dvr it if you know how. above all stay tuned. have a great evening. breaking news on multiple fronts. sean hannity takes over from here. hey, sean. >> sean: commentary howie carr was brilliant. that segment walls amazing. tucker, great show. welcome to hannity. game over the schumer, schiff sham show is done, it is finished. the president has won again and been vindicated yet again. the petty, irrational rage-filled trump-hating democrats, their state-run media mob allies have absolutely nothing to show for their three-year, never ending-do nothing for the american people, hate trump temper tantrum. take a look. >> the senate, having tried donald john trump, president of the united states, upon two articles of impeachment, exhibited against him by the house of representatives, and two thirds of the senators present not having found him guilty of the charges contained therein, it is, therefore, ordered and adjudged that the said

donald john trump be and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles. >> sean: acquitted, vindicated the president won again. the bitter democratic party, the mob and the media, they look at what they have put this country through for three long years, hell, absolutely nothing have they done for you, we, the american people. three years of never ending psychotic rage and hatred. it is sad and frankly it is dangerous and beyond repulsive. but make no mistake this isn't over. this must not be over. let me say this tonight. for the sake of this country, we need to now get to the truth of what happened here. including the truth about the hearsay, non-whistleblower- whistleblo non-whistleblower-whistleblo wer. the truth about the compromised corrupt congenital lier adam schiff and whatever relationship he, his staff had with the

non-whistleblower-hearsay whistleblower. we must get to the truth of why the tools of government were weaponized yet again against this president. tonight the only republican senator to side with the radical democrats was, well, mitt romney. gave a speech today he even was pedal ling the quid pro quo zero experience hunter were exonerated. what? his arguments were constitutionally incoherent and by the way his double standard and hypocrisy beyond words. i know a lot of you, especially in utah and around the country are mad at mitt tonight. you have every right to be as far as i'm concerned. frankly, it is sad. mitt romney is now a diminished figure. clearly losing a presidential election, ruins people. you don't believe me? look at al gore, look at hillary clinton. and even to some extent i would argue john mccain. i like mitt romney. i don't regret fighting hard for him in 2012. he clearly cannot accept and

get over the fact that he lost. he absolutely could have won in 2012. he did not fight. the difference between him and donald trump is donald trump fought every single day, was tough and tough enough to win. the president pointed this out tonight in a brand new ad that is beyond powerful and sadly truthful. take a look. >> slip, slippery stealthy. mitt romney had us fooled. >> being in donald trump's magnificent hotel and having his endorsement is a delight. >> posing as a republican, he tried to infiltrate trump's administration as secretary of state. >> trump is the very man who can lead to us that better future. >> now his cover is blown. exposed by news reports as a democrat secret asset. >> sean: i could obviously pile on. there are a lot more important issues to cover, frankly than pierre defecto. we are now less than 24 hours removed from the best state of the union address i

have seen in my adult lifetime. 31st year in radio. my 24th year at fox. we will have a full recap coming up tonight including the very worst moments from the very angry, rage-filled leader of this democratic radical socialist group in the house, nancy pelosi. first, joining us now is the author of guilt by accusation. he was one of the president's -- president's defense team. he had taken a lot of hits. i think you had alan dershowitz, professor, harvard law professor, the finest moments of your career and intellectual honesty, common sense reason that an exposed hypocrisy that was breath-taking to me on people in your party and you should take a bow and be very proud in spite of the fact that i know you have taken a lot of attacks. >> i don't mind the personal attack. i'm used to it.

there were attacks on my family and friends. just because i stood up on principle. i made the same argument i would have made for hillary clinton. impeachment on these grounds obstruction of congress and abuse of power are not constitutionally permissible grounds. mitt romney who i liked when he was the governor of massachusetts was just wrong constitutionally. the argue. he gave against my position is that if a president were to pardon republicans rather than democrats, that would be an impeachable offense. no, it wouldn't be. let me give you some proof of that when george h.w. bush pardoned casper wine burger and four other people on the eve of his trial in order to end the iran contra investigation. mitt romney didn't call for impeachment investigation. and there was no impeachment investigation. you need to find a crime or criminal type behavior akin to treason or bribery and they didn't find that they didn't even charge it in this case. so today was a great day for the constitution. the constitution was saved from people who were trying to destroy it and diminish

it. >> sean: i have identified the gratuity acts. bribes act. i actually think, professor, let me be honest here, you are not getting the billion unless you fire the prosecutor investigating my zero experienced son that's being paid million and will be paid more once is he gone. that, to me, fits exactly into those statutes that we have told this audience about. >> um-huh and i made that analogy when i spoke in front of the senate. what if the back of joe biden's mind whom i like very much. in the back of his mind this is not in the public interest but it might help my son a little bit and the company, according to the managers that would be an impeachable offense. just because in the back of his mind, he had interest in his son or interest in re-election. that's the point i was trying to dispute. every politician is interested in their re-election. that doesn't turn innocent conduct into impeachable conduct.

