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in the meantime, dan bongino sitting in for sean hannity. we are back tomorrow. dan bongino takes it away right now. >> dan: that is the most dramatic piece of footage, that huge explosion. i always feel like i will disappoint, i better bring it. >> tucker: you never do! >> don: fantastic show. in tonight for sean and we start with a fox news alert. president trump just issued an executive order giving the attorney general of the united states bill barr the authority to declassify material related to his investigation into the origins of the russian probe. major declassifications should be coming forth and the deep state should be very worried tonight. this is major news. joining us now for more is our own john roberts. take it away. >> there to see you.
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we had known that this wascomint they did great. the president has instructed bill barr and the intelligence agencies to declassify information regarding every aspect of the mueller investigation. this would include a number of other things including the scope memo, what was robert mueller's instructions in terms of what he was to investigate. it would include documents related to the fisa memos regarding the surveillance of carter page. it would involve the surveillance of people like george papadopoulos, potentially others and it fits into what john durham the u.s. attorney for the district of connecticut is doing in terms of finding outcome investigating the genesis of the investigation into the trump campaign and whether the colluding with russia was.
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what is interesting to me is that the president says that he hewants to make sure that all americans according to the statement, all americans know the truth about the events that occurred on the actions that were taken about the election and will restore confidence in the institution. that is a suggestion that when this information is declassified it would be declassified from the intelligence agencies and the attorney general, potentially from the attorney general to the public neas well. at some point in the future i can imagine that we may read a report that has a lot of information that up until now has remain very protected and very secret. >> dan: is it possible that we will get declassified those gang of 8 briefings that happened in august between john brennan and the gang of eight in august 2016? is that a possibility?
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>> i have not heard anything about that specifically but whet the president says declassify the documents that are related to the investigation, that would include a lot of things that wento on during the obama administration. if there were meetings between the intelligence officials, related to thent investigation then i expect they could be in the list of materials to be declassified. don't forget that when you look at the executive order which i said earlier, the statement, there is one particular sentence here that may limit exactly what we can see and that is when the president says he wants to declassify information pertaining to this investigatioe in accordance with the long established for handling classified information which typically means you can't talk about sources. we may learn a lot here, but we may not learn everything.
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>> dan: thanks a lot. i appreciate your time. more on this in a moment. an intense day in the washington swamp, nancy pelosi desperately clinging to a gavel during a rambling press, she went to bat for the radical pace throwing impeachment fantasies and accusing the president of imeding an intervention. watch this. >> another temper tantrum, again. i pray for the president of the united states. i wish that the family and staff would have an intervention for the good of the country and i do think that impeachment is a very divisive place to go in ourrea country. if we can get the facts, the american people it will take us to a place that is unavoidable. the white house is crying for impeachment. that is why he left yesterday. this is not behavior that risesh
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to the dignity of the office of the president of the united states. >> dan: president trump is done putting up with her insults. a few hours ago he responded. check this out. >> speaker pelosi says she hopes your family would conduct an intervention with you. what is your reaction? >> i saw her read it perfectly the way she said it. it's a nasty statement. i tell you what, i've been watching her and i have been watching her for a long period of time and she is not the same person. she hasng lost it. it was s sad when i watched nany moving with the movement and the hands and the craziness and i watched that, a person who has t problems. i watched that this morning and that's a narrative they want to put out. it's sad we have to play that narrative. i think it is a very sad thing p for our country. >> dan: president trump wrecked there narrative and the media mob was busy cheering for
