that's it for us tonight. have the best memorial day with they, ones you love. ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to this special edition of "hannity." for the full hour, we will highlight the best moments of my interviews with president trump, and we start in april when we spoke about the w.h.o., china, and joe biden. let's take a look. i'm going to scroll a timeline of the white house, federal government, what they have done, just information for our audience at home, and i want to go back to ten days after the first known coronavirus case. it was given a name on january 7th, the first known case in the u.s. was january 21. your travell ban, which joe bidn called xenophobic, hysterical, and fearmongering, was ten days

after the first known case in america.ri what drew your attention immediately towards that, when i don't think many people liked the idea, at the time, tell us why you move that quickly? because that really had not been done before. >> president trump: all you had to really do was look at what was happening in china. you took a look at what was happening in wuhan province, and it was terrible. i it was -- i don't know if they were shielding it or not, but they didn't do much in terms of shielding it because you saw the death, there was a lot of death, and people coming into ouruc country from china, and i was -- i was excoriated by the fake news and by the press, by these people that are bad people, they are just bad people. they cannot love our country, i can tell you, they just excoriated -- and they weren't doing it for any reason other than it was me, there was somebody else that did it, i think you probably would have had a much different reaction,,

but i closed it, and a lot ofth people didn't -- a lot of very good people didn't think i should close it.t a lot of people in the i administration felt i should enclose it. many people. most people. right it was a very early move, and it turned out to save a lot of lives, fortunately, when i closed also to europe, and then to u.k. >> sean: let me ask on a personal level, i saw -- i've known you for 25 years, and i remember the question about how -- what are you telling barron, your youngest son? and you said, it's bad. tell us how you feel, any subsequent conversations with him or the rest of your family? >> president trump: once you get it, i mean, if you are in the wrong group, if you have a medical condition, if you are older, it seems, all there is certainly prime time for this, this plague, this horrible virus.

but if you are in a certain condition -- which is not necessarily a good condition, it's vicious, what it does. it rips your lungs apart. it's a very, very -- it's a very tough thing to have come a very tough thing -- you see that. you look at what is going on with the hospitals in new york and new jersey, i was watching a little while ago, and it's terrible, terrible thing. >> sean: you said in your press conference today you are looking to put a hold on money sent to the world health organization. s we are the number one contributor, no shock there. also, this study out of great britain, 95% of this could have been prevented, had china open themselves up to the assistance that i know you and secretary pompeo would have been forthcoming immediately. where are you out with the world health organization, where are you at with china? because they are lying played a detrimental role, not only for the u.s., butit for the world.

>> president trump: so we just signed a great trade deal with china, they are supposed to be spending closese to $250 billion -- we never had a trade deal, they ripped us left and right for years and yearshe and decades, and you have the world trade organization, you are world health, and you have thean world trade, the world tre organization was a horror for us because china got in and fromio the day they got in, they took advantage of world trade, and especially with the united states, we never had a president that did anything about it or an administration or anybody. we had no trade deal -- you know, a lot of people think we had a bad deal with china, we had no deal with china, they did whatever they wanted, and what i've done and we have a very strong deal, they are supposed to buy $250 billion -- with a b -- that's phase one. we are getting, 25% on $250 billion. we never had anything -- look, china has done a great job, but we've rebuilt china because we

gave them so much money for so many decades, we poured money into china, and it's absolutely ridiculous what we did. as far as -- and that was a world trade. now, world health, you have a world health, larry china-centric, as i say, very basically everything was very positive for china, but don't close your borders. they told me -- they strongly recommended, they are not telling me, but they strongly recommended that we not close our borders, that would have been a disaster. that would have been a total disaster, and literally, they called everydes, shot wrong. they didn't want to stay where it came from. look, we spend, for many years, we have been funding -- as we say, w.h.o., the world health organization. and for years, we funded them, and it's probably spending at a year, but itn is much more than that, because then we funded some of the work they do -- which is some good work. but we are going to look at it now, because every -- i think every step that they made,

