we will be back tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. the sworn and sincere enemy ofwe lying, pomposity, smugness, and especially groupthink, which is everywhere. sean hannity is live from new york.al stay tuned. >> sean: the show that is loved by every congressman and woman in washington, the tucker carlson show. >> tucker: amen! >> sean: buckle up, welcome to "hannity."el big breaking developments surrounding the investigation into fisa abuse tonight, including new information about the dirty dossiers out there, christopher steele. we will also bring you some good news for lieutenant general a michael flynn, and his battle against the witch hunt, which continues. first, we start with bob mueller. next wednesday, the captain of the witch hunt himself, well, he is scheduled to appear before congress in his first and only public hearing. democrats on the intel and judiciary committees are

demanding that mueller testify. according to our own, chad pergram, he is saying these very same democrats are now worried that this political stunt is about to backfire and boomerang. wow, that has happened a lot, and for good reason. in his only public comments, a rambling, contradictory nine-minute presser, robert mueller stated that he would not expound on any of his findings. he said the written report will be his only testimony. we are talking about the very same report that cleared the president of collusion, conspiracy with russia, and didn't charge him with any t obstruction. by the way, he was not charged with obstruction. the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, office of legal counsel all said no, didn't happen. meanwhile, mueller is certainly going to face very crucial questions from republicans.. questions i would like to have answered and we are going to preview those important questions in a minute. this now comes as a reporter is now out that the doj is blocking house democrats from questioning two members of mueller's partisan team in a closed-door hearing. here with more, our own chad pergram is with us.in what is the latest?

>> there was a meeting tonight by democrats on the house judiciary committee trying to figure out the structure of this hearing with bob mueller next week. there is an old saying onig capitol hill that nothing is decided until everything is decided. what we do know is that there is going to be a two-hour hearing for members of the judiciary committee at 9:00, there will be a break, and then they are coming back with members of the intelligence committee. the question is, is this enough time? it was very interesting to see members coming out of this closed-door meeting saying everything is in flux, that things haven't been decided yet. we have been told by multiple democrats that they are still negotiating with bob mueller's team about the structure of this. members really didn't want to talk as they came out. they were deferring to jerry nadler, the chair of the judiciary committee, and many, lou correa, a democrat from california, another democratf from washington state, both of them said that some of this may not be resolved until the day of the hearing. a freshman democrat from florida.

if you cut this down to two hours and two hours, there are some questions about whether the freshman and junior memberso would get a chance to ask questions. one said, well, i hope so. the other thing that is still up in the air here, sean, is that there would be a closed-door session.he eric swalwell, a member of california and the intelligence committee, said, i hope so. the problem for democrats here, if mueller just sticks to the four corners of the report and doesn't go beyond that, have democrats overplayed this? there is another expression here, caveat emptor, buyer beware. maybe this turns out to be pretty boring if robert mueller is just going through dogeared pages and reading back when he is getting questions. could that undermine the hype in some ways? and that is where some of us here at fox news who have been reporting on this, we've heard that mueller might be a littles bit reluctant to testify,hi or there might be an effort to limit or curtail his testimony, sean. but we are told that he is on

for 9:00 next wednesday morning. >> sean: all right, we will be watching next thursday. let's be clear. bob mueller, he is not a king. he was employed by we, the american people. the american people also deserve answers to other questions. for a few questions i think mueller must answer, why did he hire a team with no republicans? only big democratic donors?? why did he hire clinton's former attorney? why did he hire the guy, oh, yeah, sidney powell exposed the ever so overzealous prosecutor, mueller's pit bull, andrew weissmann, to lead the investigation? after all, he was at the clinton election night party that never happened, likely sobbing with everyone else there. he has an atrocious track record of withholding exculpatory evidence, numerous cases overturned, convictions overturned because of exculpatory evidence withheld, and also, why did mueller have time to investigate medallions,

loan applications, tax fraud, but not fisa abuse and not a paid-for russian dossier? if he cared about russian interference, and in the 2016 elections, why did he then not have any probe into hillary clinton's dirty dossier?be the one with russian lies, the one that was disseminated to the american people to influence the election. now, where was the deep dive into the ex-foreign spy, christopher steele? what about fusion gps? their connections to unsavory? characters around the world and their founder, glenn simpson. when did mueller determin that there was no trump-russia collusion? why didn't he stop then? why did the investigation continue after that determination and why did mueller contradict himself during his nine and half minute press conference? remember those special counsel claimed there was no obstruction. he said that to numerous people. then at the presser, he. suggested there might've been obstruction but a sitting president cannot be chargedd because of the doj policy.

