>> tucker: we are done. we are out of time. we will be back. 8:00 p.m. the show that the is enemy of lying pomposity and group think. sean hannity right now. >> sean: i will teach you hit the post in 2020. you are late. he calls con general liar a pencil neck. not only is the country doing great, it's the greatest show on earth. >> tucker: hilarious. >> sean: i would like to see one democrat pack a house like that. tucker, great show. welcome to hannity. several tracking big stories going on tonight. moments ago as you just saw in toledo, in ohio, the all-important swing state of ohio, the president wrapped up a mask rally. we are going to have a lot and play a lot of his remarks. some of the best ones straight ahead. meanwhile, in the middle east tonight, u.s. intelligence now believes that the rogue regime in iran was responsible for downing ukrainian airlines

flight 752, killing all 176 souls on board. pentagon officials telling fox news, quote: an iranian operated russian-made 815 missile, which is part of the surface to air missile system was the kind that brought down this aircraft. officials also believe it was horrific accident. but now many democrats, the media mob they are doing what they predictably do. let's brain trump. the dog bite, the bestipulation, you are feeling sad, blame trump. have all the sick, disgusting details and their comments. they begin with the d.c. swamp where a very angry and very confused bewildered nancy pelosi continues inexpolitic cabbably to cling on to her b.s. articles of impeachment. i have a message for republican senators coming up. first, let's watch nancy. >> articles indefinitely. >> no, i'm not holding indefinitely. i will send them over when i'm ready. and that will probably be

soon. said if i don't pass them over i will pass the u.s., mexico canada trade agreement. okay. no, we want to see what they are willing to do and the manner which he this do it. we will not let them say it's like clinton's hearing. it's not. documents, documentation, witnesses facts, truth. that's what they are afraid of. >> sean: speaker in name only pelosi has been sitting on the articles for over three weeks. these are the very same articles democrats they were claiming this is urgent. the nation is at risk. time sensitive. a matter of imminent national concern. pelosi rammed through the house in record time. only one fact witness. hearsay and opinion witnesses. democrats, they didn't subpoena any of the key witnesses because according to them the country couldn't

afford to wait for a court decision for weeks they have been telling you we the american people nothing has been more urgent they took it right up to christmas. they went on vacation. the future of our country was at stake. take a look. >> i do expect that the judiciary committee is prepared to move very quickly. >> the president, beared on his past performance will do everything he can to make it not a fair election. that is part of what gives us the urgency to proceed with this impeachment. >> the timing is really driven by the urgency. >you are general that is. >> a national security issue. >> yes a national security issue. an issue of our election integrity. >> it's not a rush to judgment. it's a rush to justice. >> sean: yeah, we have got to go on vacation and take our time and then we will second guess. okay. pelosi has now paused this super important super urgent process indefinitely. it is the kind of level of hypocrisy outright

dishonesty and lying that is unconscionable. but it is very fitting. democrats, with the help of, of course, their best friends in the media mob state-run tv, the deep state, they have been lying to you, to us, every step of the way. first, we have the compromise, corrupt, congenital liar, the pencil neck i guess the president calls him, adam schiff lying about the transcript of the call between the president and president zelensky. next schiff lied about the fake non-whistleblower whistleblower, remember he said his office they would like to have contact they would like to hear from them. they had no contact with the individual. when, in fact, his office was, in fact, communicating with the hearsay non-whistleblower- whistleblo non-whistleblower-whistleblo wer even before he filed the bogus complaint. up next democrats lied about witness testimony during the schiff show, the first audition show, the secret closed door witness rehearsal show. democrats selectively were leaking only the misleading information in order to impugn the president and

gain public favor that's called propaganda. passed two bogus articles with only one fact witness. that's it. ambassador sondland whose testimony was exculpatory for the president. he wanted nothing, no quid, no pro, no quo like joe. i want nothing proceeding dishonest train wreck. deceived the american people and lied to get the support of the american people there was never any i want. nonexistent. there is for quid pro quo joe and zero experienced hunter. not getting the billion unless you are fired. the prosecutor investigating my zero son. no basic fairness no. high crimes, no misdemeanors. no bribery, no treason. one nebulous abuse of power charge. whatever that is one totally made up obstruction of congress because this president dared to do what

