would go so fast. but we will be back tomorrow at 8:00 p.m., the show that his sworn enemy of lying, pomposity and smugness and groupthink. but tonight at 9:00, sean hannity >> sean: a special surprise show, tucker. welcome to "hannity." the democratic party, the deep state, the media mobs. ivory tower is about to come crashing down. tonight, the bureaucrats at rigged hillary clinton's investigation tried to rig the 2016 election and tried to destroy your duly-elected president are no longer safe from facing the justice that they deserve. now starting tonight and i'll explain in a minute and the coming weeks and days and months, the deep-state bureaucrats and the friends in the democratic party, the hate-trump media mob, they will face what is an avalanche of facts, truth, equal justice and

equal application of our laws. they will not be able to withstand the pressure. the boomerang of justice starts tonight. just hours ago, republican congressman devin nunes sent a criminal referral notification to the attorney general, william barr. nunes believes the department of justice will take these charges very seriously. many bad actors will be held accountable. get this, believe it or not, a prominent democrat has been charged as a result of the mueller investigation. where was the predawn raid with navy seals and frogs and amphibious vehicles? where was cnn? president obama's white house counsel glen craig has been indicted for lighting to investigators about his work for the pro putin president of ukraine. remember tell vladimir i'll have more flexibility after the

election. he worked for that president obama. keep in mind, ukraine is begging us right now to open an investigation admitting that they actually did involve themselves in collusion and it was between one of their government officials and the clinton campaign to help hillary in 2016. don't expect to see this get any attention from the rage trump media mob. they don't care about collusion claims unless they can use it against donald trump. no principles, just selective moral outrage. take a look at this disparity in coverage with justice kavanaugh and the serious rape and violent sexual assault being laid about the lieutenant governor of virginia. the media mob is freaking out over attorney general barr stating what is a fact. the trump campaign was spied on by our own government. the freak-out begins. take a look. >> i spy an attorney general giving credence to conspiracy

theories. >> bill barr, one of the most respected lawyers, a two-time attorney general turned in his tortoise shell for a tin foil hate. >> he made it clear, i'm going to be an engine for the president of the united states. i'm not the attorney general. >> the attorney general of the united states in a dog whistle to sean hannity is a big deal. >> spying. why is trump and his cronies and the new a.g. use that world? >> it looks like he's doing the president's dirty work here. >> he makes an outrageous claim that roy cone would make, the spying claim. >> let me explain this slowly to the dopes in the media again. from the fisa surveillance of carter page to the rampant unmasking of americans and trump officials to the overseas fbi informants, make no mistake, the campaign of donald trump was spied on. it's an undeniable irrefutable

fact with evidence. barr is putting together a team to investigate any and all wrong doing. the swamp monsters are scattering like rats, including james comey who is in a total stay of denial. poor jim. take a look. >> i really don't know what he's talking about when he talks about spying on the campaign. so i can't really react substantively. when i hear that language used, it's concerning. because the fbi, the department of justice conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance. i have never thought of that as spying. the attorney general has come to the belief that that should be called spying, wow. that's going to require a lot of conversations inside the department of justice. but i don't know what he meant by that term. factual lion what he meant

because i don't know of any electronic surveillance ain't at the trump campaign. >> sean: really? is comey living in an alternative universe here? or does he just want us to forget about the time that he signed off on the fisa application, the warrant application, to spy on trump cam page official carter page. you remember the bulk of that information came from hillary clinton's uncorroborated phony russian dossier. that was the bulk of evidence. let me break this down for james comey that knows better than we smell you walmart irredeemable deplorable trump investigators that are angry and cling to god, guns, religion and bibles. according to rod rosenstein, a career law enforcement official has to swear that the

