8:00 p.m. the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. i hope you've had a great hour. by the way, it continues with sean hannity live in new york city right now. >> sean:gh flying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. i got it. >> tucker: you got it, man! >> sean: welcome to the busy breaking news "hannity" tonight. we start with a fox news alert bright moments ago, president trump visiting the capitol rotunda to honor former president herbert walker bush, who will lay in state until wednesday.y. tonight, we'll remember the life and legacy of the 41st president of the united states, george herbert walker bush. he was a man devoted to his family, his country and making this world a better, freer, and safer place. a lifetime of incredible service. and we will also have tonight my full interview with 41 from 2004 and we will also show you the very worst media coverage surrounding the president's

passing, pretty despicable. plus we have new developments in the mueller witch hunt front, some really bad news for bill and hillary clinton, and breaking news on antitax riots in paris. and you will not believe what one new jersey teacher told her students about santa. five and 6-year-old kids. if you do have kids, you may want to tune them out at that point. t it t will shock your conscience. we start tonight with our breaking news opening monologue. ♪ onh his 18th birthday, george herbert walker bush enlisted in the united states navy, becoming the latest aviator in the navy.al it was six months after the japanese attack on pearl harbor. in the following years, he flew dozens of combat missions all across the pacific ocean. after one such mission in 1944, his plane's engine was set ablaze by enemy fire, forcing him to bail out over the ocean. after being rescued, several

overs later by u.s. submarine, bush reportedly wondered, "why have i been spared and what did god have been store for me?" it turns out, god had a lot in store for george herbert walker bush. he became successful in the oil business in texas, a u.s. congressman, the tenth ambassador to the united nations and the chairman of the republican national committee. also the ambassador to china, the director of the cia served eight years as ronald reagan's loyal vice president, one of the most successful presidencies in victory. history. of course, he was elected the 41st president of the united states. george h.w. bush had one of the most notable resumes in the history of the u.s. but his personal life was even more impressive, along with his beloved wife, barbara, of 70 plus years, he was a parent to six children including former president and former governor, grandfather to 17 and a great-grandfather to eight. through it all he never forgot the brave men and women in this

country that protect us every single day, make everything possible, including in 2004 when he sat down for an interview vewith yours truly. take a look. take a look. >> it touches me, sean. ii admit to living in somewhat f a cocoon as a former president, but i go much out of my way to say hi to the police and firemen. the ones that i talked to, he lifted up the back of his lapel, and it's at george w. >> sean: these are the guys that tell me they watch fox news every night. >> i'm sure it is. these people are not elitist country club people, they are saving our lives with their service. and when they say i'm here for thee president, i get very emotional. we'll have more of this interview coming up it's an entirely and just a few minutes. obviously in both his personal and professional life, president bush was always a good, decent, and honorable person.

serving his country, during his four years in the oval office, eight years as vice president, he had to deal with some of the most challenging issues in modern american history. he saw the collapse of the soviet union after his successful strategy with president reagan called peace through strength. he ushered in the reunification of germany, reconstructed, literally, conducted the first gulf war, the response to saddam who'd saddam hussein's hostile actions in attempted takeover of kuwait. and along with ronald reagan, george h.w. bush took over the country creating 21 million new jobs. it was at the time the longest period of peacetime economic growth in my country. they took double digit unemployment, double-digit interest rates and inflation into amazing lows. thein very same thing that president trump is now doing after the disaster of the obama economy. and they inherited the economy of jimmy carter.

it did not go without some controversy. they always have controversy. some criticized him from not taking out saddam hussein in a very short period of time. he was also attacked on the issue of no new tax pledge. youd d might remember, it was e infamous "read my lips, no new tax" moment. like every republican president since ronald reagan, bush encountered a media that was actively rooting against him, and it's only gotten worse since then. take a look. >> can you explain, how you are a terrorist expert. iran was officially a terrorist state. the question is, you have made us hypocrites in the face of the world. >> the president also got to see a supermarket checkout in action. he seemed as though he had never seen one before. the president said that he was amazed. >> the bush campaign has been a model in how you elect somebody who, even his friends think is a weak national candidate. >> we find it very steady work keeping up with bush's life.

