groupthink. guess who's next? will give you three guesses. if you guess sean hannity, you are absently right. hey, sean. >> sean: tucker, thank you. be appreciated. fox news alert. t welcome to "hannity." we are sipped on my following several breaking news stories. the deputy attorney general general rod rosenstein isam totally grilled by about the political bias of the doj.ou this comes after fox news obtained those anti-trump, pro-hillary clinton text messages between the fbi agent peter strzok, has fpa lawyer girlfriend, both working for mueller, lisa page. we have all the glorious trump. you can handle tonight. fusion gps, the firm behind the clinton bought and paid for fake russia dossier, guess what? they admit the wife of recently demotede doj official worked ato the company on trump opposition research. this can't be in a novel anymore, you can't make it up. also republicans reach a tentative deal on taxes, big win

forch president trump. also, tonight, we'll get my take on the alabama special election. he won't hear this anywhere else my media. by the way, anderson cooper is ate his homework. first, tonight's breaking news opening monologue. ♪ the fallout continues over new examples of political bias, one after another, coming from the department of justice, the fbi, and from robert mueller's merry band of democratic donors. fox news has obtained some of the text messages between that fbi agent, you know the one that is involved in everything, peter strzok, and the fbi lawyerag girlfriend, lisa page. they are full of all kinds of examples of trump bashing. we are going to show you the actual messages in detail in a minute. bute first, as you can imagine, the mass of conflicts of interests, the political prejudice now being exposed in america's justice system has republican lawmakers finally waking up and demanding answers. g.o.p. congressman, they wasted

little time today in questioning the deputy attorney general, the guy that appointed mueller, rod rosenstein, on capitol hill earlier today. this is a classic, epic. take a look. we are now beginning to better understand the magnitude of this insider bias on mr. mueller's team. first we have fbi agent peter strzok.ye and fbi lawyer lisa page exchanging communications showing extreme bias against president trump. >> what happens when people who are supposed to cure the conflicts of interest have even greater conflicts of interest the most they were placed? that's not a rhetorical question. you, nor i, nor anyone else, would ever sit peter strzok on a jury. we wouldn't have him objectively, dispassionately investigate everything knowing what we know now. why didn't we know it ahead of time? >> my question is dof you, how, with a straight face, can you say that this group of democrat partisans are unbiased and will

give president trump a fair shake? >> that the this is unbelievab. i'm here to tell you, i think the public's trust in this whole thing is gone. it seems to me you have two things you can do. you are the guy in charge. you are the guyhi that a picked mueller, you wrote the memo as to whyme you need to fire james comey. you are in charge. you can just manned the mueller special prosecutor and you can do what we did two. appoint a special counsel to look into peter strzok, bruce ohr, everything we have learned in the last several weeks. >> sean: all this unfamiliar? it showed. you've heard it here first. we've been doing it for months. despite today's grilling, rosenstein remains defiant and actually defending mueller and his team of planted lovers and trumpeters. pretty unbelievable. watch this. >> i think is important to recognize when we talk about political affiliation that -- the issue of bias is something differentt and i've discussed this with director mueller nt

and i collectively have a lot of experience in managing offices in the department of justice. we recognize we have employees of the political opinions and it's our responsibility to make sure those opinions do not influence their actions. pardon me. i do believe that director mueller understands that nt is running that office appropriately. recognizing that people have political views and ensuring that those views are not in any way a factor in how they conduct themselves. i don't know exactly what the president meant by that, the special counsel's investigation is not a witch hunt. >> sean: one problem, there is only one opinion, it is pro-hillary, anti-trump. apr mountain of evidence now showing this bias among mueller's investigators, yet rosenstein pretending like he is the only person in america that doesn't see it. see no evil, hear no evil. what's happening? this is a direct threat to the rule of law in this country. rosenstein is aiding and abetting this threat. if he had any sort of moral

compass, he would shut down mueller's corrupt witch hunt immediately. while he doesn't see it is beyond anything i could ever think about. as for mueller's team of corrupt unbiased democratic donors, here's a quick overview of what we know of a mic about them. they have given piles of cash, over 50 grand in total, two democrats including barack obama and hillary clinton. by the way, only one of them donated to a republican. none of them gave any money to donald trump and that is just the start event. one of mueller's top investigators, she worked closely with eric holder, remember him? represent to the clinton foundation during the 2015 racketeering case. if i wrote a novel or a movie, you wouldn't believe it. then there is his top prosecutor, yep, his guy, andrew weissmann. he oversaw that highly controversial obstruction of justice case, remember, arthur andersen, the accounting firm, enron, it destroyed the company. they were put out of business. tens of thousands of people lost jobs.

