of lying come pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we mean it. not just a talking point. he a lot of pressure to conform and we consistently refused. we hope you will come too. judge jeanine hosting "hannity" next. had the best weekend. we'll see you monday. ♪ >> judge jeanine: welcome to the special edition of "hannity": the left side agenda. i'm jeanine pirro into night for sean. for thew hour, we'll show you hw democrats, the deep state, and the media are all working together against president donald trump. first, we'll address the special counsel's partisan probe into russian pollution. this administration pushes a sound conservative agenda, and mueller's witch hunt is dividing the country and wreaking political havoc day after day. meanwhile, attorney general jeff sessions is nowhere to be

found. he is recused himself from all things russia almost immediately after taking office. and now the relationship between president trump and his acting attorney general is at an all-time low. today the president mocked sessions on twitter, writing "department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political consideration? jeff's doing what everyone wants, looking to all of the corruption on the other side, including deleted emails, comey flies and leaks, mueller conflicts, mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page, bruce ohr, fisa abuse, christopher steele, his phony and corrupt dossier, the clinton foundation, illegal surveillance of preterm campaign, russian collusion by dems, and so much more. open up the pages and documents without redaction? come on jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting."

former house oversight committee chairman jason chaffetz's flemings sessions for perpetuating our two tiered system of justice. take ae. look. >> donald trump is right and jeff sessions is wrong. to say he hasn't done any political considerations, it's totally false. he has nothing to go after what congress has been asking for, giving the documents are combined are nothing to pursue what is known to be false statements to congress. i was the chairman of the oversight committee, and bob goodlatte, the chairman of the judiciary committee, we sent a letter to the department of justice asking them to look upic hillary clinton lied under oath, never gave a response. that is because of politics, not because he's not -- she's just note' doing his job. >> judge jeanine: even senator lindsey graham come a long time sessions ally, is questioning his ongoing tenure as attorney general. take a look. >> every president deserves an attorney general they have confidence in. as to jeff sessions, i've never met a finer man, he's a great

senator, great lawyer, i think he spent a good attorney general but this is not working, so i hope the relationship gets better. if it doesn't, i'd imagine the president will look for a new attorney general. because what is going on is unsustainable. i'm blaming anybody. i love jeff sessions but from my point of view, the country is not being well served with this much friction. >> judge jeanine:is meanwhile, with sessions m.i.a., mueller's partisan team of democratic donors have aggressively targeted trump and everyone around him. clinton pollster mark penn is writing, "the cohen plea deal is merely an attempt to set up trump and "the wall street journal"'s kimberley strassel highlighted the fbi's once side of the investigation and a brand-new report, writing "the country is largely fbi treat one presidential campaign with kid gloves, the other with informants, warrants, and eavesdropping." joining us now to break all of

this down as florida attorney general pam bondi, the author of "the new york times" best seller, "the russian hoax: the illicit scheme to clearly clinton and frame donald trump," fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett, and former clinton pollster, mark penn. good evening to all of you. i will start with what jason chaffetz said that we just heard on that. where he just talked about sending a letter to jeff sessions and saying he never got a response with respect to his investigation of all of the wrongdoings, or apparentth wrongdoings of the clinton campaign. i will go to you, attorney general pam bondi. is it mueller's probe a one-sided probe? >> of course itro is. they are only looking at the president of the united states, and that is their target. anyone who gets in the way is collateral damage. that is what they are doing.

all of these other issues have to be examines. i mean, we live in a nation of laws, and we have t to look at e clinton emails, everything that you listed in your opening monologue, everything president trump said, we got to look at peter strzok, lisa page, everything, but especially these fbi agents who either, like lisa page, got to resign, or even the ones who were fired, i'm sorry, they don't get off that easy. they have to be investigated. >> judge jeanine: have to be investigated. gregg, you and i both know there is no attorney general who is interested in investigating them. >> jeff sessions is either an unwitting tube or he's incompetent. got to be one of the two. one of the fundamental principles of democracy is equal doses under the law, the pediment of the supreme court. that is how important it is. under jeff sessions, and the previous department of justice, it is nothing more than a charade. the president rightly named more than a dozen things sessions should be investigated for. especially hillary clinton and her conduct.

