guess who is next? sean hannity, you're absolutely right. he follows this show. >> sean: tucker. thank you. we appreciate it. fox news alert. welcome to "hannity." we are folling several breaking news stories. rod rosenstein was grilled today on capitol hill over the rampant political bias of the doj, the fbi and special counsel robert mueller's team. fox news obtained anti-trump messages from peter strzok and his girlfriend. and fusion gps the firm behind the clinton bought and paid for fake russian dossier. the wife of a doj official worked at the company on trump opposition research. this can't be in a novel anymore. you can't make it up.

republicans reach a tentative deal on taxes and my take on the alabama speciality. -- special election. and anderson cooper's dog ate his home work. first opening monologue. the fallout continues on new examples of political bias can from the defendapartment of jus and the fbi. fox news has some of the text messages between peter strzok and his fbi lawyer girlfriend. they are full of trump bashing. we will show you the actual message in a minute. the massive conflicts of interest, the political prejudice being exposed in america's justice system has

republican lawmakers demanding answer. they questioned the rod rosenstein on capitol hill earlier today. this is a classic. take a look. >> we are begining to better understand the magnitude of this insider bias on mr. mueller's team. first we have fbi agent peter strzok and fbi lawyer lisa paige showing extreme bias against president trump. >> what happens when the people who are supposed to cure the conflict of interest have even greater conflicts of interest than those they are replacing? that's not a rhetorical case. we would not sit peter strzok on a jury knowing what we know now. why didn't we know it ahead of time? >> how with a straight face can you say that this group of

democrat partisans are unbiassed and will give president trump a fair shake? >> this is unbelievable! i am hear to tell you, mr. rosenstein, the public trust in this whole thing is gone. you have two things can you do. you are the guy in charge. you picked mueller. you wrote the memo saying why you needed to fire comey. you are the guy in charge. you can disband the mueller special prosecutor and appoint a second special council to look into peter strzok. >> sean: you heard it here first. we have been doing this for mongst. -- months. rosenstein remained defiant and defending mueller and his team of clinton lovers and trump haters. watch this. >> it's important to recognize when we talk about political affiliation, the issue of bias is something different. i discussed this with director

mueller. we have a lot of experience managing employees with political opinions. it's our responsibility to make sure those opinions do not influence their actions. i believe that direct mueller understands that and he is running that office appropriately. recognizing that people have political views but ensuring they are not a factor in how they conduct himself. i don't know what the president meant by. that the special counsel investigation is not a witch hunt. >> sean: there is only one opinion. it's pro-hillary and anti-trump. a mountain of evidence showing the bias among mueller's investigators but rosenstein pretending like he doesn't see it. what is happening? this is a direct threat to the rule of law in this country. rosenstein is aiding and abetting that threat. if he had any sort of moral

compass he would shutdown mueller. as for mueller's team a quick overview. they have given piles of cash, over 50 grand in total to democrats including barack obama and hillary clinton. only one donateed to a republican. none gave any money to donald trump. one of mueller's top investigators worked closely with eric holder and represented the clinton foundation during the 2015 racketeering case. then there is mueller's top prosecutor. he oversaw that controversial obstruction of justice case. remember enron? it destroyed the company. they were put out of business. tens of thousands of people lost

their jobs. in 2005 the supreme court overturned his conviction 9-0. as part of the enron investigation, he sent 4 people to jail and that was all overturned. wiseman has been accused of doing anything to secure a conviction. withholding evidence and intimidating witnesses. last week why you -- last week they released an email. yates refused to enforce the travel ban. wiseman attended hillary clinton's election night party. and then the trump hater peter

strzok. fox news has obtained the message between strzok and his girlfriends. here's the back story. this guy strzok used to be a top counter intelligent official before being demoted and signed the document that started the entire russian and trump investigation. strzok's team was assigned to handle the anti-trump dossier. get this, he oversaw the interview of former national security advisor michael flynn and played a major role in the clinton email investigation. sat in on hillary's fbi interview and also at the interviews of clinton's top aides. strzok is the guy that changed the exoneration before investigation james comey. he changed the terminology from

negligence to carelessness. that let hillary clinton off the hook. strzok is at the center of everything. that's why these text messages are so disturbing. let's look at this exchange. paige the girlfriend writes trump is a loathsomee human and: later strzok wrote:

in june strzok wrote: wow! in july, page texted: ? august page wrote:

>> strzok even bashed trump supporters. writing: >> sean: in october strzok sent this message: message pay close attention to. it's raising important questions we need answers to. in august of 2016, strzok texted:

>> sean: fox news believes that andy, would be the deputy fbi director andy mccabe. his wife took donations from democracy. there is also this text exchange. we edited out the middle part that was a web link. page writes:

>> sean: why is the insurance policy and why is andy the deputy fbi director involved in this? the "wall street journal" reported that the meeting with mccabe took place as the fbi launched a counter-intelligence probe into possible trump and russian connections. july is when steele briefed the fbi about the fake news dossier. another huge question: how were these text messages discovered? after reading all of those. how can rod rosenstein go before congress today and conclude that special counsel is fair and unbiased? and fusion gps, they confirmed that nellie ohr the wife of the doj official bruce ohr worked for fusion gps.

fusion gps also confirmed that nellie ohr worked on trump opposition research. we found out that bruce ohr met with the former british spy that paid for the russian lies to influence the election. steele put together the fake news anti-trump, russian dossier with phoney information. bruce ohr met with glenn simpson. the co-founder of fusion gps. guess what? ohr's office was only four-doors down from rosenstein's. wow. everything we just explained shows that there are inexcusable conflicts of interest. there are clear, abusive biases at the doj and the fbi and robert mueller's team. to be clear, this has nothing to do with rank-and-file hard working law enforcement agents. this is the select few people at the top who think they are above

the law and think they know better than you. what in god's name is robert mueller doing? it's one giant, huge, massive web of corruption. it's all aimed at taking down the elected president of the united states. what he is doing is immoral and unethical and at some point we will find real illegal activity. joining us now a former deputy assistant and florida attorney general pam. pam, thoughts? >> oh, sean, if we were watching this on a motive, i don't think anyone would believe it. what fox uncovered. first all of these people need to be wiped off the case and start over. there is no question about that. i will say this every time. there are so many great men and

women in our federal government. this is out of control. i think sanchez asked great questions today. and rod rosenstein, i have dealt with him. i had ethical dealings with rod. he said it's the responsibility to be sure influence -- >> sean: what else do we need? >> to get all of these other people off the case. i think he is ethical. i think these people need to be removed. >> [overlapping talking]. >> sean: he think mueller is doing a good job. >> i think we need to hold on and see what happens. i am not defending mueller. i am not defending rosenstein. what i am saying is given everything you exposed, given the hard hitting questions today he got in congress.

let's see what happens now. all of these people need to be wiped out. there are plenty of good people out there who can handle a case who have no influence. they haven't given to either party. 8 out of the 16 people not only donateed to democrats but very active in the anti-trump movement. they all need to be gone. if they are talking about mccabe there could be crimmial issues. >> sean: dr. sebastian gorka, how do we interrupt the insurance policy they discussed with who we think is andrew mccabe? is the insurance policy we will just go after trump and manufacture trump and russian collusion and that will be in the means to take out the elected president? we are smarter than everybody else that voted for donald

trump. >> i only interrupt what individual words in the text messages mean. we have enough evidence already. i have to disagree with pam. you talk about replacing individuals. it's about dissolving this team. this team, mueller's team is manned by members of hillary clinton's resistant movement. there is a reason that lady justice is blindfolded. in this case she took the blindfold off and using that sword to attack the president. where is peter strzok today? the second these text messages came out, the director should have gone up to strzok and taken his gun and badge and fired him from law enforcement. he is in the hr-department of the bureau. think about what you can do in that department. he is massaging documents? is he hiding the political identities of other people

investigating the president? this is not political bias. this is corruption at the highest level of law enforcement. >> sean: how can they look at the team of clinton lovers, trump haters, the unethical behavior of wiseman. and we hear that there is no way trump gets elected, but i am afraid we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy in case you die before you are 40. deep state powerful operatives, plotting and planing to undermine an election. tell me why i am wrong, pam bondi. >> no, sebastian gorka, you used much better words than i.

they need to be dissolved. i am holding out hope that rod rosenstein -- >> [overlapping talking] >> sean: why didn't see? >> i can tell you. >> i hope he sees it. i hope they are being dissolved. they agree with that. >> sean: comey and strzok exonerated hillary clinton on the email server investigation before the investigation. that sounds like obstruction to me. >> they are interrupt. comey is interrupt. -- they are corrupt. comey is corrupt. strzok is corrupt. comey will skate along trying to make everybody happy.

