hannity.com, don't forget to set your dvr so you don't miss an episode. we will never be the media mob, we are looking for the truth which is coming. and let not your hearts be troubled, laura ingraham is next. >> laura: the ig report is like christmas. it's always coming but it's not quite there. they set the testimony. >> sean: i was told today no more delays but i won't say that anymore because i'm so paced off about the whole thing. >> laura: a fantastic show as always. i am in graham angle from washington tonight. the doj washington report, sean and i were just talking about that. the fisa abuse is no imminent. plus democrats trotting out even more star witnesses for week number two of their anemic impeachment hearing drama.

congressman chris stewart and andy biggs are here, it will be fun. and president obama is showing a pretty dramatic hearing of his own to democrats. moderate or get out. also, the less misplaced adulation. i revealed their top five heroes. some say they are actually zer zeros. speaking of zeros, does colin kaepernick actually want to be in the nfl? you won't believe the stunt he it pulled this weekend and the fallout that continues tonight. but first, a calamitous casting call sets the focus of tonight's angle. now i have been saying it for weeks and it now, we see a poll that bears it out. according to a new abc news survey, only 21% of americans surveyed are following these impeachment hearings closely.

now this has to rattle democrats given how much time and how much effort and of the endless media hype that surrounded this ukraine from story. >> this is a hard topic to get your head around. how do you deal with the fact that someone's been watching. i know that sometimes it's not easy to follow all of these names in this particular saga. >> i'm not sure he even knows all the names in the psych out. this explains does it not how the democrats have been shifting impeachment goalpost and adding new allegations every single day and wanting to prior balloons. i can't call it anything but a desperate effort to try to excite an audience that you get the sense would rather watch disney plus thin deal estimate witnesses in a bogus impeachment hearing. an allegation of a quid pro quo has now morphed into something much different. listen closely and watch the

metamorphosis. >> you don't need an exquisite quid pro quo to portray your country. >> if i think you are soliciting something of value it doesn't have to be cash, clearly this was something of great value to the president. >> this was part of a pattern to intimidate witnesses and it's also part of a pattern to obstruct. >> laura: obstruct justice. he needs to do story time for the kids because he is a good storyteller. maybe friday afternoon and an elementary school. and it now, still not confident in their case they are trying to resuscitate -- you guessed it, the mueller investigation. >> democrats may be looking to broaden potential articles of impeachment by investigating whether president trump lied to special counsel robert mueller. >> president trump may have lied to special counsel robert mueller.

>> and they are actually going back to trump's written interrogatory answers in the russia probe. this is just a complete and total sham. and most fair-minded americans know it. now cnn sent a reporter to the battleground state of wisconsin. a lot of people were surprised by that back in 2015. they wanted to go there to testing impeachment waters and see what people thought. well the folks didn't seem to actually be gung ho about much of anything in the ukraine's saga. >> veteran, business owner and independent says -- that's a pretty drastic step. whether i like the man or not is immaterial. impeachment is pretty drastic.

>> laura: that's on cnn. they couldn't get anyone striking up the band for impeachment. of course there was the career civil servants, but lastly kenton taylor came across as amiable and kind of professorial folks. yovanovitch was irrelevant to the underlying conduct in question. but you don't have to take my word for it. the television ratings are in and it's not pretty. while 13.8 million people across multiple broadcast and cable outputs watch the first day of the hearing and that's a 19% drop from the number who watched jim comey's testimony with the senate intel committee back in june of 2017. and as joe concha notes in the hill, that's also fewer than tuned in to the first democratic

debates which didn't have the benefit of being on most of the major broadcast networks and all of the cable news networks. on friday, the number declined even further which was 7 million people turning into a drop of more than 1 million viewers from wednesday. so no matter how much the democrats want you to believe otherwise, this is not the show that pelosi and schiff hope to produce. if this were on broadway, we want to see the final curtain call. rather than admit the entire charade was a mistake, it should have opened off, off, off broadway. democrats keep doubling down and asking for more investments in the show and now it's trump must testify if he doesn't, and he's definitely guilty. >> there is no way he can take the fifth. if he takes the fifth according to donald trump, he's guilty. either way donald trump is toa