everything that they said was wrong. and always in favor of china. keep it open, don't close the borders. now, i didn't listen to them, and i did what i wanted to do, and it was a good move, but there were other things, too, where it came from, the extent of it, how serious it was. they never viewed it as of that serious. if so, you know, it's one of those things. and we are the one that is the primary funder, so we are going to take a very strong look at that. t >> sean: i've been more critical, i guess, of governor cuomo, and i've had him on my radio show, somebody that was raised in long island, new york, i live in new york, i want to help the people of this state. at different times, he was extraordinarily critical, and you seem to be willing to give more of a pass, meaning the governor of new york. i mean, you sent to the navy hospital ship the comfort, the army corps of engineers not only built the largest hospital the

country, the javits center wasn't originally designed for covid-19 patients, now both the ship and that center will in fact take covid-19 patients on, building hospitals in new york and new jersey, westchester, elsewhere, louisiana, other hot spots around the country. you sent over 5,000 ventilators, all of the hydroxychloroquine he could want. you know, but yet, he was given a very strong recommendation by his task force to purchase 15,783 ventilators, and it was clear, this is a predictable event, when an influenza pandemic occurs, this is your shortfall, and he didn't buy any, and he was at one point kind of yelling at the federal governmentic to provide it. you've done a lot for new york, i am scrolling it on the screen. usually, you are a little more political than that, i was a little surprised. >> president trump: well, i am a diplomat, too.

since i became president, i had to do things differently. i've known andrew a long times, he has a hard time getting out the words "thank you, you did a great job," but he has been pretty good over the last week or so. it's turning out i am right, because they wanted 40,000 ventilators, 40,000, and they are not going to need anywhere near that, and we said that, now they haveat plenty, and if they need some more, we can get them some more, because we have a stockpile we have built up for emergencies, but you know, we built the largest hospital in the country in four days. we just converted the ship, because they were very fewew other -- people aren't driving cars, we don't have motorcycle accidents, nothing, so i just agreed, and we are doing this for new jersey and for new york, governor murphy of new jersey has been very generous. he's been terrific. he's doing a great job. look, they are all doing a good job. most of the governors -- i can tell you a few that are doing a good job, there are a few that

are doing a poor job, and we will back the people where you have a bad governor, and you have some governors thatob are t doing a good job, but you see, this is where age and experience come in, rather than naming them tonight on your show, i won't bother.s >> sean: [laughs] >> president trump: they are happy with the job we're doing, they turn out to be right. you didn't need as many beds as they thought, certainly didn't need as many ventilators, and now you see where the state of washington and other, california, by the way, also doing a very good job. governor newsom, gavin.ee we've had a lot of coordination, i've gotten along very well with andrew.. we are sending them, i think, far more than they ever thought. i didn't know mayor de blasio, the doctor to know him a bit, we have a good relationship, he is working very hard -- he is, he is trying very hard,it it's a tough thing, new york city hospitals, at least until a lot of troops, and what he wanted more than anything, you want to

the ventilators, we got them, but he wanted -- he needed troops. he needed medical troops. and we got him a lot, doctors, nurses, you know, it's very tough to get, obviously, and so, we've gotten along very well with mayor de blasio. i think we've gotten along very. well with andrew. and most of the governors, i mean, a couple i could tell you wouldn't matter what you did, you could give them ten timese more than they asked, if the newspaper called and wanted a quote, they would give you a bad quote, because that is the way they are, they are political animals, and you know, this is beyond politics, what we have been going through here. the federal government, the army corps of engineers, fema, what they've done, i don't think there's anybody in the world could have done -- the hospitals that we built in chicago, the hospitals that we built all over the country, we built a beauty in louisiana, in four days, works very well with john bel. john bel edwards is the governor there, we worked very well with

him in louisiana, that was the surprise, because it sprung up from nowhere, it just from nowhere. i don't know, i think we've gotten along -- i got along very well with andrew cuomo, really. >> sean: let me move on. really, just slightly a little over a month ago, all of the coverage on news was super tuesday. i mean, what a difference, boy, sua month could make. now that we are 200 and, what, ten days away from a general election, and joe biden, by the way, as of last friday, has now come on board, i would argue months late, with the travely, ban, and he's been running his podcast on this podcast network thing whatever he is doing, but he said at the time you were xenophobic, that you were hysteria -- spreading hysteria, and fearmongering, and you had a phone call with him this week, what do you think of his sudden change of heart on the

