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 add hunter biden and joe biden on tape bragging about using taxpayer dollars to demand the prosecutor, hunter biden admits no

experience in china, 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? >> a 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 and all of this. and that's corruption. that's something that has to be investigated. that's what you have to look. but i watched this crazype anderson cooper the other day during the debate apologize for having to ask the question to them. apologize. if that were me -- >> sean: he'd declare his innocence. >> if 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 badnd record, bad track record, including getting thrown out of the navy, and even the way he got in the navy is interesting, in his position. if that were don jr. or

if that were eric trump, who are very outstanding young men, it would be the biggest story of the century. >> sean: what does it say about the media? i agree with you. >> the media is corrupt. i know some great media,so including you, i know some great journalists. look, they gave 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 the white house anymore. we will terminate that and "the washington post." they are fake. you take a look at "the new york times" and you take a look at the kind ofpo 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, sort of interesting, the good news is, i will be covered fairly again. you know what happened? and then it 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, it used to be five or six, now it is down to one, honest abe lincoln. they say he got the worst press ofny anybody. i dispute it. >> sean: 2020 is here. you said publicly you don't think joe makes it.cl drudge says elizabeth warren, it is hers to lose. you got bernie, mayor pete, kamala harris, then you look at their positions, top marginal tax rate, 70%. >> much higher. >> sean: 90% corporate tax rate. the new green deal, medicare for all, no private options. you comfortable running against one of those? >> i don't want to talk about it.e? the last time i took on

elizabeth warren, i thought she was gone, embers, burning embers down. >> sean: pocahontas. >> pocahontas. there's only one. and it's not her. what happened, sean -- and shen, rose from the ashes, and i giver 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 fine. paying 96% in taxes is all fine. 'cause 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 them out of it, sean. it's too early to talk about it. can you believe we're getting down to 12 months. can you believe it? when i first went 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 them were, and that's the way it was. and i'm standing there, and i say, wow, four years, that's a long time.

here we are, we are almost coming up, we have tremendous cut regulations, we have great stock markets. we have over 100 days, and that's in a fairly short periodh of time, where the stock market, when it hit an all-time high, it is about to hit it again.ck 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 to $50 billion worth of agricultural products will be bought by china. but we have done things that nobody else have done. >> sean: let me ask you more about 2020. record low unemployment since 1969. when you ran, you said, what have you got to lose? when you would speak to the minorities. now you have record low unemployment. >> historic. >> sean: hispanic-americans, african-americans, women in the

work place, youth. what is your message to minorities in 2020? your base looks strong. you can see it at the rallies. what can you say to people that may be did not vote for you last time? >> african-american, hispanic, asian-american, have all setes records, the lowest unemployment in the history of our country.co we have 51 years for the country, end up topping that number pretty soon. that will be historic too very 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 country, that the best unemployment 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 million people. how do you beat me in a debate on those numbers? okay? p 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 win easily. the moody's report was very interesting. median household income, under eight years of obama, was up $975, that is eight years. under eight years of president bush, president obama, $975. president bush, $400. eight years, eight years, $400, $975. me, 2.5 years, it's up $7,000. $5,000 plus $2,000 for the tax cuts that everybody got. you add 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 in 2.5 years. t what is that percentage like proportionately? so it is $5,000 plus $2,000, so it's up $7,000. median household income. that is a record. there's never been anything like that. we are doing a great job. the economy is the best it's ever been. ever been. and you look again, china has gone way down. with hillary clinton had gotten elected, right now, trying it would have the number one economy in the world. right now, they are not even close.e. they are way behind. we've picked up trillions of dollars in worth and value, and 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." don't forget, china is paying us

tens of billions of dollars in 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 totally. but he said, "congratulations on the job you've done." >> sean: let me ask you about syria and let me ask you about iran. they shot a drone out of the air. they have taken tankers hostage. mentioned energy independence. the straits of hormuz. >> they haven't taken our tankers. >> sean: not ours. but the streets of her moods are less geopolitically important. >> we are now energy independent, we have very fewy ships, that comment was made the other day, don't see too many american ships anymore. >> sean: when you have syria, you've gotten criticism -- well, it seems like you are and lindsey are at an impasse. n >> look, we have the same aim. we want to bring the soldiers back home. they were supposed to be there for 30 days, they're there for 10 years. we were in afghanistan for 20 years.

