unexplained death of a 3-year-old boy. >> tucker: thank you very much for that. appreciate it. sadly that's it for us tonight. another hour gone. tune in tomorrow to the show that is the sworn enemy of of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. s sean hannity live from new york right now. p >> sean: great show. [laughs] i am a little delayed here. great show as always. welcome to "hannity." we start tonight, you are an american citizen and you live in america. i don't care what your political party is, you need to pay attention. what we are going too tell you s beyond outrageous. our worst firms have all been confirmed. the extreme level of corruption at the highest levels of federal bureaucracy is now exposed. it's a very ugly picture. it's not a pretty picture. fisa abuse, fraud, nepotism, russian collusion with a seedy ex-foreign spy all in an effort to destroy and stop donald trump. the shocking new revelations

from bruce ohr's congressional testimony and bring you a new report about ohr's wife whose work with fusion gps is front and center in this on-going investigation into the deep o stage. and john solomon with a story that uncovers damning flaws with george papadopoulos. we will explore the democratic party's hard turn to the left as gubernatorial candidates in two states call for universal healthcare, open boards and a tax rate that will make your stomach turn. we will bring a very good news again from the booming economy. we'll expose a latex example of the media is a sickening anti-bias, especially big news at cnn, and stay tuned, florida gubernatorial winner from last night, republican ron desantis, he will join us to respond to a controversy surrounding comments he made right here on this channel

earlier today. buckle up.y. time for breaking news, jam-packed opening monologue. ♪ yesterday's testimony from bruce ohr blew the lid off the deep state's attempt to cover up their corruption. thanks to mr. ohr, gregg jarrett's stellar reported, and other deep state investigations, we cannot tell you the following: first, in 2016, ex-foreign spy christopher steele was paid by both the clinton campaign as oppo research, fusion gps, and by the fbi. steele was paid 11 times by your fbi in the lead up to the 2016 election. in other words, the clinton campaign, the dnc, christopher steele, the fbi were all working on one team. now we also know that steele of 2016 for lying and leaking to the press. third, the fbi broke its own rules and continued collecting evidence from steele using the

fourth highest ranked member of the justice department, bruce ohr, as a back channel. four, we know bruce ohr was in close contact with christopher steele and bruce ohr's wife nellie worked with steele on the dirty russian dossier that hillary clinton and company paid for. the ohrs were making money producing the anti-trump dossier while passing its contents on to the fbi even after christophers steele was fired. and disclosing their blatant conflicts of interest. well, only to the fbi but not where he worked with the department of justice. fifth, bruce ohr and the fbi knew that the contents of this dossier were unverified. by the way, based on my sources, they even said bruce ohr admitted it could never be used in a court of law. but it was used for fisa warrants? they knew christopher steele was hell bent on taking president trump down.

bruce ohr documented that steele was "desperate" that donald trump not get elected.ha he was passionate about him not being president. sixth, despite steele's bias and lies bought and paid in the dossier for by clinton and the dnc and the fbi, the fbi still used the information as the basis for the trump-russian collusion investigation and never disclosed the true nature of the evidence to federal judges. who paid for it. they lied to judges. it is a crime to commit a fraud against the court and lie to a judge. it's the kind of abuse of power corruption, frankly, that goes on and banana republics. this is not supposed to happen ever and our constitutional

public and the united states of america. believe it orer not, bruce ohr, twice demoted, he is still working for the doj! jeff sessions, you are in charge. where are you? today the president tweeted this out: "how the hell is bruce ohr still employed at the justice department. disgraceful witch hunt." he is right. congressman jordan of ohio weighed in. let's take a look. >> why did simpson and steele do this?lo why did they select his wife to work for fusion? they had a direct access, steele had direct access to the fbi. why did they also run it through bruce ohr at the justice department? >> good question. >> it seems to me to create credibility behind a document that is completely false. if you can tell the press and tell other people, oh, a senior department of justice official is talking about the dossier and also passing it on to the fbi, it gives it weight when in fact it was completely and on credible, unverified document and a bunch of garbage.