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nancy pelosi. cnn and msnbc are making them so proud. >> here's what is going on. the speaker is really getting under the president's skin. >>pe he started the day deeply agitated when he heard from nancy pelosi. it seems to unravel him psychologically for her to accuse him of a cover-up. >> he overreacted to her and --o >> did you know he would? >> she has a master at reading people. >> it's interesting what did get under his skin, intervention. when she said leave of absence, he clearly was not going to let that u go. >> nancy pelosi got under his skin. >> i think she has had a good day, she was taking a victory lap in some ways. >> dan: we will cover the latest in a moment but joining us now with more of the president's executive action is american conservative union chair match lap, florida congressman matt gaetz the fox news correspondent, geraldo rivero in
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studio., good to see you. let's start with this declassification. i will go to you first.s given that you are up there on the hill. is this the moment that spygate coconspirators have been dreading forever? >> it sure is. monday night on this show i predicted we were days from action and weeks m from evidenc. what is most important is that it shows that comey, brennan are all in jeopardy. if this was a question of misconduct the president wouldn't have given the attorney general's sweeping authority to compel the production of evidence from the intelligence community, the cia, the nsa and that is where i believe there is evidence that was withheld from the courts where george papadopoulosre is saying we were colluding, that would be illegal. that was withheld. you mention the gang of eight briefings and what is sod important about that is that they include statements of s evidence that would have shown that carter page and george
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papadopoulos were not a basis to continue this investigation and that is not going to line up with what was presented to the fisa court. that desperate display will really show where the corruption occurred and they should be very worried.is >> dan: i will go to you next. it's good to see you. they were ino a world of troubl. he brings up a great point, when bill barr was up on the hill in the testimony he didn't just say the fbi, he was very clear it was possible malfeasance with the community and he was very specific. not just the fbi. this may be bigger than just fbi spying and i think their days are numbered. >> i think that first of all to watch the speaker of the house and the president going at each other like junior high students is very disheartening. this is really not good for the country. the personal sniping. in the speaker's case however, what is revealed by her use of
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the terms cover-up and so forth leading up to our meeting on infrastructure, the agenda of the speaker has been exactly in sync with the most radical members of the democratic caucus. she is thinking impeachment. she wants to prove obstruction of justice with all her might. what is happening is, when these documents are revealed what it will show is an obstruction ofth injustice. the presidents frustration, his flailing out at the democrats is because he committed no collusion. there is no underlying crime. it is not watergate and people using that parallel and analogy including our own judge are way off base because there was no collusion, no obstruction! its obstruction of injustice. this is dangerous, it's reckless rhetoric from the president of a speaker and they better cool it right now. maybe the memorial weekend will give them some time to ponder
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it. as this evidence comes out i want to know at what point did the special prosecutor now to a reasonable certainty that there was noal collusion. why didn't he tell the president when hewa got to that point that there was no collusion? was he trying to entrap the president in a perjury trap? >> dan: i don't blame the president at all for being upset. you are accusing him for being in a cover-up and a crime. can i just ask you, you've been around the legislative arena for a lot longer than i have, what is the legislative purpose of all of this? congress is not the fbi. their oversight and their investigative abilities, correct me if i'm wrong are to legislate. >> they do have an oversight responsibility which is in the power and their ability to fund the government. they have a legitimate oversight
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but what they do not have a right to do is to have their own prosecutorial investigation which is why the proper thing for bill barrh who by the way, the attorney general has been undergoing an investigation for quite some time now so the fact that the white house is now taking this extraordinary step which we been waiting for for months and months. it probably means this is well enough along where they have a grasp of what they want to declassify, what needs to beha made public and here is the key, two key things, number one, this is going to take the wind out of the sails of impeachment. it's no longer about all the coverage of potential wrongdoing for president trump which has been proven to be wrong, it's not going to be about the obama-biden administration. what did they know, when did they know what? what didn't they stop? why did they use their powers in an unauthorized way to go after their political opponents?