of course, if a president commits a crime, he should be impeached. that's what the constitution says. but if he commits completely innocent conduct, but he is motivated in part by re-election. do you know what you call people like that? politicians. that's what all politicians do. >> sean: thing of value. if you take this action, it fits the statute perfectly. we won't get into the argument. professor, well done. thank you for standing up for the rule of law the constitution and truth. joining us for more fox news contricontributor and former congressman. a prosecutor thatever lost a single case in his life trey gowdy is with us. let's get your analysis of what the professor said, the constitutional aspects of this. and i do believe that the democrats had to take on this breathtaking hypocrisy and in terms of ignoring quid and pro and quo joe and zero experience hunter and firing the prosecutor or you don't get the billion. >> yeah, sean. i disagree with professor

dershowitz a little bit. i don't believe it has to be a crime. you can sleep all day as president. that's not a crime. that is malfeasance in office. what i am particularly interested in is what democrats think makes a prima facie or a threshold case for being able to investigate something. with trump, it's a conversation at a doggone bar. that's enough to launch a fisa probe into someone wit. with the bidens, politico and the hill just pronounced there is no evidence. who has looked into it. if it's going to be looked into, it need to be by law enforcement. look, i love my colleagues in the house and the senate. but if it's criminal activity that we are interested in, it needs to be looked into by law enforcement. >> sean: i have been saying, the president has a constitutional oath. you take a sworn oath, faithfully execute the laws of the land. there is enough prime fascia evidence about joe and hunter to warrant an

investigation by far. i'm assuming that john bolton is going to say something to the effect that i heard him say i'm not giving him the money unless he does a, b, or c. thfour facts though your former colleague jim jordan they never did anything, they never pledged to do anything, they didn't know and they never felt any pressure. it wouldn't matter to me, but i assume that's where we will end up at some point. >> well, which is why out of 250 republicans in the house and the senate, exactly one voted with the dazzling adam schiff. i know that politico and the "new york times" and the hill and "the washington post" thank god that wasn't the jury. i know they were dazzled but the reality is adam schiff, all these months of investigating unlimited access to subpoenas could call whatever witness you want to call in the house out of 250 republicans. he converted exactly one.

>> tucker: amazing. congressman trey gowdy former congressman. i guess calling you congressman that would be insult. you are part of our fox family. we are glad you are here. i said it before and i'm going to say it again. president trump last night, my view, now starting my radio career of 31 years ago, 24 years here at fox, delivered the single best state of the union address that i have ever seen. and it did make me proud that we live in the single greatest country god has ever given mankind. speaking of legendary radio pioneers like rush limbaugh and another one called a friend of mine berry farmer once said a teenager listening to it, he speaks 33 languages, never been a country in the history of the earth that has accumulated more power in the united states and abused it less. i add to that no country that has accumulated more power than the united states and used that power to advance the entire worldwide human condition than this great country. america is home to the most creative, the hardest

working, freedom-loving, freedom and fun. we work hard, we play hard people in the entire world. president trump highlighting all of this american greatness, american exceptionalism and what was a passionate, powerful un apologetic address to in country. touting the amazing accomplishments in three short years with no help from any democrats. now moving on to 8 million new jobs that have been created. 7 million americans plus off of food stamps. 10 million americans lifted off of welfare. the lowest unemployment rate in five decades. the lowest unemployment rate ever for african-americans. hispanic americans, asian americans. women in the workplace. youth unemployment, the 70-year record low unemployment for women. 72% of new jobs created last year are for women in the workplace. the military veteran unemployment rate dropping to a record low. unemployment rate for

disabled americans has reached an all-time low. i know why talk about millions and millions and millions. this is a millions of families american family our family as a country succeeding. soleimani, number one state sponsor of terror, iran, he led that terror, dead. baghdady, associates dead. the isis caliphate crushed and destroyed and defeated. and you can go on as you watch the scroll on the screen throughout the night tonight. nobody else in the media mob as corrupt as they are ever want to tell you that story. why is that? because that goes against their rage, their hate, their psychosis, every second, minute, hour of every day against donald trump. the most powerful moments from the president's speech also last night surrounding the courageous americans in attendance. there were so many amazing people in this country. the parents of kayla mueller, one of the last surviving tuskegee airmen.