>> sean: there are people in washington that get it. the ohr and steele texts now make perfect sense. christopher steele often expressed concern to bruce ohr. he didn't want to be exposed. he hoped the firewalls held. now we know it. it should rock every single american. forget your politics, to the core. robert mueller could not care less about the real corruption and collusion we just showed you. bruce ohr and christopher steele were trying to funnel what he knew were lies to robert mueller.d instead they are focused now on taxicab medallions, loan applications, tax returns from years gone by, and lying to investigators. we have an update on that. it's just pathetic. tonight, john solomon after the breaking news report, it raises serious concerns about one facet of mueller's witch hunt, and according to solomon, who will joinbo us, mueller's case againt one-time trump campaign aide george papadopoulos, probably completely bogus.

a special counsel has been claiming they want this kid to spend six months in jail. they claim papadopoulos lied about the sinister details surrounding a meeting with a european professor that he knew. they claim papadopoulos was looking for information on hillary's hacked emails. according to solomon's report, the professor they reached out to that also wrote them and confirmed what he said to the fbi, insisted that his contactsa with papadopoulos were innocuous and solomon writes "he went out of his way to tell the fbi there was no talk of sinister cybersecurity intentions such as a plot to attack hillary clinton's emails." as we have previously reported, papadopoulos is considering withdrawing his guilty plea. we reached out to papadopoulos and the fbi and the special counsel. of course we don't get comments. although, i think george papadopoulos' wife is right.

solomon will have a new report tonight. 69 days away from what is the most important mid-term election in our lifetime. look at the side of yournt scre. we have long warned you what the democrats will do if they regain power. it's a scary picture. this is especially true for two states. california, which has become so liberal it's now almost a one party socialist state. and former san francisco mayorne gavin newsom, who wants to be president looks poised to become the next governor. this is a disaster for the people of california that pay a state income tax of 13.5%. if newsom wins, voters will get a supersized helping of radical left-wing agenda, including of course medicare for all. under this statewide single health care system, the state will not only cover the citizens of california, no. they are going to cover all of the states 3 million illegal

immigrants. a lot of people's health care to pay for free. take a look. >> it needs to be pulled into the governor's office, the executive needs to lead it. obamacare would not have happened. that said, nancy pelosi did a magical job of organizing it. but it required the contributions from the president of the united states. i am not naive. i did universal healthcare when i was mayor, regardless of immigration status. san francisco is the only universal health care for all undocumented residents in america. i'm very proud of that.y we proved it can be done without bankrupting the city. b >> sean: not radical plan could cost taxpayers -- get this -- over $400 billion, including tens of millions of dollars for the sanctuaryll states massive influx of illegal immigrants.in it means, on average, each californian would be on the hook for at least $10,000 in new taxes each year.

and that is assuming the 13.5% income tax stays where it is. meanwhile in florida, we now have a race between republican congressman ronn desantis, he'll join us in a few minutes, and the democratic tallahassee mayor andrew gillum. gillum, a far less candidate, endorsed by the socialist bernie sanders. he is ready and willing to implement his extreme agenda in the sunshine state. this platform includes abolishing i.c.e., supporting sanctuary cities, raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, a steep corporate tax increase,, may be as high as 40, universal health care for all, increased gun restrictions, increased funding forr planned parenthood. you live in florida, take notes. this man is ready to raise your taxes through the roof and literally restrict your second amendment rights, punish a small and large businesses around every turn, in pursuit of what is now the democratic part democratic party, the socialist

mythical utopia. sadly, moderate democrats are a thing of the past. they were driven out a long time ago. ask joe lieberman. t this is now the party of nancy pelosi and chuckie schumer and maxine waters and bernie sanders. it is a far left, unapologetic socialist party. they want your crumbs back, they want open borders, and they want most of all to impeach the president and keep obamacare. but tonight the only group hoping for trump's impeachment more than the democrats might actually be the corrupt destroy trump so-called mainstream media.a. yesterday, we called out cnn for standing by what is a faulty story about the 2016 drum tower meeting. remember the breathless reporting from fake news cnn. it's all not true. back in july, take a look. >> we have a cuomo prime time exclusive tonight sprayed a claim that goes to the truth oft the president knew and when he knew about an event that is central to the special counsel's russia investigation.

