benghazi panel in late october, though that also means the story might have legs as we edge closer and closer to those 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. thanks for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> so monica, it is kind of a big deal to the former aide of the leading democratic presidential 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 state department i.t. agency had no idea that she actually 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 telling her not to. and my feeling is based on what i'm hearing is that mr. pagliano is actually the first of many. and 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. >> right. >> which would be absolutely atrocious for her, which may in fact by 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 today praising brian pagliano for not testifying. when was the last time you saw a member 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. indeed, we don't even know there is a criminal investigation going on. if i can finish? can i finish? >> the question is -- >> it may well be. can i finish? >> yes. >> and what hillary clinton did, tucker, when she did it was

appropriate and allowed under the rules then in existence. six months later those 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. because we don't know the contents of the vast majorities of the e-mails because she has cloaked them from any supervising authority much less the public. monica, how the k the public get up on the stump and say it's totally valid that my former aide is refusing to testify before a congressional committee. have i 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. look, she admitted that she deleted personally over 30,000 e-mails. and we're supposed to take her word for it that it's just 30,000. it could be 100,000. how do we know?

so she comes out and says well, you have to trust me on this. i deleted e-mails that i deemed were personal. you know, just about chelsea's wedding and yoga. and then she is going to come out and try to defend a former aide who helped install that private server. >> right. >> and say it's okay? i don't see how she squares that circle, and frankly, 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 go right now. tell us what you know and end this thing. why aren't they doing that? >> first all the e-mails from what i can 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. >> call them nazis because they're not for partial abortion. i get it. maybe just find the e-mails. they are recoverable. every tech person says that and turn them over. that would be nice. any way, i'm sorry. we are out of time. i have a feeling there will be more segments like this coming up. thanks to you both very much. coming up next, senator rand paul of kentucky responds to donald trump's signing the rnc loyalty pledge today. plus he'll weigh in on something that happened in his state just this afternoon. the kentucky clerk who has been thrown in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. he'll tell what's he thinks about that. and then later, a federal judge nullifies tom brady's suspension over deflategate.

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welcome back to "hannity." earlier today a kentucky welcome back to "hannity." earlier today a kentucky clerk was thrown in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. joining me now from washington with a full report on this breaking story is shannon breene. shannon? >> late today kim davis refuse ad deal that would have allowed her to get out of jail saying she would neither issue licenses to same sex couples 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. federal judge david bunning told her, quote, i myself have genuinely held religious beliefs. adding 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 grant those marriage licenses. >> davis, an elected democrat,

cannot be fired. the kentucky legislature would have to impeach her. today d.c. democrats quickly backed the judge's decision. >> 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? >> thanks a lot, shannon. joining me with reaction, 2016 presidential candidate kentucky senator rand paul. senator, thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> as this county clerk was being led away to serve a jail sentence of indeterminate length, protesters outside chanted love wins. did love win? >> 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 have contracts without having to force people to sign and put their imprimatur on the notion of a new definition of marriage. so i think it is kind of crazy the federal government has gotten involved in this. i think marriage has been a local issue and ought to still be a local issue. >> even though supreme court has ruled on this and legally this clerk has an obligation to issue the licenses. you think people acknowledge, 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. no? >> 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 someone is probably not a good way to persuade people. i also think there are other ways around this.

i don't know that the law is explicit that the clerks have to sign this. in fact, in alabama they have just gotten away from issuing marriage certificates period because they don't want to put the state imprimatur on something they disagree with. really, a lot of people have talk about this for years. why not just privatize marriage? have it in the churches and peep will go to a definition that they agree with, but people won't be forced to acknowledge a definition that they don't agree with. >> that might be a solution. i want to go to the other news today, the loyalty oath that donald trump signed to the republican party. what do you make of the idea of loyalty owes in the first place. you're a freedom oriented 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 i did promise to support the nominee, whether it was me or someone else. and there is a certain amount of the team pulling together and saying you know what? 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 you'll hurt the country and we'll lose in a landslide. i was still pledged to support the nominee because i think hillary clinton is the worst person on the planet to run the country. i think the e-mails have cemented the notion that she just has 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 try to convince people that donald trump is a fake conservative.

