back tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. the sworn and totally sincere enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, groupthink. sean hannity takes over next. good night from washington. >> sean: welcome to "hannity." fox news alert. finally, the adults are up to bat and they are absolutely eviscerating the schumer-schiff sham show. finally the truth is being told. to shreds. the president's legal team is up ending every single one of these deranged democratic fantasies. earlier today, totally destroying what is nothing but two phony b.s. articles of impeachment. same thing we saw with alan dershowitz. pam bondi delivering important facts about quid pro quo joe and zero experienced hunter. paid millions.

we'll play you the highlights. lets us dispel of that media's mob's latest story. it's the same thing every day. deranged trump haters nationwide. they are rejoicing for the first time ever over the latest so-called bombshell from "the new york times." same "new york times" had an article that eviscerated john bolton when he got appointed nsc director but perfectly timed hit piece flamed over the weekend. the biased "new york times" hack maggie haberman claiming top-secret unnamed sources -- top-secret unnamed sources -- how often have we heard that? revealing that john bolton will accuse president trump of the ukrainian quid pro quo in this upcoming book while they ignore the real quid pro quo with joe. listen closely.

there are five huge glaring problems with their report. one, you never trust so-called journalists and the fake news industrial complex. two, over the course of the trump administration, "the new york times" has been dead wrong on story after story after story. look at this, one of many examples. june 29, 2017. forced to issue a major correction on one of maggie haberman's pieces about trump in russia. march 2, 2018, another correction surrounding a big new scoop o trouble's tax plan. 2019, forced to issue another huge correction about ivanka trump and north korea. over and over again, the times has gotten it wrong. so i trust very little of what they spew. they have an agenda. they hate trump like the rest of the media mob. underestimating a crowd size at a trump rally, fake news about immigration policies, reckless smear surrounding the president's remarks on ms-13. the common denominator in all these stories is president trump. this brings us to our second

point. maggie haberman's latest hit piece relies on secondhand anonymous sources. a draft of a book, not the final copy of the book. no one from "the new york times" has actually seen john bolton's new book. as a matter of fact, i don't think john bolton has written the new book completely. many of the previous fake news stories again relying on anonymous hearsay sources. my third point, we have no record of john bolton making any of these claims, none. four, bolton's attorney refused to confirm the contents of the times report and both mick mulvaney and the department of justice have publicly refuted key claims in the article. they are saying it didn't happen. i guess that would impeach whatever john bolton's story was if it were true anyway. if bolton made such a claim, it would be contradicted by other people. and we know that the president is contradicting it. lurking in the background of

this new manufactured scandal is john bolton's upcoming book. congratulations on your book deal. publishers made presales available around the same moment that the times published the hit piece. perhaps that had to do more with publicity. good for john. he can sell all the books he wants. he's very smart on a lot of issues. he served his country. meanwhile the nexus between democrats and the media has never been stronger. this represents just one more, the latest example of how they work together to smear their political opponents. media today is nothing more than an extension, state run apparatus, if you will, of the democratic radical socialist party. democrats want to keep the impeachment charade going for as long as possible. they have their friends in the mob has gifted them a brand-new tool to weaponize against the moderate republicans in the senate. that's their audience. let no one tell you otherwise.

only one problem for the democrats. the facts will never be on their side. jim jordan's four facts that never change. i will get to them in a second. even if the president did say he wanted to do it. he wanted to not give them aid. unless they did a, b, c. guess what, ukraine got all their money. some of it even early. they never did a thing. they never announced they would do anything. they never did anything. if you say i want to kill this person. okay. what crime have you committed? did you kill the person? no. did you think about it for a second? yeah. but you didn't do it, did you? don't take my word. listen to constitutional scholar, harvard law professor. here is alan dershowitz on the senate floor moments ago. >> if a president, any president were to have done what the times reported about the content of the bolton manuscript, that would not constitute an impeachable offense.

