potential. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> tucker: something almost nobody six months ago would have thought possible and it's happening right now on your screen. we're going to hand it over to sean hannity in hanoi tonight. >> sean: we're going right back to the beginning of the summit in historic hanoi, vietnam. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ].

>> thank you all very much. we're going to start with our teams. thank you all very much. appreciate it. no rush. [ inaudible question ] no rush. we're just going to do the right deal. chairman kim and myself, we want to do the right deal. the speed is not important. what's important is that we do the right deal. thank you all very much. >> are you confident -- [ inaudible question ] >> it's too early to tell. but i wouldn't say that i'm -- [ inaudible ] for what i feel right now, i do have a feeling that good results will come out. thank you. >> thank you very much.

>> right this way. >> sean: as you can see, president trump and kim jong-un of network, as you can see, just fed live here in hanoi, vietnam. we have a lot going on tonight. this obviously building on the first summit that took place in singapore where in the lead-up to that summit remember, president trump after many, many, many months of rockets fired over japan, the threatening of guam, the entire european peninsula and evening threatening the continental united states. in the meantime, hostages released and the remains of american brave soldiers sent home. we do expect a joint signing coming up later tonight. this meeting is scheduled to go

on for about 40 minutes. when it wraps up, we will be bringing you reaction live. i'll have an interview with the president that will air tomorrow night immediately following this show tonight, just for a quick roundup of what you just heard. we have our fox news contributors. hoffman has been appointed to president trump's intelligence advisory board along with fox news chief national correspondent sebastian gorka holding down the fort back in d.c. first, congratulations. you've been in the intel community how many years, 30? >> about that. >> sean: and you scare the living daylights out of all of us when we travel. what's so amazing about this -- and i'll get to the whole political side of things later. what's amazing about this, this is about long-term safety, security for not just the korean peninsula but for the entire area, our allies, better

relations with china. a lot of good has come out of it and a lot more good can come out of it. more importantly, talking about hitting the continent united states, boston, new york, with a nuclear weapon and what we were hearing before the first summit, this would be -- if we can get this thing accomplished, this would be major history. >> just for a little bit of perspective, india and pakistan, two sworn enemies are shooting down each other's fighter ash e aircraft. the last thing we want to do is miss this opportunity that the president has created to dial down the tension in our relationship with north korea and put us on that path towards arms control as a pit stop and then denuclearization. >> sean: more importantly, the prospects of this -- that's why the petty politics going back in washington where i can't imagine republicans while president obama were overseas negotiating something as important as the

denuclearization of the korean peninsula and the republicans put on this cartoon back in washington, whatever you want -- circus? i know the outrage would be immediate, it would be universal. but stay focused on what this could accomplished, what we expect. >> we have a lot of leverage right now. president trump expects that. being an outsider politics helps him. we have leverage, sean. they're starving. the north koreans need something we can provide. it's not just that they can't feed their people. i sincerely doubt kim cares about that. what he does care about is a verifiable, viable currency to pay his military. if you can't keep your military happy, it does you no good as a tyrant. they need hard currency. that's the symbolism of vietnam matters to trump. it was a genius idea to bring

kim here, look what can happen when we normalize relations just a bit. >> sean: most importantly, any real deal has to be verifiable, it's got to be inspections on demand, no closed off areas, and they've got to show real progress in terms of taking down the nuclear threat. >> they do. what democrats don't want to admit is there's been progress already and that president trump inherited this problem from barack obama. when president trump came to office, the threshold crossed by the north crekoreans that led president trump to take all this heat, rocket and fury raining down from the u.s. military, kim jong-un had passed the threshold of getting a nuclear weapon and putting it in a missile and could potentially reach boston, new york, chicago. that's real. that is remarkable. >> sean: they were saying it. >> they were -- >> sean: they were -- >> they were testing over japan where it appeared they could

reach the shores of the united states. you can't get more serious than that. instead, the opposite has happened. they're now at the peace table and fentensions have been ratchd down. it doesn't mean that president trump has solved this, you're right. inspectors will go in and see what north korea has and make sure that it ratchets down. let's remember how much progress the president's already made. >> sean: they've got to be building on it or i don't think the secretary of state mike pompeo would even better here. you mention about real difficulties. how do you maintain an army if they're not being fed well. america is going to open up the trade and lift economic sanctions which have not been lifted. this is going to be wealth, opportunity, energy -- all these opportunities will now come to the north korean people. that is probably in the long-term best interest not only

of the people, but if kim jong-un wants to survivor his long-term interests. i want to go off of what henry said. think of what we played last night, little rocket man, fire and fury, my button's bigger than yours and my button actually works. everybody politically on the west, oh, no, it's like the evil empire. he's going to create a nuclear holocaust. just the opposite happens. when you're not bribing dicta r dictato dictators. kim jong-un's father was bribed by bill clinton and the mullahs in iran. >> what's fascinating about it, trump keep emphasizes there's no rush as the liberal media jumps all over him. >> sean: walked away from the table. >> over a word. they didn't agree to laboratory testing over sdi at the time. >> sean: strategic defense. >> what they called "star wars." >> sean: they were mocking it. >> they were mocking it.

