what i love about you is your honesty.ne we are out of time, nine seconds left, good to see a you tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: that's about it for us tonight. tune in every night at 8:00 for> the show that is the sworn enemy of flying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink.er sean hannity right now! hey, sean. >> sean: you have the patience of job. great show. >> tucker: [laughs] thanks. i appreciate it. >> sean: welcome to "hannity." one of the single most obvious examples in american history. talk about tucker and his groupthink. every single hour of every single day weekend, week out, now year in and year out your mainstream media has dedicated its coverage to one thing, one thing only, maligning the president you elected, his agenda and everyone who dares to support him. still, one professional from trump hater over at fake news cnn, jim acosta is positively feigning outrage shock that trump supporters didn't give hif a warm welcome at yesterday's rally in florida and he'st worried that trump is whipping

up hostility against the press in moments we are actually going to remind you and acosta were all the violent rhetoric is really coming from in the country and it's not president trump. and also tonight, the president is once again calling out mueller's political witch hunt. coming up, we will uncover the special counsel's russia illusion. we do have the very latest, day two of the paul manafort 2005 tax case and stay tuned for a very special mini monologue. rush limbaugh, 30 years, groundbreaking conservative talk radio, here's a preview. >> we have a special guest, who is it? >> so, rush, i just wanted to congratulate you on 30 years. this is your favorite president and i think you are fantastic. >> sean: it really is impossible, and i'm going to speak as a conservative, to imagine the last 30 years without rush. we will have much moret on that later in the program but first it's time for tonight's

breaking news, jam-packed, buckle your seat belt opening monologue. ♪ r every night right here on this program we show you example after example of the abusively biased coverage from the destroy-trump media. they have been predicting the end of the trump presidency and that he wouldn't win anywayin since he declared his candidacy, went down the escalator. there have been zero in terms of objectivity, zero fairness, pedaling mixed with a deranged blend of personal insults and anti-trump bizarre conspiracy theories. it's why we call them the destroy-trump press. w cnn's chief white house correspondent has been one of the worst offenders and the crowds at last night's trump rally in tampa, florida, they told him in person what they think of him and his network. take a look. >> the white house has held only three briefings with the press this month and eight total since the end of may. e there was no other way to describe what the white house is doing these days.

top officials including the president are hiding from the press. just to give you a sense as to what's happening right now you can hear there is a chorus of boos and other chants in this trump crowd here in tampa, florida, they are saying things like "cnn sucks, go home and fake news." obviously all of those things are false. we are staying right here, we are going to do our job and report on this rally to all of our viewers here tonight. >> sean: this not the first time this happened and after what you just saw, jim acosta shared his fear of trump supporters and he tweeted, "just a sample of the sad thing we faced at the trump rally in tampa. i'm very worried that the hostility whipped up by trumpy and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt. we should not treat our fellow americans this way. the press is not the enemy." jim, i'm a pretty prominent conservative in the country. let me say this clearly and loudly. i want every journalist in this country, everyone, i don't care who you work for, to be safe.

and i will tell you right now, i will be the first person to com. to your defense if i'm there and anyone ever dares lay a hand on you. if i was standing there, if i see it happen, i will be the first person to jump in and fight on your behalf. physical violence is never acceptable to me, nor is it acceptable to the conservatives i know and respect. and let me also be clear, if you are a conservative, and by the way, you ever threaten anyone, you are not a friend of mine, you are not a friend of this program and by the way -- or the conservative movement of which i'm just a small part of. and with that said, many people's memories are really short. remember obama talked about getting in people's faces? remember he said some guy like mr. burgess, we are going to send him to sean hannity so heer can tear him up?. remember more recently we saw what happened to sarah sanders and her family thrown out of a restaurant? they followed her family to thes next restaurant. remember what happened to pamau bondi and secretary nielsen?