we are reducing those numbers very substantially in afghanistan. but they are supposed to be in syria for 30 days. one thing about syria, when i took over, isis was all over the place. you know that better than anybody. 2.5 years ago. i went in, and when i started, i got rid of that whole thing. all of those prisoners. they were captured under trump. we killed many, many isis fighters. >> sean: the calla was removed. 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.an that little fight for two days, vicious stuff, 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 in a

playground. you let them fight for a minute and then you pull them apart. it was much easier to make a deal. >> sean: a few weeks ago, i also sat down with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to ask him about how he will handle impeachment in the u.s. senate. take a look. joining us now senate majorityng leader mitch mcconnell is with us, and his memoir, by the way, is entitled "the long game." it includes a new forward by president trump. it is now out in paperback. senator good to see you, welcome back to the program. it has been a while, i want to find out about the new forward. i think most people don't fully understand. f let's assume for a minute 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 you see happening and how you see this going down. >> first, as you've pointed out

to your viewers frequently, 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 we are going see two articles of impeachment, both of them pretty weak stuff, coming over to us. your question is, what happens then? under the rules of impeachment, the senate then turns 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. we'll listen to the opening arguments by the house prosecutors. listen to the president's lawyers respond, then we'll have to make a decision about the way forward. and everything i do during this, i am coordinating with the

white house counsel. there will be no differenceel between the president's decision our position as to how to handle this to the extent that we can. we don't have the kind of control on this that a typical issue, for example, comes over from the house. if i don't like it, we don'tve take it up. we have no choice but to take it up, but we'll be working through this process, hopefully in a fairly short period of time, in total coordination with the white house counsel's office and the people representing the president in the senate. >> sean: i have got to believe t 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, fact, or experts, but as we watch this, especially in the schiff show, everyone with

hearsay, the one fact witness said the president says he wants no quid pro quo. the only fact witness that i saw. so that would be ambassador sondland. would 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 comingo over from the house. we all know how it is going to end. there is no chance the president is going to be removed fromll 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 beks divided. >> sean: i think you rightly point out this is very be weak.

looking at the obstruction issue. here the president, like everye. other past president, has exerted executive privilege. okay?te 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 tore resolve the 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 courts would decide. >> this is a thoroughly political exercise. this is not like a courtrooms 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 on them, particularly in swing districts that the speaker's party managed to win in order to get to the majority. most of the nervousness i see on this issue with the politicians, since it is a political process,

it on the democratic 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 probably 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 you would have the 51 votes at that point to end this, again, very weak case. i think it would be smart to do so. where would your inclination be? >> i'm going to take my cue froc 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 what 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. you watched, i'm sure, 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, as you read the transcript, 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 was investigating his son with zero experience making millions.

that didn't happen. >> this is a really weak case, that is why i think you will see bipartisan opposition over in the house. >> sean: we'll move on from>> here. how long would you imagine after the house presents its case, and that will happen in full -- >> if they do it next week, sean, we will be able to get consent to go home for christmas. we would turn to it right around the first of the year and would stay on it until we finish, 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 maybe longer than you, well over 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, certainly has got the money for the wall.

ending burdensome regulation, better trade deals, baghdadis 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. this book is about the most long-lasting contribution that donald trump and senate republicans have made for the country, and that is putting young men and women who were strict constructionists who believe the job as a judge is to follow along on the courts. we did 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 mostev 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 t 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 were to retire at the end of this year leading into the summer, you have been very clear, if theom president appointed somebody, you would follow through on that nomination. >> absolutely. we definitely would do that. this paperback we were just talking about, the president's forward is about judges, my 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 and i together, with this paperback that you have

shown on the screen, is to talk about how they judge project came about, how it went forward. if you recall, sean, the most important decision i made in my entire political career, not to fill the supreme court vacancy when justice scalia passed away. that was the beginning. now i've got an explanatio excln point after three years that the president would want to read about. that is why the present and i collaborated on this paperback. >> sean: i was shocked that former president obama left so many vacancies and didn't try to fill those positions. >> i'll tell you why. f 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. by the way, take a bow. that was a good line. coming up, my interview with senator lindsey graham after horowitz' testimony when we continue. ♪ (male announcer) check out the after christmas sale

