see you then. >> sean: welcome to hannity this friday night. you will decide the fate of this country. the democrats are out for blood. they want to impeach the president and now they are rolling out their savior, barack obama all over the country to tell you how to vote. of course, he wants to destroy the trump agenda, he wants to decide your future after all of his failure because he thinks he knows better. tonight with the help of a new report from john solomon, we will connect all of the dots tonight. we will show you how dangerous this country's bureaucracy has

become. all of them trying to rig an election, influence your vote, stop donald trump, the president you voted for. they tried before he was elected. they've tried to undermind him ever since. now we've got anonymous, a figure inside the administration claiming the trump presidency will soon be over one way or another. is that a failed threat coming from the deep state? plus new developments surrounding fisa abuse in the investigation. andrew mccain. we now know there is a grand jury convened and he may be just the person many officials who are about to be in serious legal trouble. he totally wrecked the economy, more debt than every other president before him con pwaoeupbed. billions of dollars to the iranians that were chanting

death to america. he ignored putin's massive power grab, crimia, ukraine. neglected the simmering crisis in north korea and, yeah, he's back, just in time for midterm elections, and he wants to tell you to vote. earlier today, barack obama delivered this so called warning to america. let's take a look. >> i'm here today because this is one of those pivotal moments when every one of us, as citizens of the united states, need to determine just who it is that we are. just what it is that we stand for. and as a fellow citizen, not as an ex-president, but as a fellow citizen, i'm here to deliver a simple message, and that is that you need to vote because our democracy depends on it. >> sean: what an sanctimonious

one. former president obama is right about one thing. in 60 day, remember 2016 was about the forgotten men and women of this country. you don't go out and vote, the consequences will be dire. the trump agenda, they will stop in its tracks. obama's friends in congress that brought us to the brink of economic catastrophe and weakness and apology on the world stage. guess what? they want power back. they want to stop trump. they want to impeach him. we're going to have an important monologue about the midterms you can't afford to miss. that's later in the show. including more of obama's hypocritical self-righteous remarks that should make your blood boil. but first our investigation into the deep state rolls on tonight and what we have now uncovered is now beginning to connect all of the dots. i think we now understand what the insurance policy is. worse than we originally thought. foundation of this republic is now shaken to its core. the biggest abuse of power scandal in history. you've got a few unelected

officials inside our government trying and almost succeeding to alter the course of this country's history. at the center of it all is the man whose name should be seered into your brain. he is the face now of the deep state corruption. according to a damning investigative report from john solomon, in the summer of 2016, it was orr, remember he was the fourth highest ranking member of the doj, tampering with an on going fbi investigation into so called russian collusion. why? to destroy then candidate don'tal trump. we'll break it down step by step, layer by layer. 2016, hillary clinton wanted dirt on her opponent, donald trump. this safr he got her exoneration without investigation. that's another part of the story. her campaign and dnc funneled money through a law firm that hired fusion gps a research firm. they attempted to literally hire a foreign national, which we

thought was a bad thing for america. that was christopher steele, former spy. don't forget nelly ohr, working on the phone in russian dossier. dirt on donald trump that nobody bothered to verify. the fbi was also paying for steele. they later fired him for lying and leaking in their russia investigation. now we know bruce ohr had his dirty little fingers all over this. it was bruce ohr who pushed the bush campaign opposition research. he was a hater. it was bruce ohr. it was steele. it was ohr who spread steele's phoney dossier throughout the government. it was ohr who became a back channel. 70 plus contacts of christopher steele even after he was fired for leading anti-trump leaking it to the press in this country. that means to you.