the family of an american soldier serving abroad being brought in to that chamber a little girl receiving a life-changing scholarship. some democrats couldn't even stand for these moments. unbelievable. nowhere has the tail of two americans been more apparent than three years of the democrats and the success that we scroll on that screen we have on one side. we have the republicans, a president standing up and cheering fellow americans and their success and their jobs and their safety and their security and their prosperity. and applauding american exceptionalism and the heroes that make it possible every day. we have on the other side very same time pelosi, which was a weird distraction the whole night. the petulant, bitter, indignant colleague sitting on their hands and frowning at things that we should all agree on. a scholarship?

a changing the life of young american? record-breaking jobs numbers? the historic progress for every demographic women in the workplace? record low african-american, hispanic american unemployment rates? or the strike against iran's top terrorist? really, we can't agree on that? the last surviving tuskegee airman or the grandchild of that person? amazing moments last night. now, what you see on the other side is petty, it is small. the democrats are exposed and diminished. it is i can't describe it. you have got one america and then have you got this crazy america. socialist congresswoman, part of the squad congresswoman tlaib walking out. midway through the speech saying he is bigoted.

nancy pelosi i had to consciously stop looking at some point. it was a distraction for almost the whole time. mumbling to herself. weird faces. if i was writing a skit for "saturday night live," i would just show that clearly seething with rage and hatred. beyond bizarre. looking totally, completely unhinged like a person who has been -- become completely and utterly broken and beaten again by donald trump. at the end of the address an over-the-top dramatic display of resistance. really? ripping up the official transcript of the speech and calling it all a pack of lies was it tuskegee airmen? she ripped that up or was she talking about the scholarship that was given out or the family of kayla and the story of our brave men and women killing soleimani, baghdadi and the caliphate? is that what she is doing? is that what she ripped it all up because it's all a

lie and she was being courteous and now in a brand new ad, senate republicans are highlighting this ad is it. this is one of the best ads i have ever seen. pack of lies that pelosi ripped to shreds. take a look. by the way, apparently we don't have it. are we going to get it? somebody tell me some point, somewhere? constitutional scholar, jonathan turley is an independent voter. he didn't vote for donald trump. remember, he was brought in as a so-called opinion witness. he is the one that says you guys are abusing your power. calling for pelosi to resign writing, quote: the conduct of speaker pelosi at the state of the union address this week will go down as a day of infamy for a chamber as an institution, continuing. pelosi seemed to be intent on mocking president trump from behind his back with sophomoric facial grimaces and head-shaking culminating

with her ripping up a copy of his address. if pelosi can't maintain her dignity and office at the state of the union she should resign as a speaker of the house of representatives. former house speaker newt gingrich calling for pelosi to get censured tweeting that he is disgusted and insulted by the viciously partisan actions of nancy pelosi. of course, not everyone is condemning pelosi's sad behavior. the mob, the media, state-run democratic tv all things rage trump every second of every hour of every day, they are applauding the speaker. over fake news cnn, there he is. humpty dumpty, our good friend and by the way, his assistant, a wannabe humpty dumpty a guy named oliver somebody who kind of stalker like guy who says you know me, right? i'm like no, i don't know you. who are you? over at fake news cnn humpty dumpty actually commending pelosi because they are so fair and balanced and is he a journalist. taking a page out of the president's playbook.

no, that's not opinion at all. that's journalism according to fake news cnn. and others mob focus vitriol and rush limbaugh, diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancered. president trump honored rush at the state of the union with the presidential medal of freedom. i thought liberals like free speech. the same liberals attacking rush today they will put up with you can't go to a 7-eleven unless you have a slight indian accent or dunkin' donuts and every other bizarre thing that joe biden has said and the media's reaction has been utterly predictable, petty, small and predictably classless and harmful to we the people. because they lie, they tell conspiracies, they slander, they besmirch. and now they are going phi a lot of money to nic lazarus sand man fake news cnn has done. i wonder if humpty is reporting on that. take a look. >> i thought that the medal of honor -- >> freedom. >> freedom. >> freedom.

