at 8:00 p.m., the show that is a sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and especially groupthink. have the best night, sean hannity is next. ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity" on a busy news night. glad that you are with us tonight as president trump continues the international trip abroad, look at what is happening at home. america's economy has become the envy of the world. firing on all cylinders, and for the first time in 75 years we are energy independent and a net exporter of energy. the unemployment rate is at its lowest point since 1969. we are now seeing record low unemployment for african-americans, hispanic-americans, asian-americans, women in the workforce. youth unemployment. that means kids like me were out

of trouble. and the people that unfairly suffered the most under the obama-biden economy, they are now the single biggest beneficiaries of donald trump's low taxes, lessening of burdensome regulation and his america-first agenda. without a doubt, it is an amazing time to begin american and look to advance her life, your career, your standard of living. but that is not what you will ever hear from the mainstream media mob. instead, we get obsessively negative coverage of the president every second, hour, of every day. conspiracy theories, insults, outright lies leading the news cycle. and for two and half years the media has historically and breathlessly reported lies, a hoax surrounding trump and russia. it is a no surprise that we have a new research poll that shows americans now see fake news as a

bigger problem than terrorism. that is their poll. according to pew research center, this country is more worried about fake news than terrorism. a so-called climate change, racism, sexism, even violent crime. this is a major political victory for president trump. he has exposed the phony news industry for who they are. for the first time in history, and an american president has successfully exposed and abusively biased corrupt agenda driven press for who they really are. with two simple words. fake news. now trump has branded the men and women who are actively working as an extension of the democratic party all while pretending to be journalists, the branding is now permanently tattooed into the so-called news organization. and they will forever be remembered, their lives, their conspiracy theories by the american people. i don't think that they can never recover.

and while americans are now aware of the threat that is posed by fake information, by lies, conspiracy theories. they still have the rage-filled trump hating media mob that will never slow down. you think they will admit that they are wrong? try and adjust, adapt, and listen to the people that they are supposed to serve? don't count on it. during the important trip to read europe, the fake news smear machine in full gear. get this, according to the hills media reporter joe concha, the president has received mostly glowing reviews from the british press. but here at home, a much different picture. as per usual, we have nbc's chief conspiracy theorist rachel maddow setting the tone for all of her colleagues. hateful, baseless coverage of the president's trip. by the way, the ratings are showing it. take a look. >> i hope you have enjoyed your trip. to london, mr. president. boris did not have time for you, all of london turned out to drop

their drawers and move new. and all of the buildings in london, things to embarrassed or upset you were on display. >> it is very difficult for trump though, because he is an egomaniac. and he sees all of this as being about him. >> what is wrong with him? >> where to begin. >> i am serious. >> narcissistic personality disorder. >> he clearly appears less capable of us is staining his own thoughts for longer than 4-6 seconds. it used to be that he cannot follow anyone's conversation, now he cannot follow his own train of thought. >> sean: now trust me, if trump were to cure cancer, they would still hate him. thankfully american see the past the hateful lies, pass the conspiracy theories, and the oncology sessions, even

according to a cnn poll, the americans believe that trump will win reelection. and more good news for the president, in his reelection campaign, the challenger, the sleepy, creepy uncle joe biden facing a major plagiarism scandal yet again. i will address this in part two of my monologue. at first joining us with more on his analysis of america's fake news epidemic, we have the hills joe concha. great column today, great comparison today, it is all accurate. and they seem to not be able to control the rage or psychosis. >> yeah, and in this case, sean, you have another media. the british media in this case that is quite a juxtaposition of what we are seeing in terms of u.s. media. you mentioned it before. most of it has been not so much positive, but at least objective in terms of the president's visit. it does not concentrate on the sizzle, but the steak. it concentrates on british media, the president's relationship with the queen, his

rapport with her. a television is a very powerful medium, you saw the pictures, the optics coming out of there. it was very good for the president. anybody objective can say that. the same goes for the relationship with theresa may in the press conference he held and so on. what we saw from the u.s. media besides the sound bite that you played from the opinion side was the obsession with the trump baby blend. it was almost like watching the o.j. white bronco in 1984 all over again. every time you turn on cable news it was a michael avenatti of blips. you cannot get away from the blimp. it was what was being concentrated on. and the obsession with the protests. the protest when donald trump went to britain in 2018 were infinitely bigger. considerably bigger than they were this time around. and even today, during dda, the 75th anniversary that occurs tomorrow, you still had protesters on a day where give it a rest for one day, given the

