an amazing night of news. stay with fox. furthermore, sean hannity is next. and most important of all, have a great, relaxing, and happy weekend with those you love. ♪ >> sean: this is a fox news alert on this friday night big bombshell news. the buzzfeed so-calledbs bombshell you have been hearing about all day it is a dud. it is a fraud. it is a lie. it is all fake news. so the professional trump haters and the fake news media they have yet done it again. and earlier today buzzfeed news reported a salacious story about michael cohen and president trump alleging that cohen briefed trumpru about a building project inen moscow numerous times and that the president directed michael cohen to lie about the existence of that project when it already had been well-known. the story allegedly sourced two anonymous federal law enforcement officials. as it turns out, this report was total fake news.

everyone at buzzfeed should be ashamed of themselves. moments ago, the office of the special counsel issued a statement. they wrote "buzz feeds description of these specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained byed this office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate." not accurate. but are we really surprised? oh, and it even gets better. the editor in chief of busby is actually standing by the reporting, which of the fbi, the special counsel, completely refutes. watch this. >> the special counsel issued this very big statement. we are here know what you are talking about. >> do you stand by the reporting that you guyss published which is, you know, a scoop thatat no one else has or has not a confirmed? >> yes. as we wrote, we have two federal law enforcement officials, no gameme playing with those titles who have

told that's president trump directed michael cohen to lie to congressre about negotiations to build the trump tower in moscow. >> sean: a bold stance from one of the leaders in fake news and it gets even worse. remember, this is the same buzzfeed news, supposedly, that published the phony hillary clinton bought and paid for steele russian dossier and they never ever tried to robert any of the details. and guess what? the latest devastating report contained no direct corroboration. i have been watching this all day.o and one of the buzzfeed reporters that broke the story even admitted he never actually saw the evidence that were referenced by his s anonymous sources. watch this.er >> you have two law enforcement sources that tell you that they have seen evidence. have you seen any of that other corroborating evidence? >> no, not seen it personally but the folksot that we have talked to. the two officials we spoke to are fully 100 percent

read in. >> sean: two reporters for buzzfeed. the other reporter, responsible for this story is a guy by the name of jason leopold. f he actually contradicts hise co-author. watch this. >> now, your colleague, who you wrote the story with says that neither of you, when you talk about those documents that you guys haven't actually seen them. you haven't seen the documents, the texts, et cetera. how confident are you that these actually exist that this is true? >> i don't think that we have said we haven't seen them and we have been -- i will just say that we have seen documents. we have been briefed on documents. we are very confident. >> sean: you think that thent two authors could get their story straight before appearing on national tv? this was known earlier in the day. now getting stories right is not a strength of jason leopold. now, in 2006, this so-called reporter, well the columbia journalism review all but pretty much called him a liar. the review wrote that he would get stories completely wrong.

we knew that today. and, "even make up stuff with stories that had no sources at all." well, it looks like he has done it again. all in a blatant effort to destroy president trump. it's sad. but, what is even really worse, even fake news cnn and conspiracy tv msnbc, they go with the story butbc they are constantly -- they put in the caveat over and over again. this is what we heard all day long. unverified.is but if it's true, with a level of hysteria anda excitement, and then, of course, how many times have they mentioned impeachment? look at exactly what i mean. >> a story which has not been confirmed by nbc news. >> we should note cnn has not independently confirmed buzzfeed's reporting nor, for that matter, has anyone else. >> an explosive new report that, if true. >> if it's true. >> if true. a >> if you believe the reporting. >> if this is confirmed. >> if all of this is true. >> if true. >> if true.

>> we don't have sourcing that confirms this story but we're not getting steered off of it. >> we don't know for sure. you said you couldn't corroborate this. >> if true. true. d f this is potentially very big development. >> if it's true. >> sean: if, if, if, if, if true. oh, despite all these red flags, many others in the mainstream media breathlessly, hysterically pushing this fake, phony fraudulent story, and of course, predicting trump's imminent impeachment, as they always do, for two years. take a look. >> still no reaction this morning from president trump report ties him directly to the very same offense for which the house of representatives moved to impeach richard nixon. >> if true, he would be. guilty of subboarding perjury, obstruction of justice, seems like impeachable offense. exactly kind of thing that drove richard nixon from office. >> this report is a huge deal.

