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russian investigation. >> let me be clear. i never had a meeting with the russian or russian intermediaries about the trump campaign. and the idea that i was part of a "continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government" is totally false. i asked for their candid and honest opinion about what i should do about investigation. my staff recommended recusal. since i had involvement in the campaign, i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. i have studied the rules and considered their comments and evaluations. i believe those recommendations are right and just.

therefore, i have recused myself in the matter that deal with the trump campaign. >> sean: attorney general sessions said the decision was reached over a matter of weeks and not of reaction to a "washington post" story that was published late last night with the headline "sessions met with russian envoys twice last year and he did not disclose. in this capacity as a senator, jeff sessions was a senior member of the senate armed services committee. it was not out of the ordinary that he talked to foreign ambassadors because as a matter of fact, he spoke to dozens and dozens of them last year alone. he was doing his job and that is not at all. this ridiculous notion that the old radical left is pushing that attorney general sessions

committed perjury. watch and listen very closely to this exchange but they are referring to between liberal democratic senator al frankenstein and then senator sessions. >> cnn has just published a story and i'm telling you this, someone that has just been published. i'm not expecting you to know whether or not it is true or not. it cnn just published a story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president-elect last week that included information that russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about mr. trump. these documents also allegedly say there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries

for the russian government. again, i am telling you this is just coming out. you know, if it is true -- it is extremely serious. if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what would you do? >> senator franken, i am not aware of any of those activitie activities. i have been called a surrogate during the campaign and i did not have communication with the russians. i am unable to comment on that. >> sean: he was responding to that question, which turned out to not be true. that is what the democrats are hyperventilating about. losing their minds over. yes, jeff sessions as a senator met with a russian ambassador but he did so in that capacity.

not on behalf of the trump campaign which is why when he was asked specifically about the election, he said no, that was not me. that wasn't me. by the way, where was the hysteria from democrats during the campaign -- clinton met with loretta lynch in a plane on the tarmac for almost 30 minutes when hillary clinton was under investigation by the fbi and justice department? lynch never recused herself. jeff sessions clearly wanted to assure you, the american people, that all russian investigation will be free of any political interference. jared kushner and lieutenant general mike flynn met with the russian ambassador in december. after the president won. this whole smear campaign is just really part of the democrats larger fake news conspiracy theory that it russian hacking all the reason why hillary clinton lost the election and somehow members of the trump campaign secretly

coordinated the whole thing. they've been pushing this ever since donald trump won the presidency but back in january, james clapper, president obama's old director of national intelligence said russian interference did not impact vote tallies. paul ryan said today that there is zero evidence the trump campaign ever coordinated with russia. >> the house intelligence community just finished coming up with its oversight plan to continue investigations. we will always make sure we are making and protecting our sources and methods and getting to the bottom of things. we have seen no evidence that anybody on the trump campaign or an american was included with working with the russians. >> sean: that chairman is devin nunes, he said the same thing and earlier today also added this. >> we have to be very careful, it is a slippery slope.

all the countries have embassies here, in the world. a lot of them are adversaries but we all meet with those. senators and congressmen meet with those ambassadors on a regular basis. >> sean: russia and the people from the trump campaign somehow conspired and empathic votes in the election? then we would be all over that story kind of like obama did to defeat benjamin netanyahu and we will give you the details but they all left propaganda media and the democrats for months have been going ballistic over the russian election influence without any evidence. they never told you the truth about president obama and his own foreign election interference. when i talk about israel with a congressional investigation back in 2014, a political group used $300,000 of obama state department grant money in israel to create a political apparatus to defeat the israeli

prime minister. where was the outrage about influencing elections then? where was the wall-to-wall news coverage? where was hyperventilating and mass hysteria? they did not care because it was their guy, their ideological soulmate that was doing it from the white house. here with reaction, laura ingraham and jay sekulow. there has never been a shred of evidence, he is clearly responding to al frankenstein. there is an exchange of information between trump surrogates and intermediaries in the russian government. he said it wasn't me. he answered truthfully. >> you call him al frankenstein, i call him al franken fraud.

