>> billed to the wall! >> set your dvr, never miss an episode. "hannity" is next. >> many thanks to our friends on spew one. this is a fox news alert. we have lots of people here tonight to react to breaking news. we are following for huge breaking news stories. james call me is starting to enact his own revenge on trump for firing him. we'll have more later tonight, but first it's tonight for tonight's very important opening monologue. >> we start tonight with the trump heating "washington post." last night they release a story saying that trump gave the russian warrant minister and ambassador classified information while they were

visiting the white house last week. this story has been denied by trump administration officials who were actually in the room. national security advisor hr mcmaster is that it was bogus. he said i was in the room and it didn't happen. secretary of state rex tiller's and, he report. that does not stop the media from running wild from all of this. watch this bias so called news. it's really fake news coverage. watch this. >> the white house reeling from another russia crisis. an unforced error at the hands of trump. >> that damage to u.s. intelligence interest is being viewed as incalculable this morning. >> after the story broke we heard yelling behind closed doors here in this west wing. this is a white house in chaos right now. >> it's true. this could be the most significant and dangerous week of the presidency. >> hyperventilating

breathlessness. we'll have more on the biased coverage later in our new segment. it's called the fake news around it. you don't want to miss it. but let's talk about "the washington post" for a minute. this is the same newspaper who has democracy dies in darkness on their homepage just last wee week. the post reported the deputy attorney general rob rosenstein, he was threatening to quit because of comey's firing. guess what, rosenstein spoke in an on camera interview and he said i'm not quitting. i never threatened to quit. but that wasn't the only story "the washington post" got wrong last week. after comey was fired, the post reported this headline. just days before he was inspired, wrong again. it was the acting fbi director testing before congress last week. he said he was unaware of such requests and we have plenty of money for this. we have adequate funding. so let's put the latest fake

news story into contest. we have two stories they published last week dead wrong. anonymous sources, credibility, and that fits into a much broader narrative that we have been dealing with almost exclusively here in the media on this show. their anger toward the president is down stopping them from doing their job. it's why i have spoken about changing the white house and how they handled the press, they need to restructure daily briefings. they turned them into nothing more than a dog and pony show. i explain last night, they developed a list of the top 15, 20 issues of the day. members of the mainstream media beforehand and afterwards and they gave up all their questions and answers in detail and then ask questions from there. also tonight, another nasa breaking news story, explosive development in the mysterious murder of former dnc staffer set the bridge that could completely

shatter the narrative that in fact wikileaks is working with the russians. now, if true, this could become one of the biggest scandals in history and could mean that he could have been murdered under very suspicious circumstances. according to former homicide detective rod wheeler who had been hired by the rich family to investigate the killings, newly discovered evidence shows is a 27-year-old former dnc employee he was in fact communicating with wikileaks before he was gunned down in washington, d.c. that was back in july of 2016, july 10th, while he was walking home. seth rich shot in the back, left for dead. police have been characterizing this as an attempted robbery gone wrong. it is a problem, not an explanation because the assailant didn't take anything from rich. not his phone, his wallet, his watch, his necklace. they were still on his person at the scene of the crime. while there were several key questions about why he was

killed, well, here's what we do know. 12 days. exactly 12 days after rich died, wikileaks published the leaked emails from the dnc and after rich's death, wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or the people responsible for the murder. and then back in august during an interview with dutch tv, a sound implied that in fact, seth rich, was his source. take a look at this. >> going to significant effort. it was a 27-year-old who worked for the dnc who was shot in the back, murdered. that was a few weeks ago as he was walking down the street. >> that was just a robbery, i believe, wasn't it? >> no. there's no findings. >> what are you suggesting? >> i'm suggesting that he took a

risk and they become concerned that it occurring like that. >> you can't comment on your sources. >> why make a suggestion about a young guy being shot in the strait of washington? >> we have to understand how high the stakes are in the united states. >> that's pretty profound. this new information is also consistent with what julian sanchez told me back in january when i asked him specifically, did russia give him any of these emails. keep it in context here, in all the years of wikileaks, they've never been proven wrong. watch this. >> did russia give you this information or anybody associated with russia? >> the answer is no. >> during that same interview i