let me repeat. nothing in the bolton revelations even if true would rise to the level of abuse of power or an impeachable offense. >> sean: even if the president said it, he didn't do it. this capped off the day of arguments that absolutely devastated the democrats and their phony charade. here's a small recap. i know a lot of you were working, working hard for your families. take care your kids. obeying the laws of paying your taxes so that the democratic mob and the mob in the media can do nothing but hate trump 24/7. if you missed all the action, here's how it went down. >> every time there's a policy difference of significance or an approach difference of significance about a policy, we are going to start an impeachment proceeding? instead of a once in a century phenomenon, which it had been, presidential impeachment has

become a weapon. to be wielded against one's political opponent. the house managers' own evidence shows that president trump did not condition anything on investigations during the july 25 call with president zelensky and did not even mention the pause of security assistance on the call. >> the whole foundation of these proceedings was also tainted beyond repair because an interested fact witness supervised and limited the course of the factual discovery, the course of the hearings. >> sean: that's what truth, evidence, facts, that's what adults look like when they calmly and succinctly use truth, reason. they abandon hypocrisy, logic, and common sense to combat what is irrational rage towards the president. the democrats' pathetic case is getting blown to pieces. they should be embarrassed. i guess they are not.

that's all they ever do. tonight, like every night, there are four facts that will never change. jim jordan pointed them out. one, we have the transcript. we have two of them. the president's phone with president zelensky. there was zero linkage between biden and u.s. aid. aid was never mentioned. both trump and zelensky and their foreign minister said there was zero pressure. they never felt any ever whatsoever. three, at the time of the initial call, ukrainian officials didn't even know aid was temporarily paused. and they got it all. the ukrainians took no action. they did nothing. they never announced they would do anything, and they never did anything. oh, no pro, no quo.

no promises of the investigation, whatsoever. the aid was released ahead of schedule. i will add a fifth. there were five subsequent high-level meetings with ukrainian officials. they never discussed aid in any of those meetings, not one time. no discussion whatsoever. we know what happened, the vote was a foregone conclusion. the democrats do not have a case but now they want the senate to invent one for them. they know they failed. they want to keep the charade going for as long as possible. it's not the senate's constitutional role to impeach, nor is it the senate's constitutional role to play clean up the house and the mess they made. the sole power constitutionally is in the house to do the impeachment. they did the impeachment. the sole power of the senate constitutionally is to have a trial based on the articles that are presented to them with whatever corroborating evidence they found that, well, warranted their so-called impeachment.

if there are any weak republican senators, people you elected, they want to drag us out in perpetuity. they want to open up the schumer schiff show sham and let witnesses get up there that the house didn't bother to subpoena. if bolton gets hauled in, okay, you're going to go down this road. that would mean that guy, the compromise, corrupt, congenital liar adam schiff and the people that work for him to be hauled and we know he is in fact a fact witness. his office, they were in communication with the hearsay nonwhistle-blower whistle-blower. the hearsay nonwhistle-blower should also finally get a call and he should testify because of a new report that came out last week claiming this person was overheard plotting president trump's removal and impeachment two weeks into the trump presidency. he was discussing it with another obama holdover. this is early january 2017. of course, we should also hear

from two other key witnesses. quid and pro and quo joe, you're not getting a billion unless you fire the prosecutor investigating my zero experienced son hunter. paid millions. a lot of laws at stake. as i've been arguing, it's the president's sworn constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws of the land. shaking down, blackmail perhaps, use whatever legal term, it seems that those are to be looked into. what joe did, got a guy fired. but if you listen to adam schiff, they did nothing wrong. i don't think so. what happened here is quite obvious. there's not a company in history of mankind that is ever, ever ever going to give a million dollars to somebody with zero experience. why would they? unless they were trying to buy access. mmm, think about it. if you're going to use a billion o

taxpayer dollars to boot, that makes it even, well, more suspect, doesn't it? talk to me about this million times. let's look at the trump legal team. pam bondi lays out well, the ever damning detail in every single instance involving this corrupt case with joe and hunter. take a look. >> here's what happened very shortly after vice president biden was made u.s. point man for ukraine. his son, hunter biden, ends up on the board of burisma working for and paid by the oligarch. every witness who was asked about hunter biden's involvement with burisma agreed there was a potential appearance of a conflict of interest. abc, "good morning america," "the washington post," "the new york times," ukrainian law enforcement, and the obama state department itself. they all thought there was cause

