thank you, great to see you tonight. >> tucker: at that hour went fast. we will be back tomorrow night but in the meantime we have a surprise for you, the great sean hannity standing by in new york. >> sean: i'm having a hard time dealing with this, i don't know, maybe i wasn't raised enough as a kid. buckle up, we begin tonight with a fox news alert because breaking right now according to the atlanta, georgia, police department, they are now experiencing a higher than usual number of callouts. is this the beginning of a departmentwide sick out? it actually has a name, it's called the blue flu. we will have more on this important and scary deponent later in the program. we have a lot to cover, the president of the united states donald j. trump will be joining us for an exclusive interview. also tonight we will discuss the

breaking news out of atlanta. two police officers have been charged, and with the possible penalty. we are now facing as a country a very serious problem, clear and present danger which could turn into a monumental crisis. the never ending just rush to judgment, broad sweeping generalization this madness to defund the police and illuminate them altogether, it's extraordinary dangerous. it's playing out right before this country's eyes. police everywhere are under attack. 800 police officers to date here have been injured. rocks, bricks, bottles, molotov cocktails. some of them have died and then

another. paralyzed for life. still, defined as the and dismantle the police, movements seem to be picking up even more steam. if they are successful, what does that mean for your family? anarchy could be ruling the streets. the smear campaign against the 99% good, decent brave police officers, it's got to end it, and it's got to end now. they have one of the hardest, the toughest, the most dangerous jobs in the entire world. we did see this play out, they were pelted with bricks and other objects and in one instance in officers suffered a head injury after getting mauled with the metal fire extinguisher in that particular case. another police officer in new york was stabbed in the ne

neck. again all told, 800 police officers now have been injured during the months of riots and protests. the media says they are all peaceful. they are not all peaceful, many of the protesters were not and many were agitators. several officers have been killed. at that police officer that we've been telling you about in las vegas that was shot in the head is now paralyzed from the neck down. another officer was murdered in california, an officer in baltimore was shot in the torso. this is not an uncommon occurrence either. in 2019, 89 police officers were killed in the line of duty make no mistake, every single time that officer is getting dressed and going to work, they risked death and that's just the facts.

yet 99% of them, they carry out their dangerous duties and they do it with honor and do it with distinction. they protect and they serve. most fair-minded do not know this. they know that their jobs are incredibly dangerous. can we ever really forget steve scalise, another congressman practicing for a softball game and those two heroic u.s. capitol police agents that ran across an open baseball field going up against the deranged gunman who had a rifle, and risking their own lives, they had no protection. attempting to assassinate congressman steve scalise. he almost died in that attack. they walked up and that moment i acted in an open field with an assassin that has a rifle to save lives.

amazing selfless service. we will never forget the heroes of 9/11 2001. nypd, fdny, emergency men medical professionals. remember those guys, that they they've ran towards the scene of the trade centers, as thousands were racing down the steps brave members of the fdny, to save the lives of fellow human beings. the 99%, they are good people. they are brave people, they deserve our respect. as i've been critical of a few people in the fbi that if he is power, i still wear this pin. the fbi, for the 99%. what we've got to make the distinction as distinction as

accountability, a lot of important concerns but police are vital. as a necessary part of the society. look at this recent video from ocean city meta-mike maryland. it shows an attack involving dozens of people. look at the headlines out of minneapolis over the past few days. "s.w.a.t. response to shooting at broadway and irving. quote multiple shootings reported across minneapolis over night, at least eight people shot. by the way, 32 people shot in chicago this weekend. six are injured, police are defunded so who are the residents going to call to arrest them. the murderers, the drug dealers, the and the other violent criminals that unfortunately live in a world where there is good and there is evil? who are those people going to call during an emergency?

ask yourself tonight any of you watching, who are you going to call if someone is trying to break into your house? this vilification is so widespread, it needs to end. it needs to end now, because police officers left out to dry by local governments always playing politics and unfairly being called a racist and perhaps even find a new less dangerous career that likely pays them more money. already in buffalo nearly 60 police officers have resigned en masse from the city's special response team seven police officers in minneapolis have resigned in at least seven more are in the process of leaving. there are rumors tonight of a growing rebellion in atlanta,

what if this really is a national stakeout. if this continues to brace yourselves. that means you and your family will be less safe and left secure and all americans will be in more danger. here now with fox news contributor joh dan bongino, and secret service officer. you know 800 officers now have been hurt. i always talked about the 99%. i did it on purpose because it's fair. we have 99% of officers that don't get paid a lot of money, they could make a lot more in other professions. but they put their lives on the line every day, it's called racist. rocks, bottles, bricks, molotov cocktails.