also asked julian about a report saying that a disgruntled democrat and not the russians gave john podesta's emails to wikileaks. let's take a look at this. >> there was one report in the daily mail that suggested somebody that you are friendly with actually was handed the documents at american university in a wooded area by a disgruntled democrat who felt betrayed because the revelations showed that bernie sanders had been betrayed and he didn't like the corruption of the clinton foundation. can you confirm or deny that? >> that came from craig murray. he's a friend of mine. but wikileaks is source. we are famous for never having exposed one of our sources after ten years. they come to us.

i can't comment on other people's statements about our sources except to say what we have said, which is that our sources are not at stake. >> let me connect the dots from here. now, from my perspective, this could be a very huge bombshell story. if this is true and suffrage cable wikileaks the emails which ultimately led to the firing, remember, debbie wasserman schultz, this blows the whole narrative out of the water. maybe seth rich was upset that the dnc was conspiring to hurt bernie sanders and helpful or clinton when the nomination. we learn from those released emails, remember this, that that was the case. and then finally tonight, powerful sources. we want to understand exactly what happening here because the intensity to get this president has been more fierce than ever. five forces aligning against

trump. you've got the destroyed trump propaganda media, the destroyed trump democrats, the washington establishments, that never-trump people, and they all seem to be working together in an unprecedented attack against the sitting president. let start with the propaganda media. they have been working around-the-clock since november. that's right, they were colluding with hillary before the election but since then to smear and character assassinate the president by any means necessary and they have been against trump from the beginning. remember it was a funeral for most of these people on television on the night of november 8th? on top of that you may remember this. >> trump has been saying that he'll run for president as a republican which is surprising because we all assumed he was running as a joke. >> we better be ready for the fact that he might be leading the republican ticket. [laughter] >> i know you don't believe tha

that. >> started to laugh. >> which canada has the best chance of winning the general election? >> of the declared ones, right now? donald trump. [laughter] >> they were laughing then cap i don't know if they're laughing now. then you got that tinfoil hat conspiracy theories about trump colluding with the russians. but up to this point there is no evidence. where's the evidence? they become completely unhinged. as we have been continually pointing out right here on the show, the truth does not matter to people that call themselves journalists. they are agenda driven and radical left-wing ideologues were more than happy to push and advance democratic talking points and political conspiracy. now what do we know to be true is what wikileaks exposed. remember the countless members of the media, they were caught

colluding with the clinton campaign. their main objective was to get hillary elective which explains why they have been perfectly willing to say anything, do anything, regardless of how insane and conspiratorial it may sound all in an attempt to damage the president. and number two, you got the sore loser democrats. they can't believe that trump one and hillary lost. now they've also made it very clear that they've got to obstruct every single turn. for example, look at the firing of james call me. they hated the guys got spread they even blamed him for the election loss and then trump, he fires the director and all of a sudden democrats change their tune. feigning moral outrage. that's going to be nothing more than a part of a bunch of partisan hypocrites and you got the third alliance, the state in washington, targeting the

president, selectively, now on a daily basis the site earlier tonight and last night leaking information. we told you at the top about my advantage of the fake news story from completely unreliable "washington post" as they were wrong all those times last week. last night it was claiming that trump allegedly leaked information to the russians. they didn't care when hillary did it. to me it's clear what the motive is here. some people inside washington, d.c., the deep state, they are selectively leaking information to try to damage the president. you may remember back in january, chuck schumer issued this morning. about the capabilities, the nsa, the deep state, the intelligence community, this is what he said. >> you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from sunday for getting back at it so even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman he's being really dumb to do this. >> six ways and sunday, the deep state will get you one way or the other. is that what james comey was

doing, seeking revenge? since that morning we've seen unprecedented leaks, including, to "the new york times" tonight. we have transcripts of the president's calls with foreign leaders. where did they come from? drafts of executive order shared with the media, information meant to damage the attorney general, that was handed out. then after lieutenant general michael flynn was caught up in incidental surveillance he was then unmasked and then in violation of the espionage act that classified information was also released to the past, a felony in case you're interested in. it. in this alliance these establishment republicans, so many of these people so weak, so too mid, are spineless. their own candidate during the campaign, now the national security advisor hr mcmaster, he came out last night and called the report focused in spite of all these people. finally, number five. we had the never-trump people.

