>> the president

is working to see if we can fill this vacancy. he has several folks in mind, he put out the list of 25 qualified candidates and donald trump has been transparent in this process and also met with senators, talking with them, getting their input in terms of supreme court justice nominee. what we do know is donald trump is looking to make this announcement on july 9th and i got to tell you from that list you know you will find individuals with impeccable qualifications with the right judicial temperament and intellect in the mold of supreme court justice neil gorsuch and it is an important part of donald trump's legacy and no question donald trump has been

the most consequential president in our history. what he has been able to accomplish, to ensuring opportunities. >> july, he will give the name of the person he is going to present. in helsinki, meeting with vladimir putin. does the man, his agenda, 60% have been satisfied. >> the economic story in america, his success ensuring we have a strong economy. in the next quarter, economists expect 4% gdp growth, that is

impressive and the president focuses on the interests of national security and having a strong relationship with allies, and of course, he is able to move forward in terms of denuclearize think the region which is important for world peace.

>> as the thrump agenda succeeds the left is unraveling. now many are harassing trump allies all over the country. the left claims to have a monopoly of compassion for women. but take a look at how they treat women in positions of power within the trump administration. >> i was asked to leave a restaurant this weekend where i attempted to have dinner with my family. my husband and i politely left and went home. i was asked to leave because i work for president trump. we are allowed to disagree but

we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm. this goes for all people regardless of politics. >> three huge guys came up and started probably an inch from my face screaming at me every word in the book. cursing as loud as they could. so then a trooper, my trooper came up. and my boyfriend and i got our tickets. we were headed in. and then they ran in and circled me where i could not get into the theater. they stopped me. >> homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen is in a mexican restaurant of all places. the [bleep] gall. shame on you! shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! fascist pig! >> jeanine: on tuesday, a group of protesters in georgetown harassed senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and his wife norm

elaine chow who serves as the secretary of education. when hillary clinton was asked about the calls, she responded, "oh, give me a break." but the let's rhetoric is not only targeted on republicans in leadership positions. take a look at the calls from the left to get rid of i.c.e. >> i think there is no question that we've got to critically re-examine i.c.e. and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing and probably think about starting from scratch. >> i think we need to abolish i.c.e. that seems really clear. they have strayed so far from the interest of the american people and the interest of humanity. we need to abolish it. >> eliminating i.c.e. for instance. >> yeah. yes. >> i.c.e. isn't doing what it was created to do. it's being used as his own

personal police force. and in those actions it's actually making us less safe. >> i don't think i.c.e. today is working as intended. >> you think you should get rid of the agency? >> i believe that it has become a deportation force. and i think you should separate the criminal justice from the immigration issues and reimagine i.c.e. >> jeanine: joining me now with reaction, mike huckabee, fox news contributor. good evening, governor. now i can't imagine as a father what it's like watching your daughter stand at that podium and talk about her being harassed out of a restaurant because she works for our president, and, you know, a man who is both a friend of yours and obviously someone she admires a great deal. give us your reaction. >> well, it's very frustrating to see that the owner of a restaurant that only bullied my daughter and threw her out of the restaurant but showed a

level of bigotry. if you are going to be that bigoted, put a sign on your restaurant that says, "no shirt, no shoes, no republicans, no service." i mean at least be honest about it. and say to people we don't want your business. we don't want the likes of you at our lunch counter. you can't even sit in the back of the bus. that is pretty sad in that country. i think sarah handled it with dignity and class. probably more than her old man would have done. >> jeanine: and then, you know, she, of course, is someone that all of us have a great deal of respect for. and she called herself as has done the president for civility. and then good old hillary who i thought was still in the woods comes out again and says, you know, forget about that. "give me a break." what is your take of hillary clinton's basic rejection as civility as a way to approach this problem? >> not a surprise coming from the president who called the

trump voters "a basket of deplorables." it's clear she has not gotten over the loss. but here is what is even clear. this november americans will make a very significant decision as to whether they want to elect the democrats who want to get rid of i.c.e. and open the borders and treat people who come here illegally with great level of open arms, regardless of their criminal background. and everybody let them vote, for heaven's sake. do we want a party that lets illegal aliens be treated better than we do citizens simply going out to eat or going to a movie? that is the america that people will choose. do you want the civil one where you get to go to a restaurant or the one where you don't unless you are an illegal and then, of course, come on in and we won't arrest you. because we're getting rid of the police force. the very people who try to keep these folks out. >> jeanine: i must tell you, governor, when i first heard the woman running for governor from "sex in the city" cynthia

