something is to be enforced rather than ignored and debated pays off. who knew? that's it for us tonight. "hannity" is up next. we will see you tomorrow. have a great night. >> sean: and welcome to hannity, and just a few minutes we will check in with jay sekulow, jeanine pirro, rand paul, s they will all join us bt first. former national security advisor, susan rice, now responding to the bombshell icialts that exposed she is the who requested that the names of trump transition team members were caught up in the surveillance be unmasked. not tonight, we'll expose the obama administration sabotage and that is tonight very important openinggu monologue. we want to take you through the step-by-step because it's a huge scandal.

it started last month, remember president trump set out a tweet accusing the obama administration of surveilling him during the election. since then, we've been peeling away all the layers of the president's claim with the help of the investigative reporting from people like sara carter and john solomon. for sarah and john uncovered the existence of an fbi investigation into a server being utilized at trump tower. they also discovered that a fisa warrant that allowed federal officials tol can't capture trup team prior to the present taking office. and they reveal that high-ranking officials with direct access to president obama may have had access to unmasked federalsk surveillance of trump transition team members. this is all very important. they may have brief the president about thiss information. on march 22nd, devin nunes revealed he had seen reports that had proved president trump and members of his transition

team were in fact unmasked and that the intel had nothing to do with russia. last week we also uncovered video from march 2nd, dr. evelyn farkas, very prominent obama administration official answered in the administration only until 2015 encouraging her former colleagues and people on the hill to get as much intelligence as they can about the trump team before they leave office. watch this. >> i was urging my former colleagues and frankly speaking to the people of the hill. it was more aimed at telling the hill people to get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before president obama at least the administration because i had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people left.. it would be hidden away in the bureaucracyhe that the trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about the staff, the trump staff, dealing with russia that they would try and compromise those sources and

methods, meanings, we would no longer have access to that intelligence. i became very worried because not enough was coming out into theom open and i knew that there was more. we had very good intelligence on russia. then i talked to some of my former colleagues and i knew they were trying to also help get information to the hill. >> sean: if they knew how we knew what we knew. well, pretty interesting.. dr. farkas was admitting there was a surveillance taking place of the trump transition team, that there was unmasking of names, that there was also talk about leaking the information, which of course would be a felony. farkas then walked back those comments a day after we played them t right here on the show, t the tape does not lie. earlier today, breitbart news unearthed a video from october october 2016. here is dr. farkas where she even predicted the impeachment of trump if he was elected. how could she possibly think this? watch this. >> if donald trump were elected, i believe he would be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else

would have to take over government. i'm not even joking. >> sean: what intelligence did she have to back that up? yesterday we had multiple reports that revealed obama's national security advisor, susan rice, was requesting thatth members of the trump transition team, their names be unmasked and brought intelligence reports. today during an interview, she denied those claims. shocking, watch this. >> there were occasions when i was receiving reports in which a u.s. person was referred to. name not provided, just u.s. person. and sometimes in that context, in order to understand the importance of the report and assess its significance, it was necessary to find out or request of the information as to who that u.s. on official was. there is context of the trump campaign, trumpp transition, did you seek the names of people involved -- to unmask the people

of names involved in the trump campaign, people surrounding the president-elect? in order to spy on them?n >> absolutely not for any political purpose is to spy, expose, anything. >> sean: that's today. wait a second, just two weeks ago, susan rice was on pbs and she said "knew nothing about any kind of unmasking." what is it? watch this. >> i began by asking about the allegations leveled today by house intelligence community devin nunes that trump transition officials, including the president, they have been swept up in surveillance of foreigners at the end of the obama administration. >> i know nothing about this. i was surprised to see reports from chairman nunez talking about that today. >> sean: today she knows everything but two weeks ago i don't know anything about this that sounds like a lie to me. shockingly, andrea mitchell did and asked susan rice about that complete and total reversal. in other words, why connect to

susan rice is changing her to know that she's been caught. susan wright has a history of this. she flat out lied to the face of the american people about the issue of the benghazi terror attack, remember she went on five different sunday shows. this was 2012, you may remember. >>rk what sparked the recent violence was the erring on the internet ofl, a very hateful, vy offensive video. it began spontaneouslyit in benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired from hours earlier in cairo, or of course as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy sparked by this hateful video. what happened in benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo. what happened this weekre in cairo, and benghazi, in many other parts of the region was

