president. they should have listened to bill clinton. they should have listened. and we just had our highest poll numbers. i watch these fakers back there, they'll be talking. [boos] >> sean: "hannity." as you see, the president speaking live at a rally in fargo, north dakota, . my opening monologue immediately thereafter. we'll continue with the president. >> president trump: how bad is that, an interloper? now they say -- and you will admit -- anything comes out, a big poll, a number of polls, that he is the most powerful, most popular republican in the history of the party. a little while ago i was an interloper. [cheers and applause] they came out more popular than a man like ronald reagan, but

think about her, you go from interloper -- that's a horrible term, right? i was just doing my thing, you are not an interloper. but we have tremendous -- look at the people, we endorsed dan donovan, he was behind, we endorsed him, he won by 24 points or something last night in staten island new york and new york generally. dan donovan, congressman. last night, we had a great evening, because we watched television, and we were winning left and right. they didn't know what the hell happened. one of my biggest critics, a slovenly man named joe crowly, got his ass kicked. by a young woman who had a lot of energy. she had a lot of energy. i guess he didn't see it.

they couldn't find him. he spent a lot of money. he actually had a lot of money left over. he was going to take nancy pelosi's place. i was so disappointed because i want to keep nancy pelosi right away she is with maxine waters. i want to keep nancy pelosi. please, i want to make a plea to my democrat friends. please, please, please, don't remove nancy pelosi. she should be ratios. and please keep maxine waters on the air, as your face and your mouthpiece for the democratic party. please. [cheers and applause] maxine and nancy. so i was disappointed and away when he got beaten because he was going to take her place i

think. now he is just looking at us and saying, darling, what happened? politics is a mean game, isn't it? it's a fleeting game. six months ago, republicans passed the biggest tax codes and reform in american history. [cheers and applause] our plan doubled the child tax credit, thank you to ivanka trump. [cheers and applause] she wanted that so badly. she really got to be -- "dad, you've got to have the child tax credit." i said, darling, no one knows what it is. she said, the women know, dad. the women know. my daughter and my wife, melania, they love -- they love the women and the women love them. the women love them. and the men love them.

child tax credit. people don't talk about it that much. it's very substantial. i do know we got it for you. we/taxes for working families, most of them in half, and saved our family farms, and our small business by eliminating the estate tax in almost all cases. it's known as the death tax, and now when you leave your small business or your farm, you leave it to your children, your children don't go to the bank, borrow money, and end up losing the farm are losing the busines business. [cheers and applause] kevin and john and the whole group, they helped us a lot.

guess what? i.d. voted against it. okay? she voted against it. heidi voted against it. and she's always going to vote against it. by the way, she may give us a couple of quickie votes before the election. she might because she has no choice. but the day after that election, she is boarding party line, 100 100%. more than 100 utility companies nationwide have slashed prices for customers, saving them in this country much more than $3 billion, which goes and reduces your electric and utility bill. heidi and every single democrat voted against our tax cuts. we are also fixing the disastrous trade deals that have plundered our wealth, got that our communities, undermined our great farmers, taking our jobs. we are going to make trade fair

and reciprocal. reciprocal. do you know what that is? they do it to us, they do it to to -- we do it to them. and we are placing very big tariffs on some of these countries, because they have tariffs on us. it's incredible. i wonder where these people come from, even politicians. so we'll have a country, it doesn't matter, i can almost name any of them, they have massive tears on our people, and our workers, farmers, on our country, on our companies. so we say we are going to put tariffs on them, and i'll actually have politicians and other people come to me. well, please, we want free trade. how is it free-trade? i'll give you an example. china, if we make a car and sell it to china, they charge us a 25% tax. that is what it is.