nixon we should get rilled of ice -- get rid of i.c.e. i thought well, that goes to show you someone never in government before. but then they all started taking on the mantra and i had to say what is happening in the united states of america? >> well, it's obvious that this is a script. all the democrats are required to read it. i think they have to memorize it. it's like lines in a play. and they are all supposed to audition for it. but it's getting really ridiculous when this is their message to the american voter. let's get rid of any scrutiny of the people two break in country without any form of identification. who do not come through the legal process. judge, we are a nation of immigrants. we love and welcome immigrants in this nation. >> jeanine: of course we are. >> all of us have come here from somewhere. but my gosh, we did have to do it legally. what these folks are saying no borders, non-whatsoever. i can't go to -- none whatsoever. i can't go to any country in world and just walk on in. why should someone be allowed to come in america like that?

i have no idea. >> jeanine: it's a turning point in this country. as you say, the 2018 elections are so incredibly important. anyway, governor mike huckabee, so good to have you on this evening. >> thanks. always a pleasure, judge. >> jeanine: all right. and still to come on this special edition of "hannity," democrats in the media are completely losing it over justice anthony kennedy's retirement from the united states supreme court. and by the way don't forget to buy a copy of my book on amazon or barnes & nobles. "liars, leaders and "liars, leaders and liberals: the c c c c c you won't see these folks at the post office they have businesses to run they have passions to pursue how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters ship packages all the amazing services of the post office right on your computer

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>> jeanine: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." justice kennedy announced his retirement from the supreme court this week throwing the left and the main stream media

to utter hysteria. look at this. >> regardless of what happens in his presidency now, donald trump will leave a mark on this country for decades to come. yeah. it's like it's not going to go away. he is giving america judicial herpes. >> if you are lgbtq, if you are a person of color, if you are a woman -- if you are not a straight white male in america you are probably freaking out. >> we are looking at the destruction of the constitution of the united states. >> we are screwed for generations. >> clean air and water that you use and breathe is at stake. >> we are looking down the tunnel of potentially criminal liability for women seeking to make decisions about their own bodies. it's time for democrats to throw down. we have been playing by the rule book. 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, don't have a meeting, don't let anything go forward.

don't play ball with this decision. >> jeanine: fox news is reporting that president trump is set to interview candidates this weekend and will announce a final decision on monday july 9. the president sat down with fox business maria to discuss major questions he might have for nominees and her interview will air sunday at 10:00 a.m. here is a preview. >> reporter: are you going to ask your nominees beforehand how they might vote on roe v. wade? >> president trump: well, that is a big one. probably not. they are all saying don't do that. you don't do that. you shouldn't do that. but i'm putting conservative people on. and i'm very proud of neil gorsuch. he has been outstanding. his opinions are, you know, so well written. so brilliant. and i'm going to try and do something like that. but i don't think i'm going to be so specific. >> jeanine: joining me now with reaction, former obama economic adviser austan goolsbee. and fox news contributors

deroy murdoch and robert jeffress. i'll start with you, pastor. right now, the right, of course, is looking for the president to appoint someone who is pro life. the president has indicated in the preview that he is not going to ask that direct question. what do you think the president is going to ask as it relates to whether or not a person is pro-life? >> well, the president is exactly right not to ask a specific question about roe v. wade. and judge, he doesn't need to. here is why. it's the philosophy of this justice that really counts. you know for the last 50 years the only way liberals have been able to enact their agenda is through the judiciary having justices who create imaginary rights for some americans while at the same time erasing the real rights of other americans. there is no right to abortion. that is nowhere in the constitution. be -- but there is a right to

