see you monday. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity." great news for the united states of america. the economy is booming after months of projections, the second quarter gdp numbers are in with over 4% growth. our economy is moving at its fastest pace in 4 years. in moments we will explain what this means for you and highlight the president's historic economic track record that the democrats are ignoring. the days of obama's pathetic economic stagnation are over. today i interviewed the president about the roaring economy. we will play the highlights and

the countdown to the mid-terms is on. more progress to respect on north korea. today kim jong-un kept one of his promises and returned u.s. servemen killed during the korean war. time for tonight's friday edition opening monologue. as a candidate and as president, donald trump long promised to spur the american economy and many on the left and the media mocked him. they said it could not happen. a growth rate around 2% was the new normal in america. the haters, left wingers and democrats were all proven wrong.

the commerce department announced that the second quarter gdp grew at a whopping space of 4.1%. that's double the average yearly growth under bogey. -- obama. under obama they nearly even made 3%. the first u.s. president in u.s. history not to have at least a 3% growth. the american economy is booming. unemployment is a 17 year low. the averageument rate under obama 7.4%. under president trump african-american unemployment is now at its lowest rate ever. 6.5%. record low hispanic low at 4.6%. women in the work force lower at 4%. 14 states have record low

unemployment. consumer confidence at a 17 year high. homeownership rate up. americanses on food stamps is down by millions. there it are more jobs available in america than people on unemployment. an economic miracle turnaround. we are negotiating better trade deals all over the world. no trade wars including this week when president trump and the head of the european union agreed to zero barriers. under obama gave us 13 million more americans on food stamps. the lowest labor participation rate since the '70s. the worst homeownership rate in 51 years and the worst recovery since the '40s and took on more debt than ever other president before him combined.

on my radio show president trump said this about america's record setting economy. >> a big factor, sean, was regulation. a big factor was the taxes. a lot of this -- taxing will help in the future. i look forward to seeing the next quarter. because this is so sustainable. this will go for a long time. for the economy, we can go a lot higher. and people, when this really kicks in we will pay off the debt like water. we will pay that debt down. 21 trillion dollars, a number that is unthinkable. but that will go down very quickly. the numbers with growth and the kind of growth we produced, the 4.1 can go higher. i look forward to seeing next quarter. i think that the 4.1 is just a steppingstone. when we make good trade deals that will have a huge impact on gdp growth. the numbers will be so big you

will start paying down debt in large chunks. it will go quickly. >> sean: bad news for the med graand democrats. -- media and democrats. the more successful america is, the chances of them getting power back is reduced every day. this huge gdp growth is great news for every american. not only does this prove that tax cuts have worked and always work. but it is also clear evidence of the president keeping his promises. important to keep in mind. we are approaching the most important mid-term elections in our country's history as far as i am concerned. steve will talk about that later. democrats will be up to the same old dirty tricks. it doesn't matter what the economy is doing. they want you to believe the republicans are monsters. they are racists and sexists and

homophobic and want dirty air and water and throw granny over a cliff and kill children. i asked the president about that is so much more. here's his answer. >> the democrats want to raise everybody taxes. they want too give back these massive tax cuts that we got and reforms that are so good for everybody. but the tax cuts. they want to raise people's taxes and open up borders. they want to get rid of ice. we won't have a country. >> sean: they want their crumbs back. they want open borders and obamacare and impeach you and stop all investigations into deep corruption. ahead of the mid-terms it's clear that the left have no prawn plan to inprove the lives

of men and women. you want to impeach trump and preserve the disaster of obamacare where every american did not keep their doctor and didn't keep their plan and they are not paying less. they want to eliminate ice and want open borders. they want to stop the investigations into what was the biggest abuse of power by the deep state in american history. with 101 days to go, the less rhetoric, their conduct will only get worse and worse and worse. they have willing accomplices in the media that echo each other. president trump success is driving them in sane. this week they were in rare form. how can i hate trump today? take a look. >> i call on everyone who

understands what is at stake. in a moral moment, there is no bystanders. you are either complicit in the evil. you are contributing to the wrong or fighting against it. >> a prolific rapper, i am taking a quote from him. >> donald trump working with advance knowledge to be part of the international conspiracy. >> he was furious because he found out melania was watching cnn instead of fox. that's her way of cheating on him. >> sean: this week in person the harassment of trump allies continued. now they are going after sean spicer because he has a book out that people want to buy. on wednesday shouted down by one

of these leftists at a book signing. >> hey, sean, you are a real piece of garbage. i hope you look around and see all of these empty seats and you realize even in new york city, people won't come and pay money to hear you speak. i read the reviews. it's a garbage book. >> sit down. you are as stupid as you look. >> you are a garbage person. >> i got him. >> you lied as press spilth. secretary. now you are lying in your book. the "wall street journal" called you a liar. >> sean: you can expect this kind of behavior from the left and it will get worse and worse as we get closer to the mid-terms in election.