that was when he released a joint statement with attorney general barr's office that there was no chargeable obstruction, regardless of doj policy and the ability to charge a sitting president. so why the confusion, why the change? who wrote those words? who wrote the report? were you being told what to say by andrew weissmann, your pitbull? because the whole witch hunt was a disaster from beginning to end. a major distraction from realpi abuses of power taking place right under your nose. just look at the froth of that took place surrounding the fisa warrant. your buddy, jim comey, signed it, the first one, against the trump associate, carter page, and that gave them a backdoor to spy into all things trump campaign. then trump transition, then the trump presidency, and as "the daily caller" points out, the bureau's desperate attempt to acquire a warrant were totally stalled until steele's dossier came along. deputy fbi director andrew mccabe said it perfectly. no dossier, no fisa warrant.

and comey and company were so desperate to find that backdoor into the trump campaign, yes, mr. comey, to spy -- that they used phony, what we now know to be unverifiable campaign clinton bought and paid for op research full of russian lies.ul that was to obtain a warrant to spy on an american citizen and an entire presidential campaign. and according to "the new york times," investigators working for the ig's probe into fisa abuse, they asked christopher steele, "whether the bureau was overly reliant on the russian expertise of outsiders like himself." and steele told them that he believed the fbi was probably underequipped to judge the inherently murky intelligence that he was relaying. i don't believe that is true, either. t

"the times" says that one of his sources added his own interpretation to his own sources that he passed on to christopher steele, calling into question the reliability of all this information. by the way, they were all warned about it before he signed it in 2016, the one he swore wast verified and true, the one three months later he told president trump is unverified and salacious. in other words, the so-called intelligence and the dossier was sourced with second, third hand information. all turned out to be false, and perhaps just completely made up or maybe as "the new york times" previously suggested, it was russian misinformation all along. but comey, others swore that their intelligence was true and accurate. that is fraud, plain and simple. premeditated conspiracy to commit fraud on a fisa court to spy on an opposition partyo candidate to help one campaign win and the other campaign lose, then it became an insurance policy, as we all learned months later. but despite high-rankingng government officials turning the most powerful tools of intelligence that we need to

keep us safe against enemies, foreign and domestic, well, they turn them on the trump campaign and other american citizens and the transition team, and on the trump presidency. we have four separate russian collusion investigations. all four cleared the president of any wrongdoing. there is no more ambiguity, there are no questions to ask anymore. house democrats are now conducting the fifth and sixth investigations into collusion, so-called collusion that didn't happen.n, the only collision that happened was hillary clinton's dirty dossier. that is how democrats are spending your tax dollars. this is nothing more, at this point, than presidential harassment and abuse of power by them. people like nadler, cowardly schiff leading these brand-new probes, wasting the country's time and they are now having innocent american citizens that have to once again lawyer up, they are going bankrupt in some cases as they are called to answer the same questions for fourth, fifth, sixth time and they better

answer it perfectly, the way they did the last time or else they will determine that that is perjury.ay then they will be charged with that and they will need more lawyers.s. my advice to all those peopleh that willingly testified to congress, that cooperated with the mueller probe? you can plead the fifth, and you know what? it won't cost you a dime. you don't have to hire any more lawyers, you can stand up to this abuse of power. nadler and schiff, they are no longer lawmakers, this isn't oversight, this is now them merely content creators for, well, oh, yeah, msdnc and roswell rachel maddow's nonstop anti-trump conspiracy hours. it is every second, every minute, every hour of every day over there at msdnc. democrats, what they are doing should sicken every american. tonight, thankfully, the president can declare victory in at least one frivolous legal proceeding.y, today, the fourth circuit court

