injections. it can make its head bigger and it's lips drew clear, both highly appealing to camel aficionados. good night from washington. hannity is a lie from new york. >> sean: great show, as always. huge, breaking news. we on this program cannot exclusively report that the department of justice is now started and is recovering some f the five months of missing text messages from trump painting fbi agents peter strzok and lisa page. also parking right now, president trump is telling the special counsel robert mueller that he will talk to him under oath. it sounds like the president has nothing to hide, but is it the right legal decision? we'll explore with our panel. also brand-new tonight, robert mueller and has mouthpieces and the corrupt liberal media, they are in a full-fledged panic and desperately trying to change the narrative to hide the truth amid a new, stunning wave of information about anti-trump bias, abuse of power, all at the

highest levels, not the rank and file, of the fbi and doj. plus, you will not believe -- you are not going to believe -- who james comey hired to be his lawyer. that and so much more, breaking news. the department of justice is urging the house intelligence committee chair devin nunes not to release the classified memo exposing pfizer abuses against the trump campaign. that is unacceptable to us and it it's why we are still demanding that congress released the ♪ ♪ , tell us the truth, that and more in our very important opening monologue. ♪ our exclusive reporting on the doj, we can report right now that the missing fbi text messages, we'll tell you about it in a second. it's a game changing development. first, president trump is letting the special counsel robert mueller know that there is no collusion and he has nothing to hide. listen to this. >> did you talk to mueller? >> i'm looking forward to it

actually. there is but no collusion whatsoever. there is no obstruction whatsoever. i'm looking forward to it. i would love to do it. again, i have to say, it is subject to my lawyers and all of that of that. >> sean: with his lawyer's approval, that makes sense. "the drudge" report tonight has this headline and it sums it up perfectly. "trump stairs down to mueller: i'll do it under oath." judge jeanine pirro will join us later with legal reaction. the walls are closing in on those responsible for this massive corruption, abuse of power at the top levels of government and what we are now calling state-sponsored sabotage. with this flood of news exposing all of these malfeasance, robert mueller are working overtime. they want to create as many distractions as possible and discredit anybody that is telling the truth, like us on the fox news channel, for daring to report on the truth.

to be perfectly clear, for those that don't pay attention, and want to advance the lies and false narratives, we are not and never have been, and never will be talking about rank and file members of the fbi, the doj, and the intelligence community. they honor us with their service every day and there is no show on television that has and will continue to support these hardworking people that do such a service to their country. but the criminal wrongdoing that we're exposing has to do with only a few select obama administration top bureaucrats who thought that they knew better than you did about who should be our president. the liberal media has engaged in a total smear campaign. they want to show to people like me and gregg jarrett and sara carter and john solomon and tom fitton and victoria tensing and so many others. they want to conceal the truth. we've always had the utmost respect for the fbi. i thought family in the fbi and the intelligence community and

police officers and firefighters and military. can the liberal media say the same for themselves? we know the answer. how many times have you heard them attack people in uniform. those that service as much as they do. now that we're getting closer and closer every single night in uncovering his huge, historic, massive scandal, the media is rushing to slander and discredit those of us that are exposing this. at the end of the day, every one of these so-called journalists at the so-called news networks are going to look like fools, but we already know they are. the same people who have been clinging to a sinking lifeboat of this phony trump russia collusion story, it's been a year, and they still cannot admit they have been completely wrong, there is no evidence, and in many instances, they are flat out lying. since none of this has worked, the media is doing the bidding of robert mueller. they're breathless, hysterical reporting about with the special counsel is doing.