life to erase for 50 million children butchered in the wome since 1973 roe v. wade. if the president and i know he will, appoint a conservative justice with a conservative philosophy, roe v. wade and the other atrocities from the jew dish jare will take care -- judiciary will take care of themselves. >> jeanine: austan goolsbee, i assume you will have the opposite opinion. but isn't the president almost required to suggest someone who is an originalists, a constitutionalists? i think we can all agree that justices are not supposed to write the law. they are supposed to interpret precedent. >> yeah, look. i can see why the democrats that you showed on the clip are as agitated as they are. justice kennedy is really quite a centrist justice. he is kind of the deciding vote on a lot of these cases. >> jeanine: right. right. >> by most indicators, we don't know who -- i see your name rumored, judge jeanine,

so i'm not going to ask if you're going to interview. but it depends a great deal on who he replaces justice kennedy with. by most indications it looks like somebody is going to be quite a radical departure from what justice kennedy was. and if they do that, i don't want to get in an argument about the issue of abortion. it's a very emotional issue. just the polls indicate that more than two-third of america do not want to overturn roe v. wade at this point. >> jeanine: okay. all right. deroy -- >> if you put in a justice that does that, we'll have problems. >> jeanine: i don't know if we'll have problems. deroy, is there a requirement because kennedy is very often the swing vote, that the president is required to nominate someone like kennedy? he can nominate anyone he wants. >> he can nominate anybody. he could nominate a very left wing judge if he wanted, a right wing judge or a centrist. i assume he will pick somebody off the list he publicized. the original 21 but up to 25

judges. which has been vetted by the federalist society and heritage foundation. most of the names were out there before he was elected so people knew what they would get. he has been transparent about putting the names forward. people have had basically a year and a half to look into them and the backgrounds and the judicial outlook and so forth. >> jeanine: i'll ask you this, pastor jeffress. then i want to go back to austan again. look, the truth is that the judges who are up to be a justice, i mean if they have too many decisions that are controversial, i mean that is going to cause, you know, uprising. but if they don't have a lot of controversial decisions, then on the other hand they are going to be conservatives who will say well, maybe they are not conservative enough. what we have is murkowski and collins who are votes that we need, the republican senators who are both pro-choice.

how does the president balance that to get the 50 republicans he needs? pence will be there if there is a tie. >> you know, judge, not long ago the president asked me why i thought he had a 75% approval rating with evangelicals. i said it's very simple. you are delivering on your promise to put conservatives on all of the courts. judge, the president knows this. this is what he ran on. and i'll have to tell you. if we were dealing with a president bush, either one of them, or heaven forbid, president romney i'd be nervous tonight that the president would waffle and give in to the democrats and the liberal republicans but this president has the guts to deliver on his promise. and i believe he will do it. >> jeanine: clearly he does. i don't think there is anyone at this point who would say that president trump doesn't have guts. i mean, but let me go to austan now. you know that there are democratic senators, heidi

heitkamp, as well as manchin. they are in red states. they are democrats. what happens to them if they vote for a conservative nominee in a state that is overwhelmingly red? >> what happens among their voters? >> jeanine: yes. >> in congress? >> jeanine: do they get elected? >> you know, i don't know. you are quite right. they are in tough races. you know, i would be remiss not to remind everyone that the democrats were in office and they had the longest filibuster and held up the proposed justice merrick garland. so you can see why the democrats are feeling like this was a power play that was not justified. i think that the democrats in red states that are in tough races, it's going to matter a lot to them who gets nominated as a candidate. >> jeanine: it will be a conservative. we all know that. >> is it someone reasonable or

does it seem extreme? >> jeanine: it will be a conservative. they are not happy. if they are not happy, people going in restaurants you can be sure they won't be happy with the president's nominee. thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you. >> jeanine: coming up, daniel hoffman and sebastian gorka on president trump's upcoming summit with russian president vladimir putin as this special edition of "hannity" continues.

>> jeanine: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." the white house announced yesterday that president trump will hold a one-on-one summit with russian president vladimir putin on july 16, in helsinki, finland. on air force one today, the president told reporters that

he will discuss with putin the ongoing situations in syria and ukraine, election meddling and the deescalation of tensions with russia and china. president trump's national security adviser, ambassador john bolton was in moscow earlier this week meeting with putin and their other russian officials to help prepare for the summit. he also addressed critics who believe the meeting shouldn't happen due to the ongoing russia probe taking place here in the united states. take a look. >> well, i think a lot of people have said or implied over time that a meeting between president trump and president putin would somehow prove some nexus between the trump campaign and the kremlin, which is complete nonsense. but i don't think that has been helpful. the fact is that it is important for the leaders of the two countries to meet. there are a wide range of issues despite the differences between us where both

