qassem soleimani to avoid bloodshed, because he was planning more attacks on americans, but at the moment, certainly heightened, heightened tensions here. tucker? >> tucker: sounds that way. benjamin hall. have a good weekend. we will see you monday. means of a musical scale and happy new year. welcome to this big breaking news edition of "fox news @ night." we begin with an fox news alert. tonight, the world a safer is one of the most ruthless, evil war criminals on earth has been brought to justice. qassem soleimani was evil for psalmists personified. a merger with american blood on his hands. as the leader of the iranian quds force, that is their elite military unit, no one man was more responsible than the death of our american treasure and civilian deaths in the middle east than him. next to president trump, thanks to the greatest fighting force on the face of the earth, our amazing military, thanks to the best intelligence community, 99%

in the world, we and our allies in the region, he has finally been given exactly what he deserved. for his bloodshed, his atrocities, his terror, is fomenting of terror, his fundinf of terror, his fighting of proxy wars, and attacks on u.s. sovereignty. american lives, we can confirm tonight, where, in fact, in jeopardy. the president moved quickly, decisively to protect american lives and interests abroad. ordering the thursday air strike in baghdad that took him out just days after an attack on the u.s. embassy in the iran-backed militia. iand i look at your screen. it is his name that these radical rioters actually wrote on our embassy. look at that. soleimani was our leader. now why was soleimani in iraq and the first place? you think may be to lead the efforts against our embassy, and to kill americans? and by the way, that would be why the president responded once

that american contractor was, in fact, killed. military personnel were wounded. that happened a week ago. remember, it was soleimani responsible for over 600 deaths of american soldiers. many other injured, orchestrating attacks on coalition bases all over iraq hd beyond. he has done this for years. look at this, own state department, 17% of all deaths of u.s. personnel in iraq from 2003 to 2011 were orchestrated by soleimani. it was soleimani who reportedly helped plan the benghazi attack that killed four americans. soleimani has been feeling proxy conflicts and a reign of terror against the u.s. and their allies for decades. of course, backing anti-american militias in iraq, directing syria 'assad and his, don't forget the 1980s, he was backing militias that eventually took over lebanon as has below. he directed resources to hamas, places like the palestinian

territories. he was the point man for thees largest exporter of state-sponsored terror in the world, make no doubt about it. the significance of the president's decisive action cannot be overstated tonight, although you will never hear it from democrats or the media mob. as secretary of state, mike pompeo explained he was planning even more terror attacks on u.s. troops and military officials and u.s. diplomats all over the world. take a look.. >> got hundreds of american lives blood on his hand, and what was sitting before us was his travels throughout the region, his efforts to make a significant strike against americans. they would have been many muslims killed, as well, iraqis, others, as well. it was a strike aimed at disrupting that flawed, deterring further aggression, we hope setting the conditions for de-escalation, as well. >> sean: secretary pompeo will be with us exclusively tonight. tonight, the message from

president trump could not be any more clear. there will be no benghazis on his watch. the failed policy of bribing dictators come appeasement from the obama-biden and the rest of s e benghazi democrats is over, done, dead, and finished, this is the president from earlier today. >> soleimani made the deaths of innocent people his sick passion, contributing to terrorist plots as far away as new delhi and london. today we remember the victims of soleimani's many atrocities, and we take comfort in knowing that his reign of terror is over. with the united states did yesterday should havee been done long ago. we took action last night to stop a war.di we did not take action to start a war. >> sean: and guess what? unlike the benghazi democrats, there will be no lies about a video. there will be no ignored call for help. there will be no appeasement and bribery. remember, i told you this would

happen, back in july, right here on this show. i talked directly and warned the iranian mullahs after they seized the tankers. you keep pushing this button, this president will act, and he will act quickly and decisively and smartly. and tonight, i have an even stronger message for you mullahs in iran. mr. death to america, death to israel radicals like president rouhani. he reign of terror and murder needs to come to an end. you now dared to threaten the united states of america again? if you zero territorial integrity's in the country of iraq, and soleimani is responsible for the deaths of thousands come including our fellow americans. you are the leader of the number one terrorist state in the world. you, rouhani, are a mass murderer, just like soleimani. you are responsible for killing tens of thousands of innocent people, including our fellow

