continue whether or not director comey is in place. >> we had the breaking news about the grand jury. that's it for us. >> happy birthday, dana. >> a special edition of special report with bret baier is on at 11:00. >> sean: think you guys on "the five." welcome to "hannity." president trump fires the fbi director james comey. we will have a full and complete reaction to tonight's big breaking news. it is with the mainstream media will never tell you tonight. newt gingrich, lou dobbs, jay secular, sara carter. kicking comey to the curb. this is the first step in president trump draining the deep state swamp. that's my most important monologue ever. welcome back to speeninetspeeninet een. we will cut through all of the noise. all of the nonsense on this program tonight and tell you

exactly what the left and destroy trump media will not tell you. james comey, the former now fbi director is a national embarrassment. is that plain and simple. frankly, he's very lucky that president trump kept him around this long because of his now unhinged and very erratic behavior. firing james comey with absolutely the single right thing for the president to do. it's good for the country and let me tell you why. comey has failed. you, the american people, on a spectacular level. and on every single, the fbi director disrespected the constitution. he does not care about the equal opportunity application of the rule or of law being applied. our for the moment rights have been trimmed the palm and worst of all, he has created a two-tiered justice system. one for hillary, and one for the rest of america. it's become a travesty. comey tonight should should be ashamed of himself.

let's start with facts, hillary clinton and the private email servers she uses purposely to circumvent what is known as congressional oversight. here are the facts, plain and simple. her server contained top-secret special access proother words, l of classified information on her computer. she deleted over 30,000 emails on my computer, claiming they were personal. they were about yoga, weddings, grandchildren and emailing bill clinton who never had an email account. this was a lie from the get-go. what's so despicable about this is it back in july when comey made a big announcement about hillary clinton and the investigation, he acknowledged all of these facts which by the way -- it's an acknowledgment that crimes are committed. take a look. >> in a group of 30,000 emails returned to the state department in 2014, 110 emails and 52 email

chains had been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. eight of those chains contained information that was top-secret at the time they were sent. 36 of those chains contained secret information at the time. and eight contained confidential information at the time. separate from those, about 2,000 additional emails were unclassified to make them confidential. none of these emails should have been on any unclassified system. but what's especially concerning his all of these emails warehoused on unclassified, personal circles. not even supported by agencies or departments of the united states government. or a service like gmail. >> sean: what you saw it right was james comey laying out the legal case against

hillary clinton and then inexcusably, after 30 minutes of a stinging indictment, he let her off the hook. and comey completely ignored all the laws that hillary clinton broke which you can see on the side of your scream. nobody in the destroy-trump-media is telling you this tonight. if you or i, anyone in this audience, did anything close to what hillary clinton did -- you would be put in jail. you would be perp walked, fingerprinted, mug shot it and put in jail. james comey proved himself to be in the end, nothing more sadly than a political hack. he didn't deliver equal justice under the law. this is because comey thought hillary clinton was going to win and become the president? i i don't know, i won't specula. comey was only three years into his tenured term. let's talk about the clinton foundation and the alleged pay

to play scheme. they lined their pockets. millions and millions of dollars while hillary was serving as secretary of state. the evidence of wrongdoing is -- clinton even give up 20% of this nation's uranium to vladimir putin and his corrupt uranium one deal. she personally signed off on that 20% going to put him. the evidence of wrongdoing is overwhelming. the radical left and destroy-trump-media and james comey sat on the sidelines and ignore the rule of law. 20% -- meanwhile, the clinton foundation lining their pockets -- let me give you another example, more recently, the egregious violation of our fourth amendment rights of americans like general flynn, who were incidentally caught up in foreign surveillance.

leaked to the press by any measure -- the one crying crime know was committed in the case of general flynn didn't bother call me one bit. sally yates even said yesterday she would never ask about this by comey. he did nothing to get to the truth, to get answers about who leaked information about general mike flynn, a felony other unde espionage act. he did nothing to stop this fall's lie that been advanced for so many months. that russia was colluding with trump. he should've laid it to rest once and for all. in his letter firing comey, the president revealed comey told him on three separate occasions that he is not being investigated. why didn't the fbi director come forward and tell that to you, the american people?

