of mine, pomposity, smugness and especially of groupthink and that's pretty common. "hannity" is up next, don't miss it, have a great night, see you tomorrow. ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity," and tonight in just a few minutes, sarah carter, bill bennett will all join us, but first from the very moment that president trump put his hand on the bible and to swear an oath to protect and defend this great country, the alt radical left just right from the media, they have been working overtime to push their partisan agenda and destroy president trump's presidency. the big question tonight, why did the obama administration unmask members of the trump transition team and maybe even the president-elect candidates trump himself ? why did they weapon eyes and politicize the use of raw

intelligence? that is tonight's opening monologue. this is now becoming a scandal of historic and monumental proportions. the latest chapter of the partisan press enfolded on march the fourth following this tweet from president trump, "just found out that obama had wiretapped just before the victory, nothing found. this is mccarthyism." that tweet sent to the mainstream oath left hates trump media into an all-out frenzy. in the next several days instead of investigating, they collectively mocked, they ridiculed, they bash to the president. watch them in all their horrible coverage. >> our conspiracy theory president is at it again. whenever something like this happens i wonder what are the president's source of information? where is he getting these ideas? >> the president of the united states is accusing the former president of wiretapping

him. >> i think this is again at something if this happened, if, if, if, if, the mike. >> the president of the united states has no facts to back up the starting allegation during the campaign. >> here's a man that is spent used years of his life trying to convince america he's retroactively abort him from the womb of democracy. >> he's not the product of himself, if we're sticking to horror, frankenstein is the name of the doctor, not the monster. >> he's got virtually no support on capitol hill on this statement. >> it's amazing to watch the white house continue to argue that the earth is flat. >> sean: it turns out to destroy trump media they had no facts when the partisan press, when they got bored scolding president trump over his tweet they went right back to the same conspiracy eight months now

trump concluded with the russians to win the election, a baseless claim that the mainstream media has been out there with all these months without one single shred of evidence, not one, watch this. >> i'll say it again, this russian connection just keeps building it every time it builds an expense you have to wonder if trump himself isn't worried about what's swirling around under the covers. >> cnn has learned new details of the fbi investigation into potential links between individuals associated with the trump campaign of the russian government. >> specifically i think it means a federal judge found that people in trump's organization were colluding with the russians. russians. >> was there somebody inside the trump campaign who was working with them, and did the president know about that, and were they successful? >> sean: eight months later, all innuendo, zero facts. then the house intel committee chairman devin nunes announced he had capital evidence of president trump and members of his transition team had been caught up in incidental

surveillance were their names were in fact also unmasked. he also revealed this intel was shared among high-level obama administration officials, so do you think the media went out with a serious claim? do you think they reported these shocking revelations? they didn't. as you can probably guess the media reacted by besmirching into smearing and character assassination against congressman nunez, watch this. >> who decided that devin nunes was qualified to be the house intel chair? from everybody that i've spoken to that have worked with him, republicans, democrats, they say he is not up to that task. >> it made him look like a show for the white house. >> the chairman of the committees next down there in the evening, he says weakly he goes down there comes out and then goes back down there the next morning with a report that he got from the white house. does that sound like a masquerade to you?

>> sean: pretty unbelievable and while the old left destroy trump propaganda media it was busy smearing anyone and everyone who didn't echo their biased agenda, we did have real journalist from the fox news channel right here, who were actually doing their jobs. they reported that susan rice called if the unmasking of members of the trump transition team appeared yesterday, susan rice didn't even deny it, watch out, don lemmon, van jones, the clinton news network, they want you to think these developments are just a big distraction, they're back to the conspiracy, take a look. >> do you think this is a diversion from the russia story? so far we've seen no evidence that he's done anything improper and it seems like an effort to tar and feather her to try to make a lie the truth, the original tweet by the president. >> this is much ado about nothing, you've got to go hood and much to do about absolutely

nothing. listen, susan rice is being tarred, feathered and burned alive for doing her job in a good way. >> sean: unmasking americans political opponents, a transition team, that's not her job. then over there at msnbc, remember chris threw up his own like a matthews and others? they took the low road and once again accused republicans of being racist and sexist for targeting susan rice, this is insanity where watching, look. >> by looking for a pinata they found one of susan rice. >> know it is how it's female? >> they're defaming her without a reason to do so because she's a woman because as a black woman because they didn't like her to invent guys a. >> sean: you don't like the facts and claim racism and sexism? president trump is not letting the media defined as narrative, earlier today he said "it's such an important story for our country and the world, it's one

of the biggest stories of our time." here's the challenge, will the partisan destroy press media treat the story with the importance it deserves? will they continue to weapon eyes and politicize national intelligence, reveal the name of innocent americans when there is no want to spy on them? will they ever get to the bottom of who classified intel about michael flynn? will they ever apologize for ridiculing president trump over his surveillance claims now that he is proven right? my message is clear. abc, cbs, cnn, all of the friends of the national print media, "the new york times," "washington post." it's time to realize that your level of partisanship, has gotten away and totally clouded your judgment and what is now one of the biggest scandals in american history.

