time. unfortunately our hour is done. what a great time that was. we will be back tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. this is the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink, hopefully, a cheerful enemy. good night, and we will be back tomorrow. now sean hannity live from new mexico. >> sean: great show as always, area 51, roswell, new mexico, check it out. welcome to "hannity." the chaos continues in south florida. tonight, a criminal investigation is now underway as republicans ron desantis, rick scott now look poised for victory. we will bring you the very florida.dates from plus, get this. jim acosta, fake news cnn, they are now suing the president in a complaint that is chock-full of abject lies and distortions. acosta and his employers at cnn claim that the white house is stripping his constitutional rights by not allowing him

inside 1600 pennsylvania avenue. jim must really be crying himself to sleep at night. coming up, we will break down the bogus lawsuit and we will show you how jim's hyperpartisan unprofessional behavior is unbefitting to the industry that he claims to be serving.g. also tonight, we will preview a looming feud inside the democratic party between the far left and the far, far, far extreme radical left. speaking of which, believe it or not, hillary clinton clearly may be gearing up for yet another presidential run. also tonight, monica lewinsky speaking out about her infamous affair in the oval office. she wants an apology and i think she deserves one. we will show you the tape. that's a lot to get to, time for breaking news opening monologue. ♪ a lot of ground to cover. we will get it all in. we begin in florida where the

recount is moving forward and barring any kind of disaster, ron desantis and rick scott will rightfully be florida's next governor and senator. with that said, what we have seen out of liberal broward and palm beach counties has been an absolute national disgrace. over at broward county, election supervisor brenda snipes magically dislocated over 75,000 new ballots days and days after the election. earlierr this week, a box containing provisional ballots was actually found by an employee at a rental car company left behind an airport in fort lauderdale. multiple state election laws, we now know they were broken, disregarded altogether. the court ruled snipes acted inappropriately and now the attorney general and the florida department of law enforcement are investigating claims of criminal voter fraud. we have embattled election supervisor brenda snipes who might be out of a job soon. take a look.

>> it is time to move on, and let someone else handle the election business. i think i have served their purpose that i came here for, which was to provide a credible product for our voters. >> sean: tonight, losing her high-paying job may be the least of her worries. the florida attorney general pam bondi and florida senator marco rubio will be with usst tonight. but first, jim acosta desperately trying to get back into the white house, 1600 pennsylvania avenue. last week, his white house pass was revoked after what was clearly unprofessional conduct, an incident where he just refused to give up a shared microphone. "shared," keyword. made contact with a white house intern who tried to take the microphone back. literallyra he wanted to debate

the president of the united states after accusing him pretty much of being a racist. par for the course at fake news cnn. take a look. >> if i may ask you a question -- >> that's enough. >> i just wanted to ask another question -- >> that's enough. >> pardon me, ma'am -- >> that's enough. put down the microphone. >> mr. president, are you worried about indictment coming down -- mr. president -- >> i tell you what, cnn should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. you are a rude, terrible person. you should not be working for cnn. >> sean: while acosta has passed was revoked for unprofessional conduct, no one else at cnn, by the way, is affected. nobody prayed by the way, the president answered his question. how many times does the president of the united states need to tell someone, a fame seeking reporter, that's enoughe that's enough? now cnn still has access to the white house. acosta is still free to spew his

anti-trump hatred anywhere he wants, just not inside the walls of the white house, 1600 pennsylvania avenue. now acosta and cnn are suing president trump and other officials in the administration. the lawsuit laughably claims that acosta's constitutional rights have been violated. the complaint also goes on to list the following lies as facts: they say that acosta merely asked a question during the press conference. well, you just saw it. that is a lie. he tried to grandstand, he gave his commentary, and he wanted to debate the president. next, the suit suggests that acosta didn't put his hand on the white house intern. well, you can see right there on your screen, the intern tried to get the microphone back, and there was contact. i'm not saying anything bad happened with that but the complaint also claims that acosta has been a journalist -- this is my favorite -- for more

than two decades and is widely respected for his diligence and independence. that's the biggest lie. jim acosta is a lot of things. he is not a fair, balanced, independent journalist. these are far left, grandstanding, sycophant, left-winger, capitalizing on his blatant anti-trump bias. his conduct inside the white house has been frankly, anything but professional. take a look. >> i'm not sure this press conference was ever on the rails.s as you heard numerous times during this news conference, the president was not in touch with reality. >> the people who work at this white house all the way up to the president evidently believe that journalists are the enemy of the people. literally, the enemy of the people. i will say that the press is not the enemy of the people, and i think maybe we should make some bumper stickers or buttons. >> a wall can be different than border security, sir.