information going to a fisa court is true and accurate. i'll let rod remind you. >> a lot of talk about fisa applications. many people i see talking about it don't recognize what a fisa application is. it's a warrant just like a search warrant. in order to get a fisa search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal law enforcement officer that swears that the information in the affidavit is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. that's the way we operate. if it's wrong, sometimes it is. if you find out if there's anything incorrect in there, that person will face consequences. >> sean: if it's wrong, that person will face consequences. jim and rod rosenstein may have serious issues as rod rosenstein signed the fourth fisa request, the third renewal when he wasn't planning on taping the president against his knowledge. the dossier was a pack of russian lies, unverified,

uncorroborated paid for by hillary clinton. by the way, they never told the court directly, the little asterisks may have political taint. james comey, you signed off on this application in october of 2016. like you said, that it's to the best of your knowledge true and accurate or there's consequences. but then that was october of 2016 you signed that. in january 2017, james comey, you told then president-elect trump that its contents were salacious and unverified. you told him that at trump tower. so james comey, did you lie on the fisa application or president-elect trump? either way, that makes you a liar. i would bet you probably lied on the application to spy on an american citizen because you knew full well that even the author of the dossier, christopher steele, because bruce ohr warned you he didn't know if the dossier was true.

steele testified in an interrogatory, he didn't know if it was true. he had no idea if any of it is true. that would make that dossier unverifiable according to its own author. i told comey and many times before, you have the right to remain silent and you should have taken that advice and might you want to start. james clapper and john brennan look distraught. take a look. >> the investigation was predicated certainly and the fbi was trying to understand exactly what the russians were doing. u.s. intelligence agencies were spying against foreign adversaries so we can understand the threat to national security. >> it was stunning and scary. i was amazed at that and rather disapointed that the attorney

general would say such a thing. the term "spying" has all kinds of negative connotations. i have to believe he chose that term deliberately. >> i'm sure he did do it deliberately. those two men were at the center of the dossier dissemination while serving in our intelligence community. we need to trust those officials. the tools we give them are powerful. they're not to be turned on the american people. brennan, clapper, national disgrace. so too are the democratic lawmakers on capitol hill. they're constitutionally mandated to perform oversight on the doj and the fbi and they root out corruption, abuse of power in the department of justice. tonight they're only interested in perpetrating the russian hoax on tin foil hat conspiracy

theories again. they've been debunk by four separating investigations. speaker pelosi telling the a.p. that she doesn't trust attorney general barr, just robert mueller. someone should remind nancy about this direct quote from the mueller report. "the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities." those are not attorney general barr's words. they come from the mueller report. that's not stopping presidential candidate eric swalwell from talking about this collusion delusion and taking it to a new level. today he doubled down on his tin foil hat conspiracy theory that president trump is an agent of russia. take a look. >> when you're asked if the president is an agent of russia, you said yes. do you regret saying that or do you believe the president still is an agent of russia?

what do you mean by that? >> he acts on their behalf. he puts their interests ahead of ours. >> when you say agent, what do you mean by that? if he wasn't taking orders, he would take the interpreter's notes. he would release the report saying he's 100% exonerated with. so why does he act so suspiciously with russia? >> sean: either his completely ignorant or lying to you. president trump ramped up sanctions against putin's regime. if he was compromised, why would he expel 60 russian diplomats or authorize military action in syria in a battle that resulted in a major embarrassment for the russian dictator. and the president increased military spending for our european allies as a deterrence initiative against putin and russia. thanks to this administration,

the united states is flooding the market with american oil and natural gas. if american begins to export massive amounts of oil and gas around the world to our european allies to asia and elsewhere, we will absolutely destroy the economy of the hostile regime of vladimir putin and the hostile actors in russia. something that no democrat would ever do. hill little was too busy hitting reset buttons and getting kickbacks from the uranium one deal and obama was telling putin that he would have more flexibility after the elections. and now more for julian assange and wikileaks. the media has spread a baseless lie that he was the key to russian collusion. now assange was dragged out and arrested on a u.s. extradition