he won't change the corrupt nation of this team. mueller is a vietnam vet but maybe he is tone deaf. you can't have 10 people that are in the tank for hillary investigate the republican president who defeated hillary. >> sean: i will give you another example. what about the dossier? four doors down from rosenstein is bruce ohr meeting with fusion gps as this is going on. his wife is doing anti-trump research for them. four doors down. trump and russian collusion? how about hillary paying for russian lies used in the campaign to influence the american people. is that collusion? >> pam? >> absolutely. you can't blame rosenstein just because his office is four doors down. i am not defending him. i hope he will do the right thing. i know him. i have worked with him.

all of these people need to be dissolved off of this investigation. he said we will see something soon. i am hopeful we will be seeing that because he is supervising mueller. >> sean: this is worst than watergate. >> i agree. >> sean: massive web of corruption. it's watergate on human growth hormone and steroids. >> and you have to untangle. >> sean: and the media is still lockdown into a one year investigation with zero evidence. >> i doubt we would have today's hearing without you, sean. >> sean: it's literally a small group and all of you. thank you. harvard law professor alan dershowitz will talk about

rosenstein's testimony and peter strzok's anti-trump text messages. my thoughts on the special election in alabama. you don't hear this anywhere else. and also cnn's anderson cooper. the dogate his home work. (vo) the best gifts come with a special box. purchase $999 or more at helzberg diamonds and get an xbox one s, with 3 months of xbox game pass and xbox live gold. at helzberg diamonds. while supplies last.

>> sean: welcome back to "hannity." with reaction to my opening monologue, rod rosenstein's testimony on capitol hill and the corruption within mueller special counsel and author of the book trumped up. harvard law school professor alan dershowitz is back with us. your reaction to the hearing and to these email exchange. the depth in terms of this one guy strzok. that happens into almost everything we have discussed for a year. does the fbi not have any other employees? it seems like he is it. >> first happy hanukkah and a merry christmas. this is a terrible problem. it's a very serious problem.

it's a problem not only of perception of bias but the reality of bias here. any defendant who gets indicted by the mueller group will be able to challenge their indictment in court. mueller will say, look, our statutes prohibit me from considering political affiliation. i just hired the best people. they are all democrats who supported clinton. but bias within a political affiliation. these folks who wrote these emails should have rescued themselves. they have a strong bias just like ruth bader ginsberg has a strong bias against president trump and i hope she will recuse herself in any case involving the president. should there be a special counsel? no, because i don't see evidence of crimes.

mueller should appoint an ethices consultant like a former head of the fbi to come in and do a complete evaluation of the staff. >> sean: isn't that pathetic that he needs this. you know wiseman he doesn't belong on that team. you argued before the supreme court. >> yes. it's a very good question. andrew has a reputation of being an excellent and very tough, zealous lawyer. i didn't know anything about his political affiliation. i had a case against him not so long ago. he is very, very good. he never should have sent that email congratulating sally yates. >> [overlapping talking]

>> sean: how about withholding evidence? in other cases using beyond aggressive tactics. >> i agree with you. as a civil liberties lawyer, i am appalled when they withhold evidence democrats or republicans. some are emails are saying they would do anything to get rid of this president and that's a bias. >> sean: this one particular text message. there are own 10,000. i believe they are talking about mccabe. i have not confirmed that. there is no way trump gets elected if we follow that path.

i am afraid we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you are 40. that's chilling to me. >> it is. there has to be an investigation of that. i don't want criminal investigations. we should start with ethices investigations. i suggested a non-partisan commission like the 9-11 commission. when you start with a special counsel you are immediately saying there must be a crime here. i think that's wrong on both sides. i am opposed to the republican's call for a special counsel. get the criminalization out of our system and just look to learn the truth. we have to find out everything we can about any bias in the mueller probe or it will be subject to challenge by any

crimmial defendant indicted. >> sean: people want to have fun on twitter. >> i challenged him to a debate. he said maybe in may. let's have a debate now. >> sean: i will give you two seats on my set. it will be an open debate and i will stay out of it for the full hour. >> i accept. >> sean: coming up next my thoughts, the media is so wrong on what happened last night in alabama's special election. what the media will never tell you. kellyanne conway is here tonight. and later anderson cooper's dog ate his home work. it's profound.