and, you know, this is -- these are very credible reporters. we are deep in the realm now of credibly impeachable offenses. >> there are an awful lot of similarities. a couple of articles of impeachment against nixon and the elements of this story. >> impeachment would actually allow him to at least do what he loves which is to be and pretend he a is the victim and the democrats are this and that but at the end of the day, i think the impeachment process, ifnk there are, you know, this these facts are corroborated in today's report, i actually just don't seee how congress can do anything else. >> sean: all right. you would think by now the so-called journalists in the echo chamber, the extension of the democratic party would have learned their lesson. they have been burned so many times before in the last two years. remember, s the short life hysteria about npr's baker don jr. story? remember the hype surrounding michael cohen's secret prom trip it neveroh

happened the guardian's reporting about paul manafort or when cnn fake news staffers were forced to resign after reporting fake news about our friend anthony scaramucci.r look at the list we have compiled. fake story after fake story. now, "the washington examiner" put this together. 47 printed pages for one year alone against donald trump of fake news that theyin breathlessly report.ak unbridled. remember when i sat at the beginning of the year, hatred of the president? so many forced corrections. but then they just keep doing it again and again. how many anonymous sources, hearsay, rumors, do you think any of this is good for the country? are they looking out for your security? the economy, the better job for your children? a better future for our kids? you know what? right now one more notch in the old fake news belt. it is beyond disgusting.on you just saw it all, all day, people screaming

impeach, impeach, impeach. this is all the hate that we get as i have been saying every second, every minute, every hour of every day from the democrats. the hate-trump press and, of course, the deep state. now, all of a sudden today the hate-trump media was concerned about obstruction of justice. that's what they wanted you to believe today. but they are the same people who gave hillary clinton a pass. it's been almost two straight years of never ending, conspiracy theories. fake news hatred. not just for the president though, but also for the people that voted for this president. a i have said it since 2007 and 2008. journalism in america is dead. buried.is and driven by an unprecedented pathological hatred for the president. the bias in this country has become more important than what is fact and what is i reporting, rumor is more important than sources, as reckless speculation rules the day.

we told you at the beginning of the year on this program. we will always fight back.k. we want the country to be safer, more secure. we want every american family prosperous, and we are going to look out for you, the american people, becausese you deserve better than what the rest of the media is offering. which is why we actually cover, for example, the crisis at our southern border. now, when the fake news industry is too busy with their fake stories and conspiracy theories about the president, well, today, nearly 400 migrants were apprehended by border patrol at once after all crossingng illegally. the situation is urgent. it is serious. yet, someone still needs to remind the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, that we're in the middle of a government shutdown. her detachment and her indifference, her lack of self-awareness, it is beyond shocking. today, speaker pelosi and other top democrats once again tried to skip out of town a week long international excursion s which would have guaranteed the furloughed employees some 800,000 of them don't

get paid again. now, this time they were commercialake a plane just for show after the president foiled her first attempt to leave theth country on your dime in a u.s. military aircraft. but now, after her new plan released sparking security concerns, pelosi's overseas voyage has once again been postponed indefinitely.ee maybe she will accept whaten is the president's daily invitation to negotiate. safety, security, and our country. and the government shutdown. spokesperson for the speakerak actually blamed the president. of course, for the leak. an allegation the white house has called a flat out lie. so, here we are today, 28 days into a government shutdown and the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, the most powerful democrat in the country, is trying desperately, once again, to leave town. refusing to negotiate yet again. remember, she took her lengthy tropical vacation at the beginning of the shutdown. dozens of other democrats, oh, they had a luxurious

vacation paid for by lobbyists in a chartered aircraft to puerto rico. while pelosi and schumer sent aides to negotiate with the vice president of the united states? instead of helping the furloughed employees and creating more security that they did support four years ago? so, tonight we have got to ask some really important obvious questions. does speaker pelosi reallyly want an answer, a solution? is she really working at all? is she now compromised by the radical left wing of her party and scared to death to even talk to the president? does she care about the 90%o of heroin in this country coming across our southern border? or the gangs or the cartels or the human trafficking? she won't even talk to the angel moms and dads that went outside her office this week that have lost their children because of illegal immigration? now, the president, he didn't go on vacation. he has been here the whole time inviting democrats every day.

