think beto o'rourke will be present, that is in almost a certain sign he won't be. congratulations to america pair that is in for us tonight, we will be back, they show that is the sworn enemy of mine, pomposity, smugness, and group think that i'm taking two days off, i will be back on monday. in the meantime, sean hannity from new york. >> sean: all right, tucker, jam-packed hour. the so-called blue wave, turned out to be a farce, media pundit, democrats, all wrong yet again. present trumps aggressive, tough campaign strategy, his economic success, foreign policy success, led to political success. last night, democrats did win control of the house, but they lost seats in the u.s. senate, they also lost several high-profile, enormously well-funded races in the states like texas, florida, georgia, and republicans, they still hold the majority of governorships all across the country. when we put this in perspective for you, you will see why this was such a great night. we will also show you how people

on other networks, fake news at cnn, conspiracy tv msnbc, reacted to this underwhelming blue trickle, maybe we will call it the trickle. we also have highlights from the presidents a smack down of cnn's and jim acosta -- by the way, he has now had his credentials at the white house, i argue rightfully, revoked. i ever interviewed barack obama, i would never be that rude paired will put this in historical perspective, a very important "hannity" history lesson on what midterms are usually like. perspective i promise you will get nowhere else. also breaking news, jeff sessions is out as the attorney general, we will preview what it will be like within attorney general who has not recused himself from the phony collusion witch hunt, which i'm sure we'll be back on tomorrow, and we can have it real investigations, we will call for tonight, featuring actual, real rush of proof. and we are looking at, yes, you, hillary clinton, and we have a

huge lineup tonight, the great one mark levin, former of the speaker of the house nguyen gingrich, and i have an announcement. at the end of the show. it is important. so much information, so little time. i will answer the question why i was not in the air last night. there is an answer, i will explain it to you. all right, we leave election night to so many other people -- by the way, congrats to everybody that was on last night. let not your heart be troubled, it is time for all breaking news, buckler, jam-packed, opening monologue. ♪ all right, for months, democrats, their funds on cnn, msnbc, "new york times," "washington post," they all but were giddy, guaranteeing huge, massive, enormous blue wave, they predicted that americans would send a message to president trump. they acted like republicans have never been more unpopular, divisive, racist, sexist, and even worse. and guess what? again, they were completely wrong.

that blue wave it never happened. it tonight, we do have a split congress, democrats picked up seats in the house of representatives, republicans made control, game seats in the u.s. senate, increasing their majority. republicans were also victorious in the most high-profile races, where literally tens and tens of millions of dollars were spent. in texas, democrat, almost $100 million, a little less than $100 million, they used to defeat ted cruz, didn't work out paired his opponent, bozo o'rourke got support from celebrities, beyonce, jimmy kimmel, all the waste because it senator cruz was reelected last night. in florida, socialist darling of the left, left, andrew gillum, bolstered from a visit by obama, campaign concert with jimmy buffett, nearly every single poll predicted a gillum win, they were wrong. republican ron desantis supposedly had no chance, he is now the governor -elect of florida, good decision, florida. in the senate, republican rick scott, he won my head against democratic incumbent

bill nelson. by the way, nelson is being a bit of a crybaby, he wants to challenge the sheet back seat, wants a recount. he is up i tens of thousands of votes, that seat is now rick scott, senator scott from florida. in georgia, former president -- former president obama campaign, oprah winfrey campaign, even went door-to-door for democratic gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams. well, pro-trump republican brian kemp is over the 50% mark, that means there will be no runoff in the state of georgia. another win. of course, one of these things that they all have in common is president trump campaigned in all the states. he was in georgia, florida, missouri, indiana, tennessee, north dakota, texas, where republicans took home a state wide victories. republicans will pick up what looks like a gain of three seats in the u.s. senate, that is massive, especially when you look at the historical perspective, democrats will get a net gain of around 35 seats, m control, they needed 23, for