25%. when they make a car and sell it to the united states, and there are a lot of them, we charge them the grand total of 2.5% and they don't pay that. [boos] and then, when they want to raise the game and played a game of poker, a game that we can't lose, i'll get even politicians, mostly democrats, but even a couple of republicans. they say, we want free-trade. that's not free-trade, that's not fair trade. it is so ridiculous. just play the game for a little while. it's a game we can't lose. i have set a couple of times, when we are $500 billion down, they say trump is starting a trade war. i say, no, the trade war ended a long time ago and the united states lost because our leaders didn't take care of our people and our companies. [cheers and applause]

so we are not starting a trade war but we'll finish it. you know what, in the end, you know what's going to happen? it's already happening. already happening. they are going to come to us and they are going to say, hey, let's work it out, and we are going to work it out. it's very simple. but remember, it is, it's the art of the deal, but anybody can do the deal. this one doesn't get much simpler. remember, it's true. when you are $500 billion down, you can't lose. you already lost. but now we are going to start winning. or at least we are going to make it fair. it doesn't even -- we got to make it fair. and the fact is, we've had presidents and we've had leaders that worked for those presidents, negotiators, trade reps, who were missing in action. they weren't doing their jobs. you know, i'll i was dealt a lot of bad hands. i was given north korea, where, frankly, we were very close to

going to war. you could have lost 30 million people, 50 million people. seoul is 30 miles off the border. they have cannons, thousands of them pointed. i had the meeting, we had a great relationship, a great chemistry together, the fake news was so upset when i said, we had a good relationship. we had a good chemistry. they said, that's a horrible thing. no, no, it's a good thing. getting along with countries, getting along with china, getting along with russia, getting along with these countries is a good thing. it's not a bad thing. it's not a bad thing. [cheers and applause] and so we have things cooking now. you are going to be so happy. but when people rush it, you know, it's like brushing the turkey out of the stove. it's not going to be as good. the women can tell me, and some

of the men -- have to be politically correct -- and the old days, i just would have said, oh, it's too hokey. but it's true, some of the men can tell me, right? some of the men. but here's what we do. the more they rush, the worst is going to be, the longer we take, the better. your farmers, your people are going to be great. you know, john -- i will tell you, john and kevin gave me something. canadian wheat markets consistently discriminate against the united states by grading it as feed. you know what that means? to know what that means. i don't know what the hell it means. i just know it's a bad deal. what the hell does that mean? but it's true. canada charges us on dairy

products a tariff of 275% for your farmers in here. that is like saying we don't want your dairy products. it is not good. that is like saying, we don't want north dakota, wisconsin, new york state, we don't want -- 275%. i actually hear that's an old number. they rated a number of months ago to 300%. how horrible is that quad settlement? and then justin gets up, "let's alter it together." we love canada. but they are taking advantage of us, we can't let that happen. we can't let it happen. the era of global freeloading and taking advantage of the united states is over. it's just over. [cheers and applause]

we are also restoring american security by rebuilding our military. we have secured a historic $700 billion, just got it approved. $700 billion. we are rebuilding our military and next year, already approved, $716 billion, we are rebuilding our military. it will be bigger and stronger than ever before and hopefully, we will never have to use it because when it's bigger and stronger, you tend not to have to use it, okay? [cheers and applause] and in addition to that, we got $6 billion for drugs and fighting opioid abuse. 6 billion. we believe in peace, but it's got to be peace through strengt

strength. not weakness. peace through strength. i've directed the pentagon of beginning the process of creating a sixth branch of the united states armed forces called the space force. space force. space force. because space is the new frontier and are not just talking about going up to the moon and mars. i want the rich guys -- you know, we have rich guys, they love these rockets. i said, at least on the land, charge them a lot. they just want to send rockets. i look at it with jeff bezos, elon musk, they all love rockets. i said, that's okay. let's do it. let them sent the wrong go to mars, let's be the first -- i hope they go fast. let's make it really good for them. if they do it, we will claim it on behalf of the united states. we'll give them no credit. let them spend the money. i have a lot of military guys, and space, from a military