all the presidents before him have done and that is when they canned get along with the executive and legislative branch can you seek remedy. you can go to the court system. they settle those disputes. after all, they were in a rush. this was urgent. now pelosi has all the time in the world apparently. guess as not as urgent as she said another lie. she is demanding mitch mcconnell follow her strict instructions for how the senate trial should be run. she wants him to call all the witnesses they didn't call but, yet, they intreecheimpeached him. they failed to get a subpoena. she wants to ensure a fair trial with total impartiality. big problem there is her best friend her bff in the senate chuck schumer totally agrees. but in the 1990s when a democrat was being impeached, chuck was running on exonerating clinton. 11 separate felonies ken starr identified. take a look. >> this is not a criminal trial. but this is something that the founding fathers decided to put in a body that was

susceptible to the whims of politics. also, it's also not like a jury box in the sense that people will call us and lobby us. you don't have jurors call and lobby and things like that. it's quite different than a jury trial total hypocrite. get the theme here. hypotheticals, liars, zero principles, no core values, selective fame moral outrage. chucky schumer ran with the promise to acquit president clinton. without any case being presented. the independent starr report clinton committed he identified 11 specific impeachable offenses including felonies. chuck schumer raged against the mere prospect of ever impeaching a u.s. president over lying and subboarding perjury and perjury. take ache look. >> if we vote articles of impeachment, i fear that we'll be setting a precedent that would could seriously weaken the office of the presidency. whether the president is

removed from office or not. we will be in danger of all too frequently investigating presidents and seeking to remove them from office nlts a miracle occurs we will take one of the most serious and rare actions and impeach president against the overwhelming will of the american people. now we are routinely using criminal accusations and scandals to win the political battles in ideological differences we cannot settle at the ballot box. history will show that we have lowered the bar on impeachment so much we have broken the seal on extreme penalty so cavalierly that it will be used as a routine tool to fight political battles. my fear is that when a republican wins the white house, democrats will demand pay back. >> there is no need to continue forward because

there are certainly not too thirds for impeachment. what we ought to be doing, instead of, this is doing what the american people want us to do. >> sean: chucky's opinion, of course, magically evolve. senate growing pretty weary of the spectacle and the outrage of nancy pelosi, speaker in name only and her stall tactic and stunt. majority leader mcconnell consistently offered the same rules and procedures that the senate approved for the trial of bill clinton 100 to zero. now top democrats are asking pelosi end the charade. they are demanding it. even senator finestein fellow californian saying it's pelosi's decision if they are serious and urgent, send them over. if it isn't, don't send it over. democrat doug jones, agnes king, joe marc manchin, chris coons, blumenthal all echoing finestein's yo you will

at this matultimatum. adam smith recants call for pelosi to send impeachment to senate. look at this poll whopping 58% of americans think pelosi needs to send the articles over. due process and fundamental fairness. don't expect it tonight. pelosi still desperately dragging this on and on and president trump he is taking her to task. pretty gaining way a entertainis well. take a look. >> by the way did i nothing wrong. they don't noe what the hell is going on. in fact, it's so weak she doesn't want to put in the articles it's so weak. they are so pathetic they are so pathetic. >> sean: action revolved around the party's deranged psychosis besmirch hurt donald trump. that's all they have done for three years. nothing for me we you the people. all continuous nonstop never

ending political stunt, lies, commerce conspiracy, slander, besmirchment, nonbinding unmeaningful wars enforcement. let me address all of you in the u.s. senate tonight all of you republican senators, you do not and should not ever lend any credibl credibilio this despicable corrupt schiff show. do not do it all you are doing is hurting america in the process. the democrats impeach the president. your job is to run the trial, of course with the chief justice presiding. let them present their case. they impeached him. let them tell you why. now, i would like to hear. they can bring in the one fact witness. constitutionally, they impeach and they present their case to you. they say they have the evidence to impeach, your constitutional role, you republican senators, is the

