>> tucker: bigotry. you pointed it out. i wish we had more time. i appreciate you coming on tonight. good for you for b being on. tethank you. that time, jason chaffetz in for "hannity". ♪ >> jason: welcome to this special edition of "hannity," i am jason chaffetz in for sean. tonight we start on capitol hill where house speaker nancy pelosi is about to run through a $3 trillion liberal wish list filled with proposals that are totally unrelated to covid-19. the bill is so blatantly partisan and toxic that some democrats are coming out against it. democratic congresswoman kendra horn from oklahoma wrote, "this is not the time for partisan gamesmanship." democratic representative abigail sandberger from virginia tweeted "this bill stands far

beyond delivering delay for responding to an urgent crisis. and it has no chance of becoming law." she is right. this bill will die in the senate. this is nothing more than a political stunt in the middle of a national crisis. joining us now live with the very latest detail is chad pergram, chad. >> good evening, jason. they are in the middle of this vote right now and there are 12 no's on the board so the democrats have a little bit of a push and they can lose up to 17. this is the largest bill in u.s. history. no hearings on this bill and it provides money for the postal service, there is food aid, direct payments that the democrats wanted and the cost traumatized some. and the moderate democrats from battle ground districts, abigail spanberger of virginia oppose the bill and some were concerned that they would weaponize the bill against them, but actually gives the democrats like them a chance to vote no and show

independence for the speaker of the house. the bill was written by nancy pelosi as a nod to her left flank, but it was actually liberals who wanted to deliver the vote because of size and scope. washington was a "no" and not enough money for minority businesses and did not safeguard tensions. mitch mcconnell of the senate majority leader says he wants to hit the pause button on these big bills for coronavirus and not ruled out doing another pill. as you know, the speaker of the house nancy pelosi, she is always in negotiation and from her perspective, the start of negotiation. the chair of the federal reserve jake powell said more money could boost the economy. something else that happened in our note half ago they have approved proxy voting in the house of representatives. 217-189, that was a party line vote and that means on future votes, all members don't have to

show up here they can phone in their votes. and the monitor, this bill is passing and there are still 12 democratic no's on the board. one republican, this is expected to pass by a narrow margin, jason back to you. >> jason: chad, thank you. joining us with reaction house majority steve scalise, the chairman matched with the favorite new york congressman lee zeldin and fox news contributor charlie hurt. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining all of us with us tonight. i want to start with you, steve scalise. i have got to tell you, this does give nancy pelosi more power when she tells members of congress, you don't even need to show up anymore. and we can vote without you, right? >> yes, jason it gives nancy pelosi power, but imagine being a democrat that goes back home in a swing district.

you just voted to give your voting card in congress to nancy pelosi. she doesn't represent the values of a lot of those districts. you know you signed on for san francisco values and by the way, what are you doing that and why are you collecting a paycheck if you want nancy pelosi to be the one to vote for you and represent your district and you are representing a swing state somewhere else? this will be a tough vote for people to explain. it is unconstitutional first of all, because a quorum under this resolution they passed him a 20 people on the floor. 20 democrats can constitute a form of the house of representatives, 435 people. that goes against article 1 of the constitution but they don't care about that, they want to consolidate power and spend money. a drunken sailor would be implanted to be compared to them with what they do but this bill, illegal, taxpayer funding with abortion. >> jason: congressman i have to ask you, does this mean you will challenge this in court?

will you go to court and challenge the constitutionality of this? >> if they pass any bill using these new rules, they haven't done it yet, but they are creating this opportunity to have 20 people on the board the constitute a form and nancy pelosi to hold the voting courts have so many people. it will be challenged. it will be challenged. >> jason: that will be interesting because i believe you would certainly have standing, congressman selden, this vote being voted on on the verge of passing $3 trillion. this thing is loaded up with all kinds of things. how do you see this bill? >> over 1800 pages, $3 trillion and this isn't a bill drafted by partisanship, debates, compromise, none of that. it gives a stimulus check to people illegally in the country, massive prison delays, legalizes throughout their harvesting. and it outlaws voter i.d.

it extends unemployment in a way that will keep people out of work for almost another year. i will add another one to that commit provides more money with local governments in the hundreds of billions and beyond what the local governments are even asking asking for. speaker pelosi chose bipartisan pass to nowhere rather than pursuing the alternative which was working with president trump, working with congressional republicans and tried to negotiate a compromise. this is something to appease her left flank. this is one that turns off most of america, and she is going to end up with a bill dead on arrival in the senate and not going anywhere. it is a strategic failure on her part on multiple levels, on the substance and this is a waste of everyone's time and certainly a lot of tax dollars, especially the liberal items totally unrelated to coronavirus response. >> jason: matt, if you spend a million dollars every day it would take you 3,000 years to get to $1 trillion and this is $3 trillion.