it was bruce ohr who knew steele was completely bias, desperate to stop trump at all costs and that ohr wrote that steele was passionate about donald trump never being president. bruce ohr knew of the dossier was bias, would never hold up in court. he knew it was not verified or corroborated, but pushed it into the hands of strzok and even the pit bull himself andrew weissman. start with hillary clinton, her campaign. it gets to a foreign spy, foreign agent. he hates trump. gets phoney russian information. it's disseminated to you, the american people, and it gets worse from there. none of this should happen in america. yet a political campaign, the doj working together coordinating their efforts, literally to stop one candidate over another candidate. this is a humiliating smear on

the country's justice. the phoney dossier hillary paid for was used as the basis of fisa warrants to spy on a trump campaign associate. jim comb comey, andrew mccabe all signed off on it. tonight we can report that fired deputy deputy director andrew mccabe is facing a real serious criminal investigation. we know tonight a grand jury has been impanelled by federal prosecutors, multiple witnesses have been summoned as the former deputy director is accused of using his position to advance his personal political interests. if justice is served, the mccabe investigation should just be the tip of the iceberg. everyone who committed this fraud on the fisa court using unverified information, the steele dossier by a trump hater probably should be investigated and prosecuted.

that would mean comey and the guy that did the last one, rod rosenstein. multiple republican lawmakers now demanding the president declassify and unredact parts of fisa documents. the 302's that relate to the gang of eight material. we're expecting the president could make this information available as early as this weekend. we're talking about everything that the gang of eight had. we know the specific pages of fisa that we had. information on carter page. even somebody like papadopolous. this information must be released. you, the american people, have a right to know how a fraud was committed on an fisa court against the trump campaign associate. not once, but multiple times. they never verified any of this information that turned out to

be false. they purposely omitted information that would have had an impact on these judges. that's lying by omission. what we've shown you each and every night right here on this program is what is a scary level of corruption that's only risen to the surface because hillary didn't win in spite of all these ef forts. if she won, we wouldn't know any of this. working behind the scenes corruptly, under minding your vote, what you want for your country. biggest abuse of power scandal ever. now, thankfully, the president is breaking up some china in washington, smashing the status quo, shattering all the establishment politics. the old rules are gone. that's why one such cowardly bureaucrat who seems to be a senior official in the trump administration acting out in the new york times op ed, claiming to be part of the so-called resistance, really, within our government? we have a resistance? wow. we have sleeper cells within our

government? this is a clear and present danger to the country. in an interview on fox and friends, the president slammed this anonymous new york times and the times itself for publishing this nonsense. take a look. >> an attack on you is an attack on the people that voted for you. [ cheers ] >> are you any closer to knowing who did it and what should be done if you find out who did it? >> well, the times should have never done that. really, what they've done is virtually -- it's treason. you could call it a lot of things. >> sean: that is beyond unacceptable. like a soft coup aided and abetted by the corrupt media in this country. "washington post" reporting sleeper cells within our own government. think about that. inside the administration. what? to under mind the commander in chief? does this so-called senior official have a security clearance, access to top secret information, sources, methods

and potentially compromised? does he hear the president talking about war and peace? look at this particularly alarming part of the article. we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until one way or another it's over. one way or another? what is one way or another? voted out? impeached? die in office? is that a veiled threat? where's the secret service? either way, given this person, alleged proximity to the president, it should be investigated and treated as matter of national security. now, perhaps the president should use the obama model and track down the anonymous source. no president was tougher on people than obama. he targeted members of the press who published leaked stories

including james rosen, who was surveiled, even accused of being a co-conspirator if he dared to report with anonymous sources inside the obama white house. that was obama that did all that. meanwhile, the super patriot who altered this op ed in "the new york times" truly working behind the scenes for the betterment of the country, why not stay behind the scenes? why risk exposure in a public way? because this individual, unelected and unaccountable. they think their truth is better than what the president ran on, what the american people voted for. and he's pushing their political agenda, he or her, who ever it happens to be. that they know better than we, the smelly wal-mart people and those opinions are of more value than your opinions. but ultimately this is an attack on the presidency and the country. the country can get hurt in this process. the very reason why president trump and the secret service now

must do everything in their power to dismantle the deep state and find out who ever this is. we got a lot to get to. joining us now fox news contributor, sara carter, victoria has done legal work for me. she said i was the worst client she ever had. and john solomon, who once fought with joe story here. let's get into what you have discovered as it relates to ohr. now we have maybe an answer to the insurance policy question. does it include page, strzok or steele? >> if you were going to create a company called destroy trump inc, that would be the board. they all had a motive. they all did something to advance the motive. certainly conflict of interest rules. we now know that they were really in action in july. what happened in july wasn't an organic walk in of intelligence

