the caronavirus honestly. jason chaffetz is in for sean hannity next. he takes over. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> jason: welcome to this special edition of hannity. i'm jason chaffetz live in los angeles tonight for sean. for the hour, we will keep you updated on the caronavirus outbreak and explain how the left is trying to score cheap political points with the deadly disease. at this hour, u.s. intel agencies are monitoring the worldwide spread of the caronavirus. today south korea, iran, and germany saw a pretty significant rise in new cases. meanwhile, in china, the epicenter of the infectious disease new cases actually declined. right here at home in the united states less than 70 people have been diagnosed with the caronavirus. and so far there have been zero reported deaths inside the united states.

but we should note there is a new case tonight reported out of northern california which we're monitoring. tonight as part of the trump administration's response a new caronavirus response committee has been formed. the committee is filled with top scientific and medical experts who will guide the administration policy going forward. this is the latest development in what has been an ongoing months long effort to counter the virus. sadly, instead of working hand in hand with the administration. top democrats and some in the media are playing the blame game. moments ago at his rally, the president sent a clear message to those who would rather attack the administration than actually prevent the spread of the deadly disease. take a look. >> now the democrats are politicizing the caronavirus. you know that right? [crowd boos] they are politicizing it. we did one of the great jobs you say how is president trump doing? they go oh, not good, not

good. [laughter] they have no clue. they don't have any clue. they can't even count their votes in iowa: [laughter] >> jason: what do voters think about the left's politicization of the caronavirus. joining us now with a full report live from cpac is fox nation host lawrence jones. lawrence, what's the latest? >> good evening, jason. thanks so much for having me. it was a busy day here at cpac. the largest gathering of conservatives in the world. i asked them about the dirty politics of today, just when you thought dems couldn't get any lower in their desperate attempt to take down this president, they are now spreading fear by politicizing the caronavirus. a new report from the "new york times" says president trump can't handle the situation. i talked with all they are

doing is stirring up the pot. >> you can't politicize this kind of stuff. this is rekick columbus. we have got to pull together as a nation. we have got to pull together as people. >> a fired up crowd here supporting the president,

jason. they say back when president obama had his own health scare they did not bash the president. they feel like the country should be coming together. unfortunately, democrats are just trying to score easy political shots but they don't think it's going to work. jason? >> jason: lawrence, thank you very much. this week as caronavirus spreads financial markets suffered. white house economic director larry kudlow reassured americans that the virus will not wreck the american economy. instead, larry kudlow warned of a much bigger threat. watch this. >> numbers coming in on the economy have actually been quite good, including today. investment is up. personal income and spending, consumer spending is up. confidence is up the virus is not going to sink the american economy. [applause]

what is or could sink the american economy is the socialism coming from our friends on the other side of the aisle. [applause] >> jason: so we have we seen the worse of the caronavirus downturn or more to come. joining us with the very latest from the fox business channel is susan li. susan, what is the latest from your perspective? >> well, jason, i have to say yes to quote warren buffet who the is most sufficiently investor of all time. when people are fearful that's when you get greedy and yes you have seen fear this week with stock markets seeing worse week since 2008 in the financial crisis. but, i would say that today's market actually should give you some confidence because on a friday, typically we head into a weekend and investors don't really want to hold all that risk which they see in stocks. so today you were down 1,000 points in the morning. guess what in the final 30 minutes of the trading session 630 points up. some see that inflection point. i want to walk people away

from this talk of recession as well, jason. recessionrecessions is is characterized as two straight quarters of negative growth. we haven't even seen one yet. there are a lot of fundamentals as you heard from larry kudlow to support the u.s. you have consumer spending, finding jobs. and by the way companies are making a ton of money. >> jason: susan, question about the federal reserve. are they going to cut rates or what is the perspective on what the federal reserve might do in this case? >> 100 percent according to the market by march of this year. 100 percent. there is even a 60% probability they might even go to 50 bases point which is half a percent. that is really panic mode. i don't really see that right now. as i said to you, there is a lot of good in the economy. i spoke to tim cook who is the apple ceo. and he says long term, fundamentals are still in place. nothing has changed really in the last four weeks and you heard that from larry kudlow and the white house as well. we are not expected to take that big of a hit and even if we do we have the federal reserve to cut interest rates chris jays it does

