smugness, and especially groupthink. good night from washington, a city in the grip of insanity. sean hannity, take it from here. >> sean: the grip of insanity in new york, not much different than your swamp. does everybody know tucker was on a show, what was it called again, it is on youtube. >> tucker: "days of our lives." i was on that sitcom for a decade before i got into cable news. >> sean: i believe it. it's all out there. can't wait to see. welcome to "hannity". a great day for the united states for the contrary, the president, lousy day for the corrupt, do nothing for three years radical extreme socialist democrats and their top allies known as the media mob. now, if you thought robert mueller's pathetic testimony, what's fusion gps, was bad, what we saw today was even more pathetic, more desperate, and actually worse.

matter of fact, to coin a phrase, a total schiff show, if you know what i mean. capitol hill and the democrats everywhere have reason to be worried tonight. it was such a disaster. they actually brought in therapy dogs, not making this up. they descended on capitol hill presumably to help democrats cope with their emotions. believe it or not, the circus, this was supposed to be their big, big day. this was it. they brought in their cherry picked witnesses, their exciting kick off, their best shot to take this president down. get the country behind them. star witnesses, compelling evidence, none of that happened. the exact opposite happened. now, we heard from two kind of self-important, uncompelling, well, seemingly more important bueraucrats. they have no first-hand information whatsoever and what i mean none, i mean zero, not one of them ever talked to the president nor anyone near the

president. we got tons of conjecture. oh, hearsay upon hearsay. my cousin's uncle's son's daughter's grandpa's father told me. a lot of opinion, clear political bias, two individuals who seem to care more about ukraine-first policies than america-first policies. that was a little shocking from the democrats today. and despite all of the antipsychotic rage trump hearsay, a total lack of evidence of any wrongdoing. we did confirm, though, some important facts. fact number one" over the course of multiple meetings with american officials, president zelensky never at one time never indicated u.s. aid was linked to an investigation into biden and burisma holdings. there was no linkage, none, just the opposite. three meetings after the call -- we have the transcript -- with the new president and president

trump. president zelensky thought it was a great call. said repeatedly, never felt any pressure at all from anyone to do anything. fact number two, president zelensky never announced an investigation into burisma or the bidens. now with the congenital liar, adam schiff, compromised, corrupt coward that he is, he was saying the aid was held up until the new president did this. he never did it. and three, the aid was dispensed to ukraine unconditionally. ouch. and four, zelensky repeatedly denied that the president coerced ukraine in any matter, shape, or form. let make this for the corrupt idiots known as the democrats and their allies in the media mob. this just makes you look really dumb, bad, stupid, and shallow and shows how corrupt you all are. and just hours ago, congressman jim jordan of ohio totally exposed the sham hearing and today's star witness. take a look at this. >> ambassador taylor, i told

mr. morrison i conveyed to mr. yarmok on september 1st, 2019 with the meeting. we got six people with four conversations in one sentence and you told me this is where you got your clear understanding. even though you had three opportunities with the president zelensky to tell you, you know what, we will do these investigations to get the aid. i didn't tell you three different times. never makes an announcement, never tweets about it or does a cnn interview. you didn't listen on president trump's call, president zelensky's call? >> i did not. >> you never talked with mulvaney? >> you never met the president and three meetings that didn't come up. >> two of those they never heard of it as far as i know. >> you are there star witness. you are their first witness. you are the guy, based on this. i mean, i've seen them i've seen church prayer chains easier to understand than this. >> sean: taylor relied on hearsay and conjecture, at least

17 times during his testimony. that is not evidence. you talk about playing a game of telephone. that is the compelling evidence that they provided that a duly elected president of the united states of america deserves to be impeached, that we are going to overturn the will of the people? really? by the way, the ukrainian president told ambassador taylor, he was happy, told the next day he was happy that the call went great with president trump. the same phone called the democrats claim, remember them telling us it will be filled with smoking gun quid pro quos and extortion. take a look. >> and president zelensky, did he raise concerns of his views of the call? >> he said, right, so i, ambassador volker, ambassador sondland were in his office. we ask him, i think, how the

call -- he's had the call was fine. i was happy with the call. >> sean: i was happy with the call. maybe that is why today anti-trump star witnesses were not able to identify a single impeachable offense. this was a pretty special moment, let's take a look. >> so in this impeachment hearing today, where we impeach presidents for treason or bribery or other high crimes, where is the impeachable offense in that call? i either of you here to assert today that there is an impeachable offense in that call? shout it out. anyone? >> sean: crickets. nothing there. no quid pro quo. whatsoever, which is exactly what u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sondland told ambassador taylor over the phone. president, he said he used the term, president was very, very clear, i will read it to you, "i want no quid pro quo." this is the guy that they were referring that they heard the conversations with.