especially since he was so quick to divulge information exonerating hillary clinton, who he laid out the case saying she violated the law. even james clapper said the russian collusion talking point was not based on facts at all. it's all predicated on one big lie. on innuendo. on bizarre conspiracies. to james comey, good riddance. he deserves everything he got tonight. he has earned this. although the media, which loves hillary, didn't want trump to win, didn't think trump would win, they would never say this. speaking of the mainstream media, they are losing their minds tonight over this. they have gone completely insane. they are not giving you the truth or the facts that we just gave you. they are trying to turn this into a scandal, that it is not -- they are trying to destroy this president and delegitimize him from day one. here's some evidence. remember wikileaks?

the alt left propaganda destroy-trump-media was proven again and again to have colluded with the clinton campaign. they were her biggest donor and in her corner. they wanted hillary elected, just like they never vetted -- just like back in the day, bill ayres, they never told you the truth about obama. they never told you after eight years how he failed spectacularly. they have been gunning for president trump since day one. is it any surprise they are trying to destroy this president tonight? and then of course, the democrats. chucky schumer, crocodile tears in stuff. foaming at the mouth tonight over this news. listen to the feigned outrage of chuck's chuck schumer. >> they fired sally yates. they fire director call me now. the very man leading the

investigation. this does not seem to be a coincidence. this investigation must be run as far away as possible from this white house and as far away as possible from anyone that president trump has appointed. given the way the president fired director comey, any person who he appoints to lead the rush investigation will be concerned that he or she will meet the same fate as director comey if they run afoul of the administration. >> sean: keep in mind, this is the same hypocrite and same phony -- chuck schumer, back in november, right before the election -- he said that's about james comey after he reopened the investigation in the hillary clinton server scandal.

if that is not enough, take a look at all these liberals. you won't see this on any other network tonight. i promise you. they hated comey before he got fired. now tonight, they love him. watch this. >> we are all disturbed by the letter which really broke precedent, over the advice of the leaders of the justice department. i'm not challenging mr. comey's motivation but i do think it will be unwarranted. >> why he did what seems to be such an appalling act that it goes against tradition of prosecutors on every level of government. when i heard about it, i found it hard that comey would do this. >> i think he made a mistake on this. he clearly has a double standar standard. if you are not in it for a while, you can't take the heat. i think you can take the heat

from republicans. >> sean: what you are seeing there is a bunch of liberal hypocrites laying nothing but pure politics. joining us now on this very serious news night, newt gingrich. mr. speaker, i'm trying to lay out the case here. james comey i think earned this. i would love your thoughts. >> i think the key facts is that the brand-new deputy attorney general, a 30-year justice department career -- endorsed by the senate 94-6, this is the person who wrote the letter, which is devastating and said it's clear that director comey cannot lead the fbi and has made such a series of mistakes that has crippled the morality of the fbi, in that letter goes through citing

attorney general after attorney general all saying what comey has done violates totally the fbi -- president trump, give the deputy attorney general who everyone agrees is a nonpartisan widely approved career professional sends a letter to the attorney general and says if we are going to rebuild the fbi, comey has to go. the attorney general's that's all right, i agree with you. he puts a cover letter on. and it shows up on president trump's desk. what i would say to democrats is -- if the president of the united states gets a letter like that from a career professional who you just voted for, how could he do anything else except accept the letter. you're looking at this career professional and saying he didn't know what he was talking about? that is what the elite media and

democrats tonight have this difficult job of trying to convince the rest of us that somehow magically barack obama u.s. eternity 30-year professional would somehow was y and people should read the actual letter. he cites attorney general after attorney general from both parties saying this is exactly wrong and comey in fact violated the rules of the justice department, the principles of the fbi and he is not capable of rebuilding the fbi. i think president trump frankly had no choice at that point. >> sean: let me read from this letter. i think it's really important. i cannot defend the directors handling of the conclusion of the investigation of secretary clinton's emails. he admitted up until he said he's not doing anything that she violated the law. he goes on to say and i do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal

judgment that he was mistaken. almost everyone agrees the director made serious mistakes. it's one of the few issues that the united states people of diverse perspective -- which we saw comments from the left, when they didn't like what comey was doing -- then he goes on to say the director was wrong to assert the attorney general's authority, announces conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution -- it is not the function of the director to make such a denouncement. at most, a director should not -- it goes on completed the investigation, presented its findings, now he defends his decision by asserting that he believes the attorney general at the time was in conflict but the fbi director is never in power to supplant federal prosecutors and assume command of the justice department, there is a well-established process for

other officials to step in when a conflict requires the refusal of the attorney general. wow. that is a powerful indictment against james comey. >> what everyone should understand is that that letter was not written by a trump campaign person or necessarily by a trump supporter. the 30-year career professional, president obama's choice to be the u.s. attorney for maryland. the u.s. senate voted 94-6 saying this man is of great integrity. when you read the letter, you realize that comey -- who by the way, as you know, in the last two weeks -- we have had hillary clinton on television saying that comey was a major reason she lost. it's kind of weird, you think the democrats will be saying yeah, i always thought what he did was wrong. now they're saying no, and get rid of him even though they were all for getting rid of him.