they said what a fool. what happened a year later? inf was signed. so trump's playing this smart. i'm noticing it now, though, there's a slow turn. the hacks are going to stay the hacks. some of the more semi rational people are starting to come around. >> i was going to say vietnam, we've talked about this as a great backdrop for this historic summit. what turbo charged vietnam's economy was when we normalized relations in 1995. if there's a better example to north korea which is an outlier in one of the most economically vibrant regions in the world, this is it. i would echo what dan just said. the president was very measured in his comments. we're in no rush. i want to do the right deal. that's precisely the way to begin these bilateral discussions today. >> sean: a lot of people -- i've known president trump for a lot of years, long before ever

thought about running for president. one of the things he says in "the art of the deal," up to the last second you always must be willing to stand up and walk away from a deal. you don't do a deal because you want a deal. you do a deal because it works for you. if it doesn't, you got to be willing to walk away. >> yeah, it's one of the very first rules. i tell everybody you got to read the "art of the deal." you have got to be prepared to walk away from the table at any point. never be so vested that they can have leverage over you. i had a caller on my radio show today who was a democrat. he said today i am becoming a republican. why did he do that? because he watched the cohen testimony and he was absolutely disgusted. he said we have one man, the president, who's trying to bring peace and stop a nuclear war. and what are the democrats

doing? they're trying to sabotage it with this circus in d.c. that man became a republican today because of what the president is doing and what the left is trying to do to sabotage him. you are right there. he's making history. potentially this is the first time in 66 years that we can bring peace to the korean peninsula. truly historic event. >> sean: think -- if you're thinking about future generations, wow, pretty powerful. when you're thinking about potential conflicts down the road and the magnitude of destruction of the weaponry we're discussing here, that would be pretty profound. stay right there. i'm going to have a lot to say about what happened in washington later in the program. this meeting was scheduled to go on about 40 minutes. about 30 minutes from now, we expect it might end. what do we expect afterwards? >> sure. >> sean: they met for dinner last night. >> dinner last night, the

president kicked it off and said, look, this is going to be quick. instead of being quick, they had dinner for about two hours or so. that suggests, a, maybe some warm relations, getting to know each other more, b starting to get some business done. about 9:45 p.m. eastern time, they're going to have an expanded group. that's when you get into granular detail perhaps. about 11:45 back home, you're going to have a working lunch. just like they had dinner last night. we batanticipate there could be some sort of signing ceremony. >> we expect a sign ing ceremony. at least to the korean war that is officially not over. >> i want to make a quick point. i did some research as we prepared. what were people saying at the beginning of the trump administration about this project. "new york times," april 2017,

president trump is scary in many ways. perhaps the most frightening nightmare is of him blundering into a new korean war. april 20th, 2017, "new york times." here we are two years later. i'm not saying we're out of the woods. this is a serious, serious threat. what this president has done in the last year and a half or so -- >> sean: this is history repeating himself. we talked about mr. gorbachev tear down this wall. there is a distinct difference when it comes to foreign policy. bill clinton was trying to bribe kim jong-il. it didn't work. promises that were made were never kept. there's got to be verification. there's got to be on-site, demand access or otherwise it's impossible for any of this to work. fire, fury, my button's bigger

than yours and it works. and little rocket man. just mocking him for a time. now saying they're in love. >> i think iea access would be mandatory. really i think a ground level entrance marker for succession. let's get a count of what they have at this point. he's taking it slow. i like that. there is no need to rush. let's see what they have and let's see their technical capabilities. there's uncertainty about what their reentry possibilities are on their missiles. that's something we need to know. >> inventory is obviously really important. i think your point about inspectors, rejoining the nuclear nonproliferation treaty would be important. one thing i would also look for is the establishment of working groups. i think the president and kim jong-un will establish a broad agreement hopefully. and then these working groups will take on those issues over the coming months.