xenophobic travel ban, and how did the call with him go? >> president trump: the call went very well. he called me, and we had a talk. it lasted 15 minutes, but it was a nice talk, it was a very friendly talk, and he gave me some things he believes, and i was -- you know, i felt the call is very nice. we agreed we wouldn't talk about what we discussed, but i thought ital was nice. he did call me separately from the call, he didn't say it on the call, but xenophobic -- somebody called me racist, one of the shows, one of these morning shows that do bad ratings. they called me racist, called me a lot of things. it turned out that i'm right. one thing with joe biden that i respect on friday, he issued a statement saying i was right closing the border to china. he took the opposite view and he was able to do that, so i thought, actually, i thought that was very nice. >> sean: up next, we will play more highlights for my exclusive interview, my super bowlas

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salary in the commander in chief to sign the check, but the white house press secretary gave a bit too much information appearing to display the president's private bank account and routing numbers. they blurred the images after as a precaution. i'm ashley strohmeyer, now back to "hannity." apollo headlines at foxnews.com. ♪ >> sean: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." o" so, in february, i had an opportunity to sit so, in february, i had an opportunity to sit down with president trump before the super bowl. at the time, the president was on the verge of being exonerated from the democrats latest impeachment witch hunt. let's take a look.oc >> obvious question, impeachment. third time in history. acquittal pretty much now a formality. been through a lot. your reaction to all of it? >> president trump: well, it's been very unfair. from the day i won -- and i really say, from far before the

day i won, from the day i came down the escalator with our future first lady, who is doing such a good job, to be honest with you, i think it's, it's probably -- it probably started from there. it's been a very, very unfair process. the mueller report, russia, russia, russia, as you say, which was total nonsense. it was all nonsense, the whole thing, nonsense, but it was a very unfair -- and mostly it was unfair to my family. i mean, my family suffered because of all of this. many other families suffered, also. it was a very, very -- is a serious thing that -- it should never happen to another president. >> sean: 275 days from now, i v guess the ultimate jury, the american people go to the polls, my question is, is this a campaign issue for you? do you let it go? do you see a path that you could work with chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, and the democrats? >> president trump: well, i'd like to, but it's pretty hard when you think about it, because it's been such a -- i use the

word "witch hunt," use the word "hoax." i see the hatred, i see it -- and they don't care about fairness. you look at the lies, you look at the reports that were done that were so false. the level of hypocrisy. i'm not sure that they can do it, to be honest. i think they just want to win, and it doesn't matter how they win. in the meantime, i really believe is a administration, we and this administration, we've done more than any administration in the history of our country. we rebuild our military, cut taxes at the highest amount ever in the history of our country, i mean, you see what is going on, there is a revolution going in this country, i mean, a positivt revolution, african-american, hispanic-american, asian-american, we have the best numbers we've ever had. african-american -- the poverty numbers are now reversed, and they are the best that they've ever had, so i don't know how anybody could possibly beat me with that vote.

we will see how it does. >> sean: will any of this -- now, as i said, it's pretty much a fait accompli, looks like wednesday at 4:00 p.m. it will be in acquittal. then move on from there, but the state -- iowa caucuses monday, state of the union tuesday, this happens on wednesday, and he thought to delay the state of the union? >> president trump: no, i'm going to have it. it's going to be done. we are to talk about the achievements we've made, nobody has managed the achievements. our veterans, we got them choice, we got accountability where we can take care of our vets, take care of people who aren't taking care of our vets. >> sean: this is going to be hard for you. this is called a lightning round here. i'm just goinge to throw out a name. whatever comes your mind. >> president trump: okay. >> sean: we will start with joe biden. >> president trump: i just thinkk of sleepy. i just watch him, he is sleepy. sleepy joe. >> sean: hunter, hunter biden. >> president trump: where is hunter?