james comey twisted the facts, contorted the law to clear her. both of them should be in front of a grand jury. >> judge jeanine: you said something interesting. you gave me two options. use our jeff sessions is either an unwitting dupe or incompetence. or could it be possible that there are people who have convinced them that it's not in his interest to look at potential problems on the democratic side? >> that would go to incompetence. >> judge jeanine: that would go to being sold out. there's a difference. >> that would be corrupt. for political purposes, you are making decisions about law and justice, p which are too polarized. >> judge jeanine: markwo penn, your article, which will get to a little bit, is excellent. i read it. in terms of being someone who worked with the clintons, you know how they work, you know now that it appears, or that there is a deep state here that is

protecting them, am i right in that assumption? >> i don't>> know if it's a question whether they are protecting hillary clinton or not but they sure are going after president trump. >> judge jeanine: no, let's back up. that's the answer. what i'm looking for, is it the woman at a foundation that was not investigated, but no one -- there is no kind of forensic accounting other than by people who are connected to the clinton foundation,it that, along with money going to the fusion and that campaign fund, being paid for a dossier that is totally fake, shouldn't she be looked at?or >> every schoolchild knows when you look at this, the most cursory tools than investigation four of us were done on the allegations against the clinton and the content cash you are seeing the absolute entire state machinery of prosecutors, fbi, cia, all combined, going after trump.

there is no question there is an unequal scale, that almost everybody in america sees. >> judge jeanine: than what west do about it, but i am you're an attorney general. how do you resolve it? >> we know we are not in a perfect world. given all of our backgrounds, and a perfect world, what should be happening rightng now, hillary clinton should be the receipt of a target letter, huma abedin, all of these people, ana frankly, the american public shouldn't really know what's going o on in a clean, honest investigation. that is what should be going on. they should be under active>> investigation right now. >> judge jeanine: but they are not. >> the way to do that is to replace jeff sessions. when you lost the confidence of your boss, when you reach that trust,nt the good and honorable and right thing to do is to submit your letter of resignation. and that is what jeff sessions should have done a long time ag ago. he apparently did it a year ago but the president at the time felt it was unwise. >> judge jeanine: that is

president trump. he gives everyone a chance. look at the one who just wrote the book, gave her a chance, and he believes in people, he believes in raising people up. you know what, i will go with you, mark. your article, you write about cohen's plea deal, and attempt to set up trump.ea we now know that michael cohen has pled guilty, and at the end of the plea, or one of the last please, had to do with the referencee to campaign finances. what was your take on that? how does this set up the president? >> i think, it seems the prosecutors found, probably cohen would have pled guilty to the lindbergh kidnapping if they ask him to. at the end of the day, they said, plead guilty, will reduce your sentence, we won't go after your wife, i think that was on the table. those things he pled guilty to

are not crimes! by getting him to plead guilty, they cannot create an unindicted coconspirator, conspiracy theory for impeachment on something that is not a crime. it was established with quentin, established with edwards very clearly in the fec rules when these payments were not campaign contributions and frankly, had they p paid him out of the campaign, probably be indicted for misuse of campaign funds for personal purposes. >> judge jeanine: no question about what he is saying, if you pay for it out of your own o money, there is no campaign valuation. they want to interpret it as he was trying to meddle with a 2016 election. i find that stunning as a prosecutor. >> we see it. we see ceos, corporate executives all the time who women, men want to extort money from them and they have -- my advice is, go to the police. they never want to go to the police because they have families or could affect their

stocks. so what they do is they hire a private attorney and without attorney, they do a rock-solid nondisclosure, and that is a good attorney. this is a bad attorney who represented his client poorly. >> look at all the members of congress who paid money to accusers, sexual harassment, and exchangel for nda's. obviously, itin would benefit tm and their reelection but no prosecutor accused them of a campaign crime. >> judge jeanine: for all those people who paid off the young interns, whoever they sexually harassed, with taxpayer money -- >> i talked to a career lawyer at the department of justice who sends love, spent half of his time on campaign violations, he said, this isn't a crime, not a campaign violation, and it's outrageous that jeff sessions and rod rosenstein would have authorized a plead guilty for a noncrime. >> judge jeanine: and the truth is, mark, there is no