they do keep coming fast. lying is something that comes to him very easily, something he resorts to with a slightly worrying skill. >> sean: what you sow there is only the tip of the iceberg. during his reelection bid, "the new york times" reported the fake story about president bush's so-called amazement at a supermarket scanning technology. they try to paint him as out of touch, although widely refuted, "the new york times" included this fake story in its obituary of the president. meanwhile, the so-called journalists at the ap could not hide their contempt. now the former president even passing away, tweeting, "george h.w. bush, sword with a patrician new englander, whose presidency sword with a coalition victory over iraq and kuwait but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that allowed voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. he was 94." that tweet has since been deleted but of course this is all part of a pattern. the mainstream media viciously attacking any prominent republicans all while providing cover to all of their friends ie

the democratic party. reagan was portrayed as a heartless monster the eight years he was president. george bush literally bashed for hiser speaking style, among othr things, john mccain excoriated throughout the 2008 campaign as racist or worse. mitt romney called a sexist and misogynist because he wanted to hire women. apparently these attacks are just obviously completely disingenuous. when people die and all of a lysudden, you like them, like we saw was senator mccain. most in the mainstream media, they will do a 180 after they excoriated him and treated him horribly, seemingly forgetting abouter the nasty coverage, a pattern to destroy people's names and character when they are alive and then create up a veneer p of bipartisanship, then we'll say nice things about somebody when the person dies. it's so transparently phony and we have video evidence. take a t look. >> they are broken up and

breaking that pledge showed the character and resolve of the man to do what he was persuaded with. the right thing to do economically even though he knew at the time it might guarantee that he would be a one term president. >> we are mourning something greater than one man in assembly, we are morning and ideal, because president george h.w. bush was the last of the greatest generations. >> such respect for the position, the institution of the presidency. >> but what a special person, what a patriot, what a special person to this country. and incredible decency. >> sean: and an example, too, let's praise former president bush, who the media was never nice to, maybe we could use that to bludgeon trump. and when the dust settles history can look back on 41 as an american hero and as a country called george h.w. bush, he answered that call. he answer the call of the pacific at the ripe age of 18,ge

like somebody in his generation including my father. he entered the halls of our nation's bureaucracy, he entered that. he answered the call is the 41st president of this country. he did it as a father, a husband and now answers once again to his beloved barbara bush in heaven, after they both had an amazing 73 year marriage. our thoughts and prayers tonight go out to the entire bush family, and over the years, i did have the opportunity to sit down with president bush. we will play that interview. before we get to that interview, we first turn to a lot of breaking news. we start in france tonight where tensions are very high after very violent protests against the french president emmanuel macron are taking place. this all started as a demonstration by france's yellow vest movement against the country's crippling gas tax. designed to "fight climate change." thisli comes as gas prices in paris are already over $7 per gallon, which is really insane. so far across france, those protests have left three dead

and hundreds of wounded and as it turns out, socialism and high taxes and government enforced climate shaming didn't exactly lead to societal euphoria. instead of pushing a massive climate change agenda, that only puts a bigger burden on who? the lower, the working-class people of france and anywhere else that used it. while no one supports violence and destruction, should we be surprised? it serves as an importantt warning to anyone here in the u.s. we'll continue to monitor the latest. also no development strength as it relates to the mueller witch hunt. breaking tonight, according to a report for michael as a cuff, remember him? robert mueller is tying up loose ends in a probe and that appeared as he says to be coming to a close. this comes today as author and 72-year-old jerome corsi filed a criminal complaint against a special counsel, alleging that mueller and his team of democratic lawyers sought his false testimony. by the way, laying out how

"dr. corsi has been criminally threatened and coerced to settle a lie and call it the truth." mr. corsi explained on this show, he rejected a plea deal because he refused to lie, because under oath and before god. pretty courageous decision, given that he is 72, and literally threaten" what could be a life sentence in jail for not agreeing to test a lie to the special counsel. this is the opposite of how our justice system is supposed to work. in america, we all were brought up to believe that we are supposed to investigate crimes and then find perpetrators, not the other way around. remember, there is still zero evidence today you have any trump-russia collusion, nothing. remember, general flynn, george papadopoulos, pleading guilty to process crimes as a result of the investigation itself, nothing to do with the investigation. manafort is guilty on some counts and pled guilty to crimes on loan applications and taxpl issues going back through 2007. taking place way before he joined the campaign.