standpoint, is really the new frontier. so we will have a space force. everyday we are keeping our promises but to keep this momentum going, we need kevin kramer in the senate. all of us tonight are united by the same tireless values. we have pride in our history, respect for our great, beautiful, wonderful american flag, right? [cheers and applause] we put our hands on our hearts for the pledge of allegiance. and we proudly stand for our national anthem. proudly stand. in everything we do, we are

standing up for our citizens. we are standing up for america, and we are standing up for north dakota. thank you! [cheers and applause] the forgotten men and women of our country are forgotten no more. no more. they don't know where they all came from. and by the way, our people, they call it the base, they used to say it is 35, then they said it's 40, then they said it's 42, then they have these polls, we are driving them crazy. now they say it is over 50%. and then they said some great people, they said, anytime trump gets a poll, add 12 to it. [cheers and applause] and do you ever notice -- i hate it. i meet these people.

they call them the elites. these people. i look at them, i say, that's elite? we got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses, apartments, we got nicer boats, we are smarter than they are, and they say, the elites. we are the elites. you are the elites! we are the elites! so i said the other day, let's keep calling these people -- let's face it, they have been stone cold losers, the elites. so let's let them keep calling themselves the lease elites. we are going to call ourselves, you are indeed, you work harder, you are indeed smarter than them, let's call ourselves the super elites. we are the super elites. we are the super elites. you are the people who farm the prairie, tame the badlands, and squeeze oil out of rock. you celebrate your heritage and

you live life proudly under the big beautiful sky. and you have the big beautiful skies out here. loyal citizens like you helped rebuild this country and together we are taking back our country, returning power to the every day, smart, brilliant, wonderful, hardworking american people. [cheers and applause] we are standing on the shoulders of the american patriots who settled the frontier, scaled the rockies, and won the american west. these are great, incredible, strong, tough, tough people. this stage was forged by pioneer men and women who braved the cold and damp the wilderness to build a home on the planes and a

life for their families, and it's been an incredible life. these north dakota pioneers were tough as hell and they were strong and they were smart. [cheers and applause] and they all had one thing in common: they loved their families, they loved their countries, and they loved their god. [cheers and applause] they never gave up and they never, ever given. and neither will we. we will never stop fighting for our country, our families, and we will never, ever stop fighting for our freedom. [cheers and applause] as long as we are proud of who we are and what we are fighting for, we will never, ever fail. with your help, with your voice,

with your vote, we will win, win, win. [cheers and applause] like we are doing. remember how i started. this country, our country, our flag, we are respected again all over the world, they are talking about us. leaders from all over the world, they call me, or they come to the oval office, and they say, congratulations, mr. president, on the incredible job with the economy, the incredible job you are doing with your country, the fact that your country is respected again. congratulations, mr. president. [cheers and applause] because we are americans and our hearts bleed red, white, and blue. we are one people, one family,

and one glorious nation under god. and together, we will make america wealthy again. we will and are making america strong again. we will make america safe again. look at our military. we will make our great, great america stronger and more powerful than ever before. [cheers and applause] we will make america loving again.

loving. loving. we will come together and we will make america great again. [cheers and applause] thank you. thank you, north dakota. go out and get kevin kramer in there. thank you, kevin. thank you, everybody. thank you, north dakota. thank you! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

>> sean: as you can see, president trump wrapping up another massive rally, this time tonight in fargo, north dakota. good news for everyone in america who cares about our constitution, the future of this country. you can give it up on the screen. we'll watch the end -- oh, there we good, better. for the second time in less than two years, president trump will have the opportunity to nominate a judge to the highest court in the land, breaking today, justice anthony kennedy announced his retirement from the u.s. supreme court. in moments, we will explain why this is such a huge, monumental development. plus we'll preview the upcoming political battle over the president's looming nomination. if history tells us anything, and everybody there really is trying to scare you already, democrats, they their corrupt media friends, they will do and say anything to malign the president's nomination, block them from fulfilling his constitutional duty, get ready for the lies, the propaganda, the misinformation, the fearmongering, the character assassination, and yes, the