civil or criminal precedent to bring chargesri on something lie this. is that not correct? >> the president was edwards and he both got off on the fec roles that these payments were not properly campaign payments so although donors were off the hook. think about it for a minute. one of them is accused of coordinating, not making the payments, and imagine if michael avenatti coordinated a payment to stormy daniels with cbs to help hillary, then that would have to be a campaign contribution, just as a payment not to air it would be a campaign contribution. it's why the whole thing is absurd. >> judge jeanine: the whole thing is absurd. in the end, you know, as lady justice, does she have it in for donald trump? are there two systems of justice in this country? i'll ask both of you, 30 seconds. a speaker that is what we are seeing. we are seeing a vendetta against

the president because he won an election fair and square. >> judge jeanine: you know it's interesting, pam, you and i are both prosecutors. we have to be believers. if we want believers, we wouldn't be doing the job that you are doing, that i did, and it is so frustrating because it's not the way justice is supposed to work. >> no, especially when you see a guy like michael cohen, he is a zero as a witness. he is useless. he's told so many different stories, so many stories. >> judge jeanine: go ahead, gregg. >> partisans have ripped the blindfold out of lady justice.ip they have jumped on the scales of justice, and they have tipped it in their favor for political purposes. that is anathema to our rule of law and the system of justice. >> judge jeanine: given that, don't you think that if we get to know justice our justice system, will we get justice in

the 2018 election? quick, yes or no, mark? >> >> judge jeanine: that is not a "yes" or "no"! >> we'll get justice every time people vote instead of having politicians -- >> judge jeanine: yes or no? >> no way to know. >> judge jeanine: good answer. anyway, greatat panel, thanks fr being with me tonight. coming up on the specialty dish of "hannity," the liberal media and democrats have been calling for president trump to be impeached. we p have the tapes, next. and don't forget to buy make a copy of my book, "liars, leakers, and liberals: the case against the anti-trump conspiracy." we'll be right back. ♪ -here comes the rain.

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"hannity": the left's agenda. allnd we could democrats and the liberal media have been hysterically calling for president trump to be impeached. last night, one msnbc guest even argued that the founding fathers would support trump's impeachment. take a look at this. >> should the democrats protecting impeachment, finally, after all the action? >> if you would've asked me that a few months back i would have said no, that democrats should hold off on talking about impeachment because we need to see all the facts. i still think we need to see all the facts but i think tuesday changed things fundamentally in this country. i think democrats can talk about impeachment, not saying we should remove the president without going through s the full two step process but i think that now is when we can't talk about impeachment, when can we talk about impeachment? the president wasac obligated ia crime and i can't imagine a scenario that could be any more ripe a serious discussion by responsible adults. that is exactly what the framers

would have wanted. >> judge jeanine: and over on cnn, one host claimed it was president trump who was playing the politics of fear by mentioning impeachment. take a look at this. >> just want to get your take on what we heard from giuliani and president trump talking about impeachment by the president forcedt. to addressed his own impeachment. it sounds like they are playing politics of fear right out of the playbook. >> they are. rudy giuliani, remember, not playing legal counsel per se to the president, he's playing political advisor. in stroking these fears among the electorate that if democrats win back the house, they'll try to impeach the president, that is for turnout, that is the good message, that is the good fear for rudy giuliani and trump to t convey to republicans. we want what they failed to mention is that it is the left in the media that has been obsessed with impeaching president trump.

they mention the word impeachment hundreds of times just over the past few days. here are just some examples. >> given the events of today, the likelihood of impeachment come i'm not saying it's our necessarily but it went up. >> impeachment. >> impeachment. >> impeachment prior >> impeachment prior >> impeachment. >> the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. he should resign his office or be impeached be impeached. >> today, the trump presidency took a giant step toward impeachment. >> impeachment. >> impeachment. impeachment. >> impeachment. >> impeachment. >> impeachment implications are now in in the air. >> . >> impeachment. >> impeachment. >> if it is a crime, it certainly is an impeachable if and sprayed >> impeached trump. >> impeachment is a word and play in washington. >> the impeachment. >> impeachment. >> impeachment. >> should the president be impeached-80? >> therere are democrats who say