>> tonight sources of knowledge tell myself that michael cohen claims that then-candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june 2016 meeting in trump tower and white russians were expected to offer his campaign during hillary clinton >> it's very, very significant because the president has denied any knowledge of this event and this meeting goes to the question of intent to collude. >> you've been saying for a year that we need to follow the money, follow the lies, and figure out this cover up. so how did you do it in this case? tell us about how you got this reporting? >> [laughs] well, i talked to sources. >> sean: all right, we now know that a source for that report, the main source, was michael cohen's attorney. our old friend lanny davis, who backpedaled and reversed the story. making all the reporting that you just saw fake news at its worst. it's just the latest and one is a long list of shady anti-trump

reporting from cnn. the s whole network, the stormy, stormy, stormy network, the impeach network, the russia, russia, russian network. still, they remained defiant, even taking a shot at the president on twitter. so much for objectivity. make no mistake, they try to lecture the president. cnn does not apply. really? we report the news, we reported when people in power tell lies. cnn stands by our reporting and reporters. there may be many fools in the story but carl bernstein is not one of them." actually, he is. cnn wonders why crowds of americans have singled them out. cnn sucks. they say it, they chant it, they scream it, and the network still can't admit when they get something wrong. by the t way, think about -- we, they think this about the network.g] [crowd chanting "cnn sucks"]

>> sean: if i had all night, i could play all the different montages but we have other needs to cover. despite cnn's long history of abusively biased, flawed reporting, the 2016 trump tower story was literally cheerfullyke picked up, repackaged by everyre news network back in july, most of them at least admitted they were wrong, according to news busters. abc, cbs, nbc, the spent 39 minutes hyping that story. as of last night, they ignored the lanny davis reversal on air. while fake news cnn and others almost exclusively push aggressive anti-trump coverage, we'll show you the full picture, which includes an economy that is literally breaking records. remember, there was a clinton news network. they loved obama, they hated l bush, now they really hate trump. today we learned that the second quarter gdp growth, which we are

really happy about, it actually was revised upwards to 4.2%. we can report that american job satisfaction is now ranking the highest it has been since 2005. add to that yesterdays consumeru confidence number, currently at an 18 year high. plus more jobs than people that are on unemployment, a record-setting stockmarket, historical levels of unemployment, african-americans, hispanic americans, asian-americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, 51 yearsrs old, and so much mor. thankfully, because the forgotten men and women in this country, they deserve it. the american economy is booming. that is what our upcomingin election in 69 days needs to be about. that is with the media should be reporting. the state of our country, by the way, a strong, and the president has literally changed things around. we are now hiding in a much better direction. we have a lot of ground to cover tonight. first, the breaking news story

from "the hill, john solomon, the author of the upcoming bookn army of bureaucrats protected barack obama and are working to destroy the trump agenda, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. good friend of the program, former assistant u.s. attorney victoria toensing. i have to admit, she's done work for me in the past, and she came to my christmas party, but she is a killer tough attorney. hello, victoria. >> hello, sean. >> sean: let's go into the story. a follow-up to yesterday's story. i'm reading what this professor told the fbi about poor george papadopoulos andr robert mueller wants his campaign on paid aid to go to jail for six years. you say in the piece, you don't condone lying but the professor is clear. he was never involved in anything nefarious at all. it seems that muelleran ignored it. why? >> this is so essential. if you remember, sean, we've

been talking with the dossier, peeling the layers back, showing what a a flawed document that w. the fbi couldn't have gotten to the dossier if they didn't open a predicated file, and they opened one against the trump campaign based on australian ambassador downer claiming he heard h papadopoulos bragging about foreknowledge of the hill records and email leaks. that is what they opened the case on. wet now know that the man who allegedly gave that information, who set papadopoulos up with the russian contact, he did all these things, told the fbi in february 2017 there was no funny business, we spent our time talking about ways to facilitate peace, talking about diplomacy, we didn't talk about cybersecurity, i.e. heat hacking, completely waved them off the entire sinister notion t bob mueller puts in his indictment when he charges george papadopoulos, even in the prison recommendation document he filed this week. they make it look like papadopoulos lied because there was some big sinister plot between this professor, russia, and papadopoulos, and this