toast. >> who says fossils can't talk? now it's not a white housing crisis. he saw those banners, and it's a pelosi-schiff led housing crisis. it's a party dragging the president and the nation through a needless vindictive impeachment circus for one reason and one reason only. they do not trust the voters, won't reelect trump in november, they don't trust you. and they can't -- on his results of the economy, not much of anything for that matter. for them impeachment is just another campaign strategy. a total travesty. now if i were trump, i wouldn't even talk about impeachment. i wouldn't tweet about it, i would dignify it. it's not an impeachment drama,

it's a comedy of constitutional errors. you know what i would say? i would say see you in court. or see you at the ballot box. that's real drama. the type that could bring down the house. and if that's the angle. speaking of dramatics, senator lindsey graham today announced that the doj and spectral general horowitz will testify in front of the senate judiciary committee on decembe december 11th, meaning his fisa abuse report is done. it will be released soon. joining me now is congressman chris stewart of the house intel committee and congressman andy biggs of house judiciary. what are you hearing about this report? >> like many of us, we've been waiting. we've been told it was imminent. we've been told of his imminent going on for several months now. and i so look forward to this. after the three years of work that we have done on the house intelligence committee, the revolution, revelations we have

given to the american people will be verified now and i fully expect there will be criminal referrals from this. >> don't you worry about getting your hopes up there on the criminal referrals? you all are charlie brown. i'm sorry, but every time we think we got him now. kind of like the democrats with trump. we got him now. but we don't have trump. >> this is attorney general barr who is committed to getting to the truth and telling the american people. god bless him, he will be key in saving a republic. and the second thing is we know what some of these individuals we did and we know that some of it was critical and that's why i was confident. some people will be held accountable. to be one of the inspector general can only operate within the doj and the fbi. people misunderstand what he is legally entitled to do. he can't go and run around the world and start interviewing joseph metz five.

that's for john durham. so while he dropped back at the feet of john durham to have to pursue beyond what he can do? >> we believe he's already given that information to durham. and looking for ways to resolve some of these issues. chris is exactly right, you will see some indictments probably come out of this. be one it doesn't come out of ig, it goes to durham. durham already pursuing the facts that have been developed by the ig and we don't probably expect that, durham's report or conclusions will come out in the summer of next year. don't you expect durham's conclusions will come out long before this election season really is in full swing? >> i would expect this to do more of a drip and drabek. >> laura: that's what they did in the rush of thing.

they had a man paul manafort at goes on and on. i want to talk about what nancy pelosi couldn't answer today when it came to impeachable conduct. >> the constitution defines an impeachable offense as treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors. what do you think applies to that case? >> we are unfolding the facts, that's what the inquiry is abo about. there's not even a decision made to impeach the president. >> laura: do you believe that? >> i don't think there's a prison in america who believes that. it's necessary for her sake. she has to preserve this pretext of being unbiased and, let's look at the evidence and then we will decide. she decided to impeach the day before this whistle-blower account was released. she said, the president is betrayed his oath of office.

i think she's always felt that way but regardless -- >> you have four witnesses. you have the military guy and he is an impressive array of metals on his chest and it's impressive to see. so no matter what he says, it's going to hurt trump and it's going to be good for the democrats. but people are questioning his judgment in the transcript that was released yesterday. >> i look forward to questioning him. it doesn't mean you are beyond reproach or question but you have to be held accountable for the statement you made. >> laura: as you saw from the television ratings last week, not that that is everything but