trial the chief justice presides. one facts witness bring them in. everyone else's opinion federal rules of evidence don't allow hearsay evidence to be presented. make them show you why they impeached donald j. trump. it is not your job, republican senators or your constitutional role to redo their sick, twisted corrupt investigation with no due process. now, after the house managers present the reasons, their case which why they impeach the president. bring in the one fact witness they use so he can repeat ambassador sondland what he said or read back to the house or just read back the testimony then you can vote. that's your job. you don't have to do their job. they impeach and then they will tell you why. they are going to present their case. not your job to fix their screw up. you republican senators are weak and timid, if you give credibility to this

repulsive, corrupt political stunt, you are as guilty as schiff, nadler and speaker in name only pelosi. they impeached, let them show you why. when they fail spectacularly, and they already have. and they will. this will end the madness. in other words, republican senators stand up for the united states constitution that is your role. that is your job. and tonight my next guest believes the ongoing impeachment charade was never about removing president trump from office. instead it was designed as a tool to hurt republican senators in blue and purple states. this is guy that has never lost a case as a prosecutor in his life. pretty smart guy. he is also -- are you now back officially as a fox news contributor. did we put the camera back the way it was supposed to be? trey gowdy is with us. >> everything is great and i'm thrilled to be back. >> sean: i didn't ask if everything is great. did they take care of you and resign you. i'm fighting for trey gowdy to be a fox news

contributor. >> yes, sir, they have been fantastic. they have been great. thank you. >> sean: you gave a lot of great statements. i know this is your wheel house. tell us why this is so corrupt. >> let's skip over the process. three month long investigation was laughable. but they voted. that's the house's prerogative. they voted not a single republican went along with them. in fact, they didn't even keep all the democrats. but the house exercised its prerogative and they inteeched thimpeached the presi. there is no mathematical way he is ever going to be convicted. and they know that. so their goal cannot be to remove donald trump from office. it is to neuter his second term. i think he is going to win in november. it's to neuter that second term by targeting the cory gardners and martha mcsallys and thom tilliss and joni ernst because if trump wins and doesn't have the senate. then he is not going to get any judicial vacancies

filled and not replace a supreme court justice if he or she retires. is he not going to get the foreign policy he wants. he is not going to get the cabinet he wants. i never thought this was about removing donald trump because they're not going to do it. it's about putting cory gardner in a really tough series of votes so he has to defend him in november of this fall. >> sean: i think you are right through the prism of politics 299 days to go until the american people get to make the final decision. it's up to them and they can shock the world again and i hope trey gowdy in fact that that happens. let me ask you this question and it's a legal one constitutionally the sole role of the house of representatives to impeach. is it the sole role of the house of representatives to put the trial on. the chief justice of the supreme court he pro-sides. now the house managers will present their case. now, they are trying to have a redo and get the senate to do the job that they couldn't do in the house. what is your reaction? what would you tell

republican senators tonight? >> same thing i told them in the op-ed. if he thinks the testimony of john bolton is so incidence spence cybiindispensay should have subpoenaed him. it's not to investigate and then deliberate. if that were true we wouldn't need the house. schiff was in such a hurry. keep in mind, sean, all your viewers have to go to court if they have a disagreement with a fellow citizen. house republicans had to go to court to get documents in fast and furious. we had to go fight adam schiff in court to find out who funded the dossier. we all know how to get to the courthouse. schiff didn't want to go to court. he wants the senate to call the very witnesses that he didn't have the courage to call himself. and that's not their job. the good news is the senators that i talked to on a regular basis under the leadership of mitch mcconnell are not falling for nancy pelosi's trick. she can send them and they dual what they want. they are not moved by this