strike me there are a lot of buys in the market right now and people panic for a moment. susan, thank you very much. without a doubt the left is now using the caronavirus as a political weapon. 2020 democratic candidates were just caught spreading false information in order to bludgeon the president. one "new york times" columnist renamed the disease trump virus. and pelosi and schumer have all but blamed the worldwide spread of kron corona ons trump administration. this morning donald trump jr. criticized the democrats' shameful hyper partisan tack picks and one democratic congressman didn't take it so well. have a look. >> the president's son, donald trump jr. was on this morning and suggested or said outright that democrats are taking a pandemic seemingly hoping and i'm quoting, quote it comes here and kills millions of people so it can end the president's streak of winning. he called that a new level of sickness. i wanted to give you an opportunity to respond to that comment from done jr. >> he should not be near me when he says that.

>> why not. >> there would be a serious altercation. that is totally outrageous. that is totally outrageous. >> jason: wow. earlier today we reached tout to donald trump jr. and he called the threat of violence disgusting. and told us, quote: almost as bad as the fact that msnbc host haley jackson sat by and allowed it to happen with no attempt to push back. don jr. said the political violence is unacceptable and is calling on democratic members of congress to condemn congressman garamendi's threat. joining us now with reaction is florida congressman matt gaetz and fox news contributor dan bongino. gentlemen, thank you so much for being here. congressman, i want to start with you. look, being in congress, i know, you know, it's tough enough, let alone having another member advocating and talking about lashing without violence. what's your reaction? >> i would give john garamendi a little advice, not only would he not want a physical altercation with

donald trump jr. i think donald trump's girlfriend kimberly guilfoyle would make quick work of john garamendi. make our arguments verbally and not physical altercation. do think great comfort in the fact that president trump has built teams to solve problems. his entire life. now with the establishment of the best scientists in the world to analyze our way to blunt this virus, i think america will be in a better position but certainly the caronavirus is a wake-up call to the fact that we have got so much of our supply chain for our medical equipment and our drugs in china. i was shocked, jason, to learn that 95% of our ibuprofen comes from china we can't each have america first headache anymore. >> jason: dan, when you see congressman garamendi lashing out like that, i have known the man a pretty rational even keeled person and for him to do this and not even apologize for it really does strike me as beyond the pale. >> and as a former secret

service agent myself who actually protected people in the first family, this is really gross. but, you know, jason, every time as i have said before, i think the democrats have hit the depravity floor, they crash through the floor and they rush into the basin. they can't even make a coherent point. i don't want to hear from these left wing rags like cnn and elsewhere these biased media outlets that republicans politicizing it. no, we are not. the democrats sadly started a fight that they shouldn't have started. they can't even make a coherent point. can i give you a quick example here? nancy pelosi jumps on the air the other day to complain and she tries to make the point that we spent 500 billion excuse me, 5 billion, forgive me on ebola. she says so we should at least spend the same amount on caronavirus. then she makes the point in the exact same little soundbite presser she is doing that there is money left over, 500 million from the ebola spending that donald trump wants to spend on the caronavirus. so what's your point? spend less because we didn't use all the ebola money or spend the ebola money we

didn't spend? they can't even make a coherent point. one more, the lies about how donald trump cut cdc spending and nih spending. jason that is inaccurate. even the left leaning associated press had to call the democrats out. this was easy to fact-check. it's nonsense. the democrats should be ashamed. taps new low even for them in an era of seemingly daily new lows. >> jason: congressman, i have got to tell you i was in congress when ebola happened. we did nothing but support the president and the administration. because you know what? it's really not the politicians that do the work. it's actually these doctors who run to the sound of the siren and put their lives on the line to fight this disease. now, at one point, the democrats were blaming donald trump for being too sensational. now they are trying to blame donald trump for underreacting. >> caronavirus does not belong to a political party. and it should not be a political tool. we all have a stake in curbing this. but, again, i am encouraged by the work that's being

