sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. in the meantime, have the happiest, most relaxing weekend away from politics, away fromng those people who try to beat you up. good night from washington. "hannity" is next. see you monday. ♪ >> welcome to the special edition of "hannity," just as in america. i'm jason chaffetz in tonight for sean. hour, we'll highlight the very worst bad actors in the deep state you must be held accountable and we'll start with fired fbi director james comey. last night the unemployed hyperpartisan former bureaucrat made yet another appearance on cnn where he continued to impugn the character of the president and float baseless conspiracy theories about trump and russia. watch this. >> do you think the russians have leverage over president trump? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> do you think is possible? >> yes. the trump presidency risks

sending a message that leadership doesn't have to have a moral component. that is not important in i this country for a leader to have external ethical reference points.d >> explain how you think the president of united states is eating people's souls and how that process takes place. >> it doesn't make me happy to write that but it's what i believe. >> jason: comey is now all but rooting for president trump to be impeached and locked up for phantom obstruction of justice charges. in reality, it is comey who could be in serious legal jeopardy. after all, it was comey who leaked sensitive government documents after he was fired. it was comey who first signed off on the carter page's patent application based on the dirty dossier. it was comey who was the very center of the deep state coordinated effort to spy on the trump campaign. but according to mr. comey, musing undercover informants to

secretly spy on campaign officials in the height of an election is totally normal. take a look. >> sending an investigator undercover to meet with somebody who is connected to the campaign, they claimed he was later undressed a coffee boy, that is an extreme step, no? >> no, it's reasonable. that was the guy, papadopoulos,e who was a subject of the information we got from the australians. he had talked to the russians. >> did you signed off on the investigator? >> i don't remember that particular step. i knew they were trying to see if they could check it out. that is a totally normal step. >> jason: no, it's not. comey wants you to believe that the american government spying on its own citizens during a presidential election is totally normal and reasonable. according to the holier-than-thou comey, he can do no wrong. instead, comey believes that anyone who works with or supports the president is a

morally weak degenerates. watch. >> i think people like that, rod rosenstein, people of accomplishment but not real sterling character, strong character, find themselves trapped. then they start telling themselves a story to justify their being trapped, which is, yeah, he's awful, but the country needs me. the republicans are doing this in congress now. yeah, it's awful, but if >> get defeated and this nation needs me here right now. in the process, he has eaten there soul. they are lost. >> you are saying rod rosenstein is not a person of strong character? >> of accomplishment, very bright, but he's not strong>> enough. >> jason: awfully distressed, for someone who claims to have done nothing wrong. joining us now as fox news contributor, former state and federal prosecutor and former congressman trey gowdy. i had the pleasure of serving with mr. gaudi in the f congress. thank you so much for being here. mr. comey had another town hall.

i think he had more townhomes than you did, then i remember in congress for eight years.ou i have a problem when you have comey and clapper and john brennan having these town halls. they have the mantle of doing intelligence type of work and then they go out and talk to the american people as if they know something that the rest of us don't know. what would your take on the latest comments from mr. comey? >> saint james comey, pretty much the same as every other interview. he's always right, he gets to write the moral script. if you deviate from that, if you are rod rosenstein, you lack character. if you or somebody else, your soul has been eaten. well i kept thinking back to, jason, when i asked jim comey, how didwh the russia investigatn get started? who started it? he didn't know it was peter strzok, never read the loinitiation document. you and i served together a long time. the idf and law enforcement just

as vigorously as any member of congress but that does not mean they are not opportunities for oversight. comey refuses to believe that any of these decisions should be looked at. so he's always right. everybody else is wrong, and he and clapper and john brennan are validating my concerns that other people, including the president, have had about their objectivity, their comments and demeanor after they left offices. >> jason: director comey is saying that -- he does not like the word spying but that is essentially what it is. he said it is totally normal to inject somebody into a political campaign and to go and investigate what is going on there. he said it wasas reasonable to o so. what is your take on the? >> i use the word surveillance. i think they are synonyms. law enforcement does do surveillance. but you have to do it illegally, you have to do according to policy. most important, there has to be a factual predicate. i'm sure that cracker jack reporter who hosted them