let's go down memory lane. >> 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 ief worked for president trump.. >> 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. >> homeland security secretary is in a mexican restaurant off all places, the [bleep] gall! shame on you!! >> shame, shame, shame! >> leave my husband alone. >> back up! back up! >> sean: jim, i have a question, did you ever pick up the phone, did you call sarah sanders? did you call pam bondi? the secretary of state in florida, did you call secretary nielsen after they were run out of places publicly in what looked like could become a

violent situation, if you did, by the way, good for you. on this program we call out bias. we will do so as long as i'm allowed the honor to be here every night. we show the clips of the media. their very worst moments. we tell our viewers to turn the channel if they don't like our coverage, but we don't support boycotts.t we don't demand firings. we don't support firings of anyo kind, nor will we ever. it's not inciting violence by giving an honest critique. it's called telling the truth. and just because people chant fake news doesn't mean they would support any kind of violence in any way and of course there's plenty of bad rhetoric on a lot of sides of the aisle. your network in particular, others in the mainstream media. you are not exactly telling the full story about things to the american people and i see abusive bias every single day you largely ignored the nasty rhetoric against melania trump. many glossed over the scary rhetoric about ivanka trump, the president's young son baron.rh even his 4-year-old granddaughter, the president's b

granddaughter, and you totally seem to have forgotten the overwhelming amount of violent rhetoric against president trump himself. what did you say during these moments? take a look. >> and with this kind of inspiration, i will go and take trump out tonight. >> yes! i have thought an awful lot of blowing up the white house. >> one with the last time an actor assassinated the president? [cheers and applause] >> i want to clarify, i'm not an actor. i lie for a living. however, it's been a while. and maybe it's time. >> how dare he say the things he does? of course i want to punch him in the face. >> right. [cheers and applause] >> the press always asked me don't i wish i were debating him? no, i wish we were in

high school and i could take him behind the gym? that's what i wish. >> sean: so where is the fear, the worry, the concern about all of this rhetoric against the president?t? now do you think what you just saw is a little bit worse than being heckled at a rally? because i do. but there's plenty of more examples of these crisis peddlers in the news media today doing whatever they can do every minute, hour, second of every day to discredit president trump and his supporters. the media in this country, they cannot stand the president's common sense conservative agenda. they can't stand that he's actually keeping his promises. they clearly don't like the trump tax cuts because that means it's less of an opportunity for democrats to get power back. his peace through strength policies with north korea, iran and elsewhere seems to scare them, ending the horrible iranian deal, this president is not bringing piles of cargo planes in cash and other currencies and giving them to mullahs in iran and also negotiating with foreign countries. he's trying to get better trade deals, he gets criticized for

that. obviously the success is not something that's reported on often and, by the way, it seems that many in this country want this president to fail because if he fails, then that means democrats can get back in power. i even think if president trump cured cancer at this point, many in the media, many on the left p would still hate him. it's a prime reason why the media is so obsessed with mueller's partisan witch hunt. they want to see this president impeached. they have been trying toan attack his credibility since he's been elected. earlier today, the president's attorney rudy giuliani called for mueller to finally begin to wrap this up. watch this.si >> we believe the investigation should be brought to a close. we think they are at the end of it. they should render their report -- put up or shut up, what do you got. we have every reason to believe they don't have anything. no evidence of anything wrong. >> sean: today on twitter the president himself called on the

attorney general jefff sessions to end this investigation. he tweeted out, "this is a terrible situation. the attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further. bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry democrats that are doing hisbo dirty work are a disgrace to the u.s." and then the president continued, "russian collusionol with the trump campaign, one of the most unsuccessful in history is a total hoax. the democrats, they actually paid for the phony, discredited dossier which was, along with comey, mccabe, stzruk, his lover, the lovely lisa page, used to begin the witch hunt.e very disgraceful." by the way the dossier is phony lies and fisa judges were lied to. many in the media are now saying

