find out who is guest hosting for sean hannity tonight. who is it going to be? they have lifted the beaded curtain. i think i can see jason kennedy filling in for sean. jason sean. >> i all love it when you're on for tucker. >> that was a terrific interview you did with sam johnson today. everyone should look at that. that was the best thing on tv this morning. terrific stuff. >> thank you. thanks to fox and friends. later in the show we're going to tell you about sam johnson. a special man, amazing personality, a true american hero. thanks, mark. >> thanks, jason. have a great show. >> jason: welcome to this edition of hanty. i'm in tonight for sean. yesterday, president trump made a surprise visit to the al-assad air base in iraq where he visited the brave men and whip serving abroad during christmas. back at home the mainstream media trashed the president over

his visit with our troops. watch this. >> in retrospect, i give him credit for going to iraq, but his performance there was shameful. >> the president seems to have confused this troop visit with a campaign rally. >> it was a political rally in front of troops in iraq. >> they treat the troops like props, it converts the troops into a partisan play thing. >> it's the united states congress and the people of the united states who are supporting our armed forces. they don't belong to him. >> he's the grinch. i'm being honest. >> he stole christmas. >> it was so negative and so, you want positivity when it comes to christmas. it is perplexing. why would he visit the troops and do that? >> jason: the all too predictable attacks continued on cnn, where pundits criticized trump for autographs. take a listen. >> reporters traveling said the troops brought the hats with them, including one hat that

said trump 2020. we will have to see if that proves to be the case. the question is, if they brought them or if the president brought them. what commander allowed that to happen? this is very much against military policy and regulation. troops are not supposed to be involved in political activities. the u.s. military is not a political force. and there's no question the saying trump 2020 and make america great again, those are political slogans of the trump campaign. they are not governmental sayings. to say the least. >> jason: of course, you didn't hear though attacks under obama. in 2008 when he was running for president, then candidate obama signed memorabilia and rallied the troops during an event at a military base in kuwait. four years later as president running for re-election he took pictures at a base in afghanistan. course he did. but now that it's trump and he's

the president, this is no longer allowed? prime example of blatant media bias. joining us now is fox news national security strategist sebastien gorga, morgan ortegas and rnc national spokesman kailee mcanenny. i want to start with you, kailee. the double standard is so blatant here. but do the american people, do they see through this? what should they read from these media reports? >> jason, there's no doubt that the american people see through this. here is the beauty of all of this, if there is any silver lining. the media has eliminated the need of the president to call them out, to expose their bias. they've become so bias, so ridiculous, so outrageous. literally writing a headline, while president trump is in the air to visit the troops that he is becoming the first president since 2002 to not visit the troops. that is fake news at its finest.

they have become a parity of themselves. they are exposing themselves. the american people are in tune with it. they're doing themselves a disservice by going to negative but an it's so blatant and obvious to the casual observer. >> jason: you're very close to the president. why do you think the president actually made this trip? it wasn't to sign autographs and make america great again hats. >> i know why he made it, jason. i called the white house. i spoke with the white house on christmas eve. he did this because this was important to him and it was important for melania. this is the first time a first lady has visited an active war zone since 1969. the fact that cnn and the rest of the fake news industrial complex is attacking those that wear the uniform of the republic, that are serving in a war zone, it's an utter disgrace

and outrage. i worked for the defense department for more than five years. i was subject to the rules that require you to remain politically neutral as a civilian. i have read the regulations that apply to those in uniform. you are not allowed to be involved in political campaigning, jason. you know that as well as i do. the idea that you are asking your commander in chief for his autograph on a hat is not a political campaign action. all we need to know right now is, if you love this country like the president does, if you love this country like our service men and women, then cnn and the rest of that crew will hate you. it is really that simple. jason: i thought the reporting was shameful. joining me here in new york in studio is morgan ortegas. thank you very much for being here.