hillary clinton suspects he should have been gone. it also fits another pattern. if he says the american flag is white and blue, a significant number of elite media will say no, it is fuchsia. don't you understand it is fuchsia? they must stand for donald trump saying anything. trump was the executor, who decisively said you must fire comey. i think it's important to put in context what trump is doing here. it's not his personal view or about the campaign. it's the president of the united states getting a document from his attorney general saying we cannot rebuild the fbi as long as the sky is in charge. >> sean: we need to go through some facts and laws. i will go back to that july press conference when you did this 30 minute -- i was sitting there with my mouth open thinking, oh, my goodness, she is about to be indicted.

i will never forget the moment. but then at the last minute, never mind. that's kind of like what it was. the list of potential crimes here -- honestly, disclosure of classified information -- it happened, mr. speaker, that is a fact. he even said you cannot put on a private server top-secret special access -- on the lack facts, it happened. we are talking about a mom and pop shop bathroom where the email server was kept. concealment, removal, mutilation. that would count for 30,000 emails, sir. statements of entries generally. is there anything here that we don't know is proven in terms of a violation of law and why in my heart of hearts tonight, sir, but we believe we have a two-tiered justice system that if newt gingrich had done the things the clintons did, he

would be in jail tonight and i would be visiting you with a cake and a file? >> i would hope that would be the case. >> sean: i would do it for you. i am a friend. >> i would rather you reverse and say if i if you are in jaid bring you the cake. >> sean: this will be a real tee democrats in the senate. you will now have the attorney general and deputy attorney general reach out and look for somebody of such integrity, that they can rebuild faith and belief in the fbi. if the president nominates somebody who is clearly not a republican or conservative, or not a partisan but a dedicated law enforcement person of considerable background, then i think the test for the democrats is we really going to politicize the federal bureau of

investigation? even when the guy you just endorsed and got 94 senators to vote for and who is a career professional, is the guy helping defendants and put it together? i think that is the next big test. comey is gone. he will become a part of a lot of history books. turning the corner, getting a first rate leader who will rebuild the morale and integrity and public trust in the fbi, that is the big test for the trump administration. >> sean: you point out 94-6, this is an obama appointee here that wrote this letter tonight. this is not a trump appointee. if you look at all the different people that have served at the highest level of the attorney general a deputy attorney general. serving under ford, it's not the bureau's responsibility to opine on whether a matter should be

prosecuted but the director's performance was so inappropriate that the director and the bureau will ever completely recover? that's a stinging indictment. attorney general deputy attorney general under president clinton joined with larry thompson under president bush to opine that the record had chosen to personally re-strike the balance between transparency and fairness from d the director violated obligation to preserve and protect and defend the traditions of the department of the fbi. one more second. he said the same thing and that disclosing the recommendation was out of fashion. alberto gonzales, if you want to look at somebody and never thought would agree with us -- eric holder who served as deputy attorney general under president clinton and under obama said that the director's decision was incorrect and that it violated long-standing

justice department policies and traditions and it ran counter to the guidance that i put in place four years ago, laying out the proper way to conduct investigations during an election season. he concluded that it broke with these on the mental principles and both the justice department and fbi. we are talking about a broad spectrum of political views here but in the arena of law. and the department of justice and the justice department. i would like you to react to those very prominent, respected figures. >> all this is captured in the letter, who makes us unbelievably strong case that there is no defense help comey behaved. you can't have the nations leading law enforcement

agencies, with its thousands and thousands of agents -- who has capacity to get court-ordered wiretaps, with all the things he can do to gather information -- you can't have the top of that behaving capriciously on whether or not he or she will release things. they don't serve equal to or above the justice department. this is one of the more -- again, notice. even though as suggested, you can quote eric holder, the attorney general under obama and deputy attorney general under clinton. the elite media will go crazy, they will totally distort this but they will refuse to recognize and acknowledge that this was in fact a legitimate decision of the deputy attorney general, who is a career professional and was an obama appointee -- there is a