they want their power back at all costs. they think the louder they get the more effective they will be. we end with positive developments from korea. kim jong-un did return the remains of u.s. servicemen killed decades ago in the korean war. listen to this. >> we met. we had a great meeting. very, very great meeting. i think you could have lost 50 million people more. seoul is 28 million people. people say hundreds of thousands. 100 million people could have been wiped out and lost. we have a great meeting. historic. among other things the remains are starting to come back. missiles have been stopped. we don't have rockets and missiles shot over japan. the hostages we got them back even before i left we got them back.

nuclear and rocket testing no more. so many things have changed. one thing all of their propaganda material which has been up for years, the signs and the music, it's all stopped. it's been taken down. so many positive things have happened. we have time. there is no rush. i told my people don't rush. we have not taken any sanctions off. i look forward to the time when we do take the sanctions off. when that happens a lot of good things will have happened on the other side. >> sean: he is not trying to bribe a dictator. more tangible progress of the president with rocketman kim jong-un. an important moment for all of those who lost loved ones in the korean war. and negotiations to denuclearize the korean peninsula continue.

no rockets fired since december over japan. it looks like "fire and fury" and my button is bigger than yours is working. we got our hostages out. there was the dismantling of one of the nuclear test sites. here with reaction. the author of the number 1 "new york times" best sell this week, "liars, liberals, and leaker," judge jeanine pirro and geraldo rivera. congratulation to both of you. judge, we are proud of you. so well deserved. geraldo rivera your bock has been out. that brings something to my mind. you have always said when we disagree on immigration and i don't want to hear it today. although you agree with the wall. i love this about you. we don't agree on everything.

you keep saying i want this president to succeed because i want my country to suck veed. -- succeed. i don't feel that from the democratic party. they are not happy today about the gdp members. >> they would applaud if the president stumbled on the sidewalk. there is a hatred of donald trump that is something that is almost unprecedented. it's extraordinary. people are rooting for the president and the presidency to fail. i think it's selfish and narcissistic. it's pedestrian and partisan. it really is -- one reason politics has such a foul stench. i think the president could help himself more. you started the program with the great economic numbers. the thing about the economic numbers, americans are doing better than ever and wages are going up. more jobs than people seeking

jobs. but at its core, this is also a tremendous civil rights movement by president trump. >> sean: bingo. >> he is doing more for the inner city than all of the liberals and the wishy-washy socialism. black unemployment historic lows. hispanic unemployment at historic lows. were i on the president's team. this is what you focus on. say this every day. we are not getting nuked from north korea. look what we are doing for the city and the people that voted for my opponents. we are doing more than all of the liberal programs combined. >> sean: judge, i said if the president cured cancer at this point, seriously, i really believe it, if the president cured cancer and gave every american $30 million, the media and democrats would still hate this guy. if he adopted their agenda that

failed they would still hate him. >> there is no question that the hatred towards this president is unparalleled in american history. there is not one metric that has suffered under this president. we are better off in every positive metric. i remember when president obama said all manufacturing jobs are a thing of the past. now we have 400,000 new manufacturing jobs in this country. we have unemployment and i won't repeat all of the good things that have been said. here's the truth. geraldo rivera says the president should talk more about the civil rights issue helping the people who have been forgotten. the truth is he could talk about it from the highest mountains and the press would not report it. the american people understood that this was a man, this donald trump who had never run for any office in his life, understands the plight of the hard working

american men and woman. we gave him a chance to use his words. we had nothing to lose. >> sean: he said what do you have to lose? >> every metric has improved. every day he takes in coming and every day i realize more than ever, this man is a force of nature. he can handle anything and keep fighting for us. >> sean: geraldo this is a good point. every election it's the same thing from the democrats. racist, sexist. throw granny over the cliff and scare america. give me one idea that democrats besides impeachment and keeping obamacare and they want their crumps back. one idea that would deserve us to go back to what? obama's 13 million additions to food stamps and 8 million more in poverty? what are they offering?