he is trying to fulfill not only a campaign promise but he is trying to keep the country safe.lyam trying to prevent the drugs from coming into the country. remember, maybe the 1% or 2% of those people that enter the country illegally, they are criminals and murders have happened and worse. and, you know, how many sexual assaults? how many violent assaults? now, the president tweeted today, i will be making a major announcement b concerning the humanitarian crisis on our southern border. and the shutdown tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 p.m. live from the white house. oh, he is working on saturday.ete in the meantime, president trump is ready, will, able to negotiate and has been since day one of the shutdown. democrats have offered nothing except a dollar. no negotiations, no compromise. no time with the president. they just sit back and do nothing. hundreds of thousands of government employees are not receiving their pay. the speaker is having a meltdown about not getting to take a government funded trip on your dime. and even worse, thousands of lives have been lost,,

thousands more devastated by the flow of illegal drugs, human trafficking, the opioid crisis. the gang activity across the southern border, and nancy pelosi complaining about having to postpone a government-funded trip? that's where her mind is tonight. fear not, let not your heart be troubled. speaker pelosi, while americans suffer, while we're not safer, well, your close friends in the mainstream media,they are cheering you every step of the way. you know, just like last week "manufactured crisis." democrats say it the media says it they are like tied at the hip. take a look. t >> president trump is coming face to face with the reality opposition party controlling the house. this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi threw him a hard fast ball. >> speaker pelosi playing hard ball. >> you could say she is playing hard ball. >> house speaker pelosi flexing her constitutional muscle. >> speaker of the house nancy pelosi is flexing her muscles. >> a bold power play the speaker of the house tonight is sended a pointed message to president trump. >> it is a power play and nancy pelosi is revealing

that she has a ph.d. in needling president trump. >> she knows where to go exactly where to hurt him where it hurts. >> this is political genius. i give nancy pelosi credit for her political sense. >> it's kinds of bad ass from nancy pelosi. she was showing that she is in charge. >> nancy pelosi, i mean, what a bad ass. >> sean: you know what? maybe it's time for the speaker of the house to actually start listeningma to the american people. start solving problems. stop appealing to your radical base. in other words, really simply, you need to do your job. the president, his door is wide open.jo go negotiate a deal. maybe you will get some of the things you say you want. secure the borders, reopen the government. and for goodness sakes, get out of your ivory tower. if not, the president he will do it without you. let's not lose sight of the fact that what we're fightingoo for. don't be fooled by all the trump haters, the crisis at theth southern border is not manufactured. in fact, as can you see a brand new migrant caravan marching toward our southern border as we speak. earlier today thousands ofbrar

migrants poured into southern mexico after authorities there just lefto the gates at the border wide open. mexican border guards didn't show up until sunrise actually after sunrise. so now while mexico may be embracing open borders, of the president is continuing to stand strong, stay on the job, waiting to negotiate, waiting to keep his promise to secure the border of this country. this is about life and death. he tweeted today, "another big caravan is heading our way. very hard to stop without a wall. and the fact is we have an actual crisis on our southern border. just look at this video from border patrol. and the huma sector in arizona where nearly 400 migrants apprehended at once today after crossing illegally. that is not manufactured. that is the reality. we need these physical barriers, which are effective all across the world. remember yesterday, also in arizona, a grow up of migrants were caught trying to tunnel under a wall. but, because there was a wall, they couldn't just

walk across and flee law enforcement. and once they tunneled through, they were promptly caught. oh, the wall t works. now, don't expect to hear any of this from the hate trump media as you can see from tonight's buzzfeed huge massive embarrassment the fake news epidemic has never been worse.ma by the way, it all surrounds one thing. their hatred of all things donald trump. and by the way, trump supporters. and that's why they are all completely ignored what was major news that we had this week about the deep state, about fisa abuse. and meanwhile we have been one of the only programs reporting these latest developments, latest,at needless to say, it was a bad week for some of those embedded inside of our government that don't like the president. we learned under james comey's watch his general counsel we learned this week james baker is now under a criminal investigation. and according to john solomon's reporting, and don't forget andrew mccabe, his deputy, is also under a criminal investigation. and john solomon pointing out that james comey and others were all briefed