the result -- a direct result of a heinous and offensive video. think about this. a complete 180, a history of wine,we and now some on capitol hill are trying to get the truth of what actually happened with the surveillance of donald trump and his team. senator rand paul will join us later wants susan rice to testify before congress and under oath. but rice, when asked about this today, she's not exactly jumping at the request. what a shock. >> you're being subpoenaed to testify. would you be willing to? >> andrea, let's see what comes. i'm not going to sit here and prejudge. >> sean: she is clearly dodging, but more congressman now on the hill are calling for her to testify. by the way, it needs to be under oath. later tonight we will expose how the alt leftist right trump media is doing everything inhe their power to bury this incredible story.

since the moment the scandal has been unmasked, the media has tried to change the subject, destroy anybody and anyone connected to it. that's exactly what they try to do to congressman devin nunes. adam schiff, the democratic ranking member on the intel committee, had seen the same surveillance and all of a sudden hista grandstanding at allfa stopped. in fact, listen to what he said this weekend when asked if there is a connection between president trump andpr russia. >> can you say definitively that there was collusion, there were people affiliated with the trump campaign or working with the russians to time the release of damaging informationt about hillary clinton that had been hacked from either john podesta or the dnc? >> i don't think we can say anythingt definitively at this point. we are still at the very early stages of investigation. >> sean: for the past eight months, we are in the early stages of the investigation with the help of the ultraleft pop agreement it destroyed trump

media. they been trying everything they could do to find proof that president trump was colluding with russia. there is no evidence after eight long months. the question is asked, did president obama and his administration knowingly surveilled on either an incomini president or an opposition party candidate?ht americans tonight are demanding answers to those questions. we hear on "hannity" will demand as well until we get it. us now is jay sekulow, the host of justice jeanine pirro, the host of the brand-new show you of the jury on fox. i tryut to lay the history out here. give me any scenario where susan rice was specifically request wrought intelligence unmasking, let'ss have the intelligence was legitimate against russian, china, a rant it doesn't matter but americans were incidentally caught up on a call. there is no warrant to listen to

them. it supposed to be minimized and namesmi are never supposed to be revealed. why is she unmasking those names? >> that is the issue she has to be asked under oath. i have to tell you, sean. your ability to connect the dots isn't worthy of a veteranth prosecutor. i am really impressed. to it.re's another piece what ever anyit witness takes te stand and at that witness has a history of being a liar and susan rice has s been with withctive can ghazi, respect of honor and distinction, a jury is entitled to take anything that she says with less than a grain of salt. >> sean: look at the consequences>> from two weeks a. >> two weeks ago as well. any judge would say to a jersey coming to the truth, this is not a person you can really rely on. the question we have to ask is who put her up to it, why did she do it, did obama know about it? =speeone who she share it with?

>> is she the one that gave it to "the washington post" and this woman has to be put under oath, we have to get to the bottom of this because if they could do it to the president or president-elect, they are doing it to us all the time. >> sean: jay. >> i think there's a couple things here. number one, susan rice is like the wild to back liar in chief here. she would pass a lie detector test and sold many stories that you can't tell one from anotheri here's the most significant aspect of this. what she said to andrea mitchell was not a denial of the unmasking, as you noticed. she did not deny the unmasking. she acknowledged it. >> sean: she admits the unmasking of michael flynn and talk about on a lot of the shows. >>n than you look at the laws here.re being implicated there are multiple felony accounts but limit give you one one.e if she put this in motion and this what everybody needs to understand, susan rice unmasking this, if she didn't do this none

of this would've happened. she did it. she put this whole issue and play. if she was working with others knowing they were going to distribute it,ng we can however she did it -- that's a conspiracy under the espionage. that's very, very serious. i will tell you something, she is sending out tweets, she sending all this information out. she needs to hire a really good criminal defense lawyer. i think she's in serious trouble. >> sean: she admitted the pace of surveilling trump increased after the election. and then this is more interesting, she admits the unmasking of general flynn took pace to my place but she said it wasn't political. >> how would it not be politica political?dg she's a judge, i've tried a lot of cases over 37 years. you look at the timeline here.re as the intelligence increase over the president and his associates,o what starts toec happen? it becomes more frequent.

