monday, we'll be back. the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. easter is on sunday. have the best weekend with the ones you love. good night from washington. "hannity" is next. jason chaffetz is inverter sean. ♪ >> jason: welcome to the special edition of "hannity": just as in america. i'm jason chaffetz in tonight for sean. it's a good day for president trump, and a great day for america. the witch hunters over. there was no trump-russia collusion! it was a giant, destructive two and a half year long hoax. the media's favorite conspiracy theory has been blown out of the water! so now they are shifting the narrative to another hoax surrounding phantom obstruction of justice claims, which, as mark levin pointed out this morning, is complete and total nonsense. watch this. >> obstruction was not the

purpose of the investigation and he didn't have an obstruction case against the president of the united states or he would have brought it! i'm using plain english so even joe scarborough and jake tapper can understand this. volume two is crap. volume two was written for slip and fall lawyer nadler, slip and fall lawyer adam schiff. that is why he wrote it. he knew the media would run with it. volume one, mr. mueller should have come up to a microphone, six, 12 months into his investigation, and announced to the american people, i have great news, the president didn't collude. his campaign didn't collude, there is no collusion. >> jason: bottom line, no obstruction charges were filed by robert mueller, and no obstruction charges will be fired by the department of justice. there is no case. no crime was committed. and the president is calling many of the obstruction claims "total b.s." make no mistake, tonight president trump has been cleared

in more ways than one. as sean previewed on the show all week, equal justice is president's counter report,t which my next guest says is coming next week. joining us now as attorney for president trump and former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani. mr. mayor, thank you so much for joining us. before we get to the counter report, i get mont to go back to what mark lupin was talking about because this whole idea of this section two -- why does the department of justice do that if they will not bring charges? >> because they were very disappointed that they could not catch him on collusion. they were trying very, very hard to trap them some way, either obstruction -- i knew they wanted to try to trap him into perjury. now that he would commit perjury but look at all the lying in that report. i mean, the report particularly volume two -- remember, please understand what it is. it's a prosecutor's version of what happened. not just a normal prosecutor. prosecutors who were extreme partisan democrats who, one of

them work for the clinton foundation, she was the chief counsel of the clinton foundation. they hated him. you're absolutely right. or mark was absolutely right when he said, as a good citizen, the minute they found out there was no collusion, which they knew before they started, jason, you know that, right? they have a counterintelligence investigation before this one. he's been investigated twice by the fbi and twice he's been cleared of collusion. >> jason: at the end of the report, it says that this report did not exonerate the president. i've never seen the department of justice go and exonerate people. is that the business, doj? >> [laughs] i don't know. i'm a u.s. attorney and associate attorney general in an era in which i always thought i could prove a person guilty. i never realized that my job was to find out if he was entirely, absolutely innocent and there was no subscription. so if we have that standard, i

mean, i don't know any democratic country that has the standard of, you have to prove the negatives. it also gives you another indication, page two of volume two, how biased they are, how warped they are. they actually say, we could not be convinced that he didn't commit obstruction of justice. therefore, we can't exonerate him. but we can't prosecute him either because we don't have enough evidence to prosecute. well, that's the end of the story. when you don't have enough evidence to bring a case, the prosecutor is finished. he doesn't get to indulge all kinds of fantasies and also rely on wires like michael cohen. it's disgusting. >> jason: it really is. you are prosecuted people for lying and using that same information. now upon reflection, did the president grant too much access? the unprecedented access that the president gave was absolutely stunning. documents and people -- he didn't hold anything back.

