i just wanted to say, >> welcome to hannity it. it was a huge day at the white house. president trump signing phase one, a historic new trade deal with china. benefiting our economy, jobs, gdp, straight on down the line. for years, decades china has taken full advantage of this country far too long. no president has been up to the challenge for freer and fairer trade deals with china and others. the great news is this will bring hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue to american farmers, american manufactures, service industries and much more. over two hundred billion dollars. that's just the next two years alone. this is yet another major promise made. promise kept by the president, that you will never hear from the media mob. we have all of the details.

very big day to day for american workers. we will tell but it. the president was busy making deals to make the lives better for the american people.pugh eml stunt. after stalling for weeks we have a deranged speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. finally announcing her hand selected impeachment managers. you would think she thinks she is president. she did this so prayer fully the articles of the senate will. >> this is a very important day for us. as you know on reference, temple markers that our founders and poets and others have used overtime to place us in time, to emphasize the importance of time because everything is about time. how we use it, how we, how we

mark it, and today is a important day. today is the day that we named the managers to go to the floor to pass the resolution to transmit the articles of impeachment to the senate. >> then the signing was worst. after that pelosi transmitted the articles to the senate. not before agreeful, prayerful ceremony where pelosi signed off on the process. she used an a sortment of pens. distributing to her smiling colleagues. take this to give to your children. prayerful, urgently passed before christmas, then go on vacation, and then hold it longer this. is all part of her solemn duty, remember. as for the impeachment manager selected. tpraeufpbgly a gift to donald trump. they represent the democratic

last chance. the whole pros has been a shift sham show and a political hit job from beginning until end. pelosi wants to keep the job as speaker, selected a group of the most hyper partisan conspiracy theorists, trump haters. she hired the most extreme trump hating democrats. as the federals poebted out all of the managers are dossier truthers. let's get to know the trump hating conspiracy theorists. leading the way, a different for the president. adam schiff. the phi that needs to be called as a witness in the case. like his fellow managers spent

years spreading the russian collusion hoax. lied for three straight years nonstop. said there was significant evidence of the trump russia collusion. he lied daily you this his teeth. more recently fabricating the transcript with the president and the ukrainian president. that's not all. yes the congenital liar's off the is in talks with the whistle blower before they filed a complaint. another lie, try to cover up that contact. lying p it on national tv. after he was caught in the bold faced lie he refused to let the whistle blower to testify. schiff is a witness in his own shift show. he should be called as a witness

in the case. you say conflict of interesting. oh, one of the most disliked people in congress. interestingly he's the only guy on tape that you can hear in his own words conspiring with someone he believes to be a russian to get dirt on donald trump to use it in a campaign. oh i thought that was, what is the nature of the compromising. compromising materials. what is the nature of the compromise, naked pictures of trump. naked pictures. does vladimir know? that's all on tape with him. yesterday last ditch effort, hail mary smear job he attached new articles including so called evidence from a former duel yanni con tack. on conspiracy tv the guy is facing charges from the southern district of new york. you don't want to mess with

those people. campaign finance violations and all sorts of stuff. he goes to the conspiracy channel media. keep in mind when people like him try to stay out of jail, think about this, how many times have we heard from the liberals you can't water board, they will lie to make it end. well people try to stay out of jail, in my humble opinion, they will say anything. if you're willing to smear trump you're welcomed. those indicted wanted less jail sentences are welcomed on nbc. another first rate hypocrite from new york, days after the election nadler issued a proclamation. we can't wait four years to vote mr. trump out of office. he wanted to impeach trump the day he was elected.

also promising he would impeach trump. what for, we will make it up as we go. he didn't want the ken starr report, he had crimes committed by bill clinton. he didn't want that public. he wanted the robert mueller report not to be mandated go out. lesser known managers appointed by pelosi. they have congress women and men supporting impeachment. after the mueller report the fourth investigation found zero evidence of trump russian collusion of conspiracy. fellow manager supporting al green's baseless impeachment. meanwhile another manager congress woman and arm chair psychologist, saying the president was an old person suffering from mental decline.