professor voluntarily told the fbi that none of thatfe went on. it was about world peace, diplomacy, a bunch of academics talking. this has been hyped into something it is clearly not. i have another important point to make. the fbi opened that allegation on july 31st, 2016. it apparently was a very important because they don't interview him until february. i have a very strong, and formed a theory that something happen very early on to the allegation aboutth papadopoulos. i believe the fbi found out it was a nothing burger and they connected to the sidelines until february and now we've made it into something much bigger than it is. my reporting is clearly pointing in the direction. >> sean: this is sad. doing this to this kid. no wonder his wife is fighting every night to save them and pull out of the plea deal. victoria, let me go to that and answer all the information we have about bruce ohr and his testimony yesterday. robert mueller never called him comp that is pretty interesting to me.nt he was the conduit for

christopher steele, trying to funnel that phony dossier to robert mueller come up worried about being exposed, hoping that firewalls hold, and i'm thinking, 70 contacts, 60 some odd pages of texts and emails, and private meetings. does he still have a job? >> i don't know why he has a jo job. he shouldn't and he should be out of there yesterday. sean, i am much more interested in the fact that john huber, remembered john huber, u.s. attorney from utah, who jeff sessions told the members offf congress calling for a special counsel, hate, no problem. i got john huber in here, the u.s. attorney from utah, and he will take care of everything, in fact, he will really evaluate everything. now what were the two issues, among several, that he was supposed b to be looking at? this career prosecutor, obama hold overcome by the way. he was supposed to be looking at theas surveillance of carter pa,

and, sean, uranium one. now let me tell you, nine months lateron, as doug campbell, my client, and uranium on been contacted by john huber? no. >> sean: that's amazing. >> also upset that neither nellie ohr nor bruce ohr were contacted by huber. how can you -- we used to do investigations when i was a justice department official. they are calling it an evaluation. i don't know what that is. it's like a matter. they were supposed to do a full fledged t evaluation to these members of congress and they haven't even interviewed bruce ohr, nellie ohr, or my client about these two key issues. it's awful. to be one congressman, you are at the forefront of this, subpoenaing documents well befoe you left congress. people don't remember you as a congressman, with all due respect, you are remembered more for filling in for ingraham.

i'm kidding. the president has to step in and get this material, unredacted, 302s, phis applications, everything in between, now that we know what happened. >> the president has been going to have to do that because attorney general sessions as they are in name only. d he's not doing anything. he should have b never recused himself, the counterintelligence operation, not a criminal investigation, we've been through that. but there's no reason why the attorney general can't step up and make sure that rod rosenstein recused himself from the investigation.in his name is on that fisa document. he shouldn't be overseeing this investigation. he should also be assisting in making sure the congressional subpoenas are fulfilled. when it comes to making sure that people in these high positions at the fbi are held accountable, youbi can take away their security clearances. i know you have to go through the office of professional responsibility but unilaterally,

director christopher wray and others can revoke his security clearances, if you don't have a security clearance, you don't have a job. >> sean: you and victoria kumble asteroid tonight. john. >> i think we are beginning to peel back another onion. the origins of this case start with george papadopoulos. if it turns out that was a bogus story, there was nothing sinister going on, the entire origin of this case is gone. the obligation of the fbi would have been to shut it down, not private to christopher steele and go look for other dirt. s there something it doesn't smell right. >> sean: victoria? if i lied to a fisa court, what would happen? >> [laughs] i would have to protect you again. >> sean: [laughs] last word for you. >> i want to say that mueller lied to the court by saying that papadopoulos gave him a problem in doing the investigation, a light to the court. reminds me of scooter libby,

saying he could into the investigation because scooter didn't tell him the truth. >> sean: a conscious omission. they knew better. all right, thank you, all. we appreciate it. on this breaking news night, kristin fisher has a live report. sara carter, gregg jarrett, congressman ron desantis, kellyanne conway. busy news night. stay with us. ♪ my name is jeff sheldon,

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federal authorities abused surveillance powers during the 2016 election. they say bruce ohr, who is still a high ranking official at the justice department, told his contacts at the fbi that there were credibility issues with the trump dossier and its author, former group british spy christopher steele. yet when it came time to obtain a surveillance warrant on an aidepy with the trump campaign, carter page, house republicans say the fbi did not include those issues on the application. >> not only did the fbi know that the dossier was unverified, but they also knew that there was a real credibility issues because of the inherent way that it was collected, and the bias that was associated with that. >> democratic lawmakers have said this is nothing more than an attempt to undermine the special counsel's investigation, but democratic lawmakers did not attend yesterday's hearing.

