sandra smith. until then, have a good night and merry christmas. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," merry christmas week and this time of year, what is a sincere and faithful christian look like to you? how about a narcissistic former mckinsey consultant who passionately supports late-term abortion. is that the image of concert in your minds eye? but looks can deceive because mayor pete buttigieg says he is exactly that. a faithful christian. indeed, he claims to be so faithful that he literally knows which political party ought supports. >> it is by no means true for

christian faith or any faith requires you to be a republican, especially in these times. so-called conservative christian senators right now in the senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage which scripture says whoever oppresses taunts their maker. >> is also important we stop seeing religion used as a cudgel, as if god belongs t to a political party and if he did, i can't imagine it would be the one of the president in the white house. >> tucker: he is a preachy little guy, isn't he? the best part is, likely the most faithful christian many political reporters have ever met. he might as well be st. paul. can't tell the difference. certainly impressed after bashing the trump administration for not admitting more refugees into the country, called for the president to be removed from office for being immoral,

christians the magazine proclaimed to have a voile duty to align with the party that openly despises christians. most actual churches ignore that but cnn was thrilled and gave the network a chance to lecture stranded air travelers about the topic they know least about wishes christian theology. watch as they explain that real christians vote democrat. >> like it behind a man who makes a mockery of your faith? i certainly don't think most people do not think he makes a mockery of our faith. >> does he practice any of those things? >> most people who are not evangelicals like you talk about my faith. let's talk about your faith. you are catholic. and you make a mockery of the catholic faith? >> if he said he was catholic, he would. he does not practice decency, he does not love mercy, he is intentionally unkind, he is mean to opponents. he puts himself before the

collective and he doesn't honor his oath. i don't understand how people believe what you believe get behind somebody who does not. >> tucker: another preachy one. they are getting preachy on the left. but embedded in that exchange is an interesting and valid question, why do faithful questions overwhelmingly support a president who is not himself a faithful christian? it's an interesting question and answer reveals a lot but cnn doesn't want to know the answer perhaps because they are implicated in it. so instead they ridicule and attack as you just saw, certainly approach on msnbc were someone called lynette lopez came on to explain that churchgoing evangelicals are actually immoral. >> evangelical political activity has not always been in line with the teachings of jesus christ. and it is quite possible that this is an awakening because there are christians who see the full loyalty of evangelical,

they are giving their loyalty to the president and not to god. >> tucker: in other words, evangelicals are idolaters, trump is their calf and msnbc has grave concerns about their souls. and if you believe that, you want to listen very closely to the reverend al sharpton as he delivers his sermon on the matter, watch this. >> the reason is he's exposing all of them that they would take this shameless con man over the principles that they are preaching and the holy season as we celebrate. they would sell out if they thought they could get something from it is what he's saying from the editorial and that is sad on many levels. >> tucker: that was al sharpton on television denouncing somebody else as a

con man. we have reached peak or well, can't get more dishonest than this or more hilarious. let's hope this brand of insanity dies with 2019. what's going on here? why all this noise about christianity, something the left suddenly cares about. america's religious landscape is changing and changing fast. according to pew, in 2019 for example, 77% of americans identified as christian. just ten years later, only 65% of the country identifies as christian. the nonreligious percentage has grown from 17% to 26% over the same period. these are happening across the political spectrum but they are particularly profound in the democratic party. just a decade ago, democrats that they were 72% christians, today that number is 55%. one-third higher nonreligious. among the parties elite, the numbers are much more stark than that. black voters are still one of

the countries most christian blocks and that's why african-americans are by far the most reasonable and moderate among the loading blocks of the democratic coalition, by far because they are the most religious. but they are not in charge of the democratic party. the people who are overwhelmingly right and have financials from ivy league. where they? many of them are aggressively anti-christian. may be why they want to force the catholic charities to fund's birth control and catholic hospitals to perform abortions. it's why they spend a decade crusading, hassling chick-fil-a because they donated to a handful of traditional christian charities they thought were immoral. just leave them alone. they truly hate traditional christianity. it's why some of their lawmakers openly speculate that judges may be ineligible for the supreme court because they believe in

god. you're wondering why they are willing to support this president despite his personal live, he is not the enemy of christians. in fact under certain circumstances, he would protect christians. for people whose values are under assault every day by powerful forces in america, and that is not overstating it, if you are one of them, you know. is bad enough to be lectured about christianity by cable news who don't know anything about it but what's happening in the broader country is much more threatening. the left presumes the right to lecture the people at despises for the sin of not voting for them. this may shock some democrats the most christians don't think they have religion to be destroyed by people who hate them. they don't. the man you saw getting lectured over on cnn is the host and is written biographies of martin luther and the one i haven't

read but i'm sure it's as good as the first two. joins us tonight, thanks so much for coming on. >> great to beyond and i want to correct you but that's a humor book, not a kids book, just to be clear. >> tucker: it is for the witty kids in your life. >> because it is not nasty, you can give it to children and a lot of people give it to children but i think we should start here. i think we need to laugh more and they are actually meant to celebrate this president and what he's doing. so many people in america that are thrilled at what this president is doing, so it becomes laughable and someone like chris cuomo who i like personally but when he talks about the president putting himself before the collective, i thought what world are we in when we are talking about putting yourself before the collective is a great sin against the christian faith? it's a little kooky. >> tucker: i never liked them,

certainly were preachy, but the christian left has gotten even more preachy than tammy faye recently, what is that? >> let me tell you something. all of the televangelists were not at their core preaching. that is a caricature that even you and i and our bubbles bought into this and when somebody on cnn for example is using the evangelicals as the whipping boy, as a scapegoat scapegoat du jour, they're doing the same thing, pushing forward a narrative that tasks all serious christians is nothing but hypocrites, as transactional hypocrites. >> tucker: if i can just say as a christian, i don't think it's serious. >> that's another issue but what i'm trying to say is when i was on cnn and they were talking about why do evangelicals support trump, it's a way of

demonizing religious people and saying you are nothing but hypocrites, anyone who has standards and talks about those moral standards is nothing but a hypocrite and then when you show love to someone. >> tucker: on what grounds that they make that case? this is a party certainly aggressively anti-christian. now they're telling christians that they are not good christians. >> it's a one-way street. you have no values or you say it's fine to kill babies up to the ninth month, it is fine to do anything you want and then to push it on little children in schools, find to do all that, the moment anybody says i actually have a standard that it want to be preachy about it but the standards are important to me, my faith is important to me, they immediately cry hypocrite, immediately cry moralist. so the mainstream media usually fundamental he doesn't

understand people of faith, number one. number two, some of them are actively and explicitly opposed to faith. they see it as threatening to them and when you talk to folks on cnn or msnbc, they have an animus towards people of faith. they somehow feel that if you get any power, you're going to oppress them and do horrible things. i argue precisely the opposite that real christians in america are for religious liberty for everybody, not to protect christians. so it becomes complicated but it's fairly simple. we've been seeing this for at least 50 years. >> tucker: at least. thank you so much for that. nancy pelosi is always quick to tell you she doesn't hate the president, not at all. he spent three years trying to destroy his presidency and him as a person but she's actually very sad for him and prays for him constantly. she probably found her around convent just to pray for the president. >> i don't hate anybody.

i was raised in a classic house and i don't hate anyone. not anybody in the world. as a catholic, i resent you using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. i don't hate anyone. i was raised in a way that is a heart full of love and always prays for the president and i still pray for the president. i pray for the president all the time. so don't mess with me when it comes to words like that. >> tucker: senator john kennedy represents the state group of louisiana. why not just say what so clearly true, i don't like the president and i am trying to reboot him out of office by force. why this i am praying for him stuff? >> i think that would be more honest on the speaker's behalf, so i think it's a mistake to mix partisan rage with religion,

christianity or otherwise. i think the proposition that christians are monolithic in their political beliefs is shallow, i think it is sophomore. i'm a christian. i helped found the little methodist church, i can tell you many of my fellow members support president trump. with some he's about as popular as head lice. i'd give you an example. the president is a disruptor, he speaks very bluntly to the manager elite. the entrenched politicians, the bureaucrats, the academics, the members of the media, the corporate phonies, the people that think they're smarter and more virtuous than the american people. is that unchristian? i guess you could teach it round

or flat, but christ spoke truth to power. the beauty of christianity is that christians don't believe they are perfect, that's why they are christians. and number two, my faith tells me as a christian, and it's hard in washington, d.c., i remind myself of this every day, don't hate. you can disagree, but don't ha hate. but unfortunately, there's a lot of partisan rage and that's on the christian whether you're a christian or not. >> tucker: that is on both sides, i think you're absolutely right. it just is too disingenuous for me to sit and listen to people who we really would dismantle the traditional christian church and are actually trying to lecture faithful christians about how they've gone astray.

i don't think they have a right to do that. >> i have heard some democrats, not saying all democrats, haven't heard too many republicans, but i have heard some of my democratic friends mock people who believe in god and who believe in the second amendment, who believe in teaching their kids morals, who believe in the military. i'm not saying about the doctrine of the democratic ark, and maybe there are some republicans who do that. they do that, they are just as wrong as the democrats, but i remember presidential candidate one time calling a bunch of people deplorables. i remember a candidate mocking americans for believing in god and guns. i think that was the way he put it. this is america, you can believe what you want, but i think i'm

not going to say they are unchristian but i think that is unchristian behavior. i probably in washington you get called up, i've said some things that are probably unchristian but just speaking for me personally, i have enough trouble battling my own canoe but i try to remind myself every day, don't hate. you can disagree, but don't ha hate. >> tucker: that is a chris's message i can get behind, thank you so much, good to see you tonight. democrats have been fantasizing about impeachment since the day trump took office but now at the last possible moment after voting through two counts of impeachment, they are holding back, haven't forwarded the articles of impeachment to the senate meeting according to some scholars, the president isn't technically impeached. one of the weirdest states to play ever. they are worried it will not be "fair.

>> leader mcconnell is plotting the most unfair impeachment trial in modern history. >> senator mcconnell is not representing fairness because he is admitting that he is anything but impartial. >> if he wants a kangaroo court, a kangaroo court is not a trial, that is a process that you go through to legitimize what you know to be unfair and in some instances the legal treatment. >> tucker: stephanie grisham is the press secretary and joins us tonight to clarify a point that has people confused, thank you so much for coming on tonight. is impeachment going on? has the president been impeached, what's going to happen, what is this? >> it continues to be a crazy sham and continues to be something i don't think any of us understand. the great thing about this whole thing is that when nancy pelosi

goes low, our poll numbers keep going high so that's a fantastic thing. i think the people that are leading this crazy effort are going to go down in history as the people who weaponized impeachment and this is going to go on for years and years to come, other presidents can now get impeached over policy disputes. so we will see what happens, has to get it over there to the senate because the impeachment isn't going to be valid. isn't going to be legitimate in the eyes of the american people and when it does go to the senate, it will be what we've been saying all along, the president did absolutely nothing wrong. >> tucker: but as it is in a holding pattern where it remains, it seems to be if anything helping the president and his reelection. so are you anxious to get it to the senate, is the status quo hurting you, do you think? >> no, i would say the president has said over and over again that he would like to get it to the senate. i don't think anybody wants it

to have the word impeachment attached to the presidency and he has said that a few times so of course would like it to go to the senate so that we can show that he did nothing wrong. we can push back on all of the lies that they were telling in the house i want to say the irony that they are holding these articles because they are worried about fairness. is ironic, hypocrisy abound, continues. i don't know what she's thinking, i think she doesn't know what to do actually. >> tucker: i think what you just said is absolutely right. she is caught between warring factions and she is stuck, i agree. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you, merry christmas. >> tucker: elizabeth warren beating up on board pete buttigieg for inviting millionaires and billionaires to his wine cave for fund-raisers. here's an interesting fact, worn herself as a wine cave.

but barack obama likes her anyway. there's a lot going on, and update after the break.

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>> tucker: during the last democratic debate, senator elizabeth warren went after mayor pete buttigieg who runs some small town in the midwest and his appeal to the wall street wing of the democratic party, watch this. >> so the mayor just recently had a fund-raiser and that was held a wine cave full of crystals and served $900 a

bottle wine. billionaires and wine caves should not pick the next president of the united states. >> this is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass. your net worth is 100 times mind. we need support from everybody who is committed to helping us defeat donald trump. >> i do not sell access, i do not do call times, millionaires and billionaires. i don't meet behind closed doors with big dollar donors. >> your presidential campaign right now as we speak is funded in part by a money you transferred having raised it at those exact same big-ticket fund-raisers you now denounce. >> tucker: it's hard to know who to root for. on the one hand, he is a shill for creepy finance types, no doubt about that and it's

disgusting. on the other hand, elizabeth warren is a full-blown hypocrite. lobbing boulders from a home made of very thin glass. according to the hill newspaper, president obama himself has been going around speaking to top democratic party donors reassuring them, don't be put off by her attacks on the rich and mild warren may have knocked his $900 wine, her own campaign cells fund-raisers at restaurants but most expensive bottle of wine goes for $6600. i was out for a wine cave? a radio host on the author of what really happened and joins us tonight, you so much for coming on. sounds like she's got her own wine caves. >> she does and as you said, throwing stones at other people. the campaign said they will only

have serving wine that was worth $49 a bottle, and this is how out of touch she is. most people would think that's pretty pricey for a bottle of wine but she is totally tone-deaf to the way americans live creative she said please, go out and speak to the people behind you at the wine shop. the cheese shop, cheese shop in the wine shop mixed up. do you go to cheese shops? >> tucker: i'll be totally honest, i love it so if there was one near me, i would definitely go. but that's not the first thing that would come to mind. let me ask you as an expert on elizabeth warren as if someone, how'd she get so rich, where did all the money come from? worth 100 times what i'm worth,

how? >> this is another thing, she claims she is from the ragged edge of the middle class and there is just yet another piece about her in "the boston globe" today when i talk to her brothers who are all older than her and it turns out that one of her brothers was angry when she began calling her own father a janitor. her own brother was angry about it. but what happened was when she first ran for the senate in 2012, a few cases here and there and that's all, and then on the campaign trail even earlier this year saying i was a lawyer in private practice for 40 minutes, that was the exact time when it turns out now that it's pretty clear the other candidates are doing opposition research on her, she admitted she did 56 cases were she made $2 million. in that's not a huge amount of money for a lawyer over 20 or 30

years but she is not the hardscrabble up from poverty lawyer that she claims to be. and just everything about her is phony and she seems to think she can get away with this weather talking about her son going to private school when he didn't and being fired from the public teaching job which she didn't, she was out there wanted him to release all the women who sued his company for various forms of sexual harassment from their nondisclosure agreements, said we needed transparency. don't you think you when i and everybody else needs to see her employment applications for harvard and the university of pennsylvania law schools so we can see whether or not she really did apply claiming to be a native american? when i think we know the answer, thank you to your great reporting on that, your bulldog reporting on that. thank you for joining us tonig

tonight. >> merry christmas, tucker. >> tucker: a respite from politics, don't count on it. you have relatives who support bernie sanders, a family persuasion guide that gives scripts so they can shoehorn politics into every last moment of the christmas season. feeling nauseous? there's a reason. fake so much for coming in so to set the scene here because when you talk, not like other politicians. he was alexandria ocasio-cortez but that aside, at a bernie rally. this is the tone they are hoping for, watch this. >> it is not an advanced socie society. a society that allows people. is fascism. where we are evolving into as

well. >> tucker: so bernie wants you to discuss the nature of our fascist society, are nonadvanced society. are you going to? >> basically, alexandria ocasio-cortez is right, that bernie sanders thinks that their parents and grandparents are fascist, racist, homophobes, and their parents just think the kids are stupid but they can be stupid and they diverted away and that's a choice of sleeping during christmas dinner over the price is right for listening to your kids say she talks a lot of sense about how fascist america is in we should all be more like venezuela where they are so environmentally enlightened, abolished toilet paper. i don't know in terms of

entertainment over the christmas lunch, i don't think it persuades anyone i and what's so sad about these young americans is that bernie is in fact their surrogate father or surrogate grandfather, i don't think there's a self-respecting middle-aged man across the fruited plain who wants his kids saying dad, you are so square, why can't you be more like bernie? i don't think that's a particularly helpful message over the christmas dinner. >> tucker: so i have to ask you, the last conversation we are going to have in 2019 coming up, is it going to be crazy or less crazy do you expect? >> i think the crazy button is going to accelerate. basically, this whole wine cave controversy now, if you actually -- i thought when obama

said eight years ago look at the way the price of arugula has gone up, that was crazy but this idea now that they are arguing about the precise point at which he or blue-collar credibility over the price point on a bottle of wine is fantastic. we are not in iowa yet. by the time you get to new hampshire, going to be off the charts. >> tucker: now you're making me look forward to it. i was fearing it before but as usual you put everything into context and it made me feel better. have the best christmas. amen. along with impeachment, congress is only other priority has been passing a trillion dollars spending package which actually happen, this government asked for that element, is there a debate on the big pieces of this bill, we will give you a glimpse

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one that congress had another priority before the christmas break passing a gigantic trillion dollars spending bill the details of which no one learned anything about until after was already done and was never even debated. to tell us what was in that bill, we are joined by the founder and ceo of american

majority and thank you so much for coming on. we've heard that somehow amnesty is in the bill? what is that and why? >> first of all, the omnibus is a dumpster fire in a big middle finger to the american people. i have to say this really quick, we elected trump to veto these things, and it is immoral to continue using the american taxpayer is an atm for the ruling class but there is amnesty for 4,000 liberians, corporate subsidies for renewable energies, even included money for gun studies by the cdc, we have a continued funding for planned parenthood, we continue to have abortion through obamacare, even included the one that just got me, ombudsman for i.c.e. detention centers that can harass and undermine i.c.e. agents while they are trying to do their jobs. was incredible but typical d.c.,

2300 page 1.424 trillion hours to read through it emma got to make a decision, i wish i could tell president trump you cannot drain the swamp if you continue to fund the swamp. >> tucker: it continues the war in afghanistan after we learned the people prosecuting that have been lying to us about it but that it prevents the men of fighting the from chewing tobacco unless they are 21. the whole thing seems demented, who wrote this? >> it is demented, we decided have to be 21 the bike tobacco but you're old enough to go fight on foreign soil, clearly old enough to go make idiotic decisions and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on worthless degrees but you can't smoke cigarettes. we spent 4.2 billion for security forces but could only find 1.4 billion for our southern border wall but somehow we also managed to find half a

billion for a border security in jordan of all places. come on, at some point, this is why he was elected, this is immoral behavior and we continue to go along with it as though it's just how things are done in washington, d.c. we sent ten to d.c. to say no and what he should have done is said i'm not signing this, i will only agree to a clean six-week continuing resolution, we will come back from christmas in january and we will have a conversation about this monstrosity but i'm not going to sign this. he told us last year he was not going to do this again and yet here we are. >> tucker: really quick, did any republicans on the hill fight this thing? >> i know ted cruz and some others were trying to fight it but one of the things that happens that it's put together in the middle of the night, given very little time to respond to it, how do you read through 2300 pages with all of your staff, either agree to vote

on this, you only have so much time, there were some, chip roy in the house and others but at a certain point, the incredible thing is they are using our taxpayer dollars to buy members to then vote for the overall omnibus. is incredible and unethical and i would say corruption, layered in corruption. >> tucker: slathered in yet another layer of it. thank you so much for that accurate summary. senate democrats in the state of virginia are promising to take people's second amendment rights and trash them across the state county sheriff's are pushing against that. one of them joins us after the break. - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos,

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>> tucker: bolstered by their stranglehold on washington, d.c., the false church and it set a wreck on the democrats took complete control of virginia state government this fall and they are acting fast already pledging to use their power to remake the commonwealth completely. one of the chief targets is the same as americans guns rights traditions. lawmakers are planning an assault weapons ban consuming the can find an assault weapon, magazine size restrictions and much more. and some would like gun seizures and are saying this out loud. the problem is that most of virginia's counties remain conservative and sensible. officials in those places are taking inspiration from the left doctrine on immigration and declaring themselves sanctuary counties for gun rights. the sheriff of page county joins us. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you for having me.

>> tucker: tell us, if you would, what you plan to do if democrats in the statehouse began enacting these restrictions on the second amendment? >> we are hopeful that our legislators are listening. we are having town hall meetings here throughout the valley and we are having thousands of people show up to these town hall meetings to voice their concerns. we just hope that they are listening in richmond and our legislators will not go through with these deals. >> tucker: so presumably the chief law enforcement official in virginia, tell us specifically, the assault weapons around her one of them, are they a major crime problem for you? in your county? >> no.

we do not have a problem with that. in areas like page county, a lot of people will go out on a saturday evening and have a cook out and target practicing and things like that and they will even hinder a parent taking their child out to hunt at an early age. so these are unconstitutional. >> tucker: so you are hearing -- they are absolutely unconstitutional, you are right of course. hearing some democrats say if you set up a sanctuary county for gun rights, then they're going to use force, one was suggesting bring in the national guard to make you obey. what is your response? >> like i said, i am hoping that they are listening in richmond. my staff and i stand ready to protect the citizens of pag

page county from their rights being infringed upon. is not law enforcement's place to infringe upon the rights of law-abiding citizens. it is our obligation to protect them from those types of things being done. and i am thankful we have a president that supports the second amendment and believes in the constitution. >> tucker: i hope it doesn't come to that, you seem like a very reasonable man and i don't think of ever heard anyone say as you do clearly, they exist to protect our rights which is a wonderful thing to hear, thank you so much for coming on tonight. >> thank you for having me and god bless you. >> tucker: god bless you, merry christmas. for the past couple of months, the press has expended tremendous energy defending hunter biden. in the ordinary observer, his job on the board of burisma looks suspicious. no previous experience in the

natural gas industry come i didn't speak ukrainian and yet he made millions. why did they pay him? part of the reason is his father was overseeing the obama administration's anticorruption efforts in ukraine. after hunter biden got his job, his father excessively demanded the firing of the ukrainian prosecutor who could've investigated him. a normal person would look at that and think that's a little suspicious, definitely may be corrupt but it is criminal, actually. according to nbc news, suspecting any of this is "debunked conspiracy theory. he would have to be an idiot to think otherwise according to nbc but if hunter biden did nothing shady in ukraine, it would at least be a break from the standard practice in the united states. court documents filed monday in the paternity case he is facing in the state of arkansas is a whole different story, but the mother of biden's child says that hunter biden is currently

facing multiple criminal investigations. according to the filing, hunter biden is linked to investigations for fraud, money laundering, and counterfeiting. what exactly does that mean? we are not sure. the documents were compiled by a private investigator. they say the scheme involves biden's work with burisma. interesting. how will those allegations fair in court? we will have to see. file an amicus brief saying he doesn't have to support his own child because the mother is touting the conspiracy theory. they should be embarrassed. cnn x like some sort of resistance but they are the opposite. so entwined that they were caught giving baseball tickets to top fbi officials. is that legal? no, it's not. we have details.

♪ >> tucker: the whole point of freedom of the press, the reason families are so keen on it, publications can speak freely and hold powerful people in our society to account. that is how things should work. it's not how they work in real life, as you know. the press is on the side of the

people they cover. they are from the same world. they want competing outlets and ordinary day americans censored as they serve propaganda for the ruling class for which they are a part. this is not speculation. ask anyone and they will come for it. and representing the relationship between media, it is not things like hiring jim clapper as a national security analyst, which is almost unbelievable, but stories like this when which has gotten no attention. here it is in 2016 and fbi assistant director of public affairs michael horton given two tickets to a washington nationals game by a respondent of cnn. we don't know the name but the court papers rebuild the person works at cnn. the doj inspector general question him about this. he lied under oath and falsely paid for the tickets. the investigation revealed that he received tickets from a

"new york times" reporter. of course this is de facto bribery of a federal employee, broke the law. he could have been jailed or fired for cause, but needless to say he wasn't because in washington, no one ever is. he retired brutally without further consequences. cnn has not been punished either even though reporters was -- just remember what happened. every time cnn tells you federal agencies above suspicion or any time they tell you good reporting and good instincts were the reason they were on hand, the fbi agent's predominant arrest. they are liars, as you all know. they are not looking out for your interest. they are not critics of america's most powerful people. they are allies. they are on the same team. they are against you. just another little piece of evidence. it's true, unfortunately. that is it for us. i wish we had more time going into christmas week. we will be back at 8:00 p.m.

>> the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. have a great christmas with the wench you love. good night from washington. for those of you busy with family tomorrow and wednesday, we wish you again merry christmas. dan bongino is sitting in for sean hannity. >> thank you very much, tucker. a special edition of "hannity," i am dan bongino in for sean. for the hour we will highlight the failures for the democratic party. and we will start with the impeachment fiasco on capitol hill. as we speak, nancy pelosi is demanding a political ransom in exchange for turning over the articles of impeachment for the u.s. senate. and the majority leader calling it absurd. check it out. >> are you surprised to have been handed two impeachment articles from the speaker? >> yeah, believe it or not, the papers have to be physically brought over to the senate.