>> well, medicaid for everybody. which is a wonderful idea. free college for everybody. >> sean: free housing and free day care. >> the apparent nominee for the democratic congressional seat in queens ocasio-cortez her platform is wonderful. but the reality going back to what i said is capitalism is the best engine for lifting people out of poverty and into the middle-classes and beyond. you have to stress those things. i think it's sophomoric of us to avoids the fact that a lot of the hatred directed by president trump, some is self-inflicted, but a lot is the fear -- you remember the huge demonstrations the day after the inauguration by women wearing pink hats everywhere. their problem was the fear that

the president would curtail the rights under roe v. wade. it's a sticky subject and you don't want to hear the other side. one advantage at fox, i respect 4 point of view. i can't say that is held and it's a fear that the president -- >> sean: we have become best friends. we disagree. we will have a drink and a bite to eat and argue but we are friends. >> because i believe in your sincerity. >> sean: the same with you. you want the country to be better? >> absolutely. judge, that's missing everywhere. >> sean: i have seen dishonesty. they won't focus on the news channels about all of this success. the forgotten men and women who were left behind are getting

more opportunities than they ever had. i started as a dishwasher. i identify with that, with people that are struggling. i struggled for 20 years of my life. 25 years. >> well, when you talk about, geraldo, i was in that march in washington. thank goodness there were 2 navy seals with me retired. at the least i was protected. but the hate was palpable. when i asked people in that parade or the march or protest what they were protesting, they just hated donald trump. female unemployment is at 4%. you look at ivanka trump. this woman spent her adult life promoting women in business. >> sean: and look at how they treat her and baron and the grand-daughter of the president.

>> all of them. here's the bottom line: america is better off. the left is trying to shutdown the right. i have had my own experiences with it. the fascism is when there is only one way of thinking and everyone else has to be shutdown. >> last word? >> i think what happened to ivanka and her decision to give up her businesses is shameful. she and her husband worked so hard for the country and for people to attack their businesses by sabotage the way they have, is really, really regrettable. >> sean: some people work in washington. will pay more money to lawyers than they get paid. when we come back, former trump white house strategist and the rest of my exclusive interview with roseanne barr. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level?

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deal. why is it obsolete? we have to make things. merchandising merchandising -- manufacturing jobs are among our best jobs. >> sean: that was president trump going over the remarkable economic story since he took office. this should help republicans. 101 days away from a call the most important mid-terms in our lifetime. there was a thorough report detailing seats that the gop maintain. joining us now former trump stat -- stat strategist, steve

bannon. they want to steal the election. a lot the stake. >> you said something that is the most important mid-term. i would rephrase that. i think is president trump's first re-elect. it's a revereferendum on the tr presidency. the opposition will try to win congress to impeach trump and stop the entire progress whether it's the economic growth or his america first national security or southern border security. they will try to unwind it. the democrats got one thing. they got a do-over. this november, 100 days and a wake up, we will have a national election. that is going to determine the second half of the first term of president trump. and i not 2020. we will have a referendum.

focussed on president trump's record. the way to win this is like we won in 2010, the great tea party sweep. go door-to-door and do voter regivations drives. -- registration drives. president trump delivered on the action. now it's up to everybody that turned out in 2016, you have to do it all over again. or the first action they will take under nancy pelosi or the democratic speaker is try to impeach president trump. >> sean: i went through the numbers. in your old hometown. only 100 seats are really up for grabs. the others are safe. they are innocent play. you have 86 of those are republican seats. talking about the republicans have to win 61 of the 86.

that's a lot. historically and i asked the president about this earlier today on my radio show, historically seats are lost in the mid-term election for the party in the white house. how do people save these 61 seats because i would like a comfort margin? >> we picked up 62 seats in 2010. it's not about money. it's about ideas and turning out votes. president trump has delivered. he said he will take action. he took action with the destruction of isis and look at these economic numbers today. they are unbelievable. reorienting the world's trade against china. president trump delivered on judges. everything he said he would do he has either done or in the process of doing.

everybody who is supporting him in 2016, this will be the old-fashioned way. it's not how much money you raise. it's muscle. the opposition is very different than in '16. hillary clinton's arrogance and cockiness, they missed what we were doing in the upper midwest to break that blue wall. this time the time is up and the resistance are very focussed. they are going door-to-door. everybody who supports president trump has to understand this will be the old-fashioned way. go door-to-door and knock on doors. >> sean: steve bannon battlefield. you gave us a general's overview getting to the 100 day countdown. next week we will name every district and put it up on the screen. here's the thing. there are some people that will

look at their congressman and say, to me and you, my congressman is a rhino. and so is my senator. you are asking me to support this guy. i supported trump but the steaks are so high what that i want too do to the trump agenda. that's my answer. . >> this cuts to the heart of it. this is a national referendum. whether it is a rhino or a congressman or a senator that you don't support. that's not the question now. the question is that the trump agenda and about president trump and his agenda. you will have to sometimes vote for people you are not comfortable with. this means some establishment fingers and some rhinos. it doesn't matter. this is a national reverend up. it's an up or down vote on trump. if we force everything to november 6th, we will win this. it won't be a but wave.