that is $10,000 per person in the united states of america so why not give them $10,000 each? >> thanks for doing the math for me, jason, because it is staggering. we already did $3 trillion. i think what republicans are saying which is rational, let's let all of the money. we have already spent like drunken sailors because the government shut down american businesses. let that capitalize in the system. jason, this is the critical point, which is more bridges and more stimulus is not what the american economy nor its people need. they need to be legally allowed to go back to work. they need to be able to open up their shops. if you are a mom and pop, you should be able to be open like the big box retailers are able to be open. we have this indiscriminate silly rules by most blue state governors, and it needs to end. no business can survive if it can't make a product nor transact with customers. it is simply that clear.

>> jason: now, charlie the democrats have tried to say oh, we need to work together. we have to find something that is bipartisan, but nancy pelosi did not do any of that. they say one thing and do something totally opposite. how in the world to they go back to the american people and say hey, we are the adults in the room and we will work together to get things done when they put this monstrosity in front of the congress and then vote to say, hey, we don't need to come back in session. >> it is incredible. they should be a real wake-up call because if anybody doubts what is at stake in this election coming up, this is what is at stake. this is what these people will do. if they can hold control of the house, they get control of the senate and lord forbid they get control of the white house, this is the kind of insanity that you will be looking at. and of course, i've seen the particulars are just astonishing.

the soft illegal aliens from all of that stuff is absolutely, just absolutely reprehensible. but let's step back for a minute. how in the world does piling $3 trillion in additional debt on hardworking americans, how does that help them recover from this pandemic and recover from shutting down the economy? and we should look back. imagine where we would be right now, jason, had we not piled up $20 trillion of debt on hardworking american taxpayers? all of these people want to do is i will more and more on there. and with that comes just mountains of regulations that throttle american ingenuity and industry and work that destroys americans. >> jason: congressman

scalise, you are in leadership there. nancy pelosi and what she has done is signaled also in the bill that the house of representatives may not come back into session until july 21st. i mean, why do members of common courtesy get paid if they don't have to go to work? postal workers go to work. truckers will go to work. health care workers go to work, but nancy pelosi is saying, no need to show up to work anymore. >> can you imagine even the united states senate is going to work. there is no reason. we were here today voting. there were about 24 members who couldn't make it out of 435, and so to suggest it is complicated to get here is fallacy. the way she did this, it is about a power grab and certainly has nothing to do with health and safety. as you mentioned, we have the front line workers back in the hospitals, grocery stores, and out in louisiana today, we started opening up so you can go into a restaurant and finally going into places of worship. and yet, she will say that she doesn't want congress to be meeting in washington, debating bills, but she would rather take

your proxy vote and hold onto it so she can vote for you. i will tell you this, and of course, jason, you would not do this either, nancy pelosi would not get my vote, and she sure wouldn't get yours. but anyone that voted for this bill today, how do they go back home and explain today they voted to allow nancy pelosi to vote for them so they don't have to go to work anymore? why don't they just resign their seat and send somebody up here he wants to come and fight up here in washington. >> jason: thank you so much. congressman zeldin, last word quickly. we have 15 seconds. >> if there is a member of house leadership who in the house of representatives is not essential, that house leadership management should step aside. if there is any of the house, nonessential, they should step aside. we should be here. we should not be going home right now. there is important work to do for the american people, economy, businesses, the workers, and everyone is leaving. you pointed out it might be a long time before we come back.

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♪ >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." now mjoe biden's biggest opponent continues to be... himself. after another disastrous media blip last night where joe tried to talk to a prerecorded video. have a look. >> hi, president biden. thank you so much for allowing me to participate in this town hall with you. >> thank you. >> jason: things only got worse from there because biden is telling democrats who believe tara reade's sexual assault allegation not to vote for him. and he is still claiming he had no involvement in spying on michael flynn. take a look.

>> what do you say to one who are ready to vote for joe biden, eager to vote for joe biden but this gives them serious pause because they do believe tara reade, and you will not change their mind about that. what would you say to them about their vote? >> i think they should vote their hearts. if they believe tara reade, they probably shouldn't vote for me. i wouldn't vote for me if i believe tara reade. >> mr. president, what was your involvement in the investigation of michael flynn and the fbi investigation of michael flynn? >> i was never a part or had any knowledge of any criminal investigation into flynn while i was in office, period. >> jason: seriously? even as the media continues to play defense for biden, he can't get out of his own way. just listen to biden watching again, key details about the impact of the coronavirus. take a listen.