i guess she wasn't talking about joe biden who invites foreign interference. here is hakim jeffreys, every race is in america voted for donald trump. those are the deranged idiots representing impeachment. how fitting. with this is pelosi that desperate to cling to the speaker ship. she's not really speaker anymore. that would be cortez. speaker in name only. after claiming urgency, have to get this done and then go on vacation. so urgent we have to go on vacation. then stalling for weeks after that jonathan turley wrote, "pelosi" destroyed her own case for impeachment ." once in a while cnn gets something right.

they claim pelosi gambled and she lost. now the trial will start next week. yes those people have their opportunity to present their weak, partisan, unfounded articles of impeachment and be helping the president. the american people see through this, the schiff-sham show. now the senate they're hell bent on helping the process when they should end it. they want to waste time and call witnesses. i do have good news to report. senator like ted cruz in texas noting a pretty interesting idea and deal. witness reciprocity. democrats can call wi witnesses, all who likely won't testify because it is the president that has the right to use executive privilege like every president before him. he said he would use it like

obama and clinton, like everyone else. then republicans can call who they want. i say call qui quo pro joe, call experienced hunter, the real ukrainian scandal. you're not getting the billion taxpayer dollars unless you fire the prosecutor investigating zero experience son of mine paid millions and millions of dollars. if you fire him we will give you the billion. that was the great thing about the new evidence presented yesterday. joe biden and hunter totally innocent. the prosecutor is corrupt. why is he corrupt? he saw a company paying there no other company would pay for zero experience. the non whistlelier here, say whistlelier. let's bring in the here is a whistle blower. people seem to forget the president has painfully executed the laws of the land. that means he has a duty. it means he has an obligation.

he made a pledge to investigate potential crimes. what joe biden admits to is a crime in my book where i come from. hunter received the millions from the ukrainian giant and as a father oversaw the policy in ukraine. now what business. this is not a tough jeopardy question. what business would ever pay millions and millions of dollars to somebody with zero experience? i can't think of one except the company that may be trying to buy influence. bring in qui quo pro joe and zero experienced hubter. bring the fax to the table, full picture, equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws. not the skewed view from adam schiff's beady eyes. joining us with more is texas senator ted cruz is with us.

let's start with a question in your wheel house to your great credit. now my reading of the constitution is pretty clear, not very complicated. the house of representatives, they alone not the senate, have the zol power to impeach a president. is that right, sir? >> that's right. >> and the senate they have the zol responsibility constitution al authority to have the trial, correct stpheuplgt that's right. nancy pelosi got a little confused on that but you're right. >> help me out here. i love your idea, you're the saving grace in all of this. why would republican senators they're suppose to hear the case, why did you impeach him. not enhance the case or make the case, their job is let them precept the case. month case then they vote to acquit. why are they talking about bringing in other people stphurpblgt listen, i think you're exactly right.

the good news is the partisan circus in the house is over. nancy pelosi's circus is done. we won't see the one sided show trial that the house has been engaged in for months and months. that farce is over. here is what i hope happens. the senate will conduct a fare trial. that means we will give the house managers a chance to present their case. we will listen to what they have to say. we will do something the house didn't do. we will give president trump a full opportunity to defend his case and lay out the fax and evidence to lay out the law the facts ignored. once the president defends himself i'm confident that the result will be the president is acquitted. the reason is the articles of impeachment on their face are ridiculous. they don't satisfy the constitutional standard of high crimes and miss demeanors.

we have moved out of nancy pelosi's world. she knew when the house didn't have it they couldn't put on a kangaroo court like they. have instead we will move to the senate where i hope and believe we will follow the law and acquit the president. >> the federal rules of evidence, i understand them, have the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court, john roberts will provide over this schiff-sham show. federal rules. glad you have a sense of humor, senator should people don't get it, confidentially. now we have a situation where federal evidence is clear. here is a evidence is inadmissible. opinion witnesses are nice, experts are on all sides. that has nothing to do with the trial. there is one fact witness the house brought in. the ambassador. they want nothing no qui quo pro. >> you're right the bulk of the testimony in the house would be