an assertive investigatingin the obvious collusion that obama's doj and comey's fbi and them using dirty, phony campaign oppo research that hillary paid for from russia, they continue to push only the phony, partisan russian narrative, only to bludgeon, undermine, and delegitimize the duly elected president we now have. also, in that vein, breaking tonight, comey has reached a deal with house republicans to sit for a private deposition after trying to force a public hearing. he ever be held accountable like michael cohen for lying under oath? remember, he said the report about the clinton investigation was not written before she was interviewed, but that was a lie. apparently we don't have equal application of our laws. one standard for republicans, others were democrats like comey, and may be another system for the clintons entirely. by the way, thankfully tonight it might be closing time for the clintons, shady and once lucrative business of turning political access into hard, cold cash, according to longtime "newti york times" columnist, maureen dowd.

a recent joint speech by bill and hillary clinton was pretty disappointing at best. she writes, "their pathological need to be relevant in america is belied by a canadian arena where stretches of empty seats bear witness to the passing of their relevance." even the few showing up or getting a discount, according to a new report. tickets to see bill and hillary were as low as $11 in some locations. if you ask me, that is still over overpriced. a lot more to get to. the latest on the caravan, the medias latest flow as it relates to the passing of president 41, george herbert walker bush, and you will not believe how one teacher decided to ruin christmas for five w and 6-year-olds. but tonight, we first remember the legacy of service, president george h.w. bush. we are going to go backk to to. i had the opportunity to sit down with a former president ahead of that year's presidential election.

let's watch that. >> sean: it's got to be harder to watch your son. >> it is far worse when they go after your son, and i would say unfairly, than they use to when i was in the cross hairs and would get condemned and criticized.un even when i thought it was unfair about me. item hurts much more when it's your own son. and it's not even a close call. >> sean: not even close. i think about my son, who was a lot younger than yours, but i would think it's got to be a lot harder. you might have to go through this one more time pray that other son of yours in florida. how was he? >> he's good. oh, god, he is good. they singled him out two years ago as the number one target for the democratic party nationally, not just for t governor. senator terry mcauliffe, for whom i am not -- let's put it this way, not very high on him. he made this the number one goal for the democratic party nationally. and jeb won by 14 points.

>> sean: and temples were a little closer going into that election. he won by a much wider a margin. i guess that made terry mcauliffe a little unhappy about that. you know, your son said something the other day that really struck me. he did want to go to washington and to change the tone, something that he has been able to accomplish in texas. and since he has been there, and not talking about the michael moores or the pundits on tv, but the former vice president al gore screaming, "george bush. betrayed his country." teden kennedy regularly calls a president a liar. a he concocted or for political gain. have you heard the leaders of the democratic party thatid shrill?ia >> i've heard them shrill and i've heard of some of ours shrill in the past but i never felt the climate like it is now, nor the shrillness of the political opposition. >> sean: it hurts? >> well, you expect some of it,

but when it's your son and they> call him a liar, when they impugn his motives, it hurts a lot. you think i feel strongly about it, talk to barbara bush. she just tells me not to watch. but i can't, i can't watch. >> sean: i read recently j that she won't read "the new york times" anymore. >> she doesn't. i still read about it and i am wanting more and much more publicly than i used to used to. >> sean: why? >> because i think they have gone too far. i think they are advocates for the democrats, i think they had lost the objectivity that they did have many years ago, i think there's a certain arrogance to monks a lot of their people. you expect this on the op-ed page. you have people in there that's me or george him every day but that is different. but when the news columns, when

you see subjectivity creeping into the news columns, it concerns me. they'll deny it's happening and i say, too bad, i think it is. >> sean: you saw it back at the convention, the protesters. michael moore conspiracy theories about the bush family. you even commented publicly about him. >> he's bad. they can say, how can you criticize him if you haven't seen the movie. it's just my problem, i don't want to pay one dime that might end up in his pocket. he is a below the belt guy, he knows because my family are public persons, we don't have any access to making him tell the truth. he made some comment, i understand, and the documentary, that is giving him all kinds of liberal fame, that we havery a billion, $200 million out of the saudis, or we were enraged by that. he does it in the way that there