>> sean: if it doesn't end this second, this isn't progress. i think getting the remains back from the 1950s was profound. i thought getting hostages released, i'm always happy when americans are coming home. i also believe when the rockets stopped being fired -- amazing that a little bit of strength and commitment and maybe a healthy dose of fear. >> what about susan rice saying today from the obama administration that maybe the iran nuclear deal is a good model for president trump. does anyone think that's a good idea? >> he's going to take air force one with $150 billion, land it in pyongyang. >> a slightly different approach on the ground in vietnam. >> sean: $150 will buy you a lot of peace for about a week. we'll get back to all of you. thank you so much. we expect updates within the hour. it has now officially begun. president trump/kim jong-un the summit now in progress. we begin with a little later opening monologue. i want you to remember this day

and for this reason. because what took place today is a defining moment both here in vietnam and back in washington in american politics because what we're witnessing are two radically, distinctly different agendas that have been now laid bare for all to see. at the very same moment, as you can see, a historic summit with the president of the united states who traveled 20-plus hours to vietnam for a second summit negotiating a safer world for our kids and our grandkids. what were the democrats in washington doing? they purposely scheduled and hauled in michael cohen, day two, televised the entire day of testimony. and one more day tomorrow. why? just to embarrass the president they have this psychotic hate for. on the very day the president is holding this historic high stakes summit. how profound in the future this

may be for your kids or grandkids. the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, no more rockets being fired all over that part of the world, threats to here, threats to guam. house democrats had a more important agenda. they want to embarrass the president while he is now in negotiations and put on a circus, a spectacle in washington, d.c. i want you to just embrace the magnitude of this. this moment. democrats clearly are showing their true colors. this should be a day no red, no blue, no conservative, no liberal, no republican or democrat. it's about safety and security for all of us. if a rocket hits some country, innocent people die, well and we could have stopped it. because we now have clear evidence revealing exactly what they care about and what they don't care about. make no mistake about this. safety and security of we, you the people, is certainly not at the top of their list. instead they would have put off

these hearings until the next week. the hatred of the president consumes all of their actions, all of their thoughts. every second, every minute, every hour of every day of every month and frankly every year since 2015 and donald trump came down that escalator in trump tower. we're seeing an american leader fighting to make the world a better, safer place. what we saw in washington all day just hours ago, nonstop was a democratic party, a hyper ventilating, histoysterical med putting politics over country with a political charade designed to just embarrass and trash the president while he represents our country abroad. i thought politics stopped at the, you know, border's edge, right? no. that's why the house oversight committee called on michael cohen, just convicted of lying to congress, to once again testify now before congress. and it was just petty, partisan

politics. it was a circus. ohio congressman jim jordan put it so well earlier today. take a look. >> what did you talk to mr. schiff about? >> here we go. here we go. your first big hearing. your first announced witness, michael cohen. i want everyone in this room to think about this. the first announced witness for the 116th congress is a guy who is going to prison in two months for l lying to congress. your chairmanship will always be identified with this hearing. and we all need to understand what this is. this is the michael cohen hearing presented by lanny davis. that's right. lanny davis, choreographed the whole darn thing. clinton's best friend, loyalist, operative, lanny davis put this all together. >> sean: can you imagine if the president gets this accomplished? wow. some people might say he deserves a nobel peace prize

more than obama. congressman jordan was right on. highly orchestrated by, yes, the biggest clinton supporter on the entire earth, lanny davis, who is apparently representing michael cohen for free along with democratic members of congress and michael cohen himself. here's the evidence. let's take a look. >> what did you talk to mr. schiff about? >> i spoke to mr. schiff about topics that were going to be raised at the upcoming hearing. >> whoa. not just what time to show up. actually what you're going to talk about? >> the gentleman's time expired. >> wow. >> sean: oh, now we tell people what we're going to ask them ahead of time so they can prepare all their answers. lying adam schiff. he was caught colluding again. also congressman jordan got to

the heart of why the president's former personal attorney is now participating in this political hit job against his former boss. >> how long did you -- how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's the point, isn't it, mr. cohen? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> no, sir. >> you didn't get brought to the dance. >> i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i do not want to go to the white house. . >> sean: there are multiple sources that michael cohen was lobbying for a job at the white house. southern district of new york who prosecuted cohen stated during and after the campaign cohen privately told friends and colleagues including in text messages that he expected to be given a prominent role and title in the new administration. think about this. that means under oath that people cared more about their

agenda, michael cohen is already going to jail, and they put him at further risk for authfurther charges down the road. he also said that the president didn't want to win the election at all, but then later said trump wanted to win at all costs and hinting at collusion without any evidence. he accused the president of campaign finance violations as it relates to stormy daniels. also said the payment was intended to protect to his brand because it was a marketing campaign. the only collusion might have been trump tower moscow which everybody knew about and so much more. take a look. >> we know mr. cohen has been dishonest in the past. that's why he's going to prison in two months. but there are things today that he said during the several hours of questioning that just don't add up either. he said he never defrauded any bank. he was having a conversation

questioning from mr. comber. obviously that's not true because he's going to prison for that very offense. your first big hearing, the first announced witness of the 116th congress is a gentleman who is going to prison in two months for lying to congress. i don't think that's what we should be focused on. >> sean: fox news just got word there might be a walk in just near minutes with the president and kim jong-un as this summit is now under way here in hanoi in vietnam. now, here's the problem. democrats don't care one bit about michael cohen and his family. not at all. because they were the ones calling him every name in the book until fairly recently. now as a result of their partisan hatred of trump, they don't care about michael cohen, they don't care about his family, and they may have put him in if further legal jeopardy with the southern district of new york that seemed pretty mad at him already for nearly seven