don't believe me? let your own eyes see. >> a dizzying 24 hours in the russia investigation. no longer just inching toward the president. this morning, it is more like careening. >> happening now, breaking news, closing income of the special counsel's dresser probe closes in on the president and his inner circle. >> after 24 hours of bombshell reports, another one. just in, cnn has learned the special counsel robert mueller wants to question the president's former white house chief strategist steve bannon. >> the outline of an obstruction of justice case filling in bit by bit as nbc's political team notes, if the objects around bill clinton's tarmac meeting with loretta lynch were bad, this is "100 times worse. >> it was a day of revelations of the russia probe. >> if there is needed to be watching us today, it is today, russia, prussia, russia. a lot going on. >> sean: any time there is

breaking news about this abuse of power that we are -- is unfolding every night of the show, all of a sudden three or four stories about the special counsel's investigation in the media, they are all over the place, and it spread like wildfire within their own echo chamber. so predictable at this point. the media is out of control with their bodies. it is painfully obvious. by the way, a lot of their information, i believe, when it said and done, is probably coming from robert mueller and of course is liberal democratic tax that have been pushing this themselves. also tonight, big developments about the explosive classified memo exposing fisa abuses against the trump campaign. fox news is reporting the department of justice is now asking the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes to not publicly release the memo that we deserve. does the doj not understand congress has oversight over them? they are investigating them. they don't have to hand a mama

over to anyone in spite of with the liberal media says. they shouldn't do it. this is why we are once again calling on you, the american people, to call up your members of congress, demand the memo be released. release the memo. #releasethememo. tell congress the truth about one of the biggest scandals in american history and we have a right to know. also, breaking this hour, this is huge. new information about the missing strzok-page text messages. remember, five months, very critical time period. sources are exclusive telling me tonight, multiple sources, the department of justice is, as we speak, in the process of successfully recovering many of those text messages and that five-month period of time from the trump hating fbi officials peter strzok and lisa page. the doj is trying to track on their mobile phones. this is huge because those texts are during that critical time,

during the so-called russia investigation. he was a big question tonight. was the deputy fbi director andrew mccabe's cell phone impacted by this glitch? he was lisa page's boss. both she and strzok talked about "the insurance policy in auntie's office, but," we beliee that was andrew mccabe. one of the lawyers that is now representing national embarrassment james comey. according to buzzfeed, one of his attorneys turns out as his columbia law professor buddy, the guy he leaked a memo to to "the new york times," because he wanted a special counsel appointed, which turned out to be, oh, comey's other bff, robert mueller. you can't make this up in a spy novel. it is one giant incestuous circle of corruption. we have even more proof. james comey testified, remember, that he gave his classified most of robert mueller. according to the reports, the

special counsel interview to comey about his memos last year. by the way, they also collaborated before they testified. those memos contained classified information. they were created on government computers. so comey broke the law by removing them from the fbi but it's clear that comey didn't care about any of that. they are best friends. mueller's main focus is, has been, and continues to be carrying out a witch hunt to unseat a duly elected president of the united states, president trump. it's ridiculous and it's an abomination to the constitution and rule of law. as you have seen by watching the show the past couple of nights, well, there have been so much breaking news about the fbi text messages that we have been able to cover all of this. i want to go back and i want to make sure you are up to speed, highlight a very important couple pieces of information. senator ron johnson revealing with bret baier last night that an informant told him there was some sort of anti-trump "secure

society" within the fbi. here are senator johnson explaining it on "special report." >> what this is all about is further evidence of corruption, more than bias, corruption at the highest levels of the fbi. that secret society, we have an informant talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off site. there is so much smoke here -- >> let's stop there. a secret society? secret meetings outside of the justice department? you have an informant saying that? >> correct, yes. >> anything more about that? >> we have to dig into it. this is not a distraction. again, this is biased, potentially corruption, at the highest levels of the fbi. >> sean: really? you can't make this up. "abc news" have obtained this particular text message and they are questioning if it was all a joke. we'll let you decide. lisa page writing peter strzok...

senator johnson is saying that he's trying to get to the bottom of it, as he should. senator johnson is also making news by releasing text messages from anti-trump fbi lovers peter strzok and lisa page that also highlight even further their extreme bias. just after midnight on may 19th, remember, it was gone from december 14th to the 16th of may, and then mueller was appointed and then they reappeared again. strzok appears to be talking about getting an offer to join mueller's investigation. by the way, strzok, "my answer is no, no, and then i think, wait, a case will be in history books? a chapter? you tell me about my extra time with the field that all the cases, would you trade it? a million people sit in adn staff jobs. this is a chance to do that may

