fingertips like nothing. the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, compositing pomposity, groupthink. we sincerely mean it. good night from washington. big breaking news night. sean hannity has that covered. takes over. >> sean: great show as always. welcome to hannity. the insanity, the rage in america is reaching a fevered pitch. this is not good for this country and as we speak, democrats are plotting, planning, scheming to overthrow the will of the american people, remove this duly elected president from office based on an outright lie. make no mistake. this is not an impeachment proceeding in any way, this is a full-fledged political coup attempt. it is an illegitimate, unconstitutional clown show. tonight, the trump administration is fighting back hard and letting democrats did their own the hole. white house counsel pat to pallone has issued what is a devastating takedown of the

democrats' attempted coup and a letter to nancy pelosi, the cowardly schiff, made thing one clear, the trump administration will not participate or cooperate with the democrats' unconstitutional in valid baseless so-called inquiry. you must not legitimize that which is illegitimate. every republican needs to stand by our constitution, rule of law, due process, past presidents, and by the way, how speaker gingrich did it in the 1990s against then president bill clinton. they are not offering anything near that. the republicans, white house officials, and others must not participate in this illegitimate unconstitutional madness. let the do-nothing democrats, they can own at all. this is them. this is who they are. in the end, they've done nothing but hate trump. not about truth, not about law, not about a fact-finding

mission. this is yet another impeach, impeach, impeach political witch hunts. byron york quoting government reporting that pelosi won't go to court to enforce the subpoenas. the house will keep turning out subpoenas based on what's known now, which is nothing, plus obstruction which answers the uncovered subpoenas bit like mcdonald's, running out in a minute. running deep in the democrats ' his words were devastating, i'll get to that. we take a step back. we have to remember how did we get here? now there are three fund mental things at play. one, the left in america, the media mob, they have never been able to accept the truth and the reality which is the results of the 2016 election.

two, we had four separate investigations into trump-russia collusion, bipartisan senate committee, and guess what, culminating with mueller's report. no collusion. impeachment dreams shattered. three, they know they can't beat trump. they've been saying it. take a look. >> are you concerned that impeachment talk may help the president's reelection? >> i'm concerned that if we don't impeach this president, he will get reelected. if we don't impeach him, he will stay. he has been vindicated. speaking >> sean: that's why we are where we are today. all started in the day that we the people, you the american voters, shock the world and pick donald trump to be the disruptive, iconoclastic president you elected. the left couldn't believe it. they snapped, quite frankly. every day since november 8th, 2016, they have been engaged with us in rage, but smelly

walmart shopper, i'm guilty, irredeemable deplorables, the ones who voted for trump cling to their god given bibles and religion. hundreds of anti-trump protesters march in dallas to rebel against the election. two days after the election, 10th of november 2016, fire erupts, vandalism reported, anti-trump protest in oakland. thousands protest trump election in l.a., block the 101 freeway in downtown. in new york, protesters returned to trump tower for a second night after trump's big election win. louisville saw a "not my president" protest the same debris november 11th, same story in philly, another protest in miami, indianapolis, on and on and on. democrats call for this president to be removed from office before he was ever close to be sworn in. by the way, their compliant

friends, the dnc stenographers, conspiracy theories, liars known as the media mob, they echo the hysteria on television. follow the timeline here. you may want to run your dvr. starting two days after election day, this is what brought us to this point. take a look. >> if he takes the risk going to trial and is convicted, that could be seen as an impeachable offense. >> if trump were caught on a video camera snorting cocaine on the video camera may be with his children, there may be a chance he would be impeached. >> is he not a legitimate president in your mind, there are tools that congress have. >> i don't see how that wouldn't be an impeachable offense. >> that tweet fits the republican definition of an impeachable offense. >> i will fight every day until he is impeached! impeach 45!

impeach 45! >> grounds for impeachment. >> it's an impeachable offense. >> for us, an impeachable offense. >> is impeachment the appropriate remedy -- >> something for congress like impeachment? >> all of that may be impeachable. >> that's an impeachable offense. >> that's an impeachable offense. >> is that an impeachable offense to you? >> he's much more vulnerable to impeachment. >> a potential ingredient of impeachment. >> where do you see an impeachable offense? >> it is grounds for impeachment. >> potentially criminal or even impeachable -- >> grounds for impeachment or does that go far enough in your view? >> grounds for impeachment.