town hall asked jim comey, with specificity, what was the factual predicate, if the fbi ran an informant and on george papadopoulos, what was the factual predicate for doingap s, did the fbi also provide the factual predicate that they then try to extract back from george papadopoulos, and how in the world did someone with a historical level of animus like peter strzok, how in the world did you ever pick him to lead an investigation into someone he thought would be destabilizing for the republic? i this is what you have to remember about jim comey, jason. all you got to remember. if rod rosenstein had not fired him, he would still be the fbi director. the guy who talks about souls being eaten anden the guy who ss everybody else lacks character, he would still be on an air force jet sipping winero coe across the country, had he not been fired. this paragon of virtue, jim comey, self-described commode paragon oflf virtue, stl be the fbi director, still

working for an administration that he thinks is too good for impeachment had he not been fired. >> jason: rod rosenstein, director a comey made a real snarky comment about rod rosenstein asr. he's going out e door. i've been highly critical of rod rosenstein along the way. i thought he had a lot of conflicts of interest and other questions. at thee same time, for director comey to make this kind of comments, i thought that was just wrong. >> he's always right, jason. he's always right. he's authored the script of what is right and wrong. there are plenty of days i disagree withh rod. i neverr call for impeachment. rod had a tough job. i appreciate his service to the country, even though on the days when i disagree with him. to take a shot at someone, to do it with a moral arrogance that jim comey does almost a everything, one reason he is not

very popular right now. >> jason: director comey, two years ago, that he was fired. i think that was the right thing. the democrats conveniently forget how much they wanted to see him fired by the way he treated clinton. but i got to ask you, -- >> you mean those who didn't want him criminally prosecuted. remember, harry reid thought they committed a criminal violation then they wanted him r fired and now they want him canonized or put on mount rushmore. >> jason: it's amazing. now director comey is saying that he thinks that donald trump is -- and the trump family should be indicted on the road. what do you think? >> just how disappointed i am in any federal prosecutor, former federal prosecutor, assigning a presumption of guilt to anyone. you know, the president is not above the law. but he's also not below the law.

he also is not on entitled to a presumption of innocence. he is also not on entitled to people following the rules on the policies when they -- just because you are the president, just because you are powerful, doesn't mean you could to treat people however you want, if there is a factual predicate for investigating anyone with a trump campaign, two points, number one, tell us what it is our number two, a acknowledge tt donald trump himself told you, director comey, if anyone with my campaign was involved with russia, i want you to find out. that is not what a guilty person says. >> jason: no. that's exactly right for the fundamental problem i have, when someone becomes the nominee for theom presidency, we give them secret service protection, cia briefings, and if there was somewhere, somehow that was maybe a problem in the campaign, they had a duty and obligation to tell that nominee that you may have somebody who might be a mole, not just use that has some excuse. it started way before then. that is why the michael horowitz

reported so important. i got to ask you to other quick questions. we only have a minute or so. really quickly, the national media, you dealt with them, i dealt with them. the way they are portraying the story and rolling it out, is that fair and balanced?t is that the way it always goes down? >> jason, you and i have discussed before, the biggest disappointment of my eight years in e congress is how biased the d.c. media is. whether it is the post, the the times, politico, "the hill," they never met a republican investigation i should have started. never met a democrat investigation that should end. the way they viewed the holder contempt versus the biden contempt, the way they view donald trump talking about investigation with obama, remember, he precleared the irs, he precleared hillary clinton. there is just a double standard. i realize congress isn't popular but neither is the media and they want to try to figure out

why that is. >> jason: blasting, jerry nadler holding contempt, you know, on our attorney general. i got to tell you, that did not sit well from my perspective. what was your take? >> only that there must be two jerry nadler's. the old jerry nadler opposed contempt on eric holder. he walked out of the house because he was in such violent protest of the fact that attorney general holder would not produce documents and then the duplicity of taking the starr report should be treated one way, but the mueller report should be treated another. again, when republicans engage in duplicity, we are to be called out for it. they should. but so should the democrats and the d.c. media just never does it. >> jason: no, no, there is such an imbalance. it was an honor and privilege to serve with you in the congress. i appreciate you coming with us on thiss beautiful friday night on "hannity." congressman gowdy, thank you. with the inspector general's investigation into fisa abuse

ongoing, tonight we are learning new details about comey's former top lawyer, james baker. joining us now with more is catherine herridge. catherine? >> congressman, why the national security court was not was not expressly told of the dnc and clinton campaign contentions to the end he antidrug dossier, today the fbi's former top lawyer said the book bureau provided the court with sufficient warning. >> my assessment was that the information set forth in that gigantic footnote was consistent with the type of information and the way we would phrase things to basically, effectively, be the red light on top of the document. >> >> know another challenge toe integrity, setting newly released records, three senate republicans now question whether a seniorep state department official warned the fbi before the fisa warrant application about the anti-trump dossiers author, former british spy, christopher steele, and his apparent political motivations. senators john c grassley and