>> where, we are in the middle of a pandemic that cost us 85,000 jobs as of today. lives of millions and millions of people, millions of jobs. >> jason: it's not just numbers giving trouble. he is struggling to keep track of who's who in his own party. take a look at him andrew young. watch this. >> i'm sure we can do better on the internet. i'm positive of that, but the fact is we are trying, recent events of instagram, the leading soccer players in the world, the latest episode of here's the deal podcast with andrew young. we are trying to get better with it. >> jason: it is andrew yang. he ran against you for the presidency and he was on the show. his name is andrew yang. for nonstop pointers to

corruption with his sons overseas dealings in ukraine to now being implicated in the biggest abuse of power in corruption scandal in american history, joe biden keeps putting his campaign and nonstop damage control. and continues to race further and further left to try to pander to the new extreme socialist. like picking alexandria ocasio-cortez to serve on his campaign climate change panel. but tonight it could not be clearer with 171 days until election day, the democratic party finds itself in a state of dysfunction, division and all-out desperation. joining me now for a reaction, fox news contributor ari fleischer. ari, i do appreciate you joining us tonight. i mean, i can be on the air every hour and probably give you a new joe biden plunder, but is that just prebaked into the electorate? is this that they will accept

the way he is or does this actually catch up to him? >> first of all, jason, i think you have to put into context, remember how exhausted he has to be from the travel he's doing. i do think you have to make an allowance for that. he has to go down for stairs to the basement, come upstairs from the basement. travel can really wear you down when you are running for president. look, i do think that it's baked in in a serious element where people notice joe biden. but the real question is, is something going on that is getting worse? this is where i regret the fact that the candidates are stuck home. it is only right for the american people to see these people in the thick of a campaign where they are metal is tested. let's see what joe biden has got. let's see if this is minor things and lots of people can get mixed up on words, statistics or numbers wrong. it does happen, but is this really a feature of joe biden that is getting worse or a one

offset that we all have sometimes? a campaign contest that. we want all the candidates to be tested to. >> jason: that's what i like about a campaign. it is difficult and the camera is on you 24/7. it is grueling that that is part of the way we shake the tree to see who the nuts are and you are right, walking in the basement, really not that much of a test. one of the things i see joe biden continue to do is to the left, normally candidates wrap this up they go to the center, but that's not what he's doing. >> he's not doing it because the democratic party stop doing that a long time ago when it was going to the center. there is a gallup poll in 1994 when bill clinton was president that 25% of the democrats self identify as liberals. today it is 51% of democrats self identify as liberals. so there is hardly in a conservative or moderate democrats left. so he is a party running for to

the left. but alexandria ocasio-cortez putting her on the cochair about climate? what kind of terrible signal is that to put a socialist in charge of your climate committee and america's energy needs? there is one thing about running to the left, there is another running off the cliff in the left. that is an indication he's heading that direction. and also it just shows he's not strong enough to stand by his track record where he was previously known for some moderate votes. he's walked away from all of it. what kind of stretched my backbone do you have when you change who you are, such a great degree so fast, including -- >> jason: now the senate will wrap up and start to ramp up, i should say some heavy duty investigations. you have attorney general barr, durham doing their investigation. you have lindsey graham, senator johnson, senator grassley, very keen on getting to the bottom what happened with the whole russia

hoax, but that will come to play soon. how is joe biden going to handle that when he can't even admit he was part of unmasking michael flynn and it's in black-and-white? >> well, you pointed out, jason, one of the ways he will handle this is to shield him from having to handle it because the press won't go there. even a long hour interview, on msnbc commit he didn't even ask him a question until the very end and he let it go. no follow-up, note tough questions about it. why do you need to unmask general plan? what were you told? what did barack obama say and what did you say to barack obama? none of that is being presented to joe biden in any way if there is pressure on him. so will conservative outlets be able to ask those questions when he is out? may be but they protect him then too. the staff shield him and this is what is sad about the media

breakdown today. these are legitimate, good, fair questions and who is asking them of joe biden? >> jason: it is so true, ari, the intellectual curiosity of the media has gone out the door. i have to tell you eight and a half years in congress, one of my biggest disappointment some of the icon in the national so-called mainstream media were not inquisitors. they did not call balls and strikes. they had an agenda and it was clear to me at the end of that. i know you are right about that. thank you so much for joining us. have a wonderful weekend. go ahead, go ahead. >> let me just add this, there is a reason people are a mess to begin with. and anybody who cares about civil liberty should pay attention to it. the government did not have a warrant and they listen to your phone calls. people should be masked. >> jason: that's right. that should be a bipartisan thing no matter what. again, ari, thank you so much. coming up we have an important question, does the left ever