-- blue wave. when they don't get the blue wave they will turn into a civil war on the democratic party. it will make 2020 much more interesting. >> sean: it's already developing. just look at the job numbers. put aside the success in north korea and we now have remains from that war coming home this very day and no more rockets fired and a dismantled nuclear test site. we have record low unemployment in this country for women in the work force, african-americans, hispanic americans and asian-americans and the miltary that have been out of work. millions now have been taken off the food stamp rolls with more jobs available than people on unemployment. this didn't happen as fast when reagan was president and i am a reagan conservative. >> if you look at the actions he's taken and the results we

already have including the judges, it's nothing short of extraordinary. donald trump is a historic president and a transformational president. if you want to keep that transformation going, this november is not a mid-term election. this mid-term is the first re-elect of donald trump. everybody will have to put their shoulder to the wheel. sean, it's what we did in august of 2016. we brought the republican establishment together and the trump movement together and put our heads down and against tremendous opposition of the media and all of the money the clintons raised, it did not make a difference. we won big in a historic landslide. that can happen again and it will happen again if people focus on what november 6th. a reverend on the presidency of donald trump. >> sean: we will bring you on as often as you can. i know you travel a lot. once a week from now until liquid day. steve bannon doesn't like doing

tv. you think this is so important, you want to identify. we will identify every district that will matter where the real battlefield lies. >> we will show people, sean, have you been gracious to talk to me approximate this. -- about this. it's game on. we have to leave everything on the field and no tears. i am tired of hearing the whining on our side of the football. this candidate or that candidate. we have to stop the whining and get focussed for a victory. 100 days and a wake up to do it. >> sean: bannon next week we identify the defining races in the mid-term. thank. he wants to be the next speaker of the house jim jordan and more of my one-on-one with roseanne barr that people are talking

about. straight ahead.

>> ♪ >> ♪ >> sean: yesterday ohio congressman jim jordan announced he is running for speaker of the house. i sat down with him to ask why he is running and what agenda he will push. ohio congressman jim jordan announced he is running to the next speaker of the house. welcome to a rare in studio appearance. we are 101 days outside of the mid-term elections. i am calling at this time most important mid-term in our lifetime. >> yes. we have to win. >> sean: explain. >> if the democracy get in office they will go after president trump. they went so far left with the social democratic agenda they have. it's critical. here's what is at stake. think about the last year and a half. regulations were due.

taxes lower. unemployment lowest in 20 years. economy is humming. gorsuch on the court and embassy back in jerusalem. out of the crazy iran deal and the hostages back from north korea. what is amazing about that list as well is congress only helped a little bit of that. congress has to do a better job. that's i didn't want to be the next speaker of the house. we have to do what we told the american people we would do. deliver on health care and the border issue. >> sean: in the middle of the health care debate we discovered there were 100 house republicans and senate republicans that voted to repeal obamacare in 2015 same bill and changed when it matter. >> 6 republicans senators voted against the exact same legislation they supported before after getting elected

taking the senate in 14. after winning the white house in 1816. we have not delivered on health care reform or welfare reform for able-bodied people and not delivered on controlling spending. that's what we told the american people we would do. >> sean: the president has accomplished a lot. why is there a reluctant among some republicans, the president is not the conventional establishment figure? he is bold and tweets and calls out fake news. what is it that some republicans don't like? >> it's the town. it's washington. the swamp is the swamp. they don't like donald trump coming in and changing the swamp and the way that town works. there is a reluctant to ever change. the american people in 2010 we

will put you in charge to change things. in 2016 they gave us the white house to change things. the president feels this every stinky day. he is bound and determined to do what he told the american people he would do and the house needs to do the same. we have done some good things but not near enough. the reform we need to do. >> sean: the house has been better than the senate. >> it sure has. >> sean: 14 states record low unemployment. record low unemployment for african-americans and hispanic americans and women in the workplace. and huge massive great economic news. you mentioned the foreign policy successes. there is a track record to run on. let's campaign on it and tell the american people you put us back in power in the house of representatives, we will do what we said and president trump

accomplish what he ran on. if you become the speaker, i will support you for speaker. i think the freedom caucus has been the most commited to fighting to keep their promises and fighting to defend the things that are conservative in the country and helped the president the most. >> we formed or group 3 years ago. we talked about the countless number of americans who feel like washington forgot them and left them behind. we want to fight for those people. i say this all the time. i believe it. we make the job of being a member of congress too complicated. it's simple. what did you tell them you were going to do? go do that and stand up and have the debate. too often we forfeit before the referee blows the whistle.

we forfeit the game. let's make it happen. >> sean: how will you be different? >> here is a great example. the spending bill we were poised to hold spending down on non-defense spending because chuck schumer shut the government down on friday. over the weekend the american people said you are crazy! on monday he said i will open the government back up. he was losing in the public relations word. opened the government back up. we had a chance on the big spending bill to treat our troops the way they needed to be defended. even though we have a guy in the white house great at taking the message to the people. we did what we always do. the debt goes up.