graham wright, the state department shows the opposition research firm gps led by glenn simpson were deeply involved. they p were possibly keen to see this information come to light before the election. in october 13th, 2016, just three weeks before the election, there was this email about the publicly released version has attacked him aqueduct of the attachment, the subject, as well as the recipient. congressman? >> jason:th catherine, thank you. this program has long sounded the alarm about fisa abuse and this morning the ranking member of the house intel committee had this to say about james comey's potential illicit behavior. take a look. >> there is no question as it relates to the fisa on carter page that nothing was done by the book. in fact, it was all very irregular in fact. this is the whole idea you can think clinton campaign dirt and use it. remember, when he came before the tax force at the end of the last congress, this is a man who

couldn't answer a question. over 100 times, he said things like, i don't recall. so whenever put under oath, on a body like a legislative body of congress, the guy couldn't answer a question. he can do a town hall and make a lot of things up but i think mr. comey is in a lot of trouble and he should be. n made a mess of the fbi. >> jason: i think is right.ar joining us now as fox news contributor sara carter. the author of "licensed alike: exposing corruption at the depat of justice," sydney powell. thank you for joining us tonight. sara, the latest on the steele dossier, the documents coming to light. you've done some of the best reporting on this issue. give us your perspective on the latest. >> i think these documents are incredible. they really lay out the case that the fbi -- these are -- this was her handwritten note from her meeting with christopher steele, jason.

basically what she got from that meeting, 2016, october 2016, before the election, christopher steele was doing this for political purposes. she knew the information that he was providing, a lot of it was just false on its face. she knew that he was trying to leak it to "the new york times," to "the washington post" ." he specified that he needed to get the information out before the november election. you see the political bias. what's happening now with james comey, the former fbi director, james baker, the former general counsel, andrewy mccabe, all these others, trying to gaslight, make everybody think they are crazy for thinking that these folks had spies inside the campaign, trying to set up a trump, which is exactly what they were doing. if you just look at the facts, which is what the attorney general is going to be looking at, the facts, and michael horowitz, they lay out a very strong case that the fbi and those people within the fbi

that were working on the investigation into president trump had enormous knowledge of what was going on and they violated the rules set under the fifth court. the foreign intelligence surveillance court. jason, they will have a lot to answer for, and devin nunes is 100% right. he says, comey better watch it because he's going to be at the center of this because he signed those fisa warrant applications. >> jason: congressman turner, i had the pleasure of serving with you in the congress for a number of years. you've been on the intel committee for a number of years. your perspective is very important. i know it is somewhat limited because of what you can enter publicly. nevertheless, john ratcliffe, your colleague also on the intel committee, has says that application, at the very top, it says it verified application. that is how it is titled. verified application. what are we to read into alls this new information, new news, watch devin nunes is telling us as well? >> what is interesting about this people dull my publicity to

or from all these characters, certainly, baker statement that supports something in a footnote is a red light, that is laughable. as we know, putting something in a footnote is how you bury something. the fact that he says i that the wording is what they would normally use, you know, a judge would have wanted to know that this is an application to spy on one campaign based on material that is paid for by the other political campaign. that information was not contained, not clear to the judge, certainly is incredibly important and also, as we all know, not verifiable information. it was way to the inception. comey has been saying this was a rightly opened investigation. i got the opportunity to question him in 2017. at that time, he said you need credible information of wrongdoing. clearly we know that both clapper had said there was no evidencece when he left in 2017 with collusion, and mueller, they had nothing and they went ahead anyway. >> jason: absolutely right.