been 75 years ago in france. >> sean: let me ask you this, i believe that the president has exposed them in a way that nobody else could. and it is branded. it is tattooed on their four heads. i do not see the brand recovering, do you? >> i think when the president leaves the stage, whenever that may be, in a year and a half or in six years, this will be likely '87 stock market crash in terms of ratings and clicks going away, because the media has made him the evil protagonist. and when you take him out of the picture, it is like taking jr ewing off of dallas, there is no more show. so unfortunately if they want to return in credibility, i'm not saying all publications were news channels, but most of them -- >> sean: i would argue three networks, posting "the washington post," "new york times," let's start there. >> i still wave my pom-poms for local media, which still has a

lot of credibility, because we never see opinion being inserted into your local newscast. >> sean: joe, it is interesting, because every newsroom in america got the trump russia collusion conspiracy hoax, they all fell for it. and they missed the biggest stories about abuse of power, corruption, rigging hillary's investigation, though dirty dossier, the fisa applications, lying, and premeditated fraud on a fisa court. it is the talk show host that do all of these things that exposed it. >> sean: the mueller report and what that exposed between no collusion between the trump associates and russia was a deah blow to this industry. i'm not saying all of, again, but many in it. you played a clip of rachel maddow before. she had her lowest ratings last month and a very busy news month, lowest ratings since trump's inauguration. a cnn uc down double digits

again last month on top of a 26% loss and audience the month before that. that was a watershed moment when that report and all of the promises we got from pendants and even anchors alike that there absolutely was collusion between donald trump and the russians and when that promise was not delivered, people have simply not come back because they do not trust the messenger anymore, sean. >> sean: joe concha from "the hill" turning to "hannity watch" sleepy, creepy uncle joe makes it clear that he is willing to say and do whatever it is going to take to appease the new far left extreme radical socialistsn this out-of-control democratic party including capitulating to ocasio-cortez, a new radical climate agenda. we told you this would happen. we told you that joe biden is not the moderate savior that the media wants him to be. that he would take a hard turn to the left. even harder than we thought. but the problem is that joe is

kind of out of ideas. so joe does what he usually does. he steals them, because his campaign remains in damage control tonight after again, apparently plagiarizing direct passages for the new economy killing climate plan, literally ripping entire paragraphs, and not giving attribution. and while the campaign is trying to downplay all of the outrage, claiming it was a series of citation errors, there is a pattern. remember another plagiarism scandal derailed joe biden's 1988 to bid for the white house after he literally stole word for word a speech from then british labour party leader in n great britain neil kenneth. actually humorous. take a look. >> what am i? the first neil kenneth in a thousand generations to be ableo get the university. the first woman in our family in 1,000 generations to be able to

get the university -- >> i was thinking as i came over here, why is it that joe biden is the first in this family ever to go to a university? why is it that my wife is sitting out in the audience as the first and her family to ever go to college? >> was it because all of the predecessors lacked talent? those people that will play and recite -- >> is a because our fathers and mothers were not bright? is it because i am the first joe biden in 1,000 generations to get a college and a graduate degree that i was smarter than the rest? those same people who read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse. >> why didn't they get it? was it because they were weak? those people that worked eight hours underground, weak? those women who could survive 11

childbearing spray >> my ancestors who worked in the coal mines in northeast pennsylvania coming up after 12 hours and playing football for four hours? >> no, it's not because they were not as smart. it's not because they did not work as hard. it is because they did not have a platform upon which to stand. >> it was because there was no platform upon which they could stand. >> sean: in my opinion, he did a much better with dylan and job with his own speech paired after joe biden got caught, he doubled down on stupid like the news media today. take a look. >> the answer is yes, i looked at that tape. i was moved by that tape. it does not take much if you feel that, folks. i saw it and there was a connect. i could tell how that man felt. that's how i feel. >> sean: he actually stole it.