to raise the issue about the bidens and burisma. >> sean: 1 billion taxpayer dollars, you are not getting it unless you fire him who is investigating hunter with zero experience paid millions of dollars. oh, that would be the very same thing the media mob and democrats are telling us is so bad, that donald trump never did. "washington post" article said the appointment of the vice president's son onto ukrainian oil board looks, well, like nepotism. nefarious. quid pro quo joe is literally on tape bragging about taking your money, leveraging it, using our money to get a foreign prosecutor fired. why would a vice president ever want to a foreign prosecutor fired? oh, he's investigating his son being paid millions. by the way, well,

they did use hunter's name in washington. try to get them to stop investigations into burisma. hunter biden on tape admitting have any experience. no. any experience in ukraine, oil, gas, energy. no. why did you get the job? i don't know. maybe because your father is the vice president? yeah, probably. it is the president's sworn constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws of the land. the american taxpayer dollars are being used in a shakedown to get the vice president's son continuing monies from burisma in a country and he has no experience, that seems like it ought to be investigated. nefarious behavior. well, if it happened to you, me, your kids, i don't think any of us would get that deal, would we? the greatest irony is that without any hard evidence democrats are accusing the president of the exact same thing we know hunter and drove -- joe did, what joe was bragging about on tape. they did it. hypocrisy doesn't end there.

in 2012, just before the presidential election, president obama, remember the hot mic? making a sketchy request from a foreign country. tell vladimir i will have more flexibility after the election. remember this? >> my last election. after my election, i have more flexibility. >> i transmit. >> sean: i transmit to vladimir. oh, what was more flexibility? i call on barack obama to release the transcripts of every phone call that he had with vladimir and top officials in russia after he made his little promise there. are we going to get those released? democrats own logic, president obama should have been impeached. more proof impeachment is nothing more than a partisan witch hunt and it's hurting our country. it's time to put this to an end. it's a charade. in 281 days, i keep talking about the ultimate jury. you, we, the american people.

you get to shock the world again. choose our destiny. here now, jordan sekulow. very strong contrast. let's talk about you felt the day went. >> today we went from ken starr to alan dershowitz with a consistent theme on the basis of these articles of impeachment. not about, i do like this president. i don't like this president, but the law and the constitution, the founding, the ideas of people who've done the work, the researchers who have been involved before and have come from different sides of the aisle. with ken starr, you start off by saying there's no crimes alleged here. when you have completely partisan, not a single person from the president's party in the house voted to impeach. and then you got this idea.

he said even if you don't say it has to be a crime. it should be serious weight. add that to what we heard all day, will they address "the new york times" stories? like this was something we were afraid of, media leaks. unnamed sources. trying to contradict. the president has said no. we hit them head-on. there will be no legal response i guarantee you, from the other side. they will use the words, as alan dershowitz pointed out, is it right or wrong, good or bad policy, moral high ground? this is not what high crimes and misdemeanors, bribery, treason. that's not what this was about. people said you wanted to make this about biden and burisma. 300 times, sean, 300 times the house managers, the house managers who spoke for 21 hours,

300 times they used the word burisma or biden. we weren't going to not address that. >> sean: all right, jordan sekulow. without a doubt, the schumer-schiff sham show has been botched from the beginning. the known congenital liar. he has lied to the american people for three long years and he's been lying throughout the process and he's managed to offend his colleagues, members of the senate, americans all across the country with his lies, baseless accusations. most rational people can see through it. the schiff sham. according to the latest abc poll, the president's approval rating has jumped up. six points. according to gallup, an overwhelming majority of americans improve on the president's job on issues that really matter. 68% approve of the economy. 68% are satisfied with the nation's security from terrorism. a whopping 81% are happy with

the nation's military preparedness. joining us now with reaction, house minority leader kevin mccarthy. in the house, not one single republican left. we're getting rumblings from a couple senate republicans, if you will, that they may want to go down this road of witnesses. to me, if the sole power to impeach, that power constitutionally is the house of representatives, not the senate. they impeached him. they said it's a slam-dunk case. they have presented their case. the president is putting up his defense. 16 hours of questions. then they will debate the issue of whether or not they are going to have witnesses. why would any senate republican vote to bring any other witness but those that were brought up in the house impeachment? why do you have to bring in other people? why do you have to take on the constitution role in the house? that's not your authority. >> it is not their role. if they made these comments come after today don't know how they could make the comments.