james comey has gone around saying he does everything by the book but this is the same james comey who in order to buy the special prosecutor in place, why did he do? he leaked information. are we supposed to believe the james comey know who is on this publicity tour, as congressman tour call turner called the? >> no, there was nothing done by the book of the fbi. they broke every rule and protocol from the beginning of this so-called investigation. from sending an agent to foreign soil to interact with anti american citizen, from enlisting the help of the british, everything they did, using the steele dossier which comey admitted was unverified yet he signed the fisa application that said it is verified. please remember the carter page fisa application was not against a member of the trump campaign. mr. paige had not been a member of then trump campaign for weeks when they got that fisa

application.as this is all they cover up of their illegal surveillance that has gone on for god only knows how long before they got that fisa application. >> jason: sara, it was james baker, the general counsel at the fbi, who said it would be gratuitous to name the democrats. congressman turner said, it would be easier to do just one sentence, say, this is paid for by the clinton campaign and the dnc. but do we believe baker now?eh he's been behind closed doors talking to congress for a long time now. >> that's right. i think baker right now realizes he is in jeopardy as well. he was part of this process. he even admits to the fact that it was he that oversaw a lot of those fisa applications that went before the foreign intelligence surveillance court. it's also baker that is under investigation right now. remember, baker, i think i was the first report that nearly two years ago, that baker is

actually under investigation for leaks. we have a number of high-level, senior officials at the fbi under investigation right now for their failure to adhere to the law. what sydney says is absolutely true. they violated everything in the books. it goes far beyond this. what we are seeing now is the tip of the iceberg. remember, the iceberg below, the water is much larger. i think that is the reason they are fighting back so hard. when we see them on these tours, when we see them gas lighting the public, when we see them pooh-poohing what they did as nothing more than, oh, we put a siren in the footnote, we let the courts now, they didn't. they withheld exculpatory evidence and i think thatt the more we see, the more we all realize how far members of the obama administration went, not only was surveillance but in masking. >> jason: congressman turner,

devin nunes says that comey is potentially in trouble. is there really legal jeopardy for mr. comey? >> whenever you abuse power, you subject yourself to risk and certainly, that can be legal risk. jason, one of the things that is most important it's what you said in the beginning, you've got comey, clapper, john brennan, all making statements that wish this president ill will, clearly biased statements, clearly pronouncements that they will be something that is terminal to the president or his presidency. we are supposed to believe that when they all started these investigations, they were unbiased andid professional and they didn't have any of the characteristics that they are parading across the tv shows. >> jason: what they are doing projecting. thee evidence will come out without inspector general report for report. sara, sydney, congressman turner, t we think you for being with us. directly ahead, the democrats' hypocrisy is on full display in the renegade effort to hold ag barr in contempt. we'll'l show you that shocking

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>> jason: welcome back to this "hannity" special. "justice in america." >> jason: welcome back to the "hannity" special, just as in america. the collusion the completely unredacted mueller report, despite the fact that top dems now have access to all but two fall and seven partial lines of the mueller report. but they are redacted in accordance with federal law. not a single democrat. not one has bothered to readd i. talk about hypocrisy, let's not forget how democrats reacted when obama attorney general eric holder was held in contempt over his handling of the fast and furious scandal.

>> brad mills contempt of congress against the attorney general, the republicans are contemptible. the rush they are putting on it is just inexplicable. what are they doing? what are they doing? people want jobs and they are going and which ones. speak of the republican majority tintends to bring in contempt resolution to the floor against the attorney general. to say this is a terrible use of congress' power time is an understatement. >> this is not about the facts. this is about politics. >> they have not found any evidence that this attorney general was hiding anything, that he had lied to anybody, they still do not have any facts to support this illegitimate investigation. >> to our republican colleagues, shame on you. >> shame on you. >> shame on you. shame on you.

>> jason: wow. joining us in a stealth reaction, american conservative union chairman matt schoff. judicial judicial watch president tom fitton and fox news contributor tammy bruce. i want to thank all three of you. this is a little close to my heart. i was f here when that first started and there were knowingly and willingly, the government gave 2,000 my fence to the drug cartels and we have a dead borderer patrol agent and these same people, i mean, compare and contrast the reaction to that versus what is going on today. >> people get killed in these terrible circumstances, like fast and furious. the ag was compelled to turn over records, which he stonewalled congress over, for the first time in over 200 years, the house has moved to condemn the attorney general for not willing to be scrutinized by a staffer on the committee, which you know is an absurd criteria.