president trump actually obstructed justice because he tweeted out his opposition to all that has happened with no evidence and criticizing what is a witch hunt. in other words, telling the truth. take a look. s >> he's basically sort of delegitimizing our system of government. >> maybe this is the beginning of a new saturday night massacre and one has to wonder whetheron mr. trump is feeling the pressure of the manafort trial. >> it looks like he may very well have obstructed justice in this particular case. that's why i find it particularly ironic that he seems to be continuing to try tt obstruct and end this case so publicly. >> they are starting to feel the collusion investigation closing in a little bit more. we are getting donald trump's most overt and obstructionist tweets to date. it's not a surprise. >> just around this little incident will be a strong mini case of obstruction. >> sean: crisis to crisis, feigned, phony moral outrage every second. just another example of what is groupthink in action. and it's the same reason the mainstream media has been telling you the trial of paul manafort on a 2005 tax case is

the trial of 2 the century, andf course it is anything but. manafort worked for then candidate trump i think less than 100 days. the charges that he's now facing have nothing to do with trump, nothing. nothing to do with the campaign, zero. nothing to do with russia, zero. nothing about collusion. still, manafort is facing serious time in prison if convicted and the success rate by the way for federal cases is really high, 95, 98%. that means this is an uphill battle when the full force of the federal government is going after any american, in this case paul manafort. the judge overseeing the trial, t.s. ellis, he's not cutting the mueller team any slack and before manafort's proceeding even started, he accused mueller and his team -- imagine a judge saying this to the special counsel. this isn't about paul manafort. this isn't about a tax case. you want to tighten the screwsse on paul manafort. you want to make him sing and provide dirt against president trump or compose,

meaning, what do i need to say to get out of trouble so you can prosecute or impeach donald trump. n this case is about a 2005 tax case. nothing to do with trump, nothing to do with russia, nothing to do with collusion and the only reason there is all oft this media coverage is because he worked for then candidate trump for less than 100 days and according to accounts from inside the courtroom, judge ellis even interrupted the team of prosecutors in their opening statement because paul manafort made money in his life and was living a lavish lifestyle, telling the jury, it's not a crime to be rich in america and telling them to move on. the judge also chastising the prosecution over the wordch "oligarch" and now one more blow for the special counsel, their star witness, rick gates. they are saying he may not testify now. by the way, what have they offered gates? they said last night killed 19 people, doesn't spend a day in

jail because they used him to testify against john gotti sr. and they get him a home in the witness protection program in arizona.n are we not beginning to have a problem with the way theyon work this system? i have no idea what paul manafort did or didn't do in 2005 to 2007. i didn't know him. but i do know that this trial is only happening because robert mueller is desperate to get president trump. he wanted manafort to sing or compose. he's desperate to find something, anything on the president. it doesn't matter it seems what toll this is all taking on our country. and you talk about language, yol talk about the feeling of threats.al jim acosta, you are not the only one. the president of the united states not that long ago telling somebody to first get in people's faces and then you will send somebody to tear me up. did president trump ever say this about you? >> i will put mr. burgess up against sean hannity.

he will tear him up. i need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. i want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are republican. i want you to argue with them and get in their face. >> sean: get in their face. worse than chanting fake news? tear up sean hannity? what about maxine waters says, follow him into the grocery store, wherever she said to follow people, or cory booker. joining us now, fox news national security strategist dr. sebastian gorka. author of the brand-new book, a best seller, "the briefing." former white house pressss secretary, the worst job in america, now sarah sanders sadly has it. why anybody wants that job to deal with these people every day is beyond me. congrats, sean, on the book. their memories are short. because what happened to pam bondi and secretary nielsen,

what happened to sarah sanders is recent, the things that have been said about the president's son are fairly recent and his granddaughter are recent. the things said about melania, ivanka and so many others that are close to the first family. i don't remember jim acosta as the great champion standing up for the first family or calling them -- would love to know ifmp he called them and said i'm sohe sorry for what you've been through. >> i'm on a book tour right now. they love playing clips about me getting heckled and intimidated. they think it's funny and amusing. i would associate my comments with your opening monologue. we have a country that allows people to express themselves freely and that's what makes our country great. but at the same time, i agree with you. we need a free and fair press that is robust, but it should never, ever be under attack with intimidation or violence. if jim acosta has a problem with some of the ability of people to express themselves, he should look at his own unprofessional and disrespectful behavior. look in the mirror and wonder whether he's part of thesr problem.