you wondered how they cheated on the house side. adam schiff never allowed the president's attorney inside the room. today showed you why. his case has no facts. it doesn't hold. even through all the lies adam schiff said, it was blown apart today. if there's somebody in the senate that thinks the need to call a witness. if they think they need to call bolton. in the house, they did not even subpoena him. it doesn't even matter with "the new york times" allegedly said happened. you have the transcripts. you are right. it goes beyond those four facts. the five facts never change. you have all the facts you need. this does not hold ground. the american public want us to move on and actually do the work we are supposed to be doing that we watched this president doing every single day. >> sean: are you talking to any republican senators and if you are, what is the consensus? >> i was with quite a few of them this weekend and the consensus was adam schiff, they knew he was lying. when he said put their head on a

post and used that anonymous name, it infuriated them. most of them told me it would be over this week. to wake up and hear mitt romney say he needs to hear from bolton because "the new york times" says something. you have the transcript. you don't need anything more. stop for a moment. the president did nothing wrong. ukraine got the money. ukraine did nothing for the money. pause for one moment. what did barack obama give them? blankets. our president gave them javelins. i don't understand why anyone would think it was their role to try to do something more in this case. congressman nadler said in the house that they proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt. why do they need anything more? that's the case. they testify. the president only now, when no other president has been held this way, has his legal team going forward. they made a strong case today.

this needs to shut down. >> sean: let's assume they want to bring in other witnesses which i think is ridiculous at this point. you're right. they said this was a slam-dunk case. they had it all wrapped up. they voted for impeachment and they got their impeachment and they got their 24 hours. now the president's defending and then they're going to have 16 hours of questions. okay. why would you bring in john bolton? already we have the president contradicting him. mick mulvaney. then you have the doj. okay, what would that mean? conflicting testimony. what would that be in a court of law? it would be a wash, wouldn't it? >> yeah, exactly. i don't understand how they think they need to have somebody else. you have all the facts you need right now. you should get back to the american business. inside the house, chairman nadler is the head of the judiciary committee. they are more excited about trying to remove the president than trying to remove fentanyl. we have a bill that could do just that. the american public wants us working like president trump has been working.

i don't understand. it's not the role of the senate to bring witnesses in. there is no need. in the house they took a vote and said they had everything they need and never subpoenaed bolton. everybody else saying this did not take place. >> sean: if you're going to go down this road of witnesses that were not called in the house, then you've got to bring in schiff. you got to bring in the hearsay whistle-blower who apparently to weeks into the trump administration was talking others, according to a report, how do we remove trump? then you have to bring in joe and hunter. if the president, hearing the tape of joe bragging. hearing that his son has zero experience, being paid millions in taxpayer dollars used to shake down another country so a family member can make more millions. i would argue the president was well not only within his rights. he took a sworn oath to uphold the laws of the land and it would sound to me like he was doing just that. >> the president believes in

accountability. we have watched him from his own businesses. he's not going to send american tax dollars out there without making sure they are being held accountable. but you are correct. do you know what we have not seen? we've never seen the 18th witness. the inspector general. why? because we all know it would prove adam schiff was a fact witness. adam schiff started all this through his lies but he also said he was so afraid that whistle-blower couldn't testify. the only reason why this whistle-blower has not testified is because adam schiff has protected him because he lied and met with him. the thing that we have to see moving forward, adam schiff should have to testify as a fact witness. i don't think we need the question before us, should the president be impeached? you are right. no republican voted that way but also the bipartisan vote inside the house said no the president should not be impeached. no more witnesses. you have a transcript. money was sent to ukraine. ukraine did nothing to get the money sent to them.