americans. you have blood on your hands. i dare you, publicly, stay with the people in your country, working with your refineries as you retaliate against america. you won't, because like all terrorists, really, you are gutless. you are cowardly, and a murderer. you have others do your bidding. your entire life has been one of death, destruction, and the poverty of your own people, there is a special place in hell that awaits you. make no mistake. the president made the right call. i'll brave armed forces come our brave intelligence community, they took out an evil monster emma and tonight because of ther heroic actions, the world is a safer place. i also want to be very clear. i don't want -- we see this after vietnam. our troops come our national treasury going from door to door treasure, our members of our u.s. forces, to fight and die in iran, or any of the country for

that matter, especially the lessons learned in these past conflicts. because the swamp in washington, and the send these kids to fight wars, then they put handcuffs on them, rules of engagement, and then they politicize the war and later say, never mind, know what? that has to stop.a you're going to fight the warm act, win war. where can no longer tolerate the failed policies of the past if you can handcuff our military with the obama-biden rules of engagement. and by the way, bribing dictators like the mullahs in iran, didn't work, did it? pallets of cash and other currency, as they shout "death to america." it is why i have been saying come and i will reiterate tonight, this is important, as this country now moves forward, for our safety and security, we need, as a country, to build the next generation of weaponry. no nation building, no boots on the ground except for intelligence gathering. if other countries need our help, they will get it, but they have to send their braveen men d

women to go door to door, not our sons and daughters. and by the way, we want to change the minds of these evil and hostile regimes, well, the president has shown that wars now can be won without using traditional means. look at how the caliphate was destroyed in iraq and syria. it is why i am saying the next generation of weaponry, both offensive and defensive, needs to be produced in this country. so future conflicts, future wars, we can stage them's, guys pushing buttons in tampa or nevada, from a distance,ta safe. unfortunately, the hate-trump media mob, they don't care about any of this. they would rather work overtime for their partners in the democratic party, fielding more lies, smears, besmirch meants, 24/7 conspiracy theories, everything this president does, doesn't matter how important it is for our safetyow and securit, our country, our kids, our future -- how many times have i set on this program, if donald trump cured cancer, they

would want to impeach him for it. they just keep digging and digging, doubling down on stupid, anything negative towards president trump. we've got the video evidence. let's go to the videotape. >> officials need to be concerned they could be targeted. >> this one off action can have unbelievably big consequences. >> soleimani's enemies admitted he was a military genius. >> soleimani, it's difficult convey how revered he is, regarded as brave, the troops love him. >> i was thinking -- >> let's assume for a minute hea was at the baghdad airport and deserve this, okay? let's just stipulate that. let's just say, maybe it was the right decision to take him out. but you have, in that case, right decision, wrong commander in chief. >> sean: that would be the one the american people elected. the same corrupt mob and the media, that covered for hillary and obama during benghazi, they are now attacking the president

for protecting americans and american interests and being tough on terror. but you know better than to fall for their anti-trump rage, their psychosis. three years of this. you know the president is delivering on all fronts. destroy the isis caliphate, took out al-baghdadi, and now has brought one of the world's worst war criminals and terrorists to justice. here now with more reaction, author of the great new novel, good friend of the program, lieutenant colonel oliver north. let's talk about what happened here, and why this important. you have known about soleimani now for many years. >> four big points here. number one, all you have been saying about him is spot on, the heart of darkness, he's evil. he is 62 years old when he was killed the night before last, and he was working as a member of the radical regime took over in tehran as an and a youngster. he was a young 20-somethin