maybe you do something right for once, maybe admit you're biased, may be apologize to the american people. maybe apologize to the president because your veil of unbiased journalism is a sham. don't hold your breath, i'm not expecting the apologies. joining us now from the american central of law and justice, sarah carter, anything that i said wrong here? >> no i think it's devastating as a journalist, my job is to be a watchdog and to investigate and to be a watchdog on the government and agencies and with regard to the military, with regard to the justice department. it's also to be a voice for the voiceless. it's not to be partisan and what we've seen here with our investigation should raise alarm. and should continue, we should continue these investigations. it's not fair to the american people when they are not being served by the media. we're supposed to be the fourth estate, were supposed to be part of those checks and balances and

when we don't do that, we fail our own system and we failed the american people. >> sean: in two weeks ago, we know that susan rice, i don't know anything about this. then she admitted to the unmasking. why can you think of any circumstances white susan rice, national security advisor would need to unmask a trump transition team member or candidate or part of the candidacy team of donald trump? >> the reason is politics. whatever she says, her denial is false flat number one. who's going to believe susan rice? i've said yesterday she is the liar chief here. if you look at the facts that we know and she's acknowledged the unmasking that she was the principle that authorized and asked for the unmasking. if you ask yourself the timing of this is not just bizarre it's the real evidence. this was other than politics, what could this possibly be, because between then and now

nothing has happened. no information has gotten out that any other intelligence agency has said that there's been any collusion between the trump campaign, trump campaign officials, and the russians. in fact, to the contrary. the president was right. he used the phrase and he undersold it. he said wiretaps which is kind of the vernacular of surveillance, it was much more than wiretaps evidently, it was electronics surveillance, and i want to call it what it is. they were spying on him and his incoming administration. that's what it appears to be. the media ignoring this as if it does not exist, there doesn't nothing that susan rice could possibly have done that's wrong, she could not pass the character witness test if you put her up in a trial, bring out the parade of horribles for her. >> sean: she like two weeks ago, she totally contradicted herself yesterday but just like she lied on sunday shows when she said a spontaneous demonstration where the demonstrators just happened to have mortars and rpgs in their back pocket at the time so they

decided to take them out just because they felt like it. she only admits to the unmasking, she doesn't admitted to licking the intelligence print that is directly related to your reporting because since 2011 they relaxed the rules as it relates to unmasking. so really it made it easier to spy and look at the names of those people that were picked up through incidental intelligence that we don't have warrants on. right or wrong? >> right, this is why it's so important as a journalist that i continue to investigate this. this is why it's so important that other news agencies continue and begin to investigate this. one of the things we have to figure out, with our intelligence weapon eyes, was this part of a political espionage? she may not get charged with anything. that's absolutely true because the rules were so relaxed and people have to understand this. the rules were so relaxed that all she had to do was make that request to the nsa and say due

to national security matters i need to see this information. and that was handed to her. >> sean: will pick it up with you right after the break, we're going to continue this investigation, will do the job the mainstream media will not do which is really sad and also later tonight. >> it certainly is a theory in search of a villain and for whatever reason the hard right has always chosen susan rice to be there villain. >> sean: pathetically congressman adam schiff defending it susan saying republicans have already painted her as a villain, should he recuse himself from the russian investigation? will get reaction from monica crowley, bill belknap and dr. sebastian gorka. he'll weigh in on the bombshell report that susan rice wasn't behind the unmasking of trump officials, will do their job right here on hannity. [ ominous music ]