control of the house, but some results are still pending. now, let me put this in perspective. republicans actually had what is an amazing, historically speaking, election night. remember, 44 house republicans retired, that is a massive number. but here is the history, here are the headwinds, that very few people ever talk about. let's go back -- let's start with 2010. barack obama's first midterm. look at that. democrats lost in his first midterm, 63 seats in the house, six seats in the u.s. senate, that is a total of 69. a1994, clinton democrats lost a 52 seats in the house, 80 seats in senate. that is a net loss of 60. even ronald reagan, 1982, only been and often a few years, they lost 26 house seats and gained zero seats in the senate. since 1914, look at this, the president with his only picked

up seats, three times during the midterms. three times in over 100 years. we knew this going in. during the same period of time, donald trump is only the third president to gain senate seats while losing seats in the house. and trump campaigned for senators, he went to state to state for those races he could campaigned for. he couldn't go out and go to all 435 house districts with 435 different house candidates, that would be physically impossible. keep in mind, during obama's eight long years in office, look at this, democrats lost control of more than 1,000 state and national offices. by the way, he had a pretty bad night last night. it is a much different picture under president trump, which of the media won't tell you. now, why is this all true? look at the economic front, our economy, thankfully, is booming. the forgotten men and women that we all talked about in 2016, they are now seeing prosperity

that has been long overdue for them. 4.5 million new jobs created since donald trump was elected, 4.3 4.3 million fewer americans on food stands come over 4 million americans out of poverty. thanks to this economic boom. the manufacturing front, over 400,000 new manufacturing jobs, jobs obama said would never come back. look at this. employment claims at a 49 low, record the unemployment, african-americans, hispanic americans, asian-americans, women in the workplace, military veterans, and youth unemployment. median household income in this country is hitting a record high. we saw 4.2 percent gdp growth in the second quarter, 3.5 percent in the most recent third quarter, this all comes as president trump slashed regulations, promises made and kept, after he signed the single biggest middle-class tax cut in history, another promise that he made that was capped. you are not likely to see any of

these statistics on television on any so-called news channel. on those networks, people were actively rooting for the blue wave that became a little trickle, a little drizzle. and in the lead up to the election, they were actually vilifying -- they went insane in the days leading up to yesterday, all things trump, nonstop. last ditch effort to bolster their friends in the democratic party, they were literally an extension of all things liberal, socialist democrats, and they are like state run democratic media. take a look. >> if trump wins, he will cast it as a complete endorsement of his most undemocratic behavior. if you are 18 and that happens, you stand a very real chance of not living at a western-style democracy for part or all of your life. >> he is a racist pig! he is talking about whites a premise does ideology. >> what donald trump did was normalize racism. >> donald trump is not only disgusting and violently stupid beard >> racist, heartless,

soulless man. >> he is obviously racist, obviously demagogue. >> he has red radicalize more people than isis. >> sean: blah, blah, blah. look at the states they are winning, florida, tennessee, indiana, missouri, massive victories in the states. by the way, elsewhere, commentators, anchors, nbc, abc, cbs, cnn, once again, they started to crack up and melt down. it was like 2016 all over again for them. take a look. >> tonight, there was some hope that the democrats would have a wave election, it is not going to be a wave election. >> we can tell there is not a blue wave forming, not a blue synonymy that is going to repudiate donald trump across the country. >> when you look at what is going on here tonight, this is not a blue wave. this is not a wave that is knocking out all sorts of republican incumbents. >> it has to be said, the democrats are having, so far, a lot of vote to come in, a

disappointing night. >> but they can have -- there is no tsunami. there is no tsunami coming, winning the house by one vote, one member, is enough, is enough for them, but there is a lot of disappointment paid >> this is heartbreaking. >> my nails are still clutching. >> i'm thinking about the best laid plans in 2016. >> there is only so far science and polling and economics can take you. >> sean: they don't really take losing while. i'm going to be honest, i don't like to lose either, i enjoy winning, i particularly didn't like when obama won met, not once, but twice. not only did they once predicted a blue wave not materialize, but the trumpet narrative has been rejected by you, we, the american people, and we are doing so much better. ever since donald trump announced his run for office, milani and mr. trump coming down that escalator in trump tower, they vilified everything this president has