of appeals threw out a far left challenge surrounding the trump organization. joining us now with more details is the president's attorney, jay sekulow, and full disclosure, he has had a minor client in the name of sean hannity. but i am a good client. how are you, sir? >> very good, sean. >> sean: the emoluments clause, trump international, the first thing the judge said, why are you here, you have no standing to be here in this court as it relates to trump international being in d.c. >> look, this was an ongoing case of presidential harassment. this president has taken more incoming on these kinds of frivolous issues than anybody i think certainly in american history.ue the nature and scope of the actions that are taken in court are frankly something we have never seen. but here, the fourth circuit court of appeals not only dismissed the case, but said exactly what you just said. why are you here? in fact, i'm going to read from the opinion because the opinion speaks volumes. g

"when plaintiffs before our court they are unable to specify the belief they see, one must wonder why they came to court for relief in the first place." and that is because, again the court said, "the deficiency here had manifested oral argument, the district of columbia and maryland, upon being questioned repeatedly were unable toum articulate the terms of an injunction that the district of maryland were seeking to address the alleged violations." that is when the court said, why are you here in the first place? then the court says, "maryland and the district of columbia are some kind of wrongdoing here, and the court says their claim was attenuated and abstract, that their prosecution of this case readily provokes the question whether this action against the president is an appropriate use of course, which were created to resolve real cases and controversies between parties." then the course dismissed the case with prejudice. so this ongoing presidential

harassment, whether it is trying to get tax returns, or recently now, california sayingg you cannot be on the ballot unless you release your tax returns if you're running for president of the united states, which not only is absurd, buten completely unconstitutional. the constitution sets forth the parameters of the requirements of what you must have, possess, natural born citizen, 35 years of age, to be running for the president of the united states. the states can't add to those requirements, which is what t california has done. what is fascinating about that case, which we will be in court challenging very soon, the previous governor, jerry brown, vetoed the law because he said it was unconstitutional. i never thought i would say this: jerry brown is absolutelyb correct. the law's unconstitutional. but this is ongoing presidential harassment, new york state passing their -- we are going to give you the president's state

tax returns, then the house says we don't want that. why? t because it is going to show the subterfuge of what this was all about. they are trying to get the president's tax returns and this is what they are saying. they are checking to see if the irs is actually engaged in the appropriate oversight and audits of the president in their irs capacity. do you think they would ask the irs exactly what the audit procedures are? what did they ask for? the president's tax returns. which president? donald trump. did they ask for president bush's tax returns? how did you argue the previous presidents -- >> sean: the new york governor saying that the state tax returns could be handed over to congressional committees now. they want those tax returns in the worst way. >> pure presidential harassment. it is illegal, unconstitutional. the idea that you would pass special legislation to impact one person who happens to be the commander in chief shows political animus, that is what we say in the law, that is in

our view illegal and a unconstitutional. but it is part of a pattern. there is a pattern of practice here that you see going on. you're right, the mueller report comes out, no obstruction, and no collusion. then what we do? we will have these hearings. they've had two so far, what happened with those? nobody tuned in. why did nobody tune in? because the report itself is incomprehensible. that is just a fact. if you read it, most people haven't, i have. it is incomprehensible. why? because the legal theories being put forward -- and people ignore this part. bob mueller in his report says, we don't make a conclusion here of criminal acts. we do not find criminal acts. then they use that exoneration line which of course is not what prosecutors do. sean, there is something very important here. they said it is difficult questions of law. when you find difficult questions of law, guess what you don't do, you don't bring a case. but again, this is part of the ongoing presidential harassment. we got to be back in court,

