that's about it for us tonight. be back tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. the show that is the sworn enemy and we mean it of lying pomposity, smugness and group think. the show that says what we think is true, whether they like it or not. good night from washington.he sean hannity is next. dan bongino is sitting in for sean. sean. >> dan: i put a tie on for this. what do you think? >> good tie, too.o >> dan: my wife bought it for me. i have a terrible taste in ties. hush fund story a disgrace. thanks for covering that.. welcome to "hannity." i'm dan bongino in tonight for sean. at this hour we have breaking news on multiple fronts. first, a government shut down has likely been avoided. the funding for a southern border wall still hangs in the balance. also tonight the president's sweeping criminall justice reform bill has passed the senate with bipartisan support. so what does it all mean for you? joining us now with more from our nation's capital is ellison barber. ellison? >> hi, dan. yeah, the deadline to fund roughly a quarter of the federal government is of

course friday at midnight. they have not moved legislation in the senate just yet but senate leaderss did agree on a six week extension. >> i'm glad the leader thinks the government should not shut down over the president's demand for a wall and democrats will support i this c.r. the president and the house should follow that lead because shutting down the government over christmas is a terrible idea. >> let's review why this step was necessary. even in the face of a great need to secure the border and following good faith efforts, by the president's team, our democratic colleagues rejected an extremely reasonable offer yesterday. r >> the stop gap spending bill funds the government until february 8th. it does not include the $5 billion president trump wanted to fund a border wall. ethe house freedom caucus is hoping to amend any spending bill to make sure it includes funding for the wall and they plan to spend the evening making speeches on the floor on the house

floor to that effect. freedom caucus leader mark meadows told reporters if president trump signed spending bill without funding for a wall, it will do major damage to his 2020 campaign. one thing lawmakers did largely agree on this week, criminal justice reform. the senate voted 87-12 to pass bipartisan legislation known as the first step act. >> you don't hear many senators stand up and say let me tell you about my worst vote. i can tell you it was in the house of representatives. itre was 1986. and because we were scared to death of crack cocaine showing up all across america, we created 100 to 1 disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencing. the net result of that we thought would be to scare america straight in terms of the danger of this drug and it backfired. >> if this becomes a law, roughly 2600 federal prisoners sentenced for crack cocaine offenses before august 2020 can petition a judge for a reduced penalty. judgesen will have more

flexibility and discretion when sentencing some drug offenders and for some drug offenders with three strikes, lit will reduce life sentences to 25 years. republican senator tom cotton was one of the most vocal opponents of this bill. he says it threatens publicic safety and says he is disappointed amendments he proposed were not included in the senate version. the first step act is expected to pass the house and the president is expected to sign it. dan? >> dan: thanks, ellison. president trump slammed congressional democrats are fighting tooth and nail against border security. as congress remains gridlocked over funding the wall. meanwhile, rush limbaugh had this to say. take a look. >> that's been the objective? to end this congress without a shutdown? that's how we are going to define success? it's not how we define success. it is apparently how inside the beltway defines it. oh, look what we did. we avoided another government shutdown. the republicans are bowing

down, hosanna, saved again. notno going to get blamed for a government shut down. dmeanwhile, the border remains wide open and the democrats are going to be controlling the house in just a few weeks g are now gloating and telling the president you can't get any money from anywhere else in the budget. mwe're not going to let you. this is textbook. it's a textbook example of what the drive by media calls compromise. trumptr gets nothing and the democrats get everything, including control of the house. >> dan: keep in mind, this is an urgent situation. the risk of an unsecure border are very real. alone,e past year i.c.e. agents arrested nearly 160,000 illegal suspected immigrants, 90% of whom had criminal convictions. joining us now with a full report is our very own tracert gallagher. trace? >> good evening, dan. if the funding bill is passed and the government shutdown is avoided, money for the border wall would essentially go away. president trump is standing firm, saying one way or another, we are still getting