he is not really conservative at all. he has been for a single payer health care system. he has been for higher taxes. and really what bugs me the most is his business model has been using eminent domain to take private property from small property owners, gobble that up in order to make money. i think that is antithetical to the notion of freedom. >> i'll agree with that. if he becomes the nominee, i look forward to your unenthusiastic endorsement. rand paul, thank you for joining us. >> coming up interesting star quarterback. american here doctor tom brady scored a huge victory today over his alleged role in deflate gate. the noncrime a federal judge nullified his suspension. jim gray is here next with his analysis. as the nfl announces it will appeal that ruling. stay with us. you exercise. you choose the salad. occasionally. but staying well - physically, financially, emotionally -

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friend of mine. he is a great guy, for those of you that don't know him, he is a very honorable guy and honest guy and a truly great athlete. he is really a very good friend of mine. and i spoke to him a little while ago. he is 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 is concerned, they're having a rough year. let's face it. >> yeah, they're low energy. as for tom brady, winner. joining me now for reaction, sportscaster, and fox news contributor jim gray. jim, thanks a lot for coming on. so when is the ticker tape parade, and where is it, and will i see you there? >> the ticker tape parade probably will be when they hang the banner up next week when tom brady will come on the field to have the opening game of the season. they will fly the banner. he will run out with his team and the fans in new england and across the country who are for fairness and justice will all be celebrating as well.

if you look at the opinion polls, tucker, this is totally flip. from before they went to federal court, most of the public, in fact only 32% of the public believed that tom brady was right in telling the truth. now before the decision yesterday, a new poll came out and he is up to 68%. with this decision, the public opinion has totally flipped. >> i agree with that completely. i'm not a conspiracy nut. it seemed like a setup. the other 31 owners pushed the commissioner to invoke a rule that had never been invoked before and punish the most valuable player in the nfl. i mean, is there any truth in that, do you think? >> i don't want to indict the other 31 owners. have i know knowledge of any of them being directly involved. i would say that probably a couple them pushed the commissioner, and he had their support. but i wouldn't say that's a 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. it should have never come to this. it's all self-inflicted. they're the ones that sued in court in new york. and now to get this total rebuke and to have this decision handed down by judge berman, they have done everything wrong in this case. >> so can he keep his job and his unbelievably inflated paycheck? will things go on as normal, or are things going to change? >> well, it's not going to work just like that, no. i think roger goodell will be at work tomorrow and they'll appeal the case. roger goodell has made the national football league a tremendous amount of money. but let's face it, he has been awful with these cases. with ray rice and domestic violence, that's what's led him to this circumstance. he has now been reversed on rice. he has been reversed on greg hard different. he has been reversed on adrian peterson, star caps, and 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 justice. well, that kind of says it all. and roger goodell needs to get out of this. the worst thing for the national football league will be for the federal authorities to be looking into their business, because once that happens, that never goes well. so what's happened with the judges, now four times in a row, roger goodell's credibility has been called into question. he needs to figure out these things long before they get to court. >> yeah, i think the restaurants will walking on the road, talking to our lunch box, fired for talking like that. jim, thanks a lot for joining. >> good to be with you. >> coming up, more "hannity" right after the break. don't go away.

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bream. that's tomorrow at 10:00. don't miss it. unfortunately, that's all the time we have left tonight. thanks a lot for watching. have a great night. greta goes "" right now. in just moments, tom brady's lawyer goes "on the record." what did tom brady say when he learned the big news and how unhappy is nfl's roger goodell? he is unhappy enough to announce he is appealing. nfl legend joe namath and there is trump news. trump met behind doors today at the trump tower in new york with rnc chair reince priebus. what did he say and do? p &c @&c@ record." trump moments to sign the pledge to support the republican nominee. even if it's not himself. >> i you have signed the pledge. >> yeah. [ applause ]