we have not done that for two centuries without some kind of negotiation. he's willing to testify. by the way, on the mueller report, he doesn't have to turn over to congress. it is at his discretion. he chose to turn it over to make it public. het chose to make it almost unredacted copy available to the leadership of the dems and republicans in congress. thee democrats don't even want o read it because you know i? theyco know there is no collusin or obstruction in this report. it is politics. they want to continue to play politics. >> jason: tammy, it is there in black and white. it's right there in front of them. r all e of the report, except what is required by law. i liken it to the supreme court. when they come out with a ruling, they don't hold a press conference and answer questions. it is just there to review. how in the world of the democrats have any credibility on this? >> they don't. they are attacked in the attorney general for following the law.i i think that is perfect for the democrats because they hate that

law. when you have really ginned up your base on something as ridiculous and hyper absurd, like saying that the president of the united states is a russian stooge or a russian spy, how can you top that? you've got to top edge and the only thing, i guess now the line is that there is a constitutional crisis. by the american people, they are smart. this is also an indication of the contempt with which the democrats and certainly nadler in particular hold the american people. he would not be saying this. if you hadad any respect for how the american people are viewing most, what is at stake, how you would be viewed. you think everybody is just a dumb rube and they won't be figuring this i out. i actually think you would know, walk across a couple hallways to see this, they don't need to jump through hoops to see it. the american people want them to do a job. i don't think they had this in mind when they voted him into power in myth in the midterms. >> jason: i think the

attorney general is doing an absolute fantastic job, no-nonsense, been there, done that, doing exactly what he is supposed to do. tom, judicial watch, they have led the charge to try to expose what our government is doing. and contrast your experience with the obama administration. it's not as if they were open, transparent, complying with the law along the way. where they? >> no. the justice department especially in the obama administration, led by eric holder, was a black hole in terms ofof transparency. unfortunately, as you know, it continued under jeff sessions and the justice department stil still. iwe recognize you have these fights between the legislative branch and executive branch about documents. but this is a trifle of a fight. this material was essentially being made available within the last few weeks, and they immediately rushed to contempt resolution against thee attorney general. to me, it's an abuse of power

and it fits in perfectly with what happened in 2016 when the democrats abused power through the fbi and doj to target president trump, continue through the mueller operation, the smear of a report, and now the cudgel has been picked up by the democrats, who don't want to talk about the criminalde conspiracy their party was involved in a 2016 end '17 to target president trump with illegal spying. they would rather talk about this pretend fight, and with attorney general barr, who they are smearing. this awesome power they have to hold someone in contempt, it is pretty darn serious when they start invoking it lately. they are effectively saying, attorney general united states needs to be put in jail over a few lines of text that we are fighting about. it shows you where the democratic mentality is here that they just want to jail their political opponents, the rule of law, it doesn't matter. >> jason: matt, to tom's point, are they just trying to

distract from the fact that we have a pending inspector general report and the attorney general is looking into spying and other fisa things at the democrats may have been doing previously? >> if you think about it, because the democrats played stall ball and had the 22 month, $35 million investigation, on this ridiculous and ill-founded charge of collusion, now we are back into the election season. think about it, jason. they waited so long that now it is about their wrongdoing. that is what we will be talking about when the ig report comes out. you know what all points back to? you know what i want to know? what did joe biden all pray that as it republicans need to ask.ja >> jason: a good question. 30 seconds left. c tammy and tom, where do you think contempt goes,hi real qui. >> obviously, they got the votes to do it. we will see if democrats have any courage to admit this is ridiculous. there are some vulnerable districts so maybe not every

democrat will vote for it. >> it's a distraction. it will go nowhere. politically, or illegally. >> jason: think you all for joiningre us. we appreciate it. next, if you can't beat him, try to impeach him. the democrats impeachment hysteria is reaching new heights. rachel campos duffy and kayleigh mcenany will be here next on the "hannity" special: justice in america. ♪ t ♪ now... grandpa, what about your dream car? this is my dream now. principal we can help you plan for that . only at bass pro shops and cabela's. like berkley trilene xl or xt monofilament line

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>> jason: welcome back to this special edition of ♪ >> jason: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity": justice in america. the democrats continued to stoop to new lows and smearing president trump and attorney general william barr, recursively calling for impeachment, jail time, all while fueling chaos across capitol hill. take a look. >> but i think is important is to recognize that 10 million

people said that we need to hold this president accountable. >> like my friend said, impeachable process was created for someone like president donald trump. >> i say that we have a duty, responsibility, obligation under the constitution of the united states of america to do our duty. we must impeach for you to let this entity with a may. we have to do what we must. >> i will say, having obstructed the justice department investigation and now obstructingng congress, the case for impeachment gains wait for you to to ensure that we get that report because we have lawful responsibility, constitutional responsibility, to engage in, one of which is possibly impeachment. how can we impeach without getting the documents? >>ng like clockwork, the media s doing the democrats' bedding along the way. here's just a small sample.