this was an incidental accident. oh, my goodness i want to know who usa one is, usa person one and it's president trump or president-elect trump at that point or one of his associates, ast then she wants more. as it gets closer it's more. here's the political question, why are we saying it's okay to be spying on the president-elect of the united states? >> it certainly not okay and you have the making of a false statement. you've got espionage, violations of the fisa act. the fact that if obama knew n about all this, nobody seems to care. this goes right to the timeline until it looked like oh, my god, they are taking him seriously and now what we need to do as we got to stop, we got to get the dirt, we got to pass it around. that's when they really started here. >> sean: the bottom line here under the guise of national security, they are unmasking only the conversations with trump or trump transition team members or then candidate o trus

team, that was specifically designed for political purposes, having nothing to do is national security. >> that's what dr. farkas was doings too. you've done a great job of playing this out. dr. farkas, who by the way also getting a criminal defense lawyer right away, what she said wasai in essence -- she wanted to get the information out. how is she getting thehe information? >> jay, who is weak? who is a part of this conspiracy now? they have a group of individuals -- you know what, i'm going with prosecutor and i can do this. >> sean: i gotta say one less thing. for anybody to see this information, you got to know they go into a very secure area where every single search they made is monitored, which means there is a fingerprint left behind on everything. >> that's whyt congressman shifs is quiet. >> de mexico and think about scott martin coming up the big story the site spying on the

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>> sean: welcome back. there a >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." there are still many questions that need to be answered about the n surveillance of president trump, candidate trump and his transition team. the big question is this. today city president and his administration knowingly surveilled anit opposition party or president-elect? joining us now, editor-in-chief of my set, or ingram is back. can you imagine the media ignoring the story if it was trump as president and his team surveilling obama coming into office? with the media reaction would b be? >> it would be watergate times ten. there would be people staked out at the institution where susan rice has a cushy job. they would be at her house.

they would find her. if it was on the other foot, there wouldn't be this appalling lack of curiosity on the part of the mainstream media. about what was going on here, who directed her too do this? this was just a random thing she was thinking because of donald trump's name was mentioned in some intercept. donald trump's name would have been mentioned in hundreds if not thousands of foreign intercepts. she just happened to choose these ones. the whole thing stinks to high heaven. >> sean: let me ask you this question. is there any scenario you can think of, and i'm asking you to put your legal hat on for a minute, whereby susan rice would ever need to unmasked a trunk? trump transition team member or either candidate trump or president-electmp trump? scenario you could think of in your wellness imagination that you could think that.

>> i would think it was only if there was some kind of imminent threat to the united states of america, a direct tie or close tie to a terrorist organization, someone with a known connection to terror. maybe under those circumstances, but i got off the phone with two former cia officials right before i came on with you and both of them, they don't even know each other, but both of them said that her comments that when she sees something interesting, basically i ask for more information. both of them said that's just not how it works. you have to have a specific reason for pulling the identity of an american that is caught up in one of these webs. she gave that scenario of the bomb maker, that's obviously not what was going on here. it was a red herring cheat throughout. >> sean: through my understanding of the intelligence sources that i had helpo me, for you to even view

this raw intelligence information, number one has to be in a secure everywhere, number two you have to sign in, number three there's a record of everything you look at. >>no it cannot be verbal. >> sean: was there really a spreadsheet? there will be a record of every single time she ever asked to unmask anybody in raw intelligence, correct? >> yes. >> sean: if she only did it in the case of trump, wouldn't that basically be case closed? you are only doing it for political reasons. >> it would seem to be de facto evidence that there is political motive here. we don't know. there's a lot we don't know her here. it's hard to believe that susan rice is acting alone here. she wasn't acting alone when she wentnt out and told that story after benghazi, and it's hard to believe she's acting alone here. it all. smells. we all know that if the shoe were on the other foot, the

democrats would be screaming for full accountability, immediate testimony on capitol hill. >> sean: do you get the sense that this wass organ needed sabotage of either a cabinet to akkad and connect candidate or president-elect and that will come on the other side to get more detail? speak of the fact that she initially denied and then in her response today to andrea mitchell gave a double negative and she didn't leak -- nothing to nobody. shehe went to harvard and knows that that's a double negative so that's the affirmative. i'm nitpicking here we have to parse your words really carefully. >> sean: she did admit the unmasking of michael flynn, but she said it was not for political purposes. >> and that she did not it either. >> sean: somebody did. and that's a felony. more with l laura ingraham and e continue our investigation here. later tonight, let's look at the media, that destroyed trump media doing everything in theire power to put theirmp liberal or does not cover it at all.