and that's not all, during the same time period it, biden was busted lying about marching for civil rights. according to "the new york times," his aide warned him over and over again to stop lying. but he kept telling the lies anyway. and remember the comments about "predators on our streets when he was talking about the 1994 crime bill." this all sounds like someone in touch with the new democratic party? joe biden has no core values, no real ideas, no positions. he is in another establishment candidate trying to get the radical left wing on his side. running on name, not ideas. the lying and telling false stories, changing his views. a saying whatever you think is going to help him get elected. so ask yourself, why is biden doing so few events? why is his own campaign trying to hide him? he was nowhere to be found at the end of last month. and it does sound eerily similar, doesn't it? and a lot like hillary clinton

2.0. the only thing that he needs to do now is still the primary from bernie and the others and try to rob a general election too and get deep state to help him. we are here to do the vetting that the and tied trump medium up will never do. we will do it all throughout the process. and especially as fake news cnn others are out there spinning and defending the plagiarism. great news coverage, take a look. >> don't you go to the experts, the website and list some of their terminology and put it into your -- >> no. you cite where you get your information from, otherwise it is plagiarism. that's what got him into trouble in the first place. >> i hear you. >> sean: the spotlight also shines bright on biden's shady dealings in places like china, ukraine, the hills john solomon reported in 2014 that joe biden's son had that lucrative gig at a ukrainian energy company when the company became the subject on a corruption probe in the country.

joe biden gave them six hours using your tax money. $1 billion to get the lead prosecutor fired. even bragged about it. and most importantly, biden has to run on the obama-biden economic failures, foreign policy blunders like oh, let's drop $1 billion plus or $150 billion in cash and other currency on the tarmac of radical islamic mellows chanting death to america. and all of the 2016 election meadow lane, russia, russia, russia that the media reaches about all happen on biden and obama's watch. in the bigger questions surrounding his role in the hopes in the deep state effort to steal the election and duly elect a president. at the dirty dossier, the fisa abuse, the spying on the trump campaign scandal. it all happen on his and obama's watch. and it is getting closer and closer to the obama white house. what do they know?

when did they know it? how did it start? here with reaction, karl rove and ari fleischer are with us. you know, karl, you would think that he would've learned the plagiarism thing. the connect speech is funny when you play it side-by-side, and yet he did it again with the climate change, i don't know if that is worth or the fact that he felt the need to capitulate to ocasio-cortez. >> i suspect that having been utterly humiliated in 1988 and his presidential hoax -- and it took him 20 years to climb back onto the national stage. i suspect that he learned the plagiarism issue. there is something even deeper here. his campaign staff obviously did not. nobody paid attention to, are we cribbing stuff out of other people's documents without giving it attribution.

maybe some of the staffers were not around, what is it? nearly 30 years later? maybe they were not around. but it says something about his campaign staff that they did not have the institutional knowledge to say, we better be very careful about this, because we have had this problem blow up in her face before. what does it take to take a document like that and put it through one of these programs that identifies plagiarized sections. they should've done that at minimum, at minimum they should have actually had somebody sitting there saying, hey, remember, we have a problem with our candidates credibility, let's make sure that if we are quoting from somebody, we quoted and footnote and footnote it. >> sean: ari fleischer, when you get to the overall basic politics, pretty simple, for example, if you are a candidate, you are running for reelection, the question if you are running for president, are you better off 90 were four years ago? the answer is yes. and the next thing, you know,

what are you doing to keep us safe? and at peace, peace and prosperity. the economic growth, et cetera. i see a democratic party that is obsessed with hating a president that are offering no solutions to the american people and running on a green new deal that is so obscene and absurd and unworkable that i don't even think most democrats will end up supporting him. >> on the most important issue at all, the american economy, are they making money? go back to the obama-biden economy. one of the reasons that hillary loss was two-thirds of the american people thought that the economy was going poorly on election day. they wanted to move in a different direction. so on the bread and butter issue, joe biden did not deliver. and they will use that against them. let me go with the media and how they are covering joe biden and the plagiarism issue today and what you talk to joe about. i will redo a quote and i want you to tell me who said this.

