will be back tomorrow night. 8:00 p.m. the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. hopefully, with great cheer and not bitterness. sean hannity, speaking of cheer, is a new york tonight. >> sean: all right, tucker. i think we have breaking news tonight. good show, tucker. it's going to take the full hour to get all of us in. we are going to break this down. will give you all the news and information the mob will never give you. here's what's happening. we'll start with a summary. the psychotics, and to trump hysteria, it is now completely overtaken the entire democratic party. what is happening is dangerous to this country. it is grossly political. it will forever alter how any president in the future, in his constitutional role as commander-in-chief, will be able to communicate freely with other world leaders.

the world is less safe and secure tonight as a result of yet the latest partisan witch hunt. we'll break it all down. what we have, though, at the root of all this is an irrational hatred. trump rage. it is all this party, the democratic party, now stands for today. i will predict tonight, they have done donald trump a huge favor. it will all backfire and blow up right in their face. speaker, nancy pelosi was forced to cave to a radical base that announced an impeachment inquiry that wants to impeach president trump. this has nothing to do with ukraine. this has nothing to do with collusion. this has nothing to do with high crimes and misdemeanors, because there are none. this has everything to do with the left's unyielding, unhealthy, what is an obsessive-compulsive hatred of president trump. they can't accept that he won. that was november 2016. they are still there.

and i think they even doubt they can beat him at the ballot box, which is why they are trying to do this now. he occupies every single conscious thought in their minds. it's like the moment they make up is the moment they fall asleep. donald trump lives in the heads of these psychotic democrats and their friends in the media mob. he kind of lives there rent free every hour of every second of every day. it is a sickness, but now it's officially hurting the country as it rules their lives. so, what are the grounds for impeachment? according to pelosi today, it's all about president trump's phone call with his ukrainian counterpart. keep in mind, trump ordered the transcript before her announcement that it's going to be released. that will happen tomorrow. i have numerous sources telling me tonight that the only thing the president discussed with the new president of ukraine, well, was what he ran on, which was ending corruption, which the new

ukrainian president pledged to do. by the way, does anyone care at all that our president is being spied on again? will get in it come back into t later tonight. the president's conversations with prime minister's and presidents. what foreign leader will ever again be willing to freely talk to a u.s. president? will have more on that in a moment. but according to reports, the whistle-blower complaints about the call, that will be released by the end of the week. but the radical socialist democrats, they just couldn't wait another second. they don't care that they haven't seen the transcript of the call. they don't care that the so-called "whistle-blower" was never a whistle-blower or that they had no direct knowledge of what happens on that call. they don't care that ukrainian officials, that's right, and others that actually know what happened on the call, have all

been a mentally denied the accusations of any quid pro quo. multiple sources confirming to me again tonight that there is no quid pro quo. according to nancy, it doesn't even need to be a quid pro quo in order to impeach. watch this insanity unfolding. >> pelosi: in terms of the constitution. this one is the most understandable. it's really important to know this. there is no requirement for a quid pro quo in the conversation. if the president brings up that he wants them to investigate something, that's of his political opponent. that is self-evident that is not right. >> sean: the dirty russian

dossier. oh, you only care if it's president trump. tell him that vladimir will have more flexibility after the election. we'll just skip them hundred 50 bucks. all right nancy nancy. hold your vote. if you're so worried, let's do this. let's see how far the radical democratic party is willing to take this political stunt. i say to the speaker, well, in name only, or to the call. i want every one of your democrats on the record. i dare you to do it. now, i'm sure the real speaker, that would be alexandria ocasio-cortez, will demand it. i also predict you are probably going to buckle, because you know your job's on the line, and you are not in control of your caucus at all. so let's get this on the record. let's see democratic lawmakers, you know, ones from oh, look

right there, both all democratic lawmakers that won districts that donald trump won. let's get them on the record. do they have the courage to do that customer will they support impeachment over nothing? will they trash the will of their own constituents? will they continue to waste time, taxpayer money over deranged political folly that will go nowhere in the u.s. senate, and by the way, congressman, golden congressman maloney, congressman suzy lee and all the rest of them there, what do you see? 31 members of congress must now come out of hiding. we want to know where you stand on your leader of your party. do you answer to your constituents or are you joining the squad of radical socialist that want to ban cows and planes and get rid of the lifeblood of our economy, oil and gas, and tax america into a bolivia and just grow greatest wealth