president trump and president putin think they may be able to find constructive solutions. i would like to see someone say that is a bad idea. >> jeanine: joining us with reaction, contributor daniel hoffman. former contributor to president trump and strategist sebastian gorka. good evening, gentlemen. dan, i'm going to start with you. you know what is fascinating to me is that, you know, since john bolton has been secretary of state, i mean we have had a meeting with kim jong un. we now have a meeting lined up in two weeks with putin. it is just amazing, is it not, that we have been able to have these sit-downs when the last administration didn't know how to meet with anybody like putin or kim jong un. >> ambassador bolton is absolutely right about the importance of high-level diplomacy.

i would caution just from my experience at the c.i.a. about managing our expectations. we have an extraordinarily complex and challenging relationship with russia where few of our interests intersect. we also have this background of russian's nefarious espionage investigations. which ambassador bolton called "an act of war." we will talk about the important issues of the day. including the arms control. the start streety is due to ex -- treaty is due to expire. there is ukraine and syria. not to mention traditional issues of counterterrorism, proliferation and fighting organized crime together. >> jeanine: sebastian gorka, let's talk about ukraine that barack obama did nothing about. what leverage do we have with russia to be able to get them to forget about coming to the

table, they are already at the table but how do we level them? >> well, russia is in a world of hurt right now. if you look at every single significant policy decision that the president has taken in the last year and a half, judge, which has any impact on russia, they are been hurt. whether it is unleashing fracking in the anwar, whether it's getting the nato nations finally to pay 2% of the defense budget or whether it's arming the ukrainians, we have a lot of leverage. this is a country in a death spiral. 600,000 russians die every year. more than are born. the average mortality of a russian male is under 60. so, there is all kind of things with the economic, diplomatic that we can leverage. but the big problem is this is a nation run by a former k.g.b. officer. the kind of people that daniel was dodging in moscow for many years. this is not your average country. >> jeanine: all right, daniel. you are shaking your head.

add to it. >> i'm nodding. dr. gorka is 100% right about that. >> jeanine: all right. but then, what do we have to offer them? >> well, you know, i think dr. gorka was right about the leverage in ukraine. what scares president putin is democracy. having a country on his border with a large number of ethnic russians and the russian-speaking population like ukraine, which is growing in its relationship with the european union and with nato and has just received tomahawk antitank weapons. javelin antitank weapons from the united states. i think we need to double down on our support to ukraine. i would like to see the president publicly make a statement, a commitment to ukraine's territorial integrity and independence at the summit. i think a harder one for us is going to be syria, which this week russia launched attacks in southwestern syria that resulted in the deaths of lots of civilians. they broke the truss that was

agreed to -- the truce that was agreed to a year ago. that was designed to let assad focus on other allies. i'm not sure i see us breaking through with a resolution. >> jeanine: does russia, dr. gorka, have any kind of incentive to get out of syria? what does it benefit russia to be in syria? >> well, look, russia has to be understood as different from other countries. this isn't belgium, this isn't canada. i always label russia as an anti-status quo actor. they meddle in other people's business. they destabilize regions to profit from that instability. however, they are in trouble in syria. remember, secretary mattis said u.s. forces have killed over 200 russian mercenaries in syria. it's not going well. it doesn't play well at home. they want relevance. putin wants to demonstrate relevance and he knows with donald trump this is a very, very different president. >> jeanine: and when they have this meeting -- and i

just have a few seconds left -- what do you think we are going to come out with? but i think we are going. i want to thank you both for being with us tonight. thank you sebastian gorka and thank you, dan hoffman. more of the special edition of "hannity" after the break. you won't see these folks at the post office

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told me i have another ten second, buy my book. thanks for being with us. have a great night. tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for centuries america fought crime by hiring police. now democrats have a new plan. fire the police and redefine law-breaking as an act of virtue. if there is no enforcement, there is no crime. well, shocking speed that this has become normal on the left to demand the abolition of i.c.e. and the 20,000 agents that work there and enforce the immigration laws. a few weeks ago it was only a few activists on the far left calling for this. then this week on tuesday, congressional candidate alexandria ocasio-cortez won a democratic primary against