about the phony dossier back in august. they were told by bruce ohr, according to his sworne testimony, that we only got this week that he told all of them in the fbi, all of them in the state department, oh, hillary paid for it. and christopher steele hates the president, oh, and, by the way, they put this thingge together, and i wouldn't trust it. but in spite of that warning he went ahead anyway. as the graham memo pointed out, the bulk of information was used in the fisa warrant. that would be a conspiracy to commit a fraud against the court. we also know andrew weissmann and another mueller investigator, they were also briefed on these warnings. if they knew it was biased and verifieded. hillary paid four russian lies to influence the 2016 election. still, mueller used it as a basis of his investigation but never investigated hillary, who bought it.es now, we have been warning you for months, this is the biggest abuse of power

corruption scandal in modern american history.co and, by the way, the news media can be biased in other ways.th like, what they don't report.ha joining us now the author of "the case against the democrats, democratic house impeaching donald trump harvard law professor alan dershowitz, fox news contributor sara carter.ut professor, you know, what i really like about you is even in your new book, even though you have been ostracized from the martha's vineyard crowd. i'm sorry about that. i know it's actually been hurtful to you. you just continue to point out criminalizing political differences, waiting for truth in fact. and you see this happen now. i've got 47 printed pages for 2017 alone. fake news stories that the media has peddled hysterically to the american public. to me, it's a danger to the country. >> look, i agree. the american civil liberties union is dead in the water. civil libertarians don't seem to be concerns about

these issues.il i have a responsibility as a fifty-year civil libertarian to speak out about these issues whether it involves hillary clinton or president trump. look, on the buzzfeed thing, before the announcement was made by the special counsel's office. i posted a piece on the new york daily news raises all kinds of skepticism. asking hard questions about the buzzfeed report. it did not seem credible to me. particularly the arguments that it's like richard nixon. it's not like richard nixon. richard nixon, on tape, told his subordinates directly to lie aboutcriminal activities. break-ins, et cetera. and here, of course, there is no credible allegation that there are emails or eyewitnesses. and i pointed that out in my t article and now my view has been confirmed, look, i have to tell you my views on this investigation have been confirmed over and over and over again. i have been right and many

of the "get trump any cost people" have been wrong over time. so, i have think it's about time that we start substituting -- stop substituting wishful thinking. you know, it's witchfull thinking get trump at any cost, wish to find evidence to impeach him. they substitute wishful thinking for careful legal analysis, and the victims have a right to be informed of the facts. i think credit is due to mueller and his team for putting out a statement rebutting this and saying even though it might help his investigation people to believe it, it's not true so i give two and a half cheers now for robert mueller and his team.iges while pointing out that busby -- >> sean: he could have done it many other times but he has not. >> two and a half cheers. >> sean: his team has, you know, you don't hire hillary clinton's attorney as part of your team or strzoks and

page and then erase their phones or andrew weissmann with his traffic recordnd ara either. sara, let me go to you. the mantra all day not not verified but if true. this was coming mostly from the media and democratic party. the word impeachment mentioned all day. the american people fed a heavy dose of lies all day long. but, this keeps happening again and again. >> yeah, sean, thiss is nothing new. it's so unfortunate. it's a disinformation campaign. let's talk about these buzzfeed reporters. they can't even agree whether they saw the not.ments or one says they never saw documents. the other one comes out and says yeah, well, we didn't really say that we saw the eldocuments. so, from the get-go, we know there was problem with this story.y. t i agree with alan dershowitz, the same thing when i read this story. they never actually attributed anything to the documents. it seemed like their

sourcing was very flimsy. everything about that story seems false. but this disinformation does an extraordinary damage to our national security and to the administration. t think about what's been going on. i mean, the trip, michael cohen supposedly took to prague that we found out was a lie. stories over and over again filled with this information. but yet, the stories that john solomon and i and several others recorded onru bruce ohr were bad on fact. we had h multiple -- >> sean: blockbuster so far. this week's reporting. >> absolutely. >> sean: on top of everything you have done for a year and and half. >> actual sources and multiple documents were verified before any of those subjects were published. it was not heard anyone else in the media at all. hardly at all. you didn't hear about it on any of the other networks. there is something very wrong here. this is detrimental to ouritit democracy and to our country and the american people are a being ill served.