creating system. by the way, do you want that as much as you want to destroy president trump? frankly. i have no faith that you will make the right decision. after all, your so-called leader, nancy pelosi, is now totally and completely controlled by a couple of freshmen lawmakers in congress. the chair woman who doesn't know the difference between crimea and korea. this is the leader of the socialist party. everything is going to be free. for three long years, they have put this country through hell and they haven't lifted a single finger, nothing to make this country a more secure country, a better place with more jobs, more opportunity, more economic growth. one of their plans to boast american industry and create jobs? where other plans to keep america safe and secure? where are their plans to solve the murder crisis in america's biggest cities likes wow like

chicago and all the other cities that are experiencing horrible schools? the answer is nowhere to be found. that is what today is about. democrats have now spent three years hyper ventilating hyperv. russia, russia, russia, stormy, stormy, stormy, impeach, impeach, impeach. ukraine, ukraine. how does any of this rage help any american? three long years you have dragged this country and this president a duly elected president through the mud, and we are about to see all of the corrupt dealings and handle liens of oh, intelligence, and all the lying and all the conspiracy is by the media mob in this country.

no world leader will ever want to have an honest phone conversation with any president of the united states. is that good for our safety and security? i would think it's a good thing that we have enumerated powers in the constitution and we have, yes, one commander and chief. i can think of a single time in the history of this great country before donald trump, where a president's phone calls with other world leaders were repeatedly hacked into and leaked to the public. now, it happens left and right. who leaked the contents of the president's call with the australian prime minister? who leaked whistle-blower, well, it's not a whistle-blower, call with the ukrainian president? everyone on the phone with the u.s. president is probably saying, "oh, it's probably going to be leaked to one day." that is not going to advance peace in the world. all the democrats seem to care

about is their insatiable urge and compulsion to impeach trump. that is why tonight, the real leader of the democratic party is very pleased. take a look. >> i think that we all, many of us, especially from districts there experiencing, have been. i think that the developmental rhonda whistle-blower >> sean: all right, tonight, if you care about that sanctity, you really care about this country, president trump created jobs over the past three years. we now have the best employment situation since 1969. oh, record low unemployment for african-americans, asian-americans, hispanic-americans, women in the

workplace. for the first time in 75 years, the mob will never tell you this, the media, we are now a net exporter of energy and are completely energy independent, which, by the way, it's time to send washington a message. that means they are less strategically geopolitically important than they've ever been to this country. what happens in the middle east, we don't necessarily need to get involved in entanglements that we otherwise would have in the past. you might want to tell your representatives that you don't pay them to spend every second of every day, every year after year, hour after hour trying to destroy a duly elected president. that's what elections are for. you can tell them you are done with this. you are done with the never ending witch hunts. president trump was duly elected by we, the american people, in spite of efforts to oh, let's see, spy on them and use russian

lies from the get-go. that would be hillary's dirty dossier that saved her from going to jail, that would be the espionage act. by the way, i wouldn't try it at home, what's hillary did, if you have emails that are subpoenaed. you will be charged with obstruction of justice, something they protected her from. it's been three years now. it's time for them to get over. they lost. try and beat donald trump at the ballot box. i don't think you believe you can. by the way, that won't happen if they nominate sleepy creepy crazy uncle joe 30330. thanks to the left's ukraine history. they have now done america a favor, because now, joe biden is finally getting exposed, and some richly deserved attention for his own ukrainian scandal should shock the conscience of every american.

we will come back and we will have tonight more of biden's abuse of power. joining us to first with more of democrats latest is our very own, ed henry. >> i spoke to a senior administration official. they are not just releasing the transcripts. they will be releasing other documents, including a look at what the inspector general at the intelligence committee found about the whistle-blower who started this whole thing, alleging some wrongdoing by the president. here's the key information. the inspector general found that the whistle-blower had "political bias" in favor of a rival candidate of president trump in 2020. now, this official did not have this specific information as to whether or not they whistle-blower.