which we did in the fourth circuit and we continue to do it. >> sean: we were manned with instructions to dismiss the complaint with prejudice. it's over. full victory. >> 100%. v >> sean: the plane landed in that case. good to see you. tonight, more good news from a federal court. u.s. district judge also smacked down the doj's request to designate michael flynn a coconspirator in an ongoing case against his business partner. remember, prosecutors attemptinn to issue this coconspirator designation after flynn refused to compose. in other words, lie about what the federal government wantedbe him to lie about and give testimony he considered to be false, but with an update, fox news reporter sara carter, that is a huge update in this case. >> it's huge, late last night, judge anthony trinka issued what they call an 11th hour hail mary. a 38-page report that was basically scathing to the government. saying you haven't presented enough evidence to show or to prove that michael flynn is anc

coconspirator in this case. you've basically been calling him a cooperating witness from the beginning. so unless you show me something, unless you give me some evidence to show that he is a coconspirator, we are not going to do it. he also stated in his brief and in his opinion that the government had no evidence whatsoever that the government of turkey paid the flynn intel group.ev remember, this is what this was all about. his partner is now in trial and this is what this is all about. they want flynn to testify against his partner but thenfl they backed away from that this week, saying they are not going to have him testify and try to designate him a coconspirator. all because they want him to compose. they want him to compose. i can tell you that according to defense attorneys, sidney powell is leading the case here, he is cooperating fully with the government and he will continue to cooperate. >> sean: all right. sara carter, investigative

reporter, thank you. joining us now, ranking member house intel committee, congressman devin nunes. let me go back, this came upup with judge ellis in the first trial of paul manafort.th what was that? we know why we are really here, you want to put the screws to this guy, manafort, that is why you are dragging up old tax returns. you don't care about that, let's be honest. so he will sing or compose so you can get the president. now we have this new filing by sidney powell, the new attorney for lieutenant general flynn, saying, yeah, they wanted him to say this. i have a problem with overzealous prosecutors offering something of value, freedom, to say what they want you to say. that, to me, would be bribery in any other circumstance, and a very dangerous offer for anybody that is facing jail time. >> that is what this entire investigation has been about. it was an obstruction trap set for the president. you had people who were put under investigation, like general flynn, likely even

before, back in the obama era days but for sure, at some point they brought up these bogus charges that he had some russian girlfriend. i think there is a very interesting case that has beenen filed in virginia where the supposed russian girlfriend is suing many companies for libel and defamation because she had nothing to do with general flynn, then at the end of the day, it was get flynn for saying that he lied even though the inspectors and investigators said that he didn't lie. let's not forget over all of that, you have one of the biggest leaks in u.s. history, raw intelligence, transcripts of general flynn talking to the russian ambassador. >> sean: let me go to these new developments.cr the attorney general suggested we would expect the inspector general report on fisa abuse in mid-may but now we have last-minute developments, as we've been reporting. catherine herridge has been reporting, and others. one is the people that weren't willing to talk are now willing to talk. others that did talk, my sources telling me they decided they wanted to go back and get more details.

i assume they were thinking they were in trouble. now christopher steele, 15 hours. christopher steele, i can't imagine, would contradict testimony he gave under oath under the threat of perjury, and that case the interrogatory in great britain. i don't see that, do you? >> i don't, and that is what is taking the inspector generalee longer. the interview with steele and then the top level number two at the state department and the european division, who, we finally found her notes. kathleen kavalec. so in her notes, clearly now we know and the inspector general knows, that steele had problems with his credibility long before they went to spy on carter page. that is what is slowing down the process. >> sean: you mentioned kathleen kavalec, that is almost two weeks before comey signed the fisa warrant. but we know the fbi, doj, we

bruce ohr in august 2016. kavalec two weeks before the first fisa warranty signed by comey. that means they were warned hillary paid for it. they should've put a big, bold headline in neon lights for the judges in the fisa case in the application. they didn't. but we know from steele's testimony under oath, it is an unverifiable document. the bottom line is -- >> let me try to tie this all together. let's go back to the story that just broke yesterday. four favorable stories about steele, supposedly some sources who know the matter, that means it is steele himself talking to reporters saying that steele was a cooperating witness. we also know the fbi has told congress that they didn't know anything about the steele dossier until september of 2016. another lie because we know from the interviews with bruce ohr and others and even andrew weissmann, the pitbull for mueller, that he was actually briefed on the dossiers in 2016. there is a lot here for the