warrant over a 2010 scheme to steal military secrets with former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning. president trump said that assange's fate rested in the hands of the justice department. and manning got a pardon from obama. take a look. >> i know nothing about wikileaks. it's not my thing. i know there's something having to do with a julian assange. i've seen what has happened to assange. that will be a determination i would imagine mostly by the attorney general who is doing an excellent job. so he will be making a determination. i know nothing about him. it's not my deal in life. >> what would you like to see happen? >> i don't have an opinion. i know the attorney general will be involved in that. he will make a decision. okay? >> sean: while assange will likely be fighting the extradition to the united states where he would face charges, reaction around the world has been very mixed for the former

ecuadorian president slammed his successor for allowing assange to be arrested. tweeting "what he's done is a crime that humanity will never forget." glen greenwall blasting it saying it's a criminalization of investigation. the dnc and podesta e-mails, assange said that he was acting as a journalist, publishing information provided to him from his sources. as a matter of fact, if you look at wikileaks' record, they never printed a single thing proven untrue in 12 years. whether you like their work or don't. that's a better track record than the fake news media mob here in america that has been doing nothing but lying and pedalling you conspiracy theories for 2 1/2 years. that brings up a fascinating legal issue about the freedom of the press in this country. remember the 1971 landmark pentagon papers case? the u.s. supreme court 6-3 ruled

the media outlets could publish stolen materials as long as they didn't conspire to steal the information. i went to the ecuadorian embassy in london. i asked assange about russian sources. assange said he didn't steal the dnc or podesta e-mails and the source wasn't a government entity. i asked him specifically about russia. take a look. >> did russia give you this information or anybody associated with russia? >> our source is not a state party. the answer for our interactions is no. >> you did not get this information about the dnc, john podesta's e-mails? can you tell the american people 1,000% you didn't get it from russia or anybody associated with russia? >> we can say -- we have said

repeatedly over the last two months that our source is not the russian government. it is not state parties. >> sean: now, manning's case, i said pardon but really the sentence was commuted to get things accurate. if it wasn't russia like assange said, who was it? why was assange never questioned by robert mueller or someone from his team? one would assume that assange, he could have been the guy that offered computer forensics that would prove exactly where that information came from. mueller didn't take the time to ask? either way, we have known that russia haas been a hostile actor on the world stage for years. devin nunes warned us about their nefarious intentions in election interference that would happen in the 2016 election. he did that in 2014. nobody seemed to care or pay attention. don't forget this all happened on obama's watch, not donald trump's watch. so now we as a country have a decision to make.

when will our federal government -- this is an important question -- when will we ramp up efforts to stop hackers from accessing our sensitive materials that impact our security in this country? in other words, when is the government going to get serious about cyber security threats that we face every day? because this is now been going on for decades. at what point does it become not shame on you, shame on you, what about shame on us for not fix ago serious significant progress in the digital age? our government has not ever built cyber security that makes our national security invulnerable. it's vulnerable and needs to be fixed. it's why clinton's private server with top secret information on it was and is a national security threat. by the way, also a felony. here with us now, author of the new back about the mueller book, alan dershowitz who has done legal work for assange and

former trump campaign associate, carter page, sara carter, fox news contributor. carter, let's begin with you. this directly impacted you. the fact -- if the grassley memo is true and the bulk of the information was hillary clinton's bought and fade for russian dossier, that would mean it would have been impossible to corroborate and verify. your constitutional rights were violated and they used you to back door their way to all things that were donald trump's campaign. your reaction. >> absolutely right as you've been saying the last couple years, sean. the sad part about it is, the dnc context, you mentioned mr. assange, i was one week after you had your interview on january 3, 2017 is when they released the dnc's dodgy dossier. and then what they accused me of being responsible for wikileaks