the president said i want no quid pro quo. watch this. >> in the text message, sondlond says to call him after you wrote that. did you, in fact, call him? i did. >> what did he say to you? >> he said that i had -- i was wrong about president trump's intent. that there was no quid pro quo. >> mr. kent, corruption and ukraine is endemic, correct? spigot that's correct. >> it affects the courts, the prosecutors, and there have historically been problems with all of the prosecutors in ukraine, correct? >> i would stay up until the new set of prosecutors appointed by president zelensky in the last two months, correct. >> sean: steve castor, the attorney representing the house republicans, who you saw in that

clip, did a fantastic job cutting through the b.s. a lot of moments that hope and got us to the truth. so did many republican stars on the intel committee. great day for jim jordan, devin nunes, ratcliffe, mark meadows outside of the hearing, a beat down at the media that they deserve. democrats now look stupid and the mob and the media grabbing at straws. a nightmare for nancy pelosi. she's not even having a press conference with the compromised schiff. watching these people try to piece something together out of nothing is like a thing of beauty. today's hearing was so terrible for the democrats, one democratic congressman to actually tried to argue, hearsay evidence is better than direct evidence. you can't make this up. take a look. >> the american public needs to be reminded congress people have been convicted on hearsay because the courts have routinely allowed and created needed exceptions to hearsay. hearsay can be much better evidence than direct.

>> none of those exceptions would apply to this testimony. >> sean: yeah, it is usually not admissible either, but hearsay is better than direct testimony. what that guy told this guy that told that guy that told that guy that told you is better? pretty embarrassing. and clearly, there is no there there in this circus, this sham, this charade, honestly, for the sake of the country should be shut down immediately. unless, of course we hear from sleepy, creepy, crazy uncle joe and his zero experience son hunter. there, we do have a real quid pro quo, a real shakedown and what appears to be, and we should investigate, real bribery and real extortion. we also need to hear testimony from the compromised corrupt coward, congenital liar adam schiff, his staff and the so-called whistle-blower, non whistle-blower, hearsay whistle-blower who, in reality, is an anti-trump deep state bureaucrat that spreads gossip and leaked. he is nowhere to be found.

for a while, i thought the outcome of this inquiry was a foregone conclusion. i actually thought "the new york post" captured it pretty well, titled "guilty, now time for the trial." but after today, i don't know. the main democrats out there someone trump in 2016 may be getting a little nervous about all of this. maybe you don't want to lose touch with reality. coming up, we will show you the congenital liar and compromised adam schiff has been caught in another lie today. in today's hearing. and we also have more highlights from the circus. first, joining us now with reaction majority whip steve scalise and mike turner, he also was when today's hearing, congressman scalise, we will start with you. you know, i have to be honest, i was a little shocked. probably have somebody that will say something that maybe somebody can run with, but i did not see anything.

>> no, sean, this is a bad day for adam schiff and this whole charade, this witch hunt they have been promoting. for months now, and if you look and i know you showed these clips, when john radcliffe actually asked the two star witnesses, these were the first witnesses that they brought out to make their case. he said, can either of you name an impeachable offense? dead silence, like you saw. you had so many other cases, jim jordan showed these secondhand, thirdhand, fourth hand, these carrer bureaucrats who i'm sure they have studied ukraine policy for decades, but the bottom line, there is only policy the united states of of the united states of america and that is commander in chief donald trump. so ultimately their job is to carry that out but instead they are trying to block its foreign policy which has been successful. it's selling javelin missiles so ukrainian can stand up something joe biden and barack obama wouldn't do. so russia, help ukraine when biden and obama wouldn't. >> sean: that is the point.