said or anything he has done, it has been an unprecedented amount of hatred, scorn, ridicule, attacks, delegitimization, of this president. some coverage has been downright -- actually, hysterical, apocalyptic, over-the-top, here is just a small sample of what you see day after day, every second, every minute, every hour, every 24-hour a day, over three straight years. while the same networks, and it never stops. and they can't help themselves, apparently, they must be like addicted to this hate. take a look. >> is this president trying to impersonate hugo chavez? vladimir putin? >> he said today, america first. it was not just racial. >> just like kim jong un, what is he doing? when he got scared, when you get scared of your position, you start killing people around you, we do not do that in this country, we fire them. trouble seems to know how to fire. >> he is not of a sound.

that is somebody that clinically look at and say, there is something wrong there. >> trump needs to be medicated and hospitalized. >> donald trump, again, being a smock. >> his words have emboldened white the premises. >> he has given oxygen to racist. he is clearly trying to ignite a civil war in this country. >> there is a sign out there that has been hung up in the white house, outside the white house, saying if you are not life, you are not especially welcome. >> he is a racist. >> why do we see a shadow government come out and say we cannot side with the government? >> sean: downright disgraceful. by the way, all over -- this is so-called news? others speak in one voice with the democratic party. the state run democratic party, despite false claims of impartiality, being fair and balanced, these people, they work on every single day, they want to destroy the presidency of donald trump at all costs. even, sadly, if it is going to hurt the people that are clearly benefiting in this country from his presidency.

isn't it supposed to be out serving people? and today in a press conference, the president came out with a conciliatory tone. kind words or likely incoming speaker pelosi, the newly divided capitol hill, but guess what, people in the media, they wanted none of it. especially true of cnn's jim acosta. as he all but called the president a racist, tried to debate the president am i thinking oh, it is my tv so. physically strong-arming a female white house aide, angry the blue wave, as a network predicted, never materialized peered this conduct is beyond reprehensible. imagine anybody doing this to obama. take a look. >> mr. president, if i may ask a question, -- >> president trump: that's enough. that's enough. >> pardon me, ma'am. >> that is enough. that is enough, put down the mic. >> are you worried about

indictments coming down in this investigation. mr. president? >> president trump: i tell you what, cnn should be ashamed of themselves having you work for them, you are a rude, terrible person, you shouldn't be working for cnn. go ahead, please. >> thank you, mr. president . >> president trump: i'm not responding -- i'm responding -- excuse me, i'm not responding to you, i'm talking to this gentleman, will you please sit down? excuse me. excuse me. will you please sit down? please, go ahead. >> sean: despite this is despicable conduct, cnn defending their chief white house corresponding, jim acosta. they said it was "dangerous, disturbingly un-american." the white house responded, has suspended acosta's white house pass until further notice. "president trump believes in a free press and welcomes questions of him and his or her administration. we will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on

a young woman, just trying to do her job as a white house intern intern." the fact that cnn is proud of the way their employee behavior, it is not only discussed income an example of their outrageous disregard for everyone, including young women, who work in his administration. cnn's nonstop, apocalyptic rhetoric is not a winning message. americans can see right through the biased vitriol. as we saw on the results last night, and by the way, americans know that democrats have no plan to make their lives better. and it is only going to get worse. by the way, we have the best plan ever, stay tuned. and now, with nancy pelosi, the de facto leader of the democratic party come along with it, let's see, the liar, shifty adam schiff, maxine waters, jerrold nadler, democrats sharpening their knives against president trump's. many top house democrats planning nonstop investigations into the president. all designed to make him look bad. how does that whole help we, the people? how does that help the american still in poverty and food stamps