that raised concern. it was bruce ohr taking information from his wife's company, fusion gps and christopher steel, walking it over to the fbi and redirecting the fbi to a different piece of evidence than what they started with. remember what they started with. george papadopolous. we now know from our reporting early on they found out the papadopolous wasn't as serious as they thought. bruce ohr gives them something else to follow. >> sean: didn't the professor in london say -- >> no big deal. nothing there. nothing burger. that's what he called it. >> sean: what else did you get in your report? >> at the end of the day what we now know is ohr is acting like a steerer. he's putting the fbi onto something else. we now know that what he was using, the steele dossier, he himself thought it was uncorroborated, unverified, not worthy of being submitted to the court, yet mccabe and all those people you said who signed it,

they represented that it had been corroborated. good enough for an fisa warrant. >> sean: sara, we go back in your reporting on all the things, the communication, 70 communications at least. meetings, texts, hand written notes. what did we find? christopher steele was afraid he'd be exposed. he wanted fire walls. he was passing information that he wanted given directly to the counsel's office. hillary clinton's bought and paid for lies ending up right in the office of robert mueller's office. >> think of how bad this is, sean. if you look at john storry and we focus on bruce ohr, yeah, that's one part of a much bigger puzzle. we've seen now that there's a resistance within the administration, within the bureaucracy. against the presidency of the united states, meaning against the people of this country. we're now seeing the pieces of

this puzzle just kind of fit and fall together. they were on a fishing expedition to take this president down, to take candidate trump down and then to go after president trump. and they haven't stopped. this is so dangerous because i want us to take a step back. this isn't just about what happened right now. remember the state department was involved in this. victoria newellen was involved in this, john kerry knew what was going on. there were other dossiers out there. now i'm hearing there's even more dossiers that we haven't discovered that were put together by fusion gps and spread out across washington, d.c. so this was an active disinformation effort to take down a candidate that people elected and is still on going. >> sean: let me ask victoria, and you've been around washington politics a long time. you've seen a lot over the years. but when you see anonymous people unelected and unaccounted thinking they know better than

the president of the united states, we don't know what their classification is, what they may have access or not have access to, it seems extraordinarily dangerous, quote resistance within our own government around the president of the united states. sooner or later, one way or another, it's over. and then andrew mccabe, of course, we now know grand jury has been impanelled. >> i'll tell you what bothers me, sean. i i'm not at all bruce ohr was involved in this. he was talking to his wife, in which he was doing in 2016. what bothers me is a former justice department official, because i know how it works. he was working in a counter intelligence investigation. he is in charge of criminal investigations. that's why separation of church and state. i never got involved in counter skpwrepbls investigations when i was the head of the criminal investigation unit. this is a very different people.

they're very different fbi agents that you work with. they're very different rules for collecting evidence. so i am appalled that this wasn't a big red sign. if he were really an honest dude, which he isn't, he would have gone to sally yates and said, something bad is going on here. no. he was participating in it. this is what really bothers me about what they did to fisa. they purposely lied to the fisa court about carter page. he is a big victim in this. the fbi, word in washington is in the affidavit, that they said, the rbi said in 2013, that carter page was in cahoots with the russians as opposed to being an fbi asset and helping them bring an indictment against a russian spy. more than that, they went after him for giving a speech in moscow at the new economic school. guess who else made a speech there, sean? >> sean: who?