superb editorial that lays out the suitcase and it just says, look, for the good of the country and for the good of the bureau of investigation as an institution, this was the right decision. the president reacted appropriately. we could be in a lot more trouble if you got a letter that strong and didn't take any action. it took courage on president trump's part to do this. but it would have been a disaster for the country if he had rejected this letter and not done it. >> sean: that is so well said. on all of the issues that we talk about, i believe it is such a travesty of justice, that we know hillary broke laws that would put the rest of us in jail, sir. that's not equal justice under the law. you aren't allowed to do what she did with an email server, what she did with the clinton foundation, she signed off as

secretary of state -- 20% of our country's uranium goes to vladimir putin. these investigations died. the fourth amendment protections we have, sir, and general plan is surveilled -- okay, incidentally but it's leaked to the press and on three separate occasions, the president in his letter tonight says that comey says he's not under investigation. and he is allowed this to hang out there so that the entire country has been sold a bill of goods and a lie and a false conspiracy from a media that from day one has wanted to delegitimize and destroy this president. it is beyond and contributing to a crisis of incompetence and division, am i right or wrong here? >> no, you are right. the former director of national intelligence, james copper and the former acting attorney general who has

inherited from obama -- both sas no evidence that trump was in any way involved. period. you probably have various newspeople saying -- they said there's no evidence. the elite media and hard left are desperate to avoid the reality that donald trump won and that hillary clinton lost. there desperate to find a way to undermine and delegitimize president -- the average american comes to realize this was the recommendation of president obama's u.s. attorney from maryland. a career professional. and what the president it is he took the professional advice of somebody who has spent a lifetime serving the country. not a republican, not a partisan, not a companion wicker but a genuine and deeply

committed employee. i think the country will conclude this is one example of the elite media being dishonest and hysterical and one more example of us trying to move to restore the rule of law and restore integrity back to the government. >> sean: mr. speaker, thank you for being with us on this very important breaking news night. >> very important evening. >> sean: thank you so much. it's sobering, actually. joining us now with reaction, jay secular from circa news, sara carter and lou dobbs. jay, legal standpoint? let's examine this from that point of view and that perspective. >> what happened here is that james comey -- this caught up with him. he himself put his job at risk. he is the one that leading the

fbi failed to move on issues that were so clear. why it is they're not investigation that came to a conclusion other than him acting as the attorney general -- that was not his job. regarding the email service? i go back even further than that. what about the fake investigation that the fbi engaged in with those irs cases? i litigated those cases and had former clients participating inn the so-called fbi investigation. this is -- james comey without disrespect to the fbi -- the fbi does do great work. this director of the fbi should have been fired, has been fired, and i've been saying it for a year -- the problem here is he decided he was going to become the judge and jury of these matters of the fbi director. i can give you the litany of cases that should have been investigated. the clinton emails, which we

talked about at length but at the end of the day, this director of the fbi was not a leader. he politicized a portion of government that should not be. he served at the pleasure of the president. he had a 10-year term. that term ended today and it was his own undoing. he had to go back to congress today to clarify again testimony he gave. an absent director. that is his problem. it >> sean: we are not even talking about very important failures under his time. the boston marathon bombers. they were warned again by russia. still didn't do anything. in the case of -- before fort hood. he wanted to kill those soldiers for protecting the taliban. let me bring in lou. >> the issue here is that comey had it wrong from the very

beginning. the investigation took 11 months to just drop everything, the conclusion was to not prosecute when every charge against hillary clinton -- they know that she acted irresponsibly. she acted against the law and they were absolutely no consequences. it is disturbing that this recommendation that came out today, that the president the fbi director does not lead clearly the pointer towards restarting the investigation of hillary clinton. the sole judgment today on the part of the president was based on the deputy attorney general and the attorney general saying, based on his handling of the investigation, of hillary clinton -- he ought to be fired.

that being the case, the question, the investigation, the consequences and that should be reopened in my opinion. >> sean: sara carter, you've been breaking a lot of news about the issue of our fourth amendment protection. after the nsa scandal exploded in 2013, they were exposed for conducting its own data mining on innocent americans. even when no wrongdoing was found. now we know the one crime that was committed was against general flynn, surveilled intelligence unmasked, leaked. sally yates says she was never question once by james comey, the one crime we knew was committed here? >> yeah. there's never been an official investigation into the leaks. this is what is so concerning.