three-week pause that she has engaged in. >> sean: all right. trey gowdy. by the way, welcome back. i was going to go to bat for you are tonight. okay. i don't have to. that's good. all right. we turn now to more disturbing news out of iranian. pentagon officials they now believe that the ukrainian airlines flight was shot out of the sky with iranian anti-aircraft missile. here now joining us from the country of jordan with the very latest details our own benjamin hall. benjamin, wow. >> wow, indeed, sean. it was only three hours after those iranian missiles flying into iraq that this plane came down and suspicion started to grow. they continued to grow when iran refused to hand over those black boxes. refused investigators access to the crash site. now they are claiming those black boxes have been damaged and the memory lost. but the u.s., the u.k., and the canadian government now believe that plane with 176 innocent people on board was shot down by an sa 15

antimissile defense system purchased by the iranians from russia in a 2005, 700-million-dollar deal. whoever fired it, no downtown doubt, believed the u.s. was attacking them. iran is insisting still that plane was brought down by a technical failure. but the u.s. intelligence is strong. it's based on satellite images. infrared technology and communication interseptember. one of the other big questions what was this ukrainian plane doing fliesing in the middle of the war zone. ufaa it banned flying flying ner the persian gulf. nevertheless they were there. president trump said earlier they were flying in a pretty rough territory. sean? >> sean: all right. benjamin, thank you. we will continue to monitor developments from this horrific story. predictably many democrats and their friends and media mob know just how to blame for the downed aircraft. , the dog bite, the bee stings feeling sad not iran. really truly despicable pete from socialist mayor pete buttigieg. he writes: innocent civilians are now dead

because they were caught in the middle of a unnecessary unwanted military tit-for-tat. iran fires missiles at our soldiers. they commit acts of terrorism and try to kill americans in embassy. they kill americans in iraq and they down add commercial plane but it's trump's fault according to the failed mayor. anyway, joining us now fox news contributor dan bongino, fox news correspondent at large geraldo. geraldo, i have got a bone to pick with you. we have had senators and we had congress you got bumped from a show nor that reason tfor that reason.>> i. >> sean: pissed off at hannity because bumped him. >> on this show because bongino showed up. [laughter] you are closer to me than anyone in this business. i adore you. i trust you. i honor you and i'm always pleased to be on your show. >> sean: listen, the feeling is mutual. it's all good.

all right. >> bongino, i'm not so sure. >> sean: okay. i'm looking at this i'm saying wow, now, shooting down the plane is -- didn't want to give boeing the black box. now have you people blaming trump for that? really? >> i think that's a stretch. i really do believe, sean, what the hell was this plane doing flying three hours after a ballistic missile solve voyeur? salvo. it is absolute recklessness to do it. it's sending innocent souls into harm's way. this stuff happens in war. civilians get, you know, in the fog of war, that's what happens. it is awful what happened. the irans are on their back foot now. they thought they had the moral high ground. now with this tragedy, i believe that they are deeply embarrassed by it as they should be. as we were in 1988 when we shot down a civilian

aircraft carrier missile frigate it was awful. >> sean: donald trump didn't fire after drones were shot down and didn't fire when tanks were taken hostage. didn't fire when they hit the saudi oil fields impacting oil prices. killed americans, that's his headline. and then he gave the iranians an out. an off ramp. i would say he is keeping his campaign promise. would you agree, geraldo, before i go to dan? >> i like the president to be firm. i just think in this case he picked an unnecessary fight. we had already retaliated against the iranians. we killed 25 of them after they killed the american contractor. >> sean: geraldo, i would have kicked the crap out of them when they shot the drones down. good thing i'm not president. >> i don't know what we are doing there. we don't need their oil anymore. let them fight each other and eat each other alive. the shiites and sunnies and thousands of year battle. >> sean: what do you think