and out of work? today, the president responded to these threats. and guess what? sometimes, what is good for the goose is good for the gander, and it works both ways. take a look. >> are you offering a my way or highway scenario to the democrats? you are saying that if they start investigating you, that you can play that game and investigate them? can you compartmentalize at that. >> president trump: i know more than they do. >> can you compartmentalize that and still continue to work with them for the benefit of the rest of the country, or are all that's off? >> president trump: if they do that, it is a warlike posture. >> sean: currently, nancy pelosi has an average approval rating, a whopping 27.. by the way, that is not going to get any better with the partisan political investigations. as of now, pelosi is the only leader in the democratic party, according to a recent poll

ranking 2020, democratic presidential contenders, none of the above actually topped the list. more on this throughout the show. and i will tell you, this is a huge deal. one thing we promise on this program, we are going to watch every day, and we are going to watch their actions and their rhetoric, and we are going to see, what will they try to do to help the american people? or is it just revenge? is it about hitting trump? we turn to another huge story, broke just hours ago, jeff sessions is now out as attorney general. in a letter, he wrote, i have been honored to serve as the attorney general, and have worked to implement the law enforcement agenda based on the rule of law. that formed a central part of your campaign for the presidenc presidency. one thing and commentary here, i have known jeff sessions a long time, i personally thought he would be a great attorney general. thought it was a great choice. i know him to be a good man. i know that for a fact. for whatever reason, him, sessions, trump and sessions, the president and sessions, they just clashed from the get-go.

and it started with the refusal, which shocked everybody, especially the president. and i think this probably was not the right job at the right time, that was his intention from the get-go. but i do think is a good person, he has served his country honorably appeared sally, sessions was m.i.a. on one of the most important issues on going inside the halls of the doj peered in the first few weeks of taking office, sessions recused himself from all things russia. he should've told the president, in my belief, ahead of time. that ultimately led to robert mueller's special counsel and a witch hunt, spending months, over a year, digging and digging and digging into everyone associated with trump. no evidence of trump-russia collusion, paul manafort imprison overbank applications and tax fraud from years ago. young trump campaign stafford george papadopoulos, lieutenant general michael flynn, convicted of lying to investigators, nothing to do with russia. now, with sessions outcome of the acting attorney general will be matthew whitaker, he will oversee the russian

investigation. the left is racing to demonize this man as we see, and as i have been shouting from a mountaintop for years, there are a lot of crimes and a real, actual collusion that needs to be investigated if we are going to have equal justice under the law. the russian liza bought by hillary clinton, the dirty russian dossier, let's not forget about the strategy to leak those lies to you, the american people, from high ranking members of obama's government area to why? to influence the 2016 election and help hillary come with propaganda and russian lies. fisa abuse, literally lying to a fisa court, literally abusing power before a fisa court, not telling them the truth on purpose. trump campaign official actually spied upon by your government, misleading fisa court judges,'s number committing fraud, dirty dossier, circular reporting on the dossier, the fault of their evidence. four fisa warrants, another word, fraud committed on a court to get a warrant to spy on a

campaign associate of donald trump. in the lead up to an election. and influence the american people. and then bludgeon donald trump with things that are not verified or corroborated, and of course, this all goes back to hillary clinton's private server and a bathroom closet, how she was big exonerated before an investigation even started, really. urbanizing intelligence, fisa court fraud, insurance policies, a media leak strategy, so much for a real, unrecused attorney general to investigate. acting attorney general whitaker has a strong record, that is why they want to demonize him. in a 2016 op-ed, he wrote that he would indict hillary clinton, in another, he wrote that mueller is going too far in his collusion investigation. and it did go too far. it looks like we can finally have an attorney general that is unrecused, will actually stand up for the rule of law, equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws. when we come back, a lot of ground to cover tonight.

mark levan, newt gingrich, catherine herridge, sara carter, and everyone is asking why was i not on tv last night, i must have gotten in trouble. i will explain. straight ahead. ♪