do you think it was a mistake in retrospect? is getting no credit for it. >> i think he is with real lawyers, really accomplish lawyers who have balance. the reason why you honestly can't make an obstruction of justice case on him, the reason why he's innocent is, how could he possibly corrupting the investigation he gave them everything? bill clinton bought them every step of the way. bill clinton was guilty. now they shouldn't have impeached him, maybe it was too personal but he definitely was guilty of perjury. we all know that, we all heard him admit it. he was guilty of a federal crime. of course he was going to fight them every step of the way. richard nixon fought them until he lost on the supreme court. he never wanted people to find out he was guilty. this is different. this man is innocent! he didn't do it! that's why he gave them everything. that's also why he was frustrated and angry at the lies he was hearing. i think the attorney general

understood that there is no possible way that you can charge corruption when there -- charge obstruction when there is no corrupt intent. >> jason: was it also the road called into a privilege on his interactions with his attorneys? was that the right call? >> i wasn't there then, i'm not going to second-guess what was done before i was there. >> jason: fair enough. >> i got what was handed to me. the attorney-client privilege to me is sacred. the executive privilege is sacred also but it's a limited privilege. in other words, there are ways in which you can get around it. they would have if they could. but because we give them everything, they didn't have any need for any more information except to try to do to him even worse than what they did to flynn, which is to trap flynn into perjury. what they did to general flynn is a disgrace. the people who did that should be penalized for that, at least ethics violations. they trap him into perjury. they ask him a question he knew the answer to and instead of showing him the document that

could have refresh his recollection, they hated and they hit him with a perjury cham to turn on the president. they don't tell a story. he didn't. he didn't because it's not true. the man's an honorable man. they did at the that with paul manafort. they kept him at salary solitary confinement. couldn't break them. they did and with other witnesses. the only guy that flipped on them was michael cohen and then michael cohen, as you know, like before the house two weeks ago. did you read about that in his report? did you read about how their star witness fell apart and lied about not asking for a job, lied about not asking for a pardon? didn't hear about that. >> jason: no, no, no. let me ask you, was there any evidence, the special prosecutor, did they grant immunity or even offer immunity to anybody in this case? >> i don't know that they did. i wouldn't know that particularly. i don't know that they did. >> jason: fair enough. let me ask you another one because our time is so short.

when do you think a special prosecutor actually knew -- i mean, really did know that there was no collusion? did that happen before the 2018 election? >> let me put it this way, his lead investigator knew there was no collusion before the investigation started because he announced very dramatically after the first investigation of collusion, there is no they are there. peter strzok is such a liar, baby he didn't tell mueller but about eight months into it, he had to know there was no collusion. he had to know it. he had to know how stupid the whole situation with papadopoulos is and why didn't he investigate the possibility that papadopoulos was set up, which is almost obvious from the fact that somebody gave him the information, who is a counterintelligence guy, and then he gave it in turn to another counterintelligence guy. they put papadopoulos right in the middle of a typical counterintelligence dirty trick. you can smell that if you know anything about this business. mueller knows a lot about this business. why didn't he investigated? he didn't want to look for the

truth. he wanted to look to national trump. i don't blame bob, i blame bob for being asleep at the switch. he had a bunch of bad people doing this. he wasn't supervising them. he was like "the wizard of oz." he was behind a screen somewhere and they were doing all the dirty work. >> jason: i think it is important and why we some point figure out what did they actually know, there was no collusion out there because there never was, at any point, and how long they let this drag on. let me ask you about this counter report that you are working on and coming out with next week. what should we expect? what is going to be in here? >> first of all, we are going to put it out when we think it's necessary. we didn't think it was necessary at the end of this week because everything was answered. we got a lot to go here, we've got this testimony that is going to come out. i'm not sure exactly when we are going to put it out. it will eventually be put out and it will be very, very telling because we can't tell the whole story. we'll wait for the right time to put it out. right now, i think it's

effective for people to see how this report wasn't so dishonestly put together. it's really disgraceful and they should be ashamed of themselves. >> jason: now the genesis of this report, the so-called fisa abuse, i know we know that the inspector general michael horowitz of the department of justice is looking into this, judiciary report, within the next 60 days. attorney general barr has said that he's doing things, it's been previously announced that the u.s. attorney in utah, mr. john huber, is also looking at things. what can you tell us about the next step, which is finding out how this whole thing came about and how it got put in place in the first place? >> there's no doubt in my mind, and we touched on that, as we talk about in our counter repor report, somebody manufactured this and fed it to papadopoulos to get it started. i think a lot of it happen overseas. i think a good place to look is the ukraine. italy. england. i think counterintelligence services their work with people that were trying to hurt

