theme birthday party to celebrate. you know what that means? he is secret racist. twitter was on the case. one social media user said by throwing a western theme party, hart was "celebrating genocide, white supremacy, and slavery." he doesn't look like a white supremacist but neither does kanye west and twitter calls him one, too. amazing. we'll be back tomorrow, 8:00 they show that is a sworn enemy of lying, the pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. sean hannity right now. >> sean: as always, welcome to "hannity." this is a fox news alert. polls are closed across mississippi. we are currently monitoring the results out of what will be the last senate seat to be decided. we hope to make that call during this hour. we hope you stay tuned. big news as it relates to the mueller witch hunt. we are going to show you how two individuals are literally standing up to mueller's coercion and what we call lie tactics. we'll expose a fake story accusing paul manafort of having secret meetings with julian assange. nothing more than a conspiracy theory and peak russia collusion

hysteria at its worse. the reporting has been atrocious. we have an important update on an actual scandal surrounding this sketchy clinton foundation. we are going to bring you the very latest from the crisis at our southern border. we will expose some of the almost unbelievable hypocrisy from america's left. senator lindsey graham is here to weigh in on that. the department of homeland security, secretary nielsen, she will join us tonight. sit tight, buckle up. glad you are with us. we begin our breaking news opening monologue. ♪ tonight it appears another so-called russian bombshell has fallen completely flat. "the guardian" today reported without any evidence that former trump campaign manager, paul manafort and wikileaks founder, julian assange, met multiple between 2013 and 2016 at the ecuadorian embassy in london. tonight paul manafort is

strongly denying all of that, firing back in a powerful statement that reads, "this story is totally false, deliberately libellous. i have never met julian assange or anyone connected to him. i have never been contacted by anyone connected to wikileaks either directly or indirectly. i have never reached out to assange or wikileaks on any matter." manafort is vowing to pursue all legal options against that paper. and wikileaks are going further tonight. they tweeted, "willing to bet "the guardian" $1 million and its editor's head that manafort never met assange. assange too rightly so moving ahead on possible legal action in addition to being absolutely rebuffed by both parties involved, what's fascinating is "the guardian's" story filled with serious flaws and no evidence of any meetings, vaguely described resources, and none on the record.

remember, the ecuadorian embassies and london is one of the most surveilled and secure buildings in the world. i know. i went there. i interviewed julian assange in january of 2017. visitors are monitored, photographed, videotaped by multiple governments. now, "the guardian" is being accused of quietly stealth editing the story. the paper altered their own headlines, adding words "sources say." they didn't have that in beginning and they softened key elements of the language hours after receiving the backlash. by all the fake news media jumps on anything, everything russia, except calories will's phony dossier, regardless of any actual evidence, president trump is not backing down. today, he had sharp words for robert mueller. he tweeted, "the phony witch hunt continues. mueller and his gang of angry democrats are only looking at one side, not the other. wait until it comes out, how horribly and viciously they are

treating people. ruining lives for refusing to lie. mueller is a conflicted prosecutor gone rogue." trump continued, "the fake news media builds bob mueller up as a saint when in actuality, he is the exact opposite. he's doing tremendous damage to our criminal justice system or he is only looking at one side, not the other. heroes will come of it and it won't be mueller and his terrible gang of angry democrats. look at their past, look at where they come from. look at this, $30 million. the pitch hunt continues. they have nothing but ruined lives. where is the server? meaning hillary's server. let these terrible people go back to the clinton foundation and the justice department." still, president trump is letting the process play out. he told "the washington post" tonight he has no intention of stopping the investigation. the president's concerns are being echoed by legal scholars like alan dershowitz, who warned today about what mueller's true motives really are. let's take a look.

>> mueller is not going to produce a neutral report. he is not going to be fair. he is going to produce what he believes is going to be a devastating attack. he is going to put together everything. he is going to use information from manafort and others without necessarily disclosing that there they are liars. the president's team has to be ready. >> sean: this is exactly what i have been saying on this program from the get-go. our own gregg jarrett has explained, what we are witnessing is the classic mueller, andrew weissmann pitbull tactics, using threats, coercion to get people to what we call test alive. in other words, tell us what we want to hear. we are going to go easy on you. if you don't tell us what we want to hear, you might spend the rest of your life in jail. look what's happening. this is fascinating. paul manafort and jerome corsi, they are now taking a stand, refusing to cooperate and go along with the test the lie