he made millions of dollars -- he went from having no job, no income, he had nothing. as you know, he had a very sad experience in the military. he has nothing. to making millions and millions of dollars a year, not just from ukraine, from china and from other countries.ol how can you do this? this is crooked as hell. what they did is very dishonest. >> sean: bernie sanders. >> president trump: well, i think he is a communist. look, i think of communism when you think of bernie. you could say socialist, but -- didn't he get married in moscow? >> sean: honeymooning -- >> president trump: well, whatever. but you don't necessarily think in terms of marriage,ey moscow, and it's wonderful. i'mt, not knocking it, but i thk of bernie sort of as a socialist, but far beyond a socialist -- >> sean: elizabeth warren -- >> president trump: at least he is true to one thing. you mention elizabeth warren, i called her a fairy tale, because every thing is a fairy tale, that is how pocahontas got started. everything is a fairy tale. this woman can't tell the true.

> sean: michael bloomberg. >> president trump: very little. i just think of little. now he wants a box for the debates to stand on. okay, it's okay, there's nothing wrong -- you could be short. why should he get a box to stand on? okay? g he wants a box for the debates. why should he -- really, does that mean everyone else gets a box? >> sean: i guess, if they want one. >> president trump: cory booker and all of these people couldn't get the things bloomberg is getting now, i think it is very unfair for the democrats. i would love to run against bloomberg. i would love it. >> sean: hillary. >> president trump: i think of emails, i think of the emailde scandal, how she got away with that is a disgrace. i think it is a disgrace. >> sean: pelosi. >> president trump: i think she is a very confused, nervous woman, i don't think she wanted to do this, i think she knew what was going to happen, and it's her worst nightmare that has happened, i don't think she is going to be there too long, i think that the radical left -- and she is sort of radical left,

too, by the way, but i think the radical left is going to take over. >> sean: you have the democrats and volume to go up against you in 278 days. is it one candidate running more than another? >> president trump: i had to sit back and watch. >> sean: doesn't matter? >> president trump: i'm watching for my little nickname> for all of them, but you just sort of -- >> sean: love the nicknames. >> president trump: they are very accurate. you look at sleepy joe. what is going on with him? he's having a hard time. >> sean: i love sports. i think sports mirror life. learn to win, sometimes you don't always win. i know you are not sick of winning, my guess, but also be harder you work, the better you do, o that's very americana. what do you love about sports? >> president trump: it is, it is sort of a microcosm of life, you know, you have winners, you have champions, you have people you expect to see the final play, great coaches like belichick, you have people you expect more out of, and oftentimes they produce, and

then you have people you just don't expect they are going to do it, and oftentimes -- >> sean: and up next, president trump gives his take on the scandals that are swirling around quid pro quo joe and zero experience hunter biden, as this special edition of "hannity" continues. ♪ biden, as this special edition of "hannity" continues. ♪

>> sean: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." during my most recent sitdown interview with president trump at the white house, i asked him about the mob and the media and the left-wing democratic socialists, their rampant hypocrisy, and their, well, obscene double standards. take a look. i want to go to the double standard again. whether it is the dossier, whether it is ukraine helping and interfering in our election, whether there is no quid pro quo, then you have hunter biden and joe biden on

tape bragging about using taxpayer dollars to demand of the firing of ukrainian prosecutor. hunter biden, no experience ukraine/china, no experience in oil or private equity. >> president trump: thrown out of the navy. okay? hunter biden was thrown out of the navy. >> sean: why was he given that money? >> president trump: it was a payoff. in my opinion, it was a payoff. look, hunter biden no experience. here the number is 168,000 a month and i heard they got a $3 million -- >> sean: but between him and another guy. >> president trump: a $3 million payment and all of those. - and that is corruption. that is something that has to be investigated. that's why you have to look. but i watch this crazy anderson cooper the other day during the event, apologize for having to ask the question, apologized. if that were me -- >> sean: he would be declared