they didn't like trump during the election and now they seem to want him to fail so they can say to themselves that they were right. so desperate to become relevant again so it's time to call out this alliance. these five groups for what they are and what is actually happening here. all right, when we come back on this busy breaking news night, james comey strikes back after he was fired last week. also tonight, trump just gave somebody about there. who will end up dead? and that's not hyperbole, by the way. >> the destroy-trump media is going to town with a "washington post" story, "the new york times" story, will discuss the hypocrisy. we'll get reactions and later tonight dr. sebastian corker is here on this busy, busy, nonstop breaking news against the

propaganda media night.

>> welcome back. we continue with more of a dnc staffer rich and the media's breakdown. joining us now is the chief counsel for the american center for law and justice and former deputy campaign manager for

trump, he is also a contributor. good to see you both. let's start with the seth rich issue. and the timeline here. say what you will about julian assange, but nobody has proven him wrong. he's been defiant. he defended the sky. and then you look at the timeline you look at earlier reports. is it possible that this whole russian narrative really came from a dnc staffer and that the media has been wrong for almost a year? >> the media has not been right yet, so the presumption should be that the media is wrong with where they are laying the blame on the leaks that are going on now. i think the fact is that when you look at evidence and this is the timeline, as you mentioned, that is troubling to say the least and i think it raises a

serious issue, and a serious concern, that our national security is being jeopardized in a way we don't fully understand but i think the media narrative on this and trying to blame the president for all of this has proven to be false every single moment of every single day. >> what's your reaction? >> look. sean you're right. the media is out to get this president. they are playing gotcha politics every single day, day in and day out. the people in the room over this last week, the people in this room have said that the president did everything by the book. that none of the information was about sources and that they share information all the time. look, this is the permanent campaign against trump by the democrats and by the media. >> let me give you an example. we look at the sabotage of a

president, so "the washington post" brings this big story. wouldn't they have, as commander-in-chief, the ability to share whatever he thought was necessary in spite of the fact that, as davis is pointing out, everybody in the room says no. and then you go to the sources, the sources are questionable just like they were last week, they got two issues wrong that rosenstein threatened to quit. he said in an interview that he didn't threaten to quit. according to current and u.s. officials, okay, who was the former official if they weren't in the room, what information did they have? that was denied by andrew mccabe. >> first of all, the president has the constitutional right. he is the commander-in-chief. assuming for the purpose of argument that he discussed security information of a significant nature with the russians, guess what. no crime.

he had the authority to do it. the supreme court has said so. an opinion by not a conservative member of the court, by justice blackmun. that's number one. number two, reports have been indicating all day that in fact this information came from possibly is really sources who, by the way, they were sharing with, guess who, at the russians. they're acting as if discussions about issues and civilian aviation can be not discussed with russia or the israelis? that's absurd. again, it's a righteous headline to create a fabricated story and everybody in the room denied its truthfulness but at the end of the day, even if it was true, which it's not, it would be so what? last night, i agree, but last night the media goes hysterical, they're breathless. i saw the same thing unfolding.