scheme. they are not willing to tell a story that they want told. even both of them, elderly men, risking life in prison. they could say exactly what these rogue prosecutors want to save themselves. clearly, their conscience refuses to allow them to lie. cnn reporting that robert mueller has his hands on 2016 e-mail communications between corsi and roger stone, supposedly showing some attempt from stone to seek information from wikileaks. we'll see how this plays out as mueller continues to turn the screws on both corsi and stone. one thing as i have read it, it doesn't show that they knew anything was stolen in any way by anybody. anyone ever hear of the pentagon papers? just a thought. remember, it is now day 559 of mueller's destroy trump witch hunt. zero evidence, zero, of trump-russia collusion. we have lying to the fbi, lying to prosecutors, lying on loan

applications, didn't pay your taxes. where is the collusion? why not go after hillary? what we are seeing is a two-tiered justice system. hillary clinton paid for phony russian lies that were fed to you, the american people, to influence the 2016 election and no legal consequences? president trump, everyone associated with him, they turn the screws ever so tight. mueller and his merry band of partisan investigators with a horrific track record. it is a travesty of justice, the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal we have had. never mind hillary clinton from the get-go got exonerated, no real investigation. they were writing her exoneration in may and they didn't interview her and 17 other people until july. she committed obvious and clear felonies, including obstruction when she deleted, acid washed

and then busted up devices. america's left on their friends in the mainstream media, they can't get enough. they never talk about the dual justice system. the hillary system and the system for the rest of us. completely obsessed with a phony trump-russia collusion theory. meanwhile, the destroyed trump press is ignoring the major scandal that might be the world's sketchy as to the so-called charity. the clinton foundation back in the news. federal investigation now currently under way into bill and hillary's prized so-called nonprofit organization. fbi agents are seeking to determine whether or not they employed an elicit play to pay scheme for years. remember, during hillary's tenure as then-senator and then-secretary of state and during her two runs for the presidency, that foundation raked in tens and tens of millions of dollars. many of the largest donations coming from foreign governments. we are talking about millions of dollars from australia, norway,

the netherlands, ireland, and remember, hillary clinton's claim to be the champion of women during the 2016 campaign, her foundation took in tens and tens of millions of dollars from countries with the most despicable, disgusting, horrific human rights records, middle eastern countries practicing sharia. treating women like second and third-class citizens and worse. the clinton foundation taking between ten and $25 million from saudi arabia, for meds forbidsn from traveling without a male guardians permission, persecutes christians and jews and gives the death penalty to gays and lesbians. they took millions from these countries and bought the clinton silence and they took more from qatar and uae and algeria. they bought her silence! she never criticized those atrocious human rights records like we have regularly. in 2016, the foundation took in

a whopping -- get this -- the year she is running, $62 million. in 2017, after clinton's devastating loss to donald trump, her foundation only received $26 million in donations. that's a huge, massive drop. that's because after it became clear that hillary clinton would never be president, so what were all those big donors hoping to gain from their enormous deposits into the clinton foundation? looks to me like that's called access, pay to play, paid access at the highest levels of our federal government. imagine for a second donald trump ever did this. you are buying access that no other law-abiding citizen would ever dream of. do you think they'd get invitations to the white house, access to the president if she had won, access to the senate seat when she had that, the state department when she was secretary of state? if everything went according to plan, access to the oval office. everything didn't go according to plan and hillary clinton lost

because you, we, the people voted and donald trump became president in spite of all the deep state's efforts to prevent that from happening. now they are delegitimizing and frankly, we will see in the next two years nothing but an all-out effort to assault to destroy the presidency of donald trump. now we have the opportunity to uncover what looks like a completely corrupt pay to play scheme that should have no place in this constitutional republic of ours. the mainstream media, they choose to ignore this developing scandal. of course. they are all things democratic and they are an extension of the democratic party. they are too busy covering stormy and et cetera, et cetera. they don't want to cover the crisis at the southern border, not in a fair and honest way. now that thousands of migrants have arrived south of san diego. the biased press can no longer ignore the serious situation or pretend it is some grand

conspiracy theory cooked up by the gop to get votes in the midterms. instead, the media's echo chamber is spinning out of control over the use of non-lethal tear gas. why? to disburse a massive group of migrants that attempted to break all of our laws, rush the border, and many assaulting our own border patrol with rocks and bottles and other projectiles. and we have it on tape. take a look. speak about things breaking out of this san isidro port near tijuana. the president falsely describe the caravan is an invasion. now he seems intent is try to make it as likely as he imagined that. >> is there any defense for using tear gas on? >> americans, especially from supporters, people who don't quite see the inhumanity that is going on here, who maybe think that 3-year-olds neared teargas. >> there has to be a pragmatic and compassionate answer that does not involve tear gassing children.