innocent --d >> president trump: if that were my sons that took $160,000 from this very questionablena company, an energy company and they knew -- he knew nothingan about energy, and he has a bad record, bad track record, including getting thrown out of b the navy. even the way he got in the navy is interesting, in his position. if that were don jr., if that were eric trump, who are very outstanding young man, it would be the biggest story of the century. >> sean: what does it say about the media? i agreee with you. >> president trump: the media's corrupt. not all media -- look, i know d some great people, including you, but i know some great journalists -- look. they gave pulitzer prizes to people that got it wrong. okay? all these people from "the new york times," which is a fake newspaper, we don't even want it in the white house anymore, we're probably going to terminate that and "the washington post," they are fake. but he take a look at "the new york times," and you take a look at the kind of

reporting they do, it turned out to be all wrong. and after the election, "the new york times" apologized for their coverage because they were covering me in such a way, so when i won, the actually apologized tose their subscribe, because they were losing thousands and thousands of subscribers. "the new york times" wrote an apology. nothing else. you know, they say, well, it wasn't really an apology -- it was, because they covered me so badly. then, what i said, sort of interesting, i said, you know, the good news is i will now be covered fairly again. you know what happened? i got covered worse. i got covered worse.ow but that's okay, you know who gets covered than me? >> sean: who? >> president trump: abraham lincoln. the one person -- it used to be five or six, now it's down to one -- abraham lincoln got the worst press of anybody, i disputee it. >> sean: just ahead, he looked back at the president's reaction to biden's bizarre moments in ,he campaign trail, as the special edition of "hannity" continues.

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>> live from america news headquarters, i'm, i'm ashley strohmeyer. allowing churches to open this weekend fighting the coronavirus threat, the result in essential places providing essential services and president trump if they do not comply with the order, it's not yet clear what the authority has on the matter. into the agency's investigation of president trump, former national advisor michael flynn, he wants to know if any agency employees engaged in misconduct during the investigation and moving the criminal case against flynn who pleaded guilty and lying to the fbi and requesting

for a judge. i'm ashley strohmeyer now back to "hannity" on all your headlines, go to foxnews.com. ♪ >> sean: back in march, i did ask president trump about joe biden's nonstop, never ending, well, let's call them brain lapses or wonders, and of course, the failure of the biden/obama record. brnds get his reaction. take a look. >> my name is joe biden, i'ms a democratic candidate for the united states senate. 150 million people have been killed since 2007. jeff, thank you very much. >> all right, it's chris, but anyway. >> chris. >> look, tomorrow is super tuesday, and i want to thank you all -- i tell you what, i'm rushing -- you know the thing. you know how we talk about it. we thehe people. >> sean: joe biden is beyond a gaffe machine. i would argue the toughest job

in the world is your job, to be the president of the united states of america, leading the world. you need strength, you need stamina, you need focus. you need the ability to react in real time. what do you make of these numerous gaffes of joe biden? m >> president trump: well, look, i don't want to be too critical. you know, i've never seen mpything like it, to be honest, and i'm sure that the democrats are saying the same thing. but they'd rather have him than bernie, and bernie doesn't make too many gaffes but bernie has his own difficulties. >> sean: mr. president, joe biden has a record. he served asff vice president fr eight years. that record would include the iranian deal, that record would include how they reacted and responded with the h1n1 virus, i'll get to that in more detail in a minute. that record would include 13 million americans after eight years on food stamps, 8 million more in property, the lowest labor participation rate since the '70s, worst recovery since

the '40s, the lowest homeownership rate in 51 years, it also includes the accumulation of more debt than sall 43 presidents before obama/biden combined. your record, how do you compare? >> president trump: well, i think what we have done is unprecedented. the largest tax cuts in history, trade deals all over the place, i mean, they are going to start kicking in fairly soon, unfortunately, by the time to get to the election they will get to the election they will just be partially kicked in, but the deal with china, $250 billion a year. the deal with japan, it is a partial deal, i'll go back and we are going to make it much bigger even, but it's 40 billion a year. the deal with south korea, the u.s.-mexico deal, the u.s.-canada deal, usmca combined, one of the biggest trade deals ever made. the deal with china is actually,