2005, the supreme court will return to weissmann's conviction 9-0, a unanimous ruling. as part of the enron investigation, weissmann's and four merrill lynch investigatior jail. that was also overturned by the fifth u.s. circuit of appeals. weissmannrn has been accused of doing anything to secure a conviction. withholding exculpatory evidence and intimidating witnesses, just among the few charges. lastly, judicial watch released an email where weissmann told the former acting attorney general, sally yates, how proud he was her after yates divided direct order from her boss, the president of the united states, and refused to defend the travel ban. "the wall street journal" is reporting that weissmann attended hillary clinton's election night party. wow. finally, there is the truncating,ig clinton loving fbi agents strzok. fox news has obtained the anti-trump, pro-clinton text

messages.fr before we show you them, here is the back story. this guy, strzok, used to be a top counter intelligence official before being demoted and actually sign the documents that started the entire so-called russian investigation. strzok's team was assigned to handle the anti-trump dossier when it was first given to the fbi. get this, he also oversaw the interview a former national security advisor lieutenant general michael flynn and he saw the major role in the clinton email investigation investigation, sacked and on hillary's fbi interview, was also at the interviews of clinton's top aides, and this is the most egregious piece of information we have about struck, he is the guy, he is the one that changed -- remember the exoneration before investigation, james comey, what was james comey and peter strzok, he changed the terminology from grossly

negligent to extreme carelessness, which took and let hillary off the hook in that particular case. think about it, the fix was in. strzok is at the center of everything. this is the back story. this is why these text messages are so disturbing. let's start. exchange. at this the date, march 4th, 2016. page, the girlfriend writes, "god, trump is able to subhuman." strzok responds, "yet, he may won and good for hillary." page says, "it is." and then strzok says would he be a worse president than ted cruz? page says, i think so. strzok says, he's an idiot. page says, america will get with the voting public deserves. that is you. and page finishes with that's what i'm afraid of. later, the same day, strzok writes, hillary should win 100 million to max zero. page says, i know. that conversation continues when paige said, what -- he is the

only sensible man up there? strzok follows up with he was pretty much calling for the death of snowden. i'm a single issue voter. espionage machine party. exactly, regarding kasich. they fully deserved a goal and deserve the absolute nonsense of donald trump. he adds, truly. later that month, page says, really, really like on joe biden. strzok says open on trump? if hillary did, you know five field offices would. while maxima rule of law. while matt, donald trump is an enormous -- well, expletive, i can say it but children may be watching. in august, page writes, jesus, you should read this and trump should go [bleep] himself and strzok response, god, that's a great article, thanks for sharing and [bleep] trump.

he even bashed from supporters, writing, just went to a southern virginia walmart, i could smell the drum support. and page from his girlfriend replies, out to lunch with, well, redacted, and we both hate everyone and everything, and she adds, just riffing on the hot mess that is our country. strzok ends by saying, yeah, it's scary, really down here. in october strzok sent this message. i am riled up. trump is a bleeping idiot. unable to provide a coherent answer. strzok later texts, i can't pull away. what the blank happened to our country? this particular message, pay close attention to, it's getting attention from other people, as well. it's raising all kinds of other important questions that we need answers to now in august of 2016, strzok texted, "i want to believe the path you throughout for consideration in andy's office, that there's no way he

gets elected -- meaning trump -- but i'm afraid that we can take that risk. it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before your 40." fox news -- we haven't confirmed, that andy, well that text would be deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. remember, his wifey took 700 grand in donations from democrats during a 2015 virginia state senate run. by the way, terry mcauliffe up to his eyeballs there. also this text exchange.er we edited out the part, the middle part, which was a web m link. page writes, and maybe you meant to stay where you are, because you are meant to protect the country from that menace. and strzok says, thanks, it's absolutely true that we are both very fortunate and of course, i will try and approach it that way. i just know it will be tough at times. i can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps.