in conjunction with paul manafort who i never met or spoken with in my entire life. just shows how ridiculous. >> sean: professor dershowitz, i know the pentagon papers, that case in and out and "the new york times" v the united states. they didn't steal the information or conspire to steal the information. assange says he didn't. these were sources given to him. would that apply in this particular case in your view? >> yes, in fact i just wrote a column called "is this the next pentagon papers case?" i represented a mike covell. if they indicted him for merely publishes classified materials, this would be the pentagon paper's case modern version. but they were clever. they indicted him on a questionable basis for encouraging manning to try to

get information for asking manning for the first part of a pass word into a computer. it factually is a very weak indictment but it doesn't indict him for publishing classified materials. one of the reasons, great britain wouldn't extradite someone for publishing information. if the allegation is conspiracy to try to essentially hack a government computer by getting into the password, then that might pass the level for extradition. this is going to take a long time. he's going to fight it. one question is, where does he stay while he's fighting it if he's in prison all that thyme or -- >> sean: let me tell you something, he stayed in a 300 square foot studio. this was no extravagant living. obviously he believed deeply in what he was doing. >> no question about that. he's a real believer.

>> sean: well, you know something, and sarah this gets to the point because 99.9% of the media pushed nothing but tin foil hat conspiracy lies. you, john, greg, jarrett, we had it right. i won't name everybody. we have the criminal referrals. devin nunes joins us next. and then the barr investigation, the hoover report. more closed door testimony, fisa applications. gang of eight, 302s. now this ukraine wants to give us the evidence that they colluded on hillary's behalf. a long way to go in this. >> we certainly do, sean. one of the important things -- i'm go fog go back to julian's case for a second. the fact that the united states government didn't charge him with conspiring with russia. they didn't charge him with being a russian agent, which is interesting.

they went back to chelsea manning and as alan said, they have gotten this very thin line saying that he conspired with chelsea manning to retrieve a password. so this is going to be a fascinating case. as far as what is happening now with the investigation and what devin nunes is doing to hold people accountable, we're looking at conspiracy, obstruction, global leaking. remember all of the relationships these people had -- >> sean: do you want that to happen now, carter? this impacted your life. >> look, i want the truth out there. the quicker we can get to the bottom of it, that's the most important thing. to get rid of this big obstacle that has been -- caused so much damage to this country and this administration. >> we all have to stand up against the fisa court being able to do what they did on a basis of the kind of information that they had.

every american should care about that. >> sean: alan, they committed a fraud on the court. that's a felony. you couldn't get them off. i got to roll. thank you all. when we come back, yes, devin nunes, former house intel committee chair joins us. criminal refers that he made an announcement about earlier today. also, michael avenatti accused of stealing millions and millions from clients. the city of chicago sues jussie smollett. we have a busy news night. and obama's general counsel, yeah, was indicted. straight ahead. -and we welcome back gary, who's already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r.v. i would not want to pay that insurance bill. [ ding ] -oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. saved me a ton of money. -love you, gary! -you don't have to buzz in. it's not a question, gary. on march 1, 1810 -- [ ding ] -frédéric chopin. -collapsing in 226 -- [ ding ] -the colossus of rhodes. -[ sighs ] louise dustmann -- [ ding ]

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>> sean: breaking tonight, ranking member of the house intelligence committee, congressman devin nunes of california has notified the

attorney general he's submitting eight criminal referrals alleging serious misconduct in the trump russia probe. he joins us now. congressman, what can you tell us about this? you say in your letter, which i have in front of me, that it's serious. when will we know who and what for? >> well, we don't know if you'll ever know who. i can tell you that if you follow the russia hoax closely, if i gave you seven guesses, you'd probably get the five people that we have referred. so there's five direct referrals based on lying, obstruction, congressional investigation and leaking. we have a global leaks referral, which involves a few reporters but could involve multiple people. i don't think it's that many people because i think they probably only have a few sources within these agencies.

then you have conspiracy referrals. one is based on intelligence. the second one is based on fisa accuse and other matters. so that's where we stand. those are the eight referrals at this point. we're prepared to brief the attorney general. i'm looking forward to -- we have a former u.s. attorney in congress now, john ratcliffe that serves on the intelligence committee and the house intelligence judiciary committee. so he will go with me to brief the attorney general when appropriate. >> sean: we do know from the nunes and the grassley memos on fisa, the bulk of the fisa application, pages 10-12, 17 to 34 and the last one is important i'm told. the bulk of that information came from hillary clinton's bought and paid for russian dossier. that is a fraud before the court, is it not, sir? conspiracy even.