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♪ >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." from on the midterms, jeff sessions resignation today, we go to the great one, mark levin, number one -- by the way, your ratings were a kilo. on sunday night. thank me, life, liberty, and live in, right on the fox news channel. let's start with the results, i want to three topics for you, you can go in any order, i'm on your take on the results, your take on the media, and your reaction to jeff sessions'

resignation today. speaker you know, sean, in many ways, it is one one and the sae thing. the media were very angry today at that press conference, and you have to wonder why, i thought the president they said had a lousy night, the democrats take about 34 seats, and i want the american people to understand what that means is they have an 11 member and majority in the house, and with that 11 member majority, most of which are republican seats, they intended to everything they can to cripple the executive branch and cripple the presidency, and i will get back to that in a minute. what we saw today and that press conference was a disgrace to this country. imagine the world watching what took place there. these kamikaze journalists obviously in a coordinated attack on this president, they are trying to cripple this presidency, they are trying to sabotage this presidency, it is not going to work, but that is what they are doing. they are furious that this blue wave was a blue tickle last night, because that is all it was. they have been talking about

blue wave, they have been beating down this president, beating down the republican party, beating down these candidates, they pull out their racist tool to use, there wipes the primacy tool to use, they pull out their tool to use, their hitler tool to use, try to become a code, can't tell the difference but in democrat talking points and the media in this country, because they are one of the same thing. survey after survey over the decades have shown us that most in the media are liberal, most live and operate on the eastern seaboard and the western seaboard. look at what is going to happen now in the house of representatives. look at the diversity of marxist and leninist, pretty much, the finance committee, met vaccine moderns, l.a., the house oversight committee, jerrold nadler, manhattan. the house intelligence committee, adam shift. l.a. elijah cummings, heading the oversight committee, as well, he will be from where?

baltimore. and of course, you have nancy pelosi, san francisco, it's over here and over here. what about the middle of the country and the rest of the country? they are not going to be represented because the democrat party is controlled by these hard-core leftists. i am sick and tired of these media types trying to hijack these press conferences. these press conferences are for the american people. cnn, you don't even have an audience, it is not for you, it is not for msnbc, and it is not for every harebrained, mouse malcontent, liberal dressed up as a journalist, we have standards in this country for doctors, for lawyers, for truck drivers, electricians, what are the standards for journalists? jake tapper was a spokesman for a democratic congress woman, then he was a spokesman for handgun control and, now he is a journalist. there is a guy that used to work for obama who works at cnn, now he is a national security reporter. what are their standards?

there are no standards for journalist today. and then we tell the journalist, you say tell the president, stop saying, stop saying the media are the enemy of the people. he is not saying the whole media, he has about a thousand times. let me tell the media something, the president's into the enemy of the people, either, and you should stop your campaign i'm trying to cripple him and destroy him. they are upset because there was no blue wave. they are upset they lost in 2016, they are upset they lost in 2018, and guess what? they are going to lose in 2020, too. as for sessions, it's a constitutional crisis, don't you know? what is a constitutional crisis? the president got rid of a cabinet secretary, the attorney general, has only been telling us for ten months what he plans to do. it is likely saturday night massacre, they drag out john dean, a guy that doesn't even have a law license anymore, the guy on the left who's third time, i seem to recall, through watergate. now he is a contributing to see

msnbc, what does he say, it is like the president is plotting to kill somebody and murder. so he gets rid of sessions, white, so what happens? he has an acting attorney general, then i hear these so-called experts, he can't do that, there is a rule of succession -- of course he can do that. moreover, they say it is likely saturday night massacre -- how? did he fire mueller? did he order the attorney general to fire mueller? did he order the deputy attorney general to fire mueller? he hasn't ordered anyone to do anything to mueller, mueller is still roaming the countryside looking for people to prosecute and challenge and so forth and so on. nothing has happened. but chuck schumer as they are, i think we have a constitutional crisis. let me tell you something, this is an important point. i have said that the mueller is unconstitutional and violates the appointment because, he proves my point every day. if mueller was like a u.s.