they did nothing and they still got the aid. and congressman turner, you were there. there are -- there is not a fair process and i don't even want to make it about process but about substance. we have a president that took us an oath to faithfully execute the laws. everybody said they cared about election interference. we know a ukrainian court decision, yeah, they pointed out ukraine did interfere in the 2016 elections on behalf of hillary clinton. politico, january 11, 2017 said dnc operative went to ukrainian embassy in washington and yeah, they were colluding with ukraine to dig up dirt on then candidate donald trump and associates for the purpose of influencing 2016 election. i noticed none of that came out today, why? >> ambassador taylor and mr. kent testified they had no knowledge of those things although they considered that to be a relative issue with respect to interfering in the united states elections. apparently only the things they

are hearing, and that is hearsay, with respect to the trump administration. and one thing, unbelievable about this, here are two men never met the president of the united states, never spoke to the president of the united states and never spoke to the president of the united states about ukraine, they are the star witnesses about what the president thinks, what his intent was. they have no knowledge of these things and everything that they told that they had heard from others, even ambassador taylor i'm just here to tell you what i heard. certainly not to tell about facts or what he knows. >> sean: and look, for example, they are -- they are talking about conversations with european union ambassador who said, the president clearly stated, i want no quid pro quo and testified he did not have a quid pro quo. volker said there was no quid pro quo. zelensky said there was no pressure. and so there is no linkage by anybody and they know nothing first-hand so why were they sitting in the room?

>> i think it is the best that they have. it should be talking to any thinking democrats in the house that here is their best case, their best foot forward. two people that know nothing directly and never met the president of the united states. even the bombshell, the new phone call was ambassador taylor saying i was just told three months after the fact that i had aide who claims to have heard, on the phone who claims to believe it was the president and believes he heard what the president was saying. so he was going to report that to us. now, all of this is so far hearsay, no court would allow this information and certainly should be rejected to the american public. >> sean: congressman scalise, 20 seconds. any democrats who are talking to that are a little bit nervous about this thinking this is blowing up in their face just like russia witch hunt? >> there are a lot of swing districts where he is elected and he will get reelected next year because he's focused on the things families care about, getting the economy back on track, higher wages in people's paychecks and they want

to impeach the president not because they didn't do anything wrong. the star witnesses couldn't name a single thing but because they disagree with the results of the election. that is not what you have impeachment. it is on full display today. >> sean: congressman scalise, congressman turner, thank you. the president was busy working today. disaster for democrats. you could see it coming a mile away. the left blinded by their rage psychotic hate of trump and they have for three years. they've done nothing for the american people. they don't care about facts, obviously justice matters not. hypocrisy is fine because they don't care about hunter and joe, real quid pro quo joe, and every second of every single hour of every 24-hour day, they just hate the president. at the beginning of the hearing today, the ranking member devin nunes, he summed it up pretty perfectly. take a look. >> supposed to take these people at face value when they trot out a new batch of allegations. but anyone familiar with the democrats' scorched earth war against president trump would not be surprised to see all the typical signs that this is a carefully orchestrated media

smear campaign. the witnesses deemed suitable for television by the democrats were put through a closed-door audition process in a cult-like atmosphere in the basement of the capital. let's recall, for years they accused the trump campaign colluding with russia when them themselves colluding with russia by funding and spreading for steele dossier which relied on russian sources. now they accuse president trump of malfeasance in ukraine when them themselves are culpable. the democrats cooperated ukrainian russia meddling and they defend hunter biden securing of lavishly paid position with a corrupt ukrainian company. all while his father served as vice president. >> sean: by the way, when the hoax came up empty, they switched to plan c, d, e. ukraine. they had an insurance policy. same schiff, different day. the past several months, the cowardly schiff repeatedly caught lying.

he lied when he said the transcript of the phone call between the president and the president if ukraine had numerous quid pro quos. he made up a fabricated transcript because the president released the real one. he said we have not spoken directly with the whistle-blower, but we would like to. all blatant lies and the last one, this is a real doozy because "the washington post" gave him four solid pinocchios after finding out that schiff's staff in close communication with the fake whistle-blower from the beginning. in fact, schiff's office advised the fake whistle-blower to get a lawyer, but the inspector general and even though a compromise corrupt congenital liar adam schiff admitted he should have been more clear about his contact with a whistle-blower. schiff is a fact witness and why he's compromised as he presides over this case is judge, jury, and executioner. no due process, no fairness, no justice and yeah, he did audition and cherry picked the people that he wanted to bring in today.