>> was supposed to go to people who actually did stuff. >> he has been the godfather of right wing radio. and you the rubric of info takenment, he has preached a lot of division and a lot of hate over a long period of time. >> he was awarding the medal of freedom to rush limbaugh who has a history of making a derogatory comments about african-americans. >> tucker: these are small people, sore losers, temper tantrum for three long-plus years. filled with rage, consumed by bitterness, it's every hour of every second of every day hating the president. by the way, the most interesting thing in 272 days when you get to shock the world again, guess who is going to be the most upset that donald trump is gone? the mob and the media. they are the ones that are going to say oh, we miss him. and by the way, this is just who they are. this is where they stand. they don't tell truth anymore. they lie. they spread conspiracy theories and hoaxes. we got it right. we have been vindicated on

this program. the president he has won again and been vindicated again. by the way a very angry nancy pelosi ripping up the state of the union speefn and we are now at a crossroads at a country. we are on the brink as a country. because what you decide as the ultimate jury in 272 days will define the future for our children and grandchildren. and i shutter to think what will happen if people that have been nothing but hateful, mean-spirited and have done nothing for we, the people, are given power. we have obama biden statistics. 13 million more on food stamps. 8 million more in poverty. by the way we have that ad racked up. let's play it. >> charles is one of the last surviving tuskegee airmen, the first black fighter pilots, and he also happens to be iain's great grandfather. [cheers] >> president trump telling a little girl that she is

going to get a scholarship. that was a lovely moment. >> i'm thrilled to inform you your husband is back from deployment. he is here with us tonight. and we couldn't keep him waiting any longer. >> i think the last 24 hours have been a big wake-up call for democrats. >> why did you rip the speech up, madam speaker? >> because it was the courteous thing to do. >> sean: it was a courteous thing to do. luckily by the way, you, the american people will be the ultimate jury. and by the way, as minority leader kevin mccarthy pointed out, just a few short words: president trump is winning. he tweeted this out. i was very amused. >> acquitted for life. >> and here with reaction house minority leader kevin mccarthy. that was the best tweet you have ever had. keep it up. don't stop. that was the best ad. >> it was. >> sean: i think it captured everything. the courageous thing. the courteous thing to do. no truth, really?

want to tell that to the tuskegee airmen? to the servicemen reunited with their family. to the young woman getting a scholarship. >> gold star family sitting there that lost their father. lost their husband and do you know what nancy pelosi said today? she told her conference that all she saw in the complete speech was nothing but lies that there were no truths. what i did today i was down with the president at the residence. i had him give me another speech exactly like he gave nancy pelosi. sign it, and on the floor of the house today, i submitted it to the house clerk, so the historians will have, just like every other state of the union speech in history will have his speech. because what nancy pelosi did went beyond rules of the house. and i think jonathan turley is correct. either she apologizes or she should resign. >> sean: congressman, we still now have to get to the bottom of this. that means adam schiff. that means his staff. that means the hearsay whistleblower. that means joe and hunter,

quid pro quo joe and hunter. are we going to do that? >> we are going to do that but i am going to need not only your help. i need everybody's help. they need to go to take the house.com. because, if we do not win the majority. i will promise you this. they will try to impeach this president again. today he was acquitted for life. we know how many times they tried. this they voted a year before there was even that phone call. they worked on picking their chair men based on who could work on impeachment. they will not stop. you know? you know this better than anybody else, sean. there is an 18th transcript in there that talks about the ig. that talks about this whistleblower. >> sean: correct. where is that? >> that all started this. it is sitting in the intel committee. i promise you this. if we are to take the majority, we will have a vote in the intel just like they can today, and let the public see because i believe if they saw it they would know adam schiff was lying once again and he was a fact witness. >> sean: they can't be rewarded for this in 272

days. do you know who has the ripped up speech? i will pay for it. i want to buy it. >> i don't know if the speaker has it. but the american public now has the original copy. >> sean: no. i want the one that she ripped up. if you find it, i will pay for it. >> all right. >> sean: thank you, congressman. great tweet out there tonight. all right. when we come back, more chaos in iowa. one prominent democrat sounding the alarm realizing this is becoming a total schiff show for the democratic party straight ahead. ♪ ♪ my aspirin regimen, and i just didn't listen. until i almost lost my life. my doctors again ordered me to take aspirin, and i do. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. listen to the doctor. take it seriously.