i do not have the name of the 2020 candidate. we are going to learn tomorrow and we are learning tonight for the first time here on hannity, is that the whistle-blower who has been held up as a truth teller, who is just sort of down the middle and just trying to lay out the facts as they see them about president trump, actually, as the inspector general did an investigation here to get at the root of whether or not any of the allegations against the president are true, found some sort of political bias. i don't know if they found emails. but the senior official is telling me that the inspector general found political bias in favor of a ryle dominic rival candidate of trump. we are going to be hearing a lot more about this tomorrow. this official is familiar with the transcript of that call also told me that there is no smoking gun in this transcript, that it's nowhere near as inflammatory as democrats and

some of the media have suggested. but i will add that this senior official told me that there are at least a few words in the words of this official, a few words in the transcript that are going to raise eyebrows and because political headaches for the white house. as you can imagine, there is a lot of back-and-forth about the context of the call, the detail details. he is telling me that there's absolutely no smoking gun in there that's going to prove anything incriminating. >> sean: i have the same report. my sources are saying absolutely no quid pro quo. we are talking about corruption. the new president ran on an anticorruption platform. to reiterate here, what you are saying is that the so-called "whistle-blower," we know it wasn't a real whistle-blower. they had an agenda. that is huge bias. here's what i would like to say. is joe biden going to release his conversations. i would like to demand that joe biden now release all of his

conversations that he had when he was vice president with ukraine. especially now in light of what we learned about joe biden, bragging on tape about how he leveraged 1 billion u.s. dollars. why would a vice president of the united states ever want a prosecutor in ukraine fired? the guy that was investigating his own son and he was tipped off by "the new york times" that his own son was being investigated. there is a lot more to this story -- >> ed: you are right. there are a lot of people raising questions about the president. you played the clip. he posted about getting that prosecutor fired at a time when the obama administration, not the trump administration, was holding aid and loans over the head of the ukrainian government at that time, sean. >> sean: yet. $1 billion. you are not getting the money. same prosecutor investigating

holdings. that's the same company that his son was involved in. we haven't even touched the china issue. i'm shocked. no words yet as to who was spying on the president of the united states. what will be the political gift, the biggest gift that he could have asked for heading into 2020 and what the democrats think about pelosi's decision. here live in washington, fox news capitol hill senior producer, chad is with us. >> good evening, sean. on friday afternoon, i spoke with new york representative, a casio cortez. she was a little dejected at the time. disappointed at how long this was taken. she said the move by house speaker, nancy pelosi was precisely what liberals

interdistrict in her district were looking for. no one was happier than al green. he has tried on multiple occasions to impeach the president. tonight, he was very excited. listen to al green. >> i feel that i'm being vindicated. it was lonely, but not as lonely as it has been. i don't think that we have control. it will happen. >> chad: but there is skeptic skepticism. she was one of the seven freshman democrats with national security in "the washington post" today, endorsing an impeachment inquiry. that's a seat that republicans want to win back next year. >> this doesn't put you in

jeopardy in any way? you know, it might, but i think the other national security, it might put them in peril as well. we really felt that there was a line that had been crossed. >> do you think that voters might be upset with you for taking this position? before that remains to be seen. >> chad: tom emmer is a republican congressman from. make no mistake, it will cost them with the majority in 2020. sean. >> sean: all right, good reporting. now, more reaction. house minority leader, kevin mccarthy. first, let me get your reaction that we now have the inspector general pulling the lid on the whistle-blower.

also the revelation that there was no quid pro quo involved in this, but this person had a political agenda. i'd like to know what the agenda was. i'd like to also know how did anyone get to listen in on a president's call to a foreign leader and leak it? what foreign leader will ever trust talking to a president in the future? >> kevin: i don't know why democrats are excited. first of all, they just made america weaker. this is similar to all those attacks on the president. they've been going after the president even before he was elected. don't worry, we have an insurance policy so he can never win. and now, a whistle-blower who didn't even hear the conversation. what nancy pelosi did was nothing. she didn't bring an inquiry. if you want to know what she does tomorrow, read what aoc does tonight. she tweeted over the weekend that she is now trying to appease the socialist wing of

the party. they are going to be embarrassed when these transcripts come out. i hope the american public wakes up. have we not learned what we just went through the last two years? he had proof, more than circumstantial. this has to stop. it's making america weaker. i think you are right and it's hurting the country. but there's this other question here. whether word of this informatioe from? who was listening in on the president's phone calls? isn't that problematic? >> chad: no. after tomorrow, what world's leader is going to have an honest conversation with the president of the united states, because they know that whatever they say could be leaked out. it only makes whoever is president of the future, that's what we have to have accountability so that what