you know, right in that same category, it's an incredible thing. we rebuild the military, taking care of our vets, we've got choice. nobody thought we were going to get choice, they've been trying to get choice for over 40 years. that's the veterans choice, they can't see a doctor quickly, they go to a private doctor, we pay the bill. and it's a great thing for our country, it's a great thing for ngour veterans. we've got accountability so that if our veterans are treated badly, if they are treated horribly, say we have sadists in the va, all sorts of problems, thieves, you couldn't do a thing, couldn't fire anybody, i've gotts accountability passe, which was not easy, because of unions and because of civil servants, all of the reasons everybody would understand very easily, and we've got that passed. they've been trying to get that for many, many decades. what we've done is very unprecedented. nobody has done more in three years, the first three years then we have.

environmentally, we have the cleanest air, we have the cleanest water. our air is as clean or a cleaner than it's ever been, and yet, we are not spending trillions of dollars giving it to foreign countries under the paris accord, where you see what's happening with france, and you see the problems they have because of it, and you know, they are just trying to take our wealth. the whole group. so, a lot of things are happening. >> sean: i wantt to go to your decision of january 31st, and that was a travel ban that joe biden said was xenophobic on your part, and cnn said it might stigmatize people from countries, but you took and added step that hasn't been done in decades, and that was quarantining americans coming back from the region. this is about three weeks after we just first identified the virus. you are saying that people recommended you not do this, and why, and why do you go with that so quickly? what was -- what was your rationale at the time? >> president trump: i would say everybody said it's too

early, it's too soon, and good people, you know, brilliant people in many ways, doctors and lawyers, frankly, a lot of people that work on this stuff almost exclusively, they said don't do it, and my theory was, you know, we take a lot of people in, and china was being hit hard at that time, by that time. we started reading a little bit more about it. it wasn't something that was going toe affect us. you know, you don't think of it in terms, when you first heard it in china, you don't think our country is going to be affected, and i thought it was a wise thing to do, and again, we stopped tremendous numbers ofth people coming in from china, and then we worked on a whole quarantine system which worked out very well. >> sean: and coming up, we will look back at the president's response to the mueller testimony is the special edition of "hannity" rolls on. ♪ response to the mueller testimony is the special edition of "hannity" lausanne. ♪ every financial plan needs a cfp® professional --

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>> sean: welcome back to this special edition of "h >> sean: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." let'snt revisit my interview wih the president, this is in july of 2019, the day after the mueller hoax crumbled on capitol hill. take a look. mr. president, i'm just going to open it up to you to go wherever you want with this, this is something you've had to deal with your entire presidency almost. you were loud saying it was not true, it was a witch hunt, and we have a four separate investigations of backing up your claim and culminating in what you saw yesterday, sir, your reaction to all of that? >> president trump: well, i think people learned a lot yesterday, watching a very poor performance and watching things they couldn't believe when they saw what was going on, and hopefully, we are going to be able to find out how a thing like this started. it was a disgrace to our

country. it was a disgrace from every standpoint, and i would say that most people have never seen anything like it, and then on top of it, you watch that performance, it was shocking. and very sad. >> sean: how much of that did you watch, sir? >> president trump: say it, ggfsean? >> sean: how much of the mueller testimony did you actually watch? >> president trump: so, i wasn't going to watch it all, and then i started thinking about it, and then, i watched a little bit at the very beginning, and i couldn't believe what i was seeing, and i ended up watching more of it, i wanted to. it was such a big crater at the beginning, and i said, now i have to watch shifty schiff because he just went through three hours and now he has to go through schiff, and i said this is going to be very interesting, and i've never seen anything like it, actually, sort of good television, i couldn't v watch t all, i had meetings, economic development meetings, and i was saying, fellas, maybe we can move it to another time, but i didn't want to do that. but i got to watch enough, it