>> we look at children being subducted to teargas. that's the united states causing that. that's outrageous. >> he wants that chaos on the border as he continues to treat these people, so many of whom are leaving violent lives in central america, like terrorists. there are some bad people, yeah, the bad 4-year-old... teargas to the other day? >> sean: as you can see, your mainstream media doing anything and everything they can to vilify president trump and the administration over the crisis at the southern border. however, as per usual, they have completely failed to tell the whole truth. look at the study tonight from news busters. last night, networks totally ignored the use of tear gas during the obama administration. do you remember this kind of hysteria? tear gas was used about once a month during barack obama's time in offense in order to repel migrants at the border. once a month. think about that. isn't that all you need to really know about the bias of

the media in this country? there was no monthly outrage over the actions of the obama administration, no grandstanding, no dramatic pleas for civility, no talk about women and children. this shows without any shadow of a doubt, the destroy trump press, and that's who they are, are willing to do and say anything and everything to damage the administration. this has been two years and on going. many on the left try to paint the trump administration as monsters. the statistics, the truth, history tells a much different story. in fact, 100,000 asylum claims were processed last year under the trump administration. by the way, that happens to be a record-setting amount. that's up 6,000 from obama's final year in office. under the trump immigration application, into the united states they have surged. probably because of the better economy. unfortunately, this causes serious backlogs and we now are currently at 786,000 pending

immigration cases. keep in mind, the u.s. has received 160,000 asylum cases this year, compared to just 42,000 in 2008. a good economy, again. as of september, there were 42,000 likely illegal immigrants held in ice detention facilities despite only enough funding and capacity for 40,000 people. the president has requested more funding for ice. as we know and as we can see, america's immigration resources are stretched extremely thin. they are operating at maximum capacity. this makes the situation at our southern border even more serious and more dangerous for those people that put their lives on the line to protect our country, our sovereignty, our borders, our rule of law. none of this seems to matter to the left. the president is working hard to improve the lives of our american people, our immigration system, strengthen our borders and ask people to respect our laws.

the left is working overtime to destroy the reputation of the trump administration. no conspiracy is too absurd, no lie too egregious. no rhetoric to disgusting. and when democrats take control of the house, , and a few short weeks, i digress your second -- when they do, oh, we have great things planned. it is only going to get worse, mark my words. two years, never-ending, nonstop attacks, nonstop investigation. what are they going to do for you, we, the people, to improve the economy and our security, to bring us to energy independence? probably nothing. here now with more on the serious on going situation at the southern border, south carolina senator, lindsey graham. you know it's amazing? you watched as first, you see the statistics in the obama years and all the times used teargas. do you remember any reports, any hysteria from the media about that? >> number one, no.

how long does it take you to figure this out? when it comes to obama, when he uses tear gas, he is protecting the country. trump is a cruel, heartless bastard and it undercuts the argument that obama used it to protect our border from being overrun. the question for the country is, what do you say to the people that shot the canisters? i stand behind the men and women on the border standing between us and people that want to cross illegally. when you are slamming the tear gas, you are slamming the people we put on the border to protect us. that's what disgusts me the most. >> sean: what are they supposed to do, when rocks and bottles are being pelted at them? what are we supposed to do when they are breaking down barriers and want to rush the border? this is what we were warning about before the election. and it's now coming to pass and

there are thousands more still coming. >> i have been a lawyer in the military most of my adult life. you use the least amount of force possible to protect you and secure the mission. the mission is to protect the border from being overrun. tear gas keeps the people apart. you don't get in a fight. that's a good thing. the bottom line is donald trump was right to call the caravan out weeks ago. he is right to make sure it never crosses the border. people throughout the world are watching the president. if he blinks here, his credibility on securing the border is dead. he is not going to blink. to my democratic friends, how do you expect the public to work with us to fix a broken immigration system if you support one wave after another? a lot is at stake. the president is not going to bend or back down. i hope the republicans and congress will stand behind him. >> sean: so president obama teargas his people on a nightly basis.