it. "mexico is paying indirectly for the wall through the new usmca, the replacement for nafta. far more money coming to the because of the tremendous dangers at the border including large scale criminal and drug inflow. the united states military will build the wall." though critics argue military money is already allocated and democratic leader nancy pelosi says if the president tries to move money around, he'll have a fight on his hands. even the pentagon said last week, "to date, there is no plan to build sections of the wall." and, yesterday, press secretary sarah sanders seemed ready to look elsewhere for money, saying the president has asked his cabinet secretaries to look for funding in their budgets and that the administration is, "looking at other options." meantime, immigration and customs enforcement or ice has released its fiscal year 2018 report. along with the astounding fact you noted that 90% ofot illegal immigrants arrested

by i.c.e. have criminal records, the report says nearly 400,000 people were booked into an i.c.e. detention facility, which is an increase of 22.5% over 2017. and the number arrested and detained by customs and border protection went up by 32%. finally, of the roughly 250,000 illegal immigrants removed from the country, nearly 6,000 were classified as either known or suspected members of terrorists. an increase of 9% from last year. dan?ye >> dan: trace, thanks a the lot. joining us now with more isan american conservative union chairperson matt schlapp, spicer, and from "the daily caller" carrie picken. matt, let me go to you here, it's great to have you on the show. this issue of compromise over the wall. i've got to tell you, matt, out there being an activist kind of first and a

conservative at heart, i'm not sure the base is in foran compromise on this, matt. i think they want their wall and they want it now. your thoughts? >> look, i know republicans are trying to figure outig how to get out of town around christmas in an imperfect world where democrats have done well to pick up house seats. but the fact is this: the president should veto this bill. this breaks the promise with his supporters. this -- everybody looking at this views this as odious.dy we waste money left and right in this town. it's absurd they can't find $5 billion. schumer and pelosi think this is a good issue for them. i think it's a better issue for us. let's fight and get all we can and let's definitely not roll over and for thepr president, i know he is e looking for every way to figure out a way to fund this wall. i think is he going to find that way.at he can't reward schumer andan pelosi by signing this bill. >> dan: you know, sean, few people have been inside like you in that inner sanctum in the white house. presidentte trump has had a alunique ability. there is no doubt about it for putting his finger on the pulse of issues that others may have put aside. i remember attending g.o.p.

meetings years ago, immigration, we have got to get past. this on this, this is his signature issue. do you think he understands the gravity of this? i mean, listen, i'm a supporter of the president. i have been for a while. but i just want to -- i want your take on this. is he getting good advice from inside that sanctiment? this is a degree critical moment right here. >> unfortunately i think there is a loft advice being given. i think there is a lot of people to matt's point, trying to figure out how do we get out of town? this is the holiday season. this isn't going to look good. i think rush limbaugh had it absolutely right. compromise in washington terms is republicans get nothing, democrats get everything. look, here's the reality of where we are, dan. this is a political fight. 54 democrats in the senate under barack obama voted for a lot more than we're getting right now. they were on board on this. the reason they are against it is because trump is for it. this is -- what i think that we have lost, though, is control of the narrative. weut are talking about

fighting over a wall. we have got to stop talking about fighting over a wall and talk about national security.. human trafficking. drugs coming over our border.ic webo have got to start talking about the implications of a porous border as opposed to a physical structure. because right now, they want -- they know that theyt are winning the messaging war, this is what trump is for and this is what we are for. we got to get back to the facts. this is a national security issue. women and children trafficked over our border and this is a massive flow of drugs over our border. we have got to get back for reminding people really what's at stake here. >> dan: i agree. chuck schumer is desperately trying to make this about border security without a wallwa which i don't think is possible. kerry, i haven't seen the base on fire about this in a long time, about an issue, maybe since obamacare -- i take that back. maybere kavanaugh. people were fired up about kavanaugh, too. this border funding wall issue, i mean, you just -- twitter is great. it's like one big, huge town hall. people are on -- not always the greatest town hall in

the world. but people are on fire over this issue. this is essentially thee trump maga agenda. are you sensing the sameum thing out there from t your sources? >> absolutely. and, keep in mind, dan, this thing, as far as you have a number of republicans who are saying well, the reason why we can't get this borderso funding is because all these democrats are being obstructionists. yeah, sure the democrats are being pains in the neck. but remember, republicans from the very beginning, could have started the process of budget reconciliation from very early on. brad burns over in alabama, he is a congressman there, he started the process in the lower chamber but the republicans there didn't want to take up his bill. the republicans in the upper chamber didn't want to start thu process there. it really makes you wonder whether or not the republican leadership in the upper chamber really wanted to get border funding because they could have gotten the process done very early on.sk