>> sean: i hate being tested on my own show. are you acting like tucker carlson, doing a quiz show? >> throughout the campaign "the washington post" news pages have become noticeably more partisan, "the new york times" pages were anti--trump, as where the post, some headlines in "the new york times" obtaining raw opinion as to some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis. but the more anti--trump, "the new york times" has perceived to be, the more it was mistrusted for being biased. who said that? >> sean: who? >> the executive editor of "the new york times." she wrote it in her book. when you have the leaders, the people who run the newspaper, the woman who around "the new york times" admitting this about "the new york times" itself and her observations about "the washington post," it is not conservatives who believe this about the media, it is a media itself. that's a problem. and why it will be so hard to ever recover the grounds of

mutuality or fact-finding. or the things that the american people look to them to do. even when donald trump is gone, whenever his time is done, the media has so badly hurt itself. >> sean: karl, as i said, the branding of trump is tattooed into their foreheads, i don't know how you escape what ari is pointing out here? >> we have three sets of media, news coverage, several cable networks who seem to be just aiming everything at trashing the president. we then have the mainstream media that is dominated by three newspapers, only one of which, "the wall street journal" plays a reasonably straight coming , o that don't. and then we have the local media as joe said earlier, which you know, the thing about that is we are playing less attention to local media, less attention to the printed national media. more time on cable and protruding ourselves in

social media to reaffirm our prejudices. and as a result, the facts get lost along the way. >> sean: i have to tell you, this is a huge shift. at that pole profound. and we will have long-lasting effects. already, thank you, karl it, thank you. a deep state factors in trouble, sara carter, alan dershowitz will have the latest. and laurence jones goes to los angeles to witness firsthand an unmitigated disaster. what we will show you tonight in a special hannity investigation. a straight ahead, and the great one, mark live in. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> sean: phase two of the 2016 election has begun. while investigating the investigators, the deep state

it's in full panic, turning on each other. and without the news, that steele will be testifying to the doj about the dossier, cnm fake news, a car wreck. why would it be a car wreck? >> this is significant, this will be a car wreck it, this is not about the mueller investigation per se, it is about the origins of the investigation and how the department of justice and attorney general has talked about that repeatedly, the suspicion about how the department of justice originated the operation. one of the documents was christopher steele former intelligence operative, the information he uncovered about donald trump from russian operatives. christopher steele shows up in front of the department of justice and i'm guessing does not have terrific answers for the quality of the information in that steele dossier. i'm telling you, this will not go well. >> sean: meanwhile rand paul,

senator for kentucky is making this claim about brennan security clearance, and i think he is dead on. to take a look. >> people talk about the deep state, now the deep state is protecting their own and not listening to the president's orders. i was sitting in the white house when president trump said i want his security clearance taken. if they are working against the odds of the president, that really does disrupt the country and the representative of democracy where the president makes a decision if someone is counter manning that, i think we need to get to the bottom of that. >> sean: also tonight a real investigative reporter sara carter is telling us that the government is making every attempt to avoid disclosing what was collected in the wiretaps of general flynn's conversations with the russian ambassador. i wonder why they are too. here with reaction, sara carter, author of the introduction to the mueller report, alan dershowitz, and author of the number one seller the russian hoax, gregg jarrett, we start with you, sara on the news.

now, they are afraid of the dossier. and they don't want to the transcript out, wonder why? >> because we have already seen what happens, sean, when the transcripts come out with john gaudi and talking to her robert kelner, the attorney for lieutenant general michael flynn. what mueller had done was put together what he wanted, redacted portions of doubt, transcripts, portions of the conversation, the voice mail message that he left, making it appear as if dowd was trying to obstruct justice, giving that illusion. when you see the complete transcript, you realize, he did not even one confidential information. this was not just about the president, it was about the american people. so then you have to ask yourself what happen with lieutenant general michael flynn, and the conversation, the transcript. the irony here is, sean, that the government is trying to