calling on the fbi, however this new fbi director will be, even as the interim fbi director -- andrew mccabe -- should be calling into the investigation of the leaks. it looks like director comey wanted to have his cake and eat it too. he kept playing both sides. there was a lack of intent because they didn't want to prosecute hillary clinton because of this lack of intent to prove that she was going to do anything wrong with the classified material. you don't need to prove anythin anything. the fact that she mishandled classified materials through gross negligence is enough to prosecute. that should have been left up -- even if loretta lynch would have prosecuted her, that should've been left up to her to make that decision and not director comey. this is why the deputy attorney general right now is making this decision and asked

the president to fire director comey. >> sean: jay secular, is there any doubt in your mind -- based on the law as you know it and the fact that we know about henry clinton, that she committed felonies? is there any doubt in your mind? >> there's no doubt in my mind. this should have been a grand jury panel to investigate this. if i look at the evidence that we know of, the server itself that was in an unsecured location -- right from the beginning. if you make it the simplest case, that you would take to a grand jury. you know, look, james comey -- i will say it again, he intervened in an election. whether you are a republican, democrat, independent. everyone was -- look at the false statements he made. when he made the statement that the fbi had to work tirelessly

to close the case that quickly after it was reopened and now we come out to find there may not have been that many emails in the huma abedin situation. that's the crime. the unsecured server. >> sean: why should that grand jury be convened now? i would argue about the server and all the hard work that sullivan and our friend sara carter have been doing. john solomon. all of this now -- that we now fix the problem of equal justice under the law that apparently doesn't exist. >> maybe there is a grand jury panel now. there's a grand jury always in washington, d.c. you now have to go back and now we have the deputy attorney general do this, if it takes it of the politics -- you know have to look at these cases fresh. that would include the unmasking

of general flynn. because regardless what the president decided to do, i understood why he had to let general flynn go. that wasn't the crime. the crime was the unmasking was leaked to the press. it appears it was never investigated. that is not the way it works in a constitutional republic. >> sean: let's go to lou. >> this justice department with the most politicized in history. james comey was a part of that, an integral part. we should not forget his highly conscious, purposeful alteration of language. in extreme carelessness -- that is the expression he conjured up

to avoid the use -- >> sean: gross negligence of the legal standard. >> sean: extreme carelessness is the definition. what is the difference? that is what you are telling people. >> is the legal term. extreme carelessness is gross negligence. you are exactly right, lou. >> therefore you don't have to proceed. >> sean: he played word games. >> exactly. he has adopted suddenly the director of the fbi is also the attorney general? as rosenstein said, he cannot stand. you can see that indictment of him is just truly remarkable. >> there was enormous

frustration, sean. within the fbi too. when he came out with the this. there was enormous frustration within the fbi as well when they came out with this. when the director chose not to go further with the investigation with hillary clinton. i think that was really the issue here. there is a lot of discontent within the fbi and within the administration. they wanted to rectify this. >> the idea here is very straightforward to me. the documents that were produced for the attorney general and the president that led to his decision to remove the fbi director, doesn't mean the path has cleared here to resume the investigation of hillary clinton and to proceed with a grand

jury? to reach a decision, whether it's object the bull end. >> sean: let's go back to the beginning. i don't believe justice was served here. on a whole variety of issues that we laid out here tonight. let's start with hillary clinton. let's start with the email server. i still believe when she signed off on giving away 20% of uranium americas uranium, that o the clintons. let's go back to sara carter's investigation into what she had been talking about. the law we know was broken. surveillance, incidental, unmasking -- wrong. unprecedented level. and then the leaking of intelligent, felony, violation, espionage act. where should we begin tonight even though the mainstream media is out there spinning and lying

and protecting and focusing on what is exactly the wrong issue here? >> you have had a flawed investigation from the outset and that's because the fbi director did not direct. you have to started from scratc scratch. you have to get new fbi agents in a new division involved in this. you have to point within the agency, lawyers with the agency as well as investigators that are going to review all of the evidence on all of these issues. as if it did not happen before. yet this -- you have to start this from the beginning. >> sean: the president doesn't have a say in the spirit heay a. >> sean: by the way, he has gone to some lengths. he said she should be in jail but i want to move on. >> sean: sara, i want you to have the last word. sarah ingram is standing by.