we should never be threatening anybody with violence. but it's interesting how he's only concerned with himself and his colleagues as opposed to the violence that has come against the right, people like myself, sarah, secretary nielsen, and others. i want to go out there and have a book to talk about, to exchange ideas with people. >> sean: we've played what's happened to you. >> and they don't seem to worry about that sort of intimidation and that sort of disruption. it's only when it affects him. >> sean: did them acosta everhe call you about the heckling that you received?o, >> no, he was part of it. his unprofessional and disrespectful behavior is part of the problem. the way he treated the president the other day in that rose garden was disgraceful.e he owes the president an apology. it is not his question thatrd he is entitled to, it is the president to give it to him. and as much as people may not -n >> sean: let me be very clear. this is important because i've had the same experience. every conservative i know has the same experience.

i don't come on tv and whine that i have been heckled orr people have tried to physically get to me or that my life has been threatened and that i've had people literally threatened my life, it has happened more often than i care to exist, it's wrong. but it's not the same as chanting fake news and cnn sucks and people have a right to freedom of speech whether it's against sean or me or dr. gorka, i'm sureer you've experienced it as well. >> ohave i ever. >> oh, have i ever. i have to give my colleague sean all the recognition. he was on the front line on the podium. but i was in the press briefing room. i would sneak in and from the back i would watch. and sean, jim acosta thinks it's his briefing room. he really thinks it's the jim acosta show. and it's not. it's the white house briefing room. he's got it backwards. two metrics, just two metrics

for both of you and for the viewers. go back 20 years. go back 40 years and find for me when the white house press corps salivated over a republican president. you won't find it. you won't find it. >> sean: we will take it a step further and i said this and i will go back and pull the tape, many, many times when barack obama was president. we must keep our politicians safe and i'm telling -- we are the highest rated show in cable thanks this audience. if i am there, i will be the first person to defend anybody in the press if anyone would dare to lay a hand on them but chanting "you suck" is not the same as violence. people have a right to speak in this country. >> it's not just the press, it's any american. no american should feel threatened to share their voicel and their opinion, no american. >> but republican politicians have never said harass the other

party, get in their faces, it's only the left, it's only the democrats and they need to get a grip on their party before things get worse. >> sean: i challenged jim to maybe talk to those people that threw poor sarah sanders out of the restaurant and pam bondi and secretary nielsen and somebody at his network that had a severed head. i know she got fired, the president, that his 12-year-old son saw. let's start with ourselves. anyway, when we come back, we got a lot of breaking news. big news out of the white house about the back-and-forth between the trump -- the president's legal team, robert mueller, joe digenova is on fire, he's next, straight ahead. ♪

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>> sean: a lot of back-and-forth today about robert mueller wanting to interview president trump. here with the very latest from the white house is our own kristin fisher, what's going on? >> for months, one of the biggest questions has been well president trump agree to sit we know that he has wanted to but that his legal team has been advising him against it and out tonight there is even more reason for his legal team to advise him against it because robert mueller is refusing to accept one of their key demands, to limit questioning during their face-to-face interview to matters of collusion. mueller wants to open it up to obstruction of justice among some other topics. earlier in the day the president described the ongoing investigation as a "terrible situation and attorney general of jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now." democrats like adam schiff say the statement was an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight but the white house says that the president wasn't ordering his attorney general to do anything. >> the president is stating his