>> no, actually -- >> it could mean agents, more fencing, it doesn't necessarily mean a physical wall -- >> that is part of the negotiation we expect congress to have -- >> democrats are saying they may not be in favor of this kind of deal. they say thanks, but no thanks for the wall. >> jim, i'm not negotiating with you and i will let congress of taking care of that. >> what we are witnessing is erosion of our freedoms in covering president of the united states. there are moments where this president is sensitive to criticism. the last three presses conferences, all the questions from the american news media have been handled by conservative press and i think, there is no other way to describe it but the fix is in. >> the statue of liberty has always been a bastion of hope for people of the world -- jim, do you believe -- >> jim -- >> i appreciate your speech -- >> i think we saw the

president's true color today and i'm not sure they were red, white, and blue. >> sean: not sure if they are red, white, and blue? true colors. that would be opinion. i thought he was supposed to be a journalist. jim acosta's coverage of president obama was actually a little different. take for example this glowing coverage of obama at his 2012 inauguration. let's take a look. >> obviously this is the moment that everybody is waiting for. on inauguration day, the president on the first lady stepped out of the limo and walked down pennsylvania avenue. i feel like i should pinch myself right now.pr i can't believe i have this vantage point of history in the making. >> you are literally about 15, 20 feet away from the president? >> i am probably a good, i would say, 50 feet away from the president right now. very, very close. >> sean: it sounds like he had a thrill of his life, like chris matthews. anyway, acosta's overwhelming bias, it's not shocking. in fact, he's pretty much telling the company line at fake

news cnn. for eight long years, they just worshiped barack obama, they love the clintons. remember, clinton news network? cnn claims to be facts first but in reality, they put their hatred for donald trump before anything else. every second, every minute, every hour, every day, pretty much >> is this president trying to take a look. impersonate hugo chavez? vladimir putin? erdogan? readimir putin? >> what a great case officer of vladimir putin is. he knows how to handle an asset and that's what he's doing with the president. >> when do we see almost a shadow government come out and say we cannot side with the government? >> why was sympathy not shown for white nationalists and other hate groups? >> why is it that one generation calls you [bleep]? >> we can truly say that his words have absolutely emboldened white supremacists. >> hen has given oxygen to racists, has clearly tried to ignite a civil war in this

country. >> there is a sign that has been hung out outside of the white house saying, if you are not white, you are not especially welcome. >> the president gets two scoops and everyone else around the table gets one, and no word if there were sprinkles. >> if you think you have had an ear full of donald trump, check out what is in the air of the beagle in britain named chief. brace yourself. >> if i took a dump on his desk, you wouldea n defend that. >> 16 tweets to start the new year, some of them -- these are the messages from a person who is not well, from a leader who is not fit for office. >> he's president snowflake, okay? everything -- "oh, they are mean me, that they don't like me, i just don't understand it, it's not fair." >> this is a whitelash against against a changing country, against a black president, in part. >> sean: is a lot of opinion by people who claim that they are journalists.

left-wing opinion. is anyone really surprised that the network that you just saw had their chief white house correspondent kicked out for unprofessional conduct? theie white house is classifying the acosta suit as more "grandstanding" from cnn. a law and crime lab said, a a great website, op-ed, trashed the complaint, and renowned journalist bob woodward rebuked the lawsuit and called out the media for becoming emotionally unhinged over trump. the great one, mark levin, he ripped and slammed the suit over the so-called constitutional issue, which is a farce. take a listen. >> you understand there is nothing in the constitution that compels the president to hold a presidential press conference. what, will the court order him to hold one? there's nothing in the constitution that compels the president to call on anyone from cnn, let alone jim acosta. period!

and acosta does not have a constitutional right to disrupt the press conference in cnn doesn't either. >> sean: as per usual, cnn is all bark, no facts. we will keep you updated on this ridiculous lawsuit. you might have noticed that fake news cnn, other far left outlets, they seem to be avoiding any post-midterm election coverage. it's not an accident. democrats had a historically very poor performance in last tuesday's election and that's why they don't want to talk about it. republicans lost the house, but they made gains in the senate. something that has only happened three times in 100 years of midterm elections. 1994, let's look at the tape. bill clinton's first midterm election, they got shellacked, they lost 52 house seats and eight senate seats. it was even worse under obama. he set a record.