people don't know this, but you served our country in saudi arabia and iraq. we thank you for that service. the president comes over. an unannounced trip. the people there, they don't know that the president's coming. they may have gotten a couple hours notice, if that. when you serve overseas, right, you take what's precious and dear to you, which you care about, and your space is very limited. so the fact these people had this on hand, knowing maybe with an hour's notice that the president's coming, says something about the intention of where these people believe. he got a rousing, rousing applause when he walked into that raorpbl didn't he? >> do you know what's interesting? when barack obama, when george w. bush, other presidents, regardless of party, go to the region where the troops are serving, they get rounds of applause. why is that? these members serve at the pleasure of the commander in chief. they're away from their family and friends on christmas. it's energizing to see your president. a trip like that, when i was with the u.s. embassy in riyadh,

if we had a cabinet official or high level official coming in, that would have been planned weeks in advance torque the criticism that it had something to do with syria or the shutdown, it's almost impossible to plan something like that. it would have been done at the highest levels many weeks in advance. i think that this is one of those things, often there's times where we look at something that the president did and you see a lot of stuff in the media i think it's being overblown. this is one of those cases, i'm in the reserves. i do not speak on behalf of the military. i serve with people who are democrats, republicans, down the middle. we don't bring our partisan affiliation into the uniform. but when the president is there, regardless of party, you're happy to see your president. to see these reporters, i got to say, how all this happened, there was a reporter who took pictures of people's faces and name plates which, by the way, is not the best idea to begin with and made sure they were documented on twitter with these

hats and the trump banner for the explicit purpose of calling them out. that reporter, i wouldn't let that person back in the white house press corps. >> jason: is there anything the president can do that would be right? it doesn't seem to matter what this president does. they always seem to find fault in it. even visiting the troops at christmastime. >> that's exactly right. he does what is right and yet is still called out for it with blatant bias and with editorializing, with fake news stories. i watched the entirety of his 25 minute speech. it was a very beautiful speech. for those who didn't see it air live, go watch it. he sits there and thanks the troops. he says thank you for winning back 20,000 square miles of territory from isis. thank you for liberating 3 million citizens. thank you for sacrificing and being away from your familiar list. he said and did everything right. that's just it. he can do everything right. the media, however, as found by

a harvard study, is 90% negative. they will remain negative. at the end of the day, we have an election in 2020. the american people will reward him for doing what is right despite the media onslaught, despite the onslaught he endures every day. >> jason: i thought having the first lady make that trip was all a very nice touch. sebastien, you, again, with the troops, the message that it sends not only to the people there in iraq that are serving, but overseas in japan and across the world. the message has got to be a resounding donald trump has your back. >> you took the words out of my mouth. that was the next thing i was going to say. i'd like to encourage all the viewers to go back to my twitter feed, look at sarah huckabee sanders. look at the photographs from iraq. look at the faces of those service men and women. look at the photographs from

germany. they are so overjoyed that on christmas day donald trump and melania trump don't spend their precious time together in the white house or at mar lago. they fly to the middle east. they fly to the base. they know that one trip tells them everything they need to know about how much this commander in chief has their back. >> jason: i have got just a few second. i want to give morgan the last word here. the only thing that i have seen barack obama -- the only thing he was willing to cut was his defense budget. but this president has propped that up by tens of billions of dollars. >> what's also not being talked about, on that trip the president was meeting with his senior military commanders on the ground. the team has already started to show that they're thinking about perhaps a new strategy for syria as it relates to keeping troops there. the president inkated he's going

to keep troops in iraq. for people like me, this was a fantastic trip. the president got to see all of the stuff that is deliberated in the national security council. he got to see it. it might have even not necessarily changed his mind, but helped him sort of strengthen his strategy as it relates to syria and iraq. that's incredibly important. no one's talking about that because they just want to criticize him for signing a hat. >> jason: i hope the president continues to do this. it means the world to them. to do it christmastime. and shame on the media for reporting it. they did not give you the full picture of what was happening. god bless the troops who are serving. we appreciate you joining us tonight. i need to shift gears to an urgent story out of california. a man hunt is under way for an illegal immigrant who shot and killed a 33-year-old police officer during a traffic stop early went day morning. joining us now for the latest is jonathan hunt. jonathan? >> reporter: jason, good evening.