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>> sean: as we continue to ask the questions mainstream media will not ask, did president obama, members of hib administration knowingly surveilled president trump and members of its transition team and incoming opposition party? we continue with jay sekulow and sara carter, the answer is

obviously yes, let's talk about the legal aspects from your perspective. >> with regard to susan rice, i would look at the conspiracy statute under the espionage act, 793f because it makes it a felony if you conspire with someone. the fact that she did not possibly do the actual police, she did the unmasking but she did not put in place leaked the information to the press and elsewhere that's not the end of the story. the question is about a four susan rice's actions, these leaks would not have happened, did individuals she speak with or have contact with or dealt with, did they put in place a series of events that led to the leaking and susan rice was fully aware of? i would start looking at the espionage act, the conspiracy, licking confidential information is a felony as well. this is the typical situation a prosecutor would look at and say is there a conspiracy of

multiple people engaged in action with result in the crime? each individual person could have had their share of it. >> sean: where is the fbi director? remember he did confirm that they were looking into other issues. one directly confronted about the leaking end of this issue, he wouldn't confirm or deny anything. in my opinion commotion to a grand jury be convened by now and certainly a lot of these people but to the house and selling it intelligence committees and put under oath? >> i hope the grand jury is already in panel, i don't know that but i hope that's the case. that's clear that the grand jury should be impaneled. james comay is engaged in selective enclosure of his activities, that's clear. he has politicized the fbi. i think it's great that the committees, the intelligence committees do their job which is to investigate this i suspect that susan rice you could already hear it, she may take the privileges, fifth amendment, she's good to try to do that. she's not going to want to talk

about the spread of >> sean: she's going to definitely be brought before those committees in my opinion, i would be shocked if she wasn't. sarah because you've been leading the way nationally on the investigative side of all this, where you see this going next? is it deeper than just unmasking the trump people? for example we had the obama administration using the irs going after conservatives? is there more to this story that you think is going to unfold here? >> i actually do. i think this goes right down to the civil liberties of americans. i think that's why this is such an important topic and a reason why the house and senate need to investigate. remember, director comay is investigating the russian hacking of the u.s. election and that encompasses everything els else. a lot of those intercepts with michael flynn came from that side. if we look at what happened with susan rice, i certainly think we need to know what she was looking at, why she was looking at it, and that she's not in

charge of any investigation. that is not her purview, that is not her job. she is more the managerial person, the national security advisor. why was she looking at this? why was she requesting all of these unmasking's? >> sean: will know because of the way they report that, right? >> we will know from that log how many times she will request unmasking, is it, and from what i have been told from my sources, it is very uncommon for the nsa, for the national security advisor to request these enormous amounts of unmasking's? >> sean: this is becoming i think one of the biggest political scandals in the history of this country. the fact of the media is ignoring it any credibility maybe they had the after having discovered that they colluded with hillary in the course of the campaign, i think both of you for being fair and keeping your foot on the gas and

unfolding one layer of an onion at a time here. it seems to be a very clear picture, weaponization and politicalization of an intelligence committee which is a danger for every single american, thank you both for what you're doing. up next, tonight, right here on this busy "hannity." >> it certainly is in search of a villain, for whatever reason, the hard right has chosen susan rice to be there villain. >> sean: congressman adam schiff the ranking member on the house intel committee, he is openly defending susan rice, pretty unbelievable. she lied again, monica crowley, bill bennett, they'll join us next to weigh in on that lunacy. also later tonight, president trump and susan rice may have committed a crime, will ask dr. sebastian gorka about that and it reaction much more straight after me safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that.

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>> live from america's news headquarters, i'm jackie ibanez in new york. the intelligence reporters the center of the unmasking controversy and resembled a private investigator's file. former national security advisor susan rice is accused of seeking to unmask the identity of trump associates caught up in surveillance. rice denies such information, and defends her request as routine appeared of outrage growing around the world tonight in the wake of yesterday's chemical attack in syria, nikki haley u.s. ambassador to the u.n. offering up asserting witticism of president bashar al-assad government. morning with the trump administration will take action if the u.n. security council fails to. it comes after the death toll after rises to 75. i'm jackie ibanez now back to hannity. >> sean: will come back to "hannity," so the left went nuts

after the house intel committee chairman devin nunes that his job by revealing that the trump transition team was in fact surveilled. we have explosive tape of the ranking democrat congressman adam schiff openly showing his bias. tonight we are asking, should he recuse himself from the russian investigation? that's tonight's mini monologue. if the old left propagated destroy trump media, they are doing their best to smear and slander and besmirch devin nune nunez. now it is congressman adam schiff who is openly showing bias in this case, listen to what he said last night defending susan rice. >> it certainly is a fairy in search of a villain. for whatever reason, the hard right has always chosen susan rice to be there villain. i think you heard some snippets about that today. i was dragooned into service into the select committee for