>> barack obama. in 2009. >> sean: let me ask you all one last question. should the president declassify, unredact, and what does it mean that we now know a grand jury is impanelled? does that mean everyone involved at fisa is in trouble? >> we don't know the scope of the grand jury investigation. we know it definitely involves mccabe lying to the media. if that reason about lying was they used the media to set up the fisa warrant to create corroborated evidence that wasn't corroborated -- >> sean: declassification. >> we're going to find out all of the omissions. in this case it will be the scent of omission that misled this court. >> sean: sara -- go ahead. >> absolutely. the american people deserve to know the truth. we deserve to know the truth. those agencies need to be cleaned out, gutted out, and we need to move forward with our country.

absolutely, sean. >> sean: is this an spartacus moment? >> he needs to be on offense. >> sean: if he is, that would mean declassifying. let the american people see. sara, i know you've been saying, john, you have been saying this will be on scale of one to ten? >> nine or ten. >> sean: sara? >> i believe a ten and beyond. >> sean: everyone's seen it but me. i don't know anything. good to see you both. when we come back, the president's attorney, rudy giuliani. also, newt gingrich. i have got a special message for barack hussein obama tonight, coming up. this isn't just any moving day.

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trump's attorney rudy giuliani told the associated press the president will not answer questions for robert mueller about obstruction of justice. the mayor is now with us, president's attorney. mr. mayor, good to see you. how are you? >> how are you? >> sean: okay. obstruction is off the table. they're not even asking for it? >> they're asking for it. the only way we would ever consider it is if we would get the questions on collusion first, which we have agreed to do. we'll review them. if they're fair, if they're comprehensive, if there's no holding back of questions so they can ask questions in a later round, if it's done in good faith. then when we finish that, we'll talk about any further questions. further questions about collusion or obstruction. the problem with obstruction is this. it all takes place in most presidencies. to agree would be to waive major presidential privilege. also, it would involve very very deep conversations that are very

much under the protected branch of government. finally, they don't need it. one of the things they would have to show is they have particular eyes. they couldn't get it any other way. so far every question we think they're going to ask, they have the answer to. >> sean: 1.4 million documents. this surprised me to find out don't mcgann, the white house counsel, gave 30 hours of testimony? >> 34 hours of testimony. >> sean: you don't need anything else. >> 1.4 million documents, 32 witnesses. here's the big question on obstruction. why did you fire comey? well -- >> sean: he doesn't have to answer that. >> he shouldn't have to answer that. >> sean: article ii. >> plus, they had the answer. tike the tape. play it. there's your answer. if you want him under oath to repeat that, you only want him under oath because you have some nefarious purpose.

>> sean: people forget, 9/11, 17 years later, but in your previous life, before being the major of new york, you were a prosecutor. so you make the statement, make inarticulate, but for those outside the legal community, legal jargon, who you are saying is that if don mcgann gives testimony, you said 34 hours. i thought it was 30. and they interviewed the president and he says one thing that contradicts don mcgann, they get to decide who's telling the truth. >> yeah. do i want 17 angry democrats to decide -- >> sean: andrew weissman? >> give me a break. maybe they've shown too much bias to think that they would be objective and fair. reality is, it's one on one, he said/she said, there can be no determination of truth. which is why i said what i said. you don't prove truth. you prove, have you proved guilt beyond a reasonable guilt.

not all doubt. reasonable. so, somebody could be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt. somebody that's guilty may not be convicted because there isn't proof beyond a reasonable doubt. you got to be naive to think that it's a search for pure objective truth. only place they can find truth is if you go to chuck todd's little magic room and meet the press can figure out the truth. he's the one complaining about this. >> sean: there's a phrase in "the washington post" talking about this anonymous. sleeper cells have awakened in the united states. meaning the resistance within the administration. one line that caught my attention, i was talking about it earlier, is that, so we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction, until one way or another, it's over. why do i think that should be a secret service investigation and nobody seems to pick up on it? this is an unelected, unaccountable, anonymous

bureaucrat. >> top secret parts. >> sean: maybe hears the president talking about war, peace. >> he is thinking something should be leaked because it would hurt donald trump without worrying about whether it could hurt the united states. this is a perfect per version of what it means to be in federal office. this man or woman, we think man, unless he's lying ab that, too. this man should quit and hold a press conference. that would be the honorable thing to do. this is why i don't think it's any of the generals. nobody that went to west point. pompeo put it best. he said, i was taught, if you disagree with the boss, you decide how important it is. if it's not important, you stay. if it's conscience, you leave. you stand up, like a hero. this is no hero. this is a slimer. >> sean: it's also dangerous. >> dangerous? it's exceedingly dangerous.