there is more than enough to impeach. >> consider something as serious as impeachment. >> impeachment. >> the president will be removed from office after an impeachment trial. >> on the impeachment issue -- >> want to talk about impeachment. > impeachment right now. >> do not talk about impeachment. >> judge jeanine: joining me now is fox news contributor and washington times columnist charles hurt, florida congressman ron desantis, and judicial watch director of investigations christopher farrell. gentlemen, i'll start with you congressman desantis. thee truth is that they don't like president trump and they want to impeach him for any reason. so i don't know if it's russia or if it's michael cohen or what it is, did they even come up with anything impeachable? >> judge, we voted down and impeachment genes in the house earlier this year that included things like his tweets and the

fact that he criticized nfl players for kneeling. democrats wroteye that into this thing. i also find it a little curious, i was one of the guys who blews the whistle on what congress was doing by using taxpayer funds to pay secret sexual harassment settlements, and that was a bad practice. i blew the whistle on it. we stopped at her the house. i would reckon that some of these democrats were talking about impeaching, they probably could potentially have been involved in that. congress does this stuff by using tax dollars, they won't say a private settlement is somehow an impeachable thing? to me that doesn't make any sense. >> judge jeanine: charles hurt, the truth is that they have been banging the drum of russia collision for how many months as the president has been an? anything on that? >> it doesn't matter to them. they don't need a reason. they just hate the guy and they to get rid of him anyway

possible. they are stunned that american voters voted for him and put them in office in the first place. that montage you just ran, judge, if it weren't so hilarious, it would be truly alarming to think that these are serious people, many of whom have been elected to a once serious party in america. i do think it's important to remember, we can have an argument about what's high crimes and misdemeanors mean. i would argue that you would need to have a crime and right now we don't even have a crime. so i don't really know how you reach the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. one thing is for certain, that is that democrats are the ones who get to determine that if they were in my control of the house. if they would not control of the house next year, we now know, that is what they will do. they will pursue impeachments. ifng republicans don't show up t the polls, keep republicans in power, that is what we will be

doing for the next two years. >> judge jeanine: chris farrell, don't you agree that all of this banging of the drum, they hate him for any reason, they hated him before he starte started, does that make the president stronger in 2020? does that make republican candidates stronger in 2018? >> they been looking to impeach him since election night. fear and hate are the political playing cards of the left. as you work for the returns, should the dems take the house, it puts president trump in a stronger position because the american public will be fed up with the transparency of the lie wrapped around the hysteria of this impeachment quest because it will be 24/7. it will be fatiguing. people will realize it's nonsense. as president moves towards 202020, i think the net effect, it will strengthen the president politically going toward the 2020 election. >> judge jeanine: congressman desantis, the reality of it in,

congress, given the makeup of the senate, it doesn't make it possible. >> if the democrats take the house, they could try to do an impeachment with a big majority of the house. it depends how they money they have, i can tell you the stuff they have been floating thus fai don't would get a single republican to support that. this is being driven by a very radicalized left-wing base. the democratic party has gotten very far to the left g and thats what they are reacting to. i think it is important that republicans cannot devote. we are making a lot of progress in this country. do you want to go down with this clown car and have the political sideshow? i don't think so. >> judge jeanine: chris, for t the congressman is talking about is the fact that, let's assume the worst thing they have right now, talking about, michael cohen, he's going to turn

against donald trump,e' well, he can't get his story straight. he did one in front of the congressional committee and said, the president knew nothing about this meeting at trump tower, and then he comes out and says, he knew everything about it. even his lawyer, lanny davis, can figure out what the truth is. he said, yes, no. it's about getting donald trump. >> at this point, they are putting the squeeze on cohen. he would admit to being on the grassy knoll, he wouldn't say anything. he will say anything to get out of the predicament he is in. they know that. sadly, the department of justice and fbi will do virtually anything to get the kind of scalp they are looking for and that speaks really about a need to reformat incredibly corrupt set of leadership in both of those departments. >> judge jeanine: i got to tell you, charles, when i think about the efforts made by some congress men to get rid of rod rosenstein, to impeach him, and