i see "the new york times" say i hope you can let this go. meaning the investigation or to end the flynn investigation to james comey and he's bitter better. james comey got fired. maybe he wrote a memo, maybe he didn't. but he says i hope you can let this go, is there anything illegal about that? >> that's not intervening. that's not intervening in the investigation. look, james comey's credibility, first of all, i don't care what memo james comey wrote. at this point is there anyone who's watching this or anywhere that can believe anything that james comey is saying about any of these matters? really, not a credible witness. >> he's exactly right. james comey lost his credibility long ago and it had to do with hillary clinton. let's not forget that the democrats were hyperventilating about james called me themselves july and in october, before the

election, and they all wanted to fire and then of course the president fires him and the president knows that it is going to make things worse for him by doing the right thing for the american people. that's important here. lester holt lied last week when he said the president said he didn't care. of course, he continued to say, i don't care that it is going to make it worse for me when the american people need this man fired, need new leadership at the bureau. the president put that first ahead of himself and of course, lester holt turned that around. >> good to see. when we come back, the former d.c. homicide detective rod wheeler investigating the death of dnc staffer seth rich, who was killed last july, according to wheeler, there is no evidence that confirms that was a fact. speaking with wikileaks. wheeler joins us next in an exclusive. >> if true, this could be the most significant and dangerous

mistake at the trump presidency. >> here we go again, the destroy trump media. they cannot get enough of "the washington post." at "the new york times" story about the president sharing information with russia and i hope this investigation ends. the newsroom a newsroom reportedly erupted in applause as the story broke. are they supposed to be unbiased journalists? coming up, will explain in our fake news roundup weighing in on the unprecedented white house leaking and much more.

>> it's an extraordinarily curious development, if it turns out to be true, if it's an accurate transcription, it looks like the president of the united states directly and personally tried to obstruct a criminal investigation. >> house oversight committee chairman jason chapin says he wants to get to the bottom of this. g.o.p. oversight is going to get the comey memo, if it exists, i need to see it sooner than later. i have my cepeda pen ready. back to hannity. >> welcome back. more on the story of murder democratic national committee staffer seth rich who was gunned down last july in washington, d.c. they are officially in charge of this case but former d.c. homicide detective rod wheeler was hired by a third-party to investigate the murder on behalf of the family says mr. rich was communicating with wikileaks before he was killed. now his family has been pushing back, releasing a statement that reads we are a family that is

committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding. now the services of the private investigator who spoke to the press was ordered to the rich family and paid for by a third party and contractually was barred to speaking to the press or anyone outside of law enforcement or the family unless explicitly authorized by the family. fox news has retained a copy of the contract signed by the rich family retaining the services. he joins us now. i don't want to spend a lot of time on the technicality of who hired you. i've known you a long time and your man of honor and integrity. tell us who hired you. >> i was hired by the family, they signed the contract. the financial benefit, if there were any financial benefit, and there wasn't much, that was actually paid for by a third party. i have had little communication.

the termite is fascinating here. as i played in the last segment, julian assigned, i asked him repeatedly on radio and television if russia was involved. absently not. he's a guy that wikileaks has never been proven wrong. and all these leaks, by the way, and it up, a lot of them ended up being published in places like "the new york times." so i guess my question is, when you look at the timeline of this, and 12 days after he was killed it shows up on wikileaks, what did you discover in terms of the contacts with wikileaks? >> that's an excellent question. will clear that up right now, exactly was that i found. i had never seemed them email directly, i haven't even seen the computer that they used. here's the problem with all of this. i don't even know where the computer is. i checked with the police department, they said they don't know where the computer is and

the fbi says they don't have the computer. now where does this information come from in terms of knowing or believing, i should say, that it could've been with wikileaks. there was a federal investigator that was involved with the inside, a person that is very credible. i don't like to suggest things that sing the person's name. but i can see the person's name because that person will be thrown under the bus. we check them out, we have to check them out. very credible, and he said he laid eyes on that computer and he laid eyes on the case file. and he came across very credible. when you look at that with the totality of everything else that i found in this case, it's very consistent for a person with my experience to begin to think well, perhaps there were some email communications between seth and wikileaks. every time i talk with the police department though, shaun,