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trump surveilled. in other words, there was an orchestrated effort to surveilled candidate trump and president-elect trump and his transition team and unmask them in the case of general flynn, leak the intelligence. is there any other plausible theory and hypothesis you have short of that >> the veneer of incidental coverage here as it seems really flimsy and again, the sources i talked to say it doesn't matter, it was incidental, and makes it sound like it's nothing but you still have to go through the normal protocol in order to unmask these individuals. you can't do it and a pick choose and try and control these raw data and the raw files for more so you think might implicate trump or any associates in the future. again, when you are an outgoing administration after a really toughh election battle and the partisanship and the rancor and

the animosity was as high as it was from thewa obama's to trump and vice versa, and with susan rice's old history on benghazi, fact that she wasn't going to get confirmed if she wanted to be secretary of state, she was never going to be confirmed that's why they put herhy at a national security council. all of this adds up to a very murky scenario. we just need to know more information. i don't think it stops susan rice. focusing on rice might be the wrong halfway here. >> sean: standard operating procedure according to every single intel source i have it would require that it was incidental that minimization occurred, that they don't reveal the name of the american, that they don't unmask the american and certainly don't leak than intelligencewh, which by the way is rawte intelligence. otherwise you are violating any sense of privacy. to use the term very early on, that would make america a police state, correct? >> that is a felony. there is a written record.

no one from the ic community, intelligencey, community, whater do the unmasking and give that information on a verbal order. it just doesn't happen. there has to be written protocols that are followed. those written protocols have to be there. they have to bee there some that do ask him or whether they're on a ledger or some work on their logs and claiming executive privilege here would indicate to me that the president actually spoke to susan rice. we will see if she claims executivee privilege. >> sean: weeks ago she had no idea of this happening. no knowledge at all. just like evelyn farkas. it's very interesting to watch everyone walk things back. >> east pulled and i know nothing. >> sean: thank you, laura. your aging is by the way. the alt left destroy trump media is putting their liberal spin on these explosive reports about susan rice during their best to defend her. we will get reaction from richard grenell and sharyl

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rice. >> there's no evidence whatsoever that the trumps team surveilled or spied on illegally. there is no evidence that backed up the presence of claim. on this program tonight, we will not insult your intelligence by pretending otherwise, ignore we. ate and abet the people who are trying to misinform you the american people by creating a diversion. not going to do it. >> sean:ol don, there's no evidence of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign and you guys have been harping on the for eight months. abc and nbc didn't even talk about this explosive story last night. cbs news did address the reports but they were defending rice. watch this. >> we learned more today about the president's allegation that he and his aides were caught up an obama era surveillance. what did you find outt today? >> it well, as national security

advisor to the president susan rice a code and it did request e names of individuals who were picked up during illegal surveillance of foreign nationals. however, rice did not spread the information according to this former official that there was nothing improper or political involved. >> sean: should probably talk teresa's mom, anyway, how else to get that report? despair how shady political operative and fake news control what you see what you think and how you vote. sharyl attkisson and former spokesman for the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. six is with us. for eight months, the news media the same people that we know colluded with the clinton campaign during the election, the same people that never vetted obama they have been running wild with a trump-russia story. if you've seen it, share it with us. imagine if this was donald trump and he's leaving office and invi the process of him leaving

office, donald trump sets in motion a way to surveilled the incoming president or then candidate of the opposition party. do you think the news media would be treating at the same way they are doing now? > i don't, and i agree. i haven't seen evidence of russia collusion with the trump campaign, i've spoken to former top obama intel officials who say they haven't seen evidence of that either. and i do think there's a very different treatment by the news media in general between the two allegations, one of whichne sees to have no public evidence to prove. the other, being the discussios that is happening now about susan rice, does seem to have some credible evidence that you can check out behind it and is being treated with some proper skepticism, but i would say in many cases over the top skepticism as if it couldn't possibly be true or that it couldn't possibly anything wrong with it. >> sean: we do know certain