>> this tweet alone may be an impeachable offense. >> let's talk about impeachment. >> impeachment is on the table. >> impeachable offense -- >> maybe they don't because we'll go in there and will impeach [bleep] -- [cheers and applause] >> do you see an impeachable set of offenses? >> it's an impeachable offense. >> if that's not impeachable i don't know what is. >> the president shall be removed from office on impeachment. >> is it impeachable? 100% is impeachable! >> very substantial evidence the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. >> grounds for impeachment. >> tipping point, the talk of impeachment reaches a fever pitch on capitol hill. >> sean: of course, there was

the insurance policy in place and it was called operation cross fire hurricane. that was the nine-month fbi counter intel investigation that only a president could have that, that it be obama, in all things trump and russia, prussia, russia, that came up empty, md, md. even peter strzok admitted there was no there there. it was a 22 month special counsel witch hunts, russia collusion, that came up empty too. no collusion, no conspiracy, nothing. robert mueller is biased testimony and embarrassment for democrats, four investigations clear the president in a wrongdoing but no due process from that corrupt media. they have been pushing impeachment from day one. democrats economically secretly searching, seeking, and meeting the demands for their radical base. they went from the stormy crew to a tax return to and now they set to a manufactured scandal surrounding ukraine and do that

they've got to ignore the real scandal of joe biden and his son. poor lucy made loud and clear that democrats believe there are many, many good options for impeaching the president. we've just got to pick one out of a hat. but this time instead of relying on a lengthy investigation to be thwarted by special counsel, they are going to take matters in their own hands. not going to make that mistake again. they will just use an unconstitutional impeachment blitz as white house counsel pat cipollone, house democrats have designed an inquiry that violates fundament of fairness constitutionally mandated due process. they have denied the president the right to cross-examine witnesses, to call witnesses, to receive transcripts of testimony, to have access to evidence, to have counseled the president, and so many other basic, simple pond mental guaranteed rights of all americans. all this violates the constitution, the rule of law

and every past president. newt gave them all of that when they impeach clinton. simply, democrats seek to overturn the result of the 2016 election and deprive you, the american people, of the president they have freely chosen. many democrats now view impeachment not only as a means to undo the democratic results of the last election but as a strategy to influence the next election which is barely a year away. and concluded, "given the inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections, the executive branch cannot be expected to participate in this because participating in this inquiry under the current unconstitutional posture would inflict lasting institutional harm on the executive branch." meaning future presidents.

the president, called it rightly so akon perpetrated against americans led by schiff, the cowardly, the lying schiff and speaker and name pelosi and the entire democratic clown show that is capitol hill. take a look. >> he defrauded the american public! i don't know what can happen, but there are those who say he should be prosecuted for what he did. he certainly should be impeached. it's all a big con, don't you understand -- look, the phone call, you have it! it's this transcript. that's why they say the whistle-blower said this and that, what happen is they would've seen the transcript early, they wouldn't have had a whistle-blower because he wouldn't have said -- there was nothing he could say. these are crooked people. these are democrats added by a democrat lawyer, a big democrat lawyer. it's a big con job being perpetrated on the united states public -- and even the world. >> sean: the cowardly shifty

schiff. he has the transcript but it exonerated the president so he made up a new one for that's how pathetic and desperate they are at denying the president of the united states of america's all right to due process, trying to rush impeachment across the finish line without any real investigation, any counter arguments, without any investigations, without any evidence being brought into the investigation. they want to do it in total secrecy and more important there are no crimes, no treason, and the bribery -- wait a minute, there is bribery. because biden is bragging on tape about bribing ukraine with a billion taxpayer dollars unless they fire that prosecutor investigating his son in six hours. son of a b, they did it. there is no constitutionality, no valid reason for what's going on right now. zero. and so far, there hasn't been a roll call vote to proceed. never mind the rules, the laws that are going to govern this