i asked a number of members, why didn't you get the border funding done through budget reconciliation early t and they didn't want to answer that question. >> dan: matt, what's the deal of this?ue this is, like, the first lame duck in u.s. history session where the majority party passes a bunch ofse minority agenda items. why -- -- coach jan, i see matt, what was the g.o.p. leadership not doing last week taking up this bill when they had the votes? why are they letting this president down? it's not like it's a mystery to want to build a wall. >> dan, i agree with you. pretrump, republicans believed that having spending fights was a total political loser. one of the reasons why we are in such a terrible position with our debt and deficit. they believe it just makes republicans look callus. having these fights we don't gain anything. so just get out of town. and during the trump era,io there's been a re-thinking about all of these questions. the last shutdown, as you will remember, the schumer shutdown, we actually won

that shutdown. i think sean spicer is right.hi if we look the american people in the eye and say we need to secure our southern border, we should only come in this country a legal way. wetr shouldn't let liberal judges get to determine who gets to stay forever and ever and ever just becauseta you are waiting for your first hearing which you most likely dodge. we ought to secure our southern border. i think the american people will stand up for us. it doesn't mean you get all you want in a shutdown. youu send a message to ghliberals you are going to fight for every inch of territory. that's why it's critical for the president to not sign a bill which is a white flag. >> dan: i hope he doesn't. i hope good people are getting in his ear. sean, your thoughts? >> dan, i will say this. what matt just said is important. for 20-plus years since 1994, republicans have always had shutdowns go ysagainst them. they shut down the government and they lose the messaging war. the last time this happened, matt reminds everybody, the schumer shut down, wery finally won one because we were right on the issues. we were right on the policies. and we're right now. we are against human trafficking.

we're against drugs coming over our border. and we are for making sure we protect our country and our people from those people who may be coming inin here with nefarious reasons. we are right on this issue. this is a fight worth having. >> dan: this is a live picture of the house floor, the house freedom caucus fighting for some funding for the budget. well, kerry, final question goes to you here. it's interesting when the democrats fight for their issues, the liberals, they lose elections. obama got all this stuff passed, obamacare. essentially, outside of obama they wiped out the democrat party. the republicans lose elections when they don't stand on principles. do you see this as as one of those real break or make moments for 2020, this border wall fight? >> absolutely. this once again goes back to what i was just saying because it appears that you have a number ofhe republicans who are concerned, particularly in the upper chamber, because now you have republicans who are on the

defense right now in the you were chamber who are thinking i have got to be careful with my votes. i have got to be careful with where things are going because, you know, perhaps over in texas, for example, have you john cornyn. he just saw how close that race was between beto o'rourke and ted cruz and he's thinking, uh-oh, watch the upper chamber republicans, it's not going to be the way it was once before. >> dan: it's interesting. i just saw the gallup poll topanan two issues number one government. big government. and secondly was immigration. so i think trump has his finger on the pulse again on this issue. thanks, guys and ladies, appreciate it.wh coming up, loretta lynchan testified behind closed doors on capitol hill today. catherine herridge will join us with a full report on what went down as "hannity" continues. stay with us. ♪ when we bought a house. matt: voilà! jen: matt started turning into his dad. matt: mm. that's some good mulch. ♪ i'm awake. but it was pretty nifty when jen showed me how easy it was