something really needs to change. >> sean: it's what they don't report, you're right, all the stories that you have broken and, again, we have verified everything. if we get one thing wrong, we will be obliterated by the opposition party. >> on the ohr thing. >> sean: yes. >> on the ohr thing, as a civil libertarian, i'm so distressed that ohr would have a told everybody that this was a report that shouldn't be trusted. t that it was a report done by a biased source. and then to submit a request for a warrant to the fisa court without disclosing that information, it's so unethical, and it's so improper. you know, it's an exparty proceeding. that means you have a special obligation to be truthful.. look, only 1/3 of 1% of fisa applications are turned down. and that's why it's soat important for the prosecution to be credible with the fisa

court.or and this information about ohr is devastating because it demonstrates that they did itta deliberately. they knew the information and they purposefully withheld it and that requires a very careful investigation by bar association and by the general -- by counsel. >> sean: wouldn't this be with that knowledge ahead of time and the bulk of information and the fisa warrants, everybody that's signed down for that, wouldn't that be a conspiracy to commit fraud on a court by omitting important information like it was paid for by hillary, and then going as the gospel truth, having never verified or corroborated at all? >> i think it might constitute a contempt of the court. whether or not we can find a criminal statute requires looking at the statute. i don't want to criminalize political differences. but i think it's a contempt of the court when you

deliberately and willfully withhold information from the court and, therefore, mislead the court into granting a warrant. >> sean: even if i had you as my attorney i think i would be in jail. sara, let me give you the last word. a >> i would get you out, sean. >> when you weaponize the courts to go after a political opponent, there is something drastically wrong and that is something that should not be allowed. it is not acceptable in our system of justice, and it is the reason why so many people come to thistr country. and if we break away from our basic foundation, then we might as well give up what we stand for and our principles that this country was founded on, sean, that'sur unacceptable. >> sean: this is hurting the country. the news media will never ever, i think, possible, get away from the branding now of fake new spirit i think this

seals it. professor, thank you. sara carter, thank you. joining is now, the host of "life, liberty, levin," i call him the grade one, mark levin. mark, i will let you go, but the one thing i will stay to start is how fascinating today democrats and they media actually cared about, quote, obstruction of justice when they have ignored, let's see, the deleted subpoena emails, acid washing hard drives, and smashing devices, and removing sim cards. only if it's trump do they get worked up about something. >> never will impress them. i want to make a point here, sean, about mueller's office. they sat there all day long while this false reporting was going on, while the president was being smearll while the reporters so-called and friendlyd democrats with capitol hill saying this is an impeachable effect. they won't be held to account. they won't apologize. they will continue on tomorrow until the next great fake story.

i want to say this about mr. mueller's office. they didn't do anybody any favor. i will tell you why they issued their statement around 7:30 p.m. eastern time tonight.su because i was on the radio, among other things, demanding that the attorney general of the uniteds, states, mr. whitaker, the deputy attorney general of the united states mr. rosenstein, immediately launch a leak investigation because if these reporters, these are coclowns were right -- of course they weren't. but if they were, the only place these documents, text, and emails could have come from is mr. mueller's office. they issued their statement 7:30, give or take, tonight, eastern time. not because the story was accurate. it was inaccurate. but because if you conduct a leak investigation the sit down mr. weissmann and make him undertake a lie detector test and ask him if he has ever talked to the press about anything, about any subject, or any of those individuals in that office, including mr. mueller, i suspect a number of people would be mad.

and so the fact is, mr. mueller's office did not want a leak investigation, there was was every basis to have a leak investigation if, in fact, the justice department believed this story was accurate. so they didn't release this rare statement just because they are good people. they released it to cover their asses because they don't want a leak investigation again. not related to this case inn if i can which is absurd but think don't want to be asked about it. >> sean: let me ask you this. i think this is really important here. i you know, under -- we learned this week that the general counsel under james comey, mr. integrity, fbi, is under criminal investigation. we learned the deputy director is under criminal investigation. >> for leaking. >> sean: we now know everybody in the justice department these figures which we call the deep state we have all learned as we learned with professor dershowitz about hillaryh pairing for the dossier and

steel hating theos president and knot being verified or corroborated.ng it became the basis of the fisa warrants, all of the people that signed on to it. mueller's office knew about this, and i will add one thing, remember bruce ohr? the messages we had, after christopher if steel is fired for lying and leaking, he is trying to feed mueller information through bruce ohr. and i'm wondering --t, >> professor dershowitz is right, the way you handled this, some kind of evidentiary hearing, a contempt hearing. and so the question is, sean, where are these fisa judges? why aren't they holding hearings? why aren't they getting to the bottom of this? they all know this information is -- they all know that a contempt was committed against the court, which means the justice system. there is simply no question about this now.