and they didn't even know the money was being held up until the politico story. what more do you need than those facts? no other president has given the transcripts. they have to be deposed. it's going to go on forever. >> sean: they got the money. they didn't get any promises. they didn't get any investigations. they didn't do a thing. they didn't know they were supposed to do a thing. amazing. congressman, thank you. house minority leader kevin mccarthy. even top democrats are starting to realize impeachment is a big flop with the voters. i'm shocked myself. listen to former obama senior advisor david axelrod, pretty revealing moment. >> i was in a focus group this morning for the institute of politics here at the university of chicago with some chicago democratic voters, and it was chilling to hear them talk about this, because impeachment didn't even come up. no one volunteered it for 80 minutes into the focus group. we were in the middle of the trial. when it came up, they said it's terrible what he did.

the case has been proven. we know how it's going to turn out, so we are not really that interested. we are ready to move on. >> sean: pretty fair interpretation. here with reaction, louisiana congressman mike johnson and florida congressman mike waltz. congressman johnson, a member of the president's impeachment team. we will start with you. your take. i think this was a beat down. a systematic -- they ripped this case apart top to bottom, sideways in every way in between. they had a great team doing it. >> i'm so proud of this legal defense team. i have litigated cases in federal court for 20 years. i've never seen a team work so efficiently and effectively. almost no one is watching this anymore, as the previous clip indicated. most of america has tuned out and the only bad thing about that is that they're not seeing how we are systematically and utterly destroying the house managers' case. they brought nothing to the table and we have shown that pretty clearly and at the end of it, i think the senate will find

it conclusive. >> sean: i think you're probably right. let me go, michael waltz. your take. watching this today. >> i was in my district and i can't over emphasize, people are tuning it out. they've had enough. the democrats have been crying wolf for three years. they want us to get back to real issues. this is a bunch of politicians fighting with each other. meanwhile in the house, this coming week, as rockets are falling on our embassy in baghdad, the house is going to move to tie the president's hands, repeal the authorization of the use of military force, prevent him from continuing to respond in deterring iran. he needs to, this week alone, he's going to continue to put points on the board. we have a middle east peace deal being announced tomorrow. we have usmca being signed this week. and when that dow crosses 30,000, that's what people care about. they care about immigration, health care, prescription drugs.

things that affect their lives. not the fighting in d.c. >> sean: professor dershowitz in particular on the constitutionality of this could not have been more spot on. what's the crime, congressman johnson? >> there is none. he made the point very effectively. the only two previous impeachments, the examples that we have in history from andrew johnson in 1868 to bill clinton in the late '90s, you had specific crimes that were committed and a ton of evidence verifying it. they haven't alleged any crime at all here and they never met the threshold, the democrats never met the threshold for impeachment. that's the first question the senate has to answer, and when they do, it moves everything else. all of this debate about witnesses and documents and all the rest, it's totally unnecessary because they never sent over invalid articles of impeachment. the scary thing is, the biggest point professor dershowitz made and others and we been saying for weeks, they have opened a pandora's box. they have now put the bar for impeachment so low that every future president will have to be looking over their shoulder if a

majority in the house is from a different party, the base is going to demand they take that president out. this is exactly what the founding fathers feared. >> sean: congressman waltz, okay. so if that's the case, how do they bifurcate their brains and compartmentalize away joe and hunter. hunter making millions. no experience. joe shaking down ukraine with our money. oh, that's perfectly fine. >> and also i want to get to the bottom of how a billion dollars came into hunter biden's company from the central bank of china. from our rival, from our enemy. i can't overemphasize, talking to people between corey lewandowski and cohen and this person and that person then now they are claiming bolton. people have really tuned it out. i talked to some local anchors in florida.