laura ingraham is standing by. >> huma abedin in the fact that director comey when investigate hillary clinton and didn't find intent with huma abedin, like sean said, our investigation into the unmasking is showing that this is highly politicized and not beyond flynn -- there were hundreds of people unmasked as well as congress, as well as other members. i think we need to look at the full scope of what was happening during the obama administration and during the election. we will get answers. >> sean: is this potentially the biggest scandal in the history of this republic, when all is said and done? >> i absolutely do believe that this is probably one of the biggest scandals in the republic. everything that we know it comes to true -- and light is shed, i really truly believe it will open everybody's eyes to something and hopefully it will

stop. >> sean: by the way, white house officials are just being cold announcing a new fbi director coming in days. we will get back to lou, stay right there. jay, sara. stay right there. okay, yes. we continue now with the editor in chief and nationally syndicated radio host. a very strong move i have thought that this is been necessary for a long time. laura ingraham. >> i think a lot of us expected donald trump wood-fired jim comey in november. presidents routinely replace an acting fbi director and bring in his own team. for whatever reason, donald trump didn't do that. i don't know if at the time he thought that would look bad because there are rumors of these investigations. it does remind us -- his instinct i bet was to fire come

comey. and my instinct was he didn't follow his instinct. no one had confidence in in him. the democrats didn't after he sent the letter to congress. only a few days later to say sorry, there's no problem in the emails sent to anthony weiner. he also did the nonindictment indictment of hillary clinton with the handling of the classified information. the private server. that was that bazaar press conference he did where he seemed to kind of convict her or charger only to say we couldn't find the requisite intent that many say is it really required under that statute. i think he really damaged his own reputation. he came in as a straight shooter but by the end, no one trusted him. it was about time that the justice department recommended his removal. >> sean: the whole anthony weiner issue, as was almost

bizarre behavior on his part. we know the email server to circumvent congress, in a mom and pop shop, bathroom closet with top-secret information and special access -- we know that is a crime. the one crime we know is michael flynn unmasked and leaking of intelligence -- sally yates testifying yesterday saying the fbi hasn't even questioned her about the one known crime in this case. how is that even possible? >> it seemed like during the campaign, especially the latter part -- jim comey turned himself into a pretzel not to raise any possible criminal wrongdoing by the administration. by hillary clinton. he didn't want to be responsible for throwing the eight election to the evil donald trump. that's how it came off to me as a former practicing attorney for white-collar crime. and then of course the example you stated which is equally

bizarre. if the crime that is committed in the fbi director seems woefully on interested and incurious on what really went o on. the left was not happy with him. the right was not happy with him and i think most people think his investigation -- if you look at this very late, russian collusion, there was nothing there. he found nothing but he managed to put a lot of doubt and a lot of people's minds about the outcome of this election. he did manage to do that. >> sean: clapper suggested and we're almost almost at a crisis point -- a good friend of mine said cuckoo for cocoa puffs. that was you, by the way. they have run with this -- this conspiracy theory. clapper says no evidence of collusion. comey says no evidence of collusion. the media keeps on a story with no evidence and they seem to be

getting away with it. i didn't like the cuckoo for cocoa puffs line. >> comey also came across in his recent testimony -- to me, just examining the body language -- it was odd. he didn't look well to me. he looked extremely defensive. he looked very petulant. he used odd phrases like, it made me mildly nauseous to think this investigation could have affected the outcome of the election. i guess tonight he is extremely nauseous. during his testimony this week, he got to go back-to-back two key facts wrong. the number of emails that were sent to anthony weiner's computer and how huma abedin actually transmitted them. most of them are automatically downloaded when she was updating her computer. she didn't send thousands and thousands of emails.

those were two key facts that at this point, with how important this investigation is, and was right before the election -- he gets those two major facts wrong? test is not someone who is on his game. i think that probably entered sessions mind as well. >> sean: we are still at jay sekulow, lou dobbs and sara carter. this opens a door to so much more. >> the responsibility on part of the justice department that now wants to regain the confidence of the american people. they have to investigate hillary clinton. it has to investigate the internal revenue service and its targeting of conservatives. has to investigate fast and furious which under attorney general eric holder was one of the great shames of a great department. it has to do with these issues. even benghazi. the fbi investigated it. people forget that. there's no report from the fbi.