we now have literally -- and we'll talk to kirstjen nielsen, secretary of homeland security -- we have identified, mexico, too, has identified 500, may be 600 criminals coming across the border that have emigrated themselves into the migrant population. when i sat through a briefing with rick perry in texas when he was governor, a security briefing that obama should have been at, when i sat through it, they had a seven-year period of time, 642,000 crimes committed against texans. some minor, many serious, including murder. i have interviewed angel moms and dads more than i ever wanted to in my whole life, lost their lives to illegal immigrants that we even had in our justice system and never deported. at what point does the government bear the responsibility that they didn't do their job and enforce the law? what culpability do they have? >> i think we have a lot of culpability as a nation from ignoring this problem.

doing the same old thing and expecting a different outcome is insanity. president trump is going to stop the caravan. the next ones coming won't come if this one is stopped. he will shut down the border if he has to. democrats should give him the money he needs to secure the border. if they deny him the funding to secure our border, president trump is going to push back and fight back. this is a day of reckoning for the american people. what message do you want to send to the rest of the world about our border? if you want to be open borders, this is your chance. if you want to stand firm, this is also your opportunity and i hope democrats understand you have got to really hate trump to not see this caravan is a problem for the american people. >> sean: let me ask you a last question about mueller. the president said he is not going to stop this, never had any plans. he said it numerous times now. at this point, how do we justify as a nation that believes in a constitutional republic, we agree in equal application of

our laws, equal justice under the law, and hillary used paid for, phony russians lies to influence the american people. that was used as a fraud on the fisa court, would never verify or corroborated. hillary never identified as having paid for it. then it goes further and it is used as part of a leak strategy. the bulk of information according to yours and charles grassley's memo. why has mueller, if he cares about russian interference, she paid for it, why is that not an issue? >> you can't blame mueller. it is not his charter to look at that. i do blame -- >> sean: whoa. why is it not? if he is looking for russia collusion, why is that not within his mandate whether somebody's loan application is within his mandate? >> it might be. i blame the department of justice for not appointing a special counsel to look at the fisa warrant. they got away with a lot here.

if i'm chairman of the committee next year, we are going to look at fisa warrant program. i promise you we will. >> sean: are you going to get to the bottom of that? also could make it to the bottom of hillary's emails and destruction of emails? >> we need a special counsel to look at this. why was the fbi in the did they have a political bias? tank for clinton? this screams for a special counsel. that's why trump was so upset at the sessions department of justice. >> sean: lindsey graham, senator, thank you for being with us. when we come back, we'll go to mississippi, waiting for the results of this crucial last senate race. we'll have more on mueller's witch hunt. don't go anywhere. jodi jennifer and her men came our necks, ahead. ♪

♪ >> sean: joining us know the latest news on the mississippi

senate election, fox news correspondent, our friend peter doocy is there on the ground. i am getting some anecdotal report about turnout in more republicans areas versus democratic areas. what i have heard, democratic strongholds didn't have the bounce that would be needed to win in mississippi. >> from what i saw a minute ago, it doesn't sound like enough of certain counties are in yet to know for sure. that is the case in some places, maybe not in others. it was interesting. we drove from gulfport here to jackson, a couple hours. just about everywhere we went on the side of the road, there were these big, flashing billboards that said "vote again." we know how many people got a message to cast a ballot for the second time in three weeks. it was 30%-40% of registered voters, according to state officials, who are saying it started out slow and steady but

really picked up toward the end of the day. right now, the democrat, mike espy, is having his election night event at the mississippi civil rights museum. we understand he is on site watching returns that could make him the first african-american senator elected in mississippi since reconstruction. cindy hyde-smith trying to make history of her own as the first-ever woman elected to the senate from mississippi. she is waiting to see if voters who said they were offended by a joke she made by a public hanging voted in larger number than people that took it as a joke. her supporters did something at the last minute, too. they tried to shine a light on a clinton-era indictment against mike espy and last night some of the people introducing the president and cindy hyde-smith came to the stage to say he had to leave, espy had to leave as clinton's agriculture secretary because they said he was too corrupt for the clintons. we'll see which argument was stronger shortly. >> sean: peter, please tell me when you talk to your dad and

