out who is guest hosting for hannity tonight. who is it going to be? i think i can see jason kennedy filling in for sean. >> i always love it when you're on with tucker. i love it when you're on. so thank you so much. >> by the way, that is a terrific interview you did with sam johnson today and even should look at that. that was the best thing on tv this morning. fantastic stuff. >> we're going to go back and tell you about sam johnson, a special man and a true american hero. so thanks, mark. we appreciate it. welcome to the special edition of "hannity: trump vs. the swamp". i'm jason in tonight for sean. yesterday president trump made a surprise visit to the air base in iraq where he visited the brave men and women serving abroad during christmas. meanwhile, the mainstream media

trashed the president over his visit with our troops. watch this. >> in retrospect, and i give him credit for going to iraq, but his performance there was shameful. >> the president seems to have confused in some way this troop visit with a campaign rally. >> this is really a political rally in front of troops in iraq. >> they treat the troops like props. >> 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 like the grinch. i'm being honest. >> he stole christmas. >> it was so negative. you want positivity when it comes to christmas. why would he visit the troops and do that? >> the all-too-predictable attacks continued on cnn, where pundits actually criticized trump for autographs. take a look. >> the reporters traveling said that the troops brought the hats with them, including one hat

that said trump 2020. the question is if they brought them or if the president brought them, what commander allowed that to happen? because this is very much against military policy and regulation. troops are not supposed to be involved in political activity. the u.s. military is not a political force. and there's no question, the saying trump 2020 and make american great again are political slogans of a trump campaign. they are not governmental things, to say the least. >> of course you didn't hear those attacks under obama in 2008 when he was running for president. he signed memorabilia and rallied the troops during an event at a military base in kuwait. four years later, obama also signed autographs and took pictures at a base in afghanistan. of 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 and hypocrisy. joining us now, sebastian, morgan, and cayley. thank you so much for being here. i want to start with you. i mean, the hypocrisy and the double standard is so blatant here. but do the american people see through this? what should they read from these media reports? >> there's no doubt that the american people see through this. here is the beauty of all of this, that the media has eliminated the need of the president to call them out to expose their bias. they have become so bias, so ridiculous, so outrageous, literally writing an airline while he is in the air to visit the troops that he is not visiting the troops.

they have become a parody of themselves and exposing themselves. the american people are in tune with them and they're doing themselves a disservice by going so negative because it's so blatant and obvious to even the casual observer. >> why do you think the president actually made this trip? it wasn't to sign autographing on 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. i believe this is the first time a first lady has visited an active war zone since 1969. and 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 an

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. and i've 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 servicemen and women, then cnn and the rest of that crew will hate you. it is really that simple. >> yeah, i thought that the reporting was -- it really was shameful. but joining me here is morgan r

ortegas. thank you so much for being here. you served our country and we thank you for that service. the president comes over. it's an unannounced trip. the people there don't know that the president is coming. they may have gotten a couple of hours' notes -- notice, if that. so the fact that these people had this on hand, knowing maybe with an hour's notice that the president is coming, says something. and he got a rousing applause when he walked in that room. >> when other presidents, regardless of party, go to the region where the troops are, they get rousing applause. and why is that? because these members of the service serve at the pleasure of the commander-in-chief. they're away from their family and friends on christmas, and it's energizing to see your president there. they're excited to him.

on a trip like that, if we had a cabinet official or high-level official coming in, that would have been planned weeks in advance. it would have been done at the highest levels many weeks in advance. and so i think this is one of those things, often there's time where we look at something the president did and you see a lot of -- sometimes i think it's being overblown. this is one of those cases. i'm in the reserves and i do not speak on behalf of the military. and 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. and to see these reporters -- i've got to say, how all this happened is there is a reporter who zooms in and took pictures of people's faces and name plates and made sure they were documented on twitter for the

explicit purpose of calling them out. and that reporter -- i wouldn't let that person back in the white house press corps if it were me. >> is there anything the president can do that would be right? they always seem to find fault, even visiting the troops at christmastime. >> that's exactly right. he does what is right and yet is still called out for with blatant bias or with editorializing, fake news story. i watched his speech. it was a very beautiful speech. go watch it. he literally sits there and thanks the troops and says, thank you for winning back 20,000 square miles of territory from isis. thank you for sacrificing and being away from your families. he said and did everything right, but that's just it. he can do everything right.