he was doing in baghdad? he was there to help hezbollah kill americans at the embassy. that's what they were up to. >> geraldo, he wasn't there soleimani picking up cheesecakes. he was in iraq. i have been keeping my powder dry for a couple days. i have got to tell you, geraldo, i have been pretty furious with some of your comments on the network including o on "the five. i have not knocked you until i faced you live. your comments have been absolutely atrocious. number one, the argument that this somehow was inappropriate or unjustified or that there wasn't an imminent. >> unnecessary. >> unnecessary? geraldo, let me ask you a very serious question. how many bodies -- do you have an exact body count? was soleimani 600 dead americans not enough? is it like do we have to reach 1,000 first? i mean, what did you think this guy did? he was guilty of ethnic cleansing. >> i did 11 assignments in the war in iraq. i have attended more

memorial services than you ever did, dan. i feel deeply. >> geraldo, listen to me for a minute. this doesn't give you the right to be wrong. >> they have lost over 600,000. >> geraldo, you know what? i don't sit here on the network and tell everyone about my time in the secret service running around the world with the president of the united states in. so world's dangerous hot zones. i'm glad you did. congratulations. nice work. that doesn't give you the right to be wrong that doesn't give you special insight to say things that are ridiculous. soleimani was one of the world's leading terrorists. this was an unabashedly good thing not just for the united states but for the world. >> is that going to be the new normal, dan? is this the new normal? >> it doesn't mean you are right. >> assassinate the people we don't like? he is the number guy guy in the iranian government. >> people don't like. geraldo, he sent 600 americans hold home in body bags. it's not like he showed up late for a birthday party. get your head out of your butt. are you kidding me?

people we don't like? several hundred in a birthday card. >> i never insult you personally buddy. but you feel that you can go gutter surfing, i'm telling you right now that i disagree with this action. >> geraldo, this is nonsense what you are saying. >> unpatriotic, it doesn't mean official insight. >> don't make a straw man out of this. >> we didn't have to pick. we picked a fight we didn't have to pick. >> terrorists who killed americans? >> what is the trump doctrine. >> sean: ding ding ding. >> isn't the trump doctrine to bring the troops home? >> sean: whoa. he is not going to dictators like biden and gerald did. soleimani was in baghdad and leading the hezbollah effort against our embassy. that's american souls at risk and that is our territory and that's our sovereignty. and we are going to disagree. >> i know you feel loved. >> i love you both. he even like bongino. >> sean: peace and love you used to do that on your tv

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>> sean: the president earlier tonight at his rally in toledo, ohio, making it unmistakenly clear to america's enemies as long as he is the commander-in-chief he intends to use the greatest military on the face ever the earth protecting the greatest citizenry on the face of the earth. the most generous people on the face of the earth. earlier today the president called on all republicans to oppose crazy nancy pelosi and her war powers resolution and although the house voted for the purely symbolic nonbinding resolution not every democrat supported it. we should also note many legal scholars say the war powers act is unconstitutional. i agree with them. i agree with john bolton. it infringes on the president's powers as commander-in-chief. article 2 powers. joining us now with reaction house minority whip steve scalise house oversight committee member freedom caucus member mark meadows, house intel committee member devin numbedevin nunes. by the way devin nunes would

be the guy's report who was vindicated and proven 100 percent correct. the compromised congenital liar was proved to lie again. take a bow nunes because you deserve it. you took the heat and you told the american people the truth. >> thank you, sean, i appreciate that and thanks for all your viewers and all your help through the last three years. i appreciate it. >> sean: the guy that is the box next to you on our television set mark meadows and his freedom caucus and jim jordan and gates and ratcliffe, they had your back correct mark meadows? >> we did. we had his back mainly because he had the president's back and he had the truth on his side. enough with the lies from adam schiff. it's time that we get about the business of the people's business and support this president. >> sean: i have a bone to pick with mark meadows tonight. i did not like his little announcement he snuck up on us toward the end of the year. i'm not standing by that decision. steve scalise i have got to give you credit and kevin mccarthy credit. you put jim jordan when you needed him on the ship show