when you hear it, he is going a step farther than the question opposed. this investigation, having black male, the trump administration -- he offers more of an answer then was even requested by franken. if he was trying to hide some nefarious contacts which included a meeting at a heritage foundation, some type of reception at the rnc when 25 other ambassadors, i'm sure they shared a quiche at the buffet table or something. what you are witnessing are the peroxisome's of feigned fury. they don't think jeff sessions colluded with the russians on the campaign. this is their only way to exert

what they think is relevant and perhaps power. they want to delegitimize trump. this is out of the playbook, they have nothing else going on, no policy ideas. all they have with a bunch of dirt to throw and it is childish. i don't think it will work in the midterm elections. that is what you are going with, jeff sessions is colluding with the russians? >> sean: it gets even a little more humorous. not only is it selective moral outrage but this is a debunked fake cnn news story that also included hookers at the ritz-carlton in moscow apparently urinating on his bed. sorry, laura. >> this is a false narrative.

>> sean: isn't what that news report was referring to? >> yes. here is the problem, sean. none of this is fact. none of this is true. what jeff sessions went through today should make all of us outraged. he answered the question that he was asked, what i always tell my client to do. answer the question asked, do not speculate or go to hypotheticals. what did he do? they create this outreach where chuck schumer is outraged, nancy pelosi is calling for him to resign. this is what is really happening here. you have a shadow government that is leaking this informatio information, people who were in step with the previous administration. they are leaking this and that is what people should be investigation investigating. why is this being leaked, that is what we need to know.

guess what? senators meet with ambassadors. that would include senator franken. >> sean: when you really look at this, laura, i think jay has hit on the real issue here. there are some 500 confirmations that they need to go through for the donald trump government to be in place and only today they got dr. ben carson and rick perry in their positions. you have a lot of holdovers from the obama administration that are sabotaging this administration and then you have career bureaucrats that clearly do not support president trump. what do they need to do to get rid of these people? >> this is where mitch mcconnell has got to really start playing hardball in this confirmation process. the u.s. trade representative is being held up on serious ground. 25 years of his life he is devoted to these trade issues and is doing a fabulous job of it. one of the most talented people out there, why don't we have a u.s. trade rep? on the hold over, people have to

realize that the deputy attorney general, the acting deputy attorney general was an obama appointee federal judge. i'm not trying to cast discouragement but people often understand that that acting deputy attorney general could appoint a special prosecutor. would that not be rich? to have an obama appointee prosecute a special investigation. >> here is what we have. jeff sessions did the thing he did not have to do. he recused himself voluntarily, something his predecessor refused to do. he took the highest of high ground. he has to be the attorney general that he is and put this nonsense away. i suspect the political reality is going to be different though, we need to be prepared. you have those inside the government, deeply entrenched inside that will do everything they can to stop any progress

going forward because they disagree with that. it is not their role, they are creating the constitutional crisis. not jeff sessions. >> sean: thank you both. coming up, newt gingrich would join us to weigh in on jeff sessions and his recusal. later tonight, former advisor austan goolsbee is here along with lou dobbs to talk about the big impact that the donald trump has had on the economy. that and more on this busy night on "hannity" ." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ announcer: get on your feet for the nastiest, most terrifying bull in the state of texas.

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>> sean: as we continue on "hannity," joining us now with reaction about attorney general jeff sessions recusal. newt gingrich. i keep going back to the statement. he is answering al frankenstein's question. they could not be any more clear what he is saying here and we see the hysteria, the breathlessness. i want your reaction. what do you think is going on here? it is deeper. anyone with common sense would see that it is. >> no, no. first of all, donald trump had a great day in the media yesterday. his speech was a home run. everything was going well and

surprise, surprise. another fake news story that has no meaning. they are shocked to discover for example that the russian ambassador was 1 of 30 people -- even the post downplayed this and recognized it was so stupid it was embarrassing. to congratulate sessions at the republican national convention, they were all just standing around talking. this was supposed to be the big meeting? the other thing was, he was very clear -- franken asked him about campaign activities. he said i never discussed them with the russians. it turned out the russian ambassador came by to the senate office and is 1 of 46 ambassadors that he had met with. here's what i i am intrigued with, sean. i watched the press conference.