>> sean, let's just -- let me make it as clear as i possibly can. okay? now thank god we have an attorney general that calls spying for what it is. in late 2015, early 2016, spying we again on the trump campaign. that information leaked that led to what they considered to be legal spying that began, that they have acknowledged that they started doing at the end of july. you just had carter page on. they consider that all legal spying. they then leaked that information shortly after the election all through the spring. that was leaking out. why? to create a narrative that donald trump shouldn't have been president, that he's a russian asset, et cetera, et cetera. so spying and leaking. then you have the culmination of the ultimate spying where you have the fbi director spying on the president, taking notes, illegally leaking the notes of classified information.

why? so they can appoint a special counsel to spy on an acting president again. there's a lot of spying and a lot of leaking and that's as clear as i can put it. >> sean: i won't push any further. i understand. i would ask you often -- you have more information than i. i would say, is there anything that i've said tonight that is wrong? you say no. then i'd ask you the next question. am i over the target? i want to be right. i have a lot of sources and i'm putting pieces of the puzzle together. sometimes people cannot give me information. i want to ask you about the hillary clinton investigation. now, thanks to congressman doug collins, we have the closed-door testimony of a lot of people. nelly, bruce ohr, lisa page, james baker, the general counsel who said the following. describe clinton's behavior as relates to the server where she had top secret classified information on it as alarming

and appalling and argued that he thought that she should be charg charged. and page and strzok said, both of them, they had no control over that investigation at all. although strzok himself did the interview, allowed two other people in the interview, which is unheard of and was writing her exoneration in may before interviewing her in july and exonerating her three days later. comey did that part. do you believe that investigation to hillary was a rigged investigation and should begin anew? >> look, i don't know that because we didn't look at all that information. i will say that i don't know how destroying a server that shouldn't have been there in the first place is not obstructing justice. another important point -- >> sean: with classified information on it. >> we're still waiting on transcripts with classified information on it. i want to remind the viewers, we

still have transcripts from our investigation sitting at the dni that still have not been declassified. those need to come out that will give more transparency to everything going on with the transcripts that you're seeing now. >> sean: the last interview i had with the president, he said he would release the fisa applications, the gang of eight, the 302 materials. when americans see that, will they be shocked in if so, on a scale of 1-10, how shocked? >> well, look, what i've said and i'll say it again, if you thought using dirt from a campaign is bad, you'll think this is equally as bad. if you didn't think it wasn't bad, you won't care. if it would have happened to the other side, they would care. >> sean: thanks, congressman. we'll watch this closely. we'll hold them all accountable. when we come back, you won't believe all the people now defending congress woman omar's outrageous comments about 9-11.

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>> sean: the hard left is getting more disturbing day by day. congress woman omar who on the heels of her anti-semitism scandal is now down playing the tragedy, the lives lost in the 9-11 terror attack. it's sickening. take a look. >> it was founded after 9-11 because they recognize that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose

access to our civil liberties. >> sean: really? the "new york post" says here is your something. ran this cover slamming the minnesota democrat. her radical cohorts in the extreme radical socialist party, congressman woman rasheeda talib is standing by her, has her back. we lost nearly 3,000 americans. >> on these remarks themselves, some people did something is a reference to 9-11. you think she should have rethought our words? do you worry about the appropriateness of this? >> they do this to us all the time, women of color. they take our words out of context because we speak truth, truth to power. pure racist acts by those because she does speak truth when they talk about different issues. >> sean: hours after that, alexandria ocasio-cortez used

omars contents to smear the gop. all why downplaying the seriousness of these remarks. here with reaction, dan bongino, monica crowley from the washington times. i don't know where to begin. i don't know what to say, dan. i lost friends that day. everybody i know lost friends that day. >> i know you did, sean. 's been in your office in radio. i see the medium -- people's lives were changed forever. they won't be the same. kids went home for dinner that night that looked a cross the table and would never show up again. let's not forget, we had flight