there is a serious question about the functioning of the federal judiciary in this respect and the fisa court jester judges. i want to get back to today. the media have disgrace you had themselves. tomorrow they said if we said the steer is true you don't go with a story if you don't know if it's true and can be verified. this has been going on since before president trump was president. it's unique to him and it's a disgrace. they were talking about impeaching him, indicting his kids. i think the american people believe in fairness and justice. they believe in a free press, but the free press apparently doesn't believe in a free press. over at cnn and msnbc and the other outlets, they really need to clean house. until the executives get off their high horses, try to take out the president of the united states, these anchors, these holes, these reporters, they are a joke. they drag on the entire media and they drag down the a entire country, and they did it again today. >> sean: i put it on my

website, hannity.com. 47 printed pages of fake news stories in one year period of time, 47 printed pages. what they do is they don't even -- they just go from one hysterical report to the next. they are never held accountable. it's hurting the country, mark. >> it's hurting the country. and it's all intended to drive towards impeachment. it's even more. they are dragging down ourhe republic by dragging down our president. this is our president. you want to try to take him out, wait for the next elections. you don't try to do all of these nasty things all the lies and all the rest. you don't call our president hitler and stalin and a racist and a thousand other things. and you don't run with every phony story that comes across your desk. this is yellow journalism. it's as low as i have ever seen. and it is going to continue to get lower unless time warner, unless comcast, unless all of

these other major corporations get control of their newsrooms and clean them up. by the way, can you find a better photo of meat about what you are putting on tv? >> sean: is that what you want to talk about?v? "life, liberty, and levin" sunday night. unbelievable. we will see you soon. mark levin. the white house responds. w when we come back, the president's attorney, jay sekulow reacts to all of the day's events and breaking news straight ahead. ♪ 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.

♪ >> sean: this is a fox news alert. president trump's attorney rudy giuliani weighing in on buzz feeds fake report on twitter writing "i commend bob mueller's office for correcting the buzzfeed full story that president trump encourage cohen to live. i ask the press toto take heed

that their hysterical desire to destroy this president has gone too far. they pursue this without critical analysis all dayhe #fakenew. close" we go now to the president's attorney jay sekulow, also the chief council for the center for law and justice. >> hi, sean. >> sean: this is how it went all day,ce jay. well, we haven't verified it ourselves but, if true, and this is both democrats and the media but, if true and then they go to impeachment. this has gone on two straight years, false report after false report. conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory. r >> i think one of the other networks, i think i counted in the course of an hour, 17 or 19 times, they said if this was true, if this happened, if these facts could be verified, which we haven't been able to verify, this would be a crime. that is like saying if someone robbed a bank, it would be a crime. if someone did rob a bank, it would be a crime. i think it's important for a

moment to reflect on this was actually a good day for justice, and a very, very good day for the president of the united states. but it is also important to say and to focus for a moment here on what the special counsel's office actually said. sean, my job as the president's lawyer, legalti team is to analyze and respond to what was going on the last 24 hours. let me start with what he actually said. this is from bob mueller's office. by the way, the first time they have spoken publicly about a false news story. this is what they said buzzfeed's description of specific statements to theabhe special counsel's office that's one and characterize of documents, that's two. and, testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate. so it's three things. it's the description of the specific statements to the special counsel's office. the characterization of theif documents that were the basis upon which the media speculation started. and the testimony obtained by the office regarding

michael's cooperation with the special counsel's office. all of that as reported in the report today are not correct. this isn't coming from me. it's not coming from the american center for law and justice. it's not coming from my law firm. who is it coming from? it's coming from the special counsel's, bob mueller's office. rudy giuliani is right inru saying this is the right thing to do and i'm gladad they did it. where does that leave us? so, sean, here is what i think this is. this is a warning sign to everybody that the speculation, with no factual backup, is dangerous for our republic. and, look, i have been dealing with this, as you know, for more than 24 hours. about 24 hours. actually, it started last night about 10:00. so about an hour from now. and, the end result ofou this was the right thing. it took us 24 hours to get the right thing. but, i think it's important for everyone that's watching to realize that the speculation and the media anxiousness to report out of the gate has got to stop. but there is also another