the officer was gunned down at 1 a.m. wednesday in a small town in northern california just hours earlier, on christmas day, he had taken this photo with his wife and their 5-month-old son. >> his 5-month-old, he will never hear talk. he will never see his son walk. he doesn't get to hold that little boy, hug his wife, say good night anymore, because a coward took his life. >> reporter: wednesday, officer singh pulled over a gray pickup truck that had no license plates. minutes later he radioed, shots fired. i have been hit. the suspect was seen on security camera footage buying beer shortly before the shooting. he has not been formally named but officials know who he is.

they believe he is still in the area. they know he is armed and dangerous. the sheriff also revealed the suspect is an illegal immigrant. >> this suspect, unlike ron, who immigrated to this country lawfully and legally, to pursue his life long career of public safety, public service and being a police officer. this suspect is in our country illegally. he doesn't belong here. he's a criminal. we will find him. we will arrest him. and we will bring him to justice. >> jason: president trump tweeted after that press conference highlighting the man hunt for the suspect and said time to get tough on border securitied. build the wall. officer singh was a legal immigrant from fiji and apparently took extra english

lessons to make himself better understood over the police radio. those who worked with him, jason, say he loved being a police officer. he loved his family. and he was, quote, living the american dream. jason? >> jason: jonathan, thank you. i hate stories like this. i can't thank the family enough for the service he made in serving this nation. i was there earlier this year at an event. the men and women there are grieving and they will for a long time. we lost a good one. but this is just the latest tragic example of why the law on our southern border is so important. still tonight as we speak, democrats are willing to shut down the government to spite president trump. joining us is tammy bruce, florida attorney general pam bondi and florida congressman matt grates. i appreciate you being here. i want to go first tot the attorney general. you've been through these types of events. florida's a big state, like california. a blue alert has been issued.

what are the men and women thinking about and going through now as they're trying to find this killer? >> it's horrible. sadly, we've dealt with this so many times. if nancy pelosi wants to put $5 billion on a wall to protect children, she's saying, what about that police officer's child? that's priceless. you can't put a price tag on that, jason. we know that. we know that we have to build this wall. these families, these police officers risk their lives for us every single day. and if his life could have been prevented by that wall, then it was worth every penny of it. one drug bust, jason, that came in, one drug bust in one day coming through the mexican border, it was cocaine, meth and heroin totalling over hits or doses that could go to children, 31 million dose. i got it all broken down by dea for me.

that's almost the population of california. all those kids in our country, all those drugs could have gone to kids in our country. that's what this is about. protecting our children. that's why these borders are so important. the gangs, the human trafficking. firsthand i know about all of this. >> jason: tammy, this is broader than just the wall. i know the discussion is about the wall. the wall is important. put something in between those who want to come north. it is bigger and broader than just the human trafficking and bringing kids across the border. drugs and guns and all the other things that come along with that. and we don't know how this person that has been identified as the police. we don't know how this person got here. could have come under a visa and be a visa overstay. but there still is need to build the wall and create an impediment, correct? >> there's the literalness of that, jason. but there's also the psychology of it.