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this puts the issue on the other foot as he was saying, it's not about president trumps wrongdoing, it's about what happened during those obama years and i think this is nothing but positive for the american people who want to get to the truth. >> dan:: congressman you are up there and living with us every day. is there a possibility that when bill barr talks about this being bigger than the fbi, if you watch this testimony page seems very confused that some of the information in the fbi may havef been with the cia as well.ee matter of fact, she doubts that could have happened. it seems apparent based on brennan's briefings that the sources were the same. is it possible there were parallels as a path? yet it all went back to christopher steele in the end? >> the strongest evidence that those parallel paths existed is that you have brennan and comey putting fingers at one another about the extent to which the dossier funded by democrats, cooked up by liars and then
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comingled with russian information wasn't really the driving force of this entire investigation. i think as we get closer to the target youg will see more of a circular firingn. squad start to go among those people who were so ready to derail the presidency that they took legalt action that had no defense attorney. to your point about the level of the discourse here, it's really strange when our speaker of the house question the president's mental state, but i see is the question of impeachment is torturing the democratic party. if the president needs an intervention i think nancy pelosi and the rest of her caucus need to go on dr. phil and talk about their feelings and figure out how to deal. >> the president should be above that. he doesn't need that. he is winning now. let bill barr do his job. they will be uncovered and we will see who did what. >> he was able to get
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16,000,000,000 to our farmers, negotiate through a gridlock on a response and he was able to centralize this investigation on the greatest political scandal in history, that is a good day for someone who needs an icintervention. >> dan: i have to run but it's funny when mueller punts the football and then democrats complain. they want the do over. like wayne's world, do you remember that? ridiculous. thanks a lot, guys come appreciated. despite the radical democratic parties dreams, a new poll is showing that the majority of americans want the so called lawmakers to stop their endless witch huntwm into trump and russia. democrats clearly e aren't listening to the american people. as president trump pointed out, if they are hell-bent on smearing him and his fellow republicans. check this out. >> i've been under an investigation based on no facts, the overthrow of the president and i'm proud of the way we have come out, i am very proud. we have to go through it again and the american public is not
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standing fortheir whole focus in party and demean the president of the united states, they wantd to demean so much where they want to get him out of office anyway we can. you would one gentlemen, congressman greene who sounds like a real beauty, he said the only way we will beat him is to impeach him. how about that? >> dan: joining us now is a charlie hurt, the former economic advisor, austan goolsbee and lisa boothe. i will go to you first. when will they admit and come clean that the spying happened and give up on this obstruction story? >> at some point you have to take the loss. >> i don't think they were going to. what have we seen from the democrats? the entire aim has been to try to create this illusion of smoke so that people think there is a fire there. there has never been a fire and
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democrats will continue to paint that illusion and try to discredit any of the information that is coming out and that is the whole reason why they've been discrediting attorney general bill barr because they think they have been concerned about what we will find out. think about it this way, it took mueller two years, 19 attorneys, 28 subpoenas, 500 warrants to come to this determination that the steele dossier was not correct and that president trump did not collude. it took a top stateru department official to discern that this information was not credible and he went political amiss. why? at what pointed robert mueller, investigators know that there was no collusion with president trump and his team and why did they continue with this investigation? the american people want to know and the american people want to know if government officials like peter strzok who clearly hated president trump put their son on the scale to damagek the administration.
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>> dan: you asked the key question. when did mueller know? according to democrats, any dealing with russians is potential collusion activity then why wasn't it a worry when the state department launched it and said, sources, two russian specialists. did i miss that? >> the whole thing is like this game of projection on the part of democrats. whatever they accuse president trump of doing would then find out not only did he not do it, but they did it. the only collusion with russian that went on in the 2016 election was by democrats, the hillary clinton campaign working with misinformation from the kremlin to smear donald trump to throw the election. it's pure insanity and i almost feel sorry for nancy pelosi. i think she is losing her mind,
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she is the head of a party that has been lying to their voters for two years and know all these voters are realizing that they have been knowingly lying about every step of the way about this stuff and leading their supporters to believe that they were going to be able to out this president on this cockamamie story about collusion and then at the same time notth only to have this coming to a head, meanwhile on the issues that people care about. her party is going off the left edge of the world in terms of live birth abortion and open borders. the mainstream democratic voters out there don't support this. her party is completely been hijacked by this screaming left wing agenda, or this nonsensical line of business about russia. it's a real bad situation she finds herself in. >> dan: austin, i will pose the same question to you.