hours under oath at the request of house democrats, michael cohen was, frankly, used by democrats on this historic day to advance what is now a psychotic hate trump mob that exists in this country. during all the testimony, we saw no evidence of trump/russia collusion, we saw no evidence of crimes committed by the president. michael cohen himself actually shot down some of the hate trump media mobs favorite conspiracies. >> questions have been raised about whether i know of direct evidence that mr. trump or his campaign colluded with russia. i do not. >> have you ever been to prague. >> i've never been to prague. >> are you aware of anything that the president has done at home or abroad that may have subjected him or may subject him to extortion or blackmail? >> i am not, no.

>> are you aware of any videotapes that may be the subject of extortion or blackmail? >> i've heard about these tapes for a long time. i've had many people contact me over the years. i have no reason to believe that that tape exists. >> you had a conversation with the president of the united states about your impending testimony before the house intelligence committee, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> what was the nature of that conversation? >> he wanted me to cooperate. >> there you have it. the media's russian collusion hysteria, two long years, total b.s. by their new bff. nothing more than a conspiracy theory. but there is real russia collusion as we've conichronicl. michael cohen has been through a lot. he pled guilty to multiple felonies. he's now facing three years in prison. there is absolutely nothing for him to gain from today's

political theater and the question is why would democrats -- they didn't have a political agenda -- open up michael cohen and his family to even greater risk. you saw all of that play out today in realtime. the house freedom caucus chairman issuing a criminal referral over cohen's testimony today. great job, democrats, you really helped out your friend. take a look. >> did you have foreign contracts over the last two years? >> foreign contracts. >> contracts with foreign entities. did you have -- >> yes. >> yes? >> yes. >> why didn't you put them on the form? nothing to do with lobbying. it's a criminal offense to not list all your foreign contracts. that's what it says. >> then i'm going to take a look at it before i leave. >> it's just one more example mr. cohen of your skirting the truth. >> congressman meadows will be with us later in the show.

look at what the democrats, because they so want to smear president trump, think they care about michael cohen and his family. more legal issues, more trouble for his wife and family. that's no concern for the far left democratic party. so compassionate. willing to smear, besmirch anybody, anytime. tlaib implying that meadows was a racist for bringing a trump organization employee to the hearing to vouch for the president. also showed a lot about the chairman of this committee right now, elijah cummings. take a look at this. >> the fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black woman, in this chamber in this committee is alone racist in itself. >> mr. chairman, there's nothing more personal to me than my

relationship. my nieces and nephews are people of color. not many people know that. you know that, mr. chairman. and to indicate that i asked someone who is a personal friend of the -- the trump family who has worked for him, who knows this particular individual, that she's coming in to be a prop? it's racist to suggest that i ask her to come in here for that reason. >> mr. meadows, you know -- and of all the people on this committee, i've said it and gotten in trouble for it, that you're one of my best friends. i know that shocks a lot of people. >> and likewise mr. chairman. >> you are. i would do -- i can see and feel your pain. >> mr. chairman, and to my colleague, mr. meadows, that was not my intention. i do apologize if that's what it sounded like, but i said someone in general.

>> sean: yeah, she was talking about mark meadows and wouldn't admit it. incredible grace, class, what a moment for him and mark meadows. by the way, the same congresswoman that called the president a mother bleep during the rally. the same person that pals around with a virulent anti-semite. she represents all that is wrong with today's modern, extreme, radical democratic socialist party. it couldn't be anymore disgraceful. it's a party consumed by hate, radical ideas. they can't even put politics aside for one week and support this vitally important mission of the president abroad. party now embracing socialism over capitalism. a party supporting a green new deal over real life prosperity

of the american people. a party voting against a bill that would protect babies born alive that survived an abortion. they want unfettered illegal immigration, open borders. a party that trashed your right to due process and attacks a member of their own party. kavanaugh versus the lieutenant governor of virginia. a party that doesn't value the rule of law, constitution, our way of life that's created wealth, happiness, prosperity for more people than any other governmental system in the history of mankind and we have shared it with the world. a democratic party, this was a national disgrace today. what we saw in washington. joining us now, by the way, we expect any moment the president and kim jong-un will be stepping out. house freedom caucus chairman, mark meadows is with us. congressman, i know you as well. what class that the chairman

showed there. >> he's a good man. >> sean: a great moment for him and for civility even when you have strong political disagreements. >> i totally agree, sean. and elijah and i have been working on the things that we can agree upon. today, he certainly came to my defense. i appreciate it. i don't mind saying that not only is he a friend, but he was a gentleman today in the way that he came to my defense. >> sean: i thought it was a pretty amazing moment. all right. now, as i've been saying, i watched this unfold, and i'm thinking, wow, on the day the president -- we have a live shot up. john bolton standing by along with sarah sanders. we watch this unfold while the president is here negotiating this. and they put michael cohen in major legal jeopardy as