inspector general to get a hold of but what really needs to happen is the u.s. attorney in connecticut needs to get all this information as quickly ass possible and then interview all these people under oath in front of a grand jury. >> sean: devin nunes, ranking member house, intel community, thank you. one of the great things about live television is in the middle of the show somebody can text you and say, sean, i think your flag is upside down and i get to fix it. not on purpose, i promise. we respect old glory. coming up, more investigations. media trying to tie president trump to the convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein, but they ignore the clinton connections. wait until they hear the connections he does have. pam bondi, jeff lord next. later, an all-out war breaking out. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, her public feud with speaker pelosi is escalating and a circular firing squad forming and it has gone to a whole new level. we will break that news straight ahead. ♪

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♪ the jeffrey epstein case, watching it unfold before our eyes. the liberal hate-trump media, doing their very best to link trump to epstein and the atrocious crimes and allegations. however their claims are actually the opposite of the truth, court documents claiming in fact the president banned epstein from mar-a-lago after an alleged assault on an underage girl at the club. that was years ago. meanwhile, the labor secretary alexander acosta, the u.s.rl attorney for florida at the time that epstein was tried and secured a lenient plea deal in '08, he is defending his role in the case as the liberal media tries to use it to bludgeon the trump administration. this, as a 1995 report is resurfacing today, shows that

bill clinton -- interesting the media didn't care in 2016 when they wanted bill clinton's wife to be the president. bill clinton dined with epstein years before the official statement claims, and we already know that the flight logs show the former president, he was on the lolita express, as "the new york post" dubbed epstein's plane, a whopping 26 times. now the media mob is scrambling to turn it around on trump because they want to appeasen their fellow liberals. joining us now with reaction, jeffrey lord, and author of theh book "swamp wars," from former florida attorney general, pam bondi. pam, let's look at the acosta press conference today, maybe you can explain the legal aspects of this because all these kids in "the new york post," what was described as l predator, pedophile behavior.

why didn't the local prosecutor go after him and when the feds got after him, what were they able to do or not do, and was this really a sweetheart deal? >> until you have walked in the shoes of a sex crimesll prosecutor, it is difficult to comment on these cases and i have for years. state attorney i'm going to defend him, too. what he did was take it to a grand jury. h all these victims -- and a grand jury only hears evidence most favorable to the prosecution. he had a grand jury, sean, still came back with only one count. that shows how difficult these cases are. and alex acosta and the fbi, they jumped in to try to help. they didn't have to get involved in this. they jumped in and tried to help prosecute him. >> sean: if you have these young girls saying this happened, this happened, this date. others corroborating the coordination of meeting these young girls, then the testimony

of people on the flight with young girls were on the flight as well. you would think that that would be powerful testimony. >> i've been there where sex crimes prosecutors, two separate ones, have tried cases much better than these to prove and lost of them. these guys walked scot-free. by the way, the woman is still in the u.s. attorney's offense in south florida who was in charge of this. she is a bulldog tough prosecutor, to this day, she suggested the 18 month plea along with the fbi, and the best part about it was to guarantee that this pedophile is deemed as a sex offender for the rest of his life. they had no idea the department of corrections would let him out on work release, which is horrible, and let him out early. >> sean: the southern district of new york is long known as one of the toughest prosecute -- i mean some of the best lawyers have come out of there.

n rudy, andy mccarthy, these are real prosecutors. >> and now they have new evidence.s >> sean: and the new evidence being what they found in the safe. let's go to the media side of it. jeffrey lord, we have all of this information in 2016, the media doesn't want to touch it. they get one little clue that epstein knew donald trump and they are running with it. but they don't tell the truth, trump was the guy that found out about something and threw him the hell out of mar-a-lago. they kind of missed that big part of the story. >> this is one more attempt to get the president, that is basically what this is. combined with something else, i think there was a real panic in the democratic establishment. this business of going after alex acosta, i think is designed as a distraction. chuck schumer took thousands of dollars from this guy for his congressional and senate campaigns.do is he being asked to resign? where is the pressure for that? what about the clintons and the clinton foundation, the clinton