be most important case of our lives." the same guy that was saying earlier, there is no they are there. 30 minutes later, strzok asked page the question... did strzok have extra knowledge about robert mueller's end goal was going to be? a statement from strzok contradicts what he said when he was talking about the possibility of trump-russia collusion on may 19th, 2 days after mueller was appointed. you may remember the time frame. he said you and i both know the odds are nothing. if i thought it was likely, i would be there, no question. i hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there is no big "there" there. strzok, despite his rampant bias, new from the beginning mueller was leading a witch hunt and strzok but not because he was the top intelligence official at the fbi and he's the guy that signed the papers that started the entire russian investigation. strzok also dropped this bombshell about the clinton email investigation writing...

the fbi's code name for the clinton investigation. fix it and finish it? strzok is texting this may 19th. remember, we know hillary clinton wasn't even interviewed until the fourth of july weekend, about her email server scandal on the fourth of july. remember, it is at this point that a strzok and comey and others were drafting the exoneration on may the second before they talked to clinton, interfered clinton, and 17 other key witnesses. strzok and page suggest on july 1st, 4 days before comey's announcement, three days before the interview hillary, about clinton, both of them, and the former attorney general loretta lynch all knew that clinton wouldn't be prosecuted. it is smoking gun evidence! what more would you need?

strzok, comey, loretta lynch, they all knew the fix within, it was rigged. let me connect the dots. you've got a deep state actors, these people, top people at the fbi, strzok, page, comey, the ag loretta lynch and andrew mccabe shielding hillary clinton for prosecution even though it is obvious, incontrovertible, she committed felonies and broke the law, because they wanted her to stay in the race and defeat in the election donald trump. remember, language and the exoneration statement was changed from what was breaking the law, the legal standard, gross negligence, to extreme carelessness. then you had hillary clinton shelling out over $12 million for an unverified salacious dossier with russian propaganda and lies because she wanted to break the general election against trump? after all, she's the same when that regular primaries according to donna brazile against

bernie sanders. on top of that, as a backup, obama deep state officials used this fabricated dossier to obtain a fisa warrant, in other words, the hillary bought and paid for phony russian dossier to spy on an opposition candidate, donald trump, and an election year. as a president-elect. talk about watergate. this is watergate on steroids and human growth hormones. the constitutional violations are severe and historically unprecedented in this country. you have deep state actors using and abusing the powerful tools of intelligence that we give them to protect this country and covering up hillary clinton's crime because they wanted her to stay in the race, not be indicted, because they thought they knew better than you who should be the president. more importantly, they thought they would never get caught. they never thought clinton was going to lose. tonight, it is time for the attorney general, by the way,

good job at the doj tonight by actually finding and never covering some of the missing five months of text messages. but the attorney general sessions he needs to, i would argue, appoint a second special counsel. why? to investigate and prosecute every single person that we are talking about involved in this. here with reaction, former chairman of the house oversight committee, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. fox news contributor, investigative reporter sara carter. fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. speethree, you have broken some of this news tonight, you've heard the beginning that the doe missing five months, that in future night. >> it's huge news. it fits with what other fbi agents were telling me, former and current, they said, look, they can get these text messages, there is no way there was a technical glitch that got rid of all these text messages.

the fbi are experts at going after criminals who try to hide their text messages and they are able to get them. so if they have the phones, they can get it from that. if there is a server, they can get it from that. now the question is why did they respond that way? why did they respond with a technical glitch? i have new news, sean. i've been told by members in congress that they will release that memo, they will not be cowering down -- >> sean: they will not be bullied. to. >> they won't be bullied by the doj. they wanted out to the public and they will go to a vote on this. >> sean: gregg jarrett, first of all, big news about the release of this. we take it even a step further. you see more texts from lisa page and peter strzok. what are your thoughts? >> 50,000 texts. if you extrapolate that, that is 68 texts a day. did these two cheating lovebirds, who are still married to other people at the time,