done. for example, jason, right here in the state of florida where i am, the vice president was ensuring that we had capability for local testing. so that if we do see any outbreaks, we're able to contain them as rapidly as possible and get local officials on the front line, the most relevant, factual information. that is actually what is going to help us defeat this virus, not a bunch of democrats trying to use it to weaponize politics against the president. >> jason: dan, i want to go back to the point you made. because there was talk of 2.5 billion and then all of a sudden schumer came up with this magical $8.5 billion. i don't think there is a politician in the room that actually knows what the actual dollar amount is nor do they understand what they have spent and banked up previously in terms of knowledge, equipment, and supplies. but, does the american people, do they get that? could they understando they understand that or do they buy into this schumer stuff he throws out there. >> listen, i'm a conservative. that's not a secret. trying to say that is

objectively as possible, i really don't think the american people are going to fall for this stunt. jason, you a congressman. congressman gaetz is there now. does anybody in this viewing audience right now with a straight face actually believe if we had on paper a specific amount of money we needed to combat this potentially deadly virus and the ramifications it's had on our economy already that donald trump is going to sit there in front of a camera and say no, no. we are going to pass. we will let this thing run its course? do you realize how stupid? you need a iq of sub62 to fall for this media narrative. of course it's in the best interest of the president northerly fomorally for the coud leader. do you think a congressman mix money solving a blank check. make it 20 billion, and 50 billion and spend it on what in the entire budget of the secret service i used to work for is only a billion dollars. have you got to produce something.

we are going to spend it on something. produce the numbers and he will come through. >> jason: gentlemen, thank you. forever the "new york times" op-ed to come out and call this the trump virus was totally irresponsible. congressman gaetz, dan bongino, thank you for coming on tonight. well, coming up, congressman adam schiff is now using the caronavirus to attack the president. we'll explain. plus, breaking tonight, president trump is nominating congressman john ratcliffe to be the next director of national intelligence. senator tom cotton reacts to this all next as this special edition of hannity continues. ♪ ♪ allergies with sinus congestion and pressure?

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>> jason: welcome back to hannity special democrats continue to politicize the caronavirus and even the grand inquisitor himself is adam schiff is leading the

fray when leading the caronavirus earlier today schiff told fox news that, quote. of the president and vice president don't inspire confidence. well, last night on this program, the great one mark levin had some choice words for the democratic leadership who were critical of the white house's response to the caronavirus. watch this. >> the last people i want playing doctor with me or the american people would be chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. they attack the president of the united states, not one negative word for the dictator of china and the way they have mishandled this entire thing. from january 16th to february 5th, the united states senate was paralyzed by the house democrats and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi with this outjudge impeachment trial where the senators had to sit on their hands and shut their mouths and couldn't conduct any business. they couldn't inpass a bill to increase funning. they say they want more funding. they couldn't do it. they couldn't hold hearings on the caronavirus they couldn't do anything because

pelosi and schumer shut down the entire united states congress. >> jason: more on that in a moment. president trump announced he was nominating congressman john ratcliffe to be the next director of national intelligence. joining us now to react to all of this is arkansas senator tom cotton. senator, thank you so much for joining us. i want to first go to john ratcliffe who you served with. one of the most consequential appointments a president can make is the director of the dni. the director of national intelligence. what's your perspective about this nomination of john ratcliffe? >> i know john ratcliffe pretty well. his district in texas borders arkansas. we have worked together on a number of issues. john is a seasoned prosecutor. he has now served many years on the house intelligence committee. i think the sound pick and i suspect that john will get a lot of support among the senate. i can't say that many senate democrats support him. they are still suffering from donald trump derangement syndrome and opposing every person the president nominates to