committee. you guys have had the president's back. have you been standing for truth against a lack of due process and everything in between. good tore you two. >> shanks, sean. you saw jim do a great job. devin, of course, getting that information out. the facts out from the very beginning. staying focused on the facts. look, they started with this hope that they would find a crime and president trump didn't commit a crime. president trump didn't do the things they lied and accused him about. and yet they still impeached him anyway. it was disgraceful. there is a personal vendetta. you can see that nancy pelosi and her liberal have used to carry out and continue on with this witch-hunt. you know what in the american people have abandoned them. the american people are tired of that kind of personal attack style. they like the president president trump has gotten the economy back on track. and now that he has kept us safe. taken out one of the most brutal terrorist in the history of our country. they should give him credit for it. they should back him like they backed barack obama when he took out usama bin laden. we disagreed with him on a

lot of other things but he got it right on bin laden. president trump gout it rite with soleimani. the world is better place with him removed. >> sean: devin, i looked back at your memo february 2018 mccabe testified fbi witness saw the fisa warrant without the dirty dossier that hillary paid for the russian dossier. you were proven right. you were proven right on everything in your memo. now i notice that they want to put a 33-year veteran that the fbi didn't think was lying but made him plea or else they were going to go after his kid and he fell on the sword for his family general flynn yet lack of candor comey, mccabe, the rest of them nothing has happened yet. why is that? do we have a dual justice system. >> we have durham still going. let's hope we actually do. the guys that perpetrated these crimes on the american people and on the trump campaign and so many americans that were involved in politics that should have never happened. hopefully they are brought to justice. but i will say we just don't

know at this point what is going to happen to general flynn. i guess the question is matter of law can he withdraw his guilty plea or not. i don't know that's a legal question and i know the judge has tried to get him to withdraw the guilty plea it's in the process whether he can or cannot and what happens there i just don't know why the department of justice would go back now after all of this and why not -- they could just drop this case and i know the prosecutor don't want to do it. >> sean: the fbi didn't think he lied. i will say this all of you i would try very hard to give me information. i still hold a little resentment because i'm a talk show host we do that sort of thing. mark meadows one question you would always answer and you wouldn't tell me facts but i would say am i over the target? i want to tell my audience the truth. i want to get this story right. we were right the whole time and i think we're going to

be proven further right. what do you think? >> well, you are going to be proven further right. john durham is doing a great job getting to the bottom of it. but what we must remember is that we need to make sure that there is not too standards. one for mostl hillary clinton ad one for donald trump. he has been really assaulted by my democrat colleagues today on the house floor. they embraced terrorists instead of supporting him. we didn't have four dead americans in the baghdad embassy because this president decided to act. >> sean: all right. let's have a vote. going to be very fair. who votes that mark meadows better stay in the game? i vote yes. >> i will stay in the game fight from a different vantage point. >> sean: stay in the game i will get you a get out of jail free card. right now you are in hannity prison. that's not a good place to be. i have four hours a day to be mean. thank you, guys. great job. when we come back, you won't believe which member of the media mob actually compared

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>> sean: earlier tonight during his rally president trump set the record straight about the strike that he ordered against the world's worst terrorist. he was in baghdad, trust me, to kill more americans. he has already killed a lot of them. take a look. >> here's a guy who slaughtered and butchered civilians all over and military, whoever was in his way. and we have bernie and nancy pelosi, we have them all, they are all trying to say how dare you take him out that way. you should get permission from congress. you should come in and tell

us what you want to do. [boos] >> you should come in and tell us so that we can call up the fake news that's back there and we can leak it. [cheers and applause] >> sean: oh, please, nancy, he is at the baghdad airport. can i please have your permission? really? no, he would be the commander-in-chief. that's why we hired him. not you. now, sadly, the democrats, sadly the mob and the media that are unhinged consumed with range and psychosis and hatred of all things trump, their coverage of soleimani has been down right disgraceful and we have got the video evidence. look at this. >> when somebody people die, you know, you don't know what the impact is going to be. when princess diana died, for example, there was a huge emotional outpouring. these kinds -- elvis presley in our culture. >> by killing qassem soleimani the u.s. has stripped iran of an inspirational military leader. >> even many of soleimani's enemies admitted he was a military genius.