attorney, they wouldn't keep saying he is separate, protect him, he is different, hs to report terms, effectively, that is why his appointment is unconstitutional, because it is going to go to the senate and be confirmed, just a little nicety there that i wanted to mention, as well. in any event, the republicans had a very good night, they had a good night, quite frankly, because of the president. it is the president who held the senate, and some of these excellent candidates, and the losses in the house could have been worse. but they weren't wares. and that is why the media are furious, sean, that is the bottom line. and i'm going to tell the media something. you are humiliating yourself, you are embarrassing yourselves, more and more are turning on you, not because of the president says you are the enemy of the people, but because you act like the enemy of the people. you know what we learned in this press conference today thanks to the media? nothing. a presidential press conference isn't for cnn, which doesn't have any viewers, anyway, it is where we, the american people.

you ask questions to elicit information from our president so we can know what is going on. >> sean: you know, mark, i put up barack obama in his first midterm, 69 house and senate seats. bill clinton, 60. three times, it has happened where a president is furnished midterm wins as many seats, that is at. >> they are liberals, they are democrats, they like them, so they get treated quite differently. >> sean: great one, we call you the great one for a reason. mark levin, don't miss "life, liberty, live in." sunday nights, 10:00 p.m., you get to see it all right here on the fox news channel. when we come back, friend and former speaker of the house newt gingrich, he will join us. also, a live report from catherine herridge about sessions resignation, and why wasn't i working last night? i will tell you. ♪ ♪ want a performance car that actually fits your life?

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the very latest on the resignation of attorney general sessions, the election, and, of course, poor jim acosta, fox news chief intelligence correspondent, report from catherine herridge on sessions. what is going on, catherine? >> white house chief of staff jeff kelly -- it when public after the news conference appeared he is well-liked by the president, not seen as an fbi or justice department insider who came up through the ranks with special counsel robert mueller, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, and others paired whitaker, who was a sessions' chief of staff at the, already under scrutiny tonight for tweets, and not bad he wrote last year about a redline special counsel mother should not cross, "it does not take a lawyer or even a federal prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating donald trump's finances or his family's finances falls

completely outside of the realmd goes beyond it the scope of the appointment of a special counsel." behind the scenes, whitaker was described to fox news as a quiet advocate for the declassification of the russia records, which include the surveillance warrant renewal for a trump campaign aide approved by rosenstein in 2017. the president recently backed away from the declassification, but today seem to indicate it is back on track. >> president trump: we are looking at that. declassification, we are looking at very seriously. >> can i ask him a question? >> president trump: it is amazing how people on the other side do not want those documents declassified, but we are looking into that very carefully. i certainly want to wait until after the midterms. >> before last night's vote, the russia congressional probe told fox that they believe the white house would move quickly on the justice department shake-up if republicans expanded their senate majority, virtually guaranteeing, rather, a relatively smooth conversation process for the president's

choice to leave the department, sean. >> sean: thank you, here with reaction, author of the best seller "the trump's america," former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. the year but you became speaker, the first time republicans won back in 40 years, bill clinton between the house of a sonnet, he lost what, 52 house seats, eight senate seats? obama, in 2010, lost six senate seats, but a whopping 63 house seats. i would say, by historical standards, the president picking up all of the seats in the senate is a spectacular win for the president, and some of the most heavily financed races. your thoughts? >> i think that is right. first of all, if you look at the average between obama, clinton, and trump, trump clearly did dramatically better, almost twice as well, gaining seat in the senate, which given the

nature of the 2028 senate election, probably means the publicans will be in a majority, through 2022, or later. very much different than what the democrats hope for, some very big wins, places where they were very hard-fought, florida, for example. a remarkable outcome, both for governor and for senator . and on the hillside, i think the first real break point was when 43 republican house members decided that they would retire this year, which i think is the largest number in modern history. that gave them a tremendous number of openings to try to defend, and what you really saw, and i wrote in my newsletter today about this, you really saw a green wave of money -- we look at texas, and for example, where i think beto o'rourke will have spent over $70 million losing a u.s. senate seat. and everywhere you turn around the country, particularly in