message in all of this. you said this in your monologue. people say is there any action being taken on the people that are doing wrong deeds, illegal contact? well, let's look at it. james baker the general counsel of the fbi is under investigation for, what, leaking to the media.or andrew mccabe. >> sean: let me just say something. jay, we just learned that this week, comey's fbi, you have his deputy, andrew mccabe is under a criminal investigation. now the general counsel did. >> for leaking. this is an important for leakin leaking. they are leaking documents, and they are leaking testimony, and their leaking statements, and this is an absolute -- that is why they are fired and under investigation. we have to focus on that. >> sean: false reporting, which we have documented and i believe the president is forever branded rightly so

fake news as such and for them to ever get their credibility back, i don't think it's even possible. look, we learned about baker. we know about andrew mccabe. we know about strzok and page, they were even appointed to mueller's team, along with jeannie ray, who used to be the attorney, and the, andrew weissmann. here's my question, bruce ohr we learned under oath and released in testimony this week that he warned everybody about the phony dossier. he warned that clinton b paid for it, he warned thatne christopher steele had a hatred for the president. he warned it wasn't verified or corroborated. but it still became the bulk of information. >> yeah, i have always asked the question of what about what happens to the evidence that was gathered during the course of the proceedings, the investigations, that were outside legal parameters, not appropriate, not legal? because it's all from the fruit of the poisonous tree.

bruce ohr did say that he told the higher ups at the fbi -- my gosh, he was the number four. at the dossier was biased, and paid for by political operatives. his wife worked for the political operative company that put the dossier together. there is also simultaneous with his mea culpa from bruce ohr is what? text messages that's been released between bruce ohr and christopher steele the so-called british spy. that is a plea for bruce ohr and chris steele, for steele to come back to work to the fbi right after james comey is fired. now, ask yourself this question, why was christopher steele fired by the fbi in the first place? and do you know what the answer to that one is? a leak to the media. so this is -- look, the illegitimacy of the inquiry from the outside is incredible. it's the consistency of getting information out here. again, i'm glad the office of

the special counsel today issued this very clear, three-partnd statement, and that is how you have to analyze it, some of these networks trying to parse it, it is almost funny watching. here's what i think is important. what's the consistent theme through this? illegal, inappropriate leaks. and who started leaking, as well? james comey. he said he gave his notes on a conversation he had with the president of the united states to a friend of his to leak to the press so he could get the appointment of a special counsel, which lo and behold happens. that's what i wants everybody focusing on tonight. a consistent pattern of leaking, it's not the individual fbi agents. someone explain this to me, there are emails or text messages from the time that they were at the special counsel's office, and the resource officer at the special counsel's office said we didn't really check the material. one phone was left, and the

other phone was recirculated, and no one check to the text messages? look, again, i'm glad that bob mueller's office issued a statement, it was called for and to do, it was the appropriate thing to do, but there are a lot of questions that are still not answered by the activities that have taken place here. now, again, it is a good day for the president -- a great day for the president, a great day for theat country. not such a great day for the media. i call friends of mine in the media today to watch this be very careful here. be very careful. unsourced, unverified. >> sean: we saw the two buzzfeed -- one reporter says we saw, the other says we didn't. of course, they release the dossier without any corroboration. here's the dangerous part, any serious part of all of this. it's hurting the country. this is an obsession. >> yes. >> sean: congress. if verified, impeachment, impeachment,t, impeachment. this has been the burden on this president now for two years, and it is interesting to watch today, the media also thinking of obstruction of justice is a

really serious issue, while ignoring the deletion of subpoenaed emails, bleach pit, hammers, sim cards removed. we saw it last week, democrats a manufactured crisis, the media says manufactured crisis. it's almost as if they want this to happen so bad, they cannot get over this obsession, which really is hate, and really hurts the country. >> well, look, this impacts the president, the office of the presidency, and the entire country. let me say p something. if you looked at the other networks, which i know you don't do. in my job i have got to look at all of it, right? >> sean: i'm sorryry that you have to do that. that's punishment. >> special counsel's office challenges buzzfeed statement regarding the president directing someone to lie. that's all i needed to say for thee day. there you go. >> sean: jay sekulow president for the president center for law and f justice.