opinion. he's stating it clearly and he is certainly expressing the frustration that he has with the level of corruption that we have seen from people like jim comey, peter strzok, andrew mccabe.av >> the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani is telling fox news that his inclination is still to say no to an interview but that president trump wants him to continue talking to the special counsel, so tonight the negotiations about this potential interview with the special counsel continue. >> sean: thank you.nu joining us now with reaction, former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, joe digenova. a quick note, he has done legal work for me. he showed up at my christmas party and he drank way too much. and i paid for the drinks. anyway, good to see you, my friend. i am very skeptical of any, any concession to this team of

prosecutors that robert mueller has put together looking at what judge ellis said about what they're really doing in the manafort case. i don't trust them. >> there's no question that the mueller investigation is illegitimate in the sense that rod rosenstein should have never appointed mueller, who had a conflict of interest. he was interviewed for the fbi director and the next day he was appointed special counsel. rod rosenstein is either a witness or a coconspirator in obstruction because of the firing of james comey.de rosenstein should have never made the appointment. he shouldn't be involved. he approved one of the fisa warrants and more to come on that in the next few weeks, by the way, but here's the point. the president should not be interviewed by these people, his attorneys should obviously, and i know they will, do everything they can to advise him not to do an interview. this is an illegitimate investigation. it's a perjury trap even though the president cannot be indicted for anything. p

the problem is this is an effort to use the grand jury process for impeachment purposes. that is an unconstitutional use of the grand jury and they should fight it.ur if the president refuses to testify and if bob mueller issues a subpoena, the president will win the supreme court. it's unacceptable to allow the president to waste his time and to play into this phony game that mueller is playing. it's outrageous. >> sean: under any circumstances -- the president has very good attorneys. we are both mutual friends of jay sekulow >> great attorney. >> sean: emmet flood is a rock star. we know what rudy giuliani is as a lawyer, what he was like as a prosecutor.ha he took down some of the toughest people in new york in the southern district of new york. the question is, i agree it's illegitimate. by the way, look at manafort. would paul manafort be on trial today if he didn't work for trump for 100 days on a 2005 tax

case, nothing to do with russia? why isn't hillary indicted by this time when we know she committed numerous felonies? >> one of the great lessons from this entire affair is that there are two standards of justice now in the united states and they are both being applied by the fbi and the doj. if you are a democrat, you get a pass. if you are a republican, you don't. >> sean: do we have to accept that?ss >> no, we do not. i never thought i would hear myself say those words but i have never been more disgusted with my alma mater at the department of justice under rod rosenstein and the fbi under chris wray, two incompetent empty suits who care about one thing, their own future, their next job and what they have done to put this country through. rod rosenstein has put this country through over the last 18 months, may he rot in hell for it.

it's disgusting. and what you just said, that they can sit there with a straight face, and say there is no reason to reopen the hillary case, as jeff sessions has said, is absolutely ludicrous and incompetent. >> sean: you have said on this program that before. you've used the term dirty cop. i have this instinctive recoil for one reason. i had a family full of cops and my mom was a prison guard and my dad was a family court probation guy. two people were in the fbi. this is not rank and file. this is a dangerous chapter in our history. >> the street guys and gals are great, the rot is from the head of the fish in doj and fbi. >> sean: joe, thank you.ea when we come back, the king of talk radio, rush limbaugh, this very day literally started radio syndication on the airwaves. a mini monologue coming up and i want to explain what would life

have been like for this country without rush on the air for 30 years? we will explain straight ahead. ♪ we will explain straight

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so, what are we gonna do? ♪ insurance. that's kind of what we do here. >> sean: 30 years ago today ♪ >> sean: 30 years ago today americans had few options for political commentary, the news of the day, journalism was decidedly one-sided. network news along with the print media, they were the kings of all information in america. that all changed 30 years ago this day, 1988. it changed forever. a man from a small town called cape girardeau, missouri, kicked off a brand-new national radio program. it gave a voice to the millions of conservatives in this country that have been ignored, impugned, their values diminished for so long. in doing so, he started what would now become a new media revolution in this country, one that radically would permanently alter the media landscape in