that, please ask him why i was dumped on page 184 of his latest book. i was dumped at the very end as an afterthought. >> i call him. i text him. i think you are with the entrees. it goes in the order of a meal. >> sean: he didn't ask me for an entree. whatever. i wasn't the appetizer. peter, we'll be checking back with you, monitoring all the results out of mississippi. we'll bring you any numbers as they come in. they are notoriously slow, unfortunately. we are hoping they come in soon. earlier tonight, jerome corsi sat down with our own tucker carlson discussing his experience dealing with team mueller. let's take a look. >> everything they wanted, i had nothing to hide. i gave it to them immediately. for having forgotten on day one, because i hadn't reviewed the e-mail, this particular e-mail about ted malloch, i am now being charged with willfully and knowingly giving false information, which is nonsense. >> do you think that your

political views are playing a role in the decision of the special counsel to charge you with a felony? >> yes, i think. also, they accused me of deleting the e-mails. i told them to restore the e-mails. they restored them that i supposedly deleted through the time machine. this is a political witch hunt. >> sean: he rick reaction, former u.s. attorney for the district of colombia, joe digenova, and chairman of americans fighting back, herman cain. this is called test alive. what usually happens is, you sit down and they say, listen, if you don't want to spend ten years in jail, the rest of your life in jail, we need information, so they make a deal, and usually, sadly, often escapes, joe, tell me if i'm wrong, they basically tell you what they want to hear, and paul manafort and jerome corsi, for my observation, are refusing to tell them what they want to hear, even though they would

benefit probably dramatically and may both face life in priso prison. but they are refusing to capitulate. is that accurate? is that probably accurate? >> yes, i think it is. i think we can tell right now from the manner in which the mueller investigation has failed, utterly failed to produce any evidence of collusion between the russian government and the trump campaign or president trump himself. so now what they are doing is they are in spasms of vindictive prosecution, unethical prosecution, just to get somebody, to get something to get close to the president. it is outrageous. i hope that the next attorney general, the permanent attorney general, who i hope the president will nominate soon, will take control of this. one of the first things he should do, the new attorney general, after sworn in, is have a meeting with mr. mueller, find out what's going on, where he is going and when he is going to end.

that's a duty that the next attorney general has, because this investigation by mueller is unconstitutional, founded on no crime, created by rod rosenstein because he is a gutless, duplicitous failure of an attorney general. he should be ashamed of himself. the new attorney general should fire rosenstein asap. >> sean: you know, herman, people ask, why do you bring up clinton? because number one, these very same people that have attacked this president, peter strzok, lisa page, james comey, they all set this up. the reason is, they allowed hillary to get away with what were known crimes, obstruction, a violation of the espionage ac act. it's now incontrovertible. and that's the point. and then she paid for the phony russian dossier, that even christopher steele never stood by, went under oath and enter

derogatory in britain. yet by the courts were lied to, information withheld, nothing was verified. then russian lies fed to the american people paid for by her. how does that get ignored and we have no evidence here ever of any trump-russia collusion? >> it gets ignored because of hypocrisy on steroids. jerome corsi is one of the most honorable, honest individuals on the planet. no one can remember ever word, every nuance of everything they may have said over the last ten years. no human being on earth. when they get an opportunity to dig through dozens and dozens and thousands of pages of comments, they will pick out one thing they want to use to run up the flag pole to make a case out of it. this is nothing but a witch hunt looking for a witch and they haven't found a witch in nearly two years, sean.

that's all it is. >> sean: i believe, joe, and jerome corsi wanted to make it easy on himself, paul manafort wanted a lesser sentence. all they had to do was say what was wanted. >> oh, of course. >> sean: we have mueller and his pitbull, andrew weissmann, they have a history of this. >> here is the deal. you are absolutely right. both of these men could give mueller the lies that he wants if they wanted to make life easy for themselves. you bring up weissmann. andrew weissmann has a reputation for being one of the most ethical prosecutors in the country. he has been rebuked many times. remember andrew weissman showed up at hillary clinton's victory party on election night. he sent sally yates an e-mail saying, bravo, for violating an order of the president of the united states when she refused to enforce the travel ban. >> sean: it's a disgrace. >> that tells you why mueller's team is compromised, conflicted,

ethically, in every conceivable way and it is a disgrace that bob mueller hired no republicans and all democrats who are clintonistas. >> sean: think you both. powerful testimony from both of you. we will follow it closely. when we come back, my exclusive interview with homeland security secretary, kirstjen nielsen. what the destroy-trump-media doesn't want you to know about the border. next. my name is jeff sheldon,