a national disgrace, an abuse of their power. maybe that is why schiff changed the story once again. now schiff is claiming he doesn't know the whistle-blower is. which contradicted what he said the second time, which contradicted the first time. take a look. >> just to ask a clarifying question, do you anticipate when we might vote on the ability to have the whistle-blower in front of us? something that you, the 435 members of congress, you are the only member who knows who that individual is, and your staff is the only staff of congress who has to talk with the individual. we would like an opportunity and when might that happen in the proceeding today? >> first, that is a false statement. i do not know the identity of the whistle-blower. and i am determined to protect his identity. >> sean: same schiff, different day. pelosi should have known better than to give reins to the congenital liar. he's been lying three years to the american people. you trust adam schiff, you are a

fool. adam schiff is a liar. they will reap what they sow. the republican minority leader in the house kevin mccarthy. by the way, good for you for bringing in jim jordan, great call, he had a great day. i thought the republicans had a great day all the way around. this is actually worse than i thought. i mean, it was so bad, it is all hearsay. there is no first hand any evidence, congressman. >> you have to understand, the viewers, for the very first time, got to see what the democrats have been working on for the last three years, impeachment. they got home court advantage. they changed the intel committee to the impeachment committee. they got to pick the witnesses where they wouldn't pick any republican witnesses. you know what else they got to do? change the process where they controlled it all. at the end of the day, it was clear, all hearsay, no witnesses even knows the president or heard from the president and they continue to change what they are going after. and you are correct. adam schiff started the hearing

just like he started in telling to the american public for the last three years by lying. this is what we have been looking at this whole time. >> sean: any democrats talking to you privately saying, uh-oh, a bad idea? >> i've had a couple. i had a democrat come to me today, telling me he should question whether he should stay a democrat or reregister. this is not the party that i know. these individuals and the direction they are going is totally wrong. >> sean: okay, so what is next? i don't see a single republican going along with this. i thought it was 100% there but we definitely have to vote for impeachment but i'm not so sure anymore. it was that bad a day for them. any indication some democrats will say, no, i'm not going down with your stupid battleship here? >> you have 31 democrats that currently sit in seats that president trump carried. i think if they listen to their voters, they probably would not vote for this. remember what nancy pelosi said in march as the speaker of the house. to go through impeachment is so divisive, it would have to be so

compelling, overwhelming, and bipartisan to move forward. the only bipartisan vote we have in the house is to stop the impeachment inquiry. remember every republican and two democrats joined with us. there was nothing compelling, nothing overwhelming. now we find it is all hearsay. the star witnesses cannot name one thing that the president should be impeached over. >> sean: all right, congressman thank you for being with us. reaction to fox contributor, investigative reporter sara carter, and author of new bestseller "witch hunt," gregg jarrett. sara, we did get some news the inspector general is, in fact, now going to people that are mentioned in the report, which is the final, final step before the release of that report. so will we get it monday or tuesday or wednesday? >> i absolutely think that is very possible. i don't want to say 100%. >> sean: we have been burned for months because we have been told over and over again? >> that's why.

exactly, since may. what we do know he has wrapping it up. these are the final stages. we do know there is going to be a lot of information in this report. as i said before, a lot of the information, the classified documents that the president actually turned over to attorney general william barr that horowitz is using in his report will more than likely be declassified because this is not going to be highly redacted. so it's going to be interesting to see what happens, yes. >> sean: gregg, i know you are the lawyer. i don't know, i'm just a talk show host, what do i know? not a whole lot. but i never knew that hearsay was more compelling than direct evidence. i never knew that until today. >> quickly gets the obtuse award for saying something that is totally ridiculous. look, single hearsay is unreliable. double hearsay is a joke. triple hearsay is a farce. quadruple hearsay is slapstick and buffoonery. and yet, that is what we heard

today. george kent said he believed there was a quid pro quo because he heard it from taylor who heard it from tim morrison who heard it from gordon sondland. where did sondland get it? oh, he presumed there was a quid pro quo, even though the president told him directly, i want nothing. there is no quid pro quo. >> sean: let me jump in. he said multiple times that the president clearly stated i want no quid pro quo. that is where they are getting their hearsay from. >> you know, cross examination is the engine of truth. we learned today why. jordan and ratcliff and turner eviscerated this chattering class of diplomats whose only currency seems to be innuendo, rumor, speculation based on multiple hearsay. that is not evidence, it is junk. hats off to congressman turner who said, "you guys would not even be allowed in a court of

law." he's right. >> sean: gray canalis, both of you. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. we have a busy show. it doesn't get any better than this, actually. senator lindsey graham, by the way, i didn't like the comments from mitch mcconnell. we both get into that. the great one mark levin. rush was hilarious. wait until you hear these remarks. that is all coming up, busy edition of "hannity". thank you for being with us. ♪ when we started our business