the media is 90% negative. they will remain negative. but at the end of the day, we have an election in 2020. the american people will reward him for doing what was right, despite the onslaught that he n endures every single day. >> i also think bringing the first lady was also a very nice touch. the message that it sends not only the people in iraq but overseas, the message has to be a resounding, donald trump has your back. >> you took the words right out of my mouth. that's the next thing i was going to say. i would like to encourage all the viewers to go back to my twitter feed, look at the photographs, look at the faces of those servicemen 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. they fly to middle east. they fly to that base. they meet with these people, shake their hands, take their selfi selfies. that tells them everything they need to know about how much this commander-in-chief has their back. >> sebastian, i've got just a few seconds. i want to give morgan the last word here. the only thing i've seen barack obama -- the only thing he was willing to cut was the defense budget. >> and what's also not being talked about was on that trip the president was meeting with his senior military commanders on the ground. and the team is showing they're thinking about perhaps a new strategy for syria.

for people like me, this was a fantastic trip because the president got to see firsthand. and i think 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 want to criticize him for signing a hat. >> i hope the president continues to do this. it means to these troops and their families back home. and shame on the media for reporting it as they did. they did not give the full picture of what was happening. we appreciate you joining us tonight. i need to shift gears now to an urgent story out of california. a man hunt underway for an illegal immigrant. joining us now for the very latest is jonathan hunt. jonathan. >> jason, good evening. officer was gunned down at 1:00

a.m. wednesday in northern california. just hours earlier on christmas day, he had taken this photo with his wife and five-month-old son. >> his five-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 goodnight anymore because a coward took his life. >> on wednesday the officer pulled over a gray pickup truck that had no license plates. minutes later he radioed, quotes, shots fired. i've been hit. the suspect was seen on a

footage buying beer. officials say they know who he is, he is still in the area, they know he is armed and dangerous. the suspect is an illegal immigrant. >> this suspect, unlike ron, who immigrated to this country lawfully and legally to pursue his lifelong 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. >> president trump tweeted shortly after that press conference, highlighting the manhunt for the suspect and saying, quote, time to get tough on border security. build the wall. officer, as you heard the sheriff mention, 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 say he loved being a police officer, loved his family, and he was, quote, living the american dream. jason. >> oh, jonathan, thank you. i hate stories like this and i can't thank that family enough for the service and sacrifice in that he made. i was there earlier this year at an event. and the men and women there are grieving and will for a long time. we lost a good one. this is just the latest tragic example of why the wall on our southern border is so important. democrats are willing to shut down the government to spite president trump. i really do appreciate all three of you being here. now, i'm going to go first to the attorney general. you've been through these types of events too. florida is a big state like

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

for me. that's almost the population in california. 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. i know about all of this. . >> and this is broader than just the wall. i know the discussion is about the wall and the wall is important, to put an impediment. and we don't know how this person that has been identified as the police -- by the police, we don't know how this person got here. could have come on visa and been a visa overstay. but there's still this need to build the wall, correct? >> well, there's the literalness

of that but also the psychology. the brazilian murderers who i.c.e. has caught who they had to send back to brazil. so there's this message that this is the place to escape to if someone else is looking for you. or that if america doesn't care about its bodier security and what's happening inside the country, why should you? but i have to say, this is eerily similar. up until that point, that was all of this kind of discussion about the technicalities of the immigration and what we were going to have in borders and the impediments and all of that. we've moved into that conversation again where it's about these elements and the

democrats getting their votes. suddenly we realize that it's the american people who matter here, that the politicians are use -- seeing us as collateral damage. this is an argument and 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 through drugs or murder or killing. the politicians want you to think it's about them. it's our lives and our future. >> now, i had the pleasure and honor of serving with you in the 115th congress. but the 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 i.c.e.

i don't know what they think border security is. they suddenly want to have a hearing. and i think there should be an inspector general report of the two children in the custody of customs border patrol. but what about these killings? do you think they'll do some investigation of those. >> well, it is always a tragedy when a child dies. my goodness, if you did what the left wanted, you would get rid of the borders, abolish i.c.e., have sanctuary cities, and then you would have medical care better than the veterans are getting in my district. you look at the challenges before our law enforcement officials. they've already got to fight against american murderers. they should not also have to fight against murderers around the world that are dumped here because of our border. and when you think about the

justifications for the wall, rising wages for the american worker, safer streets so you don't have the drugs, i think what motivates our president the most is the safety and security of the american people. he's met with the families. and i think it's that resolve that he has, that commitment to the families who have lost loved ones that really motivates the president. and i'm confident that our president's going to get a good deal here because we simply cannot put illegal aliens over the interests of american people. it sounds so obvious to say, but you look at who everyone is fighting for. and apparently the democrats are fighting for a pourous border that becomes easier for criminal illegal aliens. >> that's amazing. they're more interested in making sure that nancy pelosi gets the gavel and becomes the speaker.