every time i talk with the police department about the wikileaks are the emails, it's automatically shut down. >> we don't know for sure if the fbi or the d.c. police have any access to these forensics? these emails? >> we don't know. we actually have a statement from the fbi saying, the contacted the d.c. police, the d.c. police say contacts the fbi. now which is that? if this was just a murder investigation, first of all, why would the fbi be involved? the only reason they would be involved, so viewers understand, is this has some degree of national exposure meaning, because maybe it is related to the dnc. and we don't know that. we don't know that. it could've been a botched robbery but my point is this. i've been investigating murders for a while and you have to look at every possibility. you can just look at one thing and say, that has to be at. >> have you seen a lot of robberies, which is how they've

been looking at this, or the person has their wallet and there watch after they've been shot and killed in the back? >> i haven't. that's not to say that that cannot happen. but here's the thing, and this is so important. there have been a $125,000 reward out for information for training to the death of seth rich. not one person has come forward. here's one other thing that's going to be startling and i'm just going to say this right now. i reached out to the police department way back in march when the family first hired me, right, to get involved. i don't hear anything from the police department for 2-3 days. guess what i learned yesterday from the family of seth rich, the police department did not call me back. because someone, a high-ranking official at the dnc, check this out, a high-ranking official at the dnc, when i called the police department, they got that information and called the rich family wanting to know, why was i snooping around? wouldn't that explain, how is it

possible that the dnc, when the fbi wanted to look at their computers, was able to bring in their own people? or that the people that ended up getting immunity ended up being able to destroy their laptop computers? is there any evidence that the might of been disgruntled at the treatment of bernie sanders and the unfairness and the fix was in to put hillary in that position and maybe had evidence of that? >> no. i haven't seen any evidence in that regard. the only thing that i have been able to confirm is that there were some problems on his job right before he was killed. and the person, listen to this, the person that called the father after i called the police to get information, that's the person he was having problems with at the dnc. so connect the dots here. let's say this. i don't know for sure, i don't

know if the emails went out to wikileaks or anybody else, but it sure appears that way. >> thanks for being with us. we combat, or fake news roundup segment of the day, "washington post" newsroom erupting in applause after breaking the so-called fake news story yesterday about trump sharing information with russia. so much for unbiased journalist journalists. also tonight. >> after the story broke you last night, we heard yelling behind closed doors. the white house is in chaos right now. >> the destroyer trump media foaming at the mouth. of course on top of their two false stories last week will get reactions.

>> following the release of that story, "the washington post" fact-checker actually completed couldn't believe this. applause in "the washington post" as a russian leaks broke. the same "washington post" that allegedly broke out in a pause when obama visited in 2009.

they were quick to jump on this becky to report. take a look. >> white house reeling from another russia crisis, an unforced error at the hands of president. it's because the damage to u.s. intelligence interest is being viewed as incalculable this morning. >> after this story broke we heard yelling behind closed doors. this is a white house in chaos right now. >> if true, this could be the most significant and dangerous mistake of the presidency. >> trump just gave somebody about there. who will end up that? that's not hyperbole, by the wa way. he and other people, whoever that source was inside of isis, i guarantee you a lot of people are going to get shot in the head today by isis because they are going to embed discriminant lee start killing people that they suspect leaked this information. >> joining us now is a media reporter as well as former u.s.

spokesman for the u.n. ambassador. let me start with rick tonight. "the washington post" gets all these things wrong last week. they talk about the deputy attorney general, he was going to step aside. he said no, anonymous source is wrong. when we get other issues. they were asking for money. that was just last week. the media takes this credible source. as if with the breathlessness i've never seen before, and the same people that ignored hillary clinton and her leaking of classified information on the server and top-secret, et cetera. >> i think we have two problems here, sean. one is that the media loves leaks. they are encouraging leaks. they're never going to stop. talking about these leaks, and they're not going to give us a very good prioritization of who is leaking, why they are