happened to this president can never, ever happen to anyone in the future. >> sean: you know, it's funny. i agree with what you are saying to. an official impeachment inquiry. no different than what they've been doing in the last three years. but nancy pelosi, everyone would go on record, and i would like to see that vote happen. >> kevin: that would be nice to happen. if his name was hunter smith, no one would have hired him. he wanted have found a billion dollars in china. why do you have a vice president who was running for president and who has never won in the democratic poll to fire someone who was going

to investigate his own son. why is no one up in arms about that and why is that not being investigated? >> sean: well said. no background in oil, energy, or gas. pretty good gig. obviously, he's pretty well connected. amazing thing happens. he has no background at all in private equity. the chinese government company, they give him a billion-dollar deal. his son is involved in that. there is a great indicator that maybe things aren't great. no background. i would think goldman sachs or any of the big banks might be, considering they had no experience. >> kevin: but they weren't walking off with the last name biden. that's the difference. >> sean: mccarthy. someone may want to remind joe

30330 that this is bad news for him. he might want to steer clear of the subject entirely instead of using it to trash president trump. joe, let me tell you what's going to happen. you're going to have to now answer questions. how is it that your son with no experience in oil, gas, or energy gets this deal? they warned you that your son was being investigated. you did lie when you said that he is asking the wrong questions. that was actually the right question. the question is why former vice president biden did you then take taxpayer dollars, $1 billion, and say fire him. got about six hours. i'm not giving you the money. they fired him. take a look. >> the allegations that flocked hundreds of millions of dollars, he blocked hundreds of millions of dollars that's an allegation.

unless he agreed to smear his political opponent is not the conduct of an american presiden president. >> sean: pretty big change of heart. biden actually engaged in the very thing that he was accusing president trump of doing. fake news cnn, actually shock and his colleagues was something they don't often hear. a little bit of truth. how did this possibly sneak in? take a look. >> biden does have a problem, by the way. i have to say. $50,000 a month for hunter biden, clearly to be. no one would ever pay him that kind of money for a company that was pretty corrupt and have to spend before and been since. it's hard to imagine biden wasn't aware of it. if this ends up being an al franken moment where he gets thrown under the bus, then maybe

that's what they need to do. >> yeah, maybe. >> sean: drag an entire country this? make billions in endeavors he has no experience in? this scandal is not going away. the timeline, as we point out, is very. pay close attention and follow the timeline. a few months later, joe biden's son hunter scored a lucrative position on the board of burisma holdings. that is a gas and energy company in ukraine. as we have stated many times, he had zero experience. gas, energy, or oil. none. zero. no experience with the country of ukraine. what qualified him for such a lucrative deal? but this gas company reportedly shelled out way more than

$3 million to his private equity firm. joe biden was advised by the "new york times" that his son was under investigation by the ukraine authorities. in december 2015, joe biden made his first request by the president of ukraine to fire the prosecutor leading correction dominic corruption investigation into his sun's company. he's trying to interfere there. in march 2016, according to john sullivan investigative reporter, vice president biden knew this prosecutor was investigating his son, was about to conduct an interview with his son. he actually talked to the prosecutor who was fired. that's one biden leveraged a billion of your tax dollars to force the ukrainian president, fire him in six hours or you don't get the money. that's right. the prosecutor who was about to investigate his son called his son in for an interview. we know this because he bragged

about it on camera. one conducting u.s. foreign policy. as you can see, where there's smoke, there's plenty of fire. anyone in the media mob who calls this a conspiracy theory, well, they are the ones who have been peddling it for the last three years. the timeline should cause concern for joe biden and his family peered you see, his son hunter also scored another extry lucrative deal. he joined his father aboard beautiful air force two. scored a $1 billion deal with subsidiary of the bank of china. chinese government. later, that increased to

$1.5 billion. hunter biden again, zero expertise as it relates to china. the banking industry, private equity. it yet, somehow hunter biden scd this business opportunity. goldman sachs, i could think of a lot of other companies that were probably more deserving. the question is, "how and why. will he be held accountable for his son? here with more reaction, senate judiciary chairman, lindsey graham. i don't know. i think that if i flew to china and i had no experience in private equity and i got a deal, i would be pretty happy, but it doesn't look good, does it. >> linsday: well, you know, we've looked at the trump