things at this point, sharyl. we know that surveillance to take place, incidental, perhaps, whatever. but surveillance to take place. she didn't even deny in the interview today, although two weeks ago, susan rice seems to have amnesia and she didn't know anything aboutw this. she revealed in this interview today that she infected know. in fact, unmasking of trump officials did take place. she defended it and it leaked the information. just because she says so doesn't make it true after all she did to spread a lie about benghazi on separate morning shows. >> she did tell and give completely false information about benghazi on numerous occasions. i think if you look back, this is my opinion based on the evidence. you will see a pattern that involves surveillance, whether it's whistleblowers, political opponents, journals and othere people who occurred under the obama administration may have other administrations as well but we know factually that it occurred in an unprecedented

weight under the obama administration, and i think when you put it all together on a timeline, it starts to paint a picture and kind of isolated events and accusations, a pull it back pattern of behavior. >> sean: she's referring to our own james rosen and referring to what happened with the tea party groups and the irs. we have ane omission here. why would she specifically seek out raw intelligence of whether or not it was illegal surveillance, incidental pickups of trump and his transition team or his campaign? and why would she want an unmasking of those individuals? for what possible reason other than political? >> look, the national security advisor does have the ability to request and unmasking of a name. to get intelligent in and the name is redacted. you don't see it and they begin to say i i need to know who this person is in order to implement ofsome sort of policy. the problem here, sean, is that

susan rice did this specifically just foror trump officials, she did it during the transition, she did it with a high frequency all the way through the transition effort after trump was elected, and then she widely disseminated the unmasked name. that's where i think she got caught. >> sean: wouldn't it be a felony at that point? >> she released these names to other people at the state department who were clear at this, so that wouldn't be illegal to dobu that. but the only reason to unmask a name is so that you can see it and decide do i need to do something with this, implement some sort of strategy, or tell someone else? to have the name unmasked and then widely disseminated to other people in the nfc at the state department, that's pure politics. there is no question in my mind and others in the state

department who believe that this information was widely disseminated so that it would bn leaked, and as we know, someone tweak it. susan rice s claims that she didn't like it, but it just doesn'tat hold water for someone so political like susan rice who has been caught too c many times to widely disseminate unmasked names. there's no reason to widely disseminate that and she did and the people at the state department began to say wait a minute, why are we getting this? there's no reason for it. as we want to get to this raw intelligence, there's a record every time you go into a secure area. there would be a record of everything that she was looking for and soft, correct? >> absolutely come whenn she opens up a cable, if she forwards the information and that's all reported in his along with that. we can tell exactly who received this information of an unmasked name. theyme should go back in and fid it. it's going to be difficult to find who leaked it, but we will know who was widely on that list

and receive the unmasked name. this is a political problem for her and clearly doing it during the transition indicates that she was doing this against her political enemies, and to me, we've got to get to the bottom of this. rand paul is exactly right about an investigation. b sean: sharyl i will give you the last word. when we are talking about spying on an incoming president under the guise of national intelligence t, not to me, i cat think of any possible scenario where this information wouldma have been unmasked or revealed. i just can't, except for political perks? purposes. >> in communication with alerted me a couple years ago and my own entries in case if they felt there was a lot of mischief going on inside agencies the intelligence was being used in a way that had never went before. they have been t there before ad were extremely concerned about patterns they saw.

three when i remember that too. i think this is going to grow and it's going to be smoking guns coming from us i guess. good to see both, thank you. grandpa want susan rice to be called in front of comp deny congress toce be testified under oath. rice wased earlier asked about t and dodged a question. we will show you her answer and we will show t you reaction from the kentucky senator straightahead. thank you! imagine if the things you bought every day earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you'll get a free checked bag, 2 united club passes... priority boarding... and 50,000 bonus miles. everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. the united mileageplus explorer card. imagine where it will take you. why pause a spontaneous moment? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph.