president trump. i think that is how it started and that is how it was generated. then you look at -- you know those fisa affidavits as well, better than i do, and the reality is, if you couldn't convict people for false statements in that affidavit, you should turn in your law license. they didn't do basic things to corroborate the steele dossier. if you read the steele dossier, it reads like a sensational movie or something. it's ridiculous on its face. but then there are a few facts you can cooperate. they say that michael cohen not a frog in a particular day. comey never even bothered to corroborate that. all he added was call of the passport office. he didn't bother to corroborate whether michael steele had gone to russia. he hadn't gone to russia and seven years. how ridiculous is that? somebody gave me a report on what happened in russia, i would ask them, witness -- how many times have you been there? oh, i was there seven years ago.

well, to heck with you. this is gone, this is a piece of junk. >> jason: didn't even have to ask him, could have looked it up in about 3 minutes and figured it out. >> i helped to start the fisa court. i know the solemn obligation you have, you have to act as both prosecutor and defense lawyer because no one ever gets to test the other side of it and then you get to invade somebody's home and eager to invade their private thoughts and you get to take away all their privacy. if you don't test that statement before you put it before a judg judge, pretty bad. then you put your name on it and there's something wrong with that, got to get prosecuted. >> jason: mr. mayor, you've been very -- >> it's deliberately wrong. that's the part i should warn people about. it could be mistakes. we don't know that until we investigate this. there are so many mistakes, however, that it starts to seem like a pattern. >> jason: mr. mayor, you've been very generous with your time. congratulations to you and the legal thing for the president. mr. mayor, thank you.

>> thank you. >> jason: with a mueller report finally in the rearview mirror, real abuses of power are coming squarely into focus. from the horwitz investigation into fisa abuse to the john huber investigation into leaks to attorney general barr's promise to investigate how and why the trump campaign wasn't spied on by our own federal government, a deep state reckoning is on the horizon. joining us now the reaction, former south carolina congressman, fox news contributor, former chairman of the oversight committee, second-best chairman of the oversight committee, trey gowdy from south carolina. thank you so much for joining u us. you know, i read the report, i know you read the report, i was really struck by this, how most of this information really was classified. i mean, i can't believe they went to such great lengths and put out so much information. what was your take? >> the same. particularly on the coordination, the conspiracy, the collusion section, the sources and methods, i really thought about half of that would

wind up being redacted. i can tell you haven't been on the house intelligence committee, and how judiciary, we had a really tough time accessing some of the information that wasn't publicly disseminated yesterday. >> jason: now, it's a very -- at the very end of the report, i want to put up this graphic and read part of what it said at the end by mr. mueller. he said "bakes and the effects of any applicable standards, we are unable to reach a judgment accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." you've been a prosecutor for decades. is that with the department of justice does? do they exonerate people? >> no, thank goodness, each of us, including the president of the united states is presumed innocent. so you need not be exonerated if you have sufficient evidence to indict someone, then do so. let a jury of 12 of your peers determine whether or not the evidence is sufficient. to say that we don't have enough

to exonerate, how would you do that anyway? i mean, the jury verdict is not guilty or innocent. it is guilty or not guilty. the burden is on the government. if you have enough, special counsel mueller, or ag barr, then indict. if you don't come as you know, jason, i was not a fan of this report being made public for the very reason you just cited. at least when you are charged, you can go to a trial, defend yourself, and have 12 of your fellow citizens estate not guilty. here, there is no jury. if there were a jury, it would be hung, 50-50. >> jason: i think that's the point. a part of this is the idea that -- i think it was a cheap shot at the end to say that it is not exonerate him because that is not what the department of justice does. the only one i can actually make you or put you into that guilty category is a jury of our peers. you and i both went through the issues with hillary clinton, everything from benghazi to the emails and everything in betwee