he said he asked my team to advise me, they told me to recuse myself. i am following their advice. that this is all clear. he pointed out the president had said maybe he shouldn't have said that. he did what he thought was righ right. not what he thought the white house wanted. i want to see how "the new york times" and "washington post" spin this. here's a guy who has done exactly what he's supposed to do. for the right reasons. to prove his independence. in my fantasy life it would be nice tomorrow to see an editorial in the post and at times congratulating the attorney general for doing the right thing. it may not happen. >> sean: they are the modern-day prague prague pract.

in fact the leaked emails of john podesta and hillary clinton's emails all were -- it was a collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. as he pointed out last week, devin nunes said no, there is no evidence whatsoever. how did they keep pushing something that we do not have any evidence for? >> the great virtue of fake news is that it is fake. you keep trying to apply a standard as though these were real newspapers. or as though and cbs were real new agencies. this is all fake and we will get it for eight years. if he is succeeded by a republican who is is in the trump tradition, we will get it more. they just make it up. >> sean: it right. >> i want to go back to what i

said. i want to put you on the spot. i want to volunteer to come on the show tomorrow, the radio show. let's discuss the editorials in "the new york times" and "washington post" and see if they have the guts to say jeff sessions did the right thing. >> sean: they really wanted him to resign. i think there's a larger conspiracy here. they want as much collateral damage, that is why they go after kellyanne, ivanka, jared, even the 10-year-old son. just two weeks before the president leaves office, he allows intelligence conversations -- remember, when americans are identified in a conversation that is being recorded, they're supposed to minimize in terms of the american speaking. that information gets leaked but just before he left office, president obama allowed the information to be shared with 15 other intelligence agencies.

do you six fact as i do that he did it for the very purpose that that information will be leaked? >> of course. i agree. everybody who cares about this -- we are not playing in a game that is fair. this is a cultural civil war. there are no holds barred. the other side is losing and ty understand that their entire power structure and value system is going to be crushed. every day that donald j. trump do something terrific, they get mad and more frightened and they become weirder. also remember in the federal election commission reports, 95% of all the bureaucracy donations donations of washington went to hillary. 97% of the donations of justice went to hillary and 99% of the

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attorney general jeff sessions. president trump released in a statement saying jeff sessions is an honest man. he did not say anything wrong, he could have stated his response more accurately but it was clearly not intentional. the attorney general also saying it was an honest mistake in an interview with our own tucker carlson. >> whether or not you could be perceived as fairly deciding a case or evaluating a case. the balloon reason i believe i should recuse myself is because i was involved in the campaign. it would have been perceived as that i would not have been objective in participating in an investigation. >> now, back to "hannity" ." >> tonight, i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare. action is not a choice, it is a necessity. so i am calling on all democrats

and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding obamacare disaster. >> sean: during his joint address to congress, president trump promised to repeal and replace obamacare. speaker paul ryan promised it will happen. watch this. >> we told america here is our vision for how we replace obamacare after we repeal obamacare. that is the bill we are working on right now and i am perfectly confident then when it is all said and done, we will unify because we owe every republican, we are going to keep our promis. >> sean: we have promised you we will hold washington and the republicans accountable to their promises. that is exactly what we are going to do tonight. we can turn new with newt gingrich. senator rand paul said that the bill that the speaker is talking about is locked up.

nobody has an opportunity to read it. i talked to him earlier today and he said it is locked up. there are things in there like the cadillac tax that is being renamed, a mandate that remains and that he and other conservatives and the house, the freedom caucus are against. what is your reaction? >> i don't think we will know until we see it. it takes a long time, the process. even with your fans. they may have staff working on the bill right now, it may be in seclusion. the minute it becomes public, it will be on the internet and you will have thousands of experts and lobbyists analyzing it within minutes. if they are really dumb things in the bill, they will be obvious in the first 24 hours. then they will have to go through and amending process. i have great respect for

speaker ryan. it's a tough job but in the end, he serves his conference and if there are some things in there that are unacceptable, my guess is they will be taking out. >> sean: it seems like there is a communication, they are assuming that these things are in there, they believed that they are in there but then nobody is talking to each other. why not let us see the bill now? >> i think the bill is probably not complete, frankly. they're probably looking at it, fixing it, looking at things to that don't fit. sooner or later it will go to primarily the way to the committee in the house but also congress. depending on how they have shaped the bill. or it will go to the senate, then stuff will happen overnigh overnight. i certainly don't believe the