20-something-year-old. he was radicalized by that. he used the opportunity to make sure he could join the islamic revolutionary guard corps, which he did, and then come in 1998, e helped organize the quds force. one of his mentors became the head of hezbollah in lebanon. you may remember that was the man who worried robert steven, shooting in the back of the head when the flight went on the ground in beirut. the nurturing he got from the worst of the worst is the kind of thing that built him into being the kind of person he is hetoday. number two. this was a target of opportunity that was extraordinary. with the consequence of just what you've been talking about in terms of good intelligence gathering. and number three, it's important that wewe have bases in the regn from which you can launch remotely-piloted aircraft, so-called drones. that's because they track this guy taking off in syria or

lebanon, we don't know all the facts yet. they knew he just landed at the airport in baghdad. they knew he was getting in that 2-car convoy in the middle of the night, and that's obviously a high-value target. and then the clearance came from the president of the united states, fire. and they did. and looking at the pictures, i know people would say, no, the cars were blown up from inside, the israelis did it. the bottom line of it, yous can look at those vehicles, they weren't blown apart, they were blown in. probably hellfire missiles. their questions i would like to have more answers about, but the bottom line of itt is, this wasa target of opportunity you probably weren't going to get again for maybe months or years. number four, the world is a far better place without him, because of all of the things he's been doing with his quds force since 1998, get this, he built the hezbollah operations up well beyond what they imagined when he was the head of it in lebanon. we also duplicated in syria and

iraq. some of those that died in those cars with him with the guys who headed the hezbollah-type organizations that the quds forces had been setting up. so lebanon, syria, iraq, and of course, we've all forgotten, the hutis in yemen, and the attacks on tankers to straits of hormuz. whento you look at the burden lifted off of the people all over europe, the price of oil has gone up, imagine what would happenul if unopposed tankers, attacked by the quds force and their "nautical elements," ay single one of those tankers going down would drive the price of oil up through the roof. at the end of the day, the world is a far better place because of the decisions made by the president, acting on the kind of information that we know they had to be putting together with time enough to get on station, remotely piloted aircraft, and my guess is, looking at the

pictures, probably four hellfire missiles.el >> sean: colonel north, thank you, as always. also tonight -- don't forget on the failed policies of obama and biden, and the mullah-appeasement democrats, got us to this point. remember, obama and biden, they loose into. remember, who would ever get to the mullahs in iran, bring cargo planes full of cash and other currencies, $150 billion, caving in during nuclear talks, and in exchange, what? they got a promise from tehran that they are not going to build nuclear weapons for ten years? but you don't have any place, anytime inspections either. iran, of course, continued exporting their terror all overx the world. they still had a path to a nuclear weapon. thanks to obama and biden, they even had more of your money to burn. but it all changed when donald j. trump was sworn in as president. he pulled out of that disastrous nuclear deal that provided little checks on iran, little

enforcement mechanisms, basically none for us, and put our national security at risk. president trump three impose sanctions. iran's economy went into a complete collapse and tailspin. so all of those failed benghazi democrats that are now lecturing us come and mullah-appeasing leftists, like ben rhodes, who are feeling the need to chime in and lecture everyone on how to do their jobs, maybe they can sit this one out, because it was your disastrous policies that help to get us here. it is your poor judgment that embolden iran, resulting in the escalating tensions throughouton the region. civil wars in syria, proxy wars in yemen, complete human catastrophe, rockets on the gaza strip. instead of confronting iran's maligned activity and cancerous, well, actions, and number one state sponsor of terrorism, you tried to appease it and bribe it into liking us, instead of crippling them with sanctions, you gave them billionspp in casr currency, right on that tarmac.n

the contrast could not be any clearer. by the way from a closing to iran. you want to climb up the ladder of escalation? you want to walk off that cliff? there will be more consequences. because this president has stated clearly, he is prepared to act even further. i've known this man for over two decades. he is not backing down, as i warned you in the past. s he's taking specific, targeted action. they will be no more appeasement. that is beyond clear. also, the president is not going to get goaded into another booth on the ground, endless conflict, because the next time come in the next generation of weaponry is being built now, so we don't have to send our national treasure door to door like we did in iraq, because lives are at stake, the free world is at stake, the path to safety, stability in the middle east at stake, we have a lot to fight for and defend. joining us now with reaction from secretary of state mike pompeo. mr. secretary, i said thisis lat