what is the insurance policy and why is andy, who we think is andrew mccabe, the deputy fbi director, why is he involved in this? interestingly, "the wall street journal" reporting that the meeting with mccabe took place just as the fbi lobsters counterintelligence probe into possible tron-russia connections. you can't write a novel like this. the journal also writes that july's and christopher's deal briefed the fbi about the fake news dossier. here's another huge question. how are these text messages discovered? after reading all those messages, how can rod rosenstein honestly go before congress today and concluded that the special counsel is fair and unbiased? there is this new information, fusion gps, they have confirmed that nelly ohr, the wife of the recently demoted doj official, ohr, did in fact work for fusion gps. and fusion gps also confirmed

that nelly ohr worked on trump opposition research and we found bruce ohreek that match with the former british spy that paid for the russian lies to influence the election, he is the person who put together the fake news,, anti-trump russia dossier with phony information. we bruce ohr also met with glen, cofounder of fusion gps. guess what, ohr's office was only four doors down from rosenstein's. wow. everything that we justre explained shows that there are inexcusable conflicts of interest, that there are clear, abusive biases at the doj, and the fbi, and robert mueller's team. now, to be clear, it has nothing to do with rank and file, hardworking law enforcement agents. this is about the select few people at the top that they that they are above the law, that think that they know better than

you. so we have to ask the night, what in gods name is robert mueller doing? it is one giant huge massive web of corruption and it is all aimed at taking down a duly elected president of united states. it's immoral, unethical. probably at some point, we will find real illegal activity. joining us now, former deputy assistant to the president, fox news national national security strategist sebastian strategist sebastian gorka and florida attorney general pam bondi. t >> no one would believe how real this is and what fox has uncovered. first of all, all of these people need to be wiped off the case, they need to 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, just like you said. this has really gotten out of o

control. i think ron desantis asked some great questions, trey gowdy was great. rod rosenstein sat there and answer them. rod said something -- i know him, i have dealt with him, and ins have only had completely ethical dealings with broad, and that is my hope right here. he said something, it is their responsibility to be sure influence -- >> sean: pam, what else do we need? action. >> what we need now is to get all of these other people off the case. from hearing himim today, i thik he's ethical. i think all police people need to be removed. they are not. >> sean: pam, he said he thinks mueller is doing a good job! >> i think we need to hold on, though, shaun, and see what happens. i'm not defending mueller. i'm not defending rosenstein. what i am saying, is given everything that you have exposed, given the hard-hitting questionss today that he got atg 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 have not given to either party. as you said, eight out of the 16 people have not only donated to democrats, but they have been very active in the anti-trump movement. >> sean: sebastian gorka. >> i'm sorry, if they are talking about andrew mccabe, there could be some criminal issues involved here, too, very strong criminal issues. >> sean: how do we interpret, dr. sebastian gorka, the insuray that they discussed with who we think is andrew mccabe? is the insurance policy, when you look of a timeline, that wed we manufacturer trump-russian pollution, and that will be the means to take out a duly elected president because we need to, we are smarter than everyone else who voted for

donald trump? >> sean, i'm not going to hypothesize what these individual words of these text messages mean. we have enough evidence already. i happen to agree with pan. it's not about replacing individuals, it's dissolving the team. we know that mueller's team is manned by members of hillary's so-called resistance movement. there is a reason that a lady justice is blindfolded. in this case, she has taken her blindfold off, she is partisan and using that sword to attack the president. one crucial point: where is peter strzok today? the second of these text messages came out, director christopher wray should have gone up to peter strzok, taking his gun, taken his badge, and fire him from law enforcement. he is now in the hr department of the bureau. think about what you can do at the hr department. a see their massaging documents, is he hiding the political identities of other peopleve investigating the president?

this is not political bias, this is corruption at the highest level of law enforcement. >> sean: how can he look at the team of clinton lovers, trump haters that have been assembled, the unethical proven behavior of edger reisman, how could he look at the statement he has put together, and then we hear, "i want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in andy's office, that there is no way -- no way --s trump gets elected, but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy in case you die before your 40." i can't interpret that as any other way than deep state, powerful operatives scheming, plotting, and planning, to undermine an election. tell me where i am wrong, pam bondi prayed >> sebastian, you used much better words than i pray>> that he needs to be dissd and they need to be investigated. i guess i am holding out hope

that rod rosenstein, after listening to him, testify, that he is -- >> sean: pam, why doesn't he see the team -- >> sean, i can tell you. >> i hope they are being dissolved. i hope we see very soon and dissolved as a much better word, sebastian, this team needs to be wiped out. >> sean: let me give you one example. comey and strzok, they exonerated hillary clinton, we now know, on the email server investigation. they exonerated her before the investigation. that sounds like obstruction to me. >> they are corrupt. comey is corrupt. strzok is corrupt. i know rod rosenstein, i have met him. he is the quintessential bureaucratic survivor. he is going to skate along, trying to make everybody happy but he is not goingt. to change the fundamentally corrupt nature of this team.