republican leadership is going to do what nancy pelosi tried to do and harry reid tried to do with obamacare. it would be a disaster to try to ram through something without having it out in the open, without making it amendable, without any chance to talk it through. nobody is smart enough to fix 20% of the american economy, a matter of life and death for every american, in secret. it will become public. what speaker paul ryan said it's absolutely true. tom price, the new secretary of health and human services, a medical doctor, spent years as a member of congress working on this variation. on the budget committee. well, they have a guy in health and human services who understands how to work with house republicans. he is very acceptable to the senate republicans, they're going to have to talk all the stuff through and they will be a lot of tension. i have no doubt there will be a

member and's operating and some of those amendments will pass but that is the legislative process. that's how america is supposed to operate. >> sean: you make me feel better when you say -- you put it in a box. what you need to get the bill passed, it's complicated. making sausage. one of the things americans like the most about the president, why his popularity is soaring, why'd they are coalescing around his agenda is because he is keeping his promises. i think it's so important on everyone of these issues that they don't really have a lot of time -- even though they have both houses of congress. there is a period of time next year, we begin on the election cycle again. >> am i wrong? >> yes, i am wrong. >> sean: thanks a lot, i thought we were friends. it's fine. >> we passed welfare reform in

the summer of an election year. and it got vetoed twice. we passed it three times. here is a very simple question. when people thoroughly understand this bill, do they think it is better for them? if the bill is better for them, i do not care whether it is the month before the election. it will be hard to stop it. if they think the bill is worse for them, you will create a new tea party movement. i did not have an artificial deadline. i think speaker ryan has said with great sincerity that he hopes to get everything done in 200 days. >> sean: okay, fair enough. i am not saying any of this is easy. go ahead. >> if you take taxes, infrastructure and obamacare, if they can pull those three off into hundred days they will have done more than reagan did in '81 and more than we did in '95. >> sean: amazing for somebody to beat me down on my own show.

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>> to accomplish our goals at home and abroad we must restart the engine of the american economy. american companies are taxed at one of the highest rates anywhere in the world. my economic team is developing historic tax reform that will reduce the tax rate on our company so they can compete and thrive anywhere and with anyone. >> sean: president trump talking about his efforts to bolster the economy during his joint address to congress earlier this week. earlier today the president issued a tweet regarding the recent gains in america stock market writing... consumer confidence is at a 15 year high. jobs. austan goolsbee as well as a host of the ever successful lou dobbs tonight show, consumer confidence is high. but i am a big believer in the

tax plan. energy independence, getting rid of obamacare. 15% corporate rate, 10% repatriation rate. to me, factories manufacturing go up by leaps and bounds. it's become everything you laid out, there is no ceiling for what this economy can do. economic growth, we are already -- we have seen this struggling recovery from extraordinarily difficult, historical lows in this economy. the worst recession since the great depression. what we are looking at now is consumer confidence is rising, a 15 year high. investor confidence. we don't have to go out and do a pole, and additional market cap that has been added to our equities market since one donal. trump was elected. >> sean: but all the people in poverty, on food stamps --

>> look at their 4o1 kays. >> sean: i agree with that but what about the people in poverty, on food stamps, the ones that need those jobs when the factory centers are rebuilt? >> one of the many things i love about you is you are not a patient fellow. not even 40 days yet. i think we're going going to need a little -- >> sean: i need congress to do their job. what's your reaction to all of this. your buddy obama was the only president in history never to have a single year of 3% gdp growth. not one year. not one. >> every president before had a shorter recovery, this is the longest string of private sector job growth in the history of the united states. >> sean: 18-22. go ahead. >> it's truly amazing to me -- i

thought donald trump gave a good speech. if given that as his inaugural address, i think there would have been a lot more democrats who were saying well, let us give him a chance. maybe he wants to meet us halfway or try to do things built on consensus. but the stock market is up 228% in the last seven years. about one 18th of that has taken place under donald trump. this is like your mom made you a holiday feast and your little brother brought the plate over and said look at the mail i gave you, sean. [laughter] >> i think austin is avoiding the main point. there's a new found confidence in this president trump. his team that he is bringing forward, progrowth, sean went through the list of all that's going to be done by this administration. think of what he is doing,