93. heroic men and women that drove a plane into the ground. we had people in the pentagon wiped out in the -- >> sean: barbara olson. >> somebody did happen that day. representative omar needs to apologize. a grotesque way to frame this event. >> sean: monica, on the heels of anti-semitism and the democratic party's inability to just call her out and identify her and, you know, the broad sweeping generalization, but never mentioned her name and never talk about what she said or did and what she's saying or doing here, what does that say? it means that nancy pelosi is scared to death of not only these three congress women but the hundreds that support the insanity of the new green deal, for example. >> yeah, you know, sean, sadly

it's left to the "new york post" and people like the three of us and programs like this to call out ms.omar because her own side won't do it. the last time she came out with anti-semitic diatribe, her own party was unable to summon the moral and political courage to do a straightforward resolution condemning anti-semitic remarks. it's not like she came out whether the comments. in 2012, she said israel has hypnotized the world. she's got a long record of anti-semitism and anti-israel beliefs and no one is willing to call her out. why? they now share those beliefs. their refusal to call her out and condemn anti-semitism straight up shows how deeply

entrenched it is in the left and sadly in the mainstream democratic party. >> thank you both. let's see what they do. this party has gone so far extreme. they won't even take on a anti-semite. it's sad for the democratic party. look at comments about prime minister netanyahu. like what bpuertbay -- beto sa. and michael avenatti is in trouble. he stole millions from clients and how the media was all over stormy daniels's lawyer. i wonder if clapper and brennan will stay on the job. straight ahead. oints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory.

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>> sean: attorney michael avenatti is in more legal trouble tonight. joining us with the latest live from the west coast newsroom, fox news correspondent trace gallagher. trace, this has gotten big and bigger and more serious by the day. >> indeed it has, sean. in the 36 new counts facing michael avenatti, there's embezzlement and wire fraud. that's significant. it's alleging that he stole his client's settlement money. for a lawyer, that's a rock bottom move. it gets worse. one settlement is $4 million for a man that is paralyzed and mentally ill. he stole the money and didn't file paperwork saying he received the award so the paralyzed man lost his disability payments. avenatti allegedly stole a $2.5

million settlement to buy a private jet which has now been seized. in all, stormy daniels former attorney is looking at 335 years in federal prison. avenatti responded quoting along the way, i made many powerful enemies, i'm entitled a full presumption of innocence and confident that justice will be done once all the facts are known. don't forget, those are just the west coast charges. in new york, avenatti is charged with trying to extort nike for $20 million. gets bigger and bigger, sean. >> sean: trace gallagher in l.a. tonight. thank you. when liberal mainstream so-called journalists thought michael avenatti could be used as a tool to take down president trump, he was the media mob's media darling. flaunting over him, right up until his client stormy daniels against the president. that claim was dismissed. you might remember this.

take a look. >> i'm joined by michael avenatti. thanks for making time. >> stormy daniels water, michael avenatti joins us live now. michael, thanks for joining us. >> the attorney for stephanie clifford, michael avenatti. >> thanks for being on the show. >> michael, thank you nor being with us here this morning. >> michael avenatti joins me now. good evening. >> let's bring in michael avenatti, stormy daniels attorney. >> michael, welcome to you. >> here is stormy daniels attorney, michael avenatti. >> let's get reaction from michael avenatti, stormy daniels' attorney. go. >> sean: thank you, michael. thank you. joining us with reaction, author of "the russian hoax", gregg jarrett and host of water's world, jesse waters is with us. good to see you both. all right. greg, let's start -- by the way,