the houses in recess, so they sent their staffers inside. >> sean: kristin fisher in washington. they parade with more reaction, the author of the number one "new york times" best seller, "the russian hoax," if you haven't read it, it's a must-read, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett and fox news contributor, investigative reporter sara carter. thank you both for being with us. sara, start with the news portion. you got new information as it relates to what happened. it turns out our reporting was accurate and more, bruce ohr never went before mueller, with all of this information we now have? >> he never went before mueller and he never went before john huber. i mean, sean, this is incredible information. what we know now is that nobody has questioned bruce ohr. what we do know is that congress is now going to call on nellie ohr to testify behind closed doors. the -- >> sean: why behind closed doors? when do d we get these

transcripts? >> t we are hoping the transcris will be available after labor day. that is what we are hearing. it's not certain. hopefully, sometime after labor day, those transcripts will be made available. they want to talk to nellie ohr, andrew mccabe, they wanted to talk to peter strzok and others who were close to bruce ohr, particularly lisa page, who had told them that she had a very low-key relationship with bruce ohr. in fact, she downplayed it. now they realize that wasn't the case. they want to go back to her. >> sean: let me go to you, gregg jarrett.t. let's talk about the papadopoulos' story.y this is something you have focused extensively on come both in the book and on the show. >> that's right. i argue it was never papadopoulos' bar talk that trey triggered the trump-pressure collusion investigation, that was a clever cover because they got caught. think about it, a professor tells papadopoulos that he has

information from russia about hillary clinton. where is the crime and that? there is no crime. there has to be come according to the fbi guidelines, specific facts of a potential crime. there is none there. the fbi got caught, they used a phony dossier from a liar to launch the investigation and spy -- >> sean: they put them in jail! >> they peddled the story to "the new york times" that afflict from the dossier that they had illegally used.ea >> sean: the thing that is so interesting, you look at the conversation with bruce ohr, the 60 some oddoh pages, text messages, emails, and all theem contacts, over 70 of them, they were discussing feeding with a new wear lies to robert mueller. in other words, steele couldn't give up his dossier, afraid of getting caught, in his words, exposed, afraid that the walls would come tumbling down, the

firewalls,s, but they were still pushing it hard to mueller. i want to know if they got to mueller. >> i want to know that, too. a very important question is whether or not any of the information that they discussed got to the special counsel. whether it was mueller, jeannie rhee, someone on a special counsel, i think we need to know that. another important factor about happened yesterday was the fact that bruce ohr basically threw everybody off after the bus. bruce ohr was kind of saving himself. he's coming clean to some extent, and he knows that the rest of them are going to be dragged in but he doesn't want to pay the final price. believe me, he's going to be talking a lot more. >> sean: beyond the special counsel issue, gregg, not only are they trying to get this information to mueller or his team, but they also, as it

relates to the fisa warrant, he knew it wasn't true. he testified yesterday that he knew no court -- >> he told the fbi it wasn't true, it was a lie, and the fbi was determined -- >> sean: go further. what does that mean? >> to perpetrate a fraud on the court, to spy on the trump campaign. this is important. here's what should happen. this was a fraud on the court. the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court is in charge of the fisa court, he should direct the presiding judge, rosemary collier, to hold a hearing, hold all of these people from the doj and the fbi in there, and if she finds there were crimes committed, and surely there were, there should be a criminal referral by her to the department of justice against these fbi and doj officials, including james comey. >> sean: the house of cards is coming down. that is why your book is number one for so long. good job, both of you. great reporting.