it is an indication of what the public is taking in or not. what can we expect do you think tomorrow? we have lindemann and jennifer hill and the vice president's office. she was listening on the call and expressed no concern by the way after the call wrapped. it wasn't until the transcript that came out that anything was said by her. >> i think you will see continuing declining ratings because this is boring television. even if i were at home i would probably have it on mute. but vindman himself has so many problems, despite the metals, he basically confesses this is a policy issue for him and not that there was any legal wrongdoing on the part of the president. if that was a case then he was just another upon. and, you can only cry wolf so

many times. and i think if the president just ignored us, does a tree fall in the forest, i wouldn't tweet about it, i would just ignore most of them were noise. how speaker nancy pelosi is now daring president trump to testify in impeachment drama. >> the president could come back before the committee and speak all the truth that he wants, if he wants to take the oath of office. or, he could do it in writing, he has every opportunity to present his case. >> laura: that's unlikely to happen but trump said he would strongly consider submitting the testimony. that hit shelves tomorrow.

and, was it interrogator interr? >> they are already going after him on one of his of written answers to which he said he didn't remember a conversation regarding wikileaks. when you think it's a crime for the busiest man in the world to not remember something years later, then you know what the democrats are planning is a perjury trap. that doesn't mean you have to commit perjury. you have to tell with god's honest truth, but if the democrats have one person who can testify differently, then they can claim he committed perjury. and perjury is potentially a high crime and misdemeanor. so they are setting a trap with the president and i don't think he will be advised by his

lawyers to go into that trap. >> laura: why do you say strongly considered? >> all of my clients always want to testify but i don't let them. because i tell them that better judgment prevails. but they all want to testify. they want to get the story out and they want to be heard. particularly if they own us believe they are innocent. >> laura: i want to get you are a reaction new revelation, supposedly the top ukraine expert they have, alexander vindman. his former boss, he told impeachment investigators, i had concerns about lieutenant colonel vindman's judgment and others had expressed concern about his judgment. while steve castor asked, did anyone bring concerns to you that he may have leaked something? and morrison answers, yes.

this all goes to withholding sensitive information and leaking perhaps sensitive or secret information. what about this? >> it's a serious problem for adam schiff and his group of cohorts out there. obvious -- it appears to me that they didn't really vent their witnesses carefully in terms of the credibility of their witnesses. they apparently thought that simply trotting out a military officer with all sorts of ribbons on his chest would be sufficient to grant unquestioned credibility to the witness. well, that's not the case. even though she this is not a legal proceeding, it is a proceeding in which the other side, the republicans have some ability to delve into an attack on the credibility of the witnesses that the democrats bring forward and apparently,

vindman has some problems in that regard. >> i think that would be a mistake for the democrats and republicans to do. vindman has a very distinguished career, a terrific background, and i think you can presume that he is doing anything wrong and i think it could backfire if you start attacking this man with an extremely high record. he's not hurting president trump this is a difference in policy. >> i both disagree and agree with you. and everything you do after that is not necessarily going to be laudable or even correct. >> but that's a presumption that applies when we've had a long distinguished career -- >> they didn't give that presumption to general flynn. >> i agree. and i attacked them for not doing that.

>> and if vindman is considered tomorrow's star witness in the colleagues -- not the committee but his colleagues, and that was a legitimate point to raise bob barr. is it not? >> and the republicans don't have to do it. and i am a defense attorney as well. that was despite the heroism before hand if, in fact, it

helps that client. >> you know you are taking a real risk when you try to attack somebody who has a deep record. i agree with you, it depends on how it's done. they are saying the president intimidated the witness. the president exercises first amendment rights to do what all of us have our right to do. i have a woman who is accusing me in my book. do i not have a right to say that if she testifies falsely that she goes to jail? that's a dangerous thing and every civil libertarian ought to be concerned about what the democrats are doing. >> laura: now merely defending herself as witness intimidation. it's ridiculous and even pelosi seemed to kind of slightly back away from that nonsense. alan and bob, great to see you. coming up, the left hailing

villains as heroes? wait until you hear who they just added to the list. plus president obama with a dire warning for the democrats. matt schlapp and tom bevan on that. and the aoc new radical plan to make america, well, stoned. is that fair?

>> laura: president obama warrants the far left to knock it off. or, 2020 could be a knockout. >> that's driven by the same view meaning the activists wing.

>> joining me now, matt schlapp, and tom bevan. matt, do warren and sanders care about what obama is saying about the electorate? >> i don't know what they are saying, but there is a lot of back channeling between those operations. i think they are almost running as a springboard off of obama's left-wing policies. and obama's time has come and gone and i cannot believe i'm saying that. >> a lot happened the bailouts

and the rate proceeding him. and then the party seems -- it's shocking really. >> when barack obama was running and he said he wanted to fundamentally transform america, he wanted to be the real version of ronald reagan. what's ironic is barack obama did not want joe biden to run, and in 2020 said, you don't have to do this. he's good friends with deval patrick. and, that's progressive candidates, and somehow save the day or salvage the nomination. >> laura: i don't think

bernie sanders got the message about the travails of going too far left. watch. >> we talk about medicare for all, it means all. if it every man, woman and child in the country. >> they are getting free access and free dental health care and vision. >> give obama some credit. if you look at the polls for general election voters, and ideas such as that giving illegal immigrants or illegal aliens free health care is very unpopular with the people who are going to vote in the den comic general election. >> it's just like in kentucky, where almost every other major race goes republican.

so, you get a pro-gun democrat in louisiana who beats kind of an average, not stellar or terrible candidate. >> we try to do that and we tend to do that, but matt bevin was in trouble before and wasn't well-liked. as we said all other republicans do well and john bel edwards is a different kind of democrat. i don't think there's a pro-life candidate running in the race let alone a pro-gun resident. >> laura: and pete buttigieg is up nine points in iowa. he's had lots of issues. lots of african-americans they are not happy with him, raymond arroyo did an amazing piece on this a month or so ago. but this new poll shows them just surging. what does that mean?

it's his own midsize small city. >> there is no question that mayor pete is not an overly popular mayor and obviously not popular with african-american when democrats win iowa, they tend to get the nomination. >> laura: i remember tom in 2008. and that was in another room for barack obama. the hillary clinton room was really quiet and kind of boring. the obama room was like comparing it to the trump rally. and we walked out and it was like, it's obama. so could that carry pete buttigieg the entire

election, just one race or is it different this time? >> i'm not sure. i mean certainly, part of the problem, you have pete buttigieg leading in iowa, and the problem is, i was all about expectatio expectations. or you underperform expectations. it's great for him that he searched 16 points and he is now leading by nine in iowa, but we are still 70 days above the boats. votes. >> there is a piece out today about folks who put it up on the screen urging kamala harris to drop out of the race in california. it's time to step out. i mean she's not going anywhere.

it sounds mean to say dignity but, is it just that you have nothing better to do? >> anything can happen? the fact is, 7 out of 9 democrats in iowa, you get so much money and momentum. whoever wins in these female states, that's who is in. >> i thought he was going to wait to florida. >> laura: was that in 2008? >> that didn't work.

>> it didn't work for rudy and it's not going to work for bloomberg. >> the left might not cling to religion, but they are saints. we will explain what that means when we come back.

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>> laura: so democrats are busy trying to sell impeachment to a yawning audience. as i pointed out on the angle, it's a heavy lift. it's as if they are trying to anoint heroes to drive the narrative for them. these aren't the near comic heroes that a lot of people think of, like firefighters, folks in the military service, police. the left heroes are things like victimhood. here is our list of the left top five heroes.

number one, a former ukraine and vassar who is mad because she got fired. >> the state department hero, and a hero to me and most americans today. >> over the weekend, we thought a lot about this. just because it's back in the news, kevin ou cavanaugh accuser christine blase ford. >> when i came forward i was not feeling courageous. i thought anyone in my position of course would do the same thing. i had at the example of anita hill, i had a responsibility to my country. >> laura: over the weekend the aclu gave her it's hero award.

joining me now, this is conservative author and willmaker. i will reveal my others in a moment, but who tops your list today? >> i like your list. i had completely forgotten that infantile rhetoric and its back. the middle-aged woman with the voice of a 4-year-old. but yes. top of my list, probably alex for men who would be testifying very shortly. the policy disagreement here can be easily excavated from his own remark. when he said what disturbed him about trump and the phone call was, it would undermine bipartisan support to the ukraine. so the policy disagreement is very simple. he seems to have a ukraine first policy. and it trump has a ukraine first

policy. so also on my list, who could forget adam schiff? he's a hero because he is the perfect set up man. he sets up the scandal and plants the evidence and becomes a detective who goes and finds the evidence. then he becomes the judge who conducts the hearing and it rakes the process and finally declares a verdict. so his skill at providing all these roles simultaneously with the same straight face, this is kind of an achievement. those are two of my candidates and i could say ilhan omar, but those are my two. >> laura: let's go back to my list. number three on my list is someone who bravely kicked off the impeachment frenzy with an anonymous complaint. >> i believe this is a career service employee and public service.

i consider him or her a patriot. >> i think there will be a wave of patriotic americans who will start coming forward to. >> the whistle-blower has great risk associated with his life right now. >> laura: first of all, how do we know it's a whistle-blower? because the ig said so? you never get to question the ig really, you can't appeal a decision by the ig that declare someone a whistle-blower. but adam schiff claimed he didn't even know who the whistle-blower was, obviously lying last week. so, is that really a hero? >> he's a hero to the left. what's interesting to me is, both the russian collusion investigation and the ukraine investigation both began under extremely cloudy circumstances. they both began with a sort of mystical process, the people

orchestrating the investigation, they don't have to be concerned about where this all got started. never mind all that, let's focus on what we have in front of us. kind of parallel skimming going on with both russian collusion and now with the ukraine. >> laura: and dinesh, number four on the leftist heroes, it's stacy abrams. she is the self-proclaimed winner of last years georgia's governor's race despite actually losing by just a mere 50,000 votes. >> we saw what happened in georgia where stacy abrams should be governor of that sta state. >> racially motivated patterns of voter suppression which are responsible for the fact that stacy ingram is not the governor of georgia right now. >> without owner's suppression,

stacy abrams will be the governor of georgia. >> laura: i don't know why she changed her accent there. isn't that odd? they haven't accepted trump or any democrats lost pretty much of it comes within 100,000 vot votes. >> i think that -- i am mentioned ilhan omar, these people are protected on -- no matter what press preposterous candles they get involved in. they represent something very important to the contemporary left. the marriage of you may say. in this sense, the rhetoric of the rich or the poor, the woman or you are a desert for somalia. they cannot drop it, and they

cannot go after you. the elevation ultimately of the ultimate victim. >> laura: do you agree with me, aoc is really the thought leader of the democratic party. no one comes close to her, she's issuing policies and proclamations and a very expensive government program that she's pushing now for drug legalization across the board. in six months, most people -- maybe not biden because he is against that but most of the democrats would say, yes, that's good for us. >> look at the way in a socialist agenda, although it's in the sense confined to four people come look at the kind of -- it's almost impossible to be against it. you almost have to be more to the left than the next guy and there's kind of an automatic pressure pulling the mainstream

of the democratic party, at least the democratic candidates to the left in that direction. >> laura: he's basically out. coming up, colin kaepernick versus rapper kanye west. clay travis explains why these two very controversial men take different approaches to life and what it all means, next