barking of whoever it ends up being. without a doubt, the error of drum, democrats are unhinged, they are unraveling, and by the way, we see the failure of their ideology on full display, every single day and they now know it. we now have an ad tonight, wait until you see this, from the rnc. a perfectly encapsulates the scary state of mind of america's left. and also tonight we have highlights from the president's massive rally tonight in fargo, north dakota, as you can see. we'll also tell you everything you need to know about that closed-door hearing today with the corrupt rampaging fda lovebird peter strzok. by the way, news today that rod rosenstein doesn't like me. i'm devastated. let not your heart be troubled. don't go anywhere. it's time for our very important breaking news come a little bit delayed, opening monologue. ♪ for the second time in 18 months, president trump will make make a decision that will impact our country for decades, and yes, for generations, with justice anthony kennedy now retiring, the president is now

tasked with taking his replacement. a task he does not take lightly, nor should he. take a look familiar today. >> he's been a great justice of the supreme court. he is a man who has displayed great vision, he is displayed tremendous vision, and tremendous heart, and he will be missed but he will be retiring, and we will begin our search for a new justice of the united states supreme court. that will begin immediately. we have a very excellent list of great talented, highly educated, highly intelligent, hopefully tremendous people. i think the list is very outstanding. when i was running, i put down a list of 20 people because not being a politician, i think people wanted to hear what some of my choices may be, and it was pretty effective.

i think you see the kind of quality that we are looking at when you look at that list. but i did add -- i added five additional people to the list. so it will be somebody from that list. >> sean: i wanted to give men, by the way, for all of you never traversed, and you all know who you are, i'm thinking about namg names, but not tonight. i do have a message for you. if you had your way, remember, we would save it supreme court is at stake. that alone means everything. hillary rodham clinton would be making this second appointment in the terms of the judicial course of american history, which would alter this country for decades to come. it's time to admit a lot of you, how wrong you were about donald trump. although i'm not going to hold my breath tonight. as the president has mentioned many times, he's committed to picking from a solid list of qualified originalist justices who have a proven track record

of upholding the constitution, not legislating from the bench, people whose judicial philosophies, coequal branches of government. now sadly this is the exact opposite of what democrats and people like hillary would want to. instead, the left, they want the even value, and site international law, not our own constitution. people that would legislate from the bench. people that believe in the involving of interpretation, that means nothing come of our constitution. with the left can never accomplish through the ballot box, or their real legislation, they actually try to accomplish by abusing the court system and using activist judges to accomplish all their left-wing dreams and ideology. now make no mistake. as soon as the president taps whoever anthony kennedy his replacement will be, you are going to witness the single most contentious, nasty, vicious, dirty, propaganda, character

assassination campaign. it will be one of the most contentious political battles in decades. tonight, your news media is already going there. so in light of today's breaking news, yes, it's time for another "hannity" history lesson to bring you this time, it involves just how desperate and low democrats will go and literally malign the character of good, decent, smart people, and what they planted due to the president's next supreme court nominee, whoever it ends up being, they will try to destroy them. let's start with the outgoing justice anthony kennedy prayed for 30 years, kennedy, he's accumulated what is a very mixed track record, nominated by ronald reagan in 1988, many have referred to him as the courts swing justice. he saved roe vs. wade from being overturned. he upheld the use of affirmative action, extend legal rights to foreign terrorists at gitmo, but kennedy also voted to kill obamacare, preserve second amendment rights and most recently, he voted to uphold the president's travel ban. kind of weird because he never

had a judicial philosophy that he seemed to do it here too, like justice thomas or justice scalia or justice alito. now with president trump poised to nominate what he has said he will do in the campaign, a strict originalist, to replace a very unproductive but kennedy, democrats are now sharpening their spears, just like they did back in 1987. let's go down memory lane. before reagan nominated anthony kennedy to the supreme court, he did tap somebody who was a judicial genius. he tapped a strict constitutional originalist. his name was george robert ford. hell-bent on preventing them from becoming a supreme court justice, senate democrats engaged in a disgusting smear campaign which culminated on the senate floor without white allies from senator ted kennedy. watch how low they can go. take a look. >> his america is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks

would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break noncitizen stores and midnight raids and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution. writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government. >> sean: all lies, all attempts to scare, intimidate the american people. after what you just saw, democrats were able to block the nomination. that is how we now have ended up with the term "being a borked." the oxford english dictionary describes as "obstruct someone by systematically defaming or vilifying them." let's fast-forward a couple of years later. the confirmation of now supreme court justice clarence thomas, during his senate hearings, this goes back to 1991, democrats ruled out his former colleague, anita hill, to make sexual harassment allegations against him. the process became so vicious and nasty, justice thomas, and what is now and intimates, famous comment, he referred to it as a high-tech lynching. watch this.

>> this is a circus. it's a national disgrace. from my standpoint, as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who, in any way, deigned to think for themselves. to do for themselves. to have different ideas. it is a message that unless you count how to an old order, this is what will happen to you. you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the u.s. senate, rather than hung from a tree. >> sean: wow. powerful, powerful remarks. you know, character assassination, look at just the last weekend what is happening and what has been said and what is being said about women and secretary nielsen and pam bondi and so many others and ivanka

and melania and sarah sanders. by the way, if you want to read one of the best books you'll ever read, it's written by clarence thomas. "my grandfather's son." if you think what he saw was bad, it's about to get worse, with the ideological makeup of the supreme court are hanging in the balance, after president trump successfully nominated originalist neil gorsuch to the court, senate democrats are about to pull out all stops. they'll do and say anything, just like ted kennedy to block donald trump's pick. we are not even a day out from justice kennedy's announcement and the left is already in full on, total freak out panic, scare the american people mode, and full online load. watch this. >> are you guys ready to maybe rip up some of the rules that have limited democrats? >> yes. i know we are ready. >> for the fabric of our democracy, democrats should dig

and hard here and do everything they can feasibly do to block this nomination, any nomination, from going forward. >> republican colleagues in the senate should follow the rule base edited in 2016. not to consider a supreme court justice in an election year. >> it's time for democrats to throw down. what i mean by that is that we have been playing by the rulebook and donald trump and republicans have been playing by street rules. we need to play by street rules. >> don't allow a vote on this, don't have a hearing, really, don't let anything go forward. don't play ball with his decision. >> sean: merely a preview of coming attractions. at the massive rally in fargo, north dakota, the president reviewed this looming battle and so much more. let's take a look at what he had to say. >> a very special guy also just announced a little while ago his retirement from the united states supreme court.

create man. and i am very honored that he chose to do it during my term in office because he felt confident in me to make the right choice and carry on his great legacy. that is why he did it. democrats want judges who will rewrite the constitution anyway they want to do it and take away your second amendment, raise your borders, throw open the jailhouse doors, and destroy our freedoms. we must elect more republicans. we have to do that. we need more republicans, especially in the senate, we have to hold the house and maybe even increasing -- i think we'll be able to do it -- they keep talking about this blue wave. they are blue wave is really spidering pretty badly. the red wave is happening. just look what happened last

night. >> sean: the most important midterm election in our lifetime. it is not profound. the president against political momentum unfolds an impressive track record of accomplishments, i think we are the only show that shows you them, democratic party is falling apart. the era of global freeloading, the president said, is over. example, last night, a 28-year-old socialist from new york defeated longtime democrat incumbent in a congressional cracked on my primary race as president trump said tonight, he got his ass kicked. many are hailing her as a rising star in the pilot political landscape, but in reality, her views are downright scary. by the way, he was a guy that was posterior take over for nancy pelosi perhaps. look very carefully. this is the future, this is your modern democratic party. cortez, who will likely win the election, is pushing for single-payer, universal health care, universal jobs, government subsidize housing for