is no libel. i don't like him and i don't know him and i don't want to meet him and i don't like his movie and i'm not going to see it. how is that? >> sean: did you like to fill -- would you like to fill in on my talk show? miller, when he spoke at the republican convention, had some incredible harsh criticism of the democratic party. he said, he asked, where is the bipartisan it's a trip when you need it most. he talked about a manic obsession to bring down your son, our commander in chief. he said they are motivated more by i partisan part politics and national security, today's democratic leaders, see america as an occupier, not a liberator. do you see a shift in a change? in years gone by, fdr, jfk, and truman, and the modern democratic party. >> i refer to dale miller about

the shift and change because he was one and now he's not. he has watch watching he's worked with him, his own party. as reagan said, the party left him, that's what reagan said about the democrats. >> sean: you were involved in a revolution. when president reagan and, when you were vice president and youu proposed your economic plan and you were going to cut taxes, a lot of people predicted that a depression would ensue. you had the longest period of peacetime economic growth, 20 bus million new jobs were created. when you decided to build up our military and end what president reagan called the gap of vulnerability and confront the evild empire. there were those that predicted world war iii would ensue. but we know what happened, the wall came tumbling down. there was a lot of criticism. is it similar? h if you look in the prism of history? >> i think there is t some similarity. some of the same critics. >> sean: your friend ted kennedy. >> my friend ted, we have a very personal relationship,

but with he goes after the president and a personal way, i don't like it one bit. he knows that. you know what came to me, sean, i will admit to living in somewhat of a cocoon as a former president. but i got out of my way to say high back to the policemen and firemen, and i will tell you, the ones that i talk to you were fearsome. one flipped up the top of his lapel like that. it had a big george wer button. >> sean: they tell me that they watch fox news every night. >> i'm sure they do. but these people are not elitist country club people, they are saving our lives with their service. when they say that we are for the president, i get very emotional about that. es>> sean: you say about the i bush family, it's not about legacy, it's about duty, it's about honor, and it's about service. that -- is that something you and the president talk about?

>> no, but i don't need to talk to him, i know what motivates him over his lifetime. i'm just saying at this stage in my life, that matters.ov service, duty, honor, country. service to others, helping others, points of life and family. and in my case with our two public figure sons, it's a pretty easy fit. >> and you are proud of them and use that you think you win substantially? >> i honestly believe it. i could be wrong. heck, i thought i would win. but look at it this way, the lord works in mysterious ways, and if i would have won, i doubt that the president would have been president today, maybe in the future. and jeb may not be serving admirably in his second term as governor. >> sean: service, duty, honor, god, family.

an amazing man. an amazing family. directly ahead, we have a busy news night. how is the media using the death of a former president, george h.w. bush, to attack trump? it's pretty despicable. we got a full analysis and at some point, the kids can't watch the show and i will explain. orgk trump? it's

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>> they both believe that the presidency is bigger than himself. this is not something that is president adheres to. >> this is 24 hours of nostalgia about what leadership you still look like a mess country. >> there is a great clip from 1981 george h.w. bush is challenged on how tough he is, and he talks about toughness, values, and he says toughness is not attacking. >> he understood that the press was not the enemy of the people, and he even said basically come at the end of the day, we are all in this together, and i will be here for you, just like i know you would be there for me. what a remarkable difference between 1988 and 2018. >> sean: today on "the view" joy behar used george h.w. bush's death to launch a tasteless attack on president trump, revoking meghan mccain, who recently, as we know, lost her own dad to issue a fiery response. watch this. >> is a candidate, he said,

those who think we are c powerls to do anything about the w greenhouse effect or forgetting about the white house effect. and that he signed into law the clean air act amendment of 1990, one of the most sweeping environmental statutes ever. this president that we have now is trying to unravel everything that he did and obama did, and if i ever become a one issue voter, it will be about pollution and the greenhouse effect. >> can we focus on the president, please? i don't want to talk about trump. we are honoring a great president. >> i want to talk about -- >> i'm not interested in year one interest voters. >> i am talking! >> we'll be rightin back. >> sean: anyone notice the liberal snowflakes behind -- forget it. joining us now, fox news contributor, senior editor at ""the federalist,"" molly mollie hemingway, doug schoen, and

monica crowley. for example, i supported john mccain because i thought he would be the better president, and i think i was proven correct demand. all those people that viciously attacked him, oh, it was like they were his best friend. we see it now with george herbert walker bush. we side with h ronald reagan, is a phenomenon. they will try to bludgeon you when you were alive and then now you are no longer a political threat, oh, you are the greatest person that ever lived. >> yeah, sean, death enhances the memory of almost everyone. but it's particularly striking when a republican politician or president passes away and then the mainstream media, which relentlessly pounded that republican politician during his or her time in office, suddenly, they are a saint. i think him a case of president trump, they mainstream media will use any cultural to try to pound the president into the ground. you mentioned senator mccain