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"hannity." today, former obama attorney general loretta lynch met with helawmakers behind closed doors after receiving a fsubpoena and house g.o.p. leaders probing the justice department and the fbi over their handling of the hillary clinton email case. here with more is catherine herridge. catherine? >> nearly seven hours behind s closed doors, former attorney general loretta lynch ignored our questions about when she first learned the fbi was probing alleged link b between the trump campaign and russia. >> about the opening of the russia counterintelligence investigation? when did you learn when the investigation was open? >> house lawmakers pressed lynch on the june 2016 arizona tarmac meeting with bill clinton days before hillary clinton'say fbi interview. about her unsecured personal server for government business. both lynch and clinton insisted the discussion was not political. the former fbi director later claimed his boss' tarmac meeting with a driving force in his decision to hold a public press event where he

described how hillary clinton mishandled classified information and comey recommended against criminal charges. reaction's to lynch's testimony today dividedcr along political lines. >> good faith effort for her to make the record clear but the record is indicating that she hadn't recused herself from the clinton case and yet she found herself, as far as i can tell, finding out that the fbi director wasn't going to prosecute when you all saw on tv. >> i can't get into exact questions and answers. it's nothing different than the past questions and answers about the email investigation and obviously the events that she has been involved with nothing new. again, it's probably -- i expect there to be a lot of questions about perhaps the most interesting layover in airport history at the phoenix airport, we are not

learning a lot at this point. >> tonight multiple sources tell fox news they do not expect deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to answer questions under oath about allegations he discussed secretly recording the president and invoking the 25th amendment before democrats take control of the house. >> at this point, you know, who is to blame? he is not coming. he is not coming. so was this a failure of leadership or was this aai intransigence by the justice department? >> i don't know. all i know is what i wanted andd mr. meadows and a number of us pushing for him to get hereor but i don't think it's going to happen. i hope there is a chance too talk to him but it doesn't seem like that's going to happen. >> the justice department has not commentedo on negotiations with capitol hill. meantime, a committee spokesperson said the lynch transcripts, along with about 15 others, may be part of a year-end report. dan? >> dan: catherine, thank you. also tonight, remember when president obama made these claims about hillary clinton's

server not harming national security? take a look. >> did you know about hillary clinton's use of a private email server? >> no. >> while she was secretary of state? n >> no. >> do you think it causes a national security problem? >> i don't think it causes a national security problem. i think it was a mistake that she has acknowledged. >> i continue to believe that she has not jeopardized america's national security. >> dan: transcripts from former fbi director comey's testimony d raise questions how obama could make that determination when comey says he never authorized anyone fromom the fbi to brief obama on the investigation. joining us now with reaction is arizona congressman andy biggs, who was present at today's hearing with loretta lynch, as well as former deputy assistant attorney general victoria toensing and author a of the terrific book, "the russia hoax," fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. i will go to you first, gregg. this is just outrageous. president obama wants to have it both ways. we already know barack obama

emailed hillary clinton. >> right. >> dan: on her personal email account. barack obama is not a native american person. barack obama must realize this was not a government email. this is just strain incredulity. >> he thinks people are stupid and they buy into what he is saying oh he never knew anything about her email that was unauthorized and unsecured and private. he was using a pseudonym to email her back and forth. also went on national a television and said she never jeopardized national security p how could he know that unless comey is lying that he didn't tell the president information about that. the most important part is obama went on national television and said not only does she not jeopardize national security, but that she was merely careless. that's what peter strzok and lisa page used to sanitize comey'ss findings in the

exoneration statement, they used barack obama's terminology to clear hillary clinton.ny >> dan: a quick follow-up, given your legal background. would it have been possible if hillary clinton was prosecuted for email scandal that barack obama would have had to give some type of deposition on it, given his obvious involvement given that he emailed her? >> he might have had to, sure. he was emailing her and we don't know whether there those classified because that information information has never been turned over. the white house wouldn't turn it over, doj and fbi refusedn' to turn it over. >> dan: congressman biggs, question for you. you were in the hearing today with loretta lynch. this case drives me crazy because everybody in c the case either doesn't know an answer or they just say oh, it's just a coincidence. after hearing loretta lynch today, did she address the tarmac meeting and why it iti happened, this tarmac meeting with bill clinton, and at least understandnd how bad this looked? >> here's the deal. she understood it looked bad

it was by shear happenstance. secret service popped their head in, the former president woulday like to say hi to you. theth next thing she knows former president clinton is standing at the entry of the plane to come p in. now, you and i both know it's july 27th. or excuse me, june 27th. 110 degrees probably, small airplanes are not cool. he was there for 20 minutes just talking about kids, grandkids, how's the weather, house golf. that type of thing. that is a coincidence that can't be. it just can't be. >> dan: is interesting, three days later, july 27th, this meeting happens, 2016. the meeting at fbi headquarters with the bigwigs on this. victoria, just a couple of days later, edits are made to the infamous july 5th. 2016 jim comey speech is he about to give. three days after this meeting, edits are made.