between. how do you see how donald trump was treated differently versus, say, hillary clinton was treate treated? >> oh, gosh. how much time do you have? just the duplicity in the d.c. media alone. president trump answered questions that were sent to him by mueller. i sent questions to a president once. they didn't even get acknowledge, much less answered, but there is no media outcry. the media was disappointed that the executive branch got to review and executive branch report report was made public. see if you can follow that logi logic. mad that an executive branch report is being reviewed by the executive branch. contrast of that, secretary clinton was investigated by an accountability review board that she picked. cheryl mills was able to read that report and offered changes. in fact, she did offer changes, no media outcry. so i can't speak for you, jason,

we were in d.c. the same amount of time, the most disappointing part of my 80 years is the duplicity of the d.c. media, far more than the democrats. >> jason: explained to people a little bit more that had read. i felt it, you felt it, but that headwind was so different than what donald trump is dealing with it. clinton and obama, it was such a stark contrast. >> the d.c. media never met a republican investigation that should have started, and they never met a democrat investigation that should never end. so they are thrilled that the next two years -- look, i heard your intro, i think the next two years are going to be just like the last two years. i don't think yesterday resolved anything. they are going to have more congressional hearings, the media will applauded, as opposed to the hearings that you and i were a part of, we were on defense, not just from the democrats, but also from the media.

look, i understand that congress has a low approval rating, and in some instances, hard earned. lots of our fellow citizens also don't trust the media like they used to and they need to look no further than their own handling of republican versus democrat inquiries to see part of why that is. >> jason: there are ten points in obstruction, i look at those and i think, you know what, gosh, they are giving all this criticism to donald trump for things he actually didn't do! how did you read it? >> well, jason, let's go back to the beginning. there is nothing about this investigation that was normal. as a counterintelligence investigation that was made public, that never happens, as a criminal investigation where you are actually presumed guilty and you have to prove your innocence, remember, adam schiff had evidence of collusion before the investigation even began. remember, 60 house democrats voted to move forward with impeachment before bob mueller authored a single solitary

syllable. so that is not the justice system. that is a quasi-political investigation. add to that, you are being accused of treason, a crime for which, by the way, you could be put to death -- and make no mistake, that is what they are alleging -- that candidate trump could littered with a hostile foreign power to impact our democratic process. that is treason. so that is what they accused him of. i don't know how you would react, jason, if you were accused of something that you did not do, which now mueller has said you did not do. somewhere between vigorously defending yourself and losing your mind is where you would have been. so look, some of the stuff doesn't read well but you have to put it in the context. no part of what this investigation was is a traditional counterintelligence or criminal investigation. of >> jason: locum i think of history writes the truth, it will write that donald trump was more open and transparent than anyone i have ever seen before

and far more than barack obama that we dealt with. mr. trey gowdy, thank you for joining us. coming up, no collusion, no obstruction, but that is not stopping democrats from calling for impeachment of course come and get jewish 2020 2020 contender is on board. that and more on the special edition of "hannity": justice in america continues. ♪ mmm. ♪ rub-a-dub ducky... and then...there's national car rental. at national, i'm in total control. i can just skip the counter and choose any car in the aisle i like. so i can rent fast without getting a hair out of place. heeeeey. hey! ah, control. (vo) go national. go like a pro.

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♪ ac >> jason: welcome back to the special edition must be 25: justice in america. with the democrats collusion conspiracy exposed as a hoax, it looks like a new round of party infighting is on the horizon because while democratic leaders like nancy pelosi and majority leader steny hoyer are signaling against impeachment, that is not

stopping other rank-and-file lawmakers from pushing their own agenda, and even refusing tong fully accept mueller's no collusion finding. take a look. >> you expect a specific conclusion there was no criminal conspiracy? >> i accept that conclusion for now. but i think there is a need continuing investigation. there are clearly offenses. offenses. >> impeachable offenses? >> there may be impeachable offenses. there? may be those offenses. >> do you accept the special counsel's conclusion on that eppoint? >> to a degree. again, we need more information. >> i believe impeachable offenses have been committed and i believe it's worthwhile to put in history smiles what this man has done and impeach him but i don't think it's going to happen politically. the base wants impeachment. they want impeachment badly. >> jason: that was mr. cohen who wired the measure of serving