circus, this three-ring circus of the democrats. why? pelosi, you see those names, pay close attention to and she's trying to protect those 40 people in districts that donald j. trump won in 2016. those people in northern days are numbered if they go out and vote. but make no mistake, those 40 or so democrats, they are complicit. they aren't speaking out against this witch hunt. tonight it is imperative that house republicans follow the lead of the white house counsel. what does that mean? let these post constitutional democrats did their own grave. that means your republicans in the house must not participate in any way in what is a lawless, unconstitutional, illegitimate process, a kangaroo court, a three-ring circus, and unfounded political stunt. it is time to give the do-nothing democrats, buy them their shovels, let them dig their own graves. let them scream, holler, hem and

haw all they want. we can watch them spin out of control, and americans are extremely smart. they are very sophisticated. sharp enough to shop at walmart. americans can spot an actual crime and a three year witch hunt. my message to you republicans is you cannot participate in the near legitimate, unconstitutional process. let the democrats, their allies in the media mob owned it, sleep with that, they can die with it. let's call the roll, see where the so-called moderate democrats in those trump districts stand. republicans don't even bother to show up. don't participate in a lawless, unconstitutional, illegitimate scheme. don't show up at the hearings. you may want to send one guy and the lawyer to take notes. partake of none of this. what democrats -- what do they

value more? well, not the u.s. constitution. they have their deep-seated hatred for trump, that trumps everything, no pun intended. donald trump could cure cancer, they would impeach him for curing cancer. the republican-controlled senate will never, ever convict with 67 votes. the voters see a giant disparity between the president keeping his promises, by the way getting things done for the american people and assumed to be chosen democratic challengers. you have got president trump who has been three years in spite of this garbage, this crap, this witch hunt, improving the lives of the american people despite constant resistant hysteria from the left, take a look. successfully appointed two originalist judges, past the largest tax cuts in history as promised, cut more red tape and bureaucracy than any other president in 100 years as promised. we have seen wages in america

hit a postrecession high. jobless claims in this country are the lowest since 1969. we have seen record low unemployment for african-americans, asian-americans, hispanic americans, and youth unemployment. also energy independent for the first time in 70 years. america needs to ask itself, what do these democrats, the three-ring circus of democrats, what did they accomplish the last three years? can you name a single thing? because i can't. the answer is nothing. they have been totally consumed by utter rage, rationality, denial, and it's one political witch hunt after another. come november 2020 there will be a reckoning. republicans, you cannot legitimize what is a sick, ugly, illegal, unconstitutional, what is nothing but illegitimate madness. don't show up. don't show up to the hearings, don't vote on the floor. here's your mandate: focus on

the lead, the people that put you in office to be servants! be servants. work to get peace and security abroad and at home. work for job creation, prosperity, never forget the forgotten men and women of this country. joining us know what the reaction is the ranking intelligence committee chairman nunes is with us. your reaction to all this. i say because it's so illegitimate, so unfair, so unconstitutional, republicans should not play a part of this in my opinion. your thoughts? >> well, i think you nailed it on the head, sean, we have to have at least one member of congress and at least one lawyer to take notes so we know what they are saying. if not, if they do control the gavel, they have the power and they can do a lot of really bad things. look, i find it interesting that pelosi is not even going to bother to try to fight the administration and take this to

court. i think that's new information. i'm surprised at that. but that means they really are just racing to get this done. finally what i think you are seeing is they are on a sugar high with poles right now. they've got 90% of the media poisoning people. they've got all the tech companies poisoning people. they read the polls and as long as it's 50% plus 12 impeach the president. i think you said a rocket docket impeachment. that's what they are going for it. >> sean: i want to ask you specifically about ukraine. we all read the transcript, there's nothing there, there is no need for a nonwhistle-blower whistle-blower. i want to get your reaction but we do have biden on tape bragging about leveraging in the shake down a billion dollars of taxpayer money to force ukraine to fire a ukrainian prosecutor in six hours and he signed an affidavit saying that's why he got fired or he's not giving them the money. okay? that sounds like something really serious to me.