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i'm sincere when i say this. if the democrats operating principle they had been using against trump for the last two years is that these interactions although noncriminal are indicative of some kind of malevolent behavior, why does the fact that hillary's team paid a guy to get information from russians, i'm genuinely curious. do you have an answer? >> the steele dossier and the fusion thing was first funded by republicans. >> dan: no! timeout. that is not true. that is inaccurate information. i cannot let you say that. that is incorrect and inaccurate information. you can google it when you get off the air.ree the washington the free beacon was exclusively a democratic operation and that is a easy and verifiable fact. >> the thing that helped the president -- >> i didn't say party.
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if you look at the charge of collusion, if that's what the report disproved, on record and to you before it ever came out i said, i hope that it proved there was no collusion because that would be an awful day for the country. it does not exonerate the president specifically saying they could not exonerate to the president on obstruction of justice.yay >> dan: that is not the standard of justice. >> congress has the right to investigate that the president has not allowed this to say we will refuse to cooperate. >> here's what i want to know. within the investigation. democrats keep saying that they want to get to the bottom of russian interference in the country yet why have we not heard anything from democrats about wanting to find out if the dossier was russianss disinformation that the fbi then used get fisa warrants to spy on president trump!
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is that not something they would want to know? >> we should find that out. >> where's w your person on tha, my friend? >> dan: i want to have you back on russian collusion and get your take on that. >> what about the obstruction? >> dan: there was no obstruction. the standard of evidence is not not guilty.uc that's not how this works. directly ahead, more on the president's major declassification order. we will have reaction. ♪
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they are being found out. i think right now, i saw where comey is dealing with this one and brennan is blaming another one and they are going against each other and clapper may be as blaming president obama? so surprised to see that happening. a lot of bad people. a lot of bad people. they have unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person. you look at comey. you look at mcgahn. people higher than that, you look at peter strzok and his lover, lisa all people higher than that, you look at strzok and his lover, lisa page. he talked about the insurance policy just in case crooked hillary loses and that didn't work out too well for them. should she lose we will have the insurance policy and get this guy out of office, that is what they said and what they meant. that is treason. that is treason. they couldn't win the election and that is what happened. >> dan: that was hapresident trump earlier today calling out by the name of the biggest bad actors in the deep states effort to bring the investigation, spy on trump and
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try to overthrow a duly elected president. he is taking action issuing a major directive grant and attorney general authority to finally declassify key documents in the ongoing review of the russian probes origin and surveillance of the trump campaign. day by day we are inching closer and closerum to justice to expoe this entire hoax once and for all. joining me now for reaction is president tom fitton, sara carter, along with the author of "license to lie", sidney powell. former federal prosecutor. i will go to you first given that you have some news. you have done incredible work of getting these documents exposed. one of the things i saw about your latest request is that you are looking for changes in the talking points for jim comey's infamous july 5th briefing where he lays out the case against hillary and then mysteriously exonerates her at the end. what is the key point that was
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changed and that that you are trying to get a hold of? >> we are trying to figure out, we have all heard about the wording changes, they quoted the law and they had to get around actually quoting the law and accusing hero of talking about conduct because it was believed obviously presumptively to an argument for prosecution. on top of that even after they exonerated her or gave her a get out of jail free card practically speaking because of the investigation, they still were writing a chart of all the laws she may have violated with excuses on why she shouldn't be prosecuted and someone asked, why are you still working on this? keep in your back pocket. we want that information as acwell. the talking points about his outrageous get out of jail press conference for hillary on top of the list of crimes they try to hide from the american people,