one of the edits, which i found to be very interesting to the gym comey speech, they take out the portion where they mention that hillary clinton emailed barack obama. is this one of those magic coincidences? >> it was a top government official and, oh, never mind, it was nobody. i can tell you about that tarmac t meeting. i can tell you what should have been done. that is that somebody should have called in the fbi detail to the a.g. who travelsls with her all the time and the secret service and say, how exactly did this meeting come about? and also while you are at it, who told people in thehe tarmac that they were not allowed to take any photographs of the two being together? what does that tell you something being afoul? no photographs. >> dan: i don't believe it was a coincidence at all, just to be crystal clear loretta lynch is bright. this is not an ignorant person. she is very bright.

i worked with her at one point when i was a federal agent. she knows what she is doing. for her to do this and claim it's innocent conversation and not understand the ramifications about it, do you think she gets that people will understand ask quet it? she were investigating bill clinton's wife. hillary clinton while she is meeting on the tarmac and it's a 20-minute meeting. >> the husband of a subject of a criminal investigation is meeting with the one person whop can decide her fate and we are supposed to be believing it is a series of fantastic a coincidences, utter nonsense. the fix was.. and lynch, by the way, knew all about the criminal investigation. text email between or text s message between peter strzok and lisa page, in which they say lynch knows no charges will be brought. >> dan: she's a real profile in courage. >> there is another email that comey wasno asked for by the senate judiciary committee that

provides assurances that lynch will protect clinton and make sure that the fbi doesn't go too far. dcomey refused to answer that question and it remains unanswered and classified to this day. >> dan: congressman biggs. so the department of justicece and fbi have parallel tracks to verify information used in the fisa court hearing. did loretta lynch address at all during the hearing today her absolute failurebs as the attorney general to make sure the information in this hoax dossier was verified? did she address this at all? we all know now it was pretty clearly a hoax. >> two points on that. first, she said she never reviewed any of the fisars warrant applications, that's point number one, which i find incredible or odd because of the high profile nature of the case. the second thing is, she basically didn't know anything about the dossier. she said she never heard of the term "dossier" at all until it started becoming public. >> dan: victoria, one last question.

do you think it will be any accountability for. this? thes procedure for verifying ths information before you bring this information to the fisa is documented. do you think anybody is going to be held accountable for putting this hoax document in front of a judge? >> if we get bill barr in as attorney general, it will be addressed. by the way rod rosenstein odidn't quite read it, although he signed the application to fisa. >> dan: i hope so. i hope john huber is looking at this as well. >> oh, yeah. is he on a missing milk carton. >> dan: hope, that's all i have got at this point. what else? i have got to stay optimistic.ls thanks a lot, guys. coming up, outrage after a former green beret was charged with murder for killingg suspected taliban bombmaker. up next, the wifel and father of matthew j goldstein will join u. don't go away. ♪ it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders

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♪ >> welcome back to hannity. now, as we reported >> dan: welcome back to "hannity." now as we reported last night army green beret veteran matthew golsteyn hass been charged with murder of a taliban bombmaker in afghanistan from back in 2010. in a killing, he admitted to during a 2016 interview with fox's own bret baier. now the case is stoking outrage outrage and even a review from president trump. now joining us is his wife julie golsteyn and his father jerry golsteyn. thank you both for joining us. i appreciate it. julia, i will start with you. tell us who your husband was. i have read all the reports on this that i could. you said this is a mischaracterization of who your husband is. why did he join the military? who was your husband? >> my husband joined because