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♪ >> live from "america's news headquarters." tensions over the rules are president trump's impeachment trial escalates. house speaker nancy pelosi in no hurry at all to send the two articles of impeachment over to the senate until those rules are firm. there is even talk democrats might consider drawing up additional articles against the president. republicans remain confident, though, that the senate trial will begin next month as planned. meantime, all eyes on north korea, which has promised to deliver a "christmas gift" to the u.s. there was speculation it could be a missile launcher another rocket engine test to coax washington into breaking the denuclearization stalemates. i may show hosni. now back to "hannity."

♪ >> sean: here is my interview with senator lindsey graham of south carolina after doj inspector michael horowitz testified before his committee on his explosive fisa abuse report. senator, first let me applaud you for a great job today. f i know a lot of americans if 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. well, that's okay. you can live without seeing me but you can't live with a lie. a 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 and prove to us that you are going to change the culture at the fbi.ry some people need to be fired anl 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 constitutional rights of american citizens and they surveilled donald trump in his campaign. in my view, unlawfully, for very long period of time. 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. by the way, let me stay on christopher wray a second. he has not shown any urgency. he has not shown the urgency that is needed to get to the bottom of this, resolve this, u and make sure it never happens again.at i'll tell you why it is personal for me, senator. my mother was a prison guard. she worked 16-hour shifts for years and years and years. my dad was a family court probation guy, he worked two jobs. most of my extended family were nypd cops.

little-known fact about sean hannity, 19-20, i was in the new york police department academy, no idea why they even approved me. two members of my family were deity, they were fbi guys. one of them is still alive today. and he is more angry about this, for all of the hard work, risk he has taken for his country, and this is what i'm hearing from everybody in law enforcement. >> so james comey is one of the most arrogant, conceited people i've ever met in 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 t warrant process regarding carter page insults our intelligence, and mr. horowitz did the country a great service. director wray got a really hardh 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.

that's my honest assessment here. 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, both prosecutors durham and attorney general barr, their comments, i do not believe, senator, would be made but were knowledge of they have that we do not have to this is far deeper and far worse than anybody does 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.er't >> all i can tell you is that durham is looking at whether 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 durham is

going to do, but based on the statement monday, i would ben worried if i were a lot of then people involved in crossfire hurricane. if you are involved in crossfire hurricane, your day of reckoning may be coming. i trust durham. but as to horowitz, what did we learn today? you could have a newspaper article and that can be the basis to open up a counterintelligence investigation. the standard is incredibly low, but we also learned from s mr. horowitz, once this was opened, it became a criminal enterprise and conspiracy to defraud the fisa court, to trample on the rights of carter page and to basically illegally surveil president trump. the reason they never briefed president trump about the threats coming from russia is that they did not want to protect trump.en they wanted to destroy trump. from the day he got elected until this thing was over, the people in 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, they sent an fbi agent in an interview that was supposed to be an intelligence interview, an intelligence assessment, an intelligence briefing, and the fbi agent was there to basically spy on general flynn and the president. that should scare everybody. >> sean: the way he set up general flynn, meaning comey, was despicable, repulsive, year veteran, bragging about -- i will say this. if we lose fisa 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: senator graham, thank you. up next, my one-on-one interview with former ambassador nikki haley. that's straight ahead. ♪ ambassador nobody likes a tight squeeze.