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advantage, or 52-48. a big difference for confirmations, big difference as it relates to supreme court justices that are trying to be confirmed. first, we go back to the crisis on our southern border. dhs secretary, kirstjen nielsen, released a statement yesterday saying the migrant caravan is "far larger, more organized than previous ones." earlier, i sat down with the secretary to talk about this and so much more. >> sean: madam secretary, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> sean: let's talk first about the weekend. let me quote one border patrol chief, carla provost. "our agents were being assaulted, a large group rush to the area, a large group were throwing rocks and bottles at my men and women, putting them in harm's way and numerous immoral reports." how bad was it? >> sean, let me just say, this is a testament to the training and professionalism of the border patrol that no one was hurt.

we had 1,000 people rushing the border in a very violent and lawless way. we will not stand by as our border patrol are attacked. so they defended themselves. >> sean: i don't know if they have any choice. the thing is, we see now that the mayor interestingly of tijuana said, excuse me, trump was right. this is an invasion.ay they have now had a lot of issues that they have had to deal with. the migrants, the caravan, are still coming.al they are coming in bigger numbers. what if larger numbers of people rush the border. are you confident you are prepared? >> we were prepared this time. we will be prepared for any additional migrants. the president has made it quite clear. we will not tolerate illegal or violent entry into our country. this time, he talked about it for a month in advance as the caravans were making their way up. he raised awareness. he called in the military. he called in concertina wire.

we harden for ports, called an additional law enforcement, state, local, federal. and we were prepared. we will be prepared. we will not allow illegal entry into our country. >> sean: one thing the president said, if they are going to be seeking asylum, they are not going to be in this country or allowed in this country while whatever processss goes forward. one of the problem has been, people cross the border, claim asylum, get a court date, they are released into america and they never show up again. how insistent is the president that they stay in mexico? how are relations with mexico, consideringat they were told a long time ago they should be dealing with this? >> this is an important point you raised, sean. we only see about 9%, 10% of central americans that make an asylum claim actually be granted asylum by an immigration judge. that's really important to put in perspective. 90% of those making asylum claims are not making a claim that can be honored under the

statutory framework within the united states. it's not a valid reason for asylum. you have heard me say it before. if you are coming to get a job, that's not at a claim for asylu. if you are coming to be with your family, that's not a claim for asylum. >> sean: isn't it likely they are going to be coached? if they want asylum, didn't mexico offer them work permits to work in south mexico? that was rejected by most. how many people are in the remaining caravan still making its way north? >> we believe there will be about 10,00000 ultimately. there is between 8,000 and 10,000 now. you are exactly right. the government of mexico offered everyone asylum and work permits. that's why this caravan is very different than ones we have w sn in theth past. not only is it violent, buten to the extent it claims that its members would like to seek asylum. they have been offered asylum. they have turned it down in mexico. >> sean: let me play a shot from "60 minutes," scott pelle. the argument was about the separation issues and howen thee was a warrant for one 3-year-old.

i want to get the response to it. the president tweeted out, and we have images of even young people, when obama was president, that are behind fences. they would say it is cages if it was donald trump. watchfe s this. >> the trump administration made the decision to separate children from families. what responsibilities did they take on in your estimation? >> they issued an order without consulting with the agencies who were responsible for carrying out that order. we take better care of people's effects when we send them to the jail than we took care of the children who we took from their parents. >> you quit your job at homeland security. i wonder why. >> i had taken an oath to uphold the constitution. i we were being asked as a department to do something that violated the civil rights and civil liberties of persons. >> sean: i want to get your reaction. wasn't it president trump that stopped the practice through an executive order? >> sean, it was. i am so disappointed in that piece.

that's not journalist. that's factually incorrect. we did not have a policy to separate families fromly the children. what the president said and all presidents before him, we enforce the law. this president takes it very seriously. we enforced the law against those that chose to enter illegally, not go legally to a port off entry but enter illegally. they were prosecuted. because of that, if they had children with them, so as not to put children in a custodial jail, they were separated and put in the good care of hhs. "60 minutes," they need to go back and check their facts. they should have taken more time to understand how the immigration laws of this country work. >> sean: results now coming in out of mississippi. the republican has a big lead with a little over 40% of the vote in. we'll get to that. also, the media going40 after or first lady over christmas decorations. they can't stop hating a lovely first lady.