their ratings were tanking trying to cover it. i think this is a fizzle at best. meanwhile, the president is getting things done. he's putting points on the board and we are going to move the country forward. >> sean: thank you both. we appreciate it. serious questions continue to be raised about yes, zero experience hunter who today by the way agreed to finally pay monthly child support in his arkansas paternity case. ending that standoff with the courts over possibly being held in contempt. here with reaction, fox news contributor dan bongino. syndicated radio host larry elder. if he finally made the agreement, dan, the judge was demanding that he have to hand over his financial information. i would think still that's a likelihood. no? >> oh, absolutely. wouldn't we love to see those financial records? he was -- he had a lucrative board position on the company,

as we know, in ukraine that was dealing in national gas despite not speaking ukrainian, having no experience in the region, having nothing to do with natural gas at all. sean, one thing i heard a reporter say today. they are trying to flip the narrative. that media has been gross and pathetic. something to the effect of ted cruz, this is all about a guy getting -- using his connections to get a job. that's not what it's about. it's the son of the vice president going to work for a company that was under an investigation and the vice president demanding the guy investigate him and be fired. that's what this is about. don't try to fake it and turn it into something else. >> sean: larry, you are a libertarian. i'm a conservative. i think we believe in equal application of standards. fundamental fairness. the breathtaking hypocrisy that every democrat, everybody in the media has to take on, that they ignore joe and hunter. how do they pull it off? i don't think my brain would allow me to go that stupid. >> [laughs]

it's called double standards, sean. you know that. even worse, this new book by peter schweizer, you had him on. he alleged -- >> sean: five family members. >> he said they were five family members who benefited from joe being vice president. that's very serious. arguably that's more serious than this paternity lawsuit. the paternity lawsuit was hiding the ball because he didn't want people to know how much money was getting. >> sean: we have peter schweizer's book so let me ask you, okay, maybe a few weak republican senators, we need more witnesses, they did a horribly poor job. we will take on the constitutional role of the house even though it's their sole power to impeach. then you've got to bring in hunter. you've got to bring in joe. you've got to bring in the congenital liar. you've got to bring in the hearsay nonwhistle-blower whistle-blower. what's fair would be fair. get to the bottom of all of it. how do you think that vote goes

down? >> the democrats won't go along with it. they don't want joe to testify. they don't want hunter to testify they don't want adam schiff to testify about his contact with the whistle-blower before the whistle-blower even went to the ig. it's not a deal they are going to make. i agree with kevin mccarthy. there aren't going to be any witnesses. they should've put witnesses on the house level. it doesn't really matter because maxine waters already says she's going to continue so there will be a subpoena for john bolton either way. ultimately it will be resolved in the courts as to whether or not executive privilege will provide him from testifying under oath. if he wants to write a book. he can do that now. >> sean: put all the witnesses in one vote. should we call adam schiff? let's call the role. democrats all vote no. hunter, no. joe, no. the hearsay nonwhistle-blower,

no. republicans are going to watch it and say bring in john bolton? >> here's the problem, we have a bunch of chump weak-kneed republicans up there. that's the problem. >> sean: which ones are they? >> we have a small crew. we got mittens and other ones leading the charge. mittens loves anyone who will hurt the president. it's an embarrassment. >> sean: guys, good to see you. when we come back, the iowa caucuses are one week from tonight. 2020 democrats, the gloves are off and it looks like a surge of bernie sanders on the last minute. karl rove straight ahead. wonderd what the motorcade driver drives, when they're not in the motorcade? ♪ [ car engine revving ]

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tonight, the iowa caucuses take place and the new extreme radical, socialist democratic party, they are continuing to double down on yeah, their economy-killing far-left agenda. 94 trillion new green deal, 52 trillion medicare for all, no private health insurance. then you've got comrade bernie sanders actually admitting he doesn't even know how much his socialist plan will cost you. we, the american people. take a look. >> your agenda has promised free health care for everybody, free college tuition, and to pay off people's college loans. the price tag for that is estimated to be $60 trillion over ten years. correct? >> well, look. we have political opponents. >> you don't know how much your plan costs? >> you don't know. nobody knows. it's impossible to predict. >> you're going to propose a plan to the american people and not tell them how much it costs? >> sean: 52 trillion medicare for all.