was shocking. i thought the republicans represented themselves brilliantly, actually. john ratcliffe and jim jordan, i mean, all of them, louie gohmert, i can mention 15 names, or however many they have that spokes, it got fairly close to that number, i guess, maybe it was a little bit less thanme bad, but i can tell you that everybody representing the republicans i thought was really good, and i thought the other side was typically biased, but they were stuck with a situation that they o couldn't believe. >> sean: mr. president, ise just mentioned, "the new york times" not long ago actually said that they believed, well, the dossier -- which i was stunned mueller didn't know about fusion gps, the things he didn't know shock to me, didn't know jeannie ray, when his attorney, worked for him. but put that aside. they suggest, "the new york times," that the dirty dossier that hillary paid for that was used is by on your

campaign, your transition, and even your presidency, sir, was likely russian disinformation from the beginning. now, if that's the case, that would mean that the russians knew that hillary was paying for those lies. which would mean that the narrative that the american people have been fed by the media and the democrats that, well, they were trying to help you, the russians, that would mean, if "the new york times" is right for once, and i suspect they may very well be, but they were trying to hurt you more than hillary. >> president trump: well, based on the fact just -- fairly recently, a little while ago, the number one oil and gas producer and energy producer in the world by far, russia, saudi arabia, not a second and third, based on the fact we now have the best -- we will soon have the most modern military we have ever had, with the best equipment, the best, newest planes, and all of the things we've done, and so many other

things, sean. based on all of that, the last version they should want is me, but i have heard the same thing about the fake dossier, i've heard it came out of russia. i think a lot of it also is made up, it was made upam like he wod write a novel, but it was a fake, and it was paid for by the democrats and paid for by hillary clinton and the dnc, and it's incredible. these are incredible stories. nobody would write a novel like this because people wouldn't believe, it wouldn't be believable. >> sean: you know, mr. president, i famously have asked lindsey graham, he really -- when attorney general barr was before his committee, he went through a list of things.wh do you feel that mueller did a good job? did he have the resources? do you believe his team at every opportunity?y? you turned over 1.5 million documents, ie believe you encouraged everybody to testify before congress fully special counsel. i was shocked mcgahn didn't, but we will put that aside here. you think we can't let this

happen again, and i guess we learned from the attorney general that is going to look into whether the investigation into hillary's server was rigged, going to look into potential fisa abuse, going to look into the origins of this probe.n we know they interviewed steele for nearly 16 hours, we know the ig is very close to a fisa report. 1 why is it important to get to the bottom of this, from your perspective? >> president trump: because this should never happen to another president of the united states again. this is an absolute catastrophe for our country. this was a fake witch hunt, and it should never be allowed to happen to another president again. this was treason. this was high crimes. this was everything, as bad a definition as you want to come up with, this should never be allowed to happen to our country

again. >> sean: your thoughts, you often said fake news. i call them out often on this program. it turns out -- i gave a list, starting with richard jewell and ferguson, missouri, cambridge police, baltimore, maryland, to uva, lacrosse, nicholas sandmann, but they went with every single lie, every conspiracy theory.d, i don't see the media very often talking about the things you have accomplished.ic i mentioned the employment situation is the best since 1969. what do you say to the press in this country. the press that is supposed to be fair, balanced, objective, down the middle. i'm a talk show host, i'm like the whole newspaper, we do everything. >> president trump: well, i think the press has lost all credibility -- much of it -- but it lost a big part of it, i made from a very substantial part of it, lost all credibility. and i watch as people scream at these poor democrats, the congressman scream, like i've never seen him. you must do this, you must do

that. i mean, these are supposed to be journalists, talk show hosts, all sorts of people. i cannot believe it, and they are actually trying to force them to do what they want to be done.l i've never seen anything like it, and you know, they use the word "unhinged," they are unhinged. the media has becomean totally unhinged. when i say "enemy of the people," when people give purposely false stories and when they try and get politicians to do things that are wrong and they know they are wrong, that really is the enemy of the people. it's fake news, but it's the enemy of the people. >> sean: more of this special fedition of "hannity" right afr this break. ♪ of "hannity" righththththt to everyone navigating these uncertain times... whether you're caring for your family at home or those at work, principal is by your side. we're working hard to answer your questions.

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