global initiative that he was so involved in? are they going to give him money back? what about all the other democratic politicians? they've really got a problem on their hands. i think this is harvey weinstein times ten. and they are going to have to deal with it. that is why they are desperately flailing to pin the blame onit president trump when there are court documents out there saying he threw him out. >> sean: when you look at what the southern district of new york has, pam, do you see that they have a case? >> oh, i think they have a very? strong case now that they have all the photographs, they didy the raid on his apartment, and ironically, that conviction, that registered sex offender, even though he served a short time, that can be used in a new case against him. so that is even more powerful now, and this guy needs to be buried under jail for the rest of his life. >> sean: why was bill clinton -- we already know bill clinton's history. monica lewinsky was pretty young at the time, she was an intern in the white house. smoke, fire, jeff?

>> yeah, exactly. and of course, you mentioned lewinsky, we all remember that memorable pointing of the finger, "i did not have sex with that woman," and of course that was absolutely not true. now we have a statement that he -- now we have a statement he was on the plane four times when he was on over 20. i mean, typical. >> sean: typical. we are going to follow it. media mob strikes again. double standard. when we come back, it's getting crazier by the day.mo congresswoman ocasio-cortez, speaker pelosi, it is now allt' out warfare. getting really nasty. you won't believe what aoc just said about the speaker. later, a city council in minnesota banning the pledge of allegiance. really? lawrence jones went to the north star state to see what is really going on. he hit the streets and we will have a full report. ♪ will have a full repo (photographers) candace! charlie! i'm so hungry. (photographers) look here! candace, starkist creations come in over 20 flavors-- right: chicken, salmon, or tuna

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♪ ♪ >> sean: tonight, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez taking direct aim at joe biden. that bombshell audio just ahead. but first, her battle with speaker of the house in name only pelosi, it is now a dailyh occurrence and it's getting more ugly and intense every hour. breaking moments ago, ocasio-cortez, tonight is now slamming pelosi for being "outright disrespectful," even accusing her of "explicit singling out of newly elected women of color." in an explosive interview with "the washington post." this comes after a closed-door meeting with lawmakers earlier today. pelosi took her biggest shot yet at ocasio-cortez, reportedly saying "so again, you've got a complaint, you come and talk to me about it. but do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is okay." when asked about the infighting,

pelosi told "the washington post," "i have no regrets about anything. regrets is not what i do." hours ago when ocasio-cortez was asked if she would tone down her twitter use, she replied bluntly, no. according to "the daily mail.". and it doesn't stop there. according to an interview with "the new yorker," ocasio-cortez was asked about her relationship with pelosi. she didn't hold back at all. take a listen to this. >> what is your relationship like with nancy pelosi? tell me how that works, what are the dynamics of it? >> you know, i think sometimes people think that we have this, like, we have a relationship. >> are you saying you don't? >> not particularly. not one that is, i think, distinguished from anyone else. i was assigned to two of the busiest committees and four subcommittees, so my hands are full. sometimes i wonder if they are trying to keep me busy.

>> sean: now, like usual, the media mob didn't get it. we've been ahead of the curve. we told you this would happen. now, that there is real resentment, and those deep wounds will be exposed more and more. it is happening. full on civil war, a circular firing squad has formed, she has targeting fellow democrats and the freshman lawmakers going after the democratic front runner, sleepy, creepy joe, and the same interview ocasio-cortez even went so far as to question his mental capacity after being asked about the age of bernie sanders and biden. listen to this. >> i think when it comes to aged i think age gets used as a proxy for capacity. so i think there are some folks that are of a certain age where you can kind of question their capacity. >> joe biden? >> i think joe biden, his performance on the stage kind of