inadmissible in any federal court or state court. a lot was here say. people with no direct evidence. never met president trumping -p or heard what he to say. a lot of the testimony was essentially i don't know but i know a guy who knew a guy that told me this happened. there is a reason that courts don't let that in, it's notoriously unreliable. that being said if the house managers get up and want to do a presentation on the something knew a guy that knew a guy i feel confident president trump lawyer will eat their lunch. it's ridiculous. the reason you know it's ridiculous if you look at the articles the house voted out. you remember for months and months they talked about qui quo pro. they didn't vote on anything. they talked weeks and weeks for bribery. this is the first time in the history of the country a

president has been impeached without an article even alleging criminal conduct. they don't allege a single federal law violated, a criminal law, civil law. this is a partisan sham. they're mad, the house democrats are mad at the american people for elected president trump. that's why the result of this is going to be rejecting the articles of impeachment. you mentioned witnesses. i don't know if there will be 51 senators to bring witnesses in or not. i think there is plenty already to reject the ridiculous articles of impeachment. >> if they're bringing articles in we won't do a one-sided show trial. i think it should be a bare minimum one for one. if the prosecution brings a witness. if they bring john bolton then the president can bring in a witness, hunter biden. it should be fare and even. that scares the living daylights out of democrats.

they know this would lose on the facts. >> i would love to see schiff the non whistle blower, here sigh whistle blower, qui quo pro joe and no experience hunter. i would like all four of them. we can trade. none of the meetings they had was aid discussion or on the call senator. >> they don't want to get into the facts. what they're terrified of. you have done a great job addressing it, it's a significant evidence of real corruption. you have hunter biden making $83,000 a month from the biggest natural gas company in the ukraine. what was he being paid for? his dad he other was vice president and intervening in a direct way. that is significant evidence, i believe, of corruption.

at a minimum it's more than enough for the president to sayn vet gate it. i expect to hear senator i love. have the wi witnesses one for o. if they get to pick four i get the four i want. adam schiff a witness in his own case. whistle blower, qui quo pro joe and zero experience hunter. thank you, senator. democrats impeachment charade is not impacting the president's agenda what so ever. this is amazing, they said it couldn't be done. the president today, this is historic by every meats you're, great for american workers. a historic deal with china who has taken advantage of us forever. the most significant trade deals with china since president nixon opened up trade relations in the

10s. what is phase one, a multi part negotiation. china has agreed to stop stealing intellectual property. to buy in two years, up to $220 billion of u.s. good over the next two years. 50 billion going to our great american farmers. 40 billion to our great american workers in the service sector. 50 billion in the energy. up to 10 billion in manufacturing including heavy major machinery, aircraft, medical devices, and our auto workers. great news for workers in this country. look at this, according to the director, u.s. economic council larry kudlow this could translate into millions of additional jobs in the u.s. a half a point gdp growth. fantastic news.

bad for those who want a recession like bill mar. alsthey have in the deal the mechanisms to penalize china if they don't cooperate or try to cheat. no other president has been able, tried to get these concessions from china. they have tariffed everything for years and the president is keeping the tariffs in place until they do more. another promise made, a promise kept. a historic track record the president has filled one campaign vow after another. tonight we look back through our acoverage.

do nothing democrats do nothing but hate the president. watch yourself and ask yourself what have democrats done in the last thee years to create jobs, prosperity for you, we the people or make us more safe and secure, we the people? what have they done? i can't think of anything. take a look. >> my number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with iran. i would renegotiate trade agreements. the trade agreements are horrible, they're one sided. i will outline reforms to add millions of new jobs and trillions in new wealth. our military is totally depleted. we have to rebuild our military and do a lot of things. our horrible trade agreements with china and many others will be totally renegotiated.