working the ceos by the dozens ever since he was elected, not waiting until he took the oath of office. he is talking to shipyard workers, talking to coal miners. he is not telling them that we are going to kill your industry, it's building your industry. creating more jobs. also talking about a horizon of possibility of which we have not heard a leader speak for eight years. >> sean: good response. austan? >> we have added 15 million jobs in the last seven years. i hope that donald trump adds them in a faster rate but so far, all he has is vague talk. he doesn't have a tax plan yet. >> sean: why did we add 13 million to the foodstamp roles under obama? >> poverty is down in the last four years as you know. food stamps, we changed the rules of the program. that's not indicative that the

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>> sean: welcome back to "hannity," while we were down in texas interviewing president george w. bush for his new book, "portraits of courage" ," we had the chance to sit down and interview some of the brave american heroes that were featured in the book including purple heart recipient, sergeant milo. >> he calls you milo? >> he can call me whatever he wants. >> sean: you had a pretty severe brain trauma. tell us what happened. >> i had to separate traumatic brain injuries. my first in iraq and then the second was probably more prevalent in afghanistan. there was a young teenage boy right on the afghanistan-pakistan border, about 10 feet from me. he detonated himself and gave my entire platoon quite a memory.

>> sean: how far away it was he from you? >> probably about 8-10 feet. >> sean: how are you now? >> it's been a long road, a lot of hard work but i am definitely on the right track and i'm grateful for it. >> sean: you see that the president of the united states drew a portrait of you. what was that like? >> he made me look much better and i appreciate that, sir. >> i thought you said -- >> it was incredibly humbling to think someone i chose to follow and have the utmost respect and would follow anywhere would take the time out of his life to do something like that for me. it is humbling, surreal. true owner. >> sean: how long did it take for you to get to the point where you are now, where you are helping a lot of other vets? how long was that process of healing?

>> actually get started back in 2009 after iraq. it has been an ongoing adventur adventure. it is going to continue for the rest of my life. >> sorry to in but one way to look at it is to helping other vets still healing. there is a long healing process and that is what you will find in this book, the healing process is accelerated when somebody helps somebody else. helping people find work. >> sean: you are helping vets find work? >> yeah, we have a real map of veterans. >> sean: you said there is a divide with the public sector and you actually said well, maybe sniper on your resume -- are you looking for people that are disciplined, hard-working, go above and beyond? >> ask milo, he is the one

helping people find work. we are trying to bridge that gap so the employer understands the vet and the vet understands the employer. >> sean: explain how that is working out. >> i work for hire usa. what we focus on is turning military focus into civilian success. civilian icing that lingo, jargon. like the president six said said, if you want to be a general manager at an auto sales place, you're not going to say i was a sniper. they are going to say, great, how do you sell cars? the operational planning, they are so meticulous with what they do. you talk to any sniper in the world, they will say they are better at math than half the people i know. we focus on highlighting the skills that they may not realize they have or don't think about on that everyday basis.

they are the future leaders. >> sean: if you are military skills into everyday skills but they also have that added discipline, dedication. >> personal responsibility. >> loyal, hard-working. the most selfless people you'll ever meet. if we do not know how to do something right now, if you put the task in front of them, i promise you we will get it done. it >> sean: how well are you doing? >> be placed over 6,000 veterans and new careers. not just jobs. we will continue to do so. i think will will continue to knock it out of the park. when they hire these men and women, what they will get. we are a group of men and women that are not willing to quit. we will never quit when it comes to this. >> sean: this is now your life's vocation, your passion. what you love. >> i will spend the rest of my life doing what i can to help my

brothers and sisters in any way. >> sean: this is your like passing out. i know you have spent a lot of time painting but you also have golf tournaments you do -- >> mountain bike riding. that's where i met milo. >> sean: how many miles do you do? >> we do a w100. 62 miles. over three days. >> sean: milo, i do not know if i can call you milo. >> you can call me milo. >> sean: coming up, we need your help on a very important question of the day and apparently this is like the worst voice mails i've ever gotten on the "hannity" hotline. apparently a lot of hate out there. straight ahead. [ piercing sound ] daddy! lets play!

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