family. it's about time somebody look at the connections of the ukraine. here's my question. when the vice president told the ukraine we will take the money away from you unless you fire the prosecutor, did he have a conflict of interest because they were looking at his son? tomorrow, we will read the transcript. is there any evidence at all that president trump threatened to take aid away. i don't know, but i will tell you this. the answer is, yes. i will be on your show very disappointed with our president. if the answer is no, this is russia times to times ten. >> sean: do you see even just the rush to judgment? we don't know what's here. we do know the inspector general had that so-called "whistle-blower" political agenda. they don't know any of the

facts. they don't know any of the details. donald trump is going to release his transcripts with ukraine. i'd like to release joe biden's conversations with leaders when he was vice president and may be barack obama's as well. is that fair? >> lindsey: yeah, i think it's very fair. who told him or her about it? see too well, that's >> lindsey: let me tell you. somebody told this person about a phone call. did they have a political agend agenda? i will make an offer on television. if you want to testify under oath to the judiciary committee, you are welcome to do so. i want to find the truth. here's another question. was there a reason to withhold aid to this ukrainian administration?

was it okay for president trump to withhold money to try to get other countries to give more? these are the questions that somebody needs to ask and answer. >> sean: senator, is this good politically speaking? how do you think this plays out for the democrats? >> lindsey: well, it tells me that they think they are going to lose at the ballot box. the only reason they are trying to impeach the president is because they don't believe they can beat him at the ballot box so they are trying to destroy it. it comes onto this. if there is no evidence that president trump tried to coerce the ukrainian into investigating biden and withholding aid, then there's nothing here. that will be the only thing that would bother me. it would be okay for the president to tell the ukrainians, hey, if he was fired for a purpose, maybe you should look at it. >> sean: how do you get to a point were democrats, crazy new

green deal, $36 trillion, some estimates, $94 trillion for the new green deal. they want to stack the u.s. supreme court. they want to get rid of the electoral college. it seems that this party has lost any sense of constitutional governments. the enumerated powers of commander and chief lie with the president. how does the president effectively be the commander and chief if his phone calls are being spied on and leaks are coming out for people that have political agendas. if this is secondhand information, where did it come from and how is it that they got so much wrong it already? >> lindsey: i think what we want to know is if the whistle-blower is telling us something that they know to be true firsthand, repeating gossip given to them by somebody else. but here's what trump has done that so important. you can read it for yourself tomorrow.

the one thing about this president that i admire is that he is releasing a phone call that you can make your own judgment. if there is no evidence that donald trump tried to withhold military aid, there's nothing here. but there's a lot here when it comes to biden. did he have a conflict of interest when he threatened to withhold aid to the ukraine? that needs to be looked at. was there a reason to withhold after the selection apart from biden? a lot of people were worried about this new administration. should we >> sean: let me ask y. if we are at a point here where this is what we are going to do is we are now going to spy on presidents, i don't know where this all ends up, is america safe because of this? >> lindsey: america is far

less safe when a whistle-blower files a complaint when they were not a part of the phone call. if the democratic threatened to withhold aid to a foreign country unless a prosecutor is looking at his son and nothing happens and they are willing to impeach president trump on a phone call they know nothing about. >> sean: last question. could you imagine any scenario under which a vice president of the united states withholds $1 billion. i'm not going to have it to you unless you fire a ukrainian prosecutor? >> lindsey: it real quick. what if mike pence calls somebody tomorrow and threatens that government unless you fire the prosecutor? do you think that might make it in the news? >> sean: while side, senator.

more reaction to all this breaking news. found the so-called "whistle-blower" had political bias against president trump. author to the soon to sequel released sequel to his number one best seller. it's called "witch hunt." fox news contributor, sara carter. ken starr. let's talk about the law. >> she said the director of national intelligence shall and must hand over. that's completely wrong. the whistle-blower is not a whistle-blower. you can't blow the whistle on the president because he's not a member of the intelligence committee. that's what the law says. pelosi, obviously dented read the law or she can't comprehend the law even though she said she was an authority on it. second of all, the president is duty-bound onto the clause of the constitution. he knows of a particularly

corrupt act trying to extort a foreign country to parts . the president is duty-bound to ask that foreign country, investigate, produce the evidence, give it to us. if he doesn't do it, it is. a -- >> sean: so what you're saying is that the president had a legal responsibility in lieu of the fact that russia tried to influence our elections. before ignoring what joe biden admits on camera of doing. >> sean: that's a great point. from your legal perspective how do you react to gregg's analysis? >> i think that he is making a terrific point. this is not a dominic been a great day for the constitution dominic congress