house races, you are seeing enormous numbers of money coming in, whether it was from bloomberg, writing million-dollar checks, other people from various organizations, i think one of the hidden stories that will come out in the next trek over three weeks is the sheer scale of the green wave that was seeking to drown the republican party and defeat the president. >> sean: the amazing thing, you ended up getting clinton to change, and we balanced the budget for the first time. listen, i remember you doing that town hall, sitting on these little seats one day. what we did balance the budget, made real progress, a lot of give and take in that. is nancy pelosi, maxine waters, adam shift, harold nadler, are they capable of doing what clinton did, which i think, easily helped him get reelected circle years later? >> i don't know, i thought earlier today that senate

majority leader mitch mcconnell had a great interview, and he said to them something which i can reflect on, because i was there, and that is that the politics of investigation may make your partisans happy, but may turn off a lot of people. i think the president clearly is going to reach out on things like infrastructure, he is going to reach out on some practical, common sense steps on health care, including lowering the cost of drugs, i think he is going to try to find issues to make it very hard for the democrats to say no. and then we will see whether or not they are so rapid, certainly the left wing of the democratic party is much more rapid than anything that eitherl with any '90s. we will see how it develops. >> sean: what are your reaction to jeff sessions' announcement today? i couldn't believe when he recused himself. if he had any thought that he would do this, i thought he would have told the president, at least the courtesy of a heads

up, hey, i may have to recuse here. and we know the results of all of that, and i know now they are trying to go after the interim attorney general. but i think, for a president not to have an attorney general and the most important case that he wanted in his administration has been very harmful. >> first of all, i think it was handled exactly right, because of the day after all of the election, i think the chief of staff, john kelly, did the right thing, and an immediate response, knowing it was coming, the attorney general did the right thing in resigning. i've known jeff sessions for a long time. he is a very solid of conservative and the senate, helped organize the first trump campaign meeting in washington, and has no market has been sad to see a map to go through all of this, and i suspect he is a very relieved guy tonight. >> sean: i've always known him to be a good man, i agree with you, this was not the right

position. it worked out, i think, just better for everybody at this point. mr. speaker, thank you so much. when we come back, okay, jeff sessions gone, everything about the mueller probe at the left doesn't want investigated that may now begin. this could be very interesting. sara carter, gregg jarrett, jason chaffetz, and why didn't i work on election night? i will explain all of that straight ahead. ♪

♪ >> sean: all right, tonight democrats are quick to push more russia hysteria following the departure of the attorney general jeff sessions, for example, congressman jerrold nadler, get used to him, we are going to be following him and, let's see, pelosi, maxine waters, we will see if they will work for you.

he is expected to be the next house judiciary chair, tweeting that he wants answers about who is now in charge of the mueller probe and suggesting more endless investigations. that is really going to help the american people. jenning is not, author of "the new york times" best seller "the russian hoax," fox news analyst gregg jarrett. also, author of "the deep state" get another "new york times" best seller, fox news contributor jason chaffetz baird sara carter, investigative reporter paired fox news contributor. where is your book? how come you don't have a book? >> i'm going to have a book, sean, you know it, too. >> sean: i know, almost immediately, recusal, recusal. gregg jarrett, you probably have been the single most outspoken person that sessions house to go, what do you think of the interim attorney general? do think he is going to recuse, god help us? or with the president now appoint a full-time replacement? >> now that there is no recusal because sessions is gone, the acting attorney general, matt

whitaker, can now preside over the special counsel case, and he should. but the media didn't point out today is that rod rosenstein should recuse himself, both a witness and a prosecutor in the same case. whether it is whitaker in the end who is the permanent ag, or, i would recommend representative john ratcliffe of the house judiciary committee, former top official at geo data, former u.s. attorney, those individuals, radcliffe or whitaker, i think, would bring to justice those in the department of justice and the fbi who abuse their positions of power to target donald trump without evidence, and to spy on the beach before campaign with fabricated evidence. >> sean: jason, let me go to you, you know whitaker. you've known his work for a long time. the president was very clear, those 302's, the gang of eight information, the fisa warrant applications, they may now will