evidenced by your criminal referral today. >> yeah. it's not just the criminal referral that i put forth today. there's probably another criminal referral coming, jim jordan and i, he did a masterful job today in really getting to the truth. we're working on that, our staff is working on that tonight. hopefully we'll have some additional news tomorrow. but here's -- here's the other interesting fact. a lot of people tonight are humming ding dong the witch is dead. the russian collusion narrative was thrown out over and over and over again. and what happened was, there was no there. for this unbelievable hearing today, you know, there were a lot of opportunities afforded this particular witness that shouldn't have happened. he had a 30-minute opening. i don't remember any witness ever having a 30-minute opening. it was all trying to spin a narrative to start the impeachment process. >> sean: you know one of the --

one person that was lied about repeatedly in hillary clinton's bought and paid for russian dossier was michael cohen and the president. they share that in common. and to have that debunked and then look at it through the prism of it being the bulk of information for four separate fisa warrants, that hillary paid for it and still hates trump, and that was it was used to deny the constitutional rights of an american citizen sent and spy on an opposition party candidate in a presidential election year. >> you're exactly right. senator graham was mentioning this earlier this evening. you know, when you look at prague and what was said, i mean, michael cohen said he'd never been to the czech republic. that was part of the dossier. what we find is the more we peel back the onion. not only the dossier was not true, but it was blatantly

false. i think most americans saw today for what it was. this was a democrat really theater that was created to try to make sure that the president had as much injury as he possibly could while he's negotiating in vietnam on probably the most important national thing we have. >> sean: if -- was the republican party doing this to barack obama? what do you think the media -- the democratic reaction would be if, let's say, barack obama was in a situation where he was negotiating such an important deal? >> it would be a totally different standard, sean. you know that. i think the real key for any of us as statesmen is when we have our president abroad, we shouldn't be criticizing him. we shouldn't be trying to lay out and undermine his credibility. that's exactly what happened today. and i think it's a sad day for america. >> sean: president -- well, politics is supposed to end at the water's edge, not today.

today was a national disgrace for them to schedule this during this time. they could have waited. they purposely did this. and sad for them and the american people get to see two different competing visions for what the future of the country is on a lot of these issues. thank you for sharing your time. a great moment, i thought, for two people that have political differences, both you and congressman cummings. and i applaud you both for that. >> well, thank you, sean. take care. we're hoping for the best today. >> sean: everybody should be. yeah, that's right. should be something for everybody. we bring in now senator lindsay graham. senator, you were extremely outspoken today about what was happening in washington versus what we now see unfolding live at this very moment which is kim jong-un/president trump now negotiating the denuclearization of the entire peninsula. thoughts? >> it's disrespectful to

president trump. it undercut our foreign policy. i talked to president trump last night. he didn't appreciate very much having this hearing while he's trying to get the north koreans to give up their nuclear arsenal. i can only imagine if we'd pulled this stunt what would be happening to us on every major network in the country. >> sean: senator, if i may, there is -- so kim jong-un and the president, they spent about -- well, 34 minutes or 30 some odd minutes alone together as ed henry just told us moments ago, they're -- >> these are their interpreters walking with them. this is the pool at the historic metropol hotel. there they are. >> sean: secretary of state mike pompeo and -- >> -- counter part on the korean side. we expect mulvaney. john bolton as we saw waiting off stage left a moment ago. they're all just about almost on

time. they were talking about 9:45 a.m. local time here. 9:45 p.m. eastern back home that they would be having an expanded bilateral meeting. >> sean: a lot of smiles. a lot of personality. you can see kim jong-un seems very relaxed. >> the president said a few moments ago when reporters are there, i wonder if chairman kim is willing to say what he said to us at dinner last night. i'm going to let him decide whether he's going to say it publicly. he just said something very general about how he expects positive results. you can clearly read that president trump -- you'll have a chance in the interview to ask him, suggested that at dinner last night chairman kim went much further in private than he has in public. >> sean: a lot of times, these things as you can see they're now walking in with the secretary of state mike pompeo and his counterpart from north korea. oftentimes they're pre-determined outcomes. >> sure. >> sean: not necessarily here. except for maybe ending the

korean war. >> as a matter of fact, most of the time bottom up diplomacy is exactly how it occurs. you have your lower level bureaucrats lay out the groundwork for a meeting. he's taken it in a different direction. we're going to handle this from the top. >> sean: back to senator lindsay graham back in washington. it's so deep and it's so profound, senator. >> yeah. >> sean: the potential, what can happen here. look, i'm not pollyann issue. we know this has got to be a verified deal, open access and inspections on demand. or else it's not going to work for anybody. >> right. >> sean: but it's important. >> yeah, well, the question's why are we having this meeting. why is trump meeting with north korea when north korea wouldn't meet with anybody else? i think president trump rattled north korea. i think they believed that president trump would use military force to stop their nuclear missile program if he had to. he took them seriously and