>> yeah. that's why i believe if john solomon's reporting is correct from yesterday, they've actually -- the ukrainians had actually reopened that this investigation long before trump had ever talked to the new ukrainian president. so that could be ongoing. if you look at all the happenings in ukraine over the last few years, it's very concerning. i hope -- they are supposed to bring in the former ambassador to ukraine from the united states, she is supposed to come in on friday. i don't know if she is going to come in or not, but we are looking forward to having her in because you probably know, pete sessions former concerns that she was not serving the trump administration well in ukraine, so she was removed. we have seen lots of bragging in the press that she's going to be the one who really brings down the president. >> sean: i have questions

because my sources are telling me that the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, my little bertie is whistling to me, i do not know if it's true or not yet, but i'm looking, but is there evidence she may have used government resources to monitor communications of american citizens and you know if any of the citizens might've been journalists? >> what i can tell you is we know what pete sessions, congressman from texas now retired, we know what he has to say. we know there are people within that were not only ukrainians but also americans who worked on the state department who have raised concerns about this ambassador which is why she was ultimately removed. we also have concerns that possibly we were monitoring the press from different journalists and others. that we don't know, we have people who have given us this information and we are going to ask these questions to the

state department and hopefully they will get the answers before she comes in on friday. but we will give her an opportunity -- >> sean: okay, because what you are saying is very alarming to me. i have three people now that have told me that they believe that there is evidence that show government resources were used to monitor communications, in one case a journalist that is a regular on this program with the name john solomon. have you heard that, congressman? >> what i have heard, and i want to be clear. i think there is a difference. what i heard is there were a strange request, regular request to monitor not just one journalist but multiple journalists. now perhaps that was okay. perhaps there was some reason for that, it can be explained away. but that's what we know and that's what we are going to be looking into. >> sean: congressman devin nunes, thank you.

voice of reason and courage in the house. we appreciate it speaking of which, fox news contributor john solomon. i got wind of this earlier today. called you. said you couldn't talk much about it, but now that people are talking about it publicly, do you know if, in fact, in any way any of this was happening to you? >> well, i was listening with great interest to what congressman union is just sad 10 days ago, i received multiple contacts suggesting there may have been inappropriate monitoring of my communications. it is not yet clear what that consisted of, whether it was just monitoring my social media, using government resources. people raise the possibility that they were privacy act violations. but to date, my lawyers were not able to get a full accounting of what happened. what congressman

it sounds similar to what the intelligence officials have been telling me the last couple of weeks. it's early. we should get to the bottom of it. but as a journalist, you should fear the possibility that my communications in ukraine might've been monitored. >> sean: this is mind-numbing to me. a u.s. ambassador to ukraine, you know, there is evidence that government resources were used, if there is one journalist in this country that was digging in the ukraine story, peter schweizer in his book "secret empires," it was you. you interviewed shokin, the prosecutor that was fired because biden demanded it and blackmailed him into doing it. >> it's not the first time i've been to this rodeo. if you remember back in 2002 and 2003 and the fbi acknowledged directors be nine and his team had inappropriately intercepted my mail and kept it without a warrant. so i have been through this in the past, seeing government

agencies intrude on my first amendment rights. i also learned in that process, it's important to wait for a fax to out. i thought his comments were prudent. if it did happen, it's deeply troubling to me, it's deeply troubling to all americans. i think we need to unveil more. secretary of state pompeo should tell us what happened. >> sean: there is a bigger story even beyond that, that one day all of us will tell. not right now. john solomon, keep up the good work. pretty disheartening, sad. we better get to the bottom of that. when we come back, rudy giuliani on the rank hypocrisy from the democrats when it comes to ukraine. a busy breaking news night. stay with us tonight. we are glad you're here on "hannity."