be released. i also would say that probably, the investigation into hilary, all of these other instances, fisa abuse, lying to the fisa court, abuse of some of the powerful tools of intelligence, might now be on the table. >> love, senator sessions then became attorney general sessions, he was a revered member of the republican party, and i wish him nothing but the best, but when he it became the attorney general, he did not open up documents, did not respond to subpoenas, and did not give people like myself, when i was the chairman of the oversight committee, the documents that i wanted. trey gowdy, john ratcliffe, they can't do the job unless they have the documents. now there is no leadership in place, i think there is an expectation that those things do get loosened up, and by the way, i agree with gregg, i hope the president trump appoints john ratcliffe, i think he is best person. >> sean: really? sara, now the exoneration before

investigation, the real russian dossier, that can now be investigated by the new attorney general. democrats want a lot of investigations, there are a lot of fertile ground that we know crimes were committed. >> absolutely come on i think one of the things they're going to be looking at is also all of the unmasking's. how was the intelligence community weaponized, particularly in how the fbi handled this investigation into president trump? i mean, there are so many avenues that can be looked at right now, and we know, based on what president trump said today, that there is a strong possibility, sean, that these documents will be declassified, the american public deserves to know what was going on. i have also been hearing that indictments may be around the corner, so there is a lot more information that is going to come out in the near future. i think the president did the right thing, he waited until after the midterms, and it was expected, the president has every right, every right, just say it is over, jeff sessions.

and look, most of the time, it would have happened anyways, it has been two years, it is time for jeff sessions -- >> sean: if i was hilary, if i was on the top doj, fbi officials, i think i would be very nervous tonight about what could be coming. you all agree with that, real quick? speak with the law enforcement became the lawbreakers, they should now be held accountable. >> sean: jason, what happen? >> >> the inspector general por, crystal clear that a permit of justice is in chaos, and they need new leadership to straighten the ship. >> sean: sara? >> that is what i was just going to say, it is going to happen, it will happen, sean. >> sean: all right, many of you think i was lazy and didn't show up for work last night. i have an announcement. ♪

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because it's amazing to people think people who write -- we did this event with donald trump in cape girardeau, missouri, and i tweeted out i was not part of whatever coverage was going to take place at the campaign. i gave a tweet that was 100% truthful. i was watching rush give his speech. the president, i had no idea. he invited me on stage. i will be honest, i was honored by the president's request. it was not planned. i want to be very, very clear. i'm up on stage. you've heard me say it all the time, every day, every night, it's true. there's a lot of fake news. i want to be very clear, especially after hearing some commentary, reading some things. i was not and would never referred to my friends, my colleagues here at the fox news channel in those remarks. as a matter of fact, they are such a cut above everybody else. by the way -- if anybody construed it that way, i'm

totally sorry in terms of the people who i work with. i caught a couple of my friends, colleagues here, i've had a great relationship with almost everybody here all the time i've worked here. i am a talk show host. they do news. i don't know how they do what they do. they do local news. national news. international news. they have one really tough job because they have to stay fair and balanced and they do that in an amazing way every single day. me? i'm like the whole newspaper. we do news. we do investigative reporting. we do strong opinions. sometimes they have to take heat because what their opinion sighed friends say. i want to tell you something: i'm so honored and proud being able to work here with the best journalists in the entire country. they are -- by the way, we saw it in the ratings last night and i wasn't even here. higher than my ratings by a lot, actually. number one, beating all the networks, beating all the network down the cable channels.

that's what they do. i'm proud to be a small part of this. i love these colleagues. most of them are like friends. all of them, as a matter of fact. that's all the time we have left this evening. as always, let not your heart be troubled. law ingram is next to live. see you here tomorrow night. ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is the "ingraham angle." we have breaking news on multiple fronts tonight. we are going to unpack it all for you. that dust still settling on the split midterm results. another bombshell appears to the news cycle. jeff sessions is out. the attorney general has submitted his resignation at president trump's request and we are going to have reaction to all the fallout in moments including what this could mean for the mueller probe freaking everybody out. also tonight,