trump's giving them a way out. chairman kim, if you're smart, you'll take the way out given to you by president trump. if you're actually trying to play the guy, you're going to regret this effort. >> sean: it's so funny. i mentioned having known the president for over two decades. >> yeah. >> sean: i have some insight into his thinking. this is just purely speculation. that we will likely just one, two, three rockets away from the the united states taking that out of the air and a major escalation. >> i talked to president trump about couple hours ago, right before he went to meeting with the north korean leader. i talked to him all last year. the fire and fury rhetoric was sincere. the north koreans believed that if they fired another missile they were going to get attacked. they were going to get attacked. and here's what i would say. the president's giving them a chance to maintain their security, increase their prosperity, and in return he

wants them to give up their nukes. this is the last best chance for peace. if this doesn't work, we're not going back to the status quo. so everybody in america and the world should pray for a good outcome here. but the reason that kim is at the table, he believes that trump is hell bent on stopping him one way or the other. and the best way is a win-win. >> sean: so there's always the expectations. and dan, you brought up a good point. when reagan walked away from the table, yet the media went insane when reagan talked about the evil empire, they went insane. when he challenged gorbachev to tear down the wall. there seems to be a pattern. we've been around too long. [ laughter ] there seems to be this pattern, and that is that the democrats feel -- i find it neville

chamberlain-ish -- that somehow if they bribe dictators and the world's despite. obama tried it with the mullahs in iran. if we give you $150 billion in cash and other currency maybe you'll like us? they're still chanting death to america and threatening to a nnhilate israel. the president was absolutely believable in the hearts and minds of the north koreans kim jong-un. >> if susan price gives you advice, mr. president, don't take it. >> sean: everybody here is laughing. >> the bottom line is, if a guy's threatening to cut your throat, don't buy him a knife. john kerry walked through glass to get a crappy deal with iran.

trump is smart enough to get out of that deal. he says i'm not in a hurry. i want a good deal, i want a real deal. a real deal with north korea is they give up their nukes. we end the korean war. and we have peace and prosperity for everybody on the peninsula. a bad deal is to continue for north korea to build up their nuclear -- nuclear forces and trump's not going to let that. he's called to -- >> sean: you want to make the media's head spin? you really want the -- the hate trump mob to go insane right now? obama got a nobel peace prize for nothing. >> for not being bush. >> sean: yeah, exactly. >> so imagine -- let's hope for the best. liberals imagine a world without nukes. how about a world with fewer nukes to start. imagine they get this deal done and it's verifiable on-demand inspections. are they going to have to now melt down -- people may actually

have real heart attacks if somebody says, if it happens, maybe trump gets the nobel peace prize. >> a world in -- >> sean: would be a good thing for the world and our kids. >> a world in which donald trump gets the nobel peace prize is probably more dangerous in the eyes of the liberals than north korea having nukes. the point is that he's on the verge of a breakthrough, i hope, but he is not going to let this go forward the way it's been in the past. either we're going to have peace or eventually we're going to have a military conflict. i think north korea realizes that's the two choices they have. >> sean: all right, senator. thank you. i know -- and you're right about what happened today. what a -- what a dramatic comparison. how shallow, pathetic and frankly sad. thank you so much for being with us. while the president is right here in hanoi, in vietnam pursuing peace, denuclearization

of the korean peninsula to create a safer world for your kids and grandkids, democrats back in washington grandstanding over, what, phony russia collusion. something they've talked about for two years. their newly embraced best friend who they hated until recently michael cohen, the circus, side show, all day long as the president's here. geraldo pointed out that it will fail. sarah carter, michael cohen's testimony read like a jilted lover. john solomon compared it to the famous song "don't cry for me argentina." joining us now, all three. geraldo at large. you're so passionate about this. you saw this go on today. it didn't have to happen today. they want to play politics, okay, not today.

>> i think it was pathetic the timing. they easily could have postponed it 48 hours, 72 hours to let the world focus on this profoundly significant event. but there's something that i need to tell people that they have to be reinforced about. a week ago mccabe, the former acting director of the fbi was promoting his book saying it was possible that the president of the united states was a traitor, was an agent of the russian federation. he said it was possible. he was asked the question repeated it. so he had president trump being suspected of treason just a week ago. now where are we? zero, nada, none, absolutely -- absolute this much evidence of collusion with russia. there is no russian collusion. it is a fantasy. >> sean: look what he said -- finish that thought. it's about time, i'm sorry.