2010 was his first midterm and democrats lost a whopping 63 house seats and six senate seats. now the democrats are in disarray. serious battle brewing on capitol hill between far left democrats like nancy pelosi and even further left-wing democrats like the socialist, alexandria ocasio-cortez.ng the 29-year-old incoming congresswoman from new york actually joined a climate change protest -- get this --dash outside of pelosi's office. take a look. [cheers and applause] >> it's not about a person, a personality, but to show whoever is speaker, and ideally, what we see, should nancy pelosi become speaker of the house, we need to tell her that we have her back in pursuing the most progressive

energy agenda that this country has ever seen. >> sean: no moderates exist in today's democratic party. this is the same incoming congresswoman who recently filmed her presidential aspirations on instagram live while making macaroni and cheese. the same incoming congresswoman who campaigned on a message of massive tax increases and a government nanny state. meanwhile, other incoming members of congress have publicly come out against nancy pelosi, taking the gavel as speaker of the house. so pelosi is probably likely to become the next speaker. many powerful democrats are lining up behind her, including longtime congressman elijah cummings, and now pelosi and her allies are pulling out one of the democrats' favorite political tactics in order to ensure her speakership.ic this was an politico today. watch this, the gender part. >> it's very important that you cannot have the four leaders of the president, these five people, and not have the voice of women. v

especially since women were the majority of the voters, the workers on the campaign, and now part of the glorious victory. when i came to congress, there were 12 democratic women. i said, we have to change this. now we'll have close to 90. >> sean: whether or not nancy pelosi becomes the speaker, let me be very clear and warn you once again that the democratic agenda does not include making the lives of the american people better. we now know that what they hid during the election was that their plan to use their power in the house for revenge, to bog down the white house with absurd investigations. while they apply this revenge, they have no answer to president trump in 2020. according to one former hillary clinton advisor, apparently, she seriously thinking about running again. we'll have more on that, jesse watters and jessica tarlov will join us. it's interesting to just watch

all of this unfold in action here, because you know what, it's a good thing that the president campaigned hard and broke the trend that neitherd obama nor clinton could. three new senate seats, republicans keep control of the senate. and now more clinton news outat there as well and their old baggage, 20 years after monica lewinsky became a household name, after president bill clinton engaged in sexual misconduct with the white house intern, lewinsky is speaking out about the clinton affair and the horrible damage that it did to her life. she talked about why she participated in the documentaryh and she said if she saw hillary clinton in person, she said i know i would summon up whatever force i needed to again acknowledge to her how sincerell sorry i am. by the way, good for her. by the way, i think think it's

extraordinarily brave, gracious, and frankly,y, honorable. here's a clip from the documentary. >> i just -- i felt terrible. i was scared and i just -- i was mortified and afraid of what this wasai going to do to my family, and, you know, i was in love with bill at the time. so i just felt really responsible. >> sean: in the op-ed lewinsky said she was disappointed that bill clinton said he didn't owe her an apology when he spoke with nbc news back in june. take a look. >> but you didn't apologize to her, at least according to folks we talked to? there was never an apology? >> i have not talked to her. >> do you feel you owe her an apology? >> no. >> sean: a lot of other people to apologize too. apparently not up to the challenge. there is one standard of conduct for the clintons and

another for everyone else. for years, the biggest clinton apologists, they were members of hollywood and today they are continuing to ramp up theirry t vile, daily hatred against president trump and his supporters. last night, deranged anti-trump actor robert de niro continue to spew violent rhetoric while speaking at a club event in new york city using profanity and to urge the overthrow of thg government. of course this type of sick behavior is nothing new, advocating violence, using vulgar language is all part of a pattern from the hollywood left. "i think an awful lot about blowing up the white house." they have been melting down since the day donald trump was elected before our very eyes. common sense americans knowd better than to buy into the hate that they are spreading because that is exactly what it is.. we will have a lot more on all of this throughout the hour. but first joining us, we go back to our topt story, and that is the shenanigans, what's going on in florida.s, joining us now, florida attorney