this man decided he's the repository of truth. again, what i'm telling you. they naysayers, they know truth. we do the best we can to struggle with it. mostly we get close. >> sean: the president ran, the president was elected. the president will be held accountable. the president -- the american people gave him the seal of approval. now the big question, house lawmakers calling on the president to declassify documents that are related to fisa abuse. ed henry has a full report tonight. we'll get congressional reaction later. i have a message and a minimonolo

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>> sean: all right. so republican lawmakers on capitol hill are calling on president trump to declassify the highly redacted fisa warrant

on carter page and other documents. joining us now with more is fox news chief correspondent, white house correspondent ed henry. they want the pages 10-12 in the fine fisa warrant, the third renewal warrant application, the rosenstein one. they want all of the 302's. they want the gang of eight documents. they want the page and strzok memos released. the president can do it with the stroke of a pen. >> 302's are the fbi interviews. these are sensitive documents that normally don't leak out. what we're hearing from people close to the white house is the president seems to be closer to releasing some of this information. number two, people around the president believe some pieces are falling into place in the allegations that the president and others have been raising about the investigation of the investigators. first of all, what we learned the last 24 hours is there has been a grand jury in washington impaneled to investigate andrew mccabe, the former number two at

the fbi. that's important because remember what is being investigated is allegedly lying about his contacts with the media. that's what got him fired from the fbi job in the first place. >> sean: we know there's more though. >> that's the question. in the course of the investigation, the testimony in bruce ohr has given the congress, there have been questions raeuszed about the fact that bruce ohr at one point met with both his wife tphely who was at fusion gps digging up dirt on donald trump, you see bruce ohr there. as well as christopher steele. and strzok. then they talk to page and strzok. and there's some sort of meeting between ohr and mccabe. so the question is, was there a lot more here that has not been previously disclosed, number one. and number two, you're hearing from democrats in washington that this information is too sensitive to be released. but interesting they're making that argument right after you had corey booker at the supreme court hearing saying, let's release everything. we need to know everything we

can. so the idea democrats have spent the last week saying we need more transparency, that might bolster the case for republicans in congress to release this info. >> sean: might be as early as next week according to people i'm talking to. ed henry, thank you. joining us ohio congressman jim jordan, matt gaetz. when you look at the people ed mentioned in his report, page, strzok, bruce ohr and mccabe, we've got all the essential figures in the insurance policy aspect of this. one has to wonder, is this now -- and christopher steele, is that where this is leading to? >> the first guy that bruce ohr talks to after he meets with christopher steele is andy mccabe. called him up and then meets with him an page. all of the key people at the fbi knew what was going on before they take the dossier to the court. they knew ohr's involvement. they knew the guy who wrote it, christopher steele, had told bruce ohr that was desperate to

stop trump. we don't believe they conveyed any of that critical information to the f fisa court. that's why this is so important that we get it. they knew this up front when it started late july, early august. that's why it's so critical that this information become public. >> sean: you've got page, strzok, ohr, mccabe, you got the whole insurance policy. it >>'s almost like you've got the board of directors together. >> sean: but they all hate trump. one thing in common, they all hate donald trump. >> andrew weissman as well. >> sean: you're right. let me say one more thing. 'cause ohr is hearing from christopher steele over contacts. not only are they talking ab fire walls, not wanting to be exposed. but, oh, did you get my stuff to the special counsel, which the contact was andrew weissman. >> sean, to put a finer point on what jim said, it's not the statements or words in these

documents, it's the omission. the information that is not presented to the courts. we caught the ohrs red-handed. we got bruce ohr shuttling information to the fbi that was developed by his wife and the money paying came from the dnc. the orr -- ohrs are probably the most powerful couple since the clintons were running around this place. we won't know the full depth of the misconduct to inappropriately lie to a court. i think penalties are just starting to rack up. >> sean: let's go to the issues we know the grand jury is impanelling. that is the issue of declassifying by the president. do we have any idea? we know witnesses are called. does that mean everybody that was involved in that phoney, fraudulent, clinton bought and paid for dossier, the fraud on the court and information withheld purposely, more fraud on the court.