night, and my reporting has been confirmed. this was an amazing -- our intelligence community working with the best military on the face of the earth, intelligent sources, your state department, and the president made this decision very quickly in response to what was a real threat. what can you tell us? >> secretary pompeo: sean, it's great to be with you. in fact, it was in all of government effort, directed by president trump. we identified a risk. the president talked about tod today, soleimani, the terrorist, was engaged in active plotting. there was an attack that was imminent that could have killed hundreds of americans. we found an opportunity, and we delivered. we brought all of america's best and brightest together, found an opportunity, and took this guy who you described pretty accurately is one of the worst terrorists ever to walk the face of the planet, we took him off orthe battlefield. we were successful at eliminating -- he won't conduct a terror campaign or put anyone

at risk. >> sean: the president said earlier today soleimani is plotting imminent, sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act, and terminated him. we know u.s. special representativel for iran brian hook also i thought you were saying the same thing. how bad was this potential? >> secretary pompeo: we caught him, and we stopped him, and it's a good thing for the world. he was traveling the region when he landed in baghdad, and the travels before that put him in places all around the region, which were aimed solely at building out what they were referring to as the big attack. they were aiming to take down significant amounts of americans that would have undoubtedly killed locals, too, iraqis, lebanese, syrians, perhaps bigger this is an i attack that would have been ofe some scale.

we can't talk much about the details, but suffice it to say, the american people can know the decision president trump made to take qassem soleimani down saved american lives. >> sean: you know, i said for years on this program that prime minister netanyahu of israel was kind of the lone voice of moral clarity identifying the iranian threat. i wouldn't have imagined, five years ago, i would have said impossible, probably, then we would not have a situation as we do today. you are partly responsible for this, where the u.s. has aligned with israel, the jordanians, the egyptians, the emirates, and a saudis, against the reigning hegemony. and from what i understand, my sources tell me intelligence sharing, it's all hands on deck against iran. >> secretary pompeo: sean, that's absolutely true. one of the things i've heard today from some who have criticized president trump, which i find odd, but the criticism has been there is no strategy. that willful blindness. there has been a deep strategy

that president trump laid down, almost three years ago. we've been delivering against that strategy. going to your point, a central part of that is building up a coalition of saudi scum of the emirates, all partners in the gulf of the israelis, all working together,e the islamic republic of iran is the problem, in the region, note others. we're not going to appease any longer, we are going to take on this challenge, and while the president made very clear, we don't want war, that wasn't the aim, it wasn't the goal of a strike that we took, or the strike that we took in response to the death of american contractor on december 27th. the goal is not to start a war. indeed, it was to stop it. president trump has made equally clear that one american lives are at risk, if you act quickly, he will act decisively, he will act to disrupt, and hope that leads to deterrence, as well. >> sean: knowing you as well asas i do and knowing the time differences, with that part of the world, i would imagine you probably didn't go to sleep last night, probably spent a lot of time on the phone talking with every country in the region, and

probably others. can you give us some insight into what those allied countries and others might be telling you after the killing of soleimani? >> secretary pompeo: look, these are a couple of long days, but not as long for me as they were for our diplomats on the ground in the region, in baghdad and other places. they've done great work alongside our department brothers and sisters, it's been truly remarkable. any en work i was doing paled in comparison to the sacrifices they were making. i spent the last day and a halff two days, talking to partners in the region, sharing what we were doing, why we were doing it, seeking their assistance. they have all been fantastic are talking to our partners at other places that have been quite as good, frankly the europeans haven't been as hopeful, the brits, thehe french, the germans, they have to understand what we did, with the americans did, save lives in europe, as well. qassem soleimani led assassination campaigns in europe. this is a good thing for the entire world, and we are urging everyone in the world to get behind with the united states is trying tohe do, to get the islac

republic of iran to simply behave like a normal nation. >> sean: secretary of state mike pompeo. great job. the world a safer today, and thanks for being with us tonight. >> secretary pompeo: yes, sir. thank you, shawn. >> sean: when we come back my no matter what president trump does, oh, them and benghazi democrats, the democrats will a him. if he cured cancer, they would want to impeach him for that. realty will pelosiul and schiff were saying about the strike that took out this killing general. lindsey graham, straight ahead. ♪ keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.