office. i think john ratcliffe is a good pick. i commend the president for it and i thank john for his willingness to search in this new role. >> jason: he really is immensely qualified and a great solid person and i can't imagine there is a single republican that would oppose his nomination we will see how it goes. it is washington, d.c. senator, have you been highly critical of china throughout your career. what's your reaction or perspective on how china has handled the caronavirus in general and are they doing enough today? >> no, they are not doing enough, jason. china has engaged in rampant malpractice, dishonesty and deceitfulness from the very beginning. if they hadn't concealed the outbreak of this violence in early december from the world health organization and own people. they might not only protected their own people effectively but prevented it from spreading all over around the world. they are still lying to their own people and still lying to the world. they are responsible for the spread of this virus outside

of their own borders. that's one reason why we need to take a new look once again at our entire relationship with china, in particular, the relationship we have in trade where we have so many of our medical devices and equipment or even basic pharmaceuticals manufactured in china. i think that's a real surprise to most americans. something i have been working on for a long time to try to change. i suspect that's going to change in the months ahead. >> jason: and then the "new york times" op-ed is calling this the trump virus. you have nancy pelosi and chuck schumer initially there were criticisms that trump was overreacting. now they are saying he is underreacting. again, what's your perspective? >> yeah, this is just an example of the president's critics criticizing anything he does. remember, the single most consequential and valuable thing done to stop this virus from already spreading throughout the united states was when president trump decided to shut down travel to china last month. what happened then? joe biden accused him of

xenophobia. "the washington post" accused him of overreacting. even the so-called experts who opposed the decision at the time now admit that it bought us valuable time to prevent the spread of this virus in the united states. so we can do more to stockpile drugs and medical equipment. work on vaccines and therapeutics and getting testing kits out to the front line. this is just another example though of you who the president is going to be criticized no matter what he does. i know that he is working to make sure that we protect the health and safety of the american people. irrespective of what his critics say. >> jason: senator cotton, thank you for joining us tonight. we do appreciate it. coming up tomorrow, voters head to the polls for the soutsouthcarolina primary. it's make or break for vice president joe biden. today is he actually walking back a false claim he has made. we will explain next as this special edition of hannity continues. ♪ ♪ want to brain better?

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♪ >> jason: this is a fox news alert. the associated press is reporting that governor kate brown is confirmed the first case of caronavirus in oregon. we will continue to follow this story. but, first, as the trump administration takes bold action to combat the caronavirus, democrats are shamelessly playing politics. and trying to use this serious public health threat to attack the president. here's just a small sample. take a look. >> and yesterday donald trump and mike pence decided to silence our leading national medical experts. >> the president is not a scientist. that's a nice ways to put it. [laughter] hard to believe but he doesn't even believe in science. he is not leading, he is reacting and he is reacting

much too late. >> you would think that you would have a president of the united states leading. working with scientists all over the world. bringing people together to figure out how we're going to deal with this crisis. he is here in south carolina. he doesn't even have any opposition in the republican primary. why is he here? he is here to try to disrupt the democratic primary. >> jason: and meanwhile joe biden is still doing clean-up after being caught telling another lie. this time about being arrested in the 1970s while trying to see nelson mandela because he is now claiming that he just misspoke. despite telling the same story multiple times. watch this. >> they had me get off a plane. got short pants and guns let me -- led me biden might be

the one to say the party after all. take a look. >> i saw this last night and i started crying. it's pretty long. we just cut it. this is joe biden at peek biden. he has this way of empathizing with pain and people. is he like the anti-mayor pete. nothing is scripted. >> interesting to me that religious people, some who are on trump's team like evangelicals i don't really understand how they don't go with biden. >> i believe that a man like joe biden is the person that can change sort of the tenor of this country. >> jason: although president

trump isn't buying a biden comeback, just listen to him earlier tonight in south carolina. >> the unemployment rate in the great state of south carolina, you ever hear of that place? [cheers] now sleepy joe would say the unemployment race in the great state of ohio -- no, no, you are in south carolina. joe, joe, you are south carolina. come up. ever see the guy come up -- no, no. it's south carolina. not ohio. okay. [laughter] and then he goes all right. iowa, did you say iowa? no. he did that like seven times. if i did that once, it would be the end of the road, right? it would be the end of the road. they would say trump has lost it. they like to say that anyway, i guess. >> jason: joining me now for reaction former white house chief of staff reince priebus and fox news contributor tammy bruce. thank you both for being here. reince, i want to start with you. because, you have an interesting theory about the