take a look. >> you are defending the most corrupt attorney general since john mitchell. it's bad. your article is going to look extraordinarily stupid and you are going to look like a sycophant. it's really embarrassing. >> jason: joining me now for reaction, fox news contributor rachel campos duffy and trump 2020 campaign worker kayleigh mcenany. the topic is justice in america. mueller does a report, the attorney general puts it out, with everything, except what he is prohibited by law, and they want to hold him in contempt? they want him to go to jail? they might impeach the president? is that justice in america? >>yo it's not. he had joe scarborough saying that the republicans look incredibly stupid. the democrats are going o to lok not only incredibly stupid but

incredibly corrupt when barr gets to the bottom of how this investigation started because we know that the dossier was dirty, we know it was used to spy on the trump campaign and now we are hearing that the fbi knew it was dirty before they gave it to the fisa judges. this is very serious stuff. i think part of this is, not just to sully the president and make it look like he's hiding something because they are still clinging to this collusion and obstruction stuff but also to sully barr because they know something is coming out and it's not.b just what is happening at the fbi or the corruption of the fbi. this goes all the way to the top. this goes all the way to obama, biden, valerie jarrett, the white house. that is what they are worried about. >> jason: rachel, you are right. they are so worried about the inspector general report, what attorney general barr is coming with. kayleigh is on the cover of "newsweek" -- adam schiff is on

the cover of "newsweek" di -- the idea of impeachment gains weight. this guy should not even have a security clearance. i can't believe he's in congress, the way he told the american people for two years what they a mueller report was going to report and then it didn't. >> this is the guy who said he had ample evidence of collusion. we've yet to see that. we've yet to see him held to account. absolutely laughable, the notion of impeachment, thatim montage f clips you played also laughable because democrats are out there saying, president trump is goading impeachment. what an absurd assertion. the only ones goading impeachment are the very democrats that you saw they impeachment over and over and over again. it's absurd. the american people know it. it is by 65% oppose impeachment a according to harvard-harris. they will go down this road and do so at their own detriment as we approach the 2020 election and trump are so many good results and all they have is investigations. >> jason: earlier in the show,

trey gowdy said one of his bigots disappointments and his eight year in congress is the way the national media treated the imbalance. they just -- they looked at republicans and treated them totally different than democrat democrats. rachel, what is your take on how the national media is covering this story and the reaction of how barr has handled the mueller report? >> absolutely prove that the media is in i the tank with the democrats. their biases on display. kayleigh gets a really good point. if you think back to the midterms, they weren't talking about impeachment. they were focused on issues. that is why i think they won. now they are back to impeachment. this is very risky because it is going to certainly wrap up their base and it's also wrapping up and angering the republican base. what is left is the swing voters. this means voters in the states like pennsylvania and wisconsin and ohio, places where the president has absolutely

delivered on jobs, the economy, energy independent, we are so strong, we are finally, after decades, taking on china. these giant cheaters. we cut into it if we were in the strong economic position we are right now. this is a time for the country to unite. the american people know that. we are stronger writing china on these tariffs when we are united and they say the democrats f focused on this.g when elections come along, they will go -- especially the swing voters, they will look at the democrats andon say, what have they done for me? 's stupid investigations they said mueller was the final word, the final word comes out i know they will keep going? or donald trump, who has delivered in spades to every promise. >> jason: kayleigh, impeachment in contempt? is that the winning message for america? really quick, only about 20 seconds. >> 75% at the rally were democrats or swing voters.

they talked about health care, economy, theen issues. impeachment is last on the radar. >> jason: you are right. kayleigh and rachel, thank you very much for joining us. when we come back from a major update in the dressy smaller case. while there ever be justice? full analysis with emily compagno and pam bondi, coming up next on the special edition of "hannity": justice in america. stay with us. ♪ once-daily toujeo helps you control your blood sugar.