have any opportunity to actually do their jobs at the fbi? it appears abundantly clear that they harbored an anti-trump animas and an unabashed adoration for hillary clinton, that it influenced their decisions, they were involved in clearing hillary clinton and launching an investigation against a political candidate, donald trump, and then, using a false document to spy on him which is an abuse of power, a felony crime, ten years punishable behind bars. now you've got to the doj trying to cover up the four page intel memo. as nixon once famously said, it's not the crime, it's the cover-up. with these guys, it's both crimes and cover up. >> sean: let's go to this new development. sara, this was in your article tonight on sara carter.com. jason chaffetz, the idea that,

if the investigation leads to impeachment, there is no they are there, i hate the president, f him, if i can get rid of him, this will make history, maybe i should get involved. what do you think, sweetheart? pretty much what he is saying to his lover. >> sean, i think you gave the best synopsis of what's happening. the only thing i would add to it is there is a national review article up now talking about the nexus to the president barack obama himself, when he's communicating under an alias using an account that wasn't a.gov account to a hillary, who may have been overseas, perhaps in russia, on a nonsecure line, then i gotta tell you, what was the motive to make sure that hillary clinton was never prosecuted, he got to also explore that. >> sean: bottom line, and all your years in congress, do you ever have an exoneration before

investigation? >> no. there was something like 16 people who had not yet been interviewed -- >> sean: 17 17 and hillary. >> it's unbelievable. if a judge has started writing his opinion before he heard the testimony, come on. john radcliffe, under oath, asking director comey, when did you make this decision, that is where comey strongest legal trouble starts. >> sean: sara, he reported on this. there is no they are there on the russia thing. but if this can be historic, if it's impeachment, he's loathsome. f him. that is what they wrote each other. maybe then i should get involved. you got strzok and comey writing the exoneration, then you have the insurance policy with the page, strzok, and mccabe. why are these people still working? why have they not been fired? why did mueller pick all of these people -- and i didn't

even mention andrew weissmann yet. >> that is one of the biggest questions right now from former fbi folks who say, look, had we been done a little speck of what these folks did, we would be fired, removed. what is going on here? what is going on on the seventh floor? we can't get any answers. why would the fbi put a guy he was having an affair -- a counter intelligence -- peter strzok is working counterintelligence. he's having an affair, he is texting on an unsecured line his government issued phone, open for anyone to capture it, and then they move him to human resources, they move him out of the special counsel and into human resources and we can't get an answer as to why he hasn't been fired. why lisa page is still working. there is a lot of questions here and we have to look at deputy director andrew mccabe and look at everything that has come out about andrew weissmann on the special counsel. sean, there is a continuing

investigation. this is the reason why the doj doesn't want this fisa memo out. this is the reason why people are tight-lipped about this. there needs to be further investigation into this and i agree with jason chaffetz. >> sean: it is not new news that they want to talk to donald trump. it's not even -- it's old news. steve banged in a stocking. that is old news, too. he did and if these leaks -- don't you suspect, as i do, this game right from robert mueller's office? they are under fire and because of all that they we are discovering, they know their time is out. >> is not unusual for a special counsel to interview subject of the investigation, donald trump. trump can't hide behind executive privilege because that only applies to your communications to congress. this is a criminal investigation, the president can be held in front of a grand jury. drop has to respond and testify. the only question is, can he limit the scope of it, which his

attorneys should try to do because i was a defense attorney, i have yet to meet a prosecutor who cares about justice and fairness, they care about convictions and indictments. they are when my cough and loss column. this could be a perjury trap. the president needs to be careful about that but he's a smart guy. when he needs to be, i've read his depositions, he can be very focused and cogent. >> sean: would you ever that the president -- i appreciate he wants to be upfront, honest -- i would never in a million years, never, ever, ever allow him to go before this witch hunt special counsel. >> but he has no choice. you can't invoke special privilege in a situation like this. it's a legitimate criminal investigation. >> sean: don't you think there's enough legitimate reason of bias and abuse within the special counsel that he has legitimate legal arguments?