it's a statement to individuals like this criminal, who thought he would just come over. the individuals, brazilian murderers who ice has caught who they had to send back to brazil. there's this message that this is the place to escape to if someone else is looking for you. or that, in fact, if america doesn't care about its border security and doesn't care about crime and what's happening inside the country, why should you? i just have to say, this is eerily similar and horrific as well as what reminded people during the campaign with president trump. the kate steinly killing on the pier in san francisco. up until that point, that was all this kind of discussion about the technicalities of immigration and what we were going to have as borders and the impediments and all of that. we've moved into that kind of conversation again, where it's ab these elements, or the democrats getting their votes or

if they're going to win in 2020. suddenly we realize it's the american people who matter here. that the politicians are using us as effectively or seeing us as collateral damage as they might to get what they want. this isn't a fight about us, about our families, about that little baby now who will never know his father and all of the people in america who have lost a loved one, either through drugs or through murder or through killings. this is what we've got to remember. politicians want you to think it's about them. it is about us and this is what the president is committed to. it's our lives and our future. >> jason: congressman, i had the pleasure of serving with you in the 115th congress. democrats say they're for border security. i, for the life of me, can't figure out what they think is border security, when they want to promote sanctuary cities and abolish ice. they aren't supporting the wall. they call the wall immoral.

i don't know what they think border security is. but there's a lot of other things. they suddenly want to have a hearing. there should be an inspector general report. the child that was in -- now two children in the custody of customs and border patrol. i do think there should be an investigation into that. what about these killings? do you think they'll do some investigations into those? >> it is always a tragedy when a child dies. obviously, we're going to look into that. my goodness, if you did what the left wanted, you'd get rid of the borders, abolish ice, have every city as a sanctuary city. you'd provide them better than the veterans are getting in my district and my own community. look at the challenges that attorney general bondi laid out, before our law enforcement officials. they've already got to fight again american murderers. they should not have to fight against murderers from around the world that are dumped here because of our porous border. when you think about the different justifications for the

wall, rising wages for the american worker, safer streets that don't have the drug. i think what motivates our president the most is the safety and security of the american people. remember, jason, he's met with the families of individuals who have lost loved ones at the hands of criminally illegal aliens who were violent. it's that commitment to the families that lost loved ones that motivates the president to be so resolute during this period of time. i'm confident the president will get a good deal here. we cannot put illegal aliens over the interest of the american people. it sounds so obvious to say. you look at who everyone's fighting for. the president is fighting for safer street, better jobs and higher wages. apparently the democrats are fighting for a porous border that becomes easier for criminal illegal aliens. a shame. >> jason: that's what's amazing. democrats are more interested in making sure nancy pelosi gets the gavel and becomes the

speaker. they can't define when they say they want border security. when it wasn't donald trump they voted to authorize the wall. now they won't want to fund it. so the discussion continues. i wish i had more time for all three of you, but we don't. there's a lot of news happening. tammy, general bondi and congressman gates, we thank you. thank you for your service to our country. coming up, big news on the mueller probe. we'll break it down next.

>> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." tonight a new report surrounding

michael cohen's cell phone, along with the latest on jerome corsi's legal battle with the special prosecutor. >> a federal judge has rejected the justice department's request to delay an upcoming hearing in jerome corsi's lawsuit against robert mueller. justice department officials requested the delay because they say the federal shutdown is hindering government lawyers. corsi is suing the special counsel for $350 million claiming mueller illegally searched his phone records. special counsel has reportedly examined corsi over his advanced knowledge that hillary clinton's campaign e-mails had been stolen. corsi said he just connected the dots. this as mclatchy reports a cell phone traced to president trump's former lawyer michael cohen sent signals to a cell tower in the prague area in late summer 2016. former british spy christopher seals dossier claims cohen

coordinated with officials in prague and said an eastern european intelligence agency picked up a conversation among russians where one claimed cohen was in prague. do that, cohen tweeted i hear prague czech republic is beautiful in the summertime. i wouldn't know. i have never been. mueller knows everything. cohen is cooperating with the special counsel's office. earlier this month a judge sentenced him to three years in prison. jason? >> jason: rich, thank you. rudy giuliani is accusing robert mueller of destroying evidence after a watch dog found that phones with text messages between peter strock and lesa page were erased. thank you both for joining us. david, mclatchy is insisting on this report, this new report out today, that there were pings on