that includes renegotiated nafta. we will move the american embassy to the eternal capitol of the jewish people, jerusalem. we're going to cancel the paris climate agreement. we're going to build a wall, it will be a serious wall. we are going to a point justices of the united states supreme court who will up hold our laws and our constitution. >> he's going to build 400 miles completed at the end of the month. we will let you read the rest. here with the trump organization donald trump skwrao*up. i think keeping good politics is it. >> it's hard to believe it's not

the norm, sean. they talk about how horrible these things are. i will give chuck schumer the benefit of the doubt and say he knows nothing about trade. that's being generous. sitting in the senate for decades doing nothing to improve american jobs, doing nothing to stop ip thaet. trump is going through the process, it's a it's a phaeusz n american and a father of five. to see the promises kept. you see the nonsense from nancy pelosi today. she has to say about seven times, this is permanent. it's permanent. that's all it is. it's just optics, sean. it's the only thing they have been able to do to trump while fighting for americans. putting up unprecedented

numbers, unpresprecedented succs year after year. it's truly awesome to watch. it will make, especially when i look at the clowns on the debate stage last night it will make the next ten months a lot of fun. >> we keep this list up. it's really important. nobody else in the mob of the media talks about it they all talk about impeachment. people are watching it. nobody watches the channels that are full time impeachment. we have about 35 seconds. >> they don't. nothing is going on, nothing is new. name one accomplishment of the democrats in the last few years. name a single thing they have done? that's why they have to run on impeachment. it's all they have for their side. maybe there is hope. meanwhile trump has put up win after win after win. he will keep going. that's what the american people want to see. they want to see a politician finally fighting for them.

finally doing the things he said he was going to do when he ran. that hasn't happened in recent history. >> you have the number one best selling book. good for you. when we come back senator lindsey graham up next, straight ahead.

>> the stage is set the impeachment sham is set to hit the is not ate next week. with a preview lindsey graham. senator you have a good pulse on how this will go, the whole time. we saw what happened in '91. 99.i assume the rules will be adopted by republicans. how does this work? >> the house will be able to make their case for 24 hours. hopefully we do this in a couple of days.

then the defense team of the president will make their case based on the record established in the house. then there will be a effort to call witnesses and call for documents. i hope nobody will be called as a witness. every witness requested by the democrats were available to the house, they chose not to call them. executive privilege applies to all witnesses. i hope this is done in about a week and i expect a bipartisan acquit aal of president trump. >> the issue of witnesses is before us. i don't know why. sole power to impeach and hold the trial, presiding judge chief justice john roberts. they bring their case before the american people. i assume they will have others make the case, why would some of the colleagues in the senate

want to do the house's job, constitution al job? >> would i tell my colleagues on the republican side chuck schumer is not seeking the truth. if you think that chuck schumer is trying to find out what happened here you're missing a lot. chuck schumer is trying to take back the senate. he's making the argument if you don't call a witness you're covering up for the president. the matter is chuck schumer is willing to destroy executive privilege. who is he asking for the national security adviser of the president, chief of staff, secretary of state and omb director. four people essential to any presidency. he could give a damn if trump loses executive privilege. they just hate this guy so much, sean. from the time he was elected until now it's a unending effort to destroy his presidency.

we lost five seats when we impeached clinton. people thought we went too far. i think 2020 will be a blowout. the score on impeachment is 1-0 us. they lost one democratic seat impeaching the president. by the time the trial is over and we have an election in november there will be a backlash. i will tell you why. most americans jealously guard the right to pick their own leaders. i think they will hold it against politicians trying to take that away. we will get the house back, the senate majoritiy and president trump will be reelected. >> let me ask you. i like what senator cruz was saying. talk to pompeo, bolden, who ever you want. to bring in hunter, zero experience and paid millions. can you think why any company, this was in the last mun out new evidence of schiff from a guy

indicted that would say anything to stay out of jail. that makes him a great guest but here is the question, why would any company pay millions and millions to someone with zero experience. can you think of a good reason, i can only think of one. >> here are the facts. in 2014 vice president biden was told by president obama you're in charge of the ukraine. the ukraine is your portfolio. in a matter of months after that the largest gas company in the ukraine hired hunter biden. pied him over $50,000 a month for what? when the prosecutor started to investigate guess what hunter biden calls the state department and his business partner meets with john kerry. this steufpgz to high heaven. we will look at this after the trial. the best thing for the american people is to end this as soon as possible. on february the fourth when the

president comes knot house chamber to deliver the state of the union he will have been acquitted by the senate, the strongest he has been politically. when it comes to donald trump what you have named, the best is yet to come, sean. >> amazing. this deal was big today. the circumstances and conditions never end ago tacks every minute of every day. they do nothing for the american people. senator, thank you. we will look forward to the schiff sham show. last night's democratic debate was a disaster. even the far left, even they recognize it. even fake news cnn. releasing a video exposing the sanders campaign. comments so bad they have now alerted the secret service about bernie sanders field organizer coordinator. we will explain.