everybody, tuition, free colleges, she wants to abolish i.c.e. and of course impeach president trump. watch this. >> would you put for a trump impeachment should you win? >> well, i would support impeachment. i think that we have the grants to do it. i think what really we need to focus on is making sure that we are advocating for the policies do win in november but ultimately, i think that what we need to kind of focus on is ensuring that we can, when people break the law, potentially break a lot, we have to hold everyone accountable and that no person is of all of tha. >> sean: the only difference between a self-proclaimed socialist use on the rest of the democratic party is she's actually more honest. as we have shown you, many time, and we'll show you all through this election season, i'll give you the agenda of the democratic party. first, they want to impeach 45. you just heard it. but they are not going to tell

you. of course, they want to preserve obamacare. by the way, nancy pelosi and company, they are even saying this publicly, they want the tax cuts back, they want their crumbs returned. that means $2,000 on average per american family, and obviously, they want open borders. now we have a fifth part of the democratic agenda that we are adding to our list, and that is to destroy whoever the president picks to replace justice kennedy on the u.s. supreme court. i keep saying, this is the single most important midterm election of our lifetime. now will president trump be able to assert his agenda for the last two years of his first term, or are socialists, will they be able to impeach him, obstruct them, every step of the way? will we have another originalist on the supreme court are will democrats be able to successfully block kennedy's successor? do you really want these people running the country? let's take a look. >> a few years ago, ideas that

we talked about were thought to be fringe ideas, radical ideas, extremist ideas. those ideas are now mainstream. >> i just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. >> everybody from that cabinet, and the restaurant, and a department store, and a gasoline station. you tell them they are not welcome. anymore, anyway. >> do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless [bleep]. >> what is uncle tom but for white women who disappoint other white women? >> please, bring on the recession. >> when was the last time an actor assassinated a president? >> i have thought an awful lot about blowing up the white hous white house.

♪ >> sean: that is a powerful ad from the rnc, perfectly encapsulating the mind-set of the left today, and as you can see, they are not really the peaceful people they claim to be. be. their rhetoric is not just wrong, it's now downright dangerous. we will have more on the democrats disgusting tester could tell mike tactics in a moment. breaking developments surrounding peter strzok. as you know, he was a corrupt, biased, pro-hillary, anti-trump, trump-hating fbi official who was once tasked with investigating trump ivan russia collusion and also was at the forefront of helping to exonerate hillary clinton of all the felonies and obstruction we know she committed as it relates to her server investigation. today he was apparently grilled but only behind closed doors by two committees on capitol hill. according to a brand-new report from sara carter, bad news. one congressman in attendance, representative ron desantis said, "it wasn't strzok, he is full of it, he kept hiding

behind the "classified information" excuse. fortunately, we have one hopeful development. today, the house judiciary committee tweeted, "peter strzok will be interviewed first in a closed-door deposition. there will be classified information to sort through before a public hearing is held. a public hearing will be held." this public hearing is crucial. you, the american people, deserve to know how biased are the highest levels of the fbi, in fact, tainted, what was the hillary clinton a so-called investigation. it's irrefutable, incontrovertible. she committed crimes and then the same people involved in literally putting the fix and for her were the beginnings of -- began the witch hunt into, of course, so-called collusion. this being an investigation. peter strzok, lisa page, three other f fbi investigators, comey, mccabe, the merry band of democratic donors, jeannie rae, andrew weissmann, so many

more. we deserve answers. this was about influencing a presidential election, and literally supporting and helping somebody we know broke the law and then viciously try to destroy another candidate. peter strzok must be held accountable and he has questions to answer to the public. we have a lot to get through tonight. joining us with a reaction to the opening supreme court vacancy, president trump's judicial nominations advisors, leonard leo, and joining us by phone as president trump's attorney, jay sekulow, who, by the way, does legal work for me, by the way, has -- you basically represent everybody? i paid. callermac [laughs] >> sean: mustard with your reaction. this is history, this is generations, this is a react on mike opportunity now, this is a big deal, let's go through the philosophy of the president taks decision. >> look, i think -- i litigated