two years, that purpose was to take down hillary clinton's numbers part one of the central figures that they went after wasn't susan rice. after two years they could find nothing at that rice did wrong. the only thing that susan rice did was go on sunday morning shows and repeat what the intelligence committee best assessment of the early hours of benghazi was. that was consistent with what we were hearing, what susan rice was hearing, that's all they could find which was perfectly appropriate on her part. what it is, they have about susan rice they like to go after her i don't know. of >> sean: republicans made her into a villain, susan rice didn't lie about the unmasking two weeks ago on pbs. she said she knew nothing about it and then yesterday she admitted she knew everything about it, she also light back in 2012 on the five sunday shows after the benghazi terror attack. there's no need for the republicans to paint is everything, she's a known liar.

instead of focusing on her outright lies on the trump surveillance, schiff is now changing the subject. maybe it's time for him, adam schiff to recuse himself from this russian investigation. that we as congressman shipped to be asked of this program, he hasn't responded yet, shocking. fox news contributor, the host of the bill bennett podcast, it seems like he already made his conclusion. >> don't you think it's curious that chairman nunez fell the documents on march 22nd, he then went to brief the republican leadership including speaker ryan and so long. we didn't get any leaks from him on this for the first time we got a leak about any of this came this monday initial bloomberg report? what happened in the interim? that's right, adam schiff got briefed on the document the friday before. you know why? when he saw what was in those documents and we don't know, but he absolute obvious he saw

something serious. to basically silence him. he went to nancy pelosi and said i saw something here. we don't know what it was but he ran to his leader in the house and then you get the leak about susan rice, that is not a coincidence here. adam schiff has some serious issues, he heat. >> sean: he needs to go, he is too partisan. if he has been calling for refusals on the republicans. bill bennett, thoughts. >> yeah, i don't know if he goes, he's going to be replaced by jim hines or jackie spier or castro, not partisans, they'll be partisans. one person who may have to recuse himself i don't know if you heard this afternoon, dustin johnson filled the mic fell down a flight of stairs, number 1 seed for the masters. that aside. on a serious point, i know you follow this stuff, he started

boiling this water and now the water is getting hot and he's in the pot. i see no reason to take them out of the pot. he is gone dark and he's gotten silent, i want to see his evidence. because i think it will come his embarrassment. >> sean: we know that she lied about benghazi, what he said was false. they knew within a minutes and hours that it was a terrorist attack and she said that someday, this was a spontaneous demonstration. with all due respect, i don't know what spontaneous demonstrators that just happened to carry in their back pocket motors and rpgs. that never made sense, dr. bennett. >> its allies of misrepresentation. look at the total self-destruction of the media here. during the trump campaign and the now. i could not believe cnn can be played a lot of it saying that there is fox over there, don't look at fox, no what looked cute do, don't look at fox.

it's unbelievable what's happening, the next person up will do the same thing. i think as the facts come forward, he should to be grilled, he should be interviewed. if he recuse himself, he disappears. don't let him disappear, keep them in the spotlight, i have confidence that we are right on this one. >> i agree with bill on this, there's a reason why congressman is out there trying to deflect from the real story. what i'm hearing is that this case is moving toward a special counsel on a watergate level scale. the reason is because the congressional investigators can't get to the actual intelligence documents. if the intelligence community, the agency have locked the door on the investigators in terms of getting to the bottom of all of this. at the fbi which is also running a parallel investigation also may in fact be compromised. they may be involved in this matter, why? because director comay came out and said that they had been investigated in the trump campaign and the trump folks since july. if they can't be running an investigation without surveillance.

the fbi may in fact be caught up in this matter as well. it may in fact suggest the idea of a special counsel, everybody hates the idea and the terrible solution. >> sean: listen to what you're saying, our intelligence committees have been organized and politicized and the fbi too? i agree with you. >> we don't have the answers, and its early days. it seems it will be a republican decision or east of republican encouragement a special counsel because the two investigative bodies congress and the fbi made not to be able to get to the story and the truth of what's going on. >> sean: we have 15 seconds, bill bennett you have the last word. >> justin brandeis said sunlight is the best disinfected, thank god we have a republican president, incident and house, encourages devin nunes' strong suit, let's see it in senator burr as well, we'll get to the bottom of this if we put the right light on this.