within congress and it gets worse. senator elizabeth warren is joiningni the impeachment echo chamber. echoing her, congresswoman rashida "the ingraham angle" dominic tliab and alexandria ocasio-cortez all displayed no criminal wrongdoing. joining us now is sara carter and congressman turner and andy biggs of arizona.a. to thank you for joining us. i want to start with mark warne warner. they are singing the tune of impeachment for goodness sake, what is your reaction? >> jason, this is part of the process of delegitimizing a republican president. we saw this was george w. bush's election where they allegedly colluded with his governor brother of florida to steal the election, they took that case to the u.s. supreme court, and to now with trump they claim he colluded with russia to steal the election and then used, as

you kept saying, hillary clinton-funded material to get surveillance over the trump campaign. in the heartland in dayton, ohio, the headline that hit everybody's doorstep today, was no collusion with russia. that certainly has a big impact, that's not a presidential tweet, that's a headline. it will make it difficult for people like adam schiff, who is going around saying there is collusion. now we see it, they want to go from collusion to say they want to go after the president because of his opposition for their efforts to pursue him for crimes he didn't commit. i don't think people are going to buy it. they understand those four words of no collusion with him with russia to be the end of it. >> jason: i'm glad the headline in ohio got it right because "the washington post" did not. sara carter, senator warren, one of the leading contenders, she wants to have impeachment. how do you think that is going to go? >> i don't think it's going to go well for her. this is going to backfire. is going to backfire on the

democrats. the american public is really sick and tired of this. they know now based on this report, no collusion, there was no obstruction, now we are hearing that in the report, even donald mcgahn, his story changed multiple times, that president trump's former lawyer, and so there was even a section in the report that specificallyo stated, his story was very confusing. so as far as obstruction is concerned, there is no obstruction there. this is coming from elizabeth warren who was basically called out for lying on her card, calling herself an american indian.t we know that she's not. this is going to backfire on her, it's going to backfire on the democrats, adam schiff is another one that has been very much pushing this collusion delusion narrative consistently at president trump. i think the american public is going to tire of that. i will tell you something else, the most important thing, i

believe, is coming up when the investigation started on the part of attorney general william barr and when the investigations are revealed that michael horowitz has been conducting over the past year, it's really going to backfire on them. >> jason: andy biggs, the congressman on the east side of the phoenix valley, mesa, whatnot, arizona, very important stage in the 2020 politics. after the democrats that use air within the house, do they really love mike pence that much?ch they really want him to be the president? are they just on this crazy train to who knows where with all this impeachment talk? >> i think they are on the gravy train. i think there is a significant number that are very skittish and wisely so, they don't want an impeachment process, they know it's going to hurt them, especially the 40 districts that we call swing districts that support trump that may be a democrat picked up in the midterm election. i will tell you what, when nadler is subpoenaing these documents and he's going forward, i think they are doing a market test to see if they are able to keep them at all if are hoping to get if they go to a

full impeachment. i think they really want to do a full impeachment. they think the bases ginned up enough to do it. i think there is somee wise heas or someds politically-minded heads, pelosi and steny hoyer, saying, this is going to hurt as if we do it. i think nadler, you know nadler, you know adam schiff, they want to go forward and just -- >> jason: you have more than 60 democrats signing up for impeachment before even completed the report. congressman, you serve in a very important role in the intel committee. you see day in and day out behind closed doors adam schiff. how does he have any credibility? i don't understand what he even has a security clearance and why he's even on the committee at this point. >> it is very troubling, certainly all of the republicans on the committee called for his removal as chair of theau committee. not just because of the misstatements that he's made where he's come out and said that he saw evidence of collusion, where clearly there was no evidence of collusion come anotherno mueller report, n