protect these highly classified transcripts, highly classified transcripts, but it was government officials, senior government officials that leaked the information to "the washington post," david ignatius in january of 2017. they leaked it to basically corner michael flynn. >> sean: unbelievable. that is against the law. >> absolutely. >> sean: that is -- not allowed to unmask american citizens. there was a 350% increase in 2016 alone. samantha powers has no business at all i'm asking 300 people let alone one. professor, we already know what christopher steele is going to say, because he said it over the threat of perjury, i have no idea if any of the dossier is true, hillary paid for it, and yes, i hate donald trump because he told everybody, but they still used it as the bulk of information to get the fisa

warrant against not only carter page, but a backdoor to all things trump campaign, transition, and presidency. >> i'm glad that he is testifying or at least appearing in front of the justice department, the questions that they will put to him in order to try to protect the investigatiol be based on chronology. when did you realize that the report was not as valid and solid as you originally thought it was? when did you learn that it was paid for by democrats? that was disclosed, because what he said up to now is the report itself is not valid. but what we need to know is when they knew it, and what they did about it. and did anybody misrepresent? what they knew at any particular time. >> sean: professor, it is an unverifiable documents, because its authors said he cannot stand by it. and in october -- bruce ohr warned everyone in 2016, we know two weeks before

comey signed the fisa application, he was warned again. and there were other warnings. and he still puts his signature on a spying document, he denies spying on not only carter page, but an opposition party. >> raw intelligence like that should never be the basis for a fisa warrant that intrudes on the rights of american citizens privacy. we need to have more than that. and we need to have complete candor from anybody who signed a fisa warrant. they have to tell the court. we have this, we are not sure how valid it is. the author -- >> sean: they never told the court, hillary paid for it. >> it is something in a footnote, but they intended to mislead the court into thinking that they had an incredible source that was enough to testify intruding on the privacy of the american citizen.

every civil libertarian is concerned about this process pretty >> sean: when we stay on the issue of civil libertarians for a minute. when the deputy fbi director got a call from general flynn, dave four of the trump presidency. do i need a lawyer and was told no, and then james comey bragging that he took advantage of the chaos, something he would never do in the obama or bush administrations, said his agents over and for a perjury trap, because they had already illegally unmasked and the week to and exactly what flynn said, he was a sitting duck and they told him not to get a lawyer, case should be closed, thrown out of court. >> absolutely, they did it under the logan act which was not violated, so that was another lie. but going back to christopher steele, the professor is right about the chronology. it will be vital and the most important question will be to

get christopher steele to nail down the meeting that occurred in the fall of 2016 where the fbi armed with the phony document went back to him and said, we will pay you a bonus of $50,000 if only mr. steele, you can verify this. and he could not, because it was anonymous information based on multiple hearsay. >> sean: and "the new york times" is saying that it was likely russian disinformation from the beginning. >> whether it is phony information that he conjured or whether it is disinformation or both. and i suspect that it is both, it does not matter. it is wrongful, unverified information. the failure to pay the $50,000 bonus in the fall only shows you that when they went to the fisa court, they already knew that it was unverifiable and steele could not on his own verify it to. >> sean: it is a premeditated fraud against the court.

listen, two if you are the greatest lawyers, sara, you are the best investigative reporter. you cannot get me out of this problem. i would be going to jail. >> you would have never gotten into the problem to begin with. because unlike the fbi, you are on a spray to there has to be accountability. the benefit of every american citizen who is vulnerable to having this information used to spy on them. that is not the american way. >> sean: if we give them the powerful tools of intelligence, we have to be able to trust them. you have all been amazing, all of you in your own way, and what is now a very important moment for the country. we come back, the great one, mark levin, his book, number one with two weeks running, also lawrence jones, special report for "hannity" in los angeles. you are not going to believe what is happening on the streets of that city. it is unbelievable, that full report is straight ahead. ♪