>> sean: he wants the money for defense. jim jordan, good luck. we will watch this closely. do we know when ryan is leaving? >> he said he is going to stay. >> sean: when we come back more of my exclusive interview with roseanne barr as "hannity" continues. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level?

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>> ♪ >> sean: part 2 of my interview with roseanne barr. how should we handle these controversies. bill mar the stuff he said over the years that are atrocious.

if you don't like my show you have the power to turn the dial. we live in an environment where it's not just disagree. disagree and get an opportunity and don't accept the apology and destroy the other show. i refuse to be a part of that. i do believe that in freedom of speech number 1. i make my living with it. number 2 i believe people make innocent mistakes. i listened to your background and read all of this stuff about you and your background and your mom and your dad. >> i have the best relationship with my mother today. we did the work that needs to be done in my family. i am very proud of that. there is nothing but love. >> sean: understood. but having multiple personality disorders. >> that was tough. >> sean: was that like having

voices? >> no, that's schizophrenia. >> sean: different personalities? >> waking up and noting where you are and how you got there. it's like wow! >> sean: just disappeared and you were another person and didn't know it? >> no memory of any of it. when i had it, i had like four prescriptions for grasses. -- glasses. i woke up and found myself in unplaces and didn't know why does that's terrifying. i no longer do. that my whole life i spent like. that one time i woke up in a truck in new york city. >> sean: i don't think there is one viewer that doesn't have a family member or a friend or

a neighbor -- >> with mental health issues? >> sean: i think everybody watching knows somebody. it's scary. >> it was scary. i told abc, i don't feel that i am in a good mentally balanced place. i had been working way too many weeks and going on promotions and crossing from hawaii to new york. i game ambien dependent. a lot of people had problems with it and i am one of them. i planned trips. >> sean: you didn't remember when you woke up? >> i will see it in the kitchen. >> sean: you would see it and say i must have eaten this? >> yes, and dtrying to make

brownies. >> sean: and not remember it? >> no. ambien does that to people. now i forgot. i'm sorry. >> sean: what is next? >> i told abc, you guys, i will go get my meds checked. >> sean: you knew were going to a dark place? >> i knew i wasn't keeping up. this a whole other subject. i don't absorb vitamins. i found out i was really depleted. that affects your mental health. >> sean: you were doing too much of not getting the time you need? >> i am supposed to go to the hospital every 8 weeks and get infusions because i don't absorb iron and vitamins. i wanted that show. i wanted a second season so bad that i worked myself almost to

the end. >> sean: tell me what is next for you? >> porn. [laughing]. no. >> sean: really? >> no, i am kidding. >> sean: what is next? porn that's your headline. >> i love doing my own stuff in my own studio. >> sean: you want to go back on stage? >> i want to go back on tour, yes. i want to go tour and do my stand up. i love looking out there. i have a really good diverse audience of fans. i am very prods of that. i have all kinds of opinions and i try to unify what is universal between all of us. >> sean: when we come back the video of the stay.

>> all right. tonight's video of the day is a sneak peek of tmz's harvey levin's interview with alex trebek. i always wanted to be alex trebek. i do great at home. anyway, take a look. >> i absolutely love your show. and one of the things that i always think about when i watch it, i watch you read the answers. some of them are complicated. do you rehearse these? >> if there's words that will be difficult to pro -- to say properly -- [laughter] i make diacritical remarks so people think that trebek is so bright. >> harvey and lex on objectify. it's at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on the fox news channel. always fair and balanced.

have a great summer weekend. a lot to get back to monday. see you then. weekend. tucker carlson is next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy friday. according to a news report that dropped last night, michael cohen, donald trump's former personal attorney, is prepared to testify in the mueller probe that the president knew about a june 2016 meeting in new york city between his son don jr. and a russian lawyer who claimed she had dirt on the hillary clinton campaign. let's assume that all of this is literally true. what does it mean? why should we care? if you have watched television over the last 24 hours, you know