is everybody that signed that in legal jeopardy perhaps? >> we'll see. what we do know, the fbi and the doj had a sophisticated leaking project going on. andrew mccabe lied about that, according to the inspector general, three times under oath and faces a criminal referral. there's now a grand jury on the andrew mccabe issue. this is what they did, i believe. they leaked information to the press and then used the reports the press wrote to bump up the fall dossier when it was a false document. that was the game that was being played. we know that from the memo that the intelligence committee put out where they cite news reports to add weight to the dossier. it was all baloney. that i think may be the biggest concern that we see. >> we may see members of the media caught up in that as well. you'll remember there was a reference in the inspector general's report, members of the media giving gifts to people of the fbi to get stories and tips.

that may have been facilitated until legal leak. i think people could go to jail for it. >> sean: we'll see if that happens. when we come back, i have a message for barack obama. a minimonologue. by the way, comments about trump will be pretty important. we'll remind him of himself straight ahead. this wi-fi is fast.

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>> sean: president obama thrust himself back into the political limelight. he was smug lecturing you, the american people. he wants to tell you how to vote because we, smelly wal-mart people that cling to our bibles and religion, we can't be trusted upon to make important

decisions. only 60 days left until you head to the polls. i keep reminding him what's at stake here come november. that's the subject of tonight's minimonologue. all right. so president obama said that americans need to vote in november because our democracy depends on it. what i'm about to say may shock some people. he's right. this november election is more important than any midterm in our life time. the stakes couldn't be higher. democrats have proven again and again they will do anything, say everything and anything, to get their power back, to make sure, even if donald trump fails, no matter how much it hurts the country. we cannot let this happen. today president obama tried to take credit for the economic successes we are now seeing. it's not true, but we'll show it to you. >> when you hear how great the economy's doing right now, let's just remember when this recovery

started -- i'm glad it's continued. but when you hear about this economic miracle that's been going on. when the job numbers come out, monthly job numbers, suddenly republicans are saying it's a miracle. i have to kind of remind them, actually those job numbers are the same as they were in 2015 and 2016. >> sean: actually fake news. you didn't build that. let's remind obama about the economy left under his watch, 95 million americans out of the labor force. thanks to president obama's stellar leadership, we had the lower labor participation rate since the '70s. we now have the highest. we had the lowest homeownership

in 50 years. eight years of obama, 13 million more americans on food stamps. we now have 4 million fewer americans on food stamps, 4 million new jobs. under him, anemic growth, endless burden of regulation, lowest consumer confidence. he took on more debt than every other president before him combined. he can spin it any way he wants but we, the american people, are smart enough not to believe the fake news that he was trying to feed us today. president trump responded to obama's outrageous claims as he tried to claim victory when he was a failure. watch. >> i think he was trying to take some credit. he was trying to take credit for this incredible thing that's happening to our country. if the democrats -- i have to say this to president obama. and it wasn't him, but would have been the same thing. if the democrats got in with their agenda in november of

almost two years ago, instead of having 4.2 up, i believe honestly you'd have 4.2 down. you'd be negative. you'd be in negative numbers. you'd be in negative number. >> sean: the atlanta fed is predicting 4.7% gdp growth. obama took shots at the president's foreign policy while ignoring his own blunders during his tenure in the white house. iran and more flexible, tell putin. take a look. >> they're under minding our alliances, cozying up to russia. what happened to the republican party? >> sean: trump has been tougher on russia than obama was. it was obama, the one guy that ignored russia's power grab. remember ukraine, crimia? it was obama that allowed russia to prop up assad, gassing his own people. obama gave clinton the reset button. how dumb that was. remember he was promising, more

flexibility after the election. tell vladamir. >> i wanted to present you with a little gift which represents what president obama and vice president biden and i have been saying. and that is, we want to reset our relationship. we will do it together. okay? >> after the election i'll have more flexibility. >> sean: $150 billion to iranians. expressed admiration for his friends and alleys in the main stream media which shouldn't surprise us. they helped push their obama radical agenda. it was a love fest from day one. he was the anointed one. gave him a pass for hanging out with, let's see, thorn. that's where he started his political career.