when he passed. they certainly did it then. they are doing it now. i wrote a column for "spectator usa today" talking about how president nixon essentially launched president bush into national -- is a national figure when he chose to take george h.w. bush after he lost his senate campaign and made him u.n. ambassador. and i think that lesson, too, sean, these positions require heavy weights like george w. bush at the iran, and that is why i hope president trump will choose ric grenell for that position. whether it is richard nixon, ronald reagan, senator mccain, george h.w. bush, you see revisionism aplenty when they pass away. >> sean: b5, thanks for joining us. i just want your thoughts on that. it's a bit of a phenomenon, though, and to me, there is a phoniness about it. for example, i don't care that john mccain, when he came back after he served, he said these guys on talk radio and cable, he

kind of liked me when i was running for president, and like those outlets when he was running, i did not take it personally. but this is so overwhelmingly transparent to me. >> it is particularly phony in the case of president george h.w. bush. there is this issue where the only goodw. republican is a republican who is not a threat. we saw pretty quick change of media coverage of president george h.w. bush for him when he was president of the moment quentin defeated him. when he was a candidate, when he was vice president when he was president, the media coverage was vicious, and they called him a wimp, a headline that was the cover of "newsweek" magazine, they say today, he was so kind and respectable. this was the same media that was decrying him for his personal traits. theyey lied about him about his reaction to a supermarket scanner, which is something of "the new york times" not only never corrected, they were they repeatedly just yesterday. and his media coverage was so bad that his primary campaign bumper sticker when he ran for

reelection was "annoy the media, reelect bush" ." to say that he did not run a campaign against the media is just wrong. people are rewriting history here in a way that is not okay. >> sean: you know, one of the things that are so amazing -- it was a lifetime of service. that was the greatest generation, doug schoen, and my father also signed up. he served in the navy as well. look, we look at this, and it's like, you literally are hearing people -- this is the death of a really honorable human being served his country his whole adult life. a lot of those same people weren't nice to him during life but now, oh, he's a nice one, and now they will use that to bludgeon trump because they don't like president trump. >> i think that is ridiculous. i speak as a democrat. >> sean: it's not you, and i don't put you in the category of the average snowflake democrat, to be honest. >> i'm not. i want to say one other thing

about george h.w. bush, that he's bipartisan, and i think transcendent in importance. he, more than any single individual, was responsible for the fall of the soviet union, the fall of the wall, the end of communism, and eastern and central europe, and if we come as democrats and republicans, can't celebrate that now, there is something wrong with us, and hope that president trump and his foreign policy, has a similar success. >> sean: i would argue real quick, monica, the policies of president trump on regulation, on taxes, on justices and judges on the courts, on the wall, peace through strength, standing up to our enemies, identifying evil for what it has come pretty similar to what president reagan and president bush also stood for. >> yes, 100%, which is part of the reason why the mainstream media and others who approve

president trump oppose him. but they mostly oppose him, sean, based on the style. they are repulsed by him, they consider him a bulgarian and they reject his style, and in every way. but his policies are quite popular. he is delivering a booming economy, a stronger military, stronger international position, and american voters agree with that and supported. >> sean: shocking, mollie -- about 25 seconds, last ride. every president has their own style, and sometimes the moment calls for, like i would argue this one, disruptive, yeah, donald trump breaks a few dishes but things are getting done, ani we needed them to get done. >> it's okay for a different presidents to have different styles. it is disrespectful and the media coverage of president of president george w. bush's death to make it all about trump. they are two different people, and it does a disservice to both of them, it manages to be disrespectful for both of them. >> sean: think you all for being with us. we appreciate it. a lot more news, as we check in, steve harrigan live on the

ground in tijuana asset crisis continues. he'll update us on the migrant caravan. also former acting i.c.e. director tom homan, geraldo rivera, they'll debate. if you have young children, five, six years old, they are not allowed to watch the end of the show tonight, or towards the end. you won't believe what one teacher told those students about santa claus, the war on christmas is back. straight ahead. ♪ my name is jeff sheldon,