>> right now new extreme democrats had a final debate before iowa last night. it was filled with empty promises, out right lies between qui quo pro joe, and the biggest part of the night was when the night ended. liz about the warren refused to shake hands with bernie sanders over their allegation of sexism. and cnn uncovered exactly what was said. listen to this. >> i think you called me a liar on national tv. >> what? >> i think you called me a liar on national tv. >> let's not do it right now. you want to have that discussion, we will have the discussion. let's not do it now. >> i just want to say hi, bernie

will. >> good. >> best part of the debate behind the scenes. beyond the burgeoning warren/sanders feud this is a party in all out desperation and panic ahead of 2020. they have no idea how to grow the economy or inspire the american voters. don't take my word for it listen to cnns far left van jones. >> to see those two at that level was disspiritting. tonight for me was disspiritting. the democrats need to do better. i want to see a democrat in the white house as soon as possible. if you're looking at this thing, are these people prepared for what donald trump will do to us? >> even worst this is a democratic party taking extremism mainstream.

breaking tonight another bombshell video from project -- showing the same bernie sanders. iowa field organizer admitting sanders masquerades as a democratic-socialist. his real intentions are more extreme. they will burn things down if trump wins again. by the way sanders campaign didn't respond to our request for comment. take a look at these standings. >> i think he's a legit socialist masquerading. >> the basis of socialism is people and planet above. you can give them a choice. you can join the revolution. you can not be a boot liquor. you can sit i'pughly by and allow it to hoop. if you're going to take up arms against revolution you should expect a violent response.

>> there are some things more important then the law of the united states. >> there are some here. a lot are on the bernie campaign. >> james o'keefe. >> project veritas. >> yes that [beep]. >> he has a special place in hell reserved for him, right. >> -- killing all of those people, they weren't that bad. same bernie staffer caught on tape yesterday's video suggesting trump supporters be put in camps for reeducation. predicted milwaukee will burn if bernie doesn't get the nomination. these apparent thaets are being investigated. james keith, we are joined with

sarah sanders and lara logan. when they talk about burning things down, sarah, they talk about what happened with stalin wasn't so bad. you say these things with no repercussions and the mob and media ignore. why? >> they have completely lost their mind, sean. the left has gone so far crazy. they're so obsessed. they're fully, i think suffering from trump derangment syndrome they can't think or speak clearly. i think it's awfully sad this will get so little attention. probably only on this network and shows like yours we will even hear this video outside of social media. if this was the opposite and someone on donald trump's campaign said something half as outrageous as this you would see

it all day every day by all of the mainstream media. i think it's awful. the comments i hope that more people are paying attention to them. i hope they start to understand exactly what candidates like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are pushing. it's true socialism. that's something we should never want to see in america. america is special, because we push away ideas like. that the idea they want to take us down the road of stalin and others is outrageous. >> lara logan, you come from a more establishment background. you were with 60 minutes for a lot of years. you look at this, you read this, you see the coverage. what are your thoughts? >> well, you know i'm always a journalist first when i look at these things and assess them. i still have a lot of questions. is this person, how representative are they of bernie sanders campaign team?

a small number like that or is this symbolic of a widespread problem? i don't know iffy telling the truth when he says they're real socialists and hiding it, masquerading to be democratic socialists. i have no idea it hasn't been independently verified. if doesn't help the sanders campaign is not coming out with their side of the story, if you like. i'm a little cautious because of the tactics i saw with the trump campaign. people like carter page, one minute carter page was a senior member of the trump campaign. then you narrow it down and find out the facts and really he was on the campaign for four and a half seconds, a junior member. he was once in the room with trump. i, you know i like to be a little cautious about these things until i know more. i'm cautious about what i tkofpbt know. >> it's amazing. ugly, twisted, sick and

shocking. it doesn't change at all. i think sarah is right this would be all over the place if it was donald trump or anyone on the team. good to see you lara. sarah, we will look for your book. up next shocking fbi recommendation not going far enough? i still don't trust him. director ray, we're calling you. do your job and protect the number one law enforcement agency in the entire world. where are you? we will explain.