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♪ >> jason: this is a fox news alert. the house just passed pelosi's $3 trillion coronavirus bill. also tonight, ever since the first cases of coronavirus showed up in the united states, president trump is working to combat the deadly virus. today he took that battle to the next level when he announced a public-private partnership to develop a coronavirus backseat. watch this. >> today i want to update you on the next stage of this momentous medical initiative. it is called "operation warp speed" which means big and fast, massive scientific industrial and logistical endeavor unlikear anything our country has seen since the manhattan project. it is subjective to finish e

developing of manufacturing and distributing a proven coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible. again, we would love to see if we can do it prior to the end of the year.t >> jason: joining us now with more from washington is kevin corke, kevin. >> jason, go to be with you. president trump optimistic as you can imagine doubling down on his belief that americans could see a vaccine for the coronavirus by the end of the year. in fact, he said as much at the event you showed of today. his administration, of course the latest efforts to get a vaccine. dubbed "operation warp speed." >> we think we will have a vaccine and the pretty near future. if we do, we will really be a big step ahead.>> and like so many other cases where you have a problem come in and go away at some point. >> the former head glaxo smith kline to lead that effort

alongside four-star army general gustav burnham. white house officials insist that yes, it is an aggressive timeline for the vaccine, it just a goal, not a certainty but they will give everything they have, jason. and also reopening the economy could well prove just as important as long-term health of the country, jason. >> jason: kevin, thank you. while the trump administration is doing everything it can to get america reopened quickly and safely, some of the left appeared toke be spreading fear about the push to reopen thehe country. i now that some governors have taken steps to loose l and stayt home orders, the media once again showing liberal bias. for example the governors of georgia and colorado have both taken similar steps to reopen their state. but brian kemp of georgia, a republican is -- they accused him of experimenting with "human

sacrifice. despite the media's fearmongering, many americans have had enough with the forced lockdown. earlier today, hundreds of pennsylvanians gathered around the state capital to protest coronavirus restrictions put in place two monthshs ago by goverr tom wolf. and don't forget the passionate rant against the lockdown pipe burst tool sports founder dave portnoy that has gone viral, elon musk the owner of tesla who stood up to the overbearing regulations in california praised dave portnoy saying he should join for office. and guilt by accusation and alan dershowitz and author of the russia hoax, one of the best books on the topic, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us tonight. i want to start with you. you are actually in georgia. one of the things that bothers me isme the way they treated brian kemp the governor who took one of the first steps out there

compared to jared polis a liberal democrat the governor of colorado. because they really did do similar things. >> excuse me, here in georgia, have been following it closely. in a desperate treatment, jason is quite striking. governor kemp and bludgeoned daily by the mainstream media, mostly the national media. you are right the atlanta accusing him of human sacrifice and the national journal three weeks ago wrote "mark this day three weeks from now, there will be blood on his hands." and of course the opposite has actually occurred. the total number of cases declined by 12% and just above that with the treatment of gerald the democratic governor, a word of criticism by the media. and so the lesson is really twofold. number one, the media is perpetuated wrong and number two hopelessly and profoundly bias

and thus the moniker fake news, which is richly deserved. >> jason: now, alan, you have a democratic history and a perspective in your background. how do you read this? because it doesn't seem, at least as conservative when i see brian kemp on this topic and it doesn't seem the same went jared polis't was a friend of mine but about as liberal as you get health care in colorado. they don't treat them even closn to be the same. >> look i'm a liberal democrat ten i want to praise president trump for initiating this warp speed manhattan project. that is what we should be doingt getting a virus, giving it as quickly as possible, the tresources. i don't care if it is pelosi to desert or trunk that does it. i refuse to be partisan when it comes to fighting this horrible coronavirus.

i don't think we should be partisan. we are all in this together. it is a reflection how bad things have become in this country that even the virus becomes a divisive issue based on partisanism. again, i was in his role and i was with my friend benjamin netanyahu two nights before election when he closed down their country. he got universal support money close down andt s now, he's opd up and he's getting support, not on partisan grounds. people still vote against him, but the issue of the disease has become partisan. i think that is true in most of the cases in america. everything is partisan. >> and it doesn't attack democrats or republicans or liberals separately. we have to do two things. public health and save our economy.