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♪ >> sean: earlier today, president trump reacted to the democrats' embarrassing flop on impeachment and the spectacle.

during a joint press conference with the president of turkey, president erdogan. take a look. >> you are talking about the witch hunt. is that what you are talking about? i hear it is a joke. i haven't watch for one minute because i've been with the president which is much more important, this is a sham. and it should not be allowed. it was a situation caused byit people that should not have allowed it to happen. i want to find out who is the whistle-blower. because the whistle-blower gave a lot of incorrect information, including my call with the president of ukraine which, was a perfect call. >> sean: here with reaction senate judiciary lindsey graham. senator, i'm a little concerned about two of your fellow colleagues.ra john cornyn of texas and mitch mcconnell, your leader, cornyn saying we've got to have 51 votes to dismiss this sham process and then mcconnell kind of seemingly backing him

up, and i'm like, wait a minute. if there is no due process, afforded bill clinton, his attorneys, the democrats, they are going to take this up anyway in the senate? >> well, here is the trial is in the senate. >> sean: if they get there. >> let's say they get 218 voters. here is what i promise the country. we are not going to try the president of the united states based on hearsay. any resolution setting up a trial in the senate, i willup make sure that hearsay cannot be the basis of an impeachment allegation. if you invoke the hearsay rule, what would be left? >> sean: i mean, it is a great i question. i was surprised, especially considering you said it was doa without the whistle-blower, without due process. we have none of that. >> can i build this? a trial in the senate to me should not legitimize what is going on in the house. no american is denied the right to call witnesses on their

behalf except donald trump. no american is accused of wrongdoing anonymously except donald trump. what they are doing in the house is a danger to the presidency itself. so any trial in the senate needs to make sure that you you can't impeach a president based on hearsay because that is a danger to the presidency itself. secondly, any trial in the senate must expose the whistle-blower so the president can confront his accuser. i will not accept a trial in the senate until i know who the whistle-blower is. >> sean: so, a lot of the hearsay hearsay, hearsay, s hearsay, four-way hearsay, five-way hearsay went back to the testimony in private as they were auditioning and cherry picking the witnesses, but they keep referring to the ambassadoe sondland, who said the president clearly stated i want no quid pro quo.d we know volker testified he did not receive indication of any

quid pro quo. president zelensky, there was zero pressure. three meetings with these guys and the president of ukraine, president zelensky, he never did anything, and he still got that aid. i'm like, so where is the quid and the pro and the quo? help me out.d >> they got the money and nobody investigated joe biden in the ukrainian government. so there is no there there. but let's go back to the idea of what kind of trail would you conduct? if you excluded hearsay, like every other court in the land, there is nothing there. and if you allow the president to confront his accuser, you have to call the whistle-blower. here is a question i have about the whistle-blower. it was the whistle-blower connected to joe biden in any way? did the whistle-blower get herself or get himself involved?

>> sean: we are told he did. >> here is the point i'm trying to make. here is the point. did the whistle-blower engage in an effort to get the ukrainian president to weigh in and stop the investigation of this gas company? was there a connection between the whistle-blower and biden's effort to call ukraine? that is very important to me. we cannot legitimize an impeachment based on an anonymous source. if you do that, no president will be allowed to survive. and to my fellow members of congress, how would you like to be in the shoes of donald trump? you are accused of something based on a whistle-blower who is anonymous and you cannot call witnesses on your behalf. >> sean: now, i have found evidence of a quid pro quo. quid pro quo joe. because he says to ukraine in a shakedown, "you are not getting the billion dollars unless you fire that prosecutor". fire the prosecutor and you get the billion.