>> sean: if we put the light on this, i say people will be going to jail, thank you both for being with us. up next, susan rice blatantly lied to you the american people two weeks ago by saying that she had no knowledge, none of the unmasking of the trump transition team members paired up next, dr. sebastian gorka debunks that lie and then later, was president obama? why isn't he going out there defending susan rice? michelle fields, lisa boothe they weigh in as well tonight on that "hannity" " various: (shouting) heigh! ho! ( ♪ ) it's off to work we go! woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. and each job created by the energy industry

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>> asking about the allegations leveled today by house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes trump transition officials including the president may 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 on that count today. >> sean: that was a susan rice, only two weeks ago when she told pbs that she knew nothing about the surveillance of the trump transition team and members of the president-elect. multiple sources now confirming that susan rice did know about the surveillance and was in fact responsible for the unmasking of trump officials. earlier today when asked by "the new york times" if he thought susan rice had committed a crime, the president responded "do i think? yes, i think.

dr. sebastian gorka, you know a thing or two about intelligence but you also know a thing or two about a somebody two weeks ago, i don't know anything about this. the tenants revealed that she is doing the unmasking, she's got herself a huge credibility problem. beyond that, what is she saying here by admitting unmasking? >> i think you've accurately identified how the story is falling apart. if you can purchase the difference in her statements in the last 36 hours, there's clearly something that is not being openly discussed or disclosed here. if you follow the discussion, the writing of people like andy mccarthy and others, there's the whole issue of fisa without fisa. the potential for politically motivated use of the intelligence community to spy on individuals without the adequate

warrants being obtained or the adequate permissions being followed, simply using the authority that she's had at the national security advisor to unmask individuals, add to it eight days before, with thousands more people across government. you put all the pieces together, there's not just smoke there's actually flames. >> what you are describing is the weapon icing if you will come of the politicizing our intelligence agencies and it would have to have been done by the top people. as you know i have deep respect for those in intelligence, they put the lies on the line for us regularly. their job is imperative in a world that has this much evil in it. if you are going to use raw intelligence and unmask people that are political opponents, to me this sounds like the beginning of a police state, and

my overstating that? >> it's a list of banana republic, the weaponization of the security services is what you expect in a banana republic or police state. let's look at one more piece of evidence. i served as a commissioned officer of the president, so to cheat. so we understand that. you're supposed to be a professional. i challenge your viewers right now to go to her twitter feed and read her tweets after january the 20th and read her colleagues been a rhodes and: kh l. the mask was taken off just three weeks ago,: it use the word purge with regards to people like myself and steve bannon and other people in the white house who they think should not be there. purging is the kind of word that maoists use, that's the kind of

word that was used to get rid of people that you politically disagree with perhaps even in violent ways. these people have unmasked themselves, sure. >> sean: but dr. gorka, it should be the type of thing as i understand to even have access to this information this process of unmasking. it is in a secure area that you are escorted in, every single bit of the raw intelligence should be recorded, all of this should be available to the american people. why is it not being released in the sense that we know, did she only asked for the unmasking of either candidate trump, president-elect trump, the transition team, members of his cabinet, did they only act in this case which would prove that it's all politicized and weapon eyes? >> look, the president has been explicit here. we're going to allow the mandated authority of the congressional committees to do their work. if were not going to do witch

hunts, that's what the left radical, progressive political elite does with their enemies. we're going to let the system deal with this as it should. again, your guests, i listen to your radio show as i was coming in to the show today. you had a former operative talk about how it's not rocket science, and network analysis of telephone calls, who is calling who. if you want to attack me or steve bannon or steve miller or kelly on conway you say they regularly call their nephew in canada. that's a foreigner, i don't need the same kind of intelligence or authorities to intercept a foreign call. then you start to find a way to unmask all of these conversations so that you can make political profit. that's a very, very tenable theory, that's the kind of thing we have to find out if it was really happening. if that's the case, that is

weapon icing intelligence for political purposes against your other party. >> by its very definition, it's beyond watergate and steroids and human growth hormone. >> losing 14 minutes of audiotape in comparison of this is a little spat in the sandbox in the kindergarten. >> sean: while, thank you dr. gorka, where is the mainstream media? coming up, where is president obama? white city putting out a statement defending susan rice? this controversy is not going away, what did he know, when did he know what? up next, we'll get a reaction from michelle fields, lisa boothe as "hannity" continues iv make your body go by forcefully stimulating the nerves in your colon. miralax is different. it works with the water in your body to hydrate and soften. unblocking your system naturally. miralax.