he went to west point and started his career there. i was not with him in the early part of his military career. i will tell you this about his service, to hear him talk about the men that he served with and the men that he commanded, it melts my heart to hear him talk about what those times and what those people meant to him. and it is so nice to hear those people who have served with him also support and defendnd him. >> dan: i remember my time in the secret service there -- the military individuals i i worked with were just the best of the best. mr. golsteyn, there have been eight years of this and two investigations, a tribunal cleared matthew. what do you think the incentive was to go after matthew again regarding this 2010 case? >> i really can't speak toth

that myself. i really don't know. it's very confusing. i just know it's onene of those things that we as parents have always kept in the back of our mind as he was at west point and then being deployed, what is it going to be like when he gets back? obviously he has had a great career in the service, serving our country in a very positive and honorable way. he is a man of great integrity. and to see him come back and this trial after being acquitted one time, starting again, is very disappointing. >> dan: julie, what has this been like for your family? i can only imagine how dramatic it must be. especially given the fact that people like bowe bergdahl in that case the family got a rose garden c appearance there. how must this feel for you going through this again? >> this has? been disruptive,

traumatic to our home and our extended families. matt has a son in middle school. we have a newborn. we are trying to move on withn our lives. and it has been extremely difficult. but we are doing it. and when you bring up people like bowe bergdahl who is walking around free, it is amazing to me that someones like matt is under fire for doing his job and last night on this channel, colonel hunt explained that if matt hadn't taken the action that he did, he could have been charged with dereliction of duty or misbehavior before the enemy, which is actually what bowe bergdahl was chargedua with. >> dan: mr. golsteyn, what message do you think this would send? this was a bombmaker, afghan bombmaker, taliban bombmaker. what message do you think this sends to future

recruits and their military if matthew in fact is prosecuted, especially as i noted here, being cleared by a military tribunal here? this has to be going through your mind. >> it's been on the top our mind for many, many years right now. it's really sad. it really impacts the quality of people who may be ycoming into the military over time. cofidence for someone coming in and doing the job, these tasks that these men have been assigned to and given responsibility over if you are taught and traineded to make split second decisions to save the lives of those around you and especially those under your command, and then to find out months or years later that a group of people sitting in an office somewhere are looking over regulations

whichh were not very effective at that time and decide that you did the right on wrong thing. >> dan: julie, jerry, godspeed to you. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> dan: we'll be following major golsteyn's case closely. >> thank you. >> dan:s. also developing, president trump says the u.s. is preparing withdraw its forces from syria. president trump tweeted earlier that, "we have defeated isis in syria. my only reason for being therea during the trump presidency." later y added this in a video. take a look. >> wee have been fighting for a long time in syria. i have been president for almost two years and we have really stepped it up. and we have won against isis. our boys, our young women, our men, they are allg coming back and they are coming back now. we won and that's the way we want it and that's the way they want it. >> dan: joining us now with the reaction, the author of

"dark winter," tony tata and florida congressman elect lieutenant colonel michael waltz. michael, if i could go to you first, what is the specific rule of engagement on encountering a bombmaker? let me be more specific. i was not in the military, you both were. >> right. >> dan: you see a bombmaker on the field of battle who has now resurfaced, you know is a bomb maker. you don't know if he has some kind of a pressure device to detonate an explosive or not. what are the rules of engagement?en are they hazy and is anyone clearing it up if they are?y >> here is the crux of the issue. if you kill a bomb maker, taliban commander, in the heat of combat that's combat and that's what we are there to do to take these guys out. if you capture one in the course of conduct, they are now a detainee or a prisoner of war, you cannot then execute them. that's against the good

geneva convention, that's a war crime. the problem is with our rules of engagement and what i faced and what major golsteyn faced and so many others is there is no prison system in afghanistan. there is nowhere to put these guys once have you captured them so you are faced with that horrible choice. either you release them and know they are going to kill every afghan who worked with you and americans. or take matters into your own hands, which you can't do, because getting them over to guantanamo bay or getting them somewhere to a prisoner system that doesn't exist in afghanistan isn't an option. and my point is this dilemma, this flawed engagement strategy is happening right now as we speak, and it needs to be fixed because men and women are out there having to make this horrible choice every day right now. >> general tata, when this happens, is it the military's job to set up detainment to be able to detain these people aren't high level enough to be