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>> ♪ ♪ >> sean: fake news cnn still refusing to retract their botched trump tower story. earlier, the president tweeted, "big news cnn is being torn apart based on their being caught in a major like a more refusing to admit their mistakes. it's lucky. carl bernstein, a man who lives in the past and things like a degenerate fool making up story after story is being left out all over the country. fake news." joining us now the reaction is counsel to the president kellyanne conway. i want you on the network -- i

read the transcript and i watched media eight, these clips of you and chris cuomo --ip whoi get o along with, i don't have y issues with anybody in the business, except for fake liberal joe. so i'm watching this and i'm thinking, i got a headache watching this. and i'mac thinking, i admire you for doing. it but i'm thinking, why? >> i did get two question and about this very topic that is burning a whole week later. twice, if not three times, i confronted him with the fact that cnn, including on his show, had left this life lie for over a month and that this report, this bombshell report they had talked about, had been quickly unraveling and discredited, and would they admit that. in his attempt to get me to call the president the l word, which i would not do, he was trying to do that again and again and again, -- >> sean: again and again? the whole interview.

over and over and over. >> the rush to judgment -- i got an a question about this issue, this story, which has been discredited, that lanny davis admitted he made a mistake and he didn't have the information. remember, what lanny davis that his client would tell mueller essential as collusion, which the president said is phony, soo central to that claim occlusion, without that, the bombshell report is thee bomb. this goes directly to the problem we have. trust immediately, tweeted incessantly, verify never. so long as it's negative, negative, negative. what i want cnn say, we were attracted, we apologize. they had to fire three people, three reporters because they lied about anthony scaramucci coming meeting with russian agents before the inauguration, that's a post on the other host

from sunday, they lied about ted cruz being afraid to talk to cnn. why are they only giving interviews to the mothership, fox news, and yet, senator cruz had just given a cnn reporter a 16 minutes on-camera interview that cnn not aired. people make mistakes but they are constantly feeling everybody else. i appreciate you running the president's tweets about this. when the president talks about fake news, he is really talking about things that are inaccurate, unfair,r, unbalance, and also sins of omission, not just collimation. >> sean: kelly and -- >> why are you excluding the information, why aren't you talking about the economy, the $91 million -- >> sean: you know the answer. they love clinton, they loved obama, and they hate bush and

trump. they are biased so called news network. but they won't admit that they are biased. >> i have a totally different view on all of this! by the way, i'm not sure it matters anymore, sean, the president uses his considerable social media platform, our director of social media at the white house said in an open press forum that the presidentre has about 116 million -- that's basically one out of every two adults in this country, more than that, on one of the social media platforms. he can connect directly -- i don't think it matters because people know when they open up their 401(k) statements and they say they have extra spending, when they see less regulation and more consumer confidence, they know what they see come on this president is connecting directly with that. but also why won't they investigate the other side? why isn't peter ohr at leading every network? america has a right to know that christopher steele was nervous,

if bruce ohr was the next to go, the fbi doj taxpayer-funded paid person so nervouss about losing access and the last thing i want to say, they were exchanging these messages, not just in 2016 2,000 donald trump -- >> sean: all right, kellyanne -- >> it's a problem when we should investigate it. >> sean: you are always welcome here. joining us now with more, the author of "the briefing," a best seller, former white house press secretary sean spicer. you know, you dealt with this crap more than anybody. kellyanne is right, the biggest abuse of power story. jim acosta -- is there anyone more abusively biased and more of a political hack than him? >> i think this is a story that we are talking about with lanny

davis, typical of what we are seeing come of that pursuit of trying to take this presidentit down lead them to do whatever and say whatever, despite the concerns thatth they have about people using the fake news, here we have an instance of which is pretty clear that lanny davis, they used him in a story, they put in the story that he was not available for comment. lanny davis has gone on the record saying that he was a comment. that was a lie by cnn and they should admit it. number two, lanny davis himself has said that he regrets and made a mistake when it came to the underlying premise of the entire story. number three, mr. cohen himself in sworn testimony before congress has admitted there was no discussion of that meeting. >> sean: i know lanny davis. this is something everybody has to know about lanny. if you understand, he is myopic when it comes to the clintons. it's him. i accept it. he's also smart, he wrote a

book, "tell the truth," and he uses his own advice, and he admitted it. maybe got a little ahead of it but cnn should just admit it. >> they should. we've seen this from the media researchm center, 92% of the coverage of this president is negative, backed up by harvard and the pew. the fact is there is no objectivity left. there is a pursuit of taking down the president when it comes to mainstream media and regardless of how blatant a mistake and the lie is in the air freight will do nothing to back down from it because the overarching goal is to push back against the president as hard as possible. >> sean: you covered really well in your book. i know -- >> thank you. part of it was to go out and give examples to people and make them understand how these stories are done. that is what the book really walks through. >> sean: the good news is is is a "new york times" best seller. congratulations. i don't know how you ever did