don't fire the prosecutor, you don't get the billion. who is the prosecutor? the prosecutor is the guy he was told is investigating his son, zero experience hunter who is being paid millions and millions of dollars.id now, that seems like a quid and a pro and a quo. we actually found one.em why is there zero interestun these people that claim this is so bad, the quid pro quos are bad, claimed election interference is bad. we have evidence of both here except not on their side. >> this is not about getting to the truth. it is about destroying the president of the united states. adam schiff is not an independent person here. mueller and everybody else involved in impeachment in then past were outside of politics. here is my point. did the president of ukraine, the previous president, did he receive a call from joe biden and was that call related to the investigation of the gas company that hunter biden was sitting

on? i will write it, if nobody elsen will, a letter to the president of ukraine. did you ever get a call from joe biden calling off the dogs regarding this gas company? >> sean: the senate called the compromised congenital liar schiff, call members of the staff about the contact of the whistle-blower. will the whistle-blower be forced to testify in the senate? what about hunter and joe biden? will all of that happen? >> great question. as a matter of oversight, i will not call a member of the house. but if you impeach the president of the united states, i want to find out, if, in fact, schiff and his staff met with a whistle-blower. if you said today is that true. if there is a trial in this and that, one of the witnesses will be adam schiff because if he did, in fact, meet with the whistle-blower and coached the guy up, that is relevant to the impeachment query itself. >> sean: senator, thank youn for being with us. we appreciate your hard work on all of this.

don jr, big announcement from him in a minute. first, with reaction to the circus. the author of the number one "new york times" best seller, "unfreedom of the press," his new time on fox news channel sunday, 8:00. the number one show, the time slot, i think you doubled your lead which is tv, the great one, mark levin.sa i know you have a lot to say, sir. >> we are here to protect the country. i appreciate you inviting me on, sean, because you have an intelligent audience, and i want to go through these things. by the way, these two guys testifying i could not tell if they were doing a job interview talking about their great grandfather, his wife or they were homeless guys. basically, they didn't add a hell of a lot. they are two witnesses and it makes you miss jerrold nadler.

adam schiff is such an incompetent left wing boob. let's go through the law again. i want the american people to understand something because you do not get it from the reporters were the analysts or anybody. i will say this slowly so george conway can understand. the law, the so-called whistle-blowers, not a whistle-blower under federal law! the so-called whistle-blowers not covered by the whistle-blower statute! the so-called whistle-blower does not receive anonymity here during an impeachment process! he can get anonymity from an inspector general in the intelligence community, but beyond that and outside of that, he gets no anonymity under federal law. the president is not covered by the whistle-blower statute under federal law!is the president's phone call is not covered by the whistle-blower under the statute, under federal law! so what we have here is a massive cover-up, massive cover-up of a democrat cia

operative with ties to brennan, ties to biden, it ties to nsc former staffers on schiff's staff. of course, they will protect this guy! of course, the media will protect this guy because the whole damn house of cards comes down if he becomes the blue dress, if you will, the blue dress in this case, ala the clinton matter. next, the constitution. i hear these legal analysts and they say, look, it is whatever the house says it is when it comes to impeachment. who do they quote? the great jurist and w constitutional scholar gerald ford. well, they ought to read what the framers set at the constitutional convention. they actually ought to study it and they ought to look at the language and the constitution. does the constitution say impeachment is whatever the house of representatives says it is? no! treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors. now the democrats think they have found something, bribery. they talk about bribery.

we even have legal analysts talking about briberies. the legal analyst former prosecutors, judges have no knowledge of the constitution, no experience, no dealings withh impeachments as i have. let's walk through it quickly. the framers created a higher standard, a higher standard. they had initially proposed ast lower standard for impeachment. so they come up with treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors. these words have meaning! they looked at what took place in the parliament, english common law, and they did not write, hey, it's whatever the house of representatives says. that is not what your constitution says. what about bribery? what did they say about bribery? i dusted off my madison notes from the constitutional convention and it would be nice if a journalist or a analyst would do that from time to time. by bribery they did not mean that crapola that you hear on tv today! by bribery, but they meant, they didn't want a president to be bribed -- this is the example

they used -- by a foreign government, by a foreign government! and then they buy his loyalty. that has nothing to do with what is going on today you know swalwell, who is not well? swalwell, bribery. no, let's call it extortion. let's call conscious of mind. let's call it stupid because you don't even know what you are talking about. and the president is not required to give funds to a corrupt foreign government! so we have legal analysts going on, you know, once the house and senate pass this, he must give up the funds. there is another statute that congress passed and the president signed! the president has to make sure this money is spent wisely. what about the bidens? let's put all this aside. joe biden wants to be president of the united states. we have a biden crime family now. this kid, hunter, romania, china, ukraine, just because anderson cooper said, you know what, he's innocent. oh, okay, we won't ask any questions. his brother has his hand in the till. they all have their hands into