>> sean: last night, fox reported john durham's investigation into the origins of the russia probe is expanding. fox news contributor sara carter can explain why as she joins us. what do you got? >> this is what i've been hearing from a number of officials both former and current, both william barr and john durham are doing this in an effort to circumvent what they see as possible insider corruption, people that would be basically cited with john brennan, cited with james clapper as we've seen in the case with the whistle-blower in order to collect that information directly from the source. this is why they have traveled to italy, why they've also gone to london, and they are trying to make connections with people across the board. also in australia, they are looking at a number of areas here, sean, more importantly they are trying to collect that information to see how far the intelligence community and law enforcement community was

weaponized at the very beginning of this investigation. with the evidence they have collected, they've expanded that timeline and it's going to be very important in the future. i think as we see the ig report come out, especially on the fisa documentation and if bill barr releases those documents that the president has authorized him to release to the public, i think the united states, especially the american people, will have a real eye-opener in the next few weeks. >> sean: sara carter, investigative reporter. here with reaction, president trump's attorney former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. mr. mayor, i know the president has been saying and you've been saying you aren't going to testify in front of any committee unless there is a vote in congress whether or not they should remove him. doesn't it also have to include the fundamental fairness issues that newt gingrich gave the democrats in '98? >> it's all in here, sean. a great letter by pat cipollone

he. six violations of the presidents civil rights, my civil rights, ten general barr is a civil rights. i never wanted in my life want to appear in a salem witch trial which would be fairer than this, it's a process without any due process and the fact it's being enabled by a completely corrupt press corps. i don't know. do you think we are going to hear on the press that a member of the ukraine parliament held a press meeting today -- you will not hear it on the news, ladies and gentlemen. you censor it. you'll only hear the news that dems want you to hear. describe the mechanism getting money by biden senior. this is a transfer of funds as investigators believe by joe biden through a lobbying company. the funds and amount of $900,000 which answered to the u.s. based

company rosemont seneca which according to open sources is affiliated with biden. the payment was for consultative services and goes on to describe another $16.5 million payment apparently laundered payment involving both devon archer and hunter, using political and economic levers of power, influencing ukrainian authorities, and manipulating the issue of providing financial aid, joe biden actively assisted enclosing criminal cases. this is based on a statement today by a parliament member in the ukraine, a very senior one. saying that joe biden actively assisted closing criminal cases into the activity of former ukrainian ecology minister who is the founder and owner of burisma group. he's a major oligarch, stall $5 billion from his people. he very suspiciously was allowed to come back. his case got dismissed when they

dismiss hunter biden's case but he's the guy who paid the 16.5 million and the 900,000 to the bidens -- well it wasn't 16.5, it was more 5 million. this guy is one of the major criminals of the ukraine and he's now walking around free because joe biden got the case dismissed. this gentleman has said that this information should be turned over to the department of justice for their own purposes they should investigate it and i'm going to tell you why, sean. they suspect that the president of the ukraine received a very major bribe in order to tank this case. i'm not saying biden was involved in the bride but it's the only thing he wasn't involved in. this case stings, they can run away from it all they want. sean, i want to keep your eye not just on china, i want you to keep your eye on romania. just watch romania. >> sean: let me ask you this --

>> you won't read it in "the new york times" or "washington post," but just watch romania. >> sean: mr. mayor, i have in my possession an email from the democratic national committee. >> yes! they've got evidence. i have it too. >> sean: they put me on a program and i spoke to 68 investigative journalists, they dated this may 302016. >> it's more collusion! remember talking about russia collusion? this is called illegal collusion. by the way, it's by the democratic national committee admitted, because we caught this by an operative of the democratic national committee, one of the offices of the democratic national committee talking about putting, oh, putting foreigners, ukrainians in contact with "the new york times"! a gentleman by the way of

izikoff. by the way, isn't that what donald jr. didn't do? >> sean: "you need to be aware of, something i'm working of that you'll be aware of. since i started digging into man afford, these men messages have been a daily occurrence rate speaking about man afford, and i invited michael isikoff who i've been working with the last few weeks. have you confirmed this with the democratic national community? >> i conferred a couple of things in the file by ukrainian prosecutor handed over to me last january and i've been keeping so i can rebuff so when the swamp media comes after me and attacked my law firm, law office, goes into my divorce case which they are doing right now. what i want to tell them is every time you go after me another piece of evidence is going to come out when you give