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another round of air strikes now in iraq. five members of an iran-backed militia were killed north of baghdad. with the iran oblatio mobilizate hit their convoy, three others wounded, no other leaders were killed. meanwhile, security experts warn iran could hit the u.s. with cyber attacks with retaliation of the killing of qassem soleimani. online banks or the u.s. power grid could become targets. iran has long been viewed as one of the international cyber threats to the u.s. authorities say iran has had cyber attacks against others. i'm aisha huston he. now back to hannity. ♪ >> sean: an opportunity to kill the iranian terror leaderim soleimani demanded quick, decisive action.

thankfully, president trump did not wait around for permission from the likes of speaker in name only nancy pelosi. pelosi recently complaining about trump's bold action, putting out a statementt saying "the full congress must be immediatelyon briefed on this serious situation and on the next steps under consideration by the administration, including the significant escalation of the deployment of additional troops to the region."gn meanwhile, yeah, there you have a compromised, corrupt, congenital buyer, adam schiff, tweeting "congress didn't authorize on the american people don't want a war with iran," adding "all steps must be takeno protect our forces again, the almost inevitable escalation an increased risk." here with reaction to this and more, senator lindsey graham, great state of south carolina. senator, good to see you. you know a lot about soleimani. my research shows you are mentioning him along with john mccain, going back many years ago. >> yeah, i know he's dead, and

the reason he's dead, he signed his own death warrant. he miscalculated donald trump. after the contractor was killed from sheer militia controlled by soleimani, the president made all decision he would not tolerate any more attacks against american interests, and we caught the guy red-handed planning another attack, and the president killed him, and the world is safer come into my democratic colleagues come every commander in chief has the authority to protect our troops in the field. he had all of the authorization he needs. and to congresswoman omar, what would you want the president to do, sit on the sidelines and watch people get killed? you know an >> sean: you know can we really think about it. imagine six months, a year from now, we found out we had actionable intelligence -- >> right? >> sean: that of baghdadig airport, soleimani was there, and president trump did nothingh they would want to impeach him for that. like they impeach him if he cured cancer at this point.

>> well, yeah, they lost all reason when it comes to president trump, but this wasn't a revenge attack. this wasn't killing him because of what he had done in the past. this was stopping him from planning another attack that was going to be widespread, that could cost hundreds of americans their lives. he acted in a defensive way, a preemptive way. here's the question: what's next? to the iranian regime, i don't know if you watch sean's show or not, but you probably should. if you after us again, we are coming after you again. and if you upped theng ante, you better be concerned about your oilfields. president trump is going to put you out of the oil business if you continue to try to kill americans and go after our allies. to the iraqi parliament, do not let iran go you into destroying the relationship between the united states and iraq. >> sean: hey, senator? i happened to like your tweet last night, if the radiant aggression continues and i worked at an iranian oil

refinery, i would think about a new career. when you know what? i wonder if rouhani might want to show solidarity with the refinery workers if they retaliate. there's always that possibility, but from what i understand, their economy has already been crippled by the president's, the significant unrest within the country, and there are three main -- t if i'm not mistaken, u know more about this than i do. you have access to more information than i do. there are three main refineries, and if they were taken out, would probably result in the collapse, completely come of the iranian. correct? >> yes. soleimani was the military leader. he was not a general come he was a terrorist fog. if their economy depends on oil. if you destroy their refineries, you destroy their economy. what i hope the iraniansi understand when it comes to attacking americans, donald trump is different than obama. that if you continue to attack