>> in the wake of the damaging ig report in the 201 election the fbi has been compelled to review the process. the adviser overseeing this is

lasting the bureau calling them inefficient. the attorney general is stepping up to take matters into his own hands. a new rule requiring the fbi director and attorney general to sign off on future investigation those any campaign. here now greg jarrett august of, sara carter. i find this is a lack of urgency by the directser. you broke the story about this guy the other day. shouldn't even be in this position based on what, the tweets and the lies about nunez how did we get here? ing and his commentary where he said nunez should be charged with a crime of obstruction this. is someone who absolutely made excuses for the fbi, sean.

went out of his way to tar get the republicans. we know he's bias. what we see now. even with this story i don't trust him. this is political theater, sean. they want the american people to believe something is happening. there will be a miraculous cure before march and reauthorize. what we know, sean, i will quickly say it. they weaponize the intelligence community. it's more precious than anyone else in the world, information this. is in sufficient oversight. congress needs to do something to stop this. congressman mark meadows told me one of the things he would like to see changed is every candidate be given a defensive briefing. we know that didn't happen with trump. >> professor. >> yes i have been opposed to this court since the day it was established. thankfully now a lot of conservatives hav are joining m. back in the day of the me and

conservatives said we need the fisa court for security. the one remedy essential now is for congress to acquire the appointment of a lawyer with security clearance who has a job to oppose the granting of the warrant. the granting of the opportunity to get the information. he should be the devils advocate. let the prosecution argue one side. let the court hear all sides. let the court hear, the prosecution with held the evidence. didn't give you that evidence. this is political and designed for a campaign. we need an adversarial system before american systems particularly those in politics are subject to intervention. >> these are not -- >> i'm sorry. >> christopher is offering reforms that are not reforms at all. these are things that are required by the law already.

the fbi has ignored them with impunity. they have done it before back in 2002. fbi director robert mueller promised reforms. they have continued to lie and deceive the court. agree with the professor. the only solutions for fisa renewal in two months, abolish the fisa court and replace it with a new structure. no more paper submissions. you must have hearings. there be u. must be a public advocate with security clearance to challenge the fbi. the judges won't do it. the chief justice, john roberts, doesn't care. >> thank you, all. >> when we come back wait until you hear what alec baldwin is saying about you, we, trump supporters. next.

♪ >> sean: all right, alec baldwin, our villain of the day. he may play president trump, he's not really good come on tv. he's definitely not on the trump trade. it's his disdain for we, the people. ghost took twitter claiming trump supporter's, smelly walmart people, believe in god, constitution, bibles, irredeemable deplorables are responsible for the moral collapse of this country and everything that matters to americans. liberals like him. what does he call his own daughter? speaking of colossal destructi destruction. here is a clip of him crashing and burning. talk radio is about talking to we, the people. he didn't do well when he tried out twice. take a look. >> we can take some calls. we have calls on there now? >> no calls. >> no calls yet. what number do people call me on the air? >> it's right there.

>> do have to call the number in front of me? but no mike i'm so sorry. that's interesting. we have any calls? no calls. is sean hannity a scientologist? alec baldwin posing the big questions here. to have any calls yet, i've been? non. boy, just incredible. >> sean: let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham -- that is the greatest in the history of man. >> laura: hannity, you are still in radio, king -- >> sean: 31 years. >> laura: i was 17, and i missed it every day, but when i hear that, i want to weep, it is so funny. at the beginning, it happens to everyone, but then you are supposed to get past the beginning and start to get this thing called callers. real quick. >> sean: laura, he was trying out at a flagship in new york. me and levin call income and he walked out of his own show.

he left the studio. >> laura: a