and strike the appropriate balance. >> jason: you bring up the good point, the president to accelerate the way we produce a vaccine and you would think both sides of the aisle would stand up and applaud, but they don't, but they don't. alan dershowitz, great job my thank you for joining us tonight. appreciate it. all right, coming up, casey mcfarlane and reince priebus will await you in on the scandal that is rocking washington and the swamp. as well as the left. and later, we will discuss the weirdly cordial relationshipp between democrats and the communist party of china hashe this special edition of "hannity" continues. ♪

♪ >> jason: welcome back to this "hannity" special, far left overreach. bombshell new developments and perhaps the biggest abuse of power scandal in american history.

the president is calling it obamagate and a recent interview with maria bartiromo, he a message for those who abuseor their power in the unmasking scandal, watch this. >> it was the greatest political crime in the history of our country. if i were a democrat instead of a republican, i think everybody would have been in jail a long timeer ago, and i'm talking with 50 yearep sentences. it is a disgrace what has happened. this is the greatest political scam, hoax, in the history of our country. >> jason: president trump also asked a great question about the flynn case on twitter. where is the 302? remember as trey gowdy pointed out, leaking flynn's unmasked name to the media is a felony punishable up to ten years in prison. joining is now correction the author of "revolution: trump,

washington, and we the people" former national security kt mcfarland and best law and former white house chief of staff reince priebus. thank you for being here. and kt mcfarland. i want to start with you. 302 developed by the fbi don't report interviews but they will take and make note for the record and it is called a 302 and supposed to be done within five days of an interview. but the president points out and there hasn't been enough attention, where's the 302 on michael flynn? >> this is the most important set of notes taken by the fbi in decades. the fact that it is mysteriously missing is really, completely unbelievable. what a 302 and this has happened in my case as well, the two fbi agents sit down, one is a notetaker and then senior one starts out asking the questions. and between the two of them, they take notes but the junior takes the notes.

they leave in the two agents who are supposed to get together, go back and forth with each other, and then make especially a record. so the problem with the 302 to start with because what if done inaccurately or taken things aia little bit out of context? they are not taking shorthand, and as you point out, these are notac recordings. so the 302 never considered to be 100% accurate to start with. the fact that these were added general flynn edited so many times and the originals mysteriously gone, it just doesn't pass the smell test. >> jason: how convenient. you were the chiefig of staff. you were actually on fox & friends, and i believe you were on fox news sunday.y. and you had said that senior people within the intelligence committee have told you that there was nothing to this so-called interaction between the trump campaign and russia.

explain to us what ultimately happened and how did this go down? >> thanks, jason. i started telling sean hannity part of the story on monday in the first "new york times" story hit that said they were constant russian contacts between the trump campaign and russia. mccabe came into my office in the doorway shut. he told me that the story was b.s., inaccurate. i said, what can you do about it? he told me to call them back in two hours, i did, and there was nothing that i could do, but later in the afternoon, jim comey gave me a callll and i said to him, what are we going to be able to do about this? mccabe came here and he said there's nothing that can be done about it. and he specifically told me that i could say that "the new york times" story was inaccurate, overstated and wrong. that was in february 2017 that the story was wrong. so i said, i can say this on television and i have been informed this story is

inaccurate and wrong? the answer, yes! i was very careful. i was careful to a fault in fact. so i will not go on tv and say something like that if i wasn't given authority to do that. so i went on television fox news sunday and other shows and i told anyone who would listen that i had been informed by the intelligence committee that the story about constant russian campaign l was wrong. in fact, of course, it didn't matter because we spent the next two years fighting the same kinds of people that publicly were saying the story was true, but then privately, telling everybody that it was wrong. and obviously, it's been going on for years. >> jason: to the two of you, there in the white house in those early days when this ambush was set up, the senior levels of the department of justice, my hats go off to you and to general flynn. i got to tell you, it doesn't

smell like, it doesn't look right and all we ask for is the truth. and you can't even find it, that is ridiculous. i wish i had an hour to explore this with you, but i have to go. i appreciate both of you for joining men tonight. all right, coming up next, a report on china's rampant dishonesty, and we will ask the question, why are democrats refusing to call them out? stay with us as the special edition of "hannity" continues. ♪ refusing to call them out? stay with us as