us and our allies like israel, you are going to be put out of the oil business, and worse. >> sean: you know, it's very interesting times we live in. i mentioned this earlier, nobody would have imagined, five years ago, jordan, egypt, sallies, israel, u.s., the emirates, what i'll be working against iranian hegemony and a nuclear-armed iran, but it's happening, and donald trump as our president. you know the iranians. you've studied the iranians. the president is clear. he doesn't want endless wars, and neither do i. and i don't think we can go door to door like we did in iraq ever again. because washington, you know, start wars, and then they politicize them. to the president prove something with the caliphate in syria, when he wiped them out. he took off the rules of engagement of obama and bombed the living hell out of them. cannot be done with iran? >> well, what you can do is hit

them where they are the weakest. what would destroy the iranian economy is to take them out of the oil business. here is why it is important to let iran know what will come their way if they continue to come after americans. i think the target list that the president is looking at, if they continue to escalate, is inside of iran itself. i want the ayatollah to know that if you continue to come after americans, everything is on the table, including your oil refineries. i'm not speaking for the president, but i do believe the target list includes targets inside of iran, the cost of killing an american has gone up exponentially after killing soleimani. we are safer today, and if i were an iraqi, i would choose america over the ayatollah. we are a much better friend and a much better bet. >> sean: i would imagine those refineries, and maybe even those nuclear that are buried deep underground could be

potential targets. senator, thank you for being with us. keep tweeting like that, you're getting right up there with the president. >> [laughs] >> sean: appreciate you being with us.si all right, we come back, you're not going to believe are some members of the media mob, oh, they are almost sounding like they're coming to the defense of the iranian general. who was taken out by our air strike. the man responsible for killing hundreds of americans, with blood on hishuds hands. karl rove, sean spicer next, straight ahead. ♪ sfx: [sneezing] i am not for ignoring the first sign of a cold. i am for shortening my cold, with zicam! zicam is completely different. unlike most other cold medicines, zicam is clinically proven to shorten colds. i am a zifan for zicam! oral or nasal. force factor's alpha kingtime to boosts total testosteroner game. for more lean muscle in the gym, more energy, and more passion and drive so you can rule the bedroom. unleash your potential with alpha king. now available at gnc. we were paying an arm and a leg for postage.

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president trump? "the washington post" called this bioterrorist iran's most revered and military leader, and after the story being called out, for giving them all as a complement. cable news spent the entire day talking up the iranian regime's talking points, and we have the video evidence. take a look. >> leaving aside the justice of the issue, the question is, was it a wise thing to do? this is a crai crisis that prest compass created.t >> i'm surprised the american embassy right now is not being bombarded day and night. >> by killing qassem soleimani, the u.s. has stripped iran of an inspirational military leader. >> he was the cardinal, the machiavelli. >> sean: joining us now in a reaction, first action senior advisor sean spicer. fox news contributor, karl rove. karl, here we have a guy that killed americans, the number one

state sponsor of terror, iran, the world is a safer place, and they can muster up even a good word about the president. really? our intelligence community, our military, or state department acting decisively, in unison, very quick order, to take this guy out when they have this opportunity, because he was in baghdad. he wasn't in iran, he was in baghdad. > yeah. it's a sign of his hubris that het thought, you know, this sort of puppet master of all of these terror networks throughout iraq and syria and lebanon and yemen and throughout the middle east, and in fact, beyond the middle east, even his organization in the united states. it's a sign of his hubris thatth he thought he could travel so openly outside of iran and not be threatened, particularly at this moment, because think about this, sean. two thought experiments. thought experiment number one. brian hook, the special envoy for iran, was very explicit that we were onan the cusp of a major

action against u.s. diplomats and u.s. personnel and u.s. interests throughout the middle east that could have cost hundreds of lives. what would those same voices that we heard today be saying about president trump if he had not acted and did not take out soleimani, and this plot was executed? i suspect they would be criticizing him for being weak and feckless. second of all, let's think about this. second thought experiments. with these people say the same thing aboutes the death of al-baghdadi? what they say the same thing about the death of usama bin laden? but they have said the same about the death of a major -- any other major terroristor figure? no, because that would have happened, you know, under the watch of a previous president, or it would have been, you know, and inopportune moment because it was not at a hot time during a presidential campaign. a lot of this is about politics. a lot of it is about beating trump in the fall of 2020, and a lot of it is about, particularly