general pam bondi. pam, good to see you and thank you for joining us. let's talk now about the investigation. what can you tell us about that? >> i, of course, will not go into any details about thehe criminal investigation but i felt very strongly in my independent authority as chief legal officer and law enforcement officer for the state of florida that we had to get the florida department of law enforcement involved in this, do interviews. there ahve been so many allegations -- and right now that's all they are. they are allegations. i fed my prosecutors on the ground in lauderdale. we have the florida department of law enforcement. and the florida department of law enforcement has also opened a tip hotline for folks to call. you can go on their website and get it, i give it out. if you see evidence of fraud, call that in. we are clearly doing an investigation and have made no conclusions. this is about the integrity of our election process and

wherever it leads, we want to bl sure that voters know that our process is going to be fair and legal, sean. >> sean: we had a judge friday say the florida constitution was violated.s is florida law. they shall report all early voting and all tabulated vote by mail results to the department of state within 30 minutes after the polls closing. that didn't happen. "the canvassing board shall report with the exception of the provisional ballot results and update in the office every 45 minutes." it was supposed to have observers in there. that did not happen as well. 65 of the 67 florida counties included the panhandle, 37 of those counties, or 35 of them, they were ravaged after the hurricane. they all got the job done. how is it that this keeps happening in broward county? >> that is what we are looking into, and that is what i can't go to in detail.

what you said was clearly laid out in a letter that i sent to the florida department of law enforcement saying why we need to open a criminal investigation and that has now been done. there is an active criminal investigation. at the same time, you know there are countless, at least seven civil lawsuits filed by the dnc, by the aclu, i believe, and all these civil lawsuits. they are basically trying to as you know throw out deadlines so it would be the wild, wild west. without deadlines, how do you manage elections? they also don't want to requirel signatures for provisional and vote by mail ballots. and let me make this very clear. >> sean: go ahead. >> florida law -- florida law expressly and unambiguously states that you must have signature verification. they want to change the

law after the ballots have all been cast. and go back retroactively and change our law, which is ridiculous. and bill nelson needs to take a deep breath and concede gracefully and walk away from this. >> sean: let me run down the list, if i may. we know that snipes, in the course of the selection, rejected mixed the rejected provisional ballots with several hundred others. in 2017 and a ruled that judge illegally destroyed ballots.o some broward county officials in 2016, all results were reported before the polls were closed. it goes back to 2012. it's every year, pam. >> and sean, that's why it' directed the florida department

of law enforcement to open an investigation, not wait until this is over. they have opened an investigation at my direction and that is ongoing and active criminally. wean have interviewed with all e several lawsuits that don't adhere to the constitution. and they are on firm constitutional ground as well. >> sean: thank you for updating us. we will follow this criminal investigation closely. when we come back, senator marco rubio was the firstre person to realize what was going on. we'll talk more about that later. the trump legal team is finalizing their answers to mueller's questions. will this legal witch hunt finally come to an end? catherine herridge, gregg jarrett, monica crowley, so much more, straight ahead. -meg! there you are. did you take a picture of the cake

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>> sean: as the florida recount is underway, broward county has come into focus for its history of incompetence and controversyu especially under the leadership of election supervisor a former doj official thatde includes prematurely ftdestroying ballots after the 2016 primary race. e.reporting more registered vots and citizens, doctoring reports about cleaning voter rolls and losing the manual on removing dead voters. florida senator marco rubio has been very vocal with his concerns about the election and all these irregularities. he joins us right now. senator, honestly you were the first that really brought this to mys attention, thank you. 57,000 vote lead, now dwindling down to 12,000. now they are going to have even more time and i'm concerned. you used the word "steal," do you believe there has been an effort here, corruption here, to

steal an election? >> here's what i believe. i believe the law has not been followed from the beginning. those early votes, the last time they were cast with the sunday before the election. by law, they were supposed to be downloaded and sent to the state by 7:30 p.m. on the night of the election. then you have tos process the absentee ballots, that mail ballots that came in before that time and there are some that come in monday, tuesday before the election, those should be shortlysh thereafter. they didn't follow those. there is always additional both added to every county because people are voted from oversease or you haven't processed all the ones you have by 7:30 but you are supposed to update them every 45 minutes. they didn't do that. we know for example, part of broward county's vote count,ar includes 19 people who were disqualified from voting by their own canvassing board, who they only took the ballots from forest, , and we don't know how many more there are. they did not start the machine recounts until this morning

right everybody all started saturday or sunday. miami-dade is almost done. so it's irregularity after irregularity, and as far as stealing is concerned, this f is -- those are the election lawyers. the reason why election lawyers get involved was to make sure as many votes for possible are for their client is counted and as many votes as possible for their opponents are disqualified. in an election office this incompetent and his lawbreaking, and creates enormous opportunity forki those types of arguments o be made and suddenly the election is decided by a judge or lawyers, not by voters, the way it isye supposed to be. >> sean: we know, for example, that snipes mixed in rejected provisional ballots with a number of valid votes. with that ultimately means, senator, is that the entire count is irreversibly corrupted, and we have all of these violations, 2012, 2014, 2016,