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>> sean: sean this is a fox news alert. democratic party in shambles. moments ago we just got brand new numbers out of iowa from the caucus, here it is. that happened monday night. and by the way we can report 92% of the vote is now in.

oh, looks like they are counting votes like the congenital liars vlad counts vote in russia, russia, russia. fox news national correspondent jacqui heinrich joins us. 2%, we are getting. >> there we are getting there, sean. we actually made our way to new hampshire since that primary or the caucuses rather on monday night. the iowa democratic party said they were withholding the caucus results because they wanted to make sure they got it right after their app. suffered unspecified coding problem. but when they finally put out partial results, they even got that wrong calling this a botched job would be understatement. today they had to redact results they put out mid afternoon and issue a correction allocated state delegates that should have gone to senator bernie sanders to former massachusetts governor deval patrick. some of elizabeth warren's support actually went to tom steyer. they did, however, post the correct information

afterwards. what we do know as of now is former mayor pete buttigieg is a hair ahead of senator bernie sanders with 92% of free thinks reporting. buttigieg is in the lead by just .9 percentage point with elizabeth warren and former vice president joe biden in fourth. >> am not going to sugar coat it. we took a gut-punch in iowa. >> it's unclear when the rest of the results are going to be posted. the debacle has fueled calls for iowa and also new hampshire to lose their first in the nation status and, in fact, the "boston globe" has do youd not to endorse a candidate until after the new hampshire primary is over on tuesday. sean? >> sean: jacqui in des moines tonight. james carville is sounding the alarm because he can see the writing on the wall about his party. take a look. >> we have got to get relevant. and this is all something that is not working the way that it needs to work. and these candidates have got to develop some skill.

it matters hot candidate is. it matters what a party chooses to talk about. i mean, i'm 75 years old. why am i here doing this because i am scared to death, that's why. and we -- let's get relevant people here for sure. >> sean: i don't know if it's possible here with reaction texas congressman, a member of the freedom caucus. louie gohmert "wall street journal" columnist. kimberley strassel conservative union chair matt schlapp. louie, i will start with you. let me get this straight, they cheated bernie in the last election. they had the dirty russian dossier that hillary paid for. and we know all that happened with that. they can't get the iowa caucus vote. but, they want 94 trillion in 10 years for the new green deal to get rid of oil, gas and the internal combustion engine and 52 trillion for medicare for all, no choice, private healthcare. and we are supposed to trust them. and we only take in

4 trillion a year. my abacas is working. >> it won't, not the way they are doing it. how ironic. it's carville once again being the truth teller. you remember some years back he said basically of course hillary had a private server. she didn't want louie gohmert rifle ling through his emails he was right then and right now. what the powers trying to cheat bernie didn't realize they thought by keeping him off the campaign trail here in washington, that that would be the end of his campaign. little did they know that if he is not allowed to go talk to the voter in iowa and other states, he zooms up in the polls. he is doing so much better since he hasn't been able to go out there and talk to people. aoc and others have been doing it. but, carville is right. they are in trouble right now. >> sean: by the way, that button looks like a connie hair production. i'm just guessing, louie. >> actually, it was matt's

he told me this was the new congressional pin. >> sean: really? >> that's why i'm wearing it. >> sean: kimberley strassel, your take on all of this. this is insane. >> well, look, when i look at iowa, there is all the stuff that we don't know. and, yes, it's an embarrassment. what everyone ought to be scared about is what we do know. and democrats in particular. and iowa is meant to be a broad gauge of voter sentiment in each party. and you look at the top tiers of the group of that candidate, and you have got sanders and buttigieg and warren. they take the lion's share of the voted. what does that mean? it means the progressives are winning. so, when i see a jim carville or i see a biden who is now lashing out at bernie sanders' plans and they are saying oh, this is terrible, i want to ask where were you a year ago when the green new deal got going, when medicare for all was out there, when impeachment got rolling? because, it's your obligation to stand up and say these ideas are bad for our party.