the democratic presidential candidates, getting as far to the left as they approach iowa, which is notoriously on the democratic side, pacifist, and the other early contest, which may be dominatin dominating soua by left-wing democrats. >> sean: sean spicer, u of msdnc, one of their host actually saying, oh, this is trd democrat chris murphy, out of connecticut, you've got him saying, oh, trump has rendered americaas impotent in the middle east, no one fears also listens to us and we have been reduced to huddling americans, huddling in safe rooms, hoping the bad guys will go away. than the president acts, takes the guy out, and then -- that he is stillll complaining. these are your friends in the media mob. this is your democratic party today. >> well, i think the funny thing is the analogy they use, they are going to invoke benghazi, they might want to remember what happened in benghazi. the president took decisive

action that prevented theen loss of life, notif incurred of the ofloss of life. this man is the blood of several hundred, if not thousands of americans, is on his hands. we not only took him out, which is something we should all be praising, but he continued to present a threat to, the region and to our service members and personnel over there. the idea that we didn't act would have been malpractice.d' the idea that the president of this action is something that we should be cheering, and i agree with karl, after al-baghdadi went down, we all came together, the same thing when we did when deama bin laden was captured. this continues to make not only the world, but our country a safer place. and if we don't act, especially after a week in which iran killed an american contractor,ac then we do look weak. then we don't look decisive. than our words mean nothing. this president took action and made it very clear that you don't mess with the united states of america. >> sean: happy new year to both of you. thank you for being with us. when we come back, congresswoman omar claiming the president ordered the u.s. air strike

against a top iranian general, he neededca an "distraction." okay. the conspiracy theories haveve l begun from the same predictable players. that's next. ♪ that is next.

♪ >> sean: now, predictably, democrats are mad as hell president trump dared to order a deadly strike against the terror leader soleimani, congressman omar tweeting "so what if trump wants war? it leads to war and needs a distraction." adding, "the real question is will those with congressional authority step in and stop him? i know i will. "2020 residents a candidate sleepy creepy uncle joe 30330 accused trump of tossing a stick

of dynamite into a tinderbox. wow, they same guy that gave the mullahs $150 billion. my favorite, senator chris murphy asking the intendeincendiary question, did president trump knowingly set off a massive regional war? here, one of the heroes with benghazi, is with us. fox & friends weekend cohost pete hegseth, and dan bongino, fox news contributor. let me remind people, i keep saying, you know, this is not the benghazi democrats. you were there. you and your guys in that annex, 1 mile away, when americans are being attacked. if i recall correctly, were told to stand down three separate times. and finally, you guys said, that's enough. we are not letting americans get killed, and we are going to risk

ouran careers and our lives to save americans. in fact, you saved thousands of american lives that day. was that not true? >> yeah, it is. that's what leadership is about, making the hard decisions and doing the right thing. >> sean: you were told, you guys were told to stand down. how many times? >> yeah, we are told to stand down three times. in person. told to talk to tyrone woods. >> sean: wow. by the way, the last guy we lost that day. and i love his family. and have gotten to know them. pete hegseth, here we have a moment where the president, we've got this mass murder, number one state sponsor of terror, fomenting proxy wars all around the region, we got him at the baghdad airport, and we're not supposed to act after he has been leading the attack on our embassy and putting our interests and our fellow citizens at risk?