then you've got the leadership in congress, i.e. paul ryan, who wouldn't even allow it to come l forward, don't you think that it is about the establishment, that it doesn't matter, trump is still the outsider, party is irrelevant, facts are irrelevant, crimes are irrelevant, there is no crime yet. >> i think you are right. that is whyy all of these -- on election night, when they woke up and couldn't believe that the establishment in washington, both republicans and democrats, were being threatened by this outsider, who really did intend to come in and shake things up, people -- a lot of people voted for donald trump who maybe don't like his tweets, maybe don't like the wayhe he talks but they like the fact that he wants to come and change the way things work in washington, and i would say the silver lining here for republicans and donald trump right now with all of this impeachment talk is, while all

these democrats are going insane and making complete fools of themselves with all of this impeachment talk, and over here, donald trump is talking about the economy, talking about the border wall, talking about these important issues that american voters actually care about, the juxtaposition, it plays very, very well for donald trump. >> judge jeanine: congressman,nt adam schiff, do you ever run into him and say, where's that russian collusion thing? the guy who couldn't stop himself from running in front of a camera every 24 hours to talk about "it's coming, it's coming." have youra asked him? >> i was just going to say, judge, i don't think you can get to him except when he is in front of a cnn camera. it's not feasible. there's been no collusion, two plus years,, here we are. >> judge jeanine: asking for me, will you? finally, my last question to chris. you are with judicial watch, you guyski are looking for the evidence andnd facts, you get tm

quicker than congress. what do you think you will be able to get in the next couple of months before the election? >> i think bruce or material will be very revealing. he is the linchpin behind this entire game between his wife, fusion gps, christopher steele, and we've already uncovered very bad messages between christopher steele and bruce ohr freaking out about what comey was going to stay, they need to hold the firewall, and this is very damning stuff. it is the linchpin behind us all? >> judge jeanine: i will wrap it up with this. the more bad stuff comes out, the more the attorney general refuses to do his job and be objective and look at both sides. all right, gentlemen, thank you so much for being with me. and coming up on the special edition ofup "hannity," president trump urged secretary of state mike pompeo not to

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to going to north korea in the near future, most likely after our trading relationship with china is resolved. in the meantime, i would like to send my warmest regards and respect to chairman kim. i look forward to seeing him soon." joining us now with the reaction, national security and global affairs analyst morgan ortega and fox news contributor and retired cia senior intelligence officer dan hoffman. all right, morgan, i'll start with you. yesterday, mike pompeo is going to north korea along with a special envoy, indicating that we are ready to continue serious negotiations with north korea. now today, something very unusual happened, when the president asked secretary of state pompeo not to go. what happened and how do you read this? >> good evening, judge jeanine. great to see see you as always. i think what we are seeing

happen is that mike pompeo, secretary of state, briefed the president that it seems the president got fed up and was frustrated with what he sees as a lack of progress on these talks. the president we started this in the lead up to the singapore talks where he canceled the meeting with kim jong un and then the north koreans going back to the table in a way that was efficient from the president's perspective and the meeting went forward. i think what we are really seeing here is so many different geopolitical things that play, judge jeanine. the trade talks happen with the chinese, which i think are very tough, they did not seem to make a lot of progress over the last few days.gr the chinese are playing hardball but so was the president, more than any other president. we are also seeing a very strange dynamic that we need to be aware of, and that is the south koreans. president moon, for lack of a better word, he is the barack obama of asia. i think we have to be very careful about what the south koreans are doing. they made speeches last week at which they are trying to build this into korean peninsula,

almost similar to european union and asia. they want the land bridge to china and the rest of asia. so i'm worried the south korean president and his very liberal stance is trying to push a position that is counter to u.s. interests in the region. >> judge jeanine: dan, how do you see what is going on in north korea with kim jong un, in his own h country, what are the dynamics going on there? >> first of all, we submitted proposals for a pathway and a timeline for denuclearization and thus far, kim jong un has resisted those. he's trying to exact maximum economic gain without giving up the nuclear arsenal on which his regime to security depends and that does reflect the fact that is economy is in free fall, he needs immediate help, and he has to play to his own stakeholders, and the military, you may recall, kim jong un removed three top defense officials

including his chief of intelligence and his ministry of defense. he's got to be very concerned and aware of the reaction from his own, for lack of a better word, military base. he's been ruthless about suppressing his own people and ruthless about killing those who get in his way, including his half brother in malaysia. >> judge jeanine: if kim jong un -- i will stay with you, dan, if using a free fall free fall, the economy, how does he juggle all of this? >> it's a delicate balancing act but he's getting a lot of help from china as well as from russia. that is, i agree with the president, that is a real challenge. we need to step up the sanctions. i think it might be a time for us to consider reinstituting those military exercises to put more pressure on kim jong un but also on china and russia and show them we are serious. >> judge jeanine: morgan, i will go back to you, on what you open up with a couple minutes ago, and that is the interaction with china.