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♪ >> sean: joining us now live from tijuana with the very latest, update on the massive migrant caravan, stalled along the u.s.-mexico border, fox news news correspondent, steve harrigan is there tonight. the latest. >> sean, the new mexican government is really trying to get a grip on the situation on the border. they have basically shut down

food deliveries, water, even bathrooms to the sports complex that was at one point, holding as many as 6,000 people, most of them from the central american nations, and conditions of the squalor, human waste, mod, respiratory infections. they tried to shut it down and move people to a new shelter further away from the u.s. border, about 10 miles further away. conditions of a new shelter, still tough, but at least there is concrete on the ground instead of mother. we spoke to a woman there with two small children, she said she was given pizza 16 hours ago but nothing since then. a little more livable, not the health disaster it was. one final thing to note about the new shelter, we have seen the numbers go down from about 6,000 to 2,000. many people saying that people have either gone back to central american nations, staying here in mexico to try and find jobs, or small groups crossing over the border illegally into the u.s. sean, back to you. >> sean: stephen tijuana tonight, thank you. unbelievable story to share,

this weekend, washington congresswoman for me a day up all met up with a caravan in tijuana, tweeted, "i was able to successfully assist five asylum-seekers, two unaccompanied minors, a mother and her 9-year-old child, and a young man with a serious medical condition into the united states." meanwhile, a new census data shows that 63% of noncitizens -- 63% -- are using some sort of welfare program, compared to 35% in native households. in other words, people that are here, american citizens households. joining us now with the reaction from a former i.c.e. chief, tom homan, is with us. fox news correspondent how large or older who geraldo rivera. geraldo, there are only two things they want. a wall with the door, and i want -- three. i want to be able to read peopl. when we bring new people in. and i want to make sure that people come in, they are not financially -- the average is

$70,000 per year per illegal immigrant that we pay annually per person. we can't afford that, geraldo. we have citizens that need to some of that money. >> first of all, sean, can i join you in sending my love and affection to the bush family. a great family, passing of a great man who was an incredible example of service to our nation. tom, i recognize your service as well. let me say hi and technology. >> sean: being nice to the other guests. this is twice now you have done this. >> [laughs] just because i am telling you how i stand. i think when you remember back or when your family tells the story of how your forbearers came to this country, they were also dirt poor. the irish were fleeing the potato famine, the devastated economy, the jews fleeing the

pogroms of eastern europe, they come in the first generation, they often don't speak the native language, they are dirt poor, they work their way up, they realize the american dream, they invented google, the infant all of these new gizmos and businesses. it is the lifeblood that feeds our republic, sean. we are a nation, we take people from the four corners. just the fact -- >> sean: i get that. this is not addressing the main point. my grandparents, you are right, they were poor. irish catholic. the point is, they came illegally, ellis island, i have the records, actually have them framed. tom, again, i go back to my three things. a wall with a door protects everybody. beth people to make sure they are not our enemies, and three,y have to be able to take care of themselves financially, and not count on the american people. >> i agree with you, sean.

before i go on without question, i got a call at this congress, just tweeted the story. what she did, she used her official position to go down there and play political stunt and take these by people and put them ahead of 2800 people that were standing in line, asylum-seekers, too, she went down there, used her position to break the rules, and to play political stunt. but she wants to blame our president, saying he used to caravan for a political stunt by the president is doing his job. he's protecting our border, he is securing the border, protecting america, protecting the sovereignty of this country. you know what? is doing a good job added. anybody that doesn't recognize it it is ignoring the facts. these congressmen, rather than being a political stunt, ought to be sitting in washington, d.c., and fixing the loopholes that caused this caravan to even happen. >> sean: these guys are getting hit with rocks and bottles. >> on december 7th, the

government runs out of money. the president is threatening a shut down unless they come up with the $5 billion down payment for the wall. the congressional leaders, as i understand it, have just begs the president to extend the deadline for two weeks, with short-term financing. let's get behind the solution right now. build the wall, give him the financing, give amnesty to the dreamers, the youngsters brought here at a young age through no fault of their own. build the wall, free the dreamers. this is a compromise, sean, that you can champion. >> sean: excuse me, geraldo, the president offered that and they decided to use that as a political weapon. tom, you get the last word. >> yes, sir. this president -- i've worked for six presidents, i respect them all. no one has done more for border security, public safety, protecting the sovereignty of this country than president trump. i agree with geraldo, we need to build that wall. border security needs to come before rewarding people for illegal behavior.