cohen's phone in the czech republic. and yet the attorney for michael cohen has insisted no. michael cohen has tweeted out, no, that wasn't the case. can anything at this point be believed by michael cohen? >> that's the problem. there's just no credibility there. michael cohen's motivation would be, if he were in prague, to say that he was in prague and colluding and try to bury the president. he's made it clear what his agenda is. the fact that he's still saying that he wasn't in prague and lanny davis is swearing that his client told him that he wasn't in prague is significant. frankly, by this point, lanny davis own statements would be an admission by cohen. they're attributable to him. if mr. cohen testifies otherwise, lonnie davis will be a witness in the case and this is the stuff of the cross-examination. >> jason: dan, i still think it's suspicious that davis is involved. is it coincidence that cohen

gets the attorney that has dealt with the clintons? you are a secret service agent. if you had a guy like cohen come before you, what do you do with a guy like that? now he's an admitted liar. >> he is. the way you investigate a case like this, you go and do an investigation. in an investigation of travel overseas, whether it's a drug deal, an alleged collusion conspiracy ring, jason, there's a very easy way to figure this out. you go and check hotel records. you can check, we had text back in the day. you can check passport records and travel records. what's my point? all of those things indicate michael cohen was not in prague. david brought up an excellent point. what motivation could michael cohen possibly have trying to get himself out of jail and work off a sentence through proper agreements, trying to get applied k letter. what motivation would he

possibly have to continue to lie, jason, about being in prague? there's no passport evidence. there's no travel evidence. there's no hotel records. even the washington post reporter has said they found no evidence that this story is true. i think mcclatchy is getting worked over by some bad sources here. >> jason: i think that's the other part of the story. who is trying to shop this and turn this story the other way. i gotta change gears to jerome corsi. he has a lawsuit that's moving forward. the government tried to go before a judge to say, whoa, slow this down because of the furloughs, we need more time. the judge shot that down. how is this going to play out? >> hopefully, it will go forward. jerome corsi's lawsuit is important. it should, if it really goes forward, expose the very nature of this mueller team. we've known from the start mueller picked people who had an agenda and some prosecutors with the most checkered backgrounds of any in the country starting

with andrew weissman. if mr. corsi is able to find out something ab these tactics, it's gonna blow people away. hope tphreurb finally, the department of justice, the new attorney general will reign in the special counsel's conduct. that is his obligation. >> jason: that is something that will happen. dan, there's one other part i want to get to. that is major rudy giuliani representing the president, has called for an investigation of mueller himself for the destruction of these text messages. there are still thousands between strk and page, on fbi equipment that are still missing according to the inspector general. >> you know what's incredible about this? the liberals are basing their entire case on this trump tower meeting with don jr. who, by the way, jason, immediately released all the e-mails about that. when it became public and engaged in almost unprecedented

active disclosure. when it happens on the other side on the anti-trump team and these records disappear, media coverage is almost, oh, no big deal, it was an accident. it's not an accident. i suspect what's in there is communications about their doubts about the dossier. remember, they went into an fisa court, raised their right hand. some manager swore that that information was true and verified. strk was the lead investigator. if someone knows that it wasn't, it's him. i suspect that's what's in there. >> jason: thank you both. let's remember. david horowitz and his team at the department of justice could not get the fbi to cough up these text messages. they had to go to the pentagon to write software to penetrate and get at the fbi's own intelligence. remember the guy was in charge of counter intelligence for the united states right across the river there can go hack into it no problem. that is such a big issue that