settles that issue. but the issue is, he is using the committee solely for the purposes of pursuing president trump with his funded against him. our adversaries are russia, china, north korea, iran, and we need to be looking at the ways in which they are impacting our national security, and as long as adam schiff continues to believe that the greatest threat to this country is donald trump, our adversaries are getting a pass on our committee needs to get back. >> jason: you're right. there's a huge opportunity cost for not focusing on the other true threats to this nation. after 30 seconds left. sara carter, where does this gos next? >> we know where it's going. it's going into a very deep investigation into the o genesis of the origination of this investigation into president trump. i believe there will be indictments. i believe people will be held accountable for h this. that is why i think, jason, any type of impeachment proceedings or hearings of that nature are just going to backfire on the democrats. >> jason: congressman, last

word. do we actually see people in handcuffs, held accountable for the genesis and the abusing of the fisa court system? >> we better. the american people demand that, and if we don't, it is just another crime in history. >> jason: thank you, all three of you, for joining us on this beautiful friday night. up next, the mainstream media is having a hard time letting go of their favorite hoax. coming up, we'll show you how some are now forming at the mouth over impeachment fantasy play that and more on the special edition of "hannity." ♪ ll my clients not to worry about changing their minds in retirement. you may have always imagined your dream car as something fast. then one day you decide it just needs to be safe enough to get her to college and back. principal. we can help you plan for that.

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♪ >> jason: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." following the release of the f mueller report, democrats weren't the only people clamoring for impeachment. naturally, they're good friends of the mainstream media were

absolutely obsessed. according to news busters, cnn, msnbc, and the broadcast networks mentions the word "impeachment" 309 times over a 24-hour period. as we predicted, there are no apologies coming from the media mob for the relentless two and half year proliferation of a hoax. instead, they are just doubling down. watch this. >> this is leaving the legal realm of obstruction, now it is entering the realm of ethics and impeach ability. >> a road map to potential impeachment proceedings. >> congress can decide whether or not it is criminal conduct. in other words, perhaps there's enough evidence to start impeachment proceedings. s.>> why this mueller report cod be a road map to impeachment. >> being his body on the tracks to push donald trump away from these actions would have led to his impeachment.. >> if democrats decide that what

they read in the mueller report equals a high crime, they could move forward in the house with impeachment and now you have a presidential candidate, telling them to do that. >> jason: and they wonder why nobody's watching. joining us now is trump 2020 campaigns national press secretary kayleigh n mcenany, fox news contributor d doug schoen, and judicial watch president tom fitton. thank you, y all three of us, fr joining us. i want to ask you, your background is with the democratic party -- >> i am a democrat. >> the drumbeats going on in the media, where does that take the? >> it takes them towards defeat, jason. this is silly. people want to hear discussion of issues, health care, immigration, education, income inequality. the president -- >> jason: they make a conscious choice not to do that way they want to- talk about all things drop all the time. >> and by doing that, by talking

impeachment, they are going to do what was done in 1998 by the republicans, overplayed their hands when i was working for bill clinton, and all that is going to do is help donald trump get reelected. huge mistake by the democrats and their friends in the media. >> jason: kayleigh, you are tied to the trump campaign obviously, but what are you hearing in the heartland and what do you think real americans think of when they see this? at the special prosecutor says, that collusion they were talking about for two years, there really was nothing out there, how does that play in america? >> in the heartland, they want to legislating, not investigating. they don't want impeachment. every single poll show site. doug is spot on. certain democrats, 202020 contenders, we've heard from two, that are so desperate because they have flailing that the medias of giving enough attention to, they are willing to divide the country, to destabilize the government, and call for impeachment. that is what we saw what was warned, aiding and abetting mainstream media, breathlessly

waiting for their sense of talking points and they echo it, saying, road map to impeachment. that is media collusion at its best. they are aiding and abetting the 2020 dems and it's not with thee american people want, so they do so at their own peril. >> jason: tom, judicial watch is one of my favorites. you've done great work. you've been able to do things that i as chairman of the oversight committee in congress couldn't do, which is sad on one case but good for you. this is, though, the playbook of the resistance movement. they are doing things that are right out of their playbook, the democrats, aren't they? >> right, and it's all part of beganint effort that during the presidential campaign, the baton was handed off to the mueller operation, and the anti-trump partisans in the mueller steam 's team wrotea report they knew would generate impeachment. so the democrats happily take up the baton. all to distract from the fact