shipped over to gitmo? if not, as michael just addressed, what do we do? we can't just let bomb makers back on the battlefield. another point, michael just brought up as well, it's not just us, it's the sources who give these up. these guys will go back and take out our sources. is there any solution to this? >> dan, to answer your first question what do you do when you encounter a bombmaker on the battlefield, you kill them or capture them and then interrogate them. the your second question is, specifically, did we have field detention sites in place for the battle, the biggest battle, to occur in afghanistan ever. had the command taken the necessary steps to make sure that there were military intelligence interrogators on hand to handles detainee flow that they knew would occur from this battle. and the answer is no. it was a huge military intelligence failure. let's take a look at what has happening at the time.

bradley manning was selling wikileaks. had you bergdahl who was already in captivity with the taliban. you had mcchrystal that had requested another, you know, 50,000 troops or so. and obama was taking his sweet time in delivering them, had not delivered them yet. they were underresourced, militaryta intelligence community had not positioned a field detention site. major golsteyn should have never seen this individual again. he should have been able to turn him over to interrogators and interrogate him. he h was a threat to u.s. forces and he had intelligence value and he should have been processed up to the internment detention lifacility. >> if i can jump in very quickly. we had a huge facility in iraq. we had one in afghanistan, up near the capital in kabul. president obama handed it over to the afghans. then they had no choice and no t options. and that's the problem. >> dan: i'm really worried about the disincentive

effect on future recruits, stories like this. i get it. no happy endings in a lot of theseri scenarios. i have never been in a combat situation. they are not black and white. therehi is a lot of gray. the entire field of military ethics is built around that gray. if i can move on though to syria. i would love to get your expertise and get to you, general tata. syria situation, there is a real delicate balance to the kurds, isis. this is not -- this is- another one of those situations where there is no yes or no answer. your opinion on president trump's action today to start to remove our troops from syria? >> i agreed with his policy a few months ago that we need to stay engaged as long as iran is there right on israel's doorstep. we need to look at what happens if we just pull the soldiers out. you have isis that can soreconstitute. you have iran running amuck. russiaia running amuck. you hae. iran who can attack acisrael. you have our kurdish allies that are going to be hit by the turks in the north. and then, even if you do think we w should just pull them out regardless of all

of those consequences, we should have gotten something fromke russia, turkey, and iran for it as a concession. so those are my concerns with this pretty sudden dechange in strategy. >> dan: thanks so much, gentlemen, i really appreciate your expertise. thanks for coming on. ici really appreciate it. the first lady is under attack unbelievably yet again. this time "vogue' is attacking her christmas card.ki yes, christmas card. we will get reaction next. ♪

>> dan: welcome back to hannity, unfortunately even the spirit of the christmas >> dan: welcome back to "hannity." unfortunately even the spirit of the christmas season can't slow down the media's 24/7 anti-trump hate machine. it never stops. for example, "vogue" magazine is attacking the first couple for smiling and holding hands in, yes, a

christmas picture. joining us now for reaction is "relatable" podcast host and and she is a good friend. and fox news contributor tammy bruce. tammy, i will go to you first. listen, i think in this new trump era the level of trump derangement syndrome is every day, we are used to it. as this one of those new laws, like the christmas picture? >> liberals seem to be particularly miserable around christmas time. not all liberals, but those in the media. they are hoping the trumps are as miserable as they are. that picture is lovely. they are actually happy. trump, this is his bailiwick and wheel house. he is enjoying himself and mrs. trump is as well. i think this is less hate than it is jealousy and envy. the left has turned into a medieval religion and she a

heretic in particular. a woman of beauty and grace. when she was first attacked for white house decoration, she responded people have different tastes. right? f she was not made upset by it. that upsets people. they d are always looking for ways to disrupt and make people miserable. i think that ultimately what the media wants to do and what those who are angry at the trumps for is that, especially for mrs. trump, she is not reliant on being invited to "vogue" parties. she isn't part of their system. she doesn't need to go to their cocktail parties or to be approved of by them. and so that is what makes her a problem. i think that americans, for all of us, we can look to here obviously as an example for when you are under pressure. handling it with grace. she still has her opinions, which she makes known to her husband, no doubt. i think she is a fabulous first lady doing a great job. >> dan: we agree on that. it's a beautiful picture. it's no secret i support the president. i'm a conservative. trying to be as agnostic as possible.