even mueller himself, he's a vietnam vet with a sterling record, maybe he is just utterly tone-deaf. you cannot have ten people that are absolutely in the tank for hillary investigate the republican president who defeated hillary. >> sean: i gave you the one example. i'll give you another one. what about the dossier? how is it possible, four doors down from rod rosenstein, a guide by the name of bruce ohr, meeting with fusion gps as this is all going on. his wife is doing anti-trump research for them. four doors down. trump-russia collusion? how about hillary paying for russia propaganda, lies that were used in the campaign to influence the american people? is back collusion? pam? >> absolutely. but you can't blame rosenstein just because his office is four doors down. again, i'm not defending him, i'm saying i'm hoping he is going to do the right thing. i know him, i've worked with

him. all of these people i agree need to be dissolved office investigation. he said that we will be seeing something very soon and this is what i am hopeful that we will be seeing because he is supervising mueller. >> sean: this is worse than watergate, on a million levels. by the time we untangle this massive web of corruption, it will be worse than watergate. water great on human growth hormone and steroids combined at massive levels. >> it's a banana republic, sean. >> sean: you're the one who has to untangle it, not the federal government. >> sean: and the media is nowhere to be found, they are locked in the one year investigation with zero evidence. >> i doubt we would've had today's hearing without you, sean. >> sean: sara carter, john solomon, some of our colleagues at fox,ho catherine herridge and others. it is literally a small group and all of you.>> s thank you. when we come back, harvard law professor alan dershowitz, he's been amazing on this issue. he'll talk about rosenstein's

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>> sean: welcome back to "hannity." >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." here with reaction to my opening monologue, rod rosenstein's -- author of "trumped up," harvard law school professor alan dershowitz is back with us. first, let me get your reaction to the hearing. more particularly, to this email exchange. the depth, in terms of this one guy, strzok, taps into almost everything we have discussed for a year. does the fbi not have any other employees? it seems like he's it. >> first of all, i want to wish everybody a happy hanukkah and a merry christmas. >> sean: day two. yes, sir. >> let me give you some legal context. 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. so any defendant who gets indicted by the mueller group is going to be able to challenge their indictment in court. here is the way mueller is going to defend it. he's going to say, look, armor statutes prohibit me from considering politicalut affiliation and hiring people, i just hire the best people, who allll happen to be democrats. their response to that is going to become a maybe not political affiliation, but bias within political affiliation. these folks who wrote these emails, they should have been sensible enough to recuse themselves immediately. they have a strong bias. just like justice ruth bader ginsburg has expressed a very strong bias against president trump and i hope she will recuse herself in any case involving the president directl directly. should there be a special counsel appointed? know.sh i don't see evidence of crimes. i think what mueller should do is appoint an ethics consultant,

somebody like former attorney general michael mukasey, former head of the fbi, to come in and do a complete evaluation of everybody on the staff. >> sean: isn't it pathetic that he needed? to me, this is so transparent, the team he has put together. you know andrew weissmann, you know this guy. he did not belong in that team. how many overturns are there 9-0? you have been before the supreme court. >> it's a very good question. andrew weissmann has a reputation of being an excellent, very tough, somewhat zealous lawyer. i didn't know anything about his political affiliation, i actually had a case against him not so long ago. he is very, very good. he never should have sent that email congratulating sally yates. sally yates should not have been congratulated. i wrote an op-ed piece saying that when you are the attorney general -- >> sean: how about withholding

exculpatory evidence? in other cases, what can only be deemed as beyond aggressive tactics to get convicting all my convictions. >> is a civil liberties lawyer, i am appalled when they withhold exculpatory evidence, whether republicans or democrats. we have to defend the several laboratories of all americans, starting with the president. there are so many pardons out there who say, we are civil libertarians, but we got to get rid of this president, so let silva liberties bay put aside. that is with these emails address. they were prepared to be put aside. that's a bias. >> sean: what about this one particular text message? we only have less than 400. they are only 2,000. you can wait for the rest of them. i want to believe the path that you throughout for consideration in auntie's office -- i believe they are talking about andrew mccabe -- it's a guess -- i haven't confirmed it, that there is no way trump gets elected if we follow that path.