20 plus years. mr. gd america. america's chickens have gone home to roost. shouldn't shock anybody that obama will defend his media friends. once again today, obama can't stop taking shots at fox. can't help himself. take a look. >> it shouldn't be democratic or republican saying that we don't threaten the freedom of the press because they say things or public stories we don't like. i complained plenty about fox news. you never heard me threaten to shut them down. or called them enemies of the people. >> sean: actually more fake news, obama took multiple shots at fox news, this show in particular, during his presidency. since obama seems to have a blind spot in his memory, we got the tape to remind him. take a look. >> i'll put mr. burgess up against sean hannity.

he'll tear him up. i mean, look, is sean hannity suddenly gonna get on air and say i was wrong about this obama guy? no. that's not gonna happen. i think there's a certain segment of hard core sean hannity fans that probably wouldn't want to have a beer with me. there's no doubt about it. if you watch fox news on a regular basis, it is a constant menu. they will find folks who make me mad. i don't know where they find them. this prism of fox news and conservative media. >> sean: he whined the whole time. wanted mr. burgess to tear me up. wow. obama did talk to fox news. here's an example. 2009 the obama white house tried to exclude fox news from a press

pool interview with administration officials. 2013 the story broke the obama doj under the leadership of mr. holder they actually spied on one of our reporters at the time, james rosen. they looked through his phone calls and e-mails from 2009 while attempting to find a source for one of rosen's stories. so what you heard from obama today was nothing more than fake news and liberal spin. this is why this midterm election is so important. he's right about one thing. it's important. i can't stress enough. yeah, a lot in the country's at stake. democrats win in november, you stay home, well, this is what's gonna happen. they'll rescind the tax cuts. they want their crumbs back. nancy pelosi calls them crumbs. that's the money in your pay check that will be gone. they want to impeach president trump. chucky schumer openly admitted it just this past week. here's him in his own words. >> sooner the better. that's not answering the

question. >> we're trying. >> sean: they want to impeach him but they're trying not to say it. they want to keep obama care. how did that work out? keep your doctor, keep your plan, pay less? not very well. we saw how low they'll scoop to block a supreme court pick of president trump. democrats want, what, to abolish ice? they want open borders. they will kill off every single investigation that's going on right now and they'll be investigating donald trump from now until the cows come home. when we come back newt gingrich is gonna weigh in on the anonymous "new york times" op ed and how dangerous this is

>> sean: i spoke to newt gingrich about the anonymous op ed piece. he didn't hold back about his feelings. >> if you pretended to be for trump, you get an appointment to the white house, the executive

branch, you claim you are for what he's doing and then you write this extraordinary piece in "the new york times" saying, i want to systematically under mind him, that's as unpatriotic as you can be. it under minds the whole base of our constitution. this is a country where the people are supposed to have a say. and, as you remember, in 2016, the republican side of that equation, 16 people lost donald trump won. pretty clear cut. you get to the general election, billion dollar campaign for hillary clinton, total support from liberal media, she lost. this article will be seen as a really good example of how sick the system has become and how arrogant the elites have become that they can just repudiate the american people and try to impose their views. >> sean: extraordinarily well said. all right. that's, unfortunately, all the

time we have left this week. a busy news week next week, i can promise you that. let not your heart be troubled. la back on monday where she needs to be i will catch you at noon on outnumbered. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. veteran members of both parties in washington suddenly seem pretty excited about forcing the president from office without bothering to call an election. call that what you will, it's not democracy. not that they care. they just want their power back. but, before that happens, we have some questions for the permanent class in washington about what exactly it is they believe and what they plan to do if they retake power. just ahead. but, first, in case you were starting to sour on donald trump after all the drama over the last week, barack obama reappeared today to remind us why america elected trump in the first place. in remarkable departu