>> i just think that when you consider how far we've come in just a week. now we have michael cohen saying there's no collusion. we have michael cohen saying he was venever in prague. >> sean: he wasn't -- >> -- to lie about the timing of the negotiation for the moscow tower. this thing is over. let's get it behind us. now it's all going to be about stormy daniels. you're going to see how msnbc and cnn go seamlessly from russia collusion to oh he paid off the porn star. it is pathetic. >> sean: it's pathetic. journalism's dead. two years of lies. conspiracy theories. oh, never mind. go onto the next conspiracy theory. i'll start with both of you. john? >> yeah. i did a little broad way today. sorry about that. today is going to turn out to be a good day for the president,

despite the democrats' efforts. he's probably going to show everyone today the difference between peace through strength. reagan used, peace through pacification which was the last administration's policies. think about what happened at the hearing. today was the death of the collusion theories. michael cohen, the ultimate insider, has no evidence of collusion. the president didn't ask him to lie. he puts a stake in the heart of one of the major claims of the steele dossier. the american people will see through the efforts of the democrats and declare that this scandal is over. >> harsh columns from both of you. as geraldo laid out, it was a devastating day for the democrats on top of a sad day for them. this was a really bad decision.

the optics of what they thought was important on this day and what the president is doing politically, i don't think the american people -- i don't think they're going to -- i don't think they're going to really buy into this at all. they're going to see this for what it is. >> that's exactly what i was going to say, sean. this back fired on them miserably. miserably. all we saw -- and i think geraldo brought up a great point about mccabe. once again throwing out disinformation and lies, speculation about the possibility. here is the deputy director of the fbi throwing out rumors and lies with not one shred of evidence whatsoever that there was any type of conspiracy with the russians. and then we see michael cohen, a broken man, broken, jilted, i describe him ads a jilted lover.

just lashing out at president trump continuously -- >> sean: they don't care about michael cohen. >> of course they don't! of course they don't. >> sean: put him in more legal jeopardy. >> absolutely. he's in absolute legal jeopardy now on a couple of fronts. what we did learn -- john brought it up and geraldo and you, sean. there was no evidence of any type of conspiracy or collusion. he has no evidence. it was all speculation on his part during his testimony. and the other thing was that the dossier is proven once again to be totally debunked. written by a former agent, a former british spy with information from russian agents. >> sean: bought and paid for -- >> americans know who really collued. it wasn't donald trump's campaign with the russians. it was the hillary clinton campaign, the dnc, the

never-trumpers, all of the people that wanted to go after trump during the 2016 campaign, they colluded and put disinformation out on the american media in an effort to destroy a duly elected president. >> sean: geraldo, you think about, there really was collusion and russian influence in the election. hillary paid for it. nobody looked into it. people are beginning to compare and contrast the hysteria, the reporting, the hate trump media mob. they've been wrong. they have lied. they've ignored what john, sarah, greg jarrett and so many of us have been talking about. and that is the biggest abuse of power by only a few at the top that tried to rig an investigation, exonerate somebody who even the chief counsel at the fbi thought should be indicted for the espionage act. then they don't use this information? the american people were fed

those dossier lies before the election. it was weaponized by people that were warned. it was unverified, clinton paid for russian lies. and they still used it to get a warrant and deny an american citizen sent and his constitutional rights and get in a back doorway to the whole trump campaign. it all happened. >> the problem, sean, now is that we cannot take a victory lap. because even though the russia collusion has been absolutely debunked, even though their best witness has testified to the heart of this matter, the democrats will not admit it. the left will not admit it. you can see the newspaper's headlines in tomorrow's papers in the country already. what they will do is retreat to the little stuff. all right, so, there was no russia collusion, our president is not a traitor, but he cheated on his income tax. he got a deal on a golf course in the bronx that was untoward.

maybe he did, you know, something else -- he chiselled somebody. they're going to try to kill him with a million little knife cuts. now the killer -- >> sean: when do they -- you know, john solomon, sarah carter, all of us, we have all unpeeled the layers of an onion two years ago, it started in march 2016. we began this process with the abuse of power, surveillance, unmasking, leaking intelligence. look where we've come, all this way proving the dossier was used and fisa court fraud committed at a high level, ignored by the special counsel investigating russia collusion, hillary paid for it, they never verified it and they hit this president with lies, hysteria and conspiracy

theories. >> geraldo is right about one thing. the democrats and their allies in the liberal media are going to change the narrative, move the goal post. there's an important point about the axcceleration of the boomerang. as soon as mueller finishes his investigation, if the president is not facing any criminal charges, which i don't believe he will, the president and his team for the first time can go on offense. they can declassify documents. they can debunk things. when the president can declassify and get us the truth, can do a lot to blunt whatever tricks the democrats have in their bag next. >> sarah, we'll give you the last word on this. >> the white house should declassify the documents and the american people should know the truth. i believe in full transparency here. attorney general william barr and all of the criminal referrals made to the department of justice, those should move forward. they should hold people accountable. if these people that we have

spoken about in the past, whether they were high level officials at the fbi or at the department of justice, they should be held responsible if they committed crimes. >> sean: amen. >> and we should know about it. and the american people have a right to know about it. so this doesn't happen again. >> sean: that's the important part. we can't have a dual justice system, and we can't have people that literally set somebody free because they like them over another candidate and exonerate them when you know they're guilty. james baker, chief counsel, fbi under james comey wanted to indict hillary clinton. we learned that last week. few in the media touched it. and the media, too. we will hold them accountable in ways that we have planned coming up in the days, weeks and months ahead. as we've been telling you, all this history hopefully is being made as we speak right now as the summit is ongoing. michael cohen was before congress some seven hours today.