>> of course we are. this is the complete rejection of the obama doctrine. alstand up when they were told o stand down. unbelievable courage. when president trump said as a nation, we are standing up, i think one of the most emblematic things in this entire episode was the president tweeting out the american flag afterwards. because if you understand what he is. saying, america's back ad we are putting america first. the iraqis wouldn't guard our embassy. they let the iranians come right there in protest. we now know it was led by soleimani. demonstration in april of 2019, strategically fought through before putting ourth nation fir. no more american blood on their hands. and iraqis will have their own choice. but no more threats against us without retaliation. >> sean: you know, dan bongino, i noticed there was somebody calling this benghazi. and msdnc conspiracy theorist host, was actually saying, oh, trump's benghazi. i think you called it -- i will get it right -- of the dumbest tweet of decade.

>> yeah. yeah, that wins. may be of the millennium. it's possible. it was possibly the dumbest thing i've ever read on social media in mye life. that's to be expected from msdnc, sean. the response to this -- and not all, but sadly most of them, and the media, the killing of the savage terrorist who was bathed in regional blood, as well, not just american blood, has been nothing short of absolutely horrifying. let me get this straight from the democrat talking point, what you've all heard on this panel, sean, you've heard, too, this was a dangerous escalation by america? wait, what? where were the democrats lecturing these iranians and iraqis in this terrorist group that decided to attack our embassy, where were they lecturing them about that dangerous escalation? we didn't want this. the democrat has done everything in his power, to de-escalate the situation. the iranians can stop this tomorrow.

they have control over this. do you know why? you cann act like a civilized nation, and the mullahs can stand down and act like normal human beings, instead of terrorist savages, and they can stop this tomorrow. >> sean: you know, mark, i'd look at your actions in benghazi. to me, with the president did here is the opposite of what the democrats did when they had their moment, whether embassy was being attacked, on their watch, and it was even worse, because there was help there, and they told the help to stay back. >> well, that's true. somebody asked me early on, two days ago, what are the similarities? the only thing even closely similar as there was bad guys trying to do bad things to americans. the difference is, the president acted effectively, immediately, and with the correct amount of force. i mean, he does what he had to do, sent in 100 marines. where were the 100 marines they could have sent in? where was that in benghazi?

>> sean: when we come back, senator mitch mcconnell not letting the democrats get away with their impeachment sham. trace gallagher with report straight ahead. what happened to the real men of america?

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♪ >> sean: all right, as speaker pelosi continues to obsess over her fact-free impeachment, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is standing strong, exposing at all. fox news chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher joins us tonight, going west coast newsroom with the very latest. trace? >> sean, they might have had good tiding and cheer during the winter recess, but now both sides back to standing their ground on impeachment for a senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said instead of sending articles of impeachment to the senate, democrats "flinched" and have decided to wait indefinitely while they checked the political winds. watch. >> their turn is over. they've done enough damage. it's the senate's turn now. to render sober judgment as the framers envisioned.

but we can't hold a trial without the articles. >> senate democrats argue they should be allowed to call more witnesses, but senate minority leader chuck schumer accusing mcconnell of denying them critical evidence. earlier today, speaker pelosi said leader mcconnell has shown he will "feebly comply with trump's cover up, be accomplished that cover up." mcconnell maintains that if democrats wanted more witnesses, they should have called them in the house. when they have a chance. sean? >> sean: trace gallagher, thank you for that report. that is all the time we have left this evening. as always, thank you for joining us. we hope you will set your dvr. 305 days until you, we, the american people have the final say. please set your dvr. we hope you never miss an episode of "hannity." and let not your heart be troubled, raymond arroyo was sitting in tonight for laura ingraham. have a great evening, and we will see you back here on

monday. ♪ ♪ >> raymond: i'm raymond arroyo in for laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from new york city tonight. we have the latest from iraq and the breaking news from the region. what are the next steps in the wake of the u.s. strike on that iranian terrorist mastermind? should we be worried about retaliation from iran? and why are democrats so outraged that trump took out another bad guy? congressman matt gaetz and lee zeldin are here, along with walid phares, and also, was soleimani a brutal murder or a revered leader? some of the media seem confused. tammy bruce and matt schlapp will expose it all. and stay until the end of the show tonight, we have something special. friday follies, i will be joined by two incredible guests. trump upsets liberal hollywood