and instead you just let these guys roll. some of these ideas have caught fire out there with progressives. and these are the candidates that they are getting. it's a little bit too late. >> sean: and matt schlapp, look, i have known james carville for many years. i confess i like him and respect him. >> i do, too. >> sean: i have debated him many times. he is at death come 40. and he is right. david axelrod not a dumb guy. >> mostly worried about that wealth tax which is going to take 2 to 5% of his earnings he spent 75 years creating which is a really radical idea. i think the key here for democrats i just came back from iowa, i was with the trump surrogates. those democrat numbers really slipped, sean. so their turnout is really subdued despite these candidates and the republicans are pumped. the precinct i was in are pumped. the fact is in these battleground states the candidates in the trump coalition ready to go to

war. they will go to war against a socialist. i like that matchup. >> sean: that's underreported story. >> with nothing going on. >> sean: uncontested caucus. amazing numbers. all right. thank you all. when we come back, exclusive interview, senator mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader will join us. i will ask him about mitt romney, nancy pelosi's temper tantrum and much more straight ahead.

>> right now this is a political loser for them. they initiated it. they thought this was a great idea. and at least for the short-term it has been a collosal, political mistake. >> sean: that was senate

majority leade leader mitch mcconnell earlier today pointing out that the yes schumer schiff sham show was a massive strategic error for the democrats. it was a waste of time and it has not helped our country. as leader mcconnell's office noted the democrats threw the kitchen sink at president trump. tended in nothing but a full aquilts for the president. joining us now this is a great book about how important our judiciary is and all the judges that have gotten appointed thanks to the hard work of senator mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader is he sir, i watched today and i watched you closely throughout this whole process. and you win again. i'm not sick of winning but i saw a party for three years angry, unhinged. they have done nothing for the american people and they look diminished and insignificant can't to me. that's how i see the other side of the aisle. your thoughts. >> i couldn't agree with you

more. the best evidence of that and you have been talking about it, i'm sure, for 24 hours. is the speaker tearing up the president's speech. how childish and petty is that? what kind of example does that set for the american people about how we ought to conduct ourselves? i mean, have we forgotten how to be civil to each other? particularly when we are in congress, sitting together, not out on the campaign trail. not at rallies. but at least among ourselves, we ought to be able to disagree and not behave like a bunch of children. >> sean: senator, even things that they supported in obama's second term like protecting our borders where 90% of the heroin crosses into this country, once donald trump proposed it, they didn't support it. you're in the middle of this. >> yeah. >> sean: tell us what you see, what you observe behind the scenes? what is driving them? >> well, the best evidence of it has been on display

the last two or three weeks. the most aggressive thing you can do to any president is to try impeach them. and they did it. on a party line vote. and you could best describe it as trump derangement syndrome. in other words, whatever he is for, they are just pavlovian response to it almost immediately. the thing to take away here and i said it in my press conference ted and i think you led with it, this was a thoroughly political maneuver. if it was, it was stupid. it backfired. the president has the best numbers he has had since he has been in office. my members who are in tough races are all looking at better numbers than they were before impeachment started. so, if this was all about the november election, it seems to me we can conclude at least in the short-term here this was a collosal political mistake one quick

question about senator romney. i felt his speech was almost incoherent in this regard. he just exonerated out of nowhere joe and hunter biden. i'm looking forward to your thoughts on that. then he goes into long, lengthy argument. what are your thoughts about that one vote of his today? >> well, i was surprised and i was disappointed. but, my job is to try to wins a often as i can in the senate. there is always the next vote. senator romney on the whole has been supportive of what we have been trying to accomplish in the year that he has been there. i think this was a mistake. i disagree with it. on the other hand, we have a lot more votes to cast between now and november. and i'm going to need his support on a whole variety of things that are important to the president and to the country. >> sean: as the president listed all of the economic success and foreign policy success, soleimani, baghdadi, the caliphate, et cetera, all the trade deals and all the new jobs

created, it's a pretty long list, senator, that seems to me if you ask the question are you better off than you were four years ago the answer is yes. >> no question people are better off than they were four years ago. that's the central theme underlying the president's fall campaign. and he did a masterful job last night of laying all this out in front of the american people at a time when a lot of them are tuning in and paying attention. all the democrats were left with was sort of pouting on the floor, you know, trying to avoid any kind of positive response to anything he said. i thought it was childish and silly and counter productive for them. >> sean: you know, senator, we appreciate it. you won this battle like you won the judge battle and kavanaugh battle. the president obviously is winning for the country. i'm not sick of winning. senator mcconnell, thank you for being with us. >> than thank you, sean. >> sean: coming up, last night, president trump explaining how his policies are positively impacting minority communities.