supreme court cases in front of anthony kennedy for three decades. about 80% of the time, he ruled in our favor, about 20% of the time, he did not. he was always a professional, but the fact is, when i disagree with him, or he'd disagree with me, he's a justice, his votes counted more than minded. but at the end of the day, more times than not, he went with us. but there was not a consistent what we would call conservative philosophy in the mold of, say, justice gorsuch or antonin scalia, justice alito justice alito, justice thomas. the president now has an opportunity to nominate a justice in that judicial philosophy that the president talked about and continues to talk about, and that is putting someone on the court that has that, what i would call, and originalist, supreme court philosophy, constitutional philosophy, a loss to of a loss to become a constitutional conservative. you can call it a lot of different phrases but someone that is use the constitution ths

that are written in it. i think that is what you will see in the supreme court nominee. >> sean: leonard leo, i think what jay said is on the money. kennedy did not have consistent judicial philosophy. you have a four reliable liberal justices on the court right now. and i mean, we know how they are going to vote. in 9 out of 10 -- 99% of the cases. this is important because it's been at least 25 times that anthony kennedy has sided with the four liberal justices on the court. this is a game changer. >> what's transformative about this is that the president is committed to nominating people to the court who have a very firm judicial philosophy. people who understand that the constitution needs to be interpreted the way the framers meant it to be. individuals who are courageous and that interpretive approach, and are not going to flinch. we saw that in neil gorsuch and i think that the president

nominates another individual like neil gorsuch, what we will see is widespread public support and i would say also probably bipartisan support in the senate to some extent as we did with justice gorsuch. >> sean: leonard leo, you may be more optimistic than me. i just look look at the democrc party today and i -- i think basically, unless you are a saint, and you've never written on the law at all, if you have any judicial philosophy, we know what they want to do. and that is bork somebody. i want to go deeper, jay come into the idea. this is important for people to understand. the president does not believe in judicial activism, he believes in separation of powers, believes in coequal branches of government, does not believe in citing foreign law. they believe in the constitution. he believes that justices should not legislate from the bench, that is for the legislative body to do. >> caller: that's right. here -- you mentioned the foreign law application. i litigate in courts in other

countries. i've litigated cases in the european court of human rights. and when our court, the supreme court of united states were decides, and i do, from time to time, cite cases from the european court of human rights, recognizing that these governments that are part of -- not even have contributions, let alone our constitution. i think this whole trend you have seen develop over the last 40 years -- this goes way back. i've been doing this for 30 years. this goes way back. the idea that -- i think this is where leonard is correct. i'm optimistic that if we see -- and i think we will -- ca nominee in the caliber of neil gorsuch, that individual will get bipartisan support. that's because, at the end of the day, the reality is, president is the one that nominates. the president gets to make the nomination. >> sean: last word, we'll give it to you call leonard leo,

tonight. >> i am very confident the president is going to nominate an extraordinary individual. it will be a big bite, sean, as you point out. the american people stand with us. >> sean: cavanaugh, the front runner? >> someone who is being very seriously considered. >> sean: thank you, both. when we come back, sara carter, gregg jarrett, and jim jordan was in the meeting with strzok, straight ahead. you won't see these folks at the post office they have businesses to run

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>> sean: right here reaction. peter strzok >> sean: here with reaction, peter strzok testifying, and his testimony earlier today, ohio congressman jim jordan was there, sara carter is a report, author of -- you see that book --dash out in early july, "the russian hoax." please order your copies. a great book. i've actually had the honor of reading it.