how do we juggle that? >> it's an incredibly complex issue. i think the way that president trump is countering china is the single most important thing, for my foreign policy perspective, that he will do in his presidency. we have not had the stomach to do what it takes to counter china and we tend to look at north korea and china, we look at trade, sanctions, these issues, and i think what is really smart about what this administration is doing -- a lot of people would disagree with me -- i think the fact that we are looking at the chinese, the sanctions in north korea, trying with them in a package, i think it's a smart strategy. but mind you, this is not something that is going to happen, that the president will win g g back in the next month r maybe even the next year. this is something where we have to have sustained pressure against the chinese because most of the world thinks that when the going gets tough, that america cuts and runs. that is our reputation for the last eight years. look what happened in the

middle east, russia invaded ukraine, and president obama did nothing. our reputation is when it gets tough, we leave, and people don't believe that the president will keep the required pressure on china and north korea. i believe he will. i believe this is a president who means what he says in the chinese and north koreans are wrong to justin. >> judge jeanine: dan, what do you think the long-term game plan should be with respect to north korea and china by the united states? >> i think morgan's points are spot on.n. the north korea challengege fors is intertwined with everything else in the region, no question that china and russia would like to reduce, if not eliminate, altogether, our military presence and influence in the region. we do need to demonstrate we are in it for the long haul, also have to have realistic expectations. one more point, judge, that i would highlight, when the president was making his decision, he hadad and he came n the room, the chief of the cia's

korea mission center along with secretary pompeo. this shows the president making a very deliberate decision based on v intelligence and the best diplomatic advice he could get from secretary pompeo. i think we should be reassured by that process, which was spot on. >> judge jeanine: a few seconds left, morgan. what about the satellite imagery that seems to indicate they are still working on north korea -- on denuclearization? don't they know we can see that stuff? >> [laughs] you would think they would knowo that by now. we also saw that secretary pompeo went to the u.n. a few weeks ago and called out the russians and called out the chinese for these ship to ship oil transfers in which they were alleviating sanctions. i think the president might be considered going back to the maximum pressure campaign. i think from his tweets, he is still trying to keep a relationship with kim jong un because from his perspective,

kim jong un promised denuclearization but it may be time to go back to maximum pressure. >> judge jeanine: great discussion. thank you, guys. up next on the special edition of "hannity," we have highlights of president trump's speech in ohio. he warnedgh what would happen if the democrats win in november. doug schoen and david abella react next. don't forget to pick up a copy of the book, if you like what we are talking about tonight, "liars, leakers, and liberals." stay with us." ♪ bass pro shops and cabela's

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of our country. i don't think there's going to be a blue wave. i hope there is a red wave. they keep saying however as h president, they don't win the midterms, i just don't get it. no president has ever had this economy. you have left wing haters and radicals trying to tear down our institutions, disrespect our great american flag, to mean our law enforcement. think of that, our flag, our law enforcement, i.c.e., denigrate your history and disparage our great country. and they are going so far left and they are being dragged left. i remember schumer when he was somebody you could talk to. but he's been brought to so far left, he's not even rational anymore. but we are not going to let it happen because we need our law enforcement, we need respect for our national anthem for our flag. >> judge jeanine: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." that was president trump earlier

tonight at the ohio republican party state dinner, slamming the left ahead of the midterms for their obstruction and attacks on law enforcement. joining us north reaction, fox news contributor and former clinton pollster doug schoen and gopac chairman david avella. guys, you are sitting with me, i was struck just then buy with the president said about chuck schumer, senator chuck schumer from new york. he said that he's been brought to the wonder if he's been brought left and what was the president trying to say? he seemed relatively calm about schumer. he used to call him crying chuck and chuck has been an obstructionist. >> i think the president understands that for him to fully succeed, he needs some bipartisan success legislatively, and if schumer and the democrats don't cooperate, act makes it tougher. and tougher, and i've seen schumer move to the left and the president is not incorrect in