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♪ >> sean: as we told you going tonight's opening monologue, new pew research poll, this is huge. it comes to this alarming cold pollution. more americans are worried about fake news then terrorism, that's how much distrust rightly exist. the timing of the book cannot be any more perfect, it is called "unfreedom of the press." now number 12 weeks in a row on "the new york times" best seller list, because it is full of history in substance, the typical mark live-in book, the host of "life liberty and live in" on the fox news channel. and he would never admit it publicly, but a friend of mine. there is a reason all of your books go to number one, because

they are full of substance. and i read it cover to cover, and i read her book, i looked at the research poll, and i look at a president that has taken on this corrupt media and two plus years of lying, conspiracies, and a hoax, how could anyone trust them? >> well, you know, sean, i will tell you why i wrote the book, because the media will not self police, there is no circumspection, there is no reconsideration. there is no shame. and there really no standards left. so it is up to week, the people to take a look at the media since the media will not look at themselves. that was not always the case. i wrote down a few things here, problems with most of the mass media today. notice that i do not call them the free press, because they do not even understand what a free press is supposed to be or the history of the press, because they are destroying a free press. they commingle news and opinion, pseudo-events. they manufacture events, we spent three days talking about the word nasty.

how preposterous. they push propaganda for the progressive ideology. aoc is famous, not because she is smart or profound or because she has accomplished anything, but because they want to promote her and her agenda. social activism, climate change, is there any individual of cnn or msnbc in the newsrooms who do not push climate change? there is no diversity of intellectual thought. none. they have a van pursuit -- for the democratic party agenda. and they promote that agenda day in and day out, in fact, they lead it. the reason we talk about impeachment today is not because a president committed any impeachable offenses, it is because the media and the democratic party want to remove him. the reason we spent two and a half years talking about collusion with russia, a manufactured story, a pseudo-fake event as the president calls it. not because there was any evidence, but because this is

what the media was pushing, day in and day out. they are not defending the right on the first amendment of freedom of the press. what is the purpose of freedom of the press? why is it in the first amendment? it is not in the first amendment because of cnn or msnbc, or the corporate ownership, or any specific so-called journalists. it is in there for the american people. why do we have freedom of the press? we have freedom of the press to expand freedom of speech. among the american people. the point of news and newsrooms is to give us the information through which we can make decisions about our families, our lives, our government, our country so that we can be informed prior to the best place to find it right now is local tv news. you are not going to find it in the vast majority of news operations at the national leve level. >> sean: i disagree, you get it right, rush gets it right, i get it right. every single news room in

america fell for the lies, the conspiracies, and the hoax. we have ed henry and catherine herridge. speak up at sean, newsrooms, newsrooms, not talk radio, not opinion shows. and they look down on all of us. and the funny thing is, they are as much opinion as the rest of us. at the differences we are transparent. we tell people who we are. we don't pretend to be something that we are not. these people who are reporters today, not all of them. there are some exceptions, but unfortunately the general rule, they do not understand history of freedom of the press. they do not even understand the value of freedom of the press. most of them are narcissistic. most of them draw attention to themselves. want to draw attention to themselves. i can go down the list. that is not news, that is not serving the american people. that is not freedom of the press, so the point that i want to make to you is this, the president of the united states is their targets right now, but overall it is the american

people. the difference between the patriot press was that they wanted to fundamentally transform government. the press today wants to fundamentally protect it. the guard of big government. and if you or somebody from the outside and he want to challenge it, you are somebody from the outside and you want to limit it, cut it, rearrange it, you are the enemy of the press. they talk about the president saying that they are the enemy of the people. the press has its own enemies. today the press wants to fundamentally transform, not government, but the american citizen. but the civil society. that is the difference between the patriot press and the press today. it is a disaster. >> sean: all right, great one, "unfreedom of the press" for four weeks, amazon.com, between them and "the new york times," great deserved. "life, liberty, and levin." on the fox news channel, when we come back at, earlier this week

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♪ >> sean: as we have been showing you, these liberal run cities all across the country are in crisis. and probably not as bad as los angeles where we sent lawrence jones, and he literally chronicles tonight some of the worst homelessness, and worse conditions in the country, and by the way, angelenos, los angeles people, they are not happy. and i do not blame them. take a look at the disaster.