despite, of course, we had been convicted of lying to congress, the hate trump media mob giddy. absolutely giddy about his testimony. joining us now with reaction to that, former white house press secretary sean spicer and the hill's joe concha. sean, let's start with you. very predictable, but also a really sad day. now maybe we understand why -- why the media's trust to the american people has never been lower. >> look, let me just draw the contra contrast. during the obama years, every 24 days on average we saw a missile get tested, fired from north korea. since president trump's taken office, it's been 457 plus days. this president's getting results for the american people, for the peninsula, for the region, for our world. instead of focusing on this historic event -- frankly, what are we talking about? we're talking about the trump organization, what ndas he

signed, what didn't. this is all supposed to be about russia collusion. michael cohen admitted right off the bat there was nothing substantive that he could show on russia collusion. so we wasted all this time talking about something that wasn't what the focus of this week should have been. they could have held this hearing anytime they wanted. they chose today. and as a former white house staffer, i can tell you as much as they're focused on what's going on in north korea and furthering the president's agenda and goal in making it safe for the peninsula, the region and the world, you can't help but make sure you're keeping an eye on that. that distraction means one more minute, one more second, one more hour that they're not focused on the goal of a safer world. i think that got lost in the discussion today, sean. you brought it up. some of your guests have. for one moment understand that the president and his team have to -- it would be malpractice not to listen to the charges that michael cohen is bringing

forward. you have to know what he said. you have to be able to respond properly. these people have already been working constant hours nonstop for days on end are now forced to focus on something other than making a deal with north korea. >> sean: let me get joe into -- we're just running out of time this hour. the summit is ongoing. what -- i think a very -- this is a defining moment, joe concha that they have sunk this low on this day. politics ends at the water's edge? no, apparently not. >> i think it shows, sean, that there is sizzle. and that's the cohen testimony and what everybody flocked to today. and then there's steak. that's what you're seeing on the left of me in terms of president trump and kim jong-un. remember where we were in august of 2017, to sean spicer's point where north korea would be met with the fire and fury like the world has never seen, president trump's words.

kim jong-un launching missiles over japan, threatening guam and the united states. so see these images where we are, it's truly historic. if i'm writing the story tomorrow, what's my lead? questions have been raised about whether i know direct evidence that mr. trump or his campaign colluded with russia, i do not and i want that to be clear. that should be the takeaway from the testimony today like your guests have been talking about because that is the whole ball game. if you don't show russian collusion between the president or his associates and the campaign and the russians, then -- then you're going to have a boomerang effect. if democrats pursue impeachment, you're going to see what happened with bill clinton. the day after bill clinton was impeached, his approval rating was 73% in gallop because the republicans overplayed their hand. the democrats overplayed their hand -- >> sean: we got to wrap up. >> -- you will see an upward tick in the president's numbers. >> sean: i agrees with your analysis completely. quick wrap-up.

ed henry? >> this is going on longer. we expected them to come out already and speak to the media. they haven't done that. we're being told they've gone behind closed doors. the president and chairman kim with a larger group. that suggests maybe they're making progress. >> it's been 400 days since a missile launch while the democrats have tried to propagate the collusion hoax which fell apart today. >> the relationship between president trump and chairman kim is so important. at the forefront of kim jong-un's mind is the lesson of gadhafi who gave up his nuclear weapons was overthrown. we see president trump walking around the pool with chairman kim. it's setting the stage for these negotiations today. that was critical precursor for anything to happen. >> sean: thank you all. you've been great announcers. congratulations on the -- >> appreciate it. >> sean: -- we're really happy for you. we're going to wrap up. we are in hanoi, ongoing right now as we speak the summit between kim jong-un and the president. immediately after that, i will have the opportunity exclusive

one-on-one interview with president trump. he will take us behind the scenes. we'll talk exactly about what was going on, the progress that they made, what it means for the future. we'll air the full interview tomorrow night 9:00 eastern right here from hanoi. >> laura: imagine if what happened today, the cohen testimony, something like this had happened when bill clinton or barack obama was engaged in a globally significant event such as a summit with one of our great adversaries. the media would be going nuts, going crazy, just the timing of of grace , just that alone is enough to drive people crazy.