>> sean: it is an amazing thing. let me go to sara first. it is an amazing thing. all of these horrible things happening. lou brings up a great point. using the irs to intimidate conservative groups. that started in 2010. the benghazi lies. spontaneous demonstration when they just happen to have rpgs and mortars in their back pocket and decided to pull them out? a total, complete lie and fabrication. then uranium one. the server scandal. we know so many crimes are committed. >> what about the unmasking of american citizens? why in the world? >> sean: president trump just tweeted this, we have some news... i do not have confidence in james comey any longer. then ask indignant at training g

this want. >> even harry reid said the same thing. comey should resign. he's out. he's out. someone knew apparently will be coming in the next few days. sean, lou, jay, you've brought up some great points. there are some issues that still need to be investigated. i know that there are families with benghazi who are very close to -- who would love to see this reopened again. or at least looked at. there are a lot of cases out there. fast and furious. there's so much more. sean, like you pointed out with the leaks -- we know there's someone in the doj or if the inspector general found anything yet, or if the doj actually asked the fbi to open an investigation, that -- the fbi should be able to tell us. there's a lot of issues right now that i think need to be

investigated and i think you are right about this. >> sean: jay, mark simone, a friend of mine sent me a tweet from tom brokaw. director comey has had a lot of self-inflicted wounds. he's made a lot of mistakes. wow, has nbc changed since he left. just as a side note. where do we begin? with all that lou has brought up and all that sarah has brought up, they're such criminality here. there seems to be a crisis as it relates to equal justice under the law. in this country now, as a result of james comey. how do you fix that? how do you recover from that in a media that wants to cover it all up? >> the media is the easiest side because you just play what harry reid and chuck schumer said. then you have harry reid call calling for his resignation a year ago. here's what i i do within the

department of justice. here is what you do. within the department of justice itself, within the fbi itself, you create a unit that looks at all of this brand-new. everyone of these issues, sean, that sara and lou have laid out. they need to be looked at from the beginning. i think it has to have new eyes. that's number one. number two is you have to restore the integrity of the people from the department itself. that should come from jeff sessions who's an attorney and a general in that sense. you have to be able to take that command in the new fbi director will have to establish within the fbi this sense of pride in their work. look, there are a number of failures here. you talk about some of the ones on the terrorism issues come at the boston marathon bombers.

what happened in orlando, on the radar. all of that needs to be looked at. all of this has to be looked at. we don't have the luxury of letting these things happen again. in our country. we just don't have it. the president has taken decisive action here. he said he would drain the swamp. this was the beginning of that drain or certainly a continuation. director comey with due respect to the office of the director of the fbi, he dropped this on himself. it will take a new director to fix this. it will take agents and it will have to be a team within the fbi. the takes control. >> sean: do you remember the investigation of the unauthorized handling of classified material and the fbi made a deal with clinton aides -- they were given immunity and allowed to destroy their laptops? just another thing that needs to be cleaned up. >> that's right. >> and hillary clinton not being

under oath -- no one bothering to record her remarks. it's outrageous what was done here. there is another failure in this. of the complicit left-wing media in this country, they accepted every bit of this all along the way. no fast and furious. it certainly is -- >> not completely, sean. >> sean: except certain reported that fox news and circa news. my buddy lou. that's about it. this is the most important question of the night, and we will start with sara. if you are hillary clinton -- what are you thinking? >> boy, i would be a little bit

concerned right now. even though director comey is now gone, i would be really concerned about who is coming in and what they're going to be looking at. i still don't think sean, anything's going to happen when it comes to hillary clinton. >> sean: don't we know she broke the law? >> we do. we do. >> sean: i have to pay more in taxes because i knew obama had a bull's-eye on my back. everyone here, why do we have to obey the laws and she gets off scot-free? >> we have to ask the justice department that. we have to ask prosecutors that question. and why they are not bringing that case forward again and if they will. even if they will or can find something that can reopen this investigation into hillary clinton, but you know what?