raised some questions with respect to that. >> sean: what does this all mean? it means every times pelosi tries to grab her gavel back, the fight is only going to intensify. as i've been saying, speaker in name only. every blunder biden makes, the new extreme freshman democrats are going to be there to jump all over him. remember, they are the ones,go they are setting the agenda, they are pushing a platform that is actually being adopted by all the 2020 democrats, like sayinga walls and borders are immoral, b you should take them down. amnesty, abolish i.c.e. today, ocasio-cortez suggested getting rid of the department of homeland security. that's brilliant. backing health insurance for illegal immigrants. who is going to pay for that? abolishing private insurance for american citizens. free college, free retirement, free child care, free health care, government-guaranteed healthy food, and a job even if you are unwilling to work. by the way, no oil, no gas, we will get rid of planes, fossilve fuels, you want open borders, entitlements, extraordinarily

high taxes that will chase everyone out of america.n it is impractical, illogical, destructive, dangerous, and it will literally destroy the economy if ever they attempt to implement it. pelosi and biden have no power over this new radical wing. the party will move further and. further left and further away from the views of common sense americans. one other big problem, the trump economy, the best employment situation since 1969, record low unemployment for african-americans, asian-americans, hispanic-americans, women in the workplace and youth employment. that was important because when i was young and had a job it kept me out of a lot of trouble. joining us now with reaction, the house minority leader kevin mccarthy. from your vantage point and from the president's vantage point, if they want to run on the new green deal and everything is free, you can't have private insurance, we are going to pay for illegal immigrants' health insurance, we are going to tear

down all border walls and then we are going to eliminate oil, gas, the combustion engine and everything else, i think that is a pretty good platform to run o against, myself. c >> it is a great platform because think about what president trump has done. gave us the greatest economy wee have had in 50 years. g what he has been able to achieve, but what this is really about is socialism versus freedom. this is not the democratic party, this is the socialist democratic party. and you are 100% correct about that relationship. think about that relationship with aoc and the speaker. a few months ago they were on the cover of "the rolling stone." now they are throwing stones at each other. this isn't a family fight, thise is war. aoc's chief of staff has just questioned the voters to challenge them, name one thing the democrats have done to achieve anything, then questioned the legislative mastermind, the so-called speaker pelosi.in unheard of. >> sean: it's 25 years, and i was the mc, a relatively young

man, the night newt gingrich became the speaker. the 25th anniversary this year of the contract with america.. and i'm thinking, house republicans kind of do a better job than senate republicans, in terms of trying to help the president and his agenda. maybe it would be a good idea to put the top ten items on paper, nationalize the election, you would be the next speaker of the house, mitch mcconnell would run and win in kentucky, easily. then we would have promises thas can help the president so he doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting by himself, which too often, i think, is the case. >> exactly. this president has to do so much.o but the house republicans are with this president. the promises he has made in the campaign, this is where americas is so surprised.ad he is one of the first presidents that kept his promises his promises. >> sean: shocking. >> he has kept more promises than he made.is but we should put it on paper,ho we should tell the american public what we can accomplishh and we have to battle socialism

because it is overtaking, not just what the democratic partytl used to be, but they are trying to challenge and take over this country. >> sean: it ought to be consensus, white house, your house, and the senate.tr you do that, you make the promises and keep promises, it's an amazing thing. the american people like politicians when they keep their word. keeping your word is good politics. you get to stay in power, which is seems most people want when you get there.li kevin mccarthy, good to see you. thank you. when we come back, you can't believe this story. city council, minnesota, banning the pledge of allegiance. unbelievable. we sent lawrence jones to see what residents think of that. breaking news tonight, fox news tonight confirming the iranian revolutionary guard earlier trying to seize a british ship. we will have a live report, stay with us. ♪ seize a british ship. we will have a

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♪ >> sean: following protests, the st. louis park, minnesota, city council reconsidering a decision to do away with the pledge of allegiance before meetings. the council claimed it was creating a more welcoming environment to serve a diverse community by getting ready tolc make rid of the pledge. i think we can all agree that we live in the greatest country god gave man but apparently not. we sent lawrence jones to st. louis park to ask people there what they thought of that council, take a look. >> in st. louis park, they are getting rid of the pledge ofou allegiance before the l city council meetings. how do you feel about this? >> pretty horrible. aren't we a part of a government that should be doing that? >> it should be up to the city. people have a right toop express their opinions about. >> i don't have to say the pledge of allegiance.