till. we, the people, have a right to know what the bidens have been up to before and if he is nominated for the democrat party for the president of the united states. let me keep going as quickly as i can. a thing of value. you hear this phrase? a thing of value of the president of the united states. intervening in a potential american election with ukraine in exchange for something?g? that is a quid pro quo. p what is a thing of value? the office of legal counsel! the premier constitutional office and your federal government over at the department of justice, which also has a lot of civil servants there who serve a long time just like the geniuses who testified today, the two homeless guys. what did they say? it's not a crime. it's not bribery, but they kepto repeating it like it is! who sets foreign policy in this country? two guys you have never heard of before? it is interesting to hear their language. this guy, the older gentleman, i can't remember, what was his name?

taylor, irregular channel, going behind closed doors -- pal, let me tell you something, donald trump sets foreign policy, not you and not all the goons over there at the state department. he sets foreign policy. you know what? you are the irregular channel. that guy you were sitting next to, kent, keen, whatever, he's the irregular channel. you guys were pushing policies contrary to the president of thr united states! article ii, the president of the united states is the executive branch! there is no state department in the constitution of theta united states! there is no secretary of state! and one other thing, this irregular channel. have you ever heard of harry hopkins? i want you to google -- harry hopkins, harry hopkins was a confidante and best friend of franklin roosevelt. you liberal democrats out there, the media, you love fdr. everything he did, sic the irs on the opponents, sic the irs on the media.

rounded up japanese-americans, kept jews offshore, you love your fdr. would you impeach him, by the woway? of course not, you would celebrate him. i that said, harry hopkins -- and every president has had one of this. harry hopkins lived in the white house.enho harry hopkins conducted foreign for the president and he went around the state department, infuriated the secretary of state, secretary of treasurer, secretary of commerce and conduct foreign policy. talk to stalin, churchill, and he would do all these other things. so i have a suggestion for adam schiff. why don't we retroactively, posthumously impeach franklin roosevelt? that would be justice, ladies and gentlemen. yes, that is it. >> sean: and then i released the, oh, joe biden/ukraine transcripts.en let's see, the flexibility of the tape so the vladimir putin transcripts. the obama/mullahs in iran transcripts, a lot of transcripts to read. great one, great job.

new timeslot, every sunday night, new slot at 8:00 p.m. eastern. when we come back, actually they had therapy dogs on capitol hill to help people cope with the stress of impeachment progress. donald trump jr. is here. he will weigh in on the crazy people showing up on his book tour. lawrence jones on the streets of washington today speaking with people outside of the capital and rush limbaugh, his take on the madness of today straight ahead. ♪ my parents never taught me anything about managing money.

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take a look. >> the impeachment hearings that are going on today, where do you stand on it? >> i think that the hearing has to happen, and that there ist probably some good reasons to impeach. >> no, i love what he is doing for the country. the democrats have been trying to impeach him since the day he took office. >> he has not committed any impeachable offenses at all. >> this whole impeachment hear is a waste of taxpayer dollars. >> if you can name the high crime or the misdemeanor that the president has committed, what would you say he has done? >> i think he -- not limited toe but the ukraine, holding them hostage. >> abuse of power. >> so i have to ask you the question. if that is the standard to impeach the president on that offense, when joe biden said, t

fire the prosecutor, hey, if you do not fire the prosecutor, you will not get aid. do they both commit high crimes and misdemeanors? should they both be impeached? >> not in my opinion. i think trump as president has a higher standard. >> than the vice president. >> than the vice president. >> i don't really know, but i think that is besides the point. >> the optics there are not good but i don't think joe biden did anything wrong. >> sean: meanwhile, therapy dogs were sighted on capitol hill today to help people feeling triggered by the public impeachment hearings. you really can't make this stuff up. here with reaction, the author of, and we just found out tonight, debuting as the number one "new york times" best seller, "triggered: how the to silence us," the

best seller, "triggered: how the left thrives on hate and wants to silence us," the vice president of the trump organization donald trump jr. all right, so your dad's one best seller. anyone else in the family with number one bestsellers? >> i don't know. my dad probably had a couple so i have to write a few more to catch up. i'm pretty happy where we are right now, thank you. >> sean: before we get to the madness you have experienced ons the road, which is highly entertaining to watch from a distance and i mean that, from a distance. what was your reaction to everything today? i thought it was a schiff show.a >> it really was. i've never seen anything more ridiculous. you see exactly what america voted against in 2016. career government bureaucrats doing their thing. there is no fact base. everything was hearsay. b i heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend. this is a joke.ro this is their lead, sean? i and then i heard the democrats and this is when you realize how bad or frankly nonexistent their case is. well, hearsay is oftentimes much better than regular evidence.