that they were caught in what is in essence criminal activity targeting the president. making up false allegations, and illicitly using the fbi and doj to spy on the campaign based on those false allegations. i think an impeachment fight might be very interesting because the president is going to be able to present witnesses and it will be good to hear what congress knew and who in congress was cooperating and colluding with fusion gps, with peter strzok and frankly with some of the mueller operation in terms of pushing these false f information out to their friends re the media. >> jason: doug, this creates quite a predicament because democrats say they suddenly have this new awareness for openness and transparency and they are pounding their fists, they did not do that in the eightig yeari served under congress with barack obama. but they may get that with the

inspector general's report. they may get that with barr looking at it further. then went to the democrats do? b >> my point would be, i don't know what the facts are about what the fbi did vis-a-vis hillary clinton, fusion gps. but i would like to know. i think the american people have a right to know. let's get all the facts outllhe there and then have it as an issue in the campaign for people to decide, especially if the democrats push impeachment. >> jason: this is where they jump so quickly and so fast into this impeachment lane and now they are caught in this place. kayleigh, going into 2020, the media has signaled they are going to continue to pound on donald trump. how in the world does he get that message out? he is done it in the past but how does he get that message out? >> he stays focused on achieving for the american people and they feel it in their everyday lives, when you see wages growing twice as fast, all the other extraordinary economic metrics we talk about all the time on

this show. you can change the reality people feel but i will say, that media negativity, this collusion of words and attacking president trump, i actually think it serves him while in the long run, it exposes the left, it exposes the bias of the a mainstream media, and it serves as a tail went to the president. keep on being negative, mainstream media.hr people see through it when you say the words impeachment baselessly 309 times in one day. >> jason: tom, 30 seconds. in contrast to hillary clinton was treated versus the way donald trump was treated. >> >> oh, it's remarkable. the fact is, hillary clinton was treated the way she was treated, one of the reasons they covered it up, the vehicle for covering it up was to distract the public with this attack on president trump. it's two sides of the same coin. with regards to impeachment in terms of the corruption under the obama administration, i halw jokingly say, but we should

remember who's responsible for the targeting of president trump. barack obama can still be impeached. >> jason: thank you, all three of you tonight, kayleigh, doug, tom, i appreciate it. coming up next, we have the very latest from the smollett scandal in chicago and an update from the house of horrors case. oh, awful, awful thing. two parents were convicted of torturing 12 of their children for years. that and more as the special edition of "hannity" continues. ♪ erience with usaa has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. it was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey would say "oh we can't beat usaa" we're the webber family. we're the tenney's we're the hayles, and we're usaa members for life. ♪ get your usaa auto insurance quote today.

♪ welcome back to the special edition of "hannity," justice in america. major developments in the jussie smollettel hate crime scandal. fox news correspondent trace gallagher joins us from our west coast newsroom with the

latest. >> good evening. fox news can confirm three executives in the office of cook county states attorney kim foxx are either resigning or no longer employed. the executive say it has nothing to do with the jussie smollett case. the timing here is fascinating. let's begin with the most notable departure, chief ethics officer april parry, whoed resigned april 15th to work in the private sector. she's the one who advised kim foxx to recuse herself from the smollett investigation although we later found out foxx remain heavily involved in the case, texting her chief deputy about dropping the charges against smollett, "just because we can charge something doesn't mean wl should. along with perry, the director of the offices integrity unit has also moved on, resigning the day before charges against smollett were dropped. he says weaving has zero to do with the case. today we got toward the director of external affairs is no longer

with the state's attorney. no reason was given for her exit. meantime, in california, david and louise turpin, the parents and the so-called house of horrors case, were sentenced to life in prison for severely neglecting and abusing 12 of their 13 children. they kept the kids shackled in their beds, allowed them to shower only once a year, beat them regularly, and fed them one meal a day. there are 17-year-old daughter escapes the home jumping outol a window and calling 911. during sentencing, some of the children bread impact statements, detailing the abuse with one daughter saying, "life may have been bad, but it made me strong. her parents took my whole life for me but now i'm taking my whole life back." one of the children also ask for leniency for the parents, saying, they did their best to raise them. they write statements apologizing for their horrific behavior. they will be eligible for parole