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>> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." the second annual women's march in washington, d.c. is coming up, but beware, those organizing and leading the march are facing serious charges of anti-semitism and racism. according to a new report, top officials inside the women's march are deeply entrenched with the nation of islam. in 2015, three board members including lynnsy soursor participated in a rally organized by louis farrakhan. in february of this year, the co-chair attended the nation of islam's saviors day also hosted by louis farrakhan where he called jews satanic. the three have praised him on twitter. the very same man who constantly spews bigoted language towards

jewish people. watch this. >> the jews don't like farrakhan so they call me hitler. hitler was a very great man. the satanic jews, they control everything and mostly everybody. there were many israelis and zionist jews in key roles in the 9/11 attack. the jews have control over those agencies of government. the powerful jews are my enemies! farrakhan, by god's grace, has pulled the cover off of that satanic jew! call me an anti-semite.

stop it. i'm anti-termite. >> jason: after months of outrage the women's march officially denounced many of those comments, but its leaders are still seemingly unwilling to distance themselves from the nation of islam and farrakhan himself. now other women's marches across america are being cancelled, including one in chicago. joining us is fox news contributor jessica tarlov and brook goldstein. thank you both for being here. brooke the women's march, has it been compromised? >> it's been compromised from the beginning. someone said to me in the green room, if the women weren't leaders of the march, they would be members of the kkk. their behavior, anti-semitism is so blatant, it's a wonder they

haven't been condemned and shut out of the movement. it's beyond just their association with farrakhan. the founders of the women's march have called for the dehumanization of jews. she's embraced someone who murdered two young is railly jews. she's tweeted in favor of the islamic jihad, a particular terrorist who is in jail for recruiting suicide bombers. the irony is, they're using the platform of the women's march, which was set up to protect minority rights, to advocate for women's rights, to promote hatred against the worldest old minority, the jewish people. it is absolutely wrong. it must come out in the open. >> jason: jessica is joining me here in new york. jessica, it is the american way to petition your government. to march. i don't think anybody is opposed to that. but these aren't just rank and file members. these are leaders of the women's

march. >> of the national movement. and i think it's a wonderful thing to hear about states taking it upon themselves to organize their own local marches. i have written about louis farrakhan and the danger he poses to society and especially the democratic party with the association of some prominent members of him. i think everyone should have a women's march. i think it's incredibly important. i did participate in the first women's march here in new york right after donald trump's election. i thought it was important to be out there representing the rights of minorities. those were not going to be represented by this administration and continue to not be represented by them. but local leaders should organize and make sure this message continues. we don't need them. they should be pushed out of the movement. the others who have been there since the beginning, you're not going to turn on them or stand for protection of all minorities, which is what the women's march is about, shouldn't be there.

>> this is indicative of a much larger problem that goes way beyond the women's march. we have seen the use of the so called progressive movement platform and the liberal base being invaded by anti-semitism. look at the bracing not just farrakhan. but keith ellison. we have a major school, san francisco state university, that happens to be being sued by my organization for rampant civil rights violations against jews. we see them say, we're progressive. they turn around and target jewish students from excludeing them from a know your rights fair, which was meant to educate about minority rights. we are seeing the progress iive platform. >> i know you spend all day seeped in that. i would push back there as someone who is a proud member of

the democratic party, more moderate than a bernie sanders type progressive. i don't believe we are an anti-semitic entity. >> i did not say that. >> you said the progressive phoefrpbment. i'm pushing back there. when you have what happened versus in charlottesville, people marching and then a president saying there are people on both sides there, that to me is a real problem. i'm happy to talk about farrakhan. >> i'm very heartened to see members of the left finally come out. when this -- what has taken so long? i was at the brooklyn march she did about a year ago where she dove tails talking about women's rights into blatant anti-semitism. when has the women's raoeu movement ever come out about the slavery of abuse in muslim majority countrys? why don't they first come out?