i'm saying, did that guy say that with a straight face in the halls of congress? hearsay? you mean, like, the telephone game we learned about in kindergarten is better than actual direct evidence? it is better to hear it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from a i friend than to have heard it with your own ears? that is the level of insanity you see from these bureaucrats l who have taken an anti-trump position, they are being led, badgered, bullied by schiff to give them what they want because the mainstream media will carry their water and function as the marketing wing of the democrat party. they will say whatever it is just to get out of there. when the republicans questioning, adam schiff changes the rules, changes the goalpost, pretends they cannot ask that question anymore. it is never-ending. i mean, it is a comedy at this point. it is so ridiculous. it is exactly what the american people have needed to see. if you did not buy it the first time, if you didn't buy it the second time with all the t hoaxes, russian version one,

two, and the collusion nonsense we heard about was gospel, factf for three years. you will believe it this time, sean, because this time it's different. give me a break.se it is insanity. >> sean: so you get two visuals today, the president erdogan of turkey, very s important stuff with your dad. that is happening at the same time, the schiff show is going on and i'm thinking, you have the president record on unemployment since 1969 and record low unemployment for every demographic. and then i think, okay, name one thing democrats have done. >> you can't.de >> sean: to be more safe and secure, create jobs and be more prosperous? i cannot think of one thing, not one thing -- >> not one person watching, not one person watching can name, one thing that the democrats

have done in the year that they have had the house. not wanting to make us safer, not one thing to move us forward. the usmca, sean, the renegotiation of nafta, the thing that everyone said would never be able to renegotiated, my father did it. he got it done because he is a negotiator unlike all of these clowns in congress who are just bureaucrats. he renegotiated with canada, with mexico. they are in agreement and it has been sitting on nancy pelosi's desk for nine months. it would create 900,000 jobs for america. bring the jobs and the dreams that we have done nothing but export, bring that back so americans can live it. because it would also give trump a win, let's not vote on it. you know it would pass with flying colors with bipartisan k support. she won't bring it up because she wants to make sure that trump doesn't get any additional credit despite all of the things he's already done for america. that is the level of hatred you see from the left.es they are not looking to govern. they are not looking to do anything. they are looking to try to resist because they know they can't beat trump in the polls. they will try to impeach. it will not work in the long run and the american people see

through it, sean, they are sick of this garbage.ng >> sean: quick, last ten seconds, did your dad hear about you being number one, debuting on "the new york times" list? >> he did and he was as surprised as i was because we heard about conservative writers getting blocked or banned or being there so i will give them this. they did the right thing for once. >> sean: i was number one, got there. good luck, congratulations, and when we come back, rush limbaugh fired up, i mean, really funny comments about the sham on capitol hill. that is next. ♪ billions of mouths.

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what this deep state is. whatever you want to call it. we have here a bunch of professional nerds who wear their bow ties and they have their proper diplospeak and what are they upset about? they are upset that donald trump used irregular channels on foreign policy. there hasn't been a single crime announced. there hasn't been a single impeachable offense named. there hasn't been anything but a bunch of self-important, narcissistic "we run the world" kind of guys really ticked off that they were ignored. >> yikes. all true, too. i'm thinking do these guys really think that their hearsay "i heard from this person, this person, this person" was relevant? a little shocking. anticlimactic, for sure. is this the hill they're going to now die on? probably. because they're that dumb.

unfortunately that is all the time we have left this evening. as always we remind you we will always seek the truth, we'll never be the media mob, hannity.com for more, let not your heart be troubled because laura ingraham takes it away. >> hey, hannity, awesome show tonight. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from new york city. the democrats really want to impeach based on what we heard today? congressman chris stewart and congressman mark meadows were both at the hearing today and are here exclusively to cut through all the noise. also tonight, president trump's former attorney general says democrats' impeachment push is irreparably damaging our republic. jeff sessions is here with his exclusive reaction. plus, raymond arroyo is going to break down the most hilarious moments. you missed all of this stuff, by the way. from faulty video cues to a certain hair implement in one