gregg jarrett. jim, you are in the room. i would love to know what you can't hellos. >> not much because we got to wait for the transcript to be released. i will say this, many times, he took the answer on advice of fbi counsel, i can't answer that. i heard that way too many times until i plan on bringing that up tomorrow with mr. rosenstein -- >> sean: 100? >> i don't know if it was that many but certainly a number of the keyey questions, that is the response he gave. its ongoingnv investigation, on advice savannah don mike fbi counsel, i can't answer that. of mr. rosenstein wants to be transparent, you should have had one of his employees answer all return questions when we had the deposition.oy >> sean: i love you or fight. we need to see these hearings. > here's the other thing, we have the resolution on the floor. i think the full house will go on record tomorrow, say, mr. rosenstein, we are giving you one last chance. 70s to give us the information we are supposed to have and then if you don't give it to us, there are other

options under the constitution by that resolution is on the floor of the house tomorrow morning. >> sean: by the way, sara, here mr. rosenstein doesn't particularly like me. i have no idea why. s i'm a very likable guy. >> i've heard rumors, sean. i've heard a lot of rumors about how he doesn't like you. >> sean: you actually heard what i heard today. that is what you are saying. great. i'm glad youou are laughing at it at my expense. he does have a temper. great. doesn't like me. oh, boy. i'll watch my doors closely. let me ask you seriously come if you have been able to dig a little bit today. you did find out some information, your sources, that you would never reveal, tell us what you know. >> a lot of what i've been hearing right now is that peter strzok is hiding behind this idea of classified information that he can't talk about, which was so interesting, sean, since strzok himself and his attorneys and said they were more than willing to come to the hill to speak to lawmakers and be forthright with them and now

they are hiding behind this. i think a lot of the sources that i've been speaking with our saying,ot okay, look. we are going to give him one last chance behind closed doors, classified testimony, then it be a public hearing, and now the final notch in all of this is the fact that peter strzok himself is apparently saying that he had nothing to do with carter page's fisa warrant. this is really important. because if you didn't, that means there is other people, just like peter strzok, that had the same intentions, and that means we need those documents now. that is what they are going to be fighting for, and that is what the lawmakers tomorrow are going to be asking for. >> sean: what we've got is obstruction? just complete ignoring of subpoenas, productions, we've got claims of national security that turned out not to be so. gregg, that sounds like he has basically, you know, parsing -- i didn't spy on carter page. i how do you interpret that? >> he said he didn't drop the

fisa application to spy on page. >> nothing to do with it. >> didn't provide input. he's parsing words. take a look at his text messages in which heme was bragging thate knows the fisa judge and has a already talked to a fisa judge, and that textdg message was at e same time he was presiding over the drum pipe russia case. there are other text messages that suggest he was working through a conduit at the department of justice. so he is a very clever guy with his words, the fact is, his texts show overt, explicit, pervasive bias, and there was only one thing going on. he was out to stop the trump. >> sean: let me -- the title, congressman, the illicit scheme to clear hillary, from donald trump, the russian hoax, i think it captures everything we are dealing with here. this is about really trying to circumvent the american people

and steal a presidential election. i see it as the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in our history. we are only at the beginning of it. when do we get disease strzok ourselves? >> that will happen soon. the chairman is committed to that. gregg is exactly right. he was a lead agent agent on the russia case and he was head of counterintelligence. don't tell me he didn't have anything to do with the fisa application. second, it is one thing to say trump is that she was not under oath which he is obligated to be truthful with congress. at the same deference. >> sean: not really. >> it is. the normal way that these transcribed interviews are done, slightly different than a deposition, basically, the same thing. it is one thing for him to say trump was awful, trump should lose 100 million to zero, it's another thing when he says, we will stop trump. s heta made that statement 70s after he opened the russia investigation into president trump. it was just biased and if they can manifest itself and how the investigation was conducted, i just don't know how anyone with

common sense can buy that. >> sean: sara, quick. >> congress needs to fight and fight hard, stick with what they said, and i hope they do. either they push for those documents, or they file those content, even impeachment against rod f rosenstein. see if that gets them to move. >> president trump should order the release of those documents. president trump should order the release of the documents. >> sean: they would have to? >> if rosenstein doesn't do it, he should be fired, and christopher wray as well. >> sean: the president can order the release? >> in fact, he can order they bo delivered to the white house counsel, who could then provide them to congress. >> sean: thank you all. all three. more tomorrow. more "hannity" straight ahead. ♪ ...

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