if there is going to be a house impeachment inquiry, it needs to be authorized by the house of representatives. this has been discussed in terms of, well, come on, let's take a vote. well, my constitution pointed that there was no vote. we simply had a press conference. but i agree with gregg. the president's duties are so important, especially, sean, in the arena of foreign relations. going to congress and getting laws passed and whether to veto them, they involve judgment. they involve personal relationships at his ability to speak freely. i completely agree with the concerns that have been expressed. you express them. chairman lindsey graham express them. the president needs the confidence to have these very candid conversations without there being leaks and disclosures. so it's been a very bad day for

the constitution. >> sean: it's so funny. the double standard is so flagrant. it was used to bludgeon another candidate. it was paid for by the other candidate. that would have been indicted if it was anybody else and they are going to lecture. they are going to lecture anybody else about the sanctimonious superiority of their values? i'm not buying it. but this is now the sick political twist and environment we live in. >> it most certainly. allegations of collusion, no evidence, and that ultimately rooted in bias. i don't think i'm going to like the ukrainian knockoff and neither will the american people. what nancy pelosi did today is not only unprecedented, it was unpatriotic, because it embarrassed the house of representatives. it undermines there's just somey

un-american about judging the verdict that the president violated his oath of office before nancy pelosi has even seen the evidence that we are going to get tomorrow. i believe what you saw from this speaker today was more about her holding onto power and holding on to the speaker gavel without any sense of judgment. corey lewandowski prevailed this last week. he said that this is evidence that too many democrats in congress hate donald trump more than they love america. that is a sad admission. >> sean: let's pick up on gregg's point that the president has a responsibility to literally go after any corruption that could have happen. we've seen biden on tape. we know that his son had no experience in oil or energy or gas, or even private equity with the china deal. for him to not ask the question would be a big part of it. but now we also know that, yep.

this whistle-blower that wasn't a whistle-blower that had secondhand information, yeah, that person interestingly had a political agenda. shocking. >> sara: not even shocking at all to me, sean, because all you have to do is go back to the very beginning. remember all of the phone conversations that were being leaked between the president of the united states, the president of mexico, at the beginning of his presidency. and now we see this happening. we heard about the insurance policy. we also know people within the white house. very few within the national security council have access to those private conversations with the president and other world leaders. >> sean: and who would have access and why is a president being monitored and his phone calls with foreign leaders? how will any president in the future be able to conduct serious private conversations? >> sara: there are very few

people in the white house that would have access to those conversations. they need to do a shakedown and they need to find out who inside the white house is actually spying on him. now, we know that this whistle-blower dented even have direct access to this conversation. so we know that it was passed from a secondary source. at least we believe that. in order for him to report, in order for it to be leaked. this is what they do over and over again. this is extraordinarily dangerous, sean, because they are directly targeting the president of the united states and its constant. and tomorrow, i truly believe there will be eggs on the face of nancy pelosi and everybody else who is going after the president in this impeachment. >> sean: gregg, you want to jump in. before you, this has the potential to blow up in the face of democrats in the media. >> sean: we want to know,

because you ran on an anticorruption platform. >> gregg: yeah, absolutely, and in the end, i think this is going to be terribly bad for joe biden. he's already beginning to sink in some of the polls. he was elected before he took office. they started drawing up articles of impeachment. then, it was the russian hoax. and then, it was the firing of comey. the president so much as coughs and he's a crook. >> chad: all right >> sean: all. thank you all. the inspector general of the intelligence committee found the so-called "whistle-blower" had a political bias against president trump. set to release the transcript of the president's call.

fox news chief white house correspondent, john roberts. he is live with the very latest from the white house tonight. john. >> john: good evening to you. a lot still going on. confirm to fox news that the white house released the whistle-blower complaint as soon as i possibly can, as soon as it's legally possible to do it. it is not legally possible to do, but the white house things that things might have changed. the whistle-blower has informed the director of national intelligence that he or she wants to before congress. it has nothing to hide and there is no wrongdoing. meanwhile, democrats opening that formal impeachment inquiry before even seeing the

whistle-blower complaint or the transcript that's been called between president trump and the ukrainian president, zelensky. he believes that when that transcript comes out, the democratic case is going to fall totally apart. here's what he said earlier today when he was meeting with the president of iraq. >> president trump: so the country is doing the best it's ever done and i've just heard that they would like to impeach. this never happened. i mean, if she does that, that's a positive for me in the election. who needs it? it's bad for the country. >> john: tomorrow is going to be a big day as well. here's the timeline of what's going to happen tomorrow. a transcript of the telephone call will be released sometime before 2:00 p.m. i'm told. and then, the president has a bilateral meeting with ukrainian president, zelensky. and then, a press conference following that.