after 25 years. jason? >> jason: thank you. that is hard to watch and hard to hear about. turning is now with reaction's attorney and fox news contributor emily compagno and fox news contributor rachel campos duffy. my favorite duffy, for the record. it is hard to transition, talking about this of horrors. how do we learn from this? what do we do with this? >> was first of all, 25 years to life seems like a good sentence for them. it's sad to see that the kids actually still have compassion for their parents after all this happened and a year later, thriving and surviving. i do think there are lessons for us in the general public. these were 13 kids living in ahe house, and yet for neighbors who never, ever saw them outside, and i think that is a red flag. all of us like to be good neighbors who aren't intrusive or nosy but if there are 13 kids, i have eight, nine

neighbors hear them even if i want them to or not, that kind of a red flag when it involves children, maybe we all need to step out and just check on it or ask someone else to check in on that. i do think there are lessons for us as neighbors, as citizens in protecting the children that live aroundd us. it's really strange and awful situation. >> jason: that is a great message. you are a great mom to a lot of lovely kids. emily, was just as properly served? i don't know what you do with someone who destroys these kids. 12 of 13, 25 years, for parole. >> i will say that at the time that they accepted the plea i agreement, the d.a. made the point that, what they received as ad sentencing equivalent to first-degree murder, and that is appropriate given the fact that they've taken the lives of these children. akthere is that argument. given that these children testified, read their victim impact statements, that was partly why that was an argument egr accepting the plea to begin with. the kids wouldn't have to do it,

they wouldn't have to prolong their case. it goes to the fact there is a level of catharsis associated with that. in 25 years, when these parents are up for parole, these kids who will then be grown adults more than they already are now will read their impact statements again. there is no way they will be actually paroled in 25 years. >> jason: i need to transition to the jussie smollett case. rachel, you have people now fleeing this office, and what are we to make of what foxx is doing and not doing? otd we make sense of this? >> we got to see what the ig, they are investigating why the case was dismissed. clearly they clapped on my cost believe they had jussie smollett dead to rights and they are angry about it and they should be. this is a case where it jussie smollett perpetrated a hate crime on donald trump's voters. i think this is why this case matters a lot of people, not just the cops come are very angry that jussie smollett got

away with this parade are now af those people. i want to see why this was dismissed and possibly michelle obama's former chief of staff who was the lawyer for jussie smollett might be involved in pressuring kim foxx who said she was going to recuse herself and in the end never dead. >> jason: it's so important for the inspector general there to look at this. emily, given your legal background, what do you see happening in this mystifying case out off chicago? >> hopefully that of transparency or an actual closure. i want to point out that when kim foxx was elected, she said she wanted to make transparency and ethics ironically a hallmark of her service. there wasn't an ethics officer inscribed in that office until she got the position. so it is so ironic to me that now as everything is falling, we are seeing social corruption, i also want to pointnt out that ia longtime federal attorney and managing attorney, and acting director of a top ten federal agency, there was never a time when i texted or used government phones to text back and forth

with my team and certainly notlu about anything that would be including case strategy or something as sensitive as this. to me, it is shameful, not only the volume of information and communication they engaged in after her colloquial recusal but also the level of mockery she maden of the chicago police department and those texts. again, i hope the ig uncovers some type of closure for us as does the federal government and their investigation. >> jason: thank you for ghjoining us on this friday nig. more of the special edition of "hannity," just as in america, after the break. stay with us. ♪ just one free hearing test at

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is >> i'm laura ingraham this i'm laura ingram. welcome to the special edition of "the ingraham angle". them mueller follow. even special counsel found no collusion, no obstruction, a large contingent on the left ar already banging the impeachment .rum the deputy press secretary is here with the white house's response. but can stressful is here. her new wall street journal piece methodically based on how dumb mueller report reveals the special counsel team upset with taking trump out. she tells us