and they can't define, when they say they want border security -- when it wasn't donald trump, they went ahead and voted to authorize the wall, but now they don't want to fund it. so the discussion continues. i wish i had more time but we don't. so we thank you. thank you for your service to this country and joining us here tonight. coming up, big news on the mueller probe today. we'll break it down next. my name is jeff sheldon,

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author's legal battle. rubber. >> a federal judge has rejected the justice department's request to delay an upcoming hearing in the lawsuit against special counsel mueller. justice department officials requested the delay because they say the federal shutdown is hindering government lawyers. he's suing the special counsel saying mueller illegally searched his phone records. they've -- he says he just connected the dots. this as reports of a cell phone sent signals to a cell tower in the prague area in late summer 2016.

the report also says that during that same timeframe and eastern european intelligence agency picked up a conversation among russians where one claimed cohen was in prague. one claim quoted, i hear prague is beautiful in the summer time. i wouldn't know. i've never been. jason. >> rich, thank you. also tonight, rudy -- joining us now for reaction is attorney david and former secret service agent dan bongino. i think to start with you david because there's a new report out today that there were pings on

cohen's phone in the czech republic. and his attorney has insisted no and cohen has tweeted out, no, that wasn't the case. but can anything be believed by cohen? >> there's just no credibility there at all anymore. cohen's motivation would be to say he were in prague and colluding and bury the president. the fact that he's still saying today that he wasn't in prague and that davis is swearing that his client said he wasn't in prague is significant. so if mr. cohen testifies otherwise, davis will be a witness in the case and this is the stuff of cross-examination. >> i still think it's suspicious. it's just coincidentally cohen

gets the attorney. he just happened to land with that guy. it doesn't make any sense. if you had a guy like cohen come before you, what do you do with a guy like that because now he's an admitted liar. >> the way you investigate a case like this is you go in and do an investigation. and in an investigation of travel overseas, whether it's a drug deal, an alleged collusion conspiracy ring, there's a very easy way to figure this out. you check hotel records. you can check passport and travel records. all of those things indicate cohen was not in prague. david brought up an excellent point. what motivation could cohen possibly have trying to get himself out of jail and work off a sentence through proper agreements, trying to get a 5k letter. what motivation would he

possibly have to continue to lie about being in prague? there's no passport evidence, travel evidence, no hotel records. even the washington post reporter said they found no evidence this story is true. i think he's getting worked over by bad sources here. >> who is trying to shop this and turn this story the other way? i think that's a bigger part of it. but i have to change gears to jerome because he has a lawsuit. it's moving forward. but the judge shot that down. so how is this going to play out? >> well, hopefully it will go forward. the lawsuit is vitally important. it should, if it really go forward the discovery, expose the very nature of this mueller team. mueller picked people that had

an agenda. if he's really able to go forward and get discovery and find out something about these tactics, it's going to blow people away. that is his obligation for oversight under the regulations. >> that is something that should happen. there's one other part i want to get to before we run out of time. rudy >> yeah, you know what's really incredible about this is the liberals are basing their entire case against trump on this trump tower meeting the don jr. and engaged in almost

unprecedented act of disclosure. yet when it happens on the other side and these records disappear, the media coverage is almost like, oh, it's no big deal. it was an accident. it's not an accident. we don't know what's in there. i suspect what's in there is communications about their doubts about the dossier. remember, they went into a fisa court, raised their right hand and some bureau manager swore that was true and verified. strzok was the investigator. if anyone knows that it wasn't, it's him. >> let's remember, the inspector general could not get the fbi to cough up these text messages. they had to go to the pentagon to write software to go penetrate and get at the fbi's own intelligence. and remember who these guys were. the guy was in charge of counterintelligence for the united states. that is such a big issue.

it affects all of government. a lot more to come here in the coming weeks. but we thank you very much. merry christmas, happy new year, and thanks for joining us. coming up, the women's march movement is melting down. we'll explain why after the break.