this is a problem that's been building for a long time. goes beyond just the women's march. i'm happy that we are talking about it. i'm happy that my colleagues on the left and the right are coming together and agreeing that anti-semitism has no place in a progressive state. >> jason: brooke, i appreciate that you are so involved and engaged in this. it's been a great discussion. jessica? >> i would reiterate what i said before. the progressive, liberals, democrats, we are not an anti-semitic party. farrakhan goes beyond anti-semitism to sexism, and has no place in any modern day party. i would encourage local organizers, make sure we do have a women's march so women and men and our allies and the kids can come together and speak up against this administration. >> jason: if you have this women's march with those leaders who support farrakhan, there's a

reason rhode island and washington state and chicago are banning and fleeing here. >> there is a wonderful very long piece that goes in depth into this issue i encourage everyone to read, to pay attention to the issues. >> jason: we don't have an hour. i got to cut it off there. thank you both for joining us. happy new year to you. an unbelievable story of the left going after america's hunters. one of the biggest names in hollywood is under attack. stay with us. for your heart... your joints... or your digestion... so why wouldn't you take something for the most important part of you... your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory.

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>> jason: welcome back to this special edition of hannity,

trump versus the swamp. elitists who have a disgust for america's heart land. the beloved actor chris pratt, well known for honoring the troops and making surprise visits to sick children is under attack. he gave a speech to young people at the mtv movie and tv awards in june telling them, quote, god is real. god loves you. god wants the best for you. believe that. i do. and learn to pray. it's easy and it's so good for your soul, end quote. looks like the hollywood star has angered the left even further. a tv guide editor lambasted him as problematic for being a lover of hunting and raising lambs. the guy ran an article how to love chris pratt without hating yourself. it takes issue with pratt's farm to table lifestyle. he even eats meat, oh my goodness! here to discuss the liberal's

disconnect with the main stream america is turning point usa founder charlie kirk and trump advisory board member madison jesiato. i got to tell you, charlie, the disconnect here could not be further. chris pratt is saying, i like hunting, i like god and i like praying. why is he constantly under attack? >> this is so important, jason, because now we have seen that it's no longer a political divide in our country. it's becoming a cultural divide. it used to be things the democratic party used to embrace. the democrat party in the '60s arch '70s and '80s used to be in fear of god that knew the lifestyle of mainland usa. no longer. it is a party which politics has gone toward this cultural

relativism. there is no god, hunting is gone, meat is evil. i know it sounds absurd. this is the lifestyle you'll find in manhattan and malibu. there's a middle part of the country that's rejecting this whole heartedly. you see this with chris pratt. he's just a good red blooded american who believes in god and country and is getting targeted by these hollywood and manhattan elites. it's very hard to speak out in hollywood because of that. >> jason: chris pratt is an entertaining entertainer. his movies, he puts a smile on his face. he now has a target on his back because he likes to hunt, he raises lambs that he ends up eating. he's living the way the overwhelming majority of americans live but he now has a target on his back. >> i can't help but think people have bigger things to worry about what chris pratt's eating. most people in this country,

their food comes to worst places. chris is a great guy. the problem is not that chris is a hunter. the problem is that chris is a christian and is not liberal, so he doesn't fit in with the media. they can't handle that. he's amazing on screen. he's worked with special olympic. he's raised monies for families of children with canner. he's someone that someone in this country can look up to. he's someone who takes time to do things for others. he sent me a message congratulating me. i have been impressed with him. i wish the liberals should stop showing their bias. guess what? he's someone that we should look to, not someone we should be attacking. >> jason: charlie, the liberals take this approach and want to go after people that hunt, they pray and believe in god. how in the world are they gonna grow their party if they think that's what's representative of

america? >> well, part of their political strategy is to try to allow 10 to 15 illegal immigrants into the country, naturalize them, get the right to vote, therefore they don't have to win back middle america. i know that sounds cynical. democrats are on their way to do that. it's so important that people have to realize we are in the midst of a culture war in our country. are we still a country that believes in in god we trust and liberty? these are the foundational values of our country that made america the greatest country and greatest culture to exist. it's, we have gone so far outside of the rails of reality when someone like chris pratt is attacked. >> jason: chris, i have got to cut you off. i have a hard cut. we really appreciate you both joining us. up next, a special tribute to a war hero. a retiring congressman, sam