now, ukraine agreed to the transcript release. the president tweeted "he received permission to release the transcript. they don't know either what the big deal is, a total witch hunt scammed by the democrats. i'm told that there are other steps the president took to limit the nature." so he can start making other demands. stay tuned, sean. tomorrow is going to be a big day in american politics. >> sean: i'm calling on joe biden to release all of his transcripts with the leaders of ukraine that are available. let's get those out as well. thank you. more reaction. former bush administration, white house press secretary fox news contributor,

sarah sanders. carl, we will start with you. you didn't like the idea of releasing the transfer. i see it as a dangerous precedent. no quid pro quo. you are going to get to the bottom of corruption. >> yeah. look, i wasn't a big fan of it, because i think it is a bad precedent. he has decided, let's be transparent. i think he did the right thing and going to his counterpart in the ukraine. would you think? it's all going to come out. but let us not forget that this thing is, as was said earlier, the house is proceeding in a way that it hasn't done before. this is not a vote to formally begin an investigation of the president. it's a decision by one member, the speaker of the house who is being pressured by the inside.

she can't put together yet, votes among the democrats to officially begin an impeachment proceeding. she is keeping her members from having to cast what is viewed as a necessary vote to begin the impeachment proceedings. >> sean: i think that is very dangerous. the only thing that happened is that we went from an impeachment probe to a formal impeachment inquiry. they changed the title. now, they could have a roll call. they could get everybody on the record. and john roberts earlier today, reporting maximum. that means that this is dead on arrival. >> sarah: absolutely. i think the democrats are being incredibly stupid right now. they are not paying attention to the fact that impeachment is going to fail. not only is it going to fail, it is going to rally and unite republicans and help get the president reelected.

my guess is that's not what democrats want, because nancy pelosi has been clear that that is their whole purpose, making sure that they stop this president from being reelected. she stated today that it is a threat to democracy. the only threat to democracy i see in this entire process is democrats and nancy pelosi who refused to accept the results of the 2016 2016 election. we've seen it over and over and over again for the last few years. they fight it every step of the way. they've got to make a decision. do they love the country more than they hate this president? today they've made it clear that they've made their decision and it can it be a more devastating and wrong decision for the country. >> sean: one thing they haven't factored. they now have been on this kick of theirs for three years.

it blew up in their face. everything they were promising, they didn't deliver. they had the me media mob on tr side. they are willing to divide and drag this country with no knowledge down this political sewer, because they so want power. what is the pull political ramifications? >> karl: you're absolutely right. the american people are not in favor of impeachment. no collusion and no evidence that was sufficient enough on obstruction. the opposition of impeachment group. who thinks that this could dramatically turn around and support impeachment? i don't think so. the democrats have put themselves in a place, think about this. this is going to hurt joe biden badly. we are going to be talking about ukraine and the idea of hunter

biden being followed by a moscow oligarch. remember, it's not only hunter biden, a longtime family friend of john kerry of massachusetts, also gets put on the board. so we are going to have people saying, why didn't he think thas over there in the ukraine talking about anticorruption efforts when his son is on the board of one of the most corrupt institutions in the country? it's going to hurt nancy pelosi. she is now going to put those 31 democrats in either having to vote for impeachment, in which case they are going to irritate the republicans constituents. it hurts people like adam and elizabeth warren. i was taken back at the rhetoric

this past week. president trump has tried to get a foreign country involved in the american election. really? don't you remember what hillary clinton was trying to do? don't you think we are, if you think it's so bad because you don't want a foreign country involved in our election, why didn't you criticize hillary clinton? >> sean: that's selective moral outrage. >> karl: and look, this is going to hurt them with swing voters for exactly that reason. american voters are going to look at this. really, that's the best you can do? nobody knows what the democrats in the house are going to do. it's only going to get worse. >> sean: thank you both for being with us. karl rove, sarah sanders. also tonight, we are getting reports that the so-called