saying that. his caucus has moved left, his party has moves left and so it had a stroke. >> judge jeanine: david, the chances of chuck schumer moving to the left are, like, slim to none. i mean, moving to the right, i mean, and an effort to have some kind of bipartisan efforts in congress. i mean, it is a persistent obstruct onan the part of the left. >> schumer is not going to move toward the right. he's not looking to work with this president. but it was completely appropriate that the president today, and ohio, where we finally got declared the winner of the ohio 12th special election, which was the republican nominee, troy balderson. you may remember, this was the definitive race, this was the race that was going to show the democrats are going to clean the slate this year and republicans didn't have a chance. what happened? the republican won. it goes along with the other news that in wisconsin, leah

vukmir, challenging incumbent tammy baldwin, is within ast statistical margin of error. rick scott is up in florida. kevin kramer is up in north dakota. i mean, race after race, particularly in the senates, the republican is beating the democrats. this big discussion about the democrats picking up a whole lot of seats today, those numbers don't seem to be there. >> judge jeanine: dug, given what david is saying, the truth is that the more the left pushes andnd pushes, i mean, you've got michael cohen, and then you've got david packer getting immunity, all of these other individuals, poster trump, they are pulling all the stops right now. >> that is really the problem the republicans have because the answer to the question the president posed, why won't there be a red wave, if all the news? is about david packer, cohen,

manafort, the economic news doesn't come through and the polling shows that the house is likely today to go democratic. if the republicans don't have a unified message, there is not going to be a red wave. >> judge jeanine: but the republicans do have a unified message. david, it appears the president was banging the trump's, saying, we got more people working than at any other time in history, the president is a smart man, he understands what he needs to say, and he's also a tough guy. this isn't going to get him off his game. they can bang all they want on the left but he knows, he talks about law enforcement, he talks about the flag, he talks about the economy. those are almost those words. >> every time someone opens up their investment account or opens up their paycheck orchids and other benefit at work or goes to look for a job and realizes there are more jobs than there are workers right now ingh america, they get that it's

been this president and the republicans in congress that have put those policies in place. let's also not forget, there is a reason why the democrats and many in the media need to talk every day about investigations and impeachment and the president is not up for being president, because if they actually focused on what democrats say, they have no shot. you've got the senate candidates, o'rourke, and texas, out of saying that nfl players assured me all before, if they feel like it. you could have elizabeth warren, disgusting comments about immigration on the day that moly tibbetts passes -- we find out that molly tibbetts was killed by an illegal immigrant, if we focus on the democrats, they would have no chance at winning elections this year. >> judge jeanine: doug, one of the things that david mentioned, the democratic senate candidate in texas, who talked about how great it was to take a knee. you know, --

>> acceptable and appropriate for the choice to be there. >> judge jeanine: i disagree totally. is that going to fly in texas? >> polls now show, within two to four points, judge. beto o'rourke is doing pretty well. ted cruz is in trouble. if there is something of a blue wave, ted cruz could lose. >> judge jeanine: is ted cruz in trouble, david, if doug is correct, based on something he has done or is it a changing electorate in texas? >> ted cruz is not going to lose, just as it would be disappointing if republicans don't pick up two or three senate seats this year. let's go through the numbers again. rick scott is winning in florida. josh hawley is moaning in missouri. kevin cramer's onegin north dakota. there is three. leah vukmir is within 2 in wisconsin, matt rosendale and patrick morrisey in montana and west virginia respectively are running competitive races, republicans are running strong races --

>> i've never heard him say anything that suggests the democrats have any chance to win anything, yet the democrats almost certainly will win the house, win a bunch of senate seats -- >> judge jeanine: i don't want to break this rule but i got to go. more of this special edition of "hannity" right after this break. stay with us, guys. ♪ school... grade... done. done. hit the snooze button and get low prices on school supplies all summer long. like these for only $2 or less at office depot officemax. like these for only $2 or less enterprise car sales and you'll take any trade-in?rom that's right! great! here you go... well, it does need to be a vehicle. but - i need this out of my house. (vo) with fair, transparent value for every trade-in... enterprise makes it easy.

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