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this is why when you talk about transparency the president has to take a broad view here because there is a lot of secrets, thousands of secrets about thee deep state conspiracy that need to be released and designated the attorney general to cut through that is thrown up by the other agencies to declassify this material is an important step for transparency, accountability, the rule of law. in advance of the american people can see these documents and importantly grand juries. >> dan: i will go to you. the july 5th speech, the original version included the hillary clinton emailing barack obama which was changed to a senior government official which was then taken out. that makes it look like they were all in for hillary and all out for donald trump when it came to the investigation. i have a second question after
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you comment on that. >> absolutely. we can see the evidence over and over again based on documents that congressional lawmakers judicial lawmakers have been able to pull forward and now we see with this how important it is that the president issued this memorandum and they want you to think about this, look at who we in the memorandum, the department of wenergy, homeland security, the department of treasury, the secretary of state. the cia. he is asking all of these agencies, no more slow rolling, no more slow walking this information. let's speed up this process let the attorney general decide what documents should be made public because the american people deserve that and people shouldra take a very close look at all of the agencies that he has demanded cooperate. that says a lot. with the attorney general. >> dan: quick follow-up. what do you think the most damaging piece of information in
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this declassification, what is it? think there's going to be two things. the first will be the evidence, that of george papadopoulos and carter page. if they were recorded which we have heard they were by stephan halbert was a spy for the fbi and that the fbi would tell that information from the foreign intelligence surveillance court, that is going to be huge. i will tell you something else. something that people aren't talking about and i that is the unmasking, i think one of the biggest pieces of information that will come out here as well is those people that were unmasked, americans that were unmasked, their conversations, telephoneri conversations with foreigners. and remember, samantha powers, there was a big debate and trey gowdy got her to answer some very important questions. she unmasked nearly 300, that ii unheard of. put it this way, when john bolton was at the u.n. he unmasked three people, three
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people. she unmasked close to 300. i will tell you some of those names will be very important. >> dan: that is what started when they come out. the case. sidney i will go to you with your legal expertise i would appreciate from a legal framework, if thereti are recordings made by intelligence asset the united states is using, they processed george papadopoulos and he was chargede criminally and he retains all of his civil rights as a citizen and they went into this court may had exculpatory evidence on tape about george papadopoulos potentially indicating that not only was he not involved in a collusion scandal, but was repulsed by the very idea. it is as damaging to the team? >> yes, it is. it's called a brady violation and the government has a legal and ethical obligation that is favorable to the defense.
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or impeach is the credibility of the government witnesses. that is what my entire book is about and how the government particularly, andrew weissmann and he was mueller's pit bull in running this entire special counsel investigation loved to hide, exculpatory evidence and sent the missing people to prison. we will find a lot of violations of the brady rule in the conduct. >> dan: one quick follow-up. this gang of eight briefing that brennan gives in august, he has on tape saying he hasn't seen the dossier till december. if that is declassified in that game, how much trouble is he in? >> he ought to be in trouble never the less, whatever comes out because we know he was pushingg this dossier purposefully by linking it to congress outside of the gang of eight briefing with harry b reid who then, unsurprisingly, essentially leaked it through public letters back to the obama
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administration. just quickly, these are primary documents that need to be released and we can't trust mueller to characterize them correctly. that is why the attorney general should release that so we can actually determine for ourselves what mueller is telling us. >> dan: thank you. congressman omar under fire for criticizing people of faith on the floor of house of representatives. we will have reaction when we come back. ♪ my experience with usaa
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one year in response to the legislation. congresswoman ilhan omar is weighing in on a new heartbeat bills in places like georgia and alabama and she is facing heavy criticism for targeting religious conservatives on the house floor. listen to this. >> i am frustrated every single time i hear people speaking about their faith and pushing that onto other people. we know the so-called religious politicians, and it comes to their life, their choices they want to talk about freedom but when it comes to other people's lives and other people's choices, they want to talk about religion. >> dan: joining us now with reaction. i will go to you first. what is with this streak on the left of constantly questioning the morals of people who