2017, and i happening again. for the life of me, especially after all we went through, dimpled, pebbled, scattered, smothered, covered, and everything else in 2000, this keeps happening. there are 67 counties, 65 of them got it right. more importantly, 35 of those counties had been victimized by a big hurricane, especially the panhandle, they got it right. >> you talk about the case, there provisional ballots are in an envelope. what is supposed to happen, you present those to theel canvassig board to decide whether or not i they are allowed to vote. she did not do that. she opened it up, decided they would count, and counted the votes. she got caught, and said i will submit it to the canvassing board, they found that 21 of them should not get out. they said, let's find a 21, it's too late. once you pull the ballot out of the envelope, there's no way to match one with the other. one example of the kinds of things that have been going on over there on top of the history that you have outlined already of the sort of thing.

you it's concerning they are not following the law, they are not following the law, and that is why we have election laws. i want every legal voice at risk as in a timely fashion to vote. no one is asking that not to happen. one more point to -- as is where we have to keep an eye on -- after the machine recounts, any race that is within less than sa quarter of one point, the senate race in the agricultural race, there has to be a hand recount of the over votes and under votes, now the canvassing board, if the accounting teams don't do it, they have to sit down and determine, to devote her intent to vote or not. that is where lawyers get involved and start arguing, the marketeer comes across here, this'll circle over here, was a voter intent. the statute it's pretty clear but that doesn't mean anyone is going to follow it, for they are going to follow it. there is a lot to be concerned about. it's important to have scrutiny and transparency and that we watch it every step of the way. >> sean: are you now confident

that you have this -- we know the attorney general pam bondi that we just spoke with, are you confident that this will be done right, do we know this example the attorneys for mayor gillume and soon-to-be ex senator nelson that they even wanted an illegal ilmigrant's vote, they objected. they want to that counted. then of course we are findingha ballots in the back of rental cars in tampa, from that county. are you confident when they do over/under votes, if there is a mark, like, 400 -- so far away, they will try to argue that those are real votes and they intended to vote when they missed the entire oval, or whatever way you do it? >> there is no doubt that the lawyers will argue, any kind of mark, is intent. the statute is pretty clear. the law says if you are for example going to circle names as opposed to filling in the bubble then you do that consistently throughout the ballot. i'm confident that lawyers will try to get everything counted but i don't know what the canvassing board will decide.

i don't know what the federal judge will step in decide. that's the point. this level of incompetence give you know confidence about on in the tt is going office and that's why you have to keep paying attention to what t happening there. >> sean: senator, you called everyone's attention to this and you are ahead of the curve. thank you for standing up for a legitimate, fair, legal process. the fact that so many laws were broken has to disturb every american. thank you, sir, for being with us. when we come back, multiple reports that the president's legal team is almost finished with written answers to mueller's question. catherine herridge has a full report on that. and we get analysis, gregg jarrett andd monica crowley. then later tonight, jesse and jessica are back. who's worldld is it going to be? "hannity" continues. ♪ all the tools you need for every step of the way. make it, squarespace

♪ >> sean: in other news tonight, there are reports that trump's legal team has been preparing to hand over written answers to mueller's team. joining us now live from washington on this and much

more, fox news chief intelligence correspondent, our own catherine herridge. that sounds like we might be getting to the end. catherine? >> good evening. two sources familiar with the discussions told fox tonight that the written answers are being finalized and could be submitted to the special counseh robert mueller and his team as early as the end of the week. contacted by fox, they had no comment. they reported the president's legal team was preparing written response about alleged coordinationon with russia durig the 2016 campaign and not obstruction of justice over the president's may 2017 firing of fbi director james comey. the president's legal team considers those questions infringe on the president's constitutional power to hire and fire. attorneys at capitol hill earlier today, democrats also ramped up attacks on matthew whitaker, the acting attorney general. with this in a judiciary committee's ranking democrat, dianne feinstein, calling for emergency hearings with whitaker