america and, by the way, paved the way for people like me, laura ingraham, mark levin, and so many others. tonight we are celebrating 30 years of the rush limbaugh show. the pioneer of conservative talk radio. that's tonight's mini monologue. ♪ 30 years ago today, august 1st, 1988, "the rush limbaugh show" kicked off nationally on 56 radio stations around the country. the show was radically different from anything else on the airwaves at the time. now for decades all americans -- we were force-fed. we got our information, commentary, news, from the decidedly, one-sided, left-wing leaning, traditional mainstream media. but with a very clear, funny, fun, refreshing, informative, conservative perspective, rush filled a desperately needed voir in the country and gave voice to millions of us. rush is syndicated nationally on more than 600 of america's best

radio stations, heard by more00 than 27 million people every week. and as it turns out, time flies when you're kind of spearheading an entire movement and an entire new genre of media. take a look. >> they said, what are you best at? and i said, probably being onre the radio. well, there's your answer. do what you are best at and you will at least be happy, regardless of how well you do it, so i decided to give radio one more chance. i'm sure you all felt like you weren't going to ever amount to anything, i felt that way. the only difference between you and me is that i'm up here and you are out there. and the only reason i'm up here is because you are out there. you have rejuvenated my life and you have made me something i never even thought i could be and i have just one thing to say to you, a sincere and heartfelt thank you. >> sean: media was forever changed. here's the question i want too throw out tonight. what would america be like

without rush, without talk radio? without rush on the air for the last 30 years. without a doubt, he has now had a massive impact, decade after decade, year in and year out. the doctor of democracy is the single most influential voice in the early '90s holding the corrupt clintons accountable, playing a vital role in the historic republican midterm resurgence. newt gingrich coming to power 1994. he pushed for america's tough response after 3,000 of our fellow americans were slaughtered on 9/11 2001. he was a leading voice for the tea party move me in 2010. he was one of the only people that were warning against obama's radical left-wing ideology, rightly predicting that those policies would fail. recently he has been a steadfast powerful voice for what is the working trump agenda, the

conservative agenda and you seek the dividends every day. take a look. >> donald trump is like anybody else would be. he won the presidency. he won the presidency against all odds. i he resents deeply this idea that anybody helped him, particularly the russians. you people in the media are nuts if you think donald trump is going to go along with us. i that's not who he has. >> republicans and democrats, but it's basically people who are pro-government, pro-washington, who think government in washington is the center of the world. they will give occasional mentions of these things that you mentioned, these policies to placate voters, but going back to an original question you have here. they don't want trump to succeed. >> sean: on today the 30th anniversary of his syndication, he got a call from a pretty special surprise guest.ea let's listen in. >> rush, i just wanted to congratulate you on 30 years. this is your favorite president and i think you are fantastic

and i heard about it and today is the big day. 30 years. i wanted to call personally and congratulate you. >> i am floored. i thought there was nothing anybody could do to surprise me today. i've been preparing for anything. mr. president -- >> you are a very special man and you have people that love you.ny i'm one of them. but you are a very, very special guy. what you do for this country, people have no idea how important your voice is. so i just wanted to personallyly make this one and i said i will even dial the number myself if i have to, but i just want to congratulate you, 30 years in that tough business is incredible. and you are stronger now than ever before.0 >> i thank you so much. it is such a thrill to hear from you. >> sean: my friend also referred to rush as the babe ruth of talk radio. he was right. during his call with rush today to present also brought up how often i call him the dean of talk radio. watch this. >> people don't realize what a great achievement 30 years is in

that cutthroat business you happen to be in. you may not find that becauseat you are what make so good at what you do but it's a cutthroat business and for you to do this for 30 years is truly an amazing accomplishment and there's no voice like it and even your friend hannity agrees with that. he said there's nobody like this man, so i said i guess i thougha you two would be competitive. he said, no, he's the dean. he called you the dean. >> he was a guest host. he guest hosted for me when he first started. >> he's great and he's a big, tremendous fan of yours. they all are, everybody is.e' so i just want to congratulate you, 30 years -- just do it for another 30 years. after that you can take it easy. okay? c >> i will do that. i will stay along as long as you do. >> okay, you have a deal. >> sean: that's a pretty goodlo deal. but it is a competitive business but people like myself, the great one mark levin, laura ingraham, and most people that work in talk radio, we all