>> soleimani is difficult to convey how revered he is. he is regarded as personally and credibly brave. the troops love him. >> hard to think of somebody think of degal. >> he was the cardinal he was the machiavelli. >> sean: okay. wow, princess di and elvis. hope mhelp me out. joining me now no agenda with lara logan on fox nation.com. and media writer for the hill joe concha. larr remarks you expressed disappointment. i saw it in an interview you gave with your colleagues in the media. you worked for "60 minutes." kind of a big deal. you were out with our troops a lot. you know about soleimani. i have known about soleimani a long time, too. it's about as bad as you get. >> i do. well, i mean, he was a terrorist. and that's not -- you know, subjective saying.

and the u.s. -- he was designated as a terrorist because iran has been using terrorism as a tool of state cross. they have made it part of their foreign policy. and he was the architect of that. and i guess what disturbs me most about the coverage is that there are millions of people in iran who did not mourn qassem soleimani's death. so, where was their side of the story? where were their voices? in fact, i was talking to some of the iranian opposition leaders just yesterday, and one of them said to me this funeral and this show of, you know, outpouring of grief was a siesta for the western media. and they bought the whole thing. where was the pictures such as the one i was sent of people burning qassem soleimani's picture in cities across iran. of people putting pictures of the iranian opposition leaders? where were those pictures? and you know, sean, it was 1500 people who were killed just a few months ago and there were quds force snipers on the streets of iran according to the

opposition and accord to go ahead news reports and to pictures that came out at the time. those snipers shot young iranians in the chest and head. so those people, their families are not mourning qassem soleimani. and what about those funerals? how much coverage did you see of their funerals? quite extraordinary to me that he can be called an inspirational leader. would have you called bin laden an inspirational leader? that would be my question? where is the voice of the iranian people? there is not just one voice here. it's not just the regime. >> sean: not covering it, number one. and number two, if they do, they have been out pretty much in mass risking their lives. but, they can't win -- can't have an overthrow of a government with a slingshot or a rock. joe concha, i'm watching really msnbc news is tweeting out watch soleimani, the terrorist' funeral. click here. huh? help me out. >> live coverage. not even just reporting on millions of people who came

to the streets to mourn soleimani and to lara's point obviously not talking about those who hated soleimani. but also, you had msnbc news reporting directly from iranian state tv that there were 30 casualties following that missile attack on u.s. forces in iraq literally parroting what they were saying. it was just amazing that they would say that on our airways, national television by a major news organization. make no mistake, sean, war would be very good for ratings, for clicks, for re-tweets if that were to occur. and now that things have deescalated the ratings have gone with it. so it's just disgusting what we have seen over the last two days. it's the only word that can really come to mind right now. >> sean: "new york times" reporter in iran soleimani's death is like mlk's death in america. wow. thank you both for actually analyzing all of this. it's unbelievable. coming up, 2020 democratic field, we have new polls out tonight, it's shrinking, we

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>> sean: quid pro quo trying to stave off bernie sanders and mayor buttigieg ahead of the first primary states next month because the brand new poll out of new hampshire shows the three in a virtual tie. get, this according to a new fox news poll, billionaire climate crusader tom steyer is now at a whopping 15% in south carolina. and while elizabeth warren's campaign is scrambling to survive among slumping poll numbers and weak fundraising here to explain them all we

are going to call this the 2020 rove white board segment. every week with his numbers. we call him the actor tech. fox news contributor former deputy chief of staff to president bush. how are you, sir? >> i'm doing great how about you? >> sean: two white boards, not one two. >> no, no. i have got three. i have got three white boards. [laughter] >> sean: wow, i'm upstaged on my own show. what have you got? >> a new poll out in new hampshire, the monmouth poll that, again, shows a pretty close race, four candidates above 15% pretty close, buttigieg at 20, biden at 19, sanders at 18 and warren at 15%. now, in order to get a vote and get a delegate, have you got to get 15% in any democratic caucus or primary. so this goes to show, i mean, how closely bunched up it is. if this were to happen, here is how the delegates would likely split out. 7 for buttigieg, 6 for biden, six for sanders and 5