and former attorney general jeff sessions. the committee's republican chairman,en who controls the senate committee calendar, and knows what a girl from iowa politics, pointed to the ongoing justice department ethics revie review. >> so i think that answers it, doesn't matter what the democrats think, if he is going through the process, that is going to answer that. >> do you have any concerns about the comments that whitaker has made about the mueller probe? >> as long as he made them as a private citizen, no. >> t sources familiar with the process tell fox the justice department's office of legal counsel plans to issue an opinion defending the whitaker appointment and pushing back strongly against legal analysis that the appointment is unconstitutional. sources say the opinion is expected in the coming days, possibly as early as tomorrow, sean. >> sean: catherine herridge within a important in report tonight. thank you. joining us with a pardon reaction, the author of "the

russian hoax," gregg jarrett. and "the washington times"'s monica crowley is with us. if it's now written answers, that would suggest that the whole issue we had discussed in the past about the potential subpoena, and the president, that would not be happening. the fact that it seems exclusively to focus on the original mandate, if you will, which is russia collusion we have no evidence of collusion up to this point, none whatsoever, except for hillary clinton and they didn't seem to go into that too deeply, paying for the phony russian dossier that was used to commit a fried on the fisa court, influence the american people before the 2016 election and undermined the president post his victory. >> so the lawyers for donaldaw trump were very smart d refusing an in-person interview, because even if the president tells the truth, mueller is so unscrupulous and unprincipled, he would charge the president

accuse him of lying. the way to go is written answers. he's also limited the scope and no obstruction oftr justice. so these answers to questions will only be about collusion and the answers, quite frankly, will be prepared for the lawyers to ensure the president isn't in legal jeopardy, will be very brief. i don't know anything about collusion, i didn't talk to russians about the election. the next question, the answer will be the same answer as before. so it's going to be very brief, it will not put the president in legal jeopardy. it is a win for the president and his team, and a loss ass it should have been for the guy on your screen, robert mueller. >> sean: we know andrew weissmann, january, all the democratic donors, monica, it has never been to me, just the appearance of the people he selected, to me, has been so over-the-top. i want to specifically -- the

only thing we are hearing now, jerome corsi is suggesting that .he has been told that he might face charges of lying, which would be in the vein i guess, michael flynn, although the two fbi agents claimed he never lied, and maybe papadopoulos. but if that's it, and roger stone, who they want to go after, i'm not sure what that would all be about but it doesn't seem connected to donald trump in any way. >> so far what we know and what we have seen from the me too are essentially process crimes. nothing that goes to the core of the original assignment for robert mueller, which was to investigate so-called russia collusion, which our friend gregg jarrett has called aptly the russian hoax. they did their best during the campaign to block trump from becoming president and once he became president, it moved to ae different phase, which was try to undermine and ultimately destroy his presidency with this investigation, which is

tantamount to the cover up. now i'm gratified to see that the president has an excellent legal team, including a new white house counsel, presumably they are doing everything they can to protect the president and to defend against any kind of legal exposure here by making sure that the answers are properly done and in writing. >> sean: gregg, we have spoken a lot on his program about the conflicts of interest of rodra rosenstein. number one, he recommended the fire of james comey -- that would make him a witness. number two, he signed the fourth and final fisa warrant, the third renewal application, and everybody now, selective moral outrage in the media at the appointment of matthew whitaker to replace jeff sessions in the interim, because he said he thoughtes the mandate was exceed by robert mueller, and a few other things. people on other networks -- lawyers are making the case that it's not a valid legal appointment.

i called you, and you cited the federal vacancies act. it is 5 usc 4335, i can read it or you can tell everybody, which ever you prefer. >> the president someone who is an official or an employee that has been there for 90 days, whitaker satisfies that legal standard. it says, the president is going to point -- or an officer, employee of such an executive agency who served in a position in such agency for not less thar 90 days, who meets the criteria, and these fake news attorneys fake attorneys, almost, wrong again. but the double standard is obvious. thank you both, we appreciate it. when we come back, here we go again. this is getting more insane. hillary clinton's former advisor says she is going to run again in 2020.