>> by meeting with mueller, you are anyway legitimizing his investigation, which is illegitimate. the special counsel law, there has to be stated crime. look at the order signed by rod rosenstein to mueller. there is no stated crime. it's an illegal investigation but the president may have no choice. >> sean: let's get your take on this, jason chaffetz. >> i wouldn't in a million yeari would fight that after the supreme court on the grounds that number one, mueller's team is corrupt, that it was founded -- remember, hillary rick the primary. hillary paid for the phony dossier. hillary got a passenger committed felonies by people that even more involved in the investigation. especially peter strzok and peter strzok and comey and he set it up using information he never should have revealed. the phony dossier was a predicate to get this fisa warrant against the president. i don't think -- i believe,

anybody, liberal, conservative, republican, democrat, civil libertarian, you've got to be concerned about the abuse of intelligence and the misuse of our intelligence and weaponizing against the american people. >> i think i would do what you suggested and not do it. i tell you what, donald trump is unlike anybody i have ever seen before and i think he wants to get out there and do that. if you look at what donald trump jr. did, he released all his emails, he gave 23 hours of testimony about a 20 minute meeting. they do things different. one last thing i got to add, sean, with strzok and page, why do these people have security clearances? if you don't have a security clearance, guess what, you don't work at the department of justice in that capacity. how can they possibly have a security clearance, take away that security clearance, and get rid of them. they should be fired. they shouldn't be working and being paid by the american taxpayers. >> sean: sara carter, we will give you the last word.

>> i spoke with the defense attorney who is very familiar with andrew weissmann and robert mueller. he said the president would have to be crazy to fall into their trap. this is what they do. this is what they have it on the past. they will try to find anything and this is why they want to question him. sean, i don't know the legalese here, gregg is the expert but that is what i was told. >> sean: gregg jarrett. >> i wish there was a way that president could try to avoid it. bill clinton tried his best not to talk to ken starr. he negotiated some limits on his taped interview. but in the end, he had to do it. there is no legal basis. you can try to go to the supreme court, the supreme court will knock you down. politically, it will be ugly for the president. he's got to do the interview. >> sean: but there's a precedent for restrictions, there is a precedent for what the topics are going to be. all sorts of employers -- in

other words, it can't be open-ended, gregg, it's impossible. >> right, limit the scope. by the way, from the president's point of view, quite simple. i didn't talk to any russians, i didn't collude. i am allowed to fire people in the executive branch. >> sean: thank you. i appreciate it. gregg, sara, congressman. the president is made wow making major headlines, declaring there is no evidence of collusion and that he would do that sit down under oath with a special counsel. let me play this for you. we'll get reaction from judge jeanine pirro. >> will you talk to mueller? >> i'm looking forward to it actually. there's been no collusion whatsoever. there is no obstruction whatsoever and i'm looking forward to it. i would love to do it. again, i have to say, subject to my lawyers and all of that. >> sean: for keywords or subject to my lawyer sprayed the president's attorney, ty cobb, weighing in, telling "the new york times" "he's ready to meet with him but he will be

guided by the advice of his personal counsel. so should the president to sit down with robert mueller? joining us with reaction, she is the host of "justice." she also fills in on the show. she's a very nice person and a great lawyer. how are you? >> the answer to your question is very simple. the president should not sit down, he should not agree to do it. you and i both know the president. he said there is no collusion. i don't believe that his lawyers have agreed that he will do it and he said it is subject to the lawyers. let me tell you why. number one, why should he answer questions about the firing of comey, if he has a constitutional right to fire hi him? >> sean: shouldn't that be his answer if, in fact, he goes? >> yes. it's never going to end. i know federal prosecutors are going to go -- >> sean: i gotta stop you. i've talked to my friends that are attorneys. they say to me -- i brought the

scenario on, what if i'm being interviewed. he says, you say no, and then you got to be willing to sit there. i am used to it in my life, no dead air ever. but i will tell you, i'd be able to do that. we know president trump. he's going to say no and i will tell you why ny ny. >> he will go on and on and talk about this -- >> sean: it's a trap. >> no question. that is with the what the feds do. we know they are biased. the second reason is, he only needs to answer questions about crimes. if it is not a crime to fire jim comey, then what crime are we talking about? collusion? russian collusion is not a crime. ergo, he doesn't need to appear. what they are going to do is continue to bring witnesses before the grand jury, squeeze them to try to implicate him and make him seem like a liar. it is ridiculous to go before it. it's a prius prosecutor. >> sean: and poor general flynn. they already knew his answers because they illegally