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disagree with them? it goes back to the idea that we think we think they are people with bad ideas and they think we thare bad people. it's totally different. >> they are the last ones who should be engaging the world of double standards and moral equivalency. we saw that with her anti-semitism. he was a republican when we passed that resolution a month and a half ago. that would've been focused on combating anti-semitism instead set of that moral equivalency naming names, she went be serving the committee. they pledged to resist opposed, impeach, everything. and anything. they would prefer to insult, insight and investigate rather than legislate and it's unfortunate but they believe that you can obstruct and investigate us to a greater prosperity, to greater freedoms which is just absurd. it's crazy this road they are going down and i'm offended when i hear that speech that you just played because i am a father up identical twin girls, 14 weeks
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early, less than a pound. i have seen life in its 25th week and these girls have grown up to be strong, healthy, beautiful and intelligent. thank god they have had the right to life and we should be respecting the right to life of parents but also that kid as well and if you're not ready for parenthood, the alternative should be offered and available. >> dan: if the left is seemingly so comfortable with the abortion and where they constantly playing the euphemism game? i just heard a story out of npr, they had a style guide and i will get your comment. it is what you do as a living as a reporter. you are not allowed to refer to it as a fetal heartbeat, you can't even call it an abortion clinic. if they are so comfortable then whileal euphemisms? >> even if you look at a more left-leaning or even google if you google what an abortion is it doesn't mention the fetus of the baby. that's just the termination of a pregnancy and that is convenient
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and that makes the moral relativism t and immorality feel okay for them. what amazes me is that i have hardly ever, if ever heard someone on the left who is a part of this pro-choice side be able to properly and accurately articulate what a pro-life person believes which is very simple that aha human life is a human life no matter how small and a matter how young and therefore it has a right to live. they try to get around it every way they can because the fact of the matter is when you say you are okay with killing a child for the sake of convenience, it's a hard pill for the people to swallow and i think they realize that. >> dan: i think it was your twitter feed where i saw, i can articulate the pro-choice position well but it's odd that they can't articulate ours. that's a great point. going to you. this boycott, travel boycott from the states, i saw some of
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your points here. you made the point that with so many of the states missouri and others looking at pro-life agenda, is this really limiting the effectiveness of your boycott? >> absolutely. think about this for a second, i recall a number of years ago california try doing this to arizona with the sb8, and immigration or the illegal alien bill with law enforcement. they didn't want them asking what the illegal alien status was and they ended up boycotting arizona and they did the same thing to north carolina with a bathroom bill. s what the states ended up doing with these abortion pills, they passed their bills at the same time i know california particularly with l.a. county said guess what? we will all do this at the same time and will not be able to isolate one state to try and make us the bad guy and that was brilliant because trying to isolate alabama is just not going to work this time.
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they will not allow california to legislate for one state or all the states. >> dan: a quick last word for you. i think it has change the game for us. ultrasound. it's made it harder for euphemism game. it looks like a child, it's real, it's personal. >> that's a life that is breathing and it should have the opportunity to be born and thrive. we should be speaking up against abortions and standing firm. if we believe that governments should be fighting for people who can't fight for themselves there and no better example is they're out there than fighting for the baby who tomorrow in america is going to be ripped out of a mother's womb with a grotesque late-term abortion.n. all the more reason personally and passionately to be fighting for the life for the baby. >> dan: thank you so much. a big update on the jussie smollett case, plus president trump speaks out on the john walker lynn case.
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♪ ♪ >> dan: welcome back to "hannity." law and order in this country is under assault on the jussie smollett story is ongoing, multiple officials in a prime example of what is perceived as a two-tier just some system in. trace gallagher joins us live. from the west coast newsroom. >> breaking tonight to the files in this case are being unsealed and of course the attorneys were jussie smollett opposed on selling them saying it violates his privacy, but thele cook couy judge wasn't having it stay in the daily charges were dropped he wasn't worried about privacy when he went before the cameras to wrongly proclaim that he had been vindicated.