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♪ >> jason: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity": america.n their dressy small hate crime hawk, coke's saga is ongoing. joining us live from the chicago newsroom, fox news correspondent macklin. >> congressman, and chicago, a

chief judge was hard to decide on whether to assign a special prosecutor to investigate kim fox but the chief judge very reluctantly agreed not to make a discussion in the case because it was revealed he has a son who works for her. now another veteran judge in cook county grilled on whether a special prosecutor should lay fresh eyes on the addressee smaller criminal case and investigate why kim foxx's office is quietly dropped 16 felony charges against him. this all began last month when former illinois appellate justice sheila o'brien filed a petition for a special prosecutor to investigate a foxx arguing the public deserves the entire truth. that just also submitted a line of questions for foxx, asking foxx why she did not comply with illinois law with indicates foxx's recusal indicated a special prosecutor be appointed. the special prosecutor should

only appointed if she was sick or unable to fulfill her duties. the justice said that she was unable to fulfill her duties when she recused herself. congressman? >> jason: thank you. we appreciated. joining me now with reaction, former florida turn our attorney general, pam bondi, and emily compagno. emily, tell us theem significane of this movementce with the jude and how this will play off. >> the judge that transfer the matter to another judge, to quote justice scalia, sometimes the appearance of justice is equally as important to justice itself. essentially, this isn't necessary, it's not a full recusal. i am merely transferring the matter notably to another judge who has done this twice before coming up with a special prosecutor, the issue of one should be assigned, in one instance, he agreed. in the other, he declined. the other argument is, you are duplicating the efforts and t investigation of the inspector general of

cook county, let alone the hefederal government that is alo investigating. there is an argument to be had that potentially a lot of tax dollars are going to this whether justice is being served. >> jason: no doubt there has been a lot of tax dollars, or was with the investigation itself. attorney general pam bondi, you've had a lot of experience. i can't imagine things came across your desk when you were the attorney general. tell us the significance for those of us they don't watch this every day when a judge makes a move like this. >> i haven't seen anything quite like this in my career, my very long career as a prosecutor. the judge did the right thing by taking himself off the case because basically kim foxx signed his son's paycheck every month. he is -- s he said the right thing.e he said, i could be fair and impartial. however, it is the appearance. he should have recused himself based on the accusations. he did thehe right thing. n he had no reason to keep it. now we have a new judge on the case. >> jason: continuing on with

you, attorney general, i want to ask you, the idea of a special prosecutor to be put in place. how does that play out at the state level like illinois? >> how it would play out as they are basically policing the police. policing her. he was going to look at -- foxx is a leftist. who will police if she did something wrong as special prosecutor? she will knock out herself. she never truly recused yourself off the case to begin with when that is all she had to do.se she could have taken herself off the case, could have been out of bed, but she meddled in my case, the case was dropped at her direction we are hearing. i think it does need to be looked at by all friends. the police, they deserve their money back for the cost of investigation and just a smile that could have stepped up and said, he's got the resources, i'm going to pay all the costs of the investigation. yet he is refusing to do that. we have a mayor who is furious, a police chief who was rightfully furious as well.

now it is being looked at as emily said on many, many friends and i hope the chicago bar takes a very strong look at her. she's elected but she may very well lose your post after this investigation. >> jason: she brings up a good point. i didn't think about this. that is the bar. we'll find out whether or not the bar holds some weight and will hold people accountable. can just, can he still be prosecuted, with all the fiasco and turbulence and the text messages are another factor in this and how meza foxx was dealing with this? he eat the end of the day, can y still be justice and can addressee small andnd still be prosecuted? >> ily was a most importantly, t will be the result of the federal investigation on whether charges are broughten on that hx letter he sent that might actually be the final nail in his proverbial coffin because that was the significant deal. as cook county said that, and foxx said, this was just a public nuisance, a bunch of

misdemeanors, no big deal but it really is, that hoax letter was. the actual opportunities for justice to be served in terms of consequences, for incredibly selfish, thoughtless actions, that would be in the federal side. >> jason: this case is such a mess. we appreciate both of you, your perspectives. pam, emily, thank you very much. we'll be right back with some final thoughts on this important friday night.nt f thanks for joining us. stay tuned. ♪ ♪ book now and enjoy free unlimited open bar and more. norwegian cruise line. feel free.

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away, and my wife. i love you. "the ingraham angle" is up nexti ♪ ♪ >> laura: on laura ingraham this is "the ingraham angle" l from washington tonight. i want to do something a littleg different. no mueller, no barr, no contempt of barr, no impeachment talk. what are we going to talk about? i'm telling you why we are not doing it. to a lot of you, it is a lot off white noise. none of it matters, so fridays we are going to be talking about a lot of culture, political o stuff, but things that get lost in the shuffle, especially when we have as much news we have had this week. and we will answer questions such as this. what has the debate over facebook's future really mean for free speech? huge issue. and if we can't control our own