understand that he forged the path for all of us. here's the big question. i personally -- you think back the last 30 years, think about america today without rush's voice, that booming conservative voice, for 30 years.ic his unwavering commitment to conservative ideology, philosophy, frankly, his wonderful, warm sense of humor, his outrageous humor, his steadfast love of country. he has literally given thiss country insightful commentary decade after decade and it has changed the media landscape in this country forever. he led the way, forging a path. like earlier pioneers, like terry williams and bob grant, all these guys, some outrageous, controversial, some not. we get to do what we do today because he single-handedly opened up a whole new market place. he had the courage of hise convictions. he paved the way for a new media and a political revolution and

the fact, for example, you are watching me right now is in part because of these great pioneers, courageously forging that path. the audacity to stand up versus the status quo. he took a lot of heat. he stood for honest conservative great american values. they have tried again and again to take him down and they takese it, just like they try to take mark, laura, me down whenever they can. but here they are, we are blessed and we are better off as a country. the media has some diversity because of his life's work. so rush, on behalf of me, mark, laura, conservatives everywhere, millions of us, thank you. congratulations. 30 great years of broadcast excellence. when we come back, rush limbaugh's brother, author, attorney, friend, david limbaugh and he has done legal work for me and went to a party with me. good grief, i have to say that every time.nd straight ahead. time. straight ahead.

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>> sean: here with a reaction to my mini model up tonight is rush's brother, david limbaugh. you were there for the whole time. your brother took a lot of -- along the way.th i think he shocked the countryry when he first came on the air. may be similar to iconoclastic nature of trump in a way and the reaction, the feigned outrage, the daily "rush, rush, rush." not easy to take all of that incoming. >> rush has been the tip of the spirit and he has paved the way for conservatives. he mainstreamed conservative thought in america and was finally the answer to the liberal media monolith.

i think what he did is validatea millions of conservatives who are sitting out in america were so frustrated wondering are they odd? they talk to people at the store, people in their walk of life who are the same as they are but they don't hear any of these ideas being articulated in the national media. finally rush broke through and gave them a voice.er and you mentioned -- you asked how america would have been different had he not burst on the scene.y i shudder to think what would have happened by now with the avalanche of media -- liberal propaganda in the universities and in the culture. rush has answered it back and he's given the voice to the rest of us. >> sean: you would know more than i would, it had to be hard at times because i see it -- anyone in this business now, me, laura, mark, rush. there is an industry where millions of dollars are being spent monitoring all of us in

the hopes that we say one word, one phrase, one sentence to get us fired and attack our advertisers, get us off the air. whatever happened to the left believing in freedom of speech and expression of thought? is it that they are that intimidated? >> they don't believe in it. they haven't ever believed in it. and they mouth these ideas about tolerance and wanting us to get along and kumbaya harmony but the truth is when they hear someone disagreeing with them,m, especially someone articulate and popular and have a sense of humor and has the audacity to lampoon them in the national medium, they couldn't take it so they wanted to shut him down. they fund these organizations dedicated to destroying him and making things up about him. >> sean: they spent millions. >> now the same kinds of outlets have gone after you. >> sean: millions of dollars. >> they make things up, they exaggerate, they take things out of context and he has hads to single-handedly fight back these