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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 see you, sean. >> sean: you do give a great life story that i really want people to read, they will know about you, i found out things about you that i found inspiring, and your rise to be the governor of south carolina and then u.n. ambassador. what has gotten a lot of people's attention is 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, sean, this is one page out of 250 pages of the book. but i did tell the president and i did tell the national security advisor, h.r. mcmaster, and there were others that knew of my concerns. let's 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 the paris climate agreement, they disagreed with us getting out of the iran deal. they disagreed with moving the and embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. when the president was charting a different course and reallyy giving us a strong hand for america and for our friends, they just thought that he wasgi going in the wrong direction, and so when they sat me down that day, they wereho attempting to tell me that, if i would work with them, they were trying to save america and keep peoplele 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 job 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 -- 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 to 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 presidentve released the aid as he should, i, in practice, don't think it's good for us to ever ask foreign governments tous 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 ofof investigations that have been very one-sided against the president and they haven't been looking at the other side, whico

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. in this situation, what was 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.th >> 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 yout 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 impeachch him since the second he was inaugurated, and i think that io 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,ge 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 have been really tough, courageous stands that have been made and in all scenarios, i saw a president who was veryer

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 a 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. thank you for being with us. when we come back, lawrence jones' interview with kanye west as we continue this special edition of "hannity." ♪ west as we continue this special edition of "hannity." ♪

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♪ >> live from "america's news headquarters." merry christmas to you. the world holding its breath after north korea promises to deliver the u.s. a "christmas present." nuclear negotiations between president trump and leader kim jong un have all but collapsed, with kim demanding sanctions relief as president trump calls for more denuclearization efforts. the president downplaying the christmas threat claiming it might just be a nice vase. 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 colonel who quickly realized the mistake

and assured of the girl that santa was indeed on his way. now back to "hannity." ♪ >> sean: all right, lawrence jones, our special on the road crisscrossing the country 2020 election correspondent. he has been reporting exclusively for this show. he has been to trump rallies, even area 51, roswell rachel maddow msdnc's favorite place, and kanye west's sunday service. this was at joel osteen's church. take a look. ♪ >> why are you supporting the president? >> because i have common sense. >> tell me, why are you supporting the president?>> >> who is doing everything right for america. >> how do you feel about theen impeachment nonsense? >> it's a joke. they know the fisa report is coming out, they know all of these reports are coming out.. it's going to be damning. just trying to get ahead of it. it's an absolute joke. >> do you think it will backfirs

on the democrats though? >> absolutely. the american people understand that. >> anybody who knows anything about the history of the constitution, they know this is not going nowhere. >> it's a witch hunt. 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 when it comes to the impeachment? 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.sh i think it is just a distraction. >> why are you so fired up to support trump? >> i am a big trump supporter. i didn't get into voting until trump became president 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 four more years.hi >> i like the way the economy has been and i love what the market has been doing.

>> tax cuts, he is building a wall,as okay? i mean, 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. we're too smart in texas. that is why we are here. >> i think it is a waste of our time and money.th we are paying for it with our taxes. >> all of the politicians, that are for impeachment, do you think they are going to suffer a heavy price at the ballot? >> absolutely.r ain't nobody going to beat trump.ol >> absolutely not. >> what about you, sir? are you buying all this impeachment? >> 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 haven't proved anybody. i think it is just ludicrous. ♪

>> why are you here? are you here for scientific reasons? >> here for scientific reasons. we are here for the aliens. >> you know, i want to hear the alien liberal agenda. they put out some good talking points. >> when did you first discover what you were an alien? >> um, 1982. [noises] >> what's the hat? >> this hat is to protect my mind from interference of any kind. >> had any interactions with aliens? >> not yet.s? we are hoping. >> are y'all going to storm area 51? >> definitely. [laughs] i want to. >> have you guys had any interaction with the outside world? >> today, no. no, kind, also of.

we had some weird dreams the night before. ♪ >> i know that god has been calling me for a long time and the devil has been distracting me for a long time. [cheers and applause] even for someone who is professing god and saying, this is going to be a gospel album, 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]

and that is god. and 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 your 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? r >> 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 before, and now, different lyrics, same kanye, different lyrics, able to reach him?am >> 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 institutel of chicago, i'm going to have a phd. all of these things that he gave me, these platforms at 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. ♪ >> s

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never miss missed an episode of hannity. 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 californiaia to the heartbreakig 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 has been so obsessed with taking down our president that they'vehe