"whistle-blower" at the center of this storm wants to. catherine has the latest. she is live in washington tonight. >> confirmation. joe will testify publicly thursday for the democrats control. mcguire, issuing this statement. i want to make sure that i have upheld my responsibility to follow the law every step of the way. the men and women of the intelligence committee have a solemn responsibility to do what's right, which means reporting wrongdoing. i make sure that every complaint is handled appropriately. the complaints about the president's calls did not meet the standard. there is a legal requirement to share. on twitter, the president said he wants transparency that he is

authorizing the transcripts of my phone conversation with the president of ukraine. no pressure and unlike joe joe biden and his son, no quid pro quo. the transcripts of presidential calls are handled by the situation between four and five intelligence officials. their individual transcripts are then cross-referenced and cross checks. >> sean: all all right, cathere in washington. fox news correspondent at large, geraldo rivera. this is a terrific new book. if you look in the upper right-hand corner, that blurb is mine. how conservatives compete.

american senator for law and justice, our friend jordan. geraldo, let me ask you about his new book. he was told that this prosecutor is investigating his son. why would a vice president withhold a billion dollars? >> i think the back story that no one is talking about, and maybe it comes from my daytime talk show background. he has been a deeply troubled young man. he has dealt with drug and alcohol problems. he was in and out of rehab. he tested positive for cocaine. so it's not only that he got jobs he wasn't qualified for. he got an amazing soft landing there. $50,000 per month.

i think that in examining what happened here, i think that the vice president will be diminished. i think it's sad, because we all have children and we are only as happy as our unhappiest child. this young man has put the vice president -- >> sean: the vice president also lied to peter. he didn't stop it and then was warned that he's being investigated. he leveraged american tax dollars. that's abuse of power. you deal with a lot of this and the media mob and their agenda. you see the hysteria. reckless reporting. it's basically three nonstop years of this. you talk a lot about it in your brand-new book out today. >> that's right. we talked about it as a member of the president's legal team, we've dealt with the russia situation. the molar mueller team.

here we go again, sean. right at the beginning of your broadcast, it was deja vu all over again. so, the whistle-blower is a partisan hack bureaucrats. and the democrats, i guess, didn't know that when they started their phony impeachment inquiry today, because they don't have enough votes to actually open up an impeachment investigation that requires a majority vote. they don't have those. it's again, this is the straw. this is the, we've got to plan. it's another partisan hack trying to take down the president. >> sean: they have no idea what's in this. there is no quid pro quo. there is no smoking gun. the president is saying, yeah, we want to root out corruption like you do. >> they are looking, sean, for anything they can. if it takes on the president, that's the best. that's why we wrote to the next wave. i think this is going to be

nonstop. >> sean: they are injecting cancer into this system. at a level we've never seen. charlie. >> yeah, it's truly, truly astonishing. i think quite frankly what we are seeing here is that president trump kind of called their bluff. he heard all the accusations. they don't even wait to find out what evidence there is, what the actual accusations are. but he just says, okay fine. he throws it all out there. the two biggest takeaways. one is that trump is still being spied upon, even as president. that is shocking. it will be fascinating to see what exposure that opens up to other members of the intelligence committee that did have access to these calls and share this clearly classified

information with someone who was not red in on the conversation. the final thing i keep wondering is, how long are they going to circle the wagons to protect joe biden who is showing himself to be a terrible candidate? >> sean: why would a vice president -- >> people smashing devices. this is a transparent president who says, "fine. you want to see it. there you go." >> we havethat eavesdrop on the president of the united states and secret conversation with the head of another country. i mean, how can you trust anything around you if you are donald trump? they are stabbing him in the back. they have tried to sabotage his presidency sends men outlined since the second he was elected.

i think it is pathetic and this will rebound on them in a very profound way. >> sean: charlie, good to see you, geraldo good to see you. that is all the time we have left. we will never be a rage, psychotic media mob. let not your heart be troubled, laura ingle take it away. >> laura: hannity i am ready to jump on the geraldo rivera bandwagon, yes, yes, that was great, little great ending. but you predicted this. once they failed on the russian collusion, they have to come back for another bite of the apple, hannity. >> sean: joe biden, good luck because warning someone was investigated, you leveraged and abused my tax dollars to basically blackmail them to fire prosecutor because you knew that prosecutor was all over your sons dealings with -- that will not end up well for a bite and i will tell you th.