surveilled, unmasked, and a leaked raw intelligence. he walked into a perjury trap because they knew everything he said. that is scary in terms of unreasonable search and seizure, no warrants, and it never should've happened. the problem here is, they don't like this president. look at this team that robert mueller put together. is that fair? strzok, andrew weissmann, andrew weissmann withheld exculpatory evidence. >> he has a terrible reputation. that courts know what, the department of justice knows that. it's the same department of justice that has allowed everything that you've talked about. here is the bottom line. it's our justice department, our fbi. >> sean: how do you stop at? executive privilege, go to the supreme court? >> there is executive privilege. you don't have to go before them. this is more a political reason been a legal reason. that is why the president is saying, sure, i'll do what. >> sean: do you think -- i

don't trust mueller based on who he has appointed and all that's gone on. i think that mueller is out for blood. >> mueller is not only out for blood, he's out to save his own butt. he is the person who should be investigated. jim comey should be investigated. all of these guys. strzok, mccabe, why are they getting a paycheck? why is my taxpayer dollars paying for them? they needed be taken out and cups. i've set up before, sean, this is not our justice department, this is a bunch of arrogant, condescending people who think they know better than we do. you've been on that the whole time, sean. >> sean: you've been not come as well. good to see you. when we come back, the great one -- rate until you hear what mark levan is saying, fired up over this fbi and these missing texts that we now know tonight are actually being recovered as we speak. breaking news on "hannity" ." allen drove alan dershowitz wad next.

>> sean: the great one mark lavin on fire warning with the de >> sean: the great one, mark levin, on fire earlier tonight. he's been warning about the deep state. take a look. >> the fbi sought to interview in our election. i'm not talking about the men and women who work at the fbi, i'm talking about the top echelon. they sought to interview with our election and they sought to interfere in our election and worse ways than the russians did. how is it that barack obama is never questioned about this? 's name never comes up? never comes up. are you telling me that the director of the national security council, susan rice, didn't know i think? are you telling me that the deputy director of the national security council, ben rhodes, well known they could, didn't know a thing, are you telling me valerie jarrett did it not a thing as she sits there controlling every department in every cabinet secretary? are you telling me james comey, who likes to meet with presidents and take memos, that he did not write any memos? is nice to see now that we have

committees of congress that are concerned. it's nice to see that we have radio hosts who are concerned. it's nice to see that we have television hosts who are concerned. where were they in march? mark, what are you talking about? where were they in march? i had information, pulled it together from the public accounts! i began to pull the string and to see that something didn't smell right, something didn't look right. and the media came down on me like a ton of bricks. >> sean: and mark was on the show at that time, and to sara carter, and john solomon, in march, they broke the story about a fisa abuse and a warrant at trump tower. here with reaction, the author of "trumped up" ," harvard constitutional law professor, alan dershowitz. sir, good to see you again. i saw your comments that you

fear that they are going to try and go after obstruction of justice, it was supposed to be about collusion. explain your fear. >> my worry is that a constitutional crisis could be started if mueller starts probing the president's motives asas to why he exercised his constitutional authority to fire comey, while he exercised his constitutional authority and telling comey, to go easy on flynn. those are actions that are definitely provided for in article circa of the constitution. prosecutor simply do not havend authority to probe the motives and try to get into the brain of the president anymore than when president bush pardoned caspar weinberger to prevent himself from being targeted. nobody thought to probe his mind with the workings of his mind. so i think one possibility is for the president to say, i will answer questions about criminal conduct, alleged criminal

conduct, but i won't answer questions about my motives in exercising my constitutional authority. that, we'll me on take that issue up to the united states supreme court.me we'll get that resolved before anybody cann be charged with anything relating to obstruction of justice or exercising constitutional rights. >> sean: why, in this environment, professor, why would the president ever go before comey? i'm sorry, before mueller, knowing about comey, strzok, page, what would you do if you were his attorney? >> first, he really has no choice. the special counsel can subpoena him to go in front of the grand jury. he can refuse to answer specific questions based on privilege or specific areas based on his constitutional authority. but in general, every american citizen has to comply with a subpoena to go in front of the grand jury. f so he will have to probably compromise and work out a deal with time limits, with his