they wouldn't do this to michelle obama, would they? we'll get to that. jesse, jessica, whose world? we'll find out straight ahead. ♪

♪ >> sean: this is a fox news alert. we are monitoring the results out of the great state of mississippi. there you have it. at this moment, cindy hyde-smith is leading 55-45%. 46% of precincts reporting. we'll have more on that. our own peter doocy is on the ground in a minute. first, christmas season can't slow down the media's unhinged, 24/7, every second, minute, hour of every day, trump hate machine. they are using the white house christmas display as a line of attack against the first lady. they are calling the decoration trees of death comparing them to

"the handmaid's tale." it is pretty despicable. i have seen it, absolutely beautiful, stunning decorations. all these media people -- and we'll get to our guests -- co-host of "the five," "watters world" and fox news contributor, jessica tarlov. >> in and out. >> sean: we can't even let the first lady, and the great irony is, all of your liberal friends, they are begging for tickets. i know who they are, to get into the parties at the white house. you know where i'm not doing? i'm not going to a white house christmas party. >> i'm not either. >> sean: i wasn't invited, where you? >> yes, i was. i can't believe trump didn't invite you after all of the nice things you have said. [laughter] >> sean: you really want to run into all of our fake news

friends? >> i just want to see the beautiful christmas decorations. i think they are gorgeous. >> sean: why do they constantly pick on the first lady? i do know. who is beyond lovely, sacrifices a lot, is out there doing causes that are trying to help kids and people in the country. why? i didn't see this -- michelle obama got criticized for saying for the first time in my adult life i'm proud of my country. >> she got criticized for a lot more, including wearing sleeveless shirts. >> i'm still upset about the shirt. >> see? there you have it right there. the christmas decorations, whether you like them or not, it is not really the point. i saw people focusing on the be best decoration, the cyberbullying campaign. with a husband who cyber bullies. it is hypocritical. she said she was one of the most bullied people out there. if michelle obama had -- >> imagine if hillary was elected, bill clinton would have been in charge of the christmas decorations, mistletoe everywhere. the media would love that too.

>> that's beneath you. >> this is what happened when trump won out. >> sean: that was funny. he is winning by a lot. he got you there. >> this is when trump derangement syndrome meets the war on christmas. you get decorategate. you guys are scared of christmas decorations. i didn't think you were that big of a snowflake. i'm going to buy a trumpy bear and give one to you. it will be like your little emotional support animal. >> is that trumpy bear thing real? >> sean: [laughs] i have no idea. >> have you seen that commercial? it is frightening. >> it pays your salary. >> i don't know. i don't think the trees are that big of a deal. >> sean: let me move on. >> okay, cool. >> sean: i just think we need to show the first lady, and ivanka, leave them out. >> ivanka works for the government! >> sean: baron doesn't need to see another severed head.

>> i'm all for protecting baron. but melania, she's the first lady. she's taken responsibility for this campaign. >> sean: cindy hyde-smith looks like she is going to so far. >> it is important she gets this seat. you don't have to worry about the romney swing vote, the susan collins swing vote. you have a solid republican vote and it looks good. >> sean: he didn't lose 69 seats like obama or 60 like clinton. he netted seats. >> you are not actually going to argue this was a job well done by the republicans. >> 69-60. trump wins seats because he went out and campaigned. >> we just picked up 40 states. we had 40 seats because of the new california seat. >> sean: i did not hear that. >> blue wave all over the place. the popular vote here. >> sean: this is easy tonight. sorry. in, out, his world. what do you think?

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>> sean: standing by in mississippi. >> we just got an update. they turned off the projector screening. right now a different mood over there compared to here. there does seem to be some excitement building. no surprises with the hyde-smith team. the results right now is exactly the way they say they projected it based on turn out and what they thought the mood was here in mississippi, despite all of

the controversy and all of the attention the last couple of days. >> sean: that's peter doocy reporting. we'll get the follow up soon. unfortunately this is terrible. that's all the time we have left. i can't stay here anymore. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham is from washington, d.c., not the swamp or sewer. >> laura: candidate. you think of mike espy, this is like the old home team; right? these fames are -- names are floating out there in the ether. >> sean: this is a big win. he helped defeat claire mccaskill, joe donnelly, hiedy, and he couldn't help in all 34 districts, but he