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>> ♪ >> sean: he secured the republican nomination >> sean: ron desantis secure the republican nomination for governor in the great state of florida. big, huge margin, come-from-behind victory, he'll face off against the tallahassee mayor, andrew gillum, and congressman desantis drawings is now. full disclosure, i did do town halls with him. we talked to people. good to see you, congressman. i endorsed you and i don't regret it. a lot of you saw your interview with sandra smith. you talked about not monkeying

this up.mo i saw your statement afterwards, saw the media reaction, and your opponents reaction, wanted to give you a chance to respond. did you, and anyway, and do you, and anyway, think that was something that was misdated or racist? that is what they are implying. >> it has zero to do with race, sean. it has everything to do with whether we want florida grated continued to go in a good direction, building off the success or do we want to turn to left wing socialist policies, which will absolutely devastate our state. here's the thing. i believe people should be judged based on their ability and character regardless of race but it's because of that that i know that socialism won't work in florida.id it's not good for any race, color, or created. this is not about race. it's about ideas and principles. i'm not going to let thera democrats and andrew gillum tried to obscure a debate about whether his tax increases, his single-payer health care plan, his desire to abolish i.c.e., whether that is something that

is acceptable for florida. i don't think it is. i don't care what color you are. >> sean: listen, florida has become one of the fastest growing, lowest unemployed states in the country. a very diverse state. now we are in an environment where people want to purposely take things out of context. your life's work, who you are, what other people have said, even on their side that they screw support doesn't seem to matter. i guess the issue comes down to who you are, what is in your heart, and what you tell people that are hearing that news and interpretation tonight. >> sean, from athletics to the military to how i conducted myself as an elected official, i'm a straight shooter, i treat everyone with respect regardless of circumstances of birth and ive believe the great thing about this country is that you can grow up in places where you don't have a lot of a lot of opportunity initially and you can work hard and get ahead

regardless of the color of your skin. >> sean: this is a very interesting race. we see in california, gavin newsom, we see with your opponent, really somebody that has taken the hard, hard left of the democratic party, i mean, how much does he want to tax corporations? what is his position on i.c.e.? >> 40% tax increase. we have an opportunity to have record investment on the heels of the president trump tax cut. in doingt a 40% tax increase would absolutely kill florida's economic boom. $1 trillion economy. it is the wrong approach. this is all about substance, it's about people's lives, it's about what best for this untrained state. >> sean: it's amazing pride under barack obama, we saw how bad the economy, disproportionally minorities were affected. record low unemployment for youth, women in the workplace, african-americans, hispanic americans, policy matters about helping people.

we are one country. that gets ignored by so many people. >> in florida, we have a tax credit scholarship program for low income families where the family can take thatth money, go to different schools, including a private school. about 100,000 families are on it. disproportionately racial and ethnic minorities. i'm a big supporter of that because there was also been phenomenal. andrewew gillum would take the scholarships away from some of the most needy families in florida. >> sean: last question. important was the president's endorsement to you in your opinion? >> he is the 800-pound gorilla in republican politics. there is nobody that's even close removing numbers. although my rise in the polls did coincide with you coming down, so maybe we can talk to the president -- >> sean: all right, i got it. i got my little place.

i do enjoy town halls and meeting people. i could see your message was resonating with people. we had a great time.th thank you for hosting me. that was a lot of fun. >> thank you for your support and we o are on the path to victory in november. >> sean: thank you. we appreciate it. gubernatorial candidate, florida, ron desantis. when we come back, rush limbaugh unloading on cnn for sticking to their discredited trump traveld report. straight ahead. ♪ . . . ♪ come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. ♪

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happened evidence. >> sean: boom! great job, rush. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues. ingraham. she does radio. she does everything. >> laura: hi! am i on?in oh, sorry. >> sean: [ laughs ] why would i watch hannity's show?au >> laura: i'm getting ready for college football. >> sean: big time, me, too. >> laura: can you zoom on this? >> sean: gotta tell you one thing. what does it say? >> laura: alabama. rolltide! >> sean: wow. rolltide. >> laura: only ranked number one in the country. >> sean: i'm not a saturday football guy. the nfl can fi