for warren. that ain't a big gap between any of them. that's what the first contest seemed to look like. you mentioned iowa and it's a similar result. >> sean: all right. so we have got that. so you go iowa. then we are going to go -- that's the day before. >> here is iowa. real clear politics average. bernie 22, buttigieg 21.7. biden 20.3. warren at 15. again, 12 delegates for sanders. 11 delegates for buttigieg, 10 for biden and 8 for warren. so, after the first two primaries if everything plays out like this, think about this, we'll have sanders at 18, buttigieg at 18, biden at 16, and warren at 13. this thing is going to be bunched up if it stays as close as this appears to be. all the rest of these candidates are going to be out of the running when it comes to delegates because they don't get 15%. if these polls are accurate. nobody else comes close to 15%. >> sean: south carolina and work our way to super tuesday. you have been making the case i actually read karl

rove's columns. you can get them every week in the "wall street journal." that we may have a brokered convention. that would probably make the schiff show look pale in comparison. >> no, no. that would be ugly. remember, part of this is that the democrats from front loaded the contest. by the end of the night march 3rd, 48% of the delegates to the national convention will be, if elected in the first four contests we are likely to see in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and nevada, we are likely to see three or four candidates in each state get 15% or more. and we could have on the third of march, because that's where bloomberg begins to play, we could have as many in some instances as five candidates carving up the delegate pool. we could show up in milwaukee with nobody with a clear majority on the first ballot. >> sean: all right. do you see any potential -- i bloomberg is throwing millions and millions and millions. spending 10 million on the super bowl ad. the president will have an ad, maybe two of them in the

super bowl. do you see him maybe -- he is trying to come in on super tuesday, assuming that it's going to be that close after south carolina, et cetera. going to do something that's never been done before. have a shot? >> well, i think it depends on two things hang. joe biden collapsing and blowing up and buttigieg collapsing or blowing up. if bloomberg comes in on the 3rd of march and simply gets his share of the vote without either one of these other two collapsing, then it's going to work to the advantage of sanders and warren, particularly sanders who has a firm group of people who are going to be for him each and every day and every place that he has got. it's an unusual strategy. we will see if it plays out. >> sean: once a week the white board madness. thank you, sir. when we come back, the latest huge crisis within the royal family. we have a full report. trace gallagher straight ahead. ♪ ♪ whoo. i'm gonna grow big and strong. yes, you are.

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>> all right, prince harry, meghan markel stepping away as

their royal duties has rocked the uk. trace gallagher has the latest. trace? >> one day after prince harry and meghan markel announced their plans to take a step back as senior members of the royal family, we're learning that the queen and bucking hamm palace were blind sided with the queen defying their orders not to publish their statements and prince charles learning of the announcement ten minutes before it went public. the queen is in crisis mode with the daily mail reporting she's been on a four-way conference call all day with harry, charles, and williams in an effort to resolve the couple's exit. meghan left the uk and flew back to canada where she'd already left her 8-month-old son, archie with a nanny. and it appears meghan may stay in canada for the foreseeable future. meghan markel's visits to buckingham palace might be a thing of the past with one royal source telling their son that

their move was a quote, declaration of war on the family. >> sean: all right, trace, thank you. hannity.com, what you need to know, voting early, absentee. let not your heart be troubled. laura, hi. i nearly went over like tucker. i can't believe it. tucker is either early or late, late or early. never on time. >> but i like you, by the way. so i'm happy to spend time with you. i'm happy to chitchat. >> you're being so nice. listen, i got a chance -- i hope you don't mind me saying this. i met your kids, they're amazing. they're such good kids. you should be so proud. i enjoyed talking to them. >> my daughter was star struck. she's like, mom what's hannity doing later? is she going to come home and play with the kids? i said, no, that's it. >> sean: so smart. good kids. god bless our