>> would it be fair to say that l.a. has a homeless problem? >> probably the worst in the country. >> what makes you say this? >> look around, they are everywhere. there is no one doing anything about it. no one cares. >> what do you see? >> a lot of mental health issues, a lot of dirty areas around the city. >> two blocks east of here, you have a whole probably 30,000 people that live outside. this is a small area of skid ro row. >> people are suffering out here, you know what i mean? i don't see them with a lot of help. i think that the marrow makes a lot of promises, i've not seen them do a whole lot. you can walk down any block in downtown l.a., you can smell it. it is lingering all throughout the streets. not just with that, it comes with crime and you see the drugs that are involved as well. >> with my own eyes as a cosmetic effort to move homeless people out of the way. it is a city of l.a. issue. it is not necessarily the

homeless individuals who are the problem, it is the city of l.a. and the sanitation. >> there is a problem that you let fester, literally, for years and now it is full blown pandemic so a homeless zone. >> it seems like it is getting worse. >> it definitely is getting worse. i don't think that he is doing his job as the mayor of the city of los angeles. >> sean: here with reaction, emily compagno, and former arkansas governor mike huckabee. governor governor, they have a 13-point state income tax, the highest along with new york in the country, we showed you san d l.a. how is it possible that all the as other states that don't tax anywhere near this level do not see these problems? >> because liberals think that money is the answer to solve social problems, but the truth is we have an industry of poverty in this country.

most people do not realize it, but the average poverty stands about 17 plus dollars per person. but the homeless population in l.a. alone is up 16 percent from last year, 75% over the past six years. and it is not for a lack of money, they have adjusted voting tests bend 4.5 billion for houses for homeless people. but the money is not going to the people. this is a tragic human situation and i feel terribly for the people that are living in tents and on the street. but the money is going to people who are making a good living off of the poverty of other people. and that's how liberalism works. it is all about making themselves feel better, but they are naturally solving the problems, because they are not meeting the basic needs of the people who are hurting the most. >> sean: emily, your thoughts. >> the governor is absolutely correct, los angeles passed one of the largest budgets by

430,000, most of it over a long term debt, san francisco coming to a $1.2 billion budget to combat homelessness. seattle sends an expense 1 billion per year, per homeless person, to what end? there is no reduction, because the expenditure is on those short-term solutions, they are triaging the problem rather than tackling it, and the paralysis that the cities are undergoing is because of the competing compassionate far left approaches, which obviously do not work to the citizen's detriment. >> sean: governor, i look at this and i look at, here is nancy pelosi gated community. here is in between needles, disaster a mile in the other direction, her office. wow, why does she not raise money? >> because she is raising money. a lot of it, but it is for the reelection of democrats and more liberals to be in congress so that they can put more money on

these things. it is an absolute disgrace, the situation they are looks worse than it would in communities in afghanistan. and it is the result of one far left people control the government. this is what we can expect. it is a disaster. >> sean: human tragedy, could be solved. thank you, both. when we come back, jussie smollett 911 call has been released. a trace gallagher, full report. that is up next on "hannity." ♪ uniquely designed for men and women. one serving, once a day. one a day. and done.

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>> also breaking tonight we have an update on the jussie smollett hate crime hoax. the call from the night of the event has been released. trace gallagher live and has the latest on this development. >> it appears jussie smollett did not want to call the police after he was allegedly attacked. his creative manager finally made the call 22 minutes after the incident. and the manager refused to identify smollett saying only that he was an artist and when

the dispatcher asked why the artist didn't call himself, the manager said he was cool, he didn't want me to call you guys and then the manager said this, listen. >> they put a noose around his neck. they didn't do anything when they put it around his neck. sorry to say it like that. >> then 16 minutes after the first call, the manager called again to complain that police still had not shown up. he went on to say he wanted his friend taken care of because he had just been mugged. police pulled up as the manager was ending the second call and smollett's story of being attacked fell apart when a pair of nigerian brothers told police smollett paid them to stage the attack. we should get redacted police videos of the interviews, including interviews potentially with the two nigerian brothers stimulates this week. >> amazing.

they are on tape buying the things used in that incident. remember, we'll never be the rage, hate, destroy trump media mob. we'll always be fair and balanced. thank you for being with us. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham is next. >> laura: welcome to the "the ingraham angle" broadcasting from the american cemetery on the normandy coast. 75 years ago at this hour paratroopers had already landed behind enemy lines to secure bridges and roads in preparation for the land invasion. six allied divisions and other small units would take these beaches by midday. today parachutists recreated the landing. among them was 97-year-old tom rice. one of the original paratroopers who dropped into normandy on this day in 1944.