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we expect to be 600 pages of documents to go public as early as tomorrow, potentially including grand jury testimony, alibis and evidence and they could reveal exactly why state attorney kim fox abruptly dropped to 16 counts against jussie smollett for staging a hate6 crime hoax. fox unofficially recused herself after she intervened by asking a chicago police superintendent to turn the case overer to the fbi. fox was asked to make the request by tina chan, the former chief of staff to michelle obama. today she declined to be served a subpoena by a retired illinois judge who is seeking a special prosecutor to investigate the case. she told investigator if she issued a subpoena that she would never accept it. the investigator says, she will be served. >> dan: thank you. we are tracking two other disturbing stories including a horrific murder committedth against a 14-year-old girl in maryland.es the suspects are ms-13 members
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who were supposed to be deported last year, however according to i.c.e., local authorities did not turn them over. meanwhile this morning john walker lynn is released from prison for providing support to the taliban. president trump is not happy. joining me now, civil rights attorney darrell hart. i will go to you first on this immigration case in maryland. the sad fact of this tragedy here is that although a lot of people come to this country illegally and may not go on to commit additional crimes, 100% should not be here according to our laws and if they were in force, this 14-year-old girl would be alive today. >> she would and the facts of the case are horrific. she was 14 and stripped of her clothing, beat with a baseball bat, chopped up with a machete and buried. they were ms-13 gang members.
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that is the problem with not coming into this country legally.th this is what president trump has said all along. prosecutors wholeheartedly agree with him. we have to stop people coming into our country. gang members, drugs, all coming into our country and we are seeing it firsthand and now this 14-year-old victim has suffered a horrific death because of it and they should not have been here they should not have been released. they shouldhe have been turned over. >> dan: theey details as you just described sound like something out of a horror moviev and it's really grotesque. what possible reason for the county in maryland have for not honoring the detainer against these two suspects. i don't understand. why would you ignore a i.c.e. detain? what's the point? >> i think we have a system breakdown for what i know about the case, the department of corrections released to the
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department, they released that the children back into the public. we see the process is not speaking to each other and i would also say that i.c.e. needs to do a better job -- >> dan: hold on. i.c.e. was supposed to be notified by the facility so that is not come b if you want to comment go ahead. >> he is right. there was a breakdown but the breakdown was they should have notified i.c.e. they had an obligation and a duty to notify i.c.e. when theyd turned the defendants over. to the juvenile detention facility. there was a breakdown but it was their fault, not i.c.e. in any way, shape, or form. >> this is a problem we ought to be able to fix.y, it should work that problem. >> dan: the problem is there is a system. i.c.e. launches the detainer until they can pick them up. if you then release these
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individuals in the streets and they go on and commit other crimes, how is that a problem with the system? that's a problem with sanctuary cities and immigration policies. i don't get your point. >> the system needs to be fixed so that i.c.e. can have the personnel to watch the process. for example all day long, watch and see. they can see who is in custody and who is not. >> dan: what part of the systemee broke? i don't get what you are saying. they were not notified when the two people, the suspects were transferred to another facilityn what part broke down? >> i think you agree that i.c.e. knew where they were. they knew where to follow them and see where they were. they could have an obligation -- >> we have been on the same side of cases together and i think the world of him, but no. in this case i.c.e. should have been notified. they believed he was under
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detention and that the county, they had a duty to tell i.c.e. prince george's county and they did not because they considered themselves a sanctuary city and that is the problem. >> dan: thank you. great debate. we will be right back with some final thoughts. stay tuned. ♪ when we started our business
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♪ >> dan: welcome back to "hannity." this declassification story welcome back to hannity. this is going to be a big deal. there is information coming out. stay tuned, pandora's box. unfortunately that is all the time we have tonight. we had great guests and we appreciate you tuning in. if you would like, pick up a copy of my book. spy gate. the attempted sabotage of donal jay trump. be sure to tune in tomorrow night live from new york city.
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hope you had a good night. laura, take it away. >> laura: you were great. >> that is a high honor coming from you. a you have a meaningful memorial day weekend. this is a fox news alert. less than two hours ago president trump issuing a memo calling for the declassification of all materials related to the potential spying that occurred against the trump campaign during the 2016 election. rudy giuliani was on the show last week telling us it was coming.le true to his word, this decision has come down. there are a lot of unknowns at this moment about the timeline and when we will have access and you will have access to these documents. what in fact will be revealed? for what lawmakers hope to find we are joined by mark meadows chairman of the house freedom
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