leaking. is this the full information? they're just going to dramatize these leaks and the second problem that we have is that reporters in washington, they are brief heating and re-tweeting each other. there is very little actual research going on, trying to figure out, is this true, what reporters are racing to do is just tell each other stories and fan the flames. they still haven't accepted the fact that donald trump is the president and i think now they are in the anger phase. >> there is a certain effectiveness to this. "saturday night live," because of him, bus ratings ever. jimmy kimmel and fallon and colbert, colbert has been resurrected from the dead. even left us with the theories are doing better than our. is it just because it's big

money to peddle anything true or not true? >> subscriptions up at "the new york times," at "the washington post," everybody has benefited because his presidency is unpredictable, it's always something different every day, it's a crisis ever since he announced his candidacy. but i want to go back to a point that we've made around anonymous sources and this is why, it's having an effect, look at the polling before the call me firing in mid-april and then look at it after a week of nonstop negative coverage, his approval rating doesn't move a bit, virtually unchanged. i think that's because every story is based on anonymous sources and they sit at home and they wonder, what is the motive of that anonymous source? they want to take him down some way? or maybe they want to advance themselves? maybe it's a matter of access. are they at a senior level, or

is it the white house chef? let me ask you this. we don't know who they are and what their history is in terms of telling the truth. i think people see that at home and they say, you know what, i'm fatigued, there's a crisis every day and i don't know where these reports are coming from. >> thank you for your patience. we appreciate you being with us. tonight cap next. >> the president's discussion was wholly appropriate to that conversation and is consistent with the routine sharing of information between the president and any leaders with whom he's engaged. >> the national security advisor hr mcmaster earlier today say his conversation with the russian foreign minister was completely appropriate. and he was in the room full of democrats. will they stop at the history and outcome of the breathlessness? the deputy will join us next.

>> what the president discussed with the foreign minister was wholly inappropriate to that conversation and is consistent to the routine sharing of information between the president and any leaders with whom he's engaged. that conversation was appropriate to the conversation and appropriate with the

expectations of our intelligence partners. >> i was in the room. the deputy assistant for national security none of us felt that conversation was inappropriate. >> that was the national security advisor mcmaster earlier today at the white house and the press briefing saying that what he described with the foreign minister last week was completely appropriate. they continue to try to take the president down, these leaks, where are they coming from? dr. sebastian workouts, current and former officials, not comes from the same newspaper, by the way, that said that the deputy attorney general rosenstein threatened to quit but he didn't interview and said no, i never threatened to quit and then of course, they were suggesting that days before call me left that james called me had said he

wanted more funding in the interim fbi director says no, we are adequately funded. and the list goes on. not tonight it's "the new york times" ." and the flynn probe, by a bitter, angry comey who didn't care a whit about the rule of law. >> i think we have to go to the next stage. it's no longer fake news it's now dishonest news. it is not about the political agenda, it's politics above national security. we've gone through the numbers just since february. let's look at what has been leaked to the press. i'm just going to give you a handful. the conversation was leaked to tempt the president of mexico, "washington post" leaks the conversation to australia. a political leader to paris. one is it going to stop?

when is the conspiracy theory insanity of the resist movement of the nexus going to say look. were not going to endanger national security anymore, were going to do actual journalism. when is the leaking going to stop. it has to be coming. by the way, "the washington post" was so wrong so often. they were recording everything they said last night. the disastrous accuracy rating. it's pretty amazing. here's my question, if there leaking the conversation, people in the kremlin and elsewhere around the world, that means that's the deep state intelligence community. it has to be coming from there, isn't it? >> can i just say two things, number one, the bad news is, there are people that

unfortunately we've recognize we president is and that his primary responsibility is to protect america. they think they know better and they think they're allowed to call their friends up, that is illegal. that's felonious activities that could endanger. >> when are the americans, nobody's been held responsible for the felony violation of the espionage act. nobody's been held accountable for unmasking. even if there is incidental surveillance, the unmasking in the leaking of intelligence. raw intelligence. nobody's been held accountable so far. how many of the bond holdovers still exist communities. >> you have to keep doing what you do. sarah connor has to keep doing what she does because you've nailed it. the biggest story of the last eight years, not eight weeks,

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