>> jason: >> welcome back to this special edition of hannity. the special annual women's march in washington, d.c. is coming up. but beware. those organizing and leading the march are facing serious charges. top officials inside the women's march are deeply entrenched with the islam. three board members participated in a rally organized by farrakhan. and in february of this year, one attended -- both have frequently praised the national of islam and farrakhan

on twitter. watch this. >> here the jews don't like farrakhan. so they call me hitler. well, that's a good name. hitler was a very great man. the satanic jews, they control everything and mostly everybody. there were many israelis and jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks. see, the jews have control over those agencies of government. the powerful jews are my enemy. 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. >> after months of outrage, they officially denounced many of those comments but its leaders are seemingly unwilling to distance themselves. joining us now is fox news contributor jessica and human rights attorney brooke goldst n goldstein. brooke, i want to start with you. has the women's march been compromised? >> it's been promised from the beginning. if these women weren't leaders of the march, they would be members of the kkk. their neo-nazi behavior is so blatant, it's a wonder they

haven't been condemned and shut out of the movement. one of the founders has called for the dehumanization of jews. she has actually embraced a terrorist who murdered two jews and called to support her. she has tweeted in favor -- and they are 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 world's oldest minority, the jewish people. it is absolutely wrong and must come out in the open. >> jessica, it is the american way to petition your government to march. jong anybo-- i don't think's an

opposed to that. these are leaders of the women's march. >> of a national movement. i've written about farrakhan and the danger i think he poses to society and the democratic party. and i think that every state should have a women's march. i think it's incredibly important. and i did participate in the first march in new york right after donald trump's election. i thought it was an important thing. but local leaders should organize and make sure that this message continues, but we don't need them. and they should be pushed out of the movement. and the others, if you're not going to turn on them and not going to stand for protection of all minority, which is what the women's march is about, you shouldn't be there. >> this is indicative though 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 in the liberal space now being invaded by antise antisemiti antisemitism. san francisco state university, for example, who happens to be sued for rampant civil rights the violations against jews. and the excuse is, well, we're progressive. and how does that turn out? they target jewish students to exclude them for a know your rights fair meant to educate about minority rights. it must stop. >> i know you do spend all day steeped in this and this is not my main area of focus, but i would push back there as someone

who is a proud member of the democratic party. but i don't believe that we're advocating for policy. >> i did not say that. >> when you have what happened, for instance, where you had people marching and saying, jews will not replace us, and the president equivocating on it, that to me is a problem. >> i'm very heartened to see members of the left finally coming out. what is taking so long? i was at the brooklyn march that she did about a year about, where she dove tails and talks about women's right into blatant anti-semitism. why didn't the women's movement come out?

this is a problem that has existed for a long time and again goes beyond just the women's march. i am happy that we are talking about it and that my colleagues on the left and right are coming together and agreeing that it has no place in the progressive space. >> brooke, we so appreciate that you are so involved and engaged to this. jessica. >> i would reiterate what i said before, that progressives, liberals, democrats, we are not an anti-semitic party. so i would just again encourage local organizers, make sure that we do have a women's march so that women and men and our allies and the kids can come together and speak up against this administration. >> but if you have this women's march with those leaders in place in support of farrakhan, there's a reason why rhode

island and washington state and chicago are abandoning and fleeing here. >> i would encourage everyone when they have an hour to read, to pay attention to the issue. >> well, we don't have an hour. i've got to cut it off there. and thank you both for joining us. and happy new year to you both and thank you so much for being her. and unbelieverable story of the left going after america's hunters. one of the biggest names in hollywood is under attack. stay with us. chicken?! chicken. chicken! that's right, candace-- new chicken creations from starkist. buffalo style chicken in a pouch-- bold choice, charlie!

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>> welcome back to this special edition of "hannity: trump vs. the swamp" the president's battle against the intolerant

left is symptomic. he famously gave a nine rules speech to young people at the mtv movie and tv awards in june. telling them, god is real, god loves you, god wants the best for you. believe that. i do. and learn to pray. it's easy and so good for your soul. end quote. it looks like the hollywood star has angered the left even further. they lambasted him for being problematic. the guy wrote an article called "how to love chris pratt without hating yourself." here to discuss the liberals'

disconnect is turning point usa founder charlie kirk and trump advisory board member madison. i've got to tell you, charlie, the disconnect here could not be further. chris pratt is saying, i like hunting, god, and praying. why is he constantly under attack? >> this is so important because now we've seen it's no longer a political divide. it's now a cultural divide. the democrat party used to be a party of fear and reverence of g god. no longer. it is now a party which politics goes towards this relativism which is rooted in there is no