me a platform to gape it out and i've got many more of the spirit is what they call, people, evidence. not lies. evidence. plenty of evidence that biden, his son, his brother had a 30-year long scam to make money, millions, selling his public office. senator first, vice president second. ukraine is the tip of the iceberg. i told you, told you about romania, and we go back to all the stealing he did when he went back to the senate. this is a long-term biden incorporated. >> sean: this sounds like a rico investigation back in your old days. >> i don't know much about the rico case. >> sean: i think you do, actually. >> i don't know, actually. >> sean: i think you do. mayor, thank you. we'll have you back regularly. when we come back, she's back, hillary clinton is back saying

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>> sean: joining is now the executive vice president of the trump organization eric trump is with us. i don't know if you had time to read the entire pat cipollone letter, it's a takedown. it is lawless, it's a legitimate. it's unconstitutional what the democrats are doing. my advice to republicans? don't offer a letter to missy ever. don't participate. don't go to the hearings. send one lawyer and one congressman to take notes. that's it. >> sean, they've been trying to do this before my father took office.

you had 70 congressman who wanted to impeach my father before he even got into the oval office. they have been trying to do this since day one. they are doing this because they know they can't win in 2020. this is literally the only hope they have. nancy pelosi has gotten ahead of herself. she's actually put yourself in a box right now. if they don't do something they'll look like total clowns which quite frankly then, if they do something is not going to get anywhere and you are going to put every single person up on the stand and rudy was just talking about it. you will put up ukrainian prosecutors, you are going to put up hunter biden. do you know who they have left to see them put up? i want to see them put up obama. he's the only guy who is hiding -- i mean, joe biden was his vice president! where is obama? what does he think about this rampant corruption? what does he think about the fact that joe biden and his son were cashing in on the u.s. to line their own pockets? where is he on this? where is he on this whole nonsense? >> sean: do you want me to

answer this question? >> it is a sham, sean. >> sean: you cannot have a counterintelligence investigation unless it starts with the president. >> of course you can't. >> sean: there is a very big reason that obama is being quiet because all of his abuse of power, all of this corruption, all happened on his watch. remember the infamous text messages, strozk and page, the white house wants to be kept apprised of every single detail. the oval office. >> there is no question it leads right to him. by the way, it's not like he's a quiet guy. he has run away from this. he has run away from his vice president. could you imagine if the roles were reversed and this was mike pence? they would be killing my father right now. they aren't even asking obama about this. obama has got a complete hall pass for this situation, it's ridiculous for the hypocrisy is absolutely

we'll turn his name into eric trump. as vice president trump said, you need to fire this guy in six hours. the one investigating you, eric trump you're welcome you're not getting the billion dollars. a shakedown, bribery, extortion, whatever words you want to use bragging about it on tape. if this was your father, how would the mob and the media be acting tonight? >> if i took a billion and a half dollars from china or took $50 a month they'll make $50,000 a month, the media's heads would explode. let me ask another question no one's asking. why is it okay for hunter biden to sit on the board of ukrainian

company, why is it okay for nancy pelosi to sit on the board of an energy company. if you want to drill in upstate new york or stick a straw in the ground in upstate new york, democrats would chop their heads off. that would violate the green new deal and everything but think about that hypocrisy. it is definitely perfectly fine to drill for oil and gas as long as your kids are getting massive checks. as long as we don't do it in the u.s. is not allowed because they are profiting off of it. think about the hypocrisy of their stands. >> sean: hunter biden is 49 years old. not like he's a kid. but imagine you, the son of a vice president, had no experience with ukraine, no experience with oil, gas, energy, no experience with china, no experience with public equity. they gave all the money to you and "whitey" bulger's nephew, and john kerry's stepson? >> they are buying access. so clear, not an american who