i'm not going to hold my breath on it. i will hope that maybe somebody will have the courage to do that. but this is how this game is played. we sought, sean. even with the uranium deal and the fact that bill clinton got paid $500,000. we have to wait and see. >> sean: if you are hillary clinton tonight, jay, based on your legal background and knowledge of facts -- if you are hillary clinton and she calls you and you are her lawyer tonight, what will you say to her? >> take the fifth amendment. don't say anything. that's exactly what i would tell her. that's exactly what i would tell her. >> sean: how are you feeling after talking to her lawyer? >> concerned that first of all, just a couple days ago she was the one who is blaming the former director of the fbi about intervening in the election which i think he was absolutely

wrong in doing but she has to be concerned. i tend to agree with the sara that it's not likely there will be an indictment against hillary clinton. >> thanks, jay. >> sean: we all agree we know it's overwhelming, incontrovertible evidence that she committed felonies and broke laws. does anyone disagree with that statement? >> no. >> to answer your question, yes. >> sean: she broke laws and committed felonies. sara? >> i mean, yes. you don't need to have intent. >> sean: why doesn't she get a pass? i am sorry. that is wrong. >> there are room republicans g to keep their hands on top of the table and pulled them quietly because that's way republicans react. >> sean: i would be in jail for not paying my taxes.

they would put me in jail and love it and the media would love it. they would love you in jail. >> that's exactly what they are trying to do. >> sean: they have already tried to get us fired 100 times. >> here is what you've got. the reality for equal justice under the law you have talked about -- if that is what the concern is, with the new division within the fbi, looked at fresh, you impanel a grand jury. >> you don't think they should go after the secretary of state? who as a clinton foundation and the rampant public corruption that it represents? >> i am the one who thinks this should have been handled by a grand jury since the beginning. the easy case the server was in a place it wasn't supposed to b be. make that case. that's a give me. >> you brought up great points. i absolutely agree with you that

a grand jury should be called. but now who do we hold accountable for that? this administration. there has to be somebody who has the courage enough to do this and to bring this forward. and unless somebody does it, it's not going to happen. >> sean: all three of you are telling this audience tonight that you all agree that the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible, hillary clinton committed felonies in all three of you think she's going to get a pass. >> i didn't tell you she was going to get a pass at all. >> sean: sarah is laughing. >> we have seen this happen time and time again. >> sean: lou, i agree with sara. >> attorney general sessions has been in office for three months for crying out loud it takes more than three months to fill up that swamp. it will take more than three months to drain it.

there's no attorney general we have had in recent years who possesses the integrity and talent of jeff sessions. >> sean: i second that motion. that is why i think america needs to make a decision. this is a tipping point. this is a moment, a crossroads moment for this country. because if she can get away with obvious felonies and nothing happens, then we don't have a legal system -- seriously, jay -- or a constitution that protects every american. go ahead, i am on my high horse. >> you are absolutely right. let's follow the law. let's do with the law says. impanel a grand jury. new prosecutors, they relook all of these cases that we have outlined. that is how you get justice in a new kind of situation. you know the previous director do not do that. now you have to.

>> sean: i am with lou and i am with sara. i say let the evidence and the facts be investigated. as every other american would be treated, so shall the clintons be treated or we have no constitution or in no equal justice under the law any longer. that is the tipping point. >> absolutely, sean. >> everybody gets to follow the law, absolutely. >> sean: lou dobbs speeds every day and he tickets. [laughter] by the way, that will cost you $1,000 in our. >> i may just pay that fine, jay. >> sean: let's begin this process of a grand jury, jay. where does that lead us and how will they try to blame president trump, who has no say in what happens to hillary clinton?

>> the president exercised his constitutional authority today by letting go of the director. that doesn't change the investigation. if they return an indictment, that is how our system works. hillary clinton or anybody else would be entitled to defense and defense counsel. it would be proven in a court of law. that's how you handle something when there has been a violation. you don't have two sets of rules, one for them or one for everybody else. you don't have my clients being targeted and threatened by the irs and the fbi with a criminal case. that's not justice. that's how you get justice. impanel a grand jury. >> sean: today is one of the most important days in the history of the trump presidency. we now have a chance that we get our legal system back under control, where every american is subject to the same laws and rules as everybody else. guys, you've been great for the hour. thank you for being with us.

that's all the time we have left this evening. please stay with the fox news channel for all night, continuing coverage of this breaking news. the president firing the fbi director james comey, bret baier is next. we will see you back here. an important show tomorrow. >> bret: a massive political shock wave hits washington. >> i was flabbergasted, to say the least. >> the president did not fire the entire fbi. he fired the director. speak with the goal was to act on recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general. >> the administration has to answer the question why now? >> bret: president trump writing the letter that he believes comey cannot lead the fbi. >> essentially puts