i want respect being taught to people, whether they are saying words, it's more actions. >> the st. louis park city council says that the pledge of allegiance shouldn't be there. you agree with that? >> no, everyone understands it. >> i think we can all identify as americans and we all have the same true values and at the heart of that is democracy. >> they say it's not reflective of the values of the community, not diverse enough. what do think about that? >> i may be old-school but i'm i not sure i agree with that. >> my son is in the cub scouts, they still do it. my husband is in the military, we stand for the flag, you should be doing the pledge of allegiance. >> sean: a more welcoming environment to serve a diverse community. it's the greatest country god gave man. lawrence jones, he has more frequent flyer miles than anyone else at the network.

also texas congressman dan crenshaw. but seriously, there should be one thing we agree on but it is not the case. there has always been the blame america first crowd. now there is the hate america contingency out there and i'm trying to understand why. what country with a prefer we model? >> yes, we are sitting here right now outside of st. louis city hall behind us where patriots descended there and said look, it only takes 15 seconds to say the pledge of allegiance. obviously this is a liberalto town, so you have mixed reaction. some liberals said we want to get the pledge of allegiance, some of them says it is discriminatory towards somee citizens in this country. the bottom line is this, we have issues in america but at the end of the day, we should be united on the causes of america. it's the constitution that gives us so much protection. this starts on the college

campuses. there is a growing movement of professors and academics teaching these young people and the public at large to hatehe the public at large to hate america. >> sean: they don't even teach american history. >> and it's such a slanted view. >> sean: look at the reaction for the president and his fourth of july honoring of the military.g that's the military that beat communism, fascism, imperial japan and nazism, and i'm thinking, wow, have we really forgotten that this country is as great -- there has never been a country in the history of man that has accumulated more power and abused it less than theto united states? we are not perfect and i would add there has never been a country that has accumulated more power and used it to advance the human condition more than this one. you can't say a pledge? >> that is exactly right. there is a disturbing trend we keep on seeing and we have to wonder where we are right now. we can't even say the pledge off allegiance?

what is it about the pledge of allegiance that infuriates people so much? liberty and justice for all -- for all, not for some people, but for all.ll how that is not inclusive and diverse is beyond me. we have to get to this point where we start to appreciate who we are as americans and what brings us together. it is not necessarily geographic area, it is not skin color, religion, ethnicity, it is the red, white, and blue. and there are certain things that connect us. some of those things are the pledge of allegiance, the national anthem. we have to recognize thoseec traditions, they matter. >> the bottom line is where are these people going to go if they are not going to be in america? if you can't get freedom here, what is the next country that is going to defend all the other nations? >> sean: thank you both. breaking now, iranian aggression escalating, this time against great britain. we will have a live update ahead. ♪ ti my experience with usaa

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>> sean: this is a fox news alert. iranian aggression escalating again tonight. joining is now from our fox newr room, didn't work out how they wanted, but dangerous nonetheless. >> yeah, sean. a senior u.s. official confirming to fox news tonight at five iranian islamic revolutionary guard gunboats tried to seize a british oil tanker. british heritage was at the northern entrance of the straight, but a british work trip approached and threaten to open fire. spokesman for u.s. central command confirming the u.s. is aware of the actions and adding threats to international freedom of navigation regarding an international solution. the world economy depends on the free flow of commerce and

it is incumbent on all nations to protect and preserve this linchpin the global prosperity. sean, back to you. >> sean: the lifeblood of our economy, oil and gas, energy independent, and help the world's allies. important. increase the standard of livingp trump media mob. let not your hearts be troubled. laura? >> laura: hannity, we have aoc taking on biden now? >> sean: taking on biden and pelosi.>> >> laura: imagine if biden is the nominee, i do not want to be aoc. >> sean: if you are going to tweet or if you have something to say, say it to me. ocasio-cortez is not listening to nancy pelosi. give her credit for being outspoken, courageous. l her views? they are a little insane. but she has courage to stand up for them. >> laura: sean, she's being