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>> jason: welcome back to this special edition of hannity, trump versus the swamp. sam johnson will be retiring at the end of the year leaving a profound legacy of service. nearly seven years as a prisoner of war.

through his time as an elected official. to honor his career, i had the opportunity to sit down with the congressman and reflect on his historic work. take a look. >> loved member of congress on both sides of the aisle. of all the people i have had the pleasure to meet, there's only one that could be defined as an american hero. >> sam johnson is one of the best men i know. >> the country is stronger because of your leadership. >> after 27 years of serving his constituents, colonel sam johnson is retiring. a decorated fighter pilot, now 88, he uses a scooter to get around, but thats thatn't slowed him down. when congressman scalise returned to the capitol, johnson challenged him to a scooter race. >> who won the race? >> i did. >> you've been racing your whole

life, haven't you? >> that's right. >> his service to his country began in 1951. >> i used to say i wanted to fly airplanes. you don't do that except in the military. >> over the course of his 29 year career with the united states air force, johnson did a whole lot more than just fly air planes. after 62 combat missions in korea, he helped the airport trust the effects of nuclear explosion on planes by flying right into them. >> i flew through an air burst. no big deal. >> johnson was selected to fly lead solo with the elite air force thunder birds. >> i heard a story about maybe flying too fast. i flew up to water front supersonic, broke every window in the water front. cost the air force $100,000. they said don't do that anymore. yes, sir. buzz aldrin an i went to flying

school together we both got korea assignments and were ordered over there at the same time. he's been a close friend the whole way. all the way to the moon and back. >> jason: johnson was flying combat missions in vietnam. on his 25th mission, he was shot down. captured by the north vietnamese and taken as a prisoner of war. buzz honored johnson by wearing his pow bracelet when he landed on the moon. what did that mean to you when he wore that bracelet of yours up on the moon? >> well, meant a lot. >> jason: johnson endured seven years as a prisoner of war. >> we didn't stop fighting from inside the cells. caused them a lot of havoc while we were there. we ended up, they put us in single cells. place we called alcatraz. >> jason: 42 months, more than three years, was spent in

solitary confinement. >> fortunately tapping on the wall was a code that we had, you could maintain contact with the other guys. >> jason: you came out of it. was it through prayer, thinking of shirley? >> all of that. thinking of shirley, of course, and praying to god. >> jason: while sam is a hero to many, his hero was his wife shirley. >> she was the greatest lady in the world. >> jason: i heard at dinner she would set a place for you. >> she did, because she knew i was coming back. seeing these american flags flying is heart warming for me and one of the greatest things i could ever hope to see coming back home. >> jason: when you see people disrespecting the flag, stand up and put their hand over the heart. >> there is no reason to disrespect our flag.

the united states of america, in my view, is the greatest nation in the world and we should set an example for the rest of the world. we do, most of the time. >> jason: johnson could have retired an american hero, but instead decided to become a states man. >> not everyone was happy with our government but my pow buddies and i decided we would stop griping about it and start working to fick it. >> jason: the ways and means committee named this hearing room the sam johnson room and redecorating it in his honor. >> they put a note that you wrote in there. do you remember what it wrote? >> freedom has taste of those who almost died the protected will never know. that's what we fight for here in the united states congress. freedom for every remember of the kwraoupbd of america.>> we d

hannity for putting that story out there. he is a true american hero. unfortunately that's all the time we have left. be sure to check out my new book if you get a chance. if you're looking for that very late christmas gift. we appreciate you. now it's time for lisa booth to fill in for laura ingraham. lisa: that was a beautiful story at the end. we're coming to you live from new york city. a frantic manhunt is under way for a vicious cop killer in california. the suspect is an illegal immigrant. more on that in a moment