this is a beautiful picture. ins see nothing wrong with it petty nonsense. i didn't mean to interrupt you. this petty nonsense by the anti-trump tds machine? mdo you think this makes the liberals look more foolish and the elites than their targets? >> yes.et i do. and i y think you are absolutely right. this is an objectively beautiful picture. it has nothing to do with politics. but i think it goes to show that the hatred of the trumps really was never about politics. it's about something that is very personal. that's why the attacks towards melania trump really have nothing to do with policy differences, but about who she is a person. as they stoop down to these levels to minimize her, to try to belittle her, they don't have to talk about the fact that she's a neighbor granted became a first lady, actually someone, like tammy said, that we can, men and women, look up to pray to just focus on these tiny, tiny things so they can continue to demonize her, to patronize her, belittle her, and make her seem like someone who is not of significance, who we shouldn't be admiring and we shouldn't

really be looking to and i think it makes them look worse than it makes her look. >> let me add one thing, this is i'm sure not her first experience with mean girls. it's the girl who shows up at a high school who is pretty and smart, maybe even a little shy, and then they go on with the magic marker at the locker because they are jealous. this is something a woman like that has experienced before and rises above it. >> dan: she speaks five languages and i have trouble with english. alli and tammy, thank you both very much. appreciate it. facebook may be in more trouble we we thought. trace gallagher will be here with a full report. stay with us. don't go away. ♪ i am not for colds. i am not for just treating my symptoms... (ah-choo) i am for shortening colds when i'm sick. with zicam. zicam is completely different. unlike most other cold medicines... ...zicam is clinically proven to shorten colds. i am a zifan for zicam. oral or nasal.

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>> dan: welcome back to "hannity." a new report stating facebook was secretly sharing personal user data with dozen of other silicon valley giants without users' permission.

our west coast newsroom, fox news correspondent trace gallagher. trace. >> good evening, dan. facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg has long said facebook users control their own data, but "the new york times" obtained hundredss of pages of facebook documents and interviewed dozens of former facebook employees. apparently zuckerberg's claim isn't true. for example, the times says facebook allowed microsoft bing search engine to see the names of all facebook users' friends without consent. facebook also gave netflix and spotify access to facebook users' private messaging. even allowed some companies to read and delete users' private messages. turns out the deal benefited facebook and 150 other companies. "the new york times" says "pushing for explosive growth, facebook got more users, lifting its advertising revenue. partner companies acquired features to make their products more attractive." facebook argues it's giving its

users more platforms to access their accounts and thereby enhancing social exchanges. the company claims "none of these partnerships or features give companies access to information without people's permission."ve facebook said it ended thepe partnerships months ago but also admits to needing "tighter management" over how developers can access user information. dan. >> dan: trace, thanks a lot. it's all the time we have left this evening. before you go, christmas is less than a week away. if you're looking for the perfect last-minute gift, stuff this in your stocking. make sure to check out my book "spygate: the attempted sabotage of donald j. trump." as always, thanks a lot for being with us. i really appreciate it. laura ingraham is up next. follow me on twitter. i amex @dbongino. don't forget the book. we lay out the entire scheme to bring down donald j. trump and i

will be back tomorrow night filling in for sean. you haven't had your dan bongino fix, tune in again tomorrow night. really appreciate it. thanks much. see you all tomorrow. >> laura: nice job, dan. i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham: angle" from washington. in moments we will be joined by joe digenova, congressman jim jordan to discuss renegade judges, shocking revelation inside the jim comey testimony and boy, do we have a lot more. also tonight, i thought the left wanted us out a foreign entanglements. we will tell you why trump's decision to bring some of our troops home has official washington upps in arms. michelle obama's book tour has turned into a petty war against the trump family? her comments later on in the show. and since it's christmas, we have something very important for you. raymond arroyo takes us behind the scenes of a special holiday journey of joy and remembrance

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