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>> sean: welcome back. >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." yesterday in the wake of the reports that obama's former national security advisor, susan rice, unmask the name of trump transition team members. senator rand paul said that ray should testify b under oath befe congress today. susan rice was asked about this during her interview on the ever so loving msnbc. take a look. >> rand paul is suggesting that you be subpoenaed to testify.te would you be willing to? >> you know, andrea, let's see what comes. i'm not going to sit here and prejudge. but what i will say is that the investigations that are underway, as to the russian involvement in our electoral process are very important. they are very serious. every american ought to have an

interest in those investigationv going wherever the evidence indicates they should. i have an interest in that as an american citizen, as a former u.s. official. i would want to be helpful in that process if i could. >> sean: here with reaction, rand paul. a knife? nice pivot on her part. we have month of conspiracies and no evidence of all but she contradicted that she did an alien show tonight she said to me so that she doesn't know anything about this and she has unmasking the identities of americans caught up in incidental intelligence gathering and unmasking of these people are. >> i didn't necessarily get a "yes" or a "no" from the answer that she gave come up with the question i would ask susan rice if she came before congress -- did you discuss with the president that you were unmasking trump transition officials? and what world would have ever been appropriate for white house

staff, white house political staff, to be unmasking conversations, highly classified and private conversations with trump, general flynn, and others? i see no world in which that would be appropriate. she needs to be made to answer for this. this is not a benign thing because it gives a black eye to the entire intelligence community if it's gathering up all these private conversations and is it going toate be releasd to the media? this is a big prawn and we need to get to the bottom of it. >> sean: i agree with you more and more. i'm getting convinced on the evidence that's coming out that they used the ruse of this is a legitimate intelligence gathering but it seems that the real intelligence gathering was spying on trump and a spying on then candidate truck. and then on the spying president-elect trump. it went on for a long time. >> it really has no excuse. there's a great article on national review by mccarthy who talks about who the

investigated arms? if someone was investigating a russian thai, would it be the white house doing the investigation, would it be doing though susan rice's job? it would be the cia or someone else. it would in no world be susan rice's job. i think it is pretty important toto understand that millions of americans are caught up in this web of intelligence collection, millions of americans phone calls are caught up and we can't allow them to look at americans phone calls without a warrant just because they disagree with us politically.li this is very, very dangerous to our republic. >> sean: i really agree. then america becomes a police state, let's be honest here. thefi private or confidential information is being revealed and unmask and await, and there is no such thing as privacy. i've been asking for forms for this for a long time because thr searches that many of us are concerned about, and i think there need to be reforms. for example, if they are listening to a conversation with another branch of government,

the legislative branch, they need to hang up and not be eavesdropping. it's not that they should adjust unmask our conversations, they should not have the president or the executive branch should not be allowed to eavesdrop on the legislative branch is a to my private phone calls. >> sean: you met with the president and played golf with him this weekend, from my secret sources, you guys actually had a meeting of the minds on a lot of issues involving health care. by all accounts, it seems like those negotiations are continuing in the house and then obviously have moved to the senate. how do you feel about the chances of getting tof the repeal, replace position you want to be an? >> when i sit down with the president, i do feel like we have a kinship and i do think we understand each other. we are obviously different individuals and we have some differences and haven't been in the same place on this health care bill, but i do think heam wants the same thing that i wantan and that is we want to repeal obamacare. this is united republican for

six years. the initial bill did not do that. i think the bills getting closer. i think we should thank the house of freedom caucus for actually not bowing? bowing down and taking any bill. it has fought tooth and nail and taking a lot of barbs from a lot of establishment republicans but are making the bill better. i think there's a chance c we nd to get to a good bill but we should take the house freedom caucus for that. >> sean: you and i agree on that. they were unfairly maligned, and from what i understand, there seems to be a middle ground and a needle that's being threaded and i'm hoping we get there. senator, good to see you. thanks for being with us. up next, we need your help with a very important question of the date. it has toy do a susan rice. we want you to weigh in. that is next llar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing.

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this evening. as always, thanks for being with us. see you back here tomorrow nigh night. ♪ >> dana: breaking tonight, president obama's top security official, susan rice, breaks her silence on her role in unmasking american citizens as she faces increasing calls from lawmakers to testify in an open congressional hearing. i'm dana perino in for martha maccallum. this is day 75 of the first 100 days. susan rice is now facing her own big reveal after two days of reports confirm she was the obama era official who ordered raw intelligence to name names. now miss rice is denying she ever leaked those names but argues that the process of unmasking was well within her pursue as the national security advisor. >> i received those reports as did each of those other officials. and there were occio