by the way we only take in 4 trillion a year. do the math. will someone give them an abacus or a calculator? what bernie is proposing would send the country into poverty almost instantaneously. good luck getting rid of the lifeblood of our economy and the world's economy, oil and gas. shockingly, democrats don't seem to care. elizabeth warren's challenge here, despite getting the endorsement from "the des moines register" finds her campaign in an all-out collapse just ahead in iowa. setting up what looks like a battle between sanders and quid pro quo joe biden who is telling supporters that bernie's agenda scares the heck out of people. take a look. >> you know, i show how i pay for everything in my campaign. others out there propose they're going to spend $60 trillion over the next ten years. 60 trillion. more than doubling all the federal spending with the

explanation that they will tell you how we are going to pay for it later. we don't know how they're going to pay for it. i don't think you win votes by doing that. i think it scares the living devil out of people. >> sean: sort of like promising keep your doctor, keep your plan and you're going to save on average $2500 per family per year. millions lost their doctor. millions lost their plans. 40% of the country has one obamacare exchange option and on average everyone's health care went up a whopping 174%. that was joe and obama's promise. this is even worse. here with reaction, former deputy white house chief of staff, fox news contributor karl rove. karl, can we run the animation? we made this just for you. this is rove's whiteboard segment. i want to know, we have to get you new whiteboards. roll that. how many whiteboards did you bring today? >> i have two. and they are my whiteboards.

you didn't give me anything. we are living in a world with free things, free everything from bernie. at least from you, can i get some free whiteboards please? >> sean: i just ran it again. i have an animation. how many whiteboards would you like? tell me. you got it. two? i'm going to give you three. >> if i have to beg you for it, it's not worth it. i am a self-reliant guy. i've got my own whiteboards. let's move on to the numbers. we'll pass over the fact that my birthday and christmas came in december, same day, and you didn't bother to send me a whiteboard. don't worry about it. my feelings aren't hurt. >> sean: i am sending you four tomorrow. >> there we go. iowa. iowa, one week away and this is a real clear politics average. what it shows is bernie has been moving up. warren and buttigieg have been moving down. today, two weeks ago, three weeks ago, four weeks ago, there were four candidates who were

15% above. that's the magic threshold to get delegates. 15%. today we have three above and warren has fallen underneath 15%. she may get above that by election day because she's got a good organization there but klobuchar has moved up as well. she might, in some parts of the state, get about 15% and gets in delegates. this is the story. sanders moving up. warren moving down. biden sort of hanging there but he's now in second place. he's been in first place for much of the last couple months. >> sean: let's take a look, after iowa, the new hampshire primary. what have you got for that? >> new hampshire, again, the real clear politics average in the same story, warren dropping. she is from a neighboring state, as is bernie. bernie at 24. biden at 16. buttigieg on the bubble, 14.8 in the real clear politics average and warren, who was earlier above 20 is now at 13. klobuchar has gotten the endorsement of "the new york times" with warren.

they are at 7. the magic number is 15. warren is in danger of falling below 15%. the good news for warren is if sanders wins iowa, it's not necessarily a guarantee of him doing well in new hampshire. new hampshire likes to do some thing different that iowa has done. there is six days but there's a lot -- excuse me, eight days but there's a lot of difference they can take place between the monday they vote in iowa and the tuesday after the week following when they vote in new hampshire. >> sean: let's look -- go ahead. >> today we are looking at sanders coming out of the first two with good numbers. it begins to change in nevada and changes a lot in south carolina. the real clear politics average today, biden is ahead in nevada

at 25 to bernie's 19.3. in south carolina in the real clear politics average, biden is ahead 32 to sanders' 15. we may have somebody who wins the first two and we may have somebody different who wins the next. >> sean: when we get to south carolina and then we head to super tuesday, well iowa, new hampshire matter? >> what matters is how people -- do they beat expectations and how do they handle those? what is their message coming out of that? and we saw what biden is going to be saying which is in essence bernie is too scary, too far out there and he's not going to be able to beat trump because trump is going to be able to say this guy's going to take everything you've got and more and plunge the country into a big deficit in order to pay for these high cost promises. >> sean: you were the first that i read predicting a possible brokered convention. let's see if we head down that road. karl rove. whiteboard, sending it in the mail. they are coming. a lot of people worried about the coronavirus. what's happening, closed down

disney, close down movie theaters. building hospitals. now the u.s. is advising its citizens to reconsider traveling to china. probably good advice. trace gallagher has a report later. we have breaking details on what caused the helicopter crash that killed the great, talented kobe bryant. 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.