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>> sean: will come back to "hannity" so susan rice is once again in hot water. nothing new for the former at beaumont national security advisor who became infamous in 2012 for blatantly lying about the benghazi attacks on five sunday morning shows. now that one of his top officials is once again fending off claims of impropriety, where's president obama? why isn't he defending his former national security adviso advisor? we reached out to former president obama to join us on this program, but surprise, surprise, he declined the invitation. joining us with reaction from a fox news fox news contributor

lisa boothe and conservative author, commentator, michelle fields. i get to that obama is not good to comment on it, i understand. from the perspective of what susan rice said two weeks ago, knowing she lied on those five sunday shows, why would anyone take anything she says at this point seriously? >> yeah, look it's very suspicious that she went on pbs and said that the unmasking never happened but it's also suspicious that the leaking of the trump official names were unmasked. if there is no one that's suggesting other than the president that what she did was illegal. is it not illegal, as of yet. we don't have all of the information that we need and i think that's why he's probably not coming out there. obama is rejoining his time retiring, he's out on the beach, vacationing, he doesn't want to get involved in this. >> sean: sara carter did point out they did relax these rules as it relates to unmasking back in 2011. i think it susan rice was actually fairly clever in what

she said when she said i unmasked them but i didn't leak the information. >> yeah, and i think that context is really important. the obama administration didn't change those rules so that information could be more widely and easily disseminated across the government. it is a big problem if the obama administration essentially weapon eyes to u.s. intelligence and spying on the political opponents. that's what seems to be shaping up here, that's in fact what happened, we have big problems on our hands here. this is a demonstration that has problems with the truth, not just suspicious, susan rice has already discredited herself in a matter of weeks, just since march 22nd alone, this is an administration that also might about. >> what you're suggesting is a charge for it >> no it's not, >> it's a against. >> sean: i love you both come out one of time. michelle, you want to respond, go ahead.

>> i think that's a serious charge, she's suggesting with president obama was spying on a political opponent. what was happening was lawful surveillance of foreign nationals and unfortunately americans were swept up into it. the idea that he is spying on political opponents, those are the facts right now. >> that's actually not the facts, it's been reported that there is information that she was looking at that had nothing to do with russia or at the the fbi investigation. >> sean: nobody can hear you. here's what sara carter was been really on top of this, i've also interviewed a lot of people within the intelligence community and people with cia backgrounds and they'll tell tell me the same thing. raw intel is so sensitive and not corroborated. to surveillance and american citizen you need a warrant. incidentally in the process of the nsa doing their job they

pick up an american, there's a process called minimization where you don't reveal with the american is and you minimize what information they are saying unless they are reporting a crime of some kind. usually the standard operating procedure is that you write an american, you don't reveal their information. why is she seeking a reveal just on trump people, that doesn't seem odd to you? >> i do think it probably is odd at the national security advisor if you're getting a report that's talking about foreign officials talking about white house officials were going to be coming into the white house therefore she made d theeded unmask more report more clearly but we don't know. we don't have enough information to figure out whether this was political. it's possible that it was. >> sean: let's play a word game here, what other reason would there be that she is looking for the unmasking only as it relates to the trump transition and may be candidates trump?

one of the possible reason could there be >> if there is a report coming in of a foreign national talking about, we don't know the context of these reports, that's what i'm saying. >> what's been reported is the fact that a lot of this information had little to do with national security interest interests. that's the question here, is the motivation behind this. if, in fact, she was doing this, we all ready know for a fact that the obama administration has abused this sort of spying intel already on james rosen as well as the associated press. there's already been incidences of abuse. >> sean: there's more than that too because we know that the irs was used as a weapon against conservative groups living up to the 2012 election to kind of suppress their effectiveness. what's so serious about this is if we take this to its conclusion and now that we know she unmasked these people and

she lied about it, what was she trying to hide two weeks ago, michelle? >> it absolutely is suspicious, absolute believe there should be an independent commission that investigates this. as of right now we don't know if she making it a crime, it's possible, it does look suspicious, why would you deny it a few weeks ago? as of right now, the facts don't say yes, she indeed committed a crime. it >> nobody yet is really saying the president is saying. >> the only crime that we know for fact that happiness the legal leak of classified information, outside of that, -- it >> sean: my fear is what financing and politicizing intelligence, that is a very scary scenario for anybody and i think we all agree and the rights to privacy for individuals. good debate tonight, thank you. when the quebec, we need your help a very important question of the day those very kind messages you've all been living for me on the hannity hotline, the straightahead.

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