god, that hunting is wrong, that meat is evil. i know it sounds absurd, but this is really a lifestyle that you'll find in manhattan and malibu. but there's a middle part of the country rejecting this wholeheartedly. my heart goes out to him because he's just a good american who still believes in god and country and he's getting targeted and attacked by these elites and very, very hard to speak out in hollywood because of that. >> madison, chris pratt is a very entertaining entertainer. he puts a smile on your face. but he now has a target on his back because he likes to hunt. he raises lamb that he ends up eating. he's living the way the majority of americans live, but he now has aing target on his back. >> i can't help but think people have bigger things to worry

about. chris is a great guy. and the problem here is not that chris is a hunter. the problem here is that chris is a christian, that chris is not liberal. so he doesn't fit in with the media. he doesn't fit in with the hollywood elites and they can't handle that. he's incredible on screen, amazing off screen. he's a classy guy and somebody people can look up. he takes time out of his day to do nice things for others. he took me time to send me a message when i passed the bar exam congratulating me. he's someone that we should look to, not someone that we should be attacking. ch >> so the liberals take this approach. they want to go after people that hunt, they pray, and they believe in god. how in the world are they going to grow their party if they think that that's what's representative of america? >> well, part of their political

strategy is to try to allow 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants into the country and therefore they don't have to win back middle america. the democrats are well on their way to do that. but it's so important that people have to realize that we are now in the midst of a cultural war in our country. are we still a country that believes in "in god we trust" and liberty? and, look, we have gone so far outside of the rails of reality, when someone like chris pratt is attacked by this. >> i've got to cut you off there. i've got a hard out i've got to meet. but we really appreciate you both joining us here today. next, a special tribute to a war hero, a retiring congressman,

sam johnson, a true american hero. my name is jeff sheldon,

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♪ . >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of the hannity, trump versus the swamp. congressman sam johnson will be retiring at the end of the year. from his experience in the military, nearly seven years, 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 kang man and reflect on his historic work. take a look. >> on both sides of the aisle of all the people i've ever had the pleasure to meet or serve with in congress there's only one that can be defined as an american hero. >> sam johnson is one of the greatest living men that i know. >> our country is stronger for your dedicated leadership. >> after nearly 27 years of servi serving he's retiring. decorated fighter pilot. now 88 years old he uses a scooter to get around. that hasn't slowed him down. when congressman scalise returned to the -- he challenged him to a scooter race. >> who won that race? i did. >> you've been racing your whole

life, haven't you. i try. >> his service began in 1951. i decided i wanted to fly airplanes. you don't do that except in the military. >> over his 29 year career with the united states military he helped the air force test the effects of nuclear explosions on planes by flying right into them. >> i flew through an air burst. i mean no big deal! johnson was selected to fly air force thunderbird. >> jason: i heard "the story" about maybe flying a little too fast i flew up and broke every window in the water front and cost the air force $100,000. they said don't do that any more! [ laughter ] yes, sir buzz alled dren and i went to flight school together. we the 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: while buzz was gearing up to fly into space 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 it meant a lot. >> 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 a single cells, and a place we called alcatraz. >> h4 two months, more than thre years spent in solitary

confinement. >> fortunately tapping on the wall with a code that we had, you could maintain contact with the other guys. . >> jason: you came out of it, was it through prayer? was it 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 s. is that right? >> she did because she knew i was coming back. >> jason: seeing these american flags flying, heart renting for me. and one of the greatest things that i could ever hope to see coming back home. >> jason: when you see these people disrespecting the flag, won't stand up and put their the hand over their heart. >> there's 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. and we do most of the time. >> jason: johnson could have retired an american hero. but instead he decided to become a states man. >> not everyone was happy with our government. but my fellow pow buddies and i decided we would stop griping about it and start working to fix it. >> in 2016 the ways and means committee honored johnson by naming this hearing room the sam johnson room and redecorate trisha garcia in his honor. they put a note that you wrote in there. do you remember what you wrote? >> freedom has a taste to those that almost died to protect it will never know. that's what we fight for here day and night in the united states congress. freedom for every member of the united states of america. many thanks to "fox & friends" putting that story out there. i think in this country we use

the word hero a little too loosely but you know what? he is a true american hero. unfortunately that is all the time we have left this evening. many thanks to sean hannity for a will you go me to host. 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 boothe who is filling in for laura ingraham. >> lisa: alright congressman, that was a great story at the end. thank you. i'm lisa boothe in for laura ingraham, this is the "ingraham angle" live from new york city. a frantic manhunt is under way in california for an illegal immigrant police officer killer. but another migrant group making it's way toward mexico. and democrats revealing the topic for who they want to see take on trump in 2020. also new york giants fans are suing for the right to curse out players, yeah you heard that