actual trump support. it's actually probably larger because in 2016 there were a lot of republicans that stayed home that have now converted to actually being trump supporters. >> yeah. that's right, jason. if you look at 2016, certainly it was close. and everyone can agree to that. but you take the state of wisconsin and michigan and ohio and all the rest of those battleground states, the president probably left hundreds of thousands of republican votes on the table. take wisconsin, for example, and it's friday so i will show you a note card and you look at these two numbers. now, the president won wisconsin by 22,000 votes. a little bit more than that the first number, the 74,000 that's how many more votes a conservative u.s. senator ron johnson got than president trump. people were not sure but they were going to vote for ron johnson. they weren't 100 percent sure on donald trump. now he is at 95% approval in

the republican party. those 74,000 people are not voting for bernie comrade sanders. and then the second number is how many votes gary johnson got in risk. a libertarian got 106,000 votes in wisconsin. they are not voting for comrade bernie sanders. so if you take the 22,000 that the president won wisconsin, the 74,000 the 106,000. that's plus 200,000 votes just in wisconsin. in 2020 that president trump could get that he didn't get in 2016. the party and the trump campaign, i'm sure, are tearing through that data. and identifying the exact people that they need to identify that will bring more to the table for trump than he had in 2016. >> jason: it's interesting. and very karl rove of you. so thank you, reince

priebus. >> party chairman being in charge of a lot of boring things. that's what party chairman do. >> jason: amen to that tammy, i have got to tell you, democrats more than anything, they just want to win. i don't think they even necessarily care who, they just want to win. but joe biden, who very well might win in south carolina had to apologize again for spewing a lie. >> yeah. >> and you know, where there is a lang of enthusiasm, remember, the clyburn endorsement will make a big difference because of the infrastructure that that brings n get out the vote effort. but when you go past south carolina, there's a problem. the big news for joe biden withins last couple of days was a super pac was going to spend i think like low six figures for him during super tuesday. now, you've got millions that need to be spent and are being spent by the other candidates but it's because the money isn't there for him. and you are looking at infrastructure that still doesn't exist there. so, this is really one state after the other. and he may have, you know,

some lead-off from south carolina going in to super tuesday. which is just obviously a few days later. but the fact is, if there is no money and there is no real infrastructure, what's going to happen here? eneand i think to your point the earlier clip that you played jason, all of those things were lies that the democrats were saying about the president and his response to the caronavirus dynamic while he was gearing up for this and deal with flights and how to get americans back and keep everyone safe. they were still going with impeachment and fake russia hoaxes and even more recently they had pivoted right back to russia. don't forget that this is -- i know we used the word unhinged a great deal but all the american people should be extremely concerned that this is a major american party that has moved into this framework of lies and obstruction without any -- knowing, by the way, that this is a life and death dynamic for all of us.

it transseconds. it doesn't matter what party you are in. could be a governor, a regular worker it. doesn't matter. but the democrats know this and they do not care, it appears. >> jason: america wants us to come together when you are fighting a disease. that's not some political party. >> why are we the only ones saying it. only the republicans are saying it? >> yes. i think america will see through that tammy and reince, thank you so much for joining us this evening. really do appreciate it. >> thanks, jason. >> jason: up next, it is not only the democrats trying to use the caronavirus against president trump. the mainstream media is digging in. you won't believe what they have said in the past 24 hours when hannity continues. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of hannity. just like the democrats, the liberal media has been using the caronavirus outbreak to try to bludgeon president trump. cnn, in particular, is being called out by critics. take a look. >> our government is woefulfully i will prepared, i -- ill preparedit seems at thy stage. you are just getting the sense that the snowball is just starting to go down the hill. >> politically speaking this president may have to reap what he has sown when it comes to the public trust or lack thereof in the institutions built to keep this democracy healthy. >> the president, in front of all of us, we could all see it, struggling to accept the reality of the situation. and what have you seen today