i'm afraid we can't take that risk, it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you are 40. that is chilling to me, that email. >> i think there has to be an investigation of that, but i don't want criminal investigations. we should start with ethics investigations, congressional investigations. i always suggested a nonpartisan commission like the 9/11 commission. but when you start with the special counsel, you are immediately saying, there must be crime here, and i think that's wrong on both sides. i am opposed to the republicans call for a special counsel, just as i was opposed to the appointment of mueller as a special counsel. we have to get the criminalization out of our system and start looking simply to learn the truth and we have to find out everything we can about any bias of anybody in the mueller probe, otherwise it is simply not going to have credibility and it will be subject to challenge by any criminal defendant who was indicted by the special counsel. >> sean: all right professor, i love your keen intellect.

people want to have some fun following you on twitter, it's a bit of -- >> as you know, i challenged him to a debate that he said, well, maybe in may. >> sean: seriously? i will tell you, professor, i will give you two seats on my site.l it will be an open debate and i'll stay out of it. full hour. one-on-one. >> i accept. it.ean: got i will give you my thoughts, the media is soas wrong on what happened last night in alabama special election and what the media will never tell you. also, kellyanne conway is here. later, let's just say anderson cooper's dog ate his homework. i'll explain. it's pretty profound. straight ahead.

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>> ♪ >> sean: as you know, last night doug jones defeated roy more in the alabama special election. the media doesn't really want you to understand what happened in that state but i will tell you because it is so obvious if

you know what is really going on. that is tonight mini monologue monologue. because president trump is so hated by the left cumberland destroy truck media, they are trying to blame trump for his loss last. night. pretty predictable, if the dog bites, if the bee stings, if you are feeling sad, all president trump's fault. i have lived in alabama, i had a great number of years. i have known congressman mo brooks since 1990. he used to fill and for me. when the primary race to fill jeff sessions' open seat began. i endorsed mo brooks. here's what i said. >> sean: there is a primary next tuesday in the state of alabama and mo brooks, i have known for 27 years, i've endorsed him and his candidacy, and now he's a member of the freedom caucus. i probably support him. >> sean: mo brooks was on the ballot yesterday, i promise you,

if he would have won by 20 points easily. i will be very blunt. it wasn't trump. mitch mcconnell and the d.c. establishment inserted themselves intons this race. they never wanted mo brooks to be the next senator from alabama. they looked at mo brooks is another ted cruz, a conservative voice that would fight the d.c. swamp, be against the establishment. what did mitch and company do? they poured in millions and millions s of dollars to support the establishment candidate, luther strange. by the way, who has his own ethical issues and how we got appointed, i will say that for another night. it had a huge impact on the race. mo brooks came in third, didn't qualify for the runoff primary election. the people of alabama weren't exactly happy with the establishment, so when they came down to a simple choice between an ethically challenged, in my view, luther strange versus roy moore, the people of alabama voted for the antiestablishment candidates. all right, now roy moore, he's

always been controversial, extremely full of polarizing figure. back in 2012, in alabama, he won the race for the chief justice on the alabama supreme court. the only won 52% of the vote and that was before, like in this case, all of these accusations of misconduct were leveled against him. so it is not surprising that last night, alabama elected a democrat to the u.s. senate for the first time in 20 years. so the morning after, when i look at who is to blame for this embarrassing loss, it is not president trump. that is the lazy knee-jerk mainstream media simplistic explanation. roy moore, he has himself to blame in many ways. he ran a terrible campaign, was not on the campaign trail a lot in the last week, and he had to deal with all of those allegations and you might

remember, when i interviewed roy moore, when he actually accusations first service, i made it clear that i was shocked by his answers. i figured honestly at that point, he said he didn't know the woman, the woman claimed he wrote in the yearbook, and i claimed at that point, forensics will decide this race. they were taught if he is telling the truth. i interviewed the handwriting expert who told me with 100% certainty he could prove if he had roy moore's writings at the time and compared it to the yearbook that he would tell if it was roy moore's handwriting. he would also be able to tell if, in fact, the ink was new or old. to this day, i have no idea why the analysis didn't happen. the people of alabama deserve that. with the campaign was botched from the get-go. and in two years, the good news is, the people of alabama will get another chance to make their voices heard. i assume they'll have better candidates. i would say on the top of my head, mo brooks would be the best one. by the way, we wish them well. we found out he had prostate