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♪ >> sean: i'm hearing today that hillary clinton may be gearing up for a 2020 run. h former clinton pollster mark penn and andrew stein writing id "the wall street journal" said hillary will run again. michelle obama said it's a good idea. joining us now, the cohost of "the five," this guy has got not one job, but two shows. of course, "watters world," jesse watters. fox news contributor, and she is out for blood tonight, she wants to win. i actually think i find

donald trump, isaac, run, hillary, ron, please. i don't think she's going to win. they ran a terrible campaign the last time, and now they are also saying, she's going to reinvent herself. she will be a radical hillary clinton again. it didn't work out for bill clinton in 1994, did it? >> if she runs, even democrats, sean, will chant "lock her up, lock her up." they don't want her to do it again. what's her slogan going to be, still crooked? i mean, listen, she's got high negatives, her husband has lost his fastball. the donors are gettinget alligator arms, they don't want to throw money into a losing effort. she's got that losing stenchit still. the media is in love with beto o'rourke and i don't see where she's going here at all. >> sean: jessica, if that's who you -- 's tell me who you think. your top three or four people that would be able to challenge

trump and do well? >> that's interesting. my dream ticket is kamala harris and sharad brown as her vp. >> that sounds like a nightmare. >> al franken probably would have been if he hadn't been pushed out of the senate. some of these new faces are exciting and i think there is an aargument to be made for someone with executive experience, someone like eric garcetti, maybe john hickenlooper. i know g you guys are getting excited just hearing about all this. >> sean: i'm waiting for spartacus to run. >> what about pocahontas and spartacus? i like that ticket. >> i don't really need that this evening. can i just say this about the op-ed this coming from mark penn who , lost the 2008 election for hillary clinton in the persona persona non grata -- it's unbelievable. >> sean: i played this tape in my opening monologue of monica lewinsky doing this documentary. she gave this interview and she said, if i saw hillary clinton,

i would find the strength to go up and apologize again to her. that is stunning grace. that was amazing. she was the intern here. and her life has been turned upsidede down. we saw her crying in this documentary. bill clinton said when asked, i don't need to apologize for her. how does, between that and all the other clinton women, juanita broaddrick, kathleen, paula, democrats let him get away with it? why? why can't he just say, if you want an apology, you deserve one and i will give you one? >> i don't know, i think he absolutely should have apologized to her. i think hillary clinton also should have said it was a mistake, , and abuse of power tt was fundamental to the me too movement. >> sean: she said she never got it. >> i'm saying she should have apologized. >> they never apologized and

remember that hillary ran the war room where remember hillary -- the bimbo eruptions. they called her floozy, psycho, and a clinger. the me too movement meringued down the clintons and my children up to that. >> sean: jessica, last word? >> my last word is maybe donald trump could apologize to all the women he has taken advantage of. >> you mean miss usa? you gave those women lots of opportunities jessica, come on. he cherishes women! >> he does not cherish women. >> o sean: i tell you what. it's been a while since we had you on. for the first time ever, it's a tie. >> it's a tie? >> it's nobody's world. >> i want a recount. >> sean: [laughs] when we come back, rush limbaugh, an amazing take. what is really the w motivating factor behind the recount in florida? that's straight ahead. ♪ doug, doug!

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>> sean: earlier today, rush posed an interesting theory today about the florida recount. take a listen. >> so which party is it that will not accept the results of elections? which party is it? trying to undermine our faith in elections. by the way, do you think what's going on in florida is really all about these two races here, the governor and the senate? i mean, it is, but there's something much bigger at stake as well. and that's 2020. nd i think there is, i think if we stick at this long enough and dig deep enough to find out what they are actually doing, i think they are trying, the democrats, are trying to set the stage for some kind of election law change or adjustment. that they think they're going to

need in 2020. >> sean: great points as usual. that's all the time we have left this evening. we give rush the last word. we'll always be fair and balanced. we're not the destroy-trump media. yeah, we're different and thank you for always being with us. nd let not your heart be troubled, because standing by in the swamp, laura ingraham. >> laura: i have my boots on. i can always stand in the swamp, those big waders, that you wear when you are fishing. they come up. >> sean: fly-fishing? do you do that? >> laura: yeah, i am doing that every weekend. hannity, with three kids, flying to wyoming every weekend. >> sean: way too much work. >> laura: i can't believe brenda snipes didn't come on with you tonight. she was on another network. >> sean: i'm shocked. you know, amazing. >> laura: you're very charming. i don't know. >> sean: she says she's never had any controversy. she does know how it happened. 75, 80,000 ballots magically appear.