♪ >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." well nancy pelosi busy pushing another far left wishlist under the guise of a coronavirus package, she is also slamming president trump for daring to take on china. have a listen to this. >> let me just say that what the president is saying that china is interest is an interesting diversion.et right now our focus should be on meeting the needs of the american people. >> jason: a diversion? the democrats are pulling even further left than we thought. now apologizing for the communist party of china and downplaying their involvement in the spread of the coronavirus. but republican lawmakers understand the threat all too

well. according to an outlet run by the communist party, china is now considering punitive measures against missouri attorney general eric smit who filed a lawsuit against china for the damage caused to his date. let's face it, the chinese government cannot be trusted. according to "the new yorkrk po" might try and it isn't just fudging their death toll numbers by a little bit, try by over ihalf a million. joining me with reaction author of the "the coming collapse of china" and gordon chang, michael pillsbury, thank you for joining us tonight. michael and want to start with you. nancy pelosi says, you know, this is just a diversion. isn't this quarter to oneno of e big problems that is happening in the world right now? >> yes, and also china says the same thing. the chinese and the democrats in congress have pretty much taken

the same line over the past months but there is nothing to investigate and china. both china and the democrats have accused president trump of botching the recovery. they have almost daily stories and their newspapers on the front page about how much mr. trump is not doing well and not doing the right thing. today, jason they had a huge photo in color from a bright, the whistle-blower and said he w is basically correct. so we have this strange enlightenment of the democrats in congress with the communist party in china. i can't explain it. >> jason: the ties to the chinese government but they are going after the missouri attorney general, eric schmidt and also mention senator tom cotton and senator josh hawley. how big of a threat is this to the three americans who are in

elected offices? >> i think what the communist party is worried about is an investigation issue into the origins of the coronavirus will show the malign actions ofic beijing. that beijing took action that it knew would inevitably lead to the discredithe of coronavirus e on china's borders. now you have senator cotton, senator foley and a number of political figures who have been pressing china and not giving up and not merely the important thing because we need to get to the bottom of this because china says that we need to cooperate with him but how can you cooperate with someone who has deliberately killed 87,000m americans? to me, we have to answer the core question. >> jason: we have to be careful. we don't know that they were purposely were trying to do that to americans, but an investigation would certainly lead a long way. we have only got a few seconds left here. but to the core of the question that was asked at the beginning, michael, why are the democrats so hesitant to actually join republicans and join america in the concern about what china was

involved with with the virus? >> jason, i think it is the kind of syndicalism they have about the elections. admit that president trump was right in 2016 campaign, china has been taking advantage of us and it is theyto stop that behavior, are essentially surrending to president trump successful dealing with china. and it will look bad in the polls. they will probably lose the house and president trump will stay in the white house. there is a lot at stake. >> jason: gordon, i have to get yours -- if only got ten seconds. give me your quick thought on this. >> of the democratic policy establishment is pro-engagement, pro-beijing and so the democratic party is responding to the advisors it has in addition to all the other reasons michael talked about.

>> jason: gentlemen, thank you. i have to leave it there. all right, earlier today former new jersey governor chris christie had some heated moments with the ladies on "the view." we will play the tape next as this special edition of "hannity" continues.

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>> when it comes to actually helping people, republicans don't -- all of a sudden, we don't have any money. >> what is unfair, joy, is to say that republicans don't support this and only have money for big business. that is a typical democratic talking point. >> they want to pay rent and mortgages, they don't have money for that vehicle that's what the are -- and i don't see republican party helping, they are blaming everybody else. >> that's just wrong. it's t just absolutely wrong. you're welcome to your views, but not your own set of facts. republicans support all of those programs you just talked about, food programs, aid programs to small businesses, aid for the frontline health workers at hospitals. all those things have gotten overwhelming, in fact, unanimous, republican support. >> jason: governor christie, we like it. well done. unfortunately, that's all the time we have tonight. i want to put in a pitch for my book "the deep state." it is certainly timely. sean hannity will be back on monday, i appreciate him letting

me sit in his seat. i hope you have a great and cwonderful weekend. we'll have great time. ♪ ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. can you believe it's almost six months into the covid pandemic might at least now we know more about the virus, and the so-called experts who botched everything from ventilator needs to how lethal the virus actually is. but of course, the new reality, the information that is coming in, the accurate data, the picture of this whole thing, it hasn't stopped the left-wing politicians from trying to use the crisis for political ends. we are going to get into that tonight. also, just how damaging will it be for our kids to keep them out of school in the fall, or maybe even all of next year?