cancer, and a very curable position. as i said earlier, the media are making this victory to be a major repudiation of donald trump. just look at the over-the-top t coverage from last night alone. watch this. >> if you are in the jones' campaign come a little while ago, you are biting your nails, and now you think it will work for you. one of the things i will chart, again, 72%, jefferson county, keeping that margin. they are getting excited. that had to happen on election night. >> wow. look at this. doug jones -- >> hale county just came in. >> we witnessed an outcome that many people thought was impossible. we witnessed anpl outcome that s an earthquake in a lot of ways. >> i think we will look back on this as part of a continuum and a very, very significant night, not just with the democratic party, but for this country. >> eugene, thank you, as always, you just put things into relief and context. >> abandon the candidate or

event in the conviction. i really don't interrupt you and you do this -- i am so through with your mansplaining i am not in the mood for this. >> make your point. >> i have made my point. as the one that's a little bit different than how they reacted back in november 8th, 2161 president trump won. remember this? >> america is crying tonight. i'm not sure how much of america but a very, very significant portion and i mean literally crying. this is a sadness, it is a mourning moment for these people and it is a moment filled with fear. filled with fear. >> our country is about to face some serious crises and so, buckle up, your country needs you. >> it's a pretty extraordinary thing to say, if you have a son in the marine corps and that you don't trust the commander in chief.

people in the military defend the constitution. >> this was a whitelash against a changing country, a whitelash against a racist president in part for part. >> sean: there is a glaring -- according to study, 90% of the coverage on the three big networks, abc, nbc, cbs, from september to november about president trump, 90% negative. despite all of that, the president continues to stayes focused, he is working hard, pushingg his agenda through, the economy is still soaring, we much better. his argument in support of the g.o.p. tax plan, finished many americans will be getting money back. thank god for you joining us now with reaction, counselor to the president kellyanne conway. the president, i think you saw the show because you made fun of me, privately, and i was doing all of trump's accomplishments,

ding, ding. i know the media doesn't cover that. all the regulations he got done, this is now a corporate tax cut that is massive, middle-class tax code, repatriation, this is a big deal and energy independence. millions of jobs will be created on an already growing and recovering economy. >> today was truly one of the most exciting days since we have been there this year. and you can see it. you can feel it. the president was very excited to host five families, sean, all of whom accepted his invitation to go up to the podium in front of live tv cameras and tell their stories unscripted. they fought long and hard aboutt they would do with extra money . a one-way ticket for everybody's money going from their wallet to washington in this president iss stopping that. he stopping the bleeding. you heard of these family say, s someone invested in their children's education, some are going to invest in home renovation, another family from washington state said they would give it to you folks who were in

need, give some charitable contributions to the community. but the point is, the expectation, the anticipation alone, reducing that corporate rate, making us more competitive, bringing those jobs back from overseas, a centerpiece of president trump's economic pledge to this nation. the anticipation of it has meant a 17 year high in consumer confidence. yesterday, we saw another small business group, said they are all comingg out with their measurements, they have never seen anything like it. this, we are on the verge of passing a historic tax reform. the president said that people would start seeing the difference in their paychecks in february. when you file your taxes next year, you will have seen a difference in your paychecks. he is the paycheck president. >> sean: let me ask you, kellyanne, we saw what happened with rosenstein tonight. you heard me lay out the narrative with strzok and his girlfriend lisa page.

you have andrew weissmann, the democratic governors, the exoneration for the investigation. the dossier, and then you got bruce ohr. bruce ohr's wife, fusion gps. hillary bought, paid for russian propaganda to influence the election. we put all this together and you look at where we are, where are you on all of this? i know where i am. this is the most corrupt i've ever seen things of the top. the deep state is alive and well and they have been working overtime to her to this president day in and day out. >> the president has made very clear many times, sean, that he has a great deal of faith in the rank and file in the fbi and intelligence agencies and many of the hardworking men and women in his government. at the same time, we always want investigations to be independent, to be fair, to be transparent and accountable, and americans have a right to feel disturbed by what they see, not what is being spun to them, but