he does deserve due process. >> absolutely. >> sean: the presumption of innocence. >> he's going to get due process. >> absolutely. i read through the 61-page, 36 indictment. if the feds can prove a fraction of this, then avenatti better throw away the armani suits and get used to a jump suit. because the feds say he was essentially the bernie madoff of lawyers running a ponzi scheme stealing from one to pay the creditors, the lavish lifestyle, the jet. the pyramid just came crashing down. and the behavior and his victims. this is unconscionable for a lawyer and if proven criminal. >> sean: let's look at this from the standpoint of the media and the sick treatment of him and

his big star, jesse waters. i saw that avenatti was a street fighter and he loved the attention. begging to come on my show. i was like you have not earned a position yet. you're on every other show. the thing is that they wanted to believe him. >> right. >> sean: they wanted to believe him badly. just like, for example, they wanted to believe the russian hoax, but as greg's book pointed out, we've been unpeeling every layer of that onion for two years. they've been wrong the whole time. now it's boomeranging back. >> investigate was about as real as the russian hoax, sean. he was on tv more than i was. i have two shows. >> sean: i know. and you're our guest here. >> that's right. so, you know, anybody with a brain could see this from a mile away. the guy is leveraged to the teeth with jets and porsches and expensive watches. everywhere he goes, lawsuits and

bankruptcy follows him. he shows up on the east coast with a porn star and two fake kavanaugh gang rape accusers and cnn declares him the dragon slayer, avenatti 2020. what was he really? a complete scam artist and the media never kicked the tires, never checked under the hood. they put him in the middle of the showroom because they know what moves merchandise. what moves merchandise is trump hate and impeachment. >> sean: i'm switching topics, gregg. you know, look now, we have the barr investigation. look at the criminal referrals. we had devin nunes on earlier. president trump told me gang of eight, fisa applications. all of this information is coming out. 302s. horowitz report. how bad is this going to be for the media and for the democrats that lied for 2 1/2 years? >> it's going to be devastating for them. we only know, i'd say, maybe 25%

of the corruption that occurred. we'll learn about the rest of it over the ensuing months. >> sean: how many people don't think will go to jail? >> it's hard to know. i think there will be a lot of people under criminal investigation and some will be criminally charged. >> sean: thank you both for being with us. by the way, it's hannity's world tonight, jesse. you don't have every show. thanks for having me on last week. when we come back, the city of chicago is officially suing juss juss jussie smollett. trace gallagher has more. only relieves 6 symptoms, claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d relieves more.

>> sean: the villain of the day is jussie smollett. he's been sued by the city of chicago. we bring back trace gallagher from the west coast newsroom. he has the latest on that. they deserve it. >> yeah, the city of chicago law department tells fox news that as promised, they have filed a

lawsuit against jussie smollett. this comes a week after the actor refused to reimburse the city $130,000 to cover the cost of police overtime while investigating the hate crime hoax. smollett, who tmz says he is vacationing in hawaii with family. he says smollett coordinated details of the alleged hoax down to the this is maga country comments. in a stunning reversal, cook county state's attorney kim fox dropped off the charges without explaining exactly why. fox new says the outrage against her might have something to do with race despite the fact that the city's new mayor, who is block, has called on fox to better explain why the charges were dropped. >> sean: thanks, trace.

we appreciate it. i wish we had another four hours. i mean, so much news. but all of this is coming, let not your heart be troubled. we'll never be the hate rage destroyed trump media and let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham is in the swamp tonight. >> laura: i thought of a new thing for you. hate trump, rage against melania, infuriating -- >> sean: the hate rage trump media mob. it flows. >> laura: want to put -- that want to put kids in cages. you have to do a whole last block -- >> sean: rush limbaugh says drivebyes. use that one. >> laura: great show. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. king woman ilhan omar as you'lly dismissing the atrocities of 9-11 and now she's claiming