>> ♪ >> sean: last night doug jones defeated roy moores. the media doesn't want you to

understand but i will tell you. it's so obvious if you know what is really going on. that's tonight's mini-monologue. right now because president trump is so hated by the left, the destroy trump mainstream media, they blame trump for roy moore's loss. this is predictable. they blame him for everything. i told you this before. i lived in alabama. i had a great number of years there. i have known congressman mo brooks since 1990. when the primary race to fill jeff sessions's open seat was there i embraced mo brooks. this is what i said on my radio show. >> mo brooks i have known for 27 years and endorsed him and his

candidacy. >> sean: if mo brooks was on the election yesterday, he would have won the election by 20 points easily. it wasn't trump. mitch mcconnell and the d.c. establishment inserted themselves into this race. they never wanted mo brooks to be the next senator from alabama. they looked at brooks as another ted cruz. a conservative voice that would fight the d.c. swamp, be against the establishment. so mitch and company poured in million dollars to support the establishment candidate luther strange who has ethical issues. that's another night. mo brooks came in 3rd. didn't qualify for the run off primary election. the people of alabama were not happy with mitch mcconnell's interference. when it came down to luther strange versus roy moore, the people of alabama voted for the

anti-establishment candidate. roy moore has always been controversial. in 2012 he run the race for chief justice on the alabama court. only won 52% of the vote. that was before like in this case all of these accusations of misconduct were levelled against judge moore. it's not surprising that alabama elected a democrat to the u.s. senate for the first time in over 20 years. the morning after when i look at who is to blame for this embarrassing loss. it is not president trump. that's the lazy, knee jerk, mainstream media explanation. roy moore has himself to blame in many ways. ran a terrible campaign. was not on the campaign trail a lot in the last week and had to deal with all of those

allegations. when i interviewed roy moore, when the accusations first surfaced, i made it clear i was shocked by some of his answers. we called him out on that. i figured he said he didn't know the woman. the woman claimed he wrote in the year book. i claimed forensics would decide thiseracy. -- this race. i talked to an expert said with 100% certainty he could tell if it was roy moore's hand writing. i have no idea why the analysis didn't happen. the campaign was botched from the get go. in 2 years the people of alabama will get another chance to make their voices heard. i assume they would have better candidates. mo brooks would be the best one. we wish him well. he announced he had prostate

cancer but curable. the media are making this a democratic victory to be a major repudiation of donald trump. look at the over the top coverage from last night alone. watch this. >> doug jones campaign is biting their nails. now thinking this can work with us. 72% jefferson county. excited across the room there. >> look at this. >> wow! all of a sudden doug jones is taking the lead. >> the outcome many people thought was impossible. an earthquake in a lot of ways. >> i think we will look back on this as part of a continuum and a significant night not just for the democratic party but this country. >> thank you. you just put things into relief and context.

>> abandon the candidate. >> this annoys me. i don't interrupt you and do you this constantly. i am so through with your smirking and laughing. >> make a point. >> i made my point. >> okay. >> that's a little bit different than how they reacted back on november 8th and president trump won. remember this. >> america is crying tonight. i am not sure how much of america, but a very, very significant portion. i mean literally crying. this is a sadness. it's a mourning moment for those people. it is a moment filled with fear. >> our country is about to face some serious crieses. your country needs you. >> you have a son in the marine

corp and you don't trust the commander and chief. >> this was a white lash against a changing country. it was a white lash against a black president in part. >> sean: there is the glaring do you believe standard. media research center said 90% of the coverage on the 3 big networks, abc, nbc and cbs about president trump, 90% negative. despite all of that the president continues to stay focussed and is working hard and pushing his agenda through. the economy is soaring. we look much better on the world stage. today he made his argument in support of the gop tax plan finished. many americans will get money back. joining us with reaction counsel to the president kellyanne conway. i was doing all of trump's

accomplishments. ding, ding, ding. the media doesn't cover that. all of the regulations. this is a corporate tax cut that is massive. middle-class tax cut. this is a big deal and energy independence. millions of jobs will be created on an already recovering economy. >> today was one of the most exciting days since we have been here this year. you can see it. you can feel it. the president was excited to host five families who send his invitation to go up to the podium in front of live tv cameras and tell their stories unscripted. they thought long and hard about what they would do with extra money in their pocket. there was a one way ticket of money going to washington and this president is stopping it. some families will invest it in children's education.