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>> sean: last night president trump highlighted how his agenda is benefiting historically marginalized communities. people left behind. and even democrats are starting to take notice. listen to cnn's van jones explain how last night was a wake-up call for his party. >> i think the last 24 hours have been a big wake-up call for democrats. a warning to democrats. what he was saying to african-americans can be effective. you may not like it. but he mentioned hvcus, our black colleges have been struggling for a long time. a bunch of them have been going under. he threw a lifeline to them

in real life in his budget. he talked about that. he talked about criminal justice reform and opportunity zones. what you will see him do you may not like my rhetoric but look at my results. look at my record to black people. if he narrow casts that it will be effective. >> sean: remember van jones is the same guy who says president trump election night 2016 was a white lash. one of the biggest success stories of the president's criminal justice reform efforts thanks to kim kardashian and kanye west. alice johnson. one of the super bowl ads one of the best i saw super bowl sunday. ♪ ♪ >> i'm free to hug my family. i'm free to start over. this is the greatest day of my life. my heart is just bursting with gratitude. i want to thank president donald john trump. [cheers] thank you, thank you, thank

you. >> i'm donald trump and i approve this message. >> sean: joining us now author of the book "after life" prison reform advocate alice maria johnson whose sentence was commuted by president trump. many promised and failed that along with syndicated radio host larry elder. alice johnson, i mean, this you are one of the most inspirational people i have ever met. drug offense, life was over. you had no life of getting out of jail. you made a decision that you were going to mentor young women that had a chance to get out with no chance ever for yourself. you actually tweeted, i will read it. two super bowling ago i was sitting in a prison cell. today i'm a free woman. my story was featured in a super bowl ad. i will spend the rest of my life fighting for the wrongly and unjustly convicted. tell us how did you get there? because i think i probably would be angry and bitter.

>> well, sean, it was my faith in god. that is what took me through those 21 years seven months and six days. without that i know that i could not have made it. and, also i had a strong family support system in place. my family never turned their back on me. >> sean: amazing. and now you are going to work to get every alice maria johnson that we can find and get them free. is that true? >> that is absolutely true. every alice maria johnson. every alice -- every john, every paul. everyone that i can find because i know how it feels. i know how it feels not to have anyone hear you, to be voiceless. so i have been using my voice to be their voice for them. >> sean: larry elder has been -- i talked about all these polls, 34.5%. 33%. 34% also. john zogby yesterday i think

it was 22%, african-americans. the president only had 8% in 2016. record low unemployment. criminal justice reform. same with hispanic americans. numbers are up dramatically. >> right. >> sean: is the president going to convert those numbers into real votes? >> well, certainly he is going to do better than the 7% or 8% that he got in 2016. in addition to commuting the sentence of miss johnson he also pardoned the first black heavyweight champion jack johnson. >> sean: i love that. >> the president supports choice and education. there are 13 public high schools in baltimore where sean, zero percent of the kids can do math at grade level and five more where only 1% can do math at grade level. given a choice, wouldn't you like to opt out of that school and send your kid to a school that's more competitive. donald trump wants to allow black and brown parents to do that. white democrats oppose that wouldn't put their kids in

an inner city school on a bet. >> sean: alice, i watched the whole hour. i know you did it with ainsley earhardt from "fox & friends." incredible. tell me what the rest of your life is. what are you going to do now. >> i am going to continue on the path i have been on. i'm super charging it now. i'm not only working for those who are incarcerated but i'm also working for returning citizens. we have got some jobs open now and this is a perfect opportunity to put talent back to work. >> sean: i have got to run but i know for me and larry, i'm speaking for larry, anything we could ever do for you, we want to help. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, sean. >> sean: when we come back, breaking news about hunter, zero experience, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ there he is. oh, wow. you're doing, uh, you're doing really great with the twirling.

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about hunter biden's dealings with ukraine. >> sean: sara carter, great investigative report. we will never be the media mob. a huge day. vindicated, acquitted. let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham is here. big day and they lost again and i'm not sick of winning. >> laura: first of all, congrats on your massive numbers last night. you blew away the competition across the board. it's actually a little embarrassing, okay? >> sean: let me tell you what not. it's not embarrassing winning. we fight hard for every viewer and they give us this on her every night. >> laura: and a wonderful tribute to rush limbaugh. we have known rush for many years. hannity, great show, as always, tonight. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle." another busy washington tonight. president trump has always been the great revealer a