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>> sean: fox news alert. the deadly coronavirus which originated in china has now spread to the u.s. here live from our west coast newsroom tonight with the very latest, trace gallagher. >> to get the numbers straight without alarming anyone, they are currently five confirmed cases of coronavirus in the u.s. but the cdc now says 110 cases are under investigation in 26 states. that number is likely to rise.

the five confirmed cases are among those who recently traveled to wuhan, china. clearly this is a fluid situation. for example, the chinese national health minister now says the virus is more easily transmitted than previously thought and that it might be contagious during the incubation period. so far in china, the virus has sickened more than 2700 people and killed 100. wuhan, with a population of 11 million, is currently under lockdown, but some experts think that's making things worse, saying there is no evidence quarantines actually worked in that shutting down a city makes the distribution of food and medical care a huge challenge. even those who support quarantines say this one might have been too late. we should emphasize finally the cdc says the risk to the general american public remains low. sean. >> sean: trace gallagher, thank you. joining us now, the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, dr. anthony fauci is with us.

doctor, good to see you. i've watched you over many decades and i know this is your wheelhouse, this is what you do. i agree with trace's analysis. maybe we are looking at 110 cases. only five confirmed. i feel china reacted too slowly. contact tracing, incubation periods. have we gotten it tied down? >> what likely happened with that the first person that was infected was not really recognized and there was a period of time when there was a spread of infection and then they saw a cluster of cases which they had essentially assigned to a fish market, this wild animal market. they felt that was where the infections came from when actually was probably percolating for at least a few weeks before. now we have a situation where it's widespread throughout all of china. still focused in wuhan, the epicenter, but essentially all

30 of the provinces had cases all traveling from wuhan. the same thing in the united states. it's not surprising at all that we have five travel-related cases. fortunately we were able to handle them appropriately by identifying them, isolating them and doing contact tracing. the report we heard is correct. it's a low risk, but the situation in china is very, very mobile in the sense that it's evolving. it's not a static situation. so it could get much worse. >> sean: let's assume for a second that you're right and i've watched you for so long and i know this is what you do, so my question is, what if it is worse? is this a moment where maybe countries put politics aside, a little bit of pride aside, and do we have u.s. officials, should u.s. professional such as yourself get involved and help them out to try to contain it?

>> you know, sean, you bring up a really important point. i feel that the data that are coming out of china, particularly the last thing that your reporter said, that the chinese are saying that it could be spread during the period when a person doesn't have symptoms, that has huge implications about the policies that we take here in the united states, how we're going to do screening. that is based on the statement from a chinese official. i would like to see our cdc get there and look at the data firsthand. >> sean: all right. are we prepared here? real quick. >> yeah, we are prepared. if you look at the way we handled the five cases that came in, they were appropriately and correctly handled. >> sean: dr. anthony fauci, thank you for being with us. when we come back, details on what caused kobe bryant and his helicopter crash.

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>> sean: the country is morning tonight after nba legend kobe bryant tragically died yesterday. trace gallagher with those reports and details. >> they talked about investigating the man machine, we know the helicopter had no prior incidents.ig the fog was a major problem. kobe bryant and his 13-year-old daughter and seven others departed at john wayne airport and flew above interstate five. before flying over the 101 freeway, the pilot was at 1400 feet.ew he requested to use flight rules. the cloud ceiling is below a thousand feet he also asked why flight following, where controllers help you navigate. the last transmission from air traffic control told the pilot he was too low to be picked up on radar. he likely never heard the final transmission. in the end he did try to pull up.

>> sean: police have grounded their helicopters. sad, tragic. we will never be the media mob. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham, big show. ♪ >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle." john bolton's previous number two at the nfc said his former boss needs to withdraw his book until after the 2020 election. fred fleitz is here. everybody wanted him. he's coming on the "the ingraham angle" to deliver a tough message to his longtime friend. alan dershowitz delivered an i incredible performance in front of the senate tonight. republican senator mike braun, congressman nunes all here to react. plus, as the trump defense team honed in on the misdeeds, hunter biden reaches a deal with the mother of his child in an effort to avoid a court appearance.