and last night when dow futures fell while that press conference is going on is a no confidence vote from financial markets. >> jason: joining me now with reactiohe hill's joe concha and conservative columnist jeffrey lourdes. i want to go first to you, joe, is the media overplaying their hand here? are they building sensationalism where there isn't as much as they say there is. >> well, jason, fear sells. it's a great motivator and ratings are up this week as a result of caronavirus and rightfully s so. insomething we should take seriously. i saw a headline just yesterday in the "new york times" opinion section that said we might as well just call this trumpvirus instead of caronavirus and that was by gail collins who has been with the paper a long time. think about, this now we are going to blame president trump for caronavirus when this virus originated in communist china. easily the stupidest h

headline of 2020: that wins it no question. this has been going on for a while now where we take a situation and automatically blame the president. for instance, just last year "the washington post" runs a headline and this is from the editorial board by the way. when it comes to extreme weather, and in this case it was about a hurricane, mr. trump is complicit. in other words, a hurricane is about to hit the mainland, u.s., therefore the president somehow is to blame. also, cnn a couple weeks ago ran an analysis a few weeks back that said caronavirus task force, another example of trump administration's lack of diversity. you have to expect at this point that the houston astros cheating scandal is going to be blamed on president trump because of the culture he created and the fact that he and russia cheated to win the 2016 election at least that's the allegation; transfer, trump is to blame for everything, including this virus, we should be educating the american people at this point there's a lot of things that people don't understand and in terms that they mortality rates and in terms of who is most at risk

and that's what should be going on right now not this stupid blame game that everybody is sick of, jason. >> jason: jeffrey, i think the american people do see through this the aabsurdity of it all. when you have the "new york times" op-ed calling it trumpvirus that is pretty over the top, isn't it? >> oh my goodness, absolutely, yes. i'm at cpac. and the vice president was here yesterday. he is doing -- at newly assigned to this. he is doing a great job. secretary azar is doing a great job. but, look, here's the problem. cnn, back in early february, was running a story that said that the trump restrictions on travel from china were not good. they were going to backfire. now they are saying oh, oh, he is not doing enough. you know, this is something where the liberal media has damaged their credibility incredibly with the whole trump-russia collusion hoax. and that "new york times" headline, i will tell you what they didn't say in that story that joe was

referencing. after going after the vice president for being put in charge of this, they never mentioned a word that way back in the way back when the ebola situation was happening the obama administration put not the vice president but the former chief of staff of the vice president then joe biden and a washington lobbyist in charge of their response team. hello, hello. not a peep about that in the "new york times" in the day as i found out today in doing some research for a news buster's column tomorrow. they were glowing. with all sorts of wonderful things to say about this. this is all about double standards. they shot themselves in the foot with their credibility in terms of the american people and this is not going to help them. >> jason: i would argue that having a former governor like mike pence, the current vice president, he knows what these governors are up against. all across the country. because they are going to actually be the front line

and their counties and their health departments are going to be the ones that are going to have to deal with this. and having a former governor helping to lead and spearhead this effort i think is probably going to do as much as anything to instill confidence particularly when it comes to state and local governments. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us tonight. well, coming up, senator ted cruz and congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez exchange some heated jabs on twitter after aoc lashed out at vice president pence. we'll tell you exactly what was said coming up next. ♪ ♪ [ distant band playing ] have you ever wondered what the motorcade driver drives when they're not in a motorcade? [ upbeat music starts ] [ engine revving ] ♪ this one drives a volkswagen passat.