some in home rennovations. others say they would give it to folks in need. the anticipation alone are reducing that corporate rate and bringing those jobs back from overseas. a centerpiece of president trump's economic pledge to this nation. the anticipation has meant 17 year high in consumer confidence. yesterday we saw small business groups coming out with their measurements. they have never seen anything like it. we are on the verge of passing historic tax reform. the president said people would see the difference in their paychecks in february. when you file taxes on april 15th, you will have seen the difference in the paychecks. he is the paycheck president. >> sean: you saw what happened with rosenstein. you heard me layout the

narrative with peter strzok and his girlfriend. the dossier. then you have bruce ohr and his wife. fusion gps. hillary bought and paid for russian propaganda that influenced the election. you put all of this together and look at where we are, where are on you all of this? is this the most corrupt i have ever seen things at the top. they are working overtime to hurt this president day in and out. >> the president made very clear many times that he has a great deal of faith in the rank-and-file at the fbi and intelligence agencies and maybe of the hard working men and women in his government. at the same time, he wants investigations to be independent and fair and accountable. americans have a right to feel

disturbed with that they see in text messages and in terms of people's political motivations. i am glad the information and evidence is getting out there. from my perspective in the white house, it shows the split screen what have is going on. you see all of that. this investigation about 2016 and we are back to the clinton campaign. we can't get rid of them. i would love to. you see the split screen. the president trump standing on the verge of tax reform -- he is also doing something else tomorrow. he will talk about massive deregulation. >> sean: that's huge. >> he promised 2 regulations out and he is way ahead of that. >> sean: kellyanne conway, merry christmas. you can say merry christmas.

>> merry christmas! happy hanukkah. >> sean: amen. when we come back, cnn's anderson cooper his dog ate his home work. you can't make this up. we will let you decide straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ it all starts with a wish. the lincoln wish list event is here. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complementary first months payment.

>> ♪ >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." joining us fox news contributor tomi lahren and i want to you put your legal hat on for a second. i am stunned. this is bigger by far than anything that came up in watergate. >> it's clear there was a conspiracy by the fbi and the department of justice to elect hillary clinton and defeat donald trump. when it did not work. they launched plan-b, a broadulent investigation into president -- a fraudulent investigation into president trump. all of these guys are thick as

thieves. they conspired to unseat the president and undo the election. plan-a was exonerate hillary clinton. that didn't work. plan-b was to -- >> sean: they exonerated without an investigation. >> but it did not get her the presidency which was the goal. the emails prove. the most telling email is the email in which strzok's lover says you were meant to be in this position, to save the country. to save the republic. >> sean: he was part of it? >> totally. >> sean: tomi lahren, we cover a lot of corruption. i love the fbi and law enforcement. i am thankful we have the

powerful tools of intelligence. you are younger than gregg jarrett and i. you have to be worried about the future of this country for your generation and future generations if the rule of law is thwarted like this. >> well, absolutely. the question is not if there is political bias or if they are trying to destroy president trump. it's why. why taking down this president who is doing great things for the american people. actually making real change. why are you trying so hard to take him down? i find it sick and disgusting. >> these are all great questions. >> it was a myth that collusion in a political campaign is a crime. it's not. there is no evidence that president trump engaged in

colaperation with the russian. this was all invented by the fbi and the justice department because they hated trump and loved hillary clinton. they were trying to elect her and defeat him. when it didn't work, they went to plan-b. say there is a crime and then surf for a crime. -- search for a crime. was there collusion in the transition? no. >> sean: the dossier was used for the predicate for that. tomi lahren, all of this information is ignored by the mainstream media. >> of course it is. what frustrates me, look how much we are spending for this independent investigation.

that's our hard earned dollars being spent on this crap. that should anger every american whether you are a republican or democrat or what recall you are. -- what color you are. >> sean: good to see you both. when we come back anderson cooper in hot water. his dog ate his homework. am tot. am tot. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. we35 mules,ur doors with 70 mega-watts, and an ice plant. but we brought power to the people- redefining what that meant from one era to the next.

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left cooper's phone unlocked and someone stole it tweeted that. laura ingraham is standing by. >> laura: was it on an elli elliptical machine. >> sean: i do boxing and street martial arts. now how i train. i don't run on a stupid machine bored out of my mind. >> laura: i have seen your hand broken from mixed martial arts. >> sean: this is the latest. i snapped it when i hit somebody. it's fun. >> laura: i am afraid of you.