lawyer present, and with limits on the scope of the questioning. they want to agree on of justic justice. mueller will insist on asking him questions and his lawyers might veryis well say no, that s out of balance. it will create a constitutional violation of checks and balances and separation of powers for anyone to question the president's actions under article two of the constitution, as long as they were lawful actions under the constitution, nobody has the authority to question the president's motives. >> sean: you are a well-known criminal defense attorney. harvard law professor. have you ever heard, a, often fbior director and an investigar writing and exoneration, draft after draft, months before the interview the key people involved? b, when a phony dossier, paid for by one candidate, is used, not only to lie to the american people, that is separate and

apart, but then used as the basis for a fisa warrant, isn't there a strong argument here that this never should have happened? >> yes. i think every civil libertarian should be concerned about the abuses of the fbi. i've been writing about the fbi since j. edgar hoover was the director and civil libertarians, whether they are conservatives or liberals, ought to be concerned about the potential abuses of t intelligence, whichs why i call for an independent commission, a bipartisan commission, not a political inquiry, to inquire into whether there was influence in the election, influence an election by russia, by the fbi, or anyone else because you are not going to get it when you have partisn disputes by members of congress or a special counsel whose only proper job is to investigate potential crimes. >> sean: have you ever seen at this bad? to use one candidate, a phony dossier they paid for, to be the

premise of a fisa warrant against an opposition candidate, and then that incoming president, and then the fbi director is literally believe there i were crimes committed. mishandling of classified information, destruction of classified information. i don't know many people that acid wash their hard drives and beat h the crap out of their mobile devices. they exonerated her before the investigated. >> as you know it -- >> sean: my question is, there has to be a basis here, that this was formulated on false information from the get-go., >> there are two issues. i agree with you completely that if the fisa warrant was based on a questionable and possibly false series of documents, that onoc dirty supreme court doctri, can be challenge. the issue of whether or not you exonerate before an investigation depends on whether

there is a crime charged. if there is no crime, of course you exonerate. if you're looking for evidence, you have to have a fullll investigation. >> sean: thank you. when we come back, ed henry with his life report on theit president's fight against sanctuary cities. much more straight ahead. ♪

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cities that are operating a sanctuary cities demanding to know why they are not following federal guidelines. this warning sent to some of thl worst offenders, including bill de blasio, rahm emanuel, who were told that they will start being hit personally with vines and legal actions if they don't comply. emmanuel was defined, declaring "the trump justice department can try to intimidate us with legal threats but we will never abandon our values of the welcoming cities or the rights of chicago residents. bill de blasio formally boy caused a white house event today, leaving the president to insist the focus should be on keeping the public safe. >> sanctuary cities are there best friend of gangs and cartels. ms-13. the death rate around sanctuary cities in and around, for innocent americans, is unacceptable. take a look at what happened in san francisco and kate steinle. my administration is committed to protecting innocent

americans. and to the mayors you choose to boycott this event have put the needs of criminal illegal immigrants over law-abiding americans. >> that came after the president lashed out at summer democratic leader chuck schumer for backpedaling on funding for the wall. the president to eating "crying chuck fully understands especially after his humiliating defeat that if there is no wall or daca our production for dreamers. we must have safety, security, together with a strong military for ourrea hav great people." schumer treated tweeted back... white house aides think schumer is justt talking tough because he's under pressure from the left after what happened on the government shutdown. in fact, the administration officials tell me they believe the bipartisan daca deal that schumer, durban, others are pushing is dead on arrival so the president will jump into the fray laying out as a legislative

framework on immigration particularly tougher provisions on cracking down on illegals. that will come out next monday. >> sean: ed henry holding down the fort. he will be living in that house tonight. just kidding. joining us now, nationally syndicated radio talk show host, larry elder, fox news correspondent at large, geraldo rivera. welcome back. i know you had a recent medical procedure. you look great. thanks for the picture. >> it looks like i had plastic surgery. [laughter] >> sean: he sends me a picture, see, my staples are out. i was like gee, thanks. [laughter] i know how passionate you are on immigration but you would accept the deal, build a wall, fully funded, chain migration, merit-based immigration if you got daca, right? why did chuck schumer act like a babyer after he got ruled on the schumer shutdown?