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♪ >> sean: moments ago, the office of special counsel issued a statement refuting the claims made in buzzfeed's so-called bombshell report on the president, it has breaking news all day all over the media. they ran with it.ll if true, if true, this is going to happen. impeachment, impeachment. this is happening almost every other week now for two years. first time mueller's office has publicly pushed back on a phony fake news publishedha article. but it's just the latest in a long series of botched, fake stories published by

the hate-trump media. it's hurting the country. joining us with morere national security strategist dr. sebastian gorka and onit the phone former u.s. attorney joe digenova. joe, i will start with you tonight with your legal background, you have been very forceful in pointing out there is evidence and another narrative about the deep state they have run with every force story your reaction to this latest example. >> i was very proud that the president borrowed my phrase dirty cop the other day and he honored me. what you saw happen today with bob mueller issuing his statement is very simple. it's called the barr effect. the bill barr effect. because bill barr will be the attorney general in aa matter of days, mueller was forced to issue this statement for this very simple reason.

as soon as bill barr is sworn in, he have a meetingll with mr. mueller. he will get a full briefingg on the status of all of the investigation, and the first question bill barr was t going o ask, was that story true? that busby published? and mr. mueller would say, no, it wasn't, mr. attorney general. and bill barr would have said why didn't you refute it? and mueller would have said well, mr. attorney general, we don't do that. and mr. barr would have said well, mr. mueller, you're fired. >> sean: you really believe? i know there are people that i know -- i don't know bill barr. i don't know william barr. i know what he wrote about the investigation earlier, but i also know that apparently his family and the mueller family arere friendly together, which is fine. but there are people like yourself that are showing. such confidence in him. why?wi >> because i have known bill barr for 30 years.

he actually asked that i be appointed the independent counsel in the clinton passport file search during the daddy bush administration and i was pointed an independent counsel. bill barr is a man of great legal and ethical stature. i can assure you that the scenario that i just painted for you is exactly what would have happened and it is exactly why mueller issued his statement tonight. he knows that bill barr would be furious. if he knew that mueller knew a false story was out there and it was left unrefuted. you are now seeing what it means when a real attorney general shows up in town. this is the new sheriff. >> sean: wow. what a powerful statement. sebastian gorka?

>> i can only back up joe digenova, bill barr is a quiet professional, and i just spoke to somebody who worked with him at the doj. he is exactly the right man for the job. but with regards to this r story today, sean, it's incredibly important that we look at what the media did with it. i that's the -- buzzfeed ran this garbage story because we know it's the gutter press. the story is how the media lapped it up and used it for a day to call for the impeachment of the president. that's the story like pavlovian dogs, they were given the bell, and they reacted with calls for impeachment. the end of the story is the following, today, at 7:30, the president of the united states was utterlyhe vindicated. this is fake news.

this is the state of the media. they are not independent. we don't have a free media, sean. we have private sector propaganda, and today the president was vindicated. >> sean: i think there is going to be a lot more of that vindication, dr. gorka. fox news contributor, by the way. thank you for being with us. we always love having you joe digenova, thank you.u. when we come back, we actually want to deputize all of you in this audience and we want to get your thoughts on all of this. we are going to tell you how in our final thoughts come up straight ahead on tonight's big breaking news. ♪ you control your blood sugar around the clock. and with a $0 copay, that's something to groove about. ♪let's groove tonight. toujeo® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. it contains 3 times as much insulin in 1 milliliter as standard insulin. don't use toujeo® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar,

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do you think is the most corrup in the media outlet and let us know why. we're going to feature those answers on the program. were always fair and balanced. >> i am david webb in for laura igraham and this is the specia edition of speed to dc dysfunction. like so many other purported bombshells, the buzz feed that latest claiming that they're claiming directed his former attorney to lie to congress hit a wall tonight. for much of the past 24 hours, the breathless coverage has sounded like this. >> this is probably one of the most serious pieces of reportin in the two plus years of this