people as he has paved the way for thousands, literallyav thousands of other people whosa have been generated from his example. you are one of them, as you have said, and he has shown the way, but in the beginning it was lonely. he was out there and he was on talk radio and no one was there to defend him, no one was there to fund his defense of himself, but he has truly inspired so many people to speak up and to get in his medium and it's really been a wonderful thing. >> sean: interesting side note. thank you for joining us. when he started in '88, there were, like, 200 talk radio stations in the country. now there are thousands and it's the number one format in radio. amazing. thanks for being with us. joining us now, more reaction to our other top stories, mueller's witch hunt. "the new york times" -- i feeln sorry for judge jeanine because i'm friends with you and last week she was number one on "the new york times" best seller list. this week it's you and she is

two. "the russia hoax, the illicit scheme to clear hillary clinton and blame donald trump." many congratulations. sara carter. let's go to the manafort trial today and you are both following it very closely, which wouldn't be happening. it has to do with russia. if this poor guy didn't work for trump for 100 days. >> it was not a good day for prosecutors. once again they were verbally spanked by the judge. and it just shows how devious and malevolent mueller's prosecutors are, trying to smear and convict paul manafort simply because he's wealthy. the judge would have none of it. he told them not in my court. it's not a crime to be rich. so they switched tactics and guilt by association because he did business with what they referred to as oligarchs and the judge stopped them and said, you can't use that term in myed courtroom. that connotes and conjures up criminality and corruption, but the biggest surprise today is the prosecutors indicated they

are not going to call manafort's partner to the witness stand, rick gates, the star witness, the snitch who they now realize will be pilloried as a liar and a crook and an embezzler and bribed by the government for leniency. >> sean: this is the amazing thing. gates can't now be the witness. it seems like the prosecution is -- but they gave him a deal. this is what i was bringing up with gregg and you guys lastg night. if you are going to give sammy who committed 19 murders, no jail time and a house in arizona, i think you will say anything they want you to say. t i don't trust anybody that gets a deal. i don't trust anybody. >> that's right and that's why ellis was saying you want him tl compose -- you want him to come up with something, some kind of story that you can use against the president and that's not what we do here. and that's why he slammed them hard today. the prosecution. and you know something else, something that came up today

that i think is really significant. we've already seen a year of exposing the department of justice and the fbi, those high-level officials. we've seen a culture ofhe corruption there and mueller now wants to question the president. on obstruction. >> sean: should they allow that? >> absolutely not! and let me say something else. if he wants to question the president on obstruction, he should also question rod rosenstein, who, by the way, wrote the letters to have comey fired. >> sean: last word because we are running out of time. why would he ever sit down? it's an illegitimate investigation. >> it's a total perjury trap and mueller is not really authorized to question a presidentot exercising his constitutional authority. that's forbidden. >> sean: congrats, gregg, again on the number one book. sara is writing a book we will tell you about soon. when we come back, tonight vice president pence receiving the remains of u.s. service members from the korean war. the president made that agreement in singapore.or

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>> sean: vice president mike pence was at joint base pearl harbor to receive what we believed to be the remains of american service members killed during the korean war. the remains were returned as part of that historic agreement, last month between the president and the north korean leader, kim jong un. here is some of what the vice president had to say. >> we are gathered here at this honorable cary ceremony to receive 55 flag-draped cases, which we trust include the remains of american heroes that fell in the korean war. some have called the korean war the forgotten war. but today, we prove these heroes were never forgotten. today, our boys are coming home. >> sean: reminds us of the

sacrifice of all of those in the service so we can live free. we pray for them and their families tonight. all right. we are out of time. we'll always be fair and balanced. let not your heart be troubled because laura ingraham is backf in d.c. tonight. good, back in the swamp, in the sewer. >>e laura: by the way, i charged my dinner last night at frisco's to you. is that okay? [laughter] >> sean: everybody else did, don't worry! that happens regularly. don't worry about it. >> laura: i was like, can we have the silver oak 2002, please? >> sean: you are so mean! i would have gladly paid. next time tell me. you have to steal it, like a liberal stealing stuff, you want free stuff. >> laura: well, hanty, what can i say -- hannity, what can i say? hey, congrats on the july ratings, number one! congrats, man. >>