what they see and text exchanges, what they see in terms of people's political motivation. so i'm glad the information is getting out there but from my perspective in the white house, it shows you the split screen of what is going on. you see all of that, this hoveringis investigation about 2016 and we are back to the clinton campaign and all of this, again, we can't get rid of them somehow, someway.ov i would love to you. you see this what is green. you have the president, donald trump, standing there today -- by the way, he is doing something else tomorrow. he'll be talking aboutk massive deregulation. there is an op-ed coming out tomorrow, it's huge. he's announcing tomorrow, he promised two regulations out for every new one in. he is way ahead. he and his agencies are way ahead of that, saving you billions of dollars and taxpayers. >> sean: kellyanne, always good to see you. merry christmas. you can say it again.

>> merry christmas and happy hanukkah >> sean: amen. when we come back, gregg jarrett, tomi lahren or next. also, apparently cnn's anderson cooper, his dog ate his homework. you can't make this stuff up. but we'll let you decide, straight ake ahead. we continue to build as america's 3rd largest investor in infrastructure. we don't just help power the american dream... we're part of it.

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>> ♪ >> sean: welcome back to >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." joining us now, tell me lay around and gregg jarrett. let's go back to my opening monologue. i want to put your legal had on for a second. i y am stunned. this could be to me, is bigger, by far, then anything that came up in watergate. >> is clear there was a nefarious conspiracy by the fbi and department of justice to elect hillary clinton and defeat donald trump. when it didn't work, the conspirators launched their plan b, which was a fraudulent investigation into president trump into crimes which don't exist under the law. so this is the deepest stage, as you often refer. the deep state is a group of partisans who have been togetheo for 20 years, all these guys are thick as thieves. they conspired to unseat and

undo the election. unseat the president and undo the election. plan a was exonerate hillary clinton. that didn't work. plan b was to -- >> sean: wait a minute. they did exonerate her.ra without that investigation. >> i did it lead to her ascendancy to the presidency, which was their goal. the emails prove it. look at the emails. the most telling email of all is the email in which strzok's lover says to him, "you were meant to be w in this position,o save the country, to save the republic." >> sean: he was part of the exoneration!ea >> he totally was. >> sean: tomi, let me bring you into this. we cover a lot of corruption. i want to be clear, i love the fbi, i love law enforcement. i i have a secret service pin o. i am thankful that we have the powerful tools of intelligence. i am worried, and i think you

are a little younger thanyo gregg jarrett and i, but you've got to be worried about the future of this country, for your generation, and future generations, if the rule of law is thwarted like this. >> absolutely i am. the question isn't if. there is political bias, the question isn't if they are trying to destroy president trump, it's why. why are you doing this to try to take down this president that is doing great things for the american people? whyhi are you doing this, the supporters that voted for him, for someone that is making real change? why are you trying so hard to take him down? that is my question. i find it sick and disgusting. >> sean: all great questions. >> it was always a myth that collusion in a political campaign is a crime. it's's not. and it was never a scintilla of evidence that president trump engaged in some collaboration with the russians. so this was all manufactured.

it was invented by the fbi and the department of justice and now we know why. they hated trump. they loved hillary clinton. they were trying to elect her and they were trying to defeat him. when i didn't work, they went about to plan b. plan b -- >> sean: manufactured by the deep state. >> right. let's just say there is a crime and then we all search in vain for a crime and to so now that we know there is no collusion in the political campaign, the question is, was there collusion in the transition? no. >> sean: that dossier was used as a predicate for that warrant. tomi, what is your reaction -- all of this reaction is ignored by the mainstream media. >> of course it is. here is what also frustrates me, and should frustrate the american people. look at how much we are spending for this independent investigation. that is our hard earned dollars

that are being spent on this crap, and that should anger every american. i don't care -- that should anger you. all the stuff coming out should anger those of my mainstream media. imagine that, they are silent. >> sean: good to see you both. when we come back, anderson cooper is in hot water. his dog ate his homework. straight ahead. my experience with usaa has been excellent. they always refer to me as master sergeant. they really appreciate the military family, and it really shows. we've got auto insurance, homeowners insurance.

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i guess anderson's dog ate his homework. [laughs] whatever. whatever you say, anderson. but as all the time we have left. let not your heart be troubled. lower ingram is standing by. -- laura ingraham is standing by. 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. n: