every weeknight, they show that if they sworn enemy of, prosody, smugness, and groupthink have a great night with the ones you love. see you soon. ♪ >> sean: welcome to this special edition of "hannity." merry christmas eve. and for the full hour tonight, we will highlight some of the big interviews we have done over the past few weeks. first up, my interview with president trump. i want to go to the double standard again, whether it's the dossier, whether it is ukraine helping and interfering in our elections, whether there is no quid pro quo, then you can at hunter biden joe biden on tape breaking about using taxpayer de firing of ukrainian, no experience in oil, gas, energy, or private equity.

millions of dollars. >> thrown out. of the navy. hunter biden was thrown out of the navy. >> sean: why was he given that money? >> to pay off my opinion. hunter biden, with no experience -- $168,000 a month, and i heard -- >> sean: split between him and another guy. >> they got a $3 million payment in that. and that's corruption. that's something that has to be investigated. but i watched this crazy anderson cooper at the other day during the debate apologize for having to ask the question to them. apologize. if that were me -- >> sean: declare his innocence. >> at that were my sons that took $168,000 from this very questionable company, an energy company, and they knew nothing about energy, he knew nothing about energy, and he has a bad record, bad track record, including getting thrown out of the navy, and even h the way he got in the navy is interesting, in his position.

if that were don jr. or eric trump, a very outstanding young man, it would be the biggest story. >> sean: what does it say about the media? speak of the media is corrupt. i know some great media, including you, i know some great journalists. if they get pulitzer prizes to people, they got it wrong. all of those people from "the new york times," which is a fake newspaper, we don't even want it in white house anymore. you take a look at "the new york times" and you take a look at the kind of reporting they did, it turned out to be all around. and after the election, "the new york times" apologized for their coverage because they were covering me in such a way, so when i won, they actually apologized to their subscribers, because they were losing thousands and thousands of subscribers. "the new york times" wrote an

apology. nothing else. they're saying, well, it wasn't really an apology -- it was -- because they covered me so badly. and then what i said, kind of interesting, the good news is, i will be covered fairly again. and then i got covered worse. i got covered worse. but that's okay. you know who was covered worse than me, they say? abraham lincoln. i've heard that one person, is to be five or six, now it is down to one, honest abe lincoln. they say he got the worst press of anybody. i dispute it. >> sean: 2020 is here. he said publicly you don't think joel makes it. george says elizabeth warren, it is hers to lose. you have bernie, mayor pete, kamala harris, then you look at the position, top marginal tax rate. >> much higher. >> sean: 90% corporate tax rate. the new green deal, medicare for all, no private options. you comfortable running against

those? >> i don't want to talk about it. the last time i took on elizabeth warren, i thought she was gone, burning embers down. >> sean: pocahontas. >> pocahontas. there's only one. it's not her. what happened, sean, she rose from the ashes, and i give her credit for that. but i don't like talking about it. as far as i'm concerned, the green new deal, it's fine. all of it is fun. paint 96% in taxes is all fine. i want them to keep talking about it. and when it is time to run, i'll run, but i don't want to talk about it. it's too early to talk about it. can you believe we're getting down to 12 months. can you believe it? right in that corner of that beautiful building, i was in the first night with the first lady, i'm standing in an area where abe lincoln was, where all of the more, and that's the way it was. and i'm standing there, here we are, we are almost coming up, we

have tremendous support, we've cut taxes we've cut regulations, we have great stock markets. we have over 100 days, and that's in a fairly short period of time, with the stock market, when it hit an all-time high, it is about to hit it again. we are doing great. and we're beating everybody. all over the world. countries aren't doing well. china is not doing well. china is having the worst year they've had in 57 years, and we just made a deal for our farmers where $40 million to $50 million worth of agricultural products to china. but we have done things that nobody else have done. >> sean: let me ask you more about 2020. record the employment since 1969. when you ran, and you said, what have you got to lose? when you speak to the minorities. native record though unemployment. hispanic-americans, african-americans, women in the work place, he was, what is your

message minorities in 2020. your base looks strong. you can see it at the rallies. >> african-american, hispanic, asian american, have all set records, the lowest unemployment in the history of our country. we have 51 years with the country, end up topping that number pretty soon. that will be historic too pretty soon if we keep going the way we are going. i think we will, the household income, the median, but if you look at the african-american, asian-american, hispanic-american, in the history of our countries, that the best on employment numbers and they have the best employment numbers. today it was announced that we have the most people working in the history of our country, almost 160 people. how do you beat me in a debate on those numbers? okay? those are the best numbers. poverty numbers are the best right now for almost all of those groups, poverty numbers,

meaning, in a positive sense, best numbers in the history of our country. there is another number that just came out, and it came out i guess with the moody's report saying that i would won easily. the moody's report was very interesting. median household income, under eight years of obama, up $975, that is eight years. under eight years of president bush, president obama, $975. eight years, eight years, $400, $975. me, at two-point years, it's upo $7,000. $5,000 plus $2,000 for the tax cuts that everybody got. yet the 2,000 to the five. you've got one with $1,000, $975. that is over eight years, each

one. i'm only here 2.5 years, and i beat them by many times. what is that percentage like proportionately? so it is $5,000 plus $2,000, up $7,000. median household income. that is of record. there's never been anything like that. the economy is the best it's ever been. ever been. and you look again, china has gone way down. right now, janet would have thought me, right now, they are not even close. picked up trillions of dollars in value, china has gone way, way down by trillions and trillions of dollars. when the head of china spoke to me recently, and even the vice-premier, just left, just left this week, he said, congratulations, mr. president, on the incredible job." he said, "we never would have expected this to happen."

china is paying us tens of billions of dollars with the tariffs, and it has had a huge impact on china and it hasn't cost us anything because they devalue their currency. they have eaten that. they've eaten it already. but he said, "congratulations on the job you've done." >> sean: let me ask you about iran. they have taken tinkers hostage. mentioned energy independence. the straits of foremost. >> they haven't taken our tankers. >> but they are less geopolitically important. >> we are now energy independence, we have very few ships, that comment was made the other day, don't see too many american ships anymore. >> sean: when you have syria, he of criticism -- well, it seems like you are at an impasse. >> look, we the same name. want to bring the soldiers back home. they were supposed to be there for 30 days, they're there for 30 years.

we were in afghanistan for 20 years. we see those numbers substantially in afghanistan. but they are supposed to be in syria for 30 days. one thing about syria, when i took over, isis is all over the place. you know that better than anybody. 2.5 years ago. i rid of that whole thing. all of those prisoners. they were captured under trump. we killed many, many isis fighters. you hate to talk about -- we took 100% of the caliphate. 100%. everybody says it. it's not like, oh, gee, obama did it. i did it. but you know what? it is now time to bring our soldiers home. and it's very interesting. that little fight for two days, i don't know that turkey would have done what they did, like a cease-fire, and i don't know that the kurds would have moved out, but i say, and some people

thought it was a great analogy, some people not, but it's like two kids and a playground. you let them fight for a minute and then you pull them apart. much easier to make a deal. >> sean: a few weeks ago i also sent them a senate majority leader at mitch mcconnell to ask him about how he will handle impeachment in the u.s. senate. take a look. training is now senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is with us, and his memoir, by the way, "belonging." i knew forward by president trump. it is now out in paperback. good to see you, it has been a while, i want to find out about the new forward. i think most people don't fully understand. let's assume for a moment that the house goes forward with this impeachment and it is over to the senate. walk us through how this process works and the options available and what do you see happening and how you see this going down. >> first, as you've pointed out to your viewers, the democrats

have been wanting to do this for three years. the first headline in "the washington post" before the president was inaugurated was that they were going to impeach him. well, they finally got around to it, we assume aaron to see two articles of impeachment, both of them pretty weak stuff, coming over to us. her question is, what happens then. under the rules of impeachment, the senate turns to it, no options but to turn to it, and that is the sole business until we finish. how we can impact that really is just with 51 votes. the chief justice is in the chair. i don't expect the chief justice to try to tilt the playing field either way. you listen to the opening arguments by the house prosecutors. listen to th the to the presider respond, they make a decision about the way forward.

and everything i do during this, i am coordinating with the white house counsel. no difference between the president's decision an and of a decision as to how to handle this to the extent that we can. we don't have the kind of control o on this that a typical issue, for example, comes over from the house. if i don't like it, we don't take it up. we have no choice but to take it up, but will be working through this process, hopefully in a fairly short period of time, and total coordination with the white house counsel's office and the people representing the office on the senate. >> sean: i have got to believe that the federal rules for the admission of evidence would apply here with the chief justice in charge, and that would mean there would be no hearsay evidence allowed, and that would probably mean you might have one or two opinion people back, or experts, but as we watch this, especially with the schiff show, everyone with hearsay, the one

fact witness, the president says he wants no quid pro quo. the only fact witness that i suck. so that would be ambassador sondland. with that be, in your view, how the federal rules of evidence would apply here? >> exactly how we go forward i will coordinate with the president's lawyers. there won't be any difference between us on how to do this. you raise the issue, what if you have witnesses. the president's council may or may not decide they want to have witnesses. the case is so darn weak coming over from the house. we all know how it is going to end. there is no chance the president is going to be removed from office. my hope is that there won't be a single republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment. and, sean, it wouldn't surprise me if we got one or two democrats. it looks to me over in the house that republicans seem to be solid and democrats seem to be divided. >> sean: i think you rightly

point out this appears to be weak. looking at the obstruction issue. here the president, like every other past president, has exerted executive privilege. okay? they don't like it when there is a dispute between the legislative branch and the executive branch. that would be the role of the judicial branch, which is to resolve disputes between the other two branches of government, but they are in such a rush to do this that they didn't want to give the courts any time or perhaps, even worse, they feared what the cour courts would decide. >> this is not like a courtroom experience, it's a political exercise. they've been trying to do this for three years, finally screwed up the courage to do this. it looks like it may be backfiring, particularly in swing districts, that the speaker's party managed to win and get to the majority. most of the nervousness i see on this issue with politicians, since it is a political process,

it is the democrats side. >> sean: let's assume it comes over to the senate. you are obligated to take it up. i think everybody understands that. whoever the house chooses to present their case, they will present their case, over however long of a period that takes. there is some dispute -- actually, i could be persuaded on other side, which, for me, a rare thing senator. that would be, a lot of people would like to bring in adam schiff, hunter biden, joe biden. i think i am more inclined to agree with senator graham on this, it is tempting, and i do believe that all of those things must be looked into, there are a lot of real questions, but i don't know if that would be the appropriate forum once he would have the 51 votes at that point to end this, again, very weak case. i think it would be smart to do so. what would your inclination be? >> i'm going to take my cue from the president's lawyers.

yes, if you know you have the votes, you listen to the arguments on both sides and believe the case is so slim, is so weak, that you have the votes to end it, that might be with the president's lawyers would prefer, and you could certainly make a case for making it shorter rather than longer since it is such a weak case. >> sean: okay. are you confident -- so we talked about, for example, the obstruction charge, and the other will be the abuse of power charge. you read the phone call. he watched, unsure, a lot of the coverage that has taken place in the house. do you see any evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever on the president's part, i read this, i read it over and over again, i certainly don't see what we hear joe biden bragging about. you are not getting a billion taxpayer dollars unless you fire the prosecutor he knew it was investigating his son with zero experience.

>> this is a really weak case, that is why i think you will see opposition over in the house. >> sean: will move on from here. how long would you imagine after the house presents its case, and that will happen in volt -- >> if they do it next week, at sean, we will be able to get consent for christmas. we would turn to it right around the first of the year and would stay on it, and my hope is that it would be a shorter process rather than a lengthy process. >> sean: so you have your book. look, donald trump is a lot of things, and i probably have known him to be longer than you, it may be 20-some odd years. he is a disruptor, iconoclast, a fighter, he's also gotten a lot of good things done for the country, kept a lot of promises, with your help, on judges, tax

cuts, it certainly has got the money for the wall. ending burdensome regulation, better trade deals, al-baghdadi is dead, the caliphate defeated. what have you learned over this time with the president now, almost three years, that maybe you didn't know. >> let me tell you what this book is about, the most long-lasting contribution that donald trump and senate republicans have made to the country, and that is putting young men and women who were strict obstructionist who will live a job as a judge is to follow along on the courts. our 50th circuit court judge just yesterday, sean, to put that in perspective, barack obama did 55 circuit judges in eight years. we have done 50 in three years, and we have at least a year left for sure. we are going to do more. one fourth of the circuit judges -- remember, most cases don't make it to the supreme court. most complex litigation never makes it beyond the circuit courts.

this has been the most long-lasting, important contribution the president could make well into the future, far beyond his tenure in office. we will have a judiciary more inclined not to make it up on the fly. you know president obama said he wanted to appoint judges who had empathy. that makes great sense if you are the litigant before the judge for whom the judge has empathy. not so good if you aren't. >> sean: let's talk about -- the issue has come up. let's see somebody work who retired at the end of this year leading into the summer, you have been very clear, if the president appointed somebody, he would follow through on that nomination. >> absolutely paid we definitely would do that. this paper back we were just talking about, the president's forward is about judges, by afterward catches up on what has happened during the trump administration on judges, because my memoir came up three years ago, before the president was elected. what we've done here, the president denied together, with

this paperback that you have shown on the screen, talk about how they judge project came about, how it came forward. if you recall the most important decision i made in my entire political career, not to fill the spring court jay vacancy when justice scalia passed away. that was the beginning. now we have this after three is that we thought the public would be interested in reading about. that is why the present and i collaborated on this paperback. >> i was shocked that former president obama left so many vacancies and didn't try to fill those positions. >> i'll tell you why. i was in charge of what we did the last two years of the obama administration. [laughs] >> sean: and i will give you full credit. take a bow. that was a good line. senator lindsey graham after horowitz' testimony when we continue.

♪ >> live from "america's news headquarters. it is christmas eve and nowhere is that more evident perhaps that ended the little town of bethlehem. as i do each year, thousands of christians have descended upon the traditional birthplace of jeus. a night filled with pageantry. west bank leaders tell us today the celebration caps the most successful year ever for palestinian tourism. believe it or not, with christmas day hours away now, a lot of people are telling us they still haven't wrapped up their gift shopping. east coast procrastinators out there may be out of luck. those of you on the west coast have a couple of hours left to get your shopping done. retail is not complaining though. american consumers are expected to spend a lot of money this holiday season.

now back to "hannity." ♪ >> sean: here is my interview with senator lindsey graham after doj inspector michael horowitz testified before his committee on his explosive fisa abuse report. first let me applaud you for a great job today. i know a lot of americans as they watch fake news cnn and all of these other channels, they might not have seen the great job you did because they only run things that are anti-trump. >> right. that's okay. you can live without seeing me but you can't live with a lie. so james comey has done more damage to the fbi than anybody since j. edgar hoover. mccabe is in that category. christopher wray, if you're watching television, you've got a mountain to climb. you got to come to the judiciary committee then prove to us that you are going to change the culture at the fbi. some people need to be fired and

some people need to go to jail for what they did because the fbi and the department of justice took the law in their own hands. they defrauded the fisa court. they trampled the retina met constitutional rights of american citizens and they surveilled donald trump in his campaign. in my view, unlawfully, for very long period of tempe the day of reckoning is coming. it is not here yet. >> sean: nobody associated with this was vindicated. comey was doing a victory lap on monday. either way, let me stay on christopher wray a second page has not shown any urgency. he has not shown the urgency that is needed to get to the bottom of this, resolve this, and make sure it never happens again. also the right is personal. my mother was a prison guard. she worked 16-hour shifts for years and years and years. my dad was a family court prorogation guy, working two jobs. most of my extended were cops, a

little-known fact sean 20, 19-20, i was in the new york police department academy, no idea whether even improved me. two members of my family were fbi guys. one is still alive today. he is more angry about this, with all of the hard work he has taken for his family, and this is what i'm hearing from everybody in law enforcement. >> it so james comey is one of the most arrogant, conceited people i've ever meant in the government, to suggest that this report vindicated him is just an affront to the report. to suggest that everything was done properly with the fisa warrant process regarding carter page insults our intelligence, and horowitz did a great justice. got a really hard job, it got to come to the judiciary committee and convince republicans and democrats you are going to fix this crap.

>> sean: not easy to get out of the way. okay, you heard the comments of the inspector general today. i thought they were powerful and added clarity to his report. he also was working within a bubble, their comments, i do not believe, senator, would be made but for knowledge that they have that we do not have that this is far deeper and far worse than anybody knows and it has taken them overseas to italy, great britain, and other places. where do you imagine this ends up? because i can't see this ending up any other way but people being indicted and going to jail. >> looking at whether or not there is criminality here, we know that kleinsmith, the fbi lawyer in charge of the fisa process, altered an email from the cia saying that basically carter page was the source. he altered the email to say it was not, that was a big deal. i don't know what they are going

to do, but based on the statement monday, i would be worried if i were a lot of the people impaired in the crossfire hurricane. if you are involved in crossfire hurricane, your day of reckoning may be coming. but as to oral rights horowitz, what did welearn toda? the standard is incredibly low, but we also learned from mr. horowitz, once this opened, it became a criminal enterprise and conspiracy to defraud the fisa court and trample on the rights of carter page into if basically illegally surveilled president trump. the reason they never briefed president trump about the threats coming from russia is that they did not want to protect drum. they wanted to destroy trump. from the day he got elected until this was over, the people at charge at the highest level were out to get this guy to protect us from president trump. they didn't believe he was legitimate and they were doing everything they could at every

opportunity to keep it going to try to catch him. and finally, the senate fbi agent in an interview that was supposed to be an intelligence interview, and intelligence assessment, an intelligence briefing, and the fbi agent was there to basically spy on general flynn ended president. that should scare everybody. >> sean: the way he set up general flint was despicable, repulsive, bragging about -- i will say this. with pfizer as a result of this, we will be less safe. devin nunes said the same thing. great job, senator. i know you stayed up -- >> one last thing. mr. rosenstein, get ready to testify. >> sean: up next, my one-on-one interview with former ambassador nikki haley. that's straight ahead. ♪ sure. sometimes i wish i had legs like you.

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♪ >> sean: so i recently had a chance to sit down with the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., former governor of the great state of south carolina, nikki haley, to talk about her brand-new book, "with all due respect." governor, how are you, great to see you again. >> great to se see you, sean. >> sean: you do give a great life story that i really want people to read, fable learn about you, i found out things about you, that i found inspiring and your eyes to be the governor of south carolina and then a u.n. ambassador. what has gotten a lot of people's attention as the conversation, about an hour, rex tillerson, general kelly, and i guess, tell that story, and out of it, i was wondering, why did you not feel or did you at any point feel the need to tell the president, hey, this is

what these guys are doing? >> well, i did tell the president. keep in mind, it sean, one page of 250 pages of the book. but i did tell the president and i did tell the hr security advisor, h.r. mcmaster, and there were others that knew of y concern. keep in mind, what i said, this wasn't that they thought this was a rogue president. this was that these guys disagreed with his policy. they disagreed with us getting out of paris climate agreement, disagreed with us getting out of the iran deal. they disagreed with moving the and embassy from tel aviv. when the president was charging a different course and really giving us a strong hand for america and for our friends, they just thought that he was going in the wrong direction, and so when they sat me down that day, they were attempting to tell me that, if i would work with them, they were trying to save america and keep people from dying. but we saw when the embassy moved from tel aviv to

jerusalem, the sky is still up there. it didn't fall and we didn't see casualties. what we saw was a courageous moment by the president that many presidents have tried before that was very successful and it acknowledged the fact, which, jerusalem is the capital of israel. >> sean: it's very interesting, because i look at your relationship with the president, and on one hand, it seems great, trump and i understood each other, you talk about how much freedom he gave you to do his and his governing style was one that you liked. when you were first asked about the impeachment issue, you said that's like the death penalty for a public official, but you didn't think it was a good practice to ask a foreign country to investigate an american. period. i want to take a little issue with that part because i read this transcript, america has read the transcript, the president has an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the land. a ukrainian court said ukraine interfered in our 2016 elections. the president is asking to get

to the bottom of it. we also have joe biden on tape basically bragging about a quid pro quo. if you fire the guy, you get a billion dollars, you have six hours, a guy that he knew was investigating his son. to me, that sounds like a crime. what does it sound like do you? >> i said before, you look at the transcript, it's very clear the president was not demanding that this be done. the ukrainians didn't do the investigation, the president released the aid as he should, i, in practice, don't think it's good for us to ever ask foreign governments to investigate americans, but i think it goes to the fact that americans should be investigating americans and americans should be asking the questions of joe biden and asking the questions of his son and finding out exactly what was going on with that situation and get down to the bottom of it. there have been a lot of investigations that have been very one-sided against the president and they haven't been looking at the other side, which is all of the other issues, and

you know, whether it was the russian situation, i would like for them to go back and say what was president obama's role in that situation. and the fact that all that stuff happened. joe biden's role and what was hunter biden's role in that process as well? there's a lot of questions that need to be asked. >> sean: as we now head into this 2020 election and, you know, you talk a lot about your relationship, it seems like mostly a good relationship with the president when you worked for him, and you look at the democratic candidates and you talk about trump the disruptor but yet he always listens to you and you would tell him what you felt, but that's the person i'm known for over 25 years, do you think the president's misunderstood? >> i do think he's misunderstood. i can tell you from the first day to the last day that i worked for the president, he always listened, he was always conscious of hearing other voices, allowing people to

debate out the issues and then he made his decision. he is a disruptor and this is the time in our country where we needed a disrupter, but there wasn't a time where i called him and said, look, i think we should look at this another way, where he didn't say, well, how do you see that playing out? and we had a great discussion over it. i still consider him a friend today, and i will tell you that that is what has been so hard. they've been trying to impeach him since the second he was inaugurated, and i think that if you look at the results of what this president has done, you are seeing record unemployment, you are seeing an economy that's booming. look at the stock market from last week. but you are seeing real hard decisions that were made, getting out of the iran deal, moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, getting us out of the paris climate agreement, which was an unfair situation, getting kim in north korea to come to the negotiating table. there has been really tough,

courageous stands that have been made and in all scenarios, i saw a president and was very thoughtful, looked at all of the issues, made decisions, and it was a pleasure and honor to work with him and i will tell you that it's not what people portray, this was someone that the reason we got along so well was because i told him the truth and he was always willing to listen to that and so i think it's too bad that a lot of people don't want to face what you see is on tv is what you get but what you see behind the scenes is someone who really cares about america and wants to do everything he can to strengthen it. >> sean: it's funny because "disruptor," i guess in today's language for a politician, means keeping your promises, which i think would be a big part of his reelection campaign. congratulations on the book, ambassador. when we come back, the interview with kanye west as we continue this special edition of "hannity." ♪ [sneeze and sniffles]

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♪ >> live from "america's news headquarters." happy merry christmas event happy hanukkah. the world holding its breath after north korea promises to deliver it the usa "christmas present." nuclear negotiations between president trumpet and leader at kim jong un have all but collapsed, with him demanding sanctions released as president trump calls from mark denuclearization efforts. the president downplaying the christmas threat claiming it might just be a nice face. and astronauts in space are teaming up with norad to track santa this year. norad has been tracking santa since 1955 when a young girl mistakenly called the wrong number thinking she would be connected to the north pole. instead she managed to call air force and they quickly

realized the mistake. now back to "hannity." ♪ >> sean: all right, lawrence jones, or a special on the road crisscrossing the country correspondent. he has been reporting exclusively for this show. he has gone to trump rallies, even area 51, braswell, rachel maddow, and kanye west's sunday service. this was that joel o'steen's church. take a look ♪ >> why are you supporting the president? because i have common sense. >> why are you exporting to present the president? how do you feel about the impeachment nonsense? >> they know the fisa report is coming out, they know all of these reports are coming out. just trying to get ahead of it.

it's an absolute joke. >> do you think it will backfire on the democrats though? >> absolutely paid >> anybody who knows anything about the history of the constitution, they know this is not going nowhere. >> that is all that it is. looking for something to convict him of and they have been looking for three years and haven't found anything. >> will they be victorious? do you think it backfires in the next election? >> it backfires 100%. >> are you buying any of the impeachment talk happening in washington right now? >> i do not. >> do you think it is going to backfire on the democrats? >> i hope it will. i think it is just a distracti distraction. >> why are you so fired up to support trump? >> i am a big trump supporter. i didn't get into voting until trump in 2016, and i'm excited to be at my first rally, i wanted to come out and support him, really proud of what he is doing and hope he is able to keep it up for court lawyers.

>> i like the way the economy has been and what the market has been doing. >> tax cuts, he is building a wall, okay? he is draining the swamp. you know, he is cleaning house. and we are backing him. >> why are you supporting the president? >> i believe he does what he says he is going to do. >> when you hear the media talking about impeachment, do you think the people of texas are buying any of it? >> no. which is smart. that is why we are here. >> i think it is a waste of our time and money. we are paying for it without taxes paid. >> all of the politicians, not going to suffer at the ballot? >> absolutely great and nobody going to beat trump. >> absolutely not. >> not at all. >> if i thought that it were true, i'm the first person, i don't want a russian spy in office, but they have improved anybody.

i think it is just ludicrous. ♪ >> why are you here? for scientific reasons? >> can for scientific reasons. we are here for the aliens. >> you know i want to hear the alien liberal agenda. they put a good talking points. >> when did you first discover what you were an alien? >> 1982. >> what's the hat? >> this hat is to protect my mind from interference of any kind. >> met any actual aliens? >> it not to we are hoping >> i want to. >> have you guys had any interaction with the outside world? >> today, no. yesterday i also know kind of --

yesterday, also know kind of. >> i know god has been calling meet for a long time and the devil has been distracting me for a long time. even for someone who is professing god and saying, this is going to be gospel, the devil is going to come and do everything he can to distract people from knowing how to fully be in service to the lord. >> how did you feel about the sunday service experience? >> i thought it was amazing. it is so cool to have somebody that you've looked up to musically to come here and to see their life transformed. >> i know tv can make a lot of things look better than what it is sometimes but i think he is staying the course and he's walking his walk. >> how are you handling people seeing this evolution of you coming to christ? you've always talked about christ, but in this new way?

>> well, now i got the ultimate security guard. [laughs] that is god. it's to secure my mind and spirit. because the main thing that people try to do is use comments, naysayers to throw you off the course and distract you. we are keeping our eye on christ on all times. it's always in service. and that removes the fear. >> do you feel liberated? >> absolutely. liberated in service for the name above all names. >> do you believe this new kanye? >> absolutely. >> you have to because i want to transition so i have to believe that he can go through it as one of the first rappers who was actually able to cross over to gospel and actually make it. >> i've been trying to get sean hannity to listen to hip-hop forever. now he's listening to kanye's new album and texting me through the service saying that he's a big supporter of kanye. how does that make you feel that you have people that you have

never been able to reach out to, and now, different lyrics, same kanye, different lyrics, able to reach him? >> just praise god for the anointing and talent and what he has given me since age 5, me pursuing the arts, going to art school, even the scholarship he gave me from the art institute of chicago, a phd. all of these things that he gave me, these platforms, the grammys, the visual arts, the space to do live performances, now i can be in service to him. >> sean: we'll have more of our special edition of "hannity" right after this. ♪ billions of mouths.

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never miss an episode of vanity, we will never be part of the mob, let not your heart be troubled. it's christmas, have a great night. ♪ ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is a special edition of the ingraham angle on the road. while i usually broadcast to every night from here in washington, i think it's really important for us to cover stories that take us outside the dreaded beltway mind-set. stories that impact the lives of all of you. from the ridiculously awful homelessness crisis in california to the heartbreaking violence in chicago and of course to the dangers at the u.s.-mexico border. i want to make sure that you know what's going on in your own backyard, things that ultimately impact all of us. the left h