>> laura: this is a fox news alert, there are several big developments in the jeffrey epstein death investigation. trace gallagher's live in our west coast newsroom with all the late-breaking details. >> over the past ten days there's been very little about this matter but then the network will have to say why it decided not to run a story concerning

convicted child sex offender jeffrey epstein. house minority leader kevin mccarthy and other top republicans sent a letter to the network demanding answers. the story got out when somebody leaked video of abc anchor amy roebuck claiming that higher upset her network killed the story. specifically that abc refused to air an interview that she conducted with one of epstein's victims. watch. >> i tried for three years to get it on to no avail i know it's all coming out. all these new revelations and i had all of it. >> so now kevin mccarthy is asking abc to provide among other things interview conducted with the victim and information on who decided not to run the story and why and what outside forces amy roebuck was referring to as potentially being responsible for the story not running. the meantime, separately the two jail guards that failed to check on jeffrey epstein the night of

his death could face criminal charges for falsifying prison documents. they were supposed to check on them every 30 minutes but there are reports that one or both of them fell asleep in the dark of the laws. both guards were offered a plea deal but turned them down and the bureau of prisons chief will now face questions on capitol hill tomorrow. >> laura: thanks so much. first is unemployed nfl quarterback colin kaepernick who pulled the rug out from under a special tryout that the nfl was going to hold for him over the weekend. >> i've been ready for three years and i've been denied for three years, and i have nothing to hide. >> meanwhile kanye west held a massive boisterous sunday church

service and he did in texas with televangelist joel o'steen. >> singing for the lord and producing for the lord. every single millisecond be in service to god. >> laura: at the number one album in the country as his gospel album. joining me now is clay travis, a host of "out kick the coverage." it is like, and i said this earlier in relation to the impeachment deal. but it's like lucy in the football. but the nfl is charlie brown with this kaepernick situation. >> this is just so ridiculous. the nfl finally said to colin kaepernick, we are going to set up an unbelievable job interview for you. it actually makes a lot of sen

sense. and i can't believe colin kaepernick isn't on your list of left-wing heroes. he certainly should be, certainly in the of sports. there were issues brought to bear by colin kaepernick that if they were interested in hiring him potentially as their backup quarterback, if they brought him into their facility and then didn't offer him a job they would get crushed on both sides. everyone who loves him would be -- for him. so the nfl sets of this perfect theory where they are going to bring in all the different teams who are interested in him at all and allow him to work out at the atlanta falcons facility. it's unprecedented and colin kaepernick won't do it because he's worried about some sort of -- they have to sign a waiver. >> laura: i can't believe clay travis who is like one of the most brilliant people on sports,

you are saying he's not doing it because he's worried about a waiver? i have to tell you i have to agree with stephen a. smith. you probably watch this. let's play it. >> you don't want to work. you just want to make noise. and you want to control the narrative. it's over. colin kaepernick's aspiration for an nfl career, it's over. >> laura: he was ranting before that, it was actually pretty good. >> he's right. what happened was: keppra knoc colin kaepernick wanted to when the social justice warrior victim brigade and this was an opportunity for the nfl through jay-z and everybody else to give him a chance to prove that he deserves to be in the league. and the truth is this.

the minute he stands and signs on the sideline, he becomes utterly irrelevant. he and his advisors know it. >> president trump: but kanye west is reviled. he goes to texas and has a massive turnout and it's like the number one album in the country and he says, i'm kind of changing my approach to things. it's an interesting study in contrasts. great to see you tonight as always. in a special announcement about the show, when we come back. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.

>> laura: don't you love those teases? an important note about the show? kristin kabbalah, she's been with us for a year and she's done some of the greatest work that we have frankly done throughout the year. in chicago, at the border, at

the indiana women's prison. she does incredible long form production and we will miss her a lot. good luck. but you know we are working with you at fox nation. that's all the time we have tonight. mike emanuel, take it all from here. >> would begin with a fox news alert. the pressure is on for answers to what happened to jeffrey epstein and abc's coverage of the f convicted sex offender. the head of the federal prison bureau taken the hot seat tomorrow on capitol hill. lawmakers are likely to press for answers on how he could have died despite supervision of prison guards. and what happened with the broyles and former president bill clinton. also mayor pete buttigieg's presidential campaign scrubbing not just one photo of the woman on his website but multiple pictures of minorities on his site are found to have nothing to do with his campaign.