would think otherwise. the medium income is just over $50,000, right? hunter biden was getting this on a monthly basis for not doing anything. he didn't know the language of the country he was sitting on the company board for. it's insane. sean, it's absolutely insane. >> sean: no evidence he did any work! >> i want them to dispose every single people. i want them dispose every single one of these people. >> sean: not going to happen. republicans cannot legitimize that which is lawless, unconstitutional, and illegitimate. >> that's what they are doing. let the senate bring them in. >> sean: good to see you. thank you, eric trump are a good idea about the senate. we need to deal with this. the nba seems to love it when it's players and coaches criticized the president. reaction is so different when it comes to china. really? we'll explain.

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>> sean: tensions between the nba and china are escalating over a tweet by the houston rockets general manager supporting pro-democracy protesters in hong kong. while they love to go after president trump, which they are free to do, they are suspiciously silent when it comes to defending these pro-democracy demonstrators come a calling out beijing. with more reaction, he is the rock star cohost "speak for yourself" fs1 jason whitlock. how are you? you got a great show, how are you? >> i'm very good, sean. thank you for having me. >> sean: it's an honor to have you. i can think of a billion in five reasons why they have been silent on this.

why do i see that it's okay to take a shot at trump, that doesn't cost you anything? >> listen, steve kerr, gregg popovich, lebron james, adam silver, the whole list of them are hypocrites, no question about it. they are very vocal on issues here. i do not want to miss the forest for looking at these nice trees by this story, sean, is really about nike. it's really about nike. and nike is the king of basketball. nike is a 30-$40 billion a year business. the nba is an 8 billion a dollar a year business. the nba answers ten nike, and nike answers to china. if you notice, sean, from lebron james to colin kaepernick, who supports them? nike. this whole thing is about nike and being beholden to the chinese market. and when we have allowed these american companies to be overrun

by these foreign countries in their foreign investment in our businesses, they now have the ability to influence american culture, and that is exactly what's going on. communist countries for 100 years have used the strategy of smearing the west, a.k.a. america, as being the racist demon of the planet. and they do it to cover up their own racism, their own depravity, and the damage of communism. and so, we have nike in bed with china, and nike athletes, colin kaepernick, lebron james smearing the united states. i believe in unfair wages racist -- are we a country that has had a problem with race? absolutely. but are we a country that has made incredible progress along racial lines? absolutely. and to have these athletes, in

my view, at the behest of nike, who works at the behest of the chinese government, and that chinese market, for them to continually smear america this way, it's unfair and is having a terrible impact on american culture. >> sean: wow! that is a powerful monologue. jason whitlock dead on accurate. the game, set, matt. thank you, my friend, being with us. when we come back, rush limbaugh calling out the media for the biased review of coverage of the illegitimate impeachment prole chaos and yes, coup, next.

>> rush limbaugh brilliantly expose the hate trumps media dishonesty about the democrats same impeachment coup. take a look. >> so the other democrats in the media are now calling this a

declaration of war on impeachment. as if the democrats in the house were just minding their business, twiddling their thum thumbs, not doing much to anybody or anything. then, out of the blue while they are having lunch in the house dining room, trump declared war on them. it's a total mischaracterization of what's going on. they acted like the democrats have no role in this and trumpet some ogre coming in here deciding to blow up the house. they don't report that trump is the target of yet another bony political operation that is designed to get him thrown out of office. and they don't have any just cause for this. >> sean: none. a legitimate, unconstitutional, no fairness, no due process. we've put that montage up at

sean hannity on twitter. that's all the time we have left this evening and we promise we will never be the media mob raging against trump. let not your heart be troubled because laura ingraham is fired up, next. >> laura: hannity, fantastic show. we have it all covered and we hope to pick up the baton. this is the ingraham angle from d.c. tonight. the democrats finally have a plan of action and house republicans are following suit. steve scalise and lee zeldin will lay out the g.o.p.'s new strategy for us. also has the impeachment push actually been hurting certain 2020 democratic candidates? joe biden's hail mary, and the 11th hour surprised. raymond arroyo joins us for some