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♪ >> jason: welcome back to this hannity special. congresswoman ocasio-cortez is fanning the flames of caronavirus hysteria.

but senator ted cruz is giving the freshman represenrep amuch needed check. writing on twitter we see evolution every day the dem party is rapidly evolving into an angry anti-scientist social ideology. you insulted pence and i asked you three real questions regarding science you ignored all three and responded with your resume and ad whom them attacks instead of insults, address the substance. joining us now for reaction, american conservative union chairman matt schlapp and senior legal advisor to the trump 2020 campaign jenna ellis. matt, i want to start with you, first of all, congratulations on an amazing cpac. you get grade crowds, amazing speakers and huge crowd there react specifically to this battle back and forth and aoc and what she is trying to spew now. >> yeah. you kind of never know what's coming from the squad and what's coming from aoc. you know, i don't know

whether it's a lack of just education or knowledge or just a desire to constantly propagandize. and i think ted cruz has a mean twitter game by the way. i think that's what we all have to do in this day and age. we have to push back on the facts because they don't have them. socialism doesn't work. and thank god for people like ted cruz who are making the case. >> jason: jenna, when you see this battle back and forth and aoc trying to disparage and take down vice president pence, what's your reaction? >> yeah. this is just yet another low blow and attack based not in fact but just trying to take down vice president pence. and, you know, her tweet started out saying that the vice president literally doesn't believe in science. i mean, this is the party that refuses to see the evidence that shows that an unborn child is a human being that is living and valuable inside the womb. and wants abortion on

demand. this is the party that believes that there is 37 genders and whatever one feels that can be their identity. let's remember, why was it such a joke when elizabeth warren 1/1,024th of her d.n.a. proved that she wasn't actually the american indian that she claimed to be. why? because of science. we can look at nay and we can see that the democrats are completely on the wrong side of the truth here. and for her to make that claim, aoc to make this claim against vice president pence is just ridiculous. that's right. it's trying to propagandize and start a battle that she can't win and so she needs to -- yeah, she just needs to be quiet and i think that ted cruz's twitter game is great. >> jason: i think ted cruz did put her back in her place. matt, cpac there, expensives from all over the country, really the world that have come in, there what's their reaction to socialism and the type of future that an aoc is trying to convince

america that they should change to? whole theme is america vs. socialism not capitalism. it strips each individual of their human dignity. tonight our keynote address at our reagan dinner was trump's national security advisor ambassador robert o'brien. and he told the crowd what the trump doctrine is overseas on socialism and, of course, we never want it to seep into this country. we have the son of president of brazil here talking about what socialism does. it destroys, it wreaks havoc. it creates poverty. human misery, and you know what, jason, you know, this it has absolutely never worked anywhere ever. >> jason: no, it hasn't. it hasn't. i'm glad you are doing that robert o'brien is one of the best editions to the trump administration. matt and jenna, thank you so

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♪ >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." i made an ongoing suit and total exposure of his corrupt dealings , hunter biden is attempting to create a new picture of himself in the public eye. breaking news correspondent trace gallagher joins us here in studio. >> great to be here. hunter biden says he took up painting after his brother died of brain cancer in 2018. he admits doing something artistic is a big step considering during his years as a crack addict and an alcoholic he didn't read, write, or think. he said, for years i wouldn't call myself an artist. now i feel comfortable saying it. you have to be really focused in

order to be able to alert or alter it to your own imagination. his art has been described as psychedelic florals. biden was also involved in a lengthy paternity battle with the former arkansas stripper who used dna to prove he fathered her child. now he's been ordered to appear in arkansas court room settle child support payments by reviewing years of his financial records, including his lucrative, controversial and baffling stint as a board member of the ukraine energy giant, burisma. one art expert says she thinks biden could have a big career in the art world. of course, because of his last name. >> jason: i can't wait to see this piece of psychedelic floral art that you talk about. trace, thank you so much. unfortunately that is all the time we have left this evening. as always, thank you for being with us. sean will be back on monday. you don't want to miss it. have a great weekend. let not your heart be troubled,

laura ingraham is up next. ♪ ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from charleston, south carolina, tonight on the eve of the democratic primary. now, we are coming to you live from the historic palmetto brewery, the oldest brewery in the state. of course were coming for the beer. is there politics involved? yes. charleston is absolutely hopping tonight. the president just mapped a massive rally at the coliseum a few miles from here and just to give you an idea about how passionate the crowd was, folks were barbecuing. i kid you not, they brought their own barbecues, at 4:00 a.m. this morning. that is