>> in broad strokes, you are absolutely right to recite what i believe is in a reasonable compromise on the issue of immigration reform. we can't by concentrating on sanctuary cities snatch 80 feet from the jaws of victory. we have an opportunity now, president donald trump has a opportunity. he got chuck schumer and fiery left-wing congresspeople like luis gutierrez, to say yes, we will fund the southern border wall that was the central issue in trump's campaign. we will fund the border wall, you get the border wall if you give us -- >> sean: here's the thing. democrats don't want the wall. they don't want to daca. they want to run on daca. isn't that the truth, larry elder? >> that is the truth. they don't want the wall. the reason is that democrats have lost the white vote since 1964. unless they can use some sort of jedi mind trick to convince white people to agree to have their taxes raised and have government expanded, they need

to bring in voters that share their philosophy. that means voters from third world countries. they want the borders to remain porous because these illegal aliens turned to citizens would likely vote for the democratic party's 2-1. this isoc their way -- >> where do we get away with this nonsense about a race. how did the suddenly become about race? it's about merit-based immigrants in the grand tradition of this country. this is a wonderful opportunity for this president -- i've known him for 40 years -- to do something i know he wants to do, have compassion for these kids. and he'll give the wall, he'll get the wall but start talking about people of this color and that color -- >> sean: geraldo, ask yourself whether or not luis gutierrez and harry reid would have exactly the same position on border wall and border security if 80% of illegals turned citizens would likely vote republican. i daresay we have a different

conversation. the walls would be -- >> i know that you are an acolyte of ronald reagan. ronald reagan understood that latinos particularly are instinctively entrepreneurial, capitalist, they could be republicans. donald trump kicked up, despite the worst president any candidate -- >> may i say something? you -- we just deported jorge garcia, he came here at age teni are we going to have 700,000 incidents of jorge garcias being deported as his citizen children cry and clutch his legs? come on. let's make a deal. >> i'm happy you mentioned ronald reagan because ronald reagan in 1986 got ruled. he was promised two things. border security and that employers are knowingly hiredwi illegal aliens would be heavily sanctioned. neither of which was done. republicans are determined not to make the same mistake.

>> sean: i want to think you both. >> george w. bush got 44% of the latino vote. >> sean: welcome back, geraldo played a very powerful video of the day straight ahead. ♪ c nna call. answer them with zicam! zicam. get your better back. now in delicious fruit drops. which means everyone has access to our real reviews that we actually verify. and we can also verify that what goes down, [ splash, toilet flush ] doesn't always come back up. find a great plumber at angie's list. join today for free.

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i am a judge who believes in life and rehabilitation when rehabilitation is possible. i have many defendants come back here and show the great things they have done in their lives after probation, after parole. i don't find that's possible with you. >> sean: is sad for your time for the messages that you've left me on the hannity hotline. what do i get hit with tonight? . >> i just want to say that for the last two nights i noticed that you did something with your tie and it looks much, much neater than what you had done in the past. i guess you took the advice of one of the callers last week, that commented about your tie a knot. so i appreciate you taking the time to do the not properly. >> sean: i listen to. not going to

>> sean: all right, i listened, i'm not going to live. i just don't care. i have jeans and boots on. see? that's it. that's what i wear. that is who i am. we just at that number on your screen, 877-225-8587. we will always be fair and balanced. laura is next. did you call in and say that i suck and to shut up? in tonightn laura and we will play it tomorrow night. >> laura: i can't stand that woman, she's awful! >> sean: welcome to my world! >> laura: to people who call into your hate wearing, are they from an insane asylum? they sound like they are either shot up or boost out. i don't know if i want to hang out with him. they sound fun. >> sean: i got a couple of nice compliments. i got you suck, shut up. i'm not killing kittens every time i