>> sean: we'll put a big door. one will say "geraldo" the other will say "drum" phrase beagle compromises hurt. >> sean: when we come back, you may not want your young kids to watch. i'll explain. you won't believe what a teacher in new jersey is saying about santa and much more. shocking. the war on christmas. straight ahead. ♪ california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones.

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christmas. in new jersey, a substituteor teacher and new jersey decided to tarnish thend holiday for fie and 6-year-old first-graders. going off on a grant-like diatribe during a writing assigt about how santa isn't real. fake news. how reindeer can't fly. more fake news. she did not stop there. telling the students, the easter bunny, the tooth fairy, they are not real either. more fake news. and now following outrage from parents, school officials have now apologized and said that they talked to her about her poor judgment. really? robbing a kid of happiness at christmas? care with reaction, ""catalina magazine"" publisher cathy areu, and rachel campos duffy. cathy, just tell me you don't see this as wrong. >> it's definitely wrong. i happen to be a certified teacher in new jersey, so i know the rules -- >> sean: scary. >> scary?

i know the rules quite well. and you are not allowed to put your personal beliefs into the classroom, and if the parents' personal beliefs are that santa is real, as we all know, and the easter bunny, and it was very -- >> sean: what you tell your kids? >> i would tell my kids what i would want them to believe. i would do the research and i would pass that onto their children. >> sean: i'm asking what you would tellim them. >> the truth, that santa is definitely real. i would not say those things in a classroom. you can be fired for imposing those beliefs in a classroom. it's like religion. you don't bring that up in a classroom, you don't bring up easter and an audience. >> sean: it's a captive audience. you know what happens in junior high, college or share. it seems like academia is runfoy leftists that have a very different world view. they have a captive audience, and they try to indoctrinate kids. these are five and 6-year-old kids, literally shattering what

is probably the best day of the year for many of them. is it appropriate? know. we can't fire teachers today. >> you can fire substitutes. speak to the school district -- to be clear, the school districs said, we are working through this. working throughout? this teacher has poor judgment, should not be working with young children, and clearly doesn't understand that the parents are the primary and most important teachers, and her point of view, her belief system, should never supersede that of the parents. the indoctrination of kids, it keeps going younger and younger. liberals ruined halloween, now they are working on christmas. this is a really, really bad thing. one good thing that has come out of this is that cathy and i agree 100% for maybe the first time ever. >> sean: once you have tenure,

there is this unholy alliance between democrats and teachers unions. new york city, for example, has teachers even accused of inappropriate behavior with students and all they do is park them and continue to pay them. we need to be able to fire people that are not up to the -- >> they are fired. i'm a tenured teacher. i have gotten my tenure in florida. so i am a tenured teacher. had i crossed the line, if i said that about santa, i don't think that parents would have defended me.at i think the school would have said goodbye. the parents right now are very conflicted as to whether they should lie to their kids about certain things and that seems to be the controversy. but when a it comes to this, i don't think that teachers are will make it in the classroom. >>wi the answer, sean, a school choice. so if the school is not responding to what the parents want, clearly -- we all know santa is real, and the parents are furious with this teacher, the answer is school choice, so parents have a choice.

>> sean: all the kids, if they did watch, santa is real, rudolph is real, the easter bunny is real, the tooth fairy israel. if you heard it from any teacher, that is fake news. when we come back, we'll continue to remember the life, the legacy of president bush 41 as spoken in the words of bush 43. that is next. ♪ because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. and it works 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes, or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, you're allergic to trulicity, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2.

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suspicious, some of the doctors didn't think it was a good idea. >> some of the doctors called and i said, jump. after all it had to have made him feel very young >> sean: that's all the time we have left this morning, laura ingraham standing by in washington >> laura: sean great to see you, fantastic show the tonight. it's a weird feeling here in washington. it's an odd moment for all of us who grew up and worked in the reagan bush administration. >> sean: that's where my political interest came from watching those twelve years defined my love of politics. >> laura: absolutely. great show the tonight. >> sean: thank you. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham, this is the "ingraham angle." a day of attribute after the passing of the 41st president of the united states george h.w. bush. in moments my angle takes a look at how the media are using what should be this moment