this is getting scary to me. >> i've never seen anything like it. i've received so many texts and emails, and they are devastating and it, they are not they are pick the stomach get rich or famous, or a b on fox news. that's not 99% of police officers. i've been blessed, a lot of them are out day after day. when i was in the 75 precinct, esu truck seven years to turn out of that precinct. often, now think about this. father's day is coming up and

it's tragic, mr. brooks is dead and i don't wish ill will on anyone, he was a father, too. we should never forget that. we are all human beings. father's day is coming up and do you have any idea how many families across the country, their kids are getting up right now and their dads left a piece of themselves if not their whole selves in the street. there's going to be a dinner on father's day with an empty chair. there's going to be an empty chair across them and they are never coming back. they didn't do it for them. a lot of police officers don't live in these neighborhoods, they live in adjoining neighborhoods or adjoining towns. they did because i cared about you and public safety. they weren't doing it for some lucrative tv deal later on or even anything like that, they were doing it because they gave a and the fact that they gave a is why they are not here anymore. i just ask everyone to please

have some perspective in this argument. they are bad seeds and we will fix that. we will do better. but my gosh, vilifying every police officer out there, they left everything. this is just a really sad point in american history that i never thought we would be out and got for this gets any worse. i don't know what's going to happen. >> sean: i never thought i'd witness in my life police precincts burned to the ground. both of my parents grew up poor, very poor. south bronx, for days and days and days on end. these guys are not being paid a lot of money. last question. the blue flu.

everybody knows what it means, is that a possibility? because that's also scary. >> sean, it's not a possibility, it's actually happening. these guys have got to take a stand. and candidly so. if they are going to be depoliced, they have to sit there and have let it happen. they got to send some message or your communities will descend into pure chaos. these are the finest men and women that i've ever worked with ever in my life. i would trust them with my kids, my house, my car, my wife, my family, anyone. the finest men and women i have ever worked with in my life, and the stereotyping of all of them with these racist killers is disgusting and gross. >> sean: we have a statement from the atlanta police department, with earlier discussions of people that had walked off the job. they are experiencing have a

higher than usual number of callouts. they remain able to respond to incidents. dan bongino, thank you and thanks to all the men and women and 99% of law enforcement officers that risked their lives every day, thank you. on behalf of this whole audience, i know i can say those words. joining us now come full will report ongoing come in our own trace gallagher. people were stunned, 41-year-old rashid ramage was walking manhattan and, he pops her in the face and knocks her to the ground where she hit her head on a fire hydrant. he just kept walking but he has since been arrested for the 104th time, including ones for allegedly sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl and ten times for a variety of other sacks offenses which are supposed to disqualify him for early release, and yet each time he

gets arrested, he is given a desk appearance ticket which means to get the court date and is set free. in the meantime in houston police are looking for six young black men who were caught on video punching and kicking a man who just left at a convenience store. the victim says he confronted the man inside the store for trying to cut the line. once outside they attacked him. he said he thought the beating was over until a final suspect kicked him in the chest and said "black lives matter. >> sean: trace gallagher, thank you for that report. garrett rolfe, the now fired police officer involved in the field shooting of rayshard brooks has been charged with 11 criminal defenses. and even the death penalty. the other officer on the scene, we are told that apparently estate turned witness devon

bronson is facing three charges including aggravated assault. he's now a cooperating statement is apparently set to testify for the prosecution. earlier today, fulton georgia attorney announced the charges. >> these are the 11 charges, the first charges felony murder and this is a death that is the result of an underlying felony and in this case the underlying felony is aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. and the possible sentences for a felony murder conviction would be life without parole, or the death penalty. >> sean: this show will remain consistent as we have throughout the years and this is not what happened to george floyd. that was cut and jot down like a dried. but like always you cannot rest rush to judgment. we have not seen all the evidence, and we don't have all of the tape but apparently we have a lot more to learn that a

lot more to see. of course what we have happen at the wendy's in atlanta was awful. rayshard brooks was killed and that's a tragedy but it's also true that these two officers deserve like every american due process, a fair trial, presumption of innocence and a fair and impartial jury of the very thing that roger stone never got, for a lot of other people. that by no means, means, this is an open and shut case. police may use deadly force to apprehend a suspected felon only when the officer reasonably believes that the suspect possesses a deadly weapon or any object, device or instrument which when used is likely to result in serious bodily injury. federal president may also play a role. now supreme court rulings, they may use in the force to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect

if the officer has probable cause and a good faith belief that the suspect poses a threat of death or serious bodily injury the officer or to the community. and in graham versus connor, they could be in the clear, that's the circumstances on the town. what is really polite and courteous, almost he would say routine interactions with the police, rayshard brooks split resisted arrest. he sold the officer's taser, and after getting him on the ground, standing on first with the taser seemed to hit them and then attempting, when he was running away come up to turn around with the taser to show the officer and pursued. also keep in mind that brooks was shot in the back, that has to be factored in. shortly after he fired the taser. according to the d.a. the officers involved did not render

any life-saving treatment for over 2 minutes after, and the officer rolfe kicked brooks after the shooting, but i haven't seen a cas tape yet. the more complicated case and it will play out not in the court of public opinion or on cable television but in a courtroom. we are a nation that was governed b by the constitution d that was our foundation for our rule of law. george floyd was clear as day and i seen no ambiguity at all. 41 minutes and 70 seconds, courteous, professional, cordial on both sides. time will tell here. did the d.a. overcharge, while those officers be convicted? hopefully it will be a fair and impartial jury of 12 people.

the american people come american citizens will have to make that ultimate decision after they hear both sides. defense and prosecution. here now with more, the nationally syndicated radio host, leota torell. fox news correspondent at large, geraldo to rivera. your thoughts? they laid out the case. we have very swift, a very swift charge here. now the courts will decide, that is our system of justice. a perfect system, no. but i can't think of a better one. >> you know, as i said last night i believe that a crime has been committed by the officer involved. putting aside this preposterous overcharging by paul howard, the politically challenged a district attorney. >> sean: if you believe it's in overcharge?

>> a person was provoked into killing another individual without originally intending to kill -- the question will become, remember. rolfe shot him twice in the back. the guy went to wendy's for a hamburger and ended up getting shot twice in the back by a cop. for those fatal shots fired because the officer feared for his own life, was a truly self defense? a jury will have to decide. clearly i don't think this rises to the level of a death penalty case and i think the district attorney dishonors his office by playing to a mob of angry citizens because this cop committed a crime i believe, it's on the tape, he shot him twice in the back but he did not intend to murder him. if you give him the death penalty, what are you going to get the guy that killed 20 people or the child and then cuts the heads off, you know, it

dishonors the law. but i really do think you can't lose a site of the fact of the cops out the sky in the back two times. >> sean: leota rell, you are a civil rights attorney, do you believe with geraldo in the overcharge? i do not believe this is a case like george floyd. >> geraldo like he was with bond you know, he's wrong. let me be as clear as possible. this was on overcharge and this is a war against the police department. what you have here and the issue is very simple. what was in the officer's mind at the time he fair that gun. this is not the george floyd case. this man was a felon, he assaulted a police officer and that's a fact. what you cited in those two cases, what was in the officer's mind? there could be 100 police experts that say that officer

had a reasonable fear that his life was being threatened by this man when he turned around. geraldo, you keep talking about in the back, it's happening the split-second timing and you have to understand what that officer is looking. that's a question that the jury will decide. let me go back to the d.a. this d.a. turned that press conference into a cartoon. he should be up for ethical violation. you don't have the civil attorneys of their and witnesses up there with the defense attorney should ask for a change of venue. what's happening right now with this case, i am sick and tired of people using the term systematic discrimination, stop saying it. usually larry what we've seen it, and i put it up on the

screen and talked about at the other day, you have a majority of minority officers and i want you to weigh in on this case and these charges. what is your take on the incident based on what you see? i've spoken to a number of police officers but not a single one believes these officers should have been charged with murder. several of them say they should have done something different, the tactic may have been somewhat different. the head of the union, there's a black sheriff, and burke county georgia who also said it was a legitimate shooting. not a single cop that i talked to agreed the opposition has been charged with murder, and on time is something right now. we talk about that huge burden of proof, lots of people will be disappointed if these officers do not cop to a lower plea and it goes to trial, that principal officer will be found not guilty in a whole bunch of people might

want to riot one more time. i think we should be very responsible about setting expectations because there is a good chance that officer rolfe will be found not guilty. >> sean: i had witnesses in ferguson and told me eyewitnesses that did come out and confirmed darren wilson story. i had the same thing happened in baltimore, expectations were raised. this is dangerous if you can't maintain standard. all three of you have been phenomenal. we do have the president coming up or i would give you a lot more time. thank you, all three of you being with us. you don't want to miss also, lindsey graham calling out democrats for years of inaction on police reform straight-ahead as hannity continues. u head back out on the road, we'll be doing what we do best. providing some calm in your day.

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>> john and ben and others on the judiciary committee listening today, and it was a fascinating hearing. it is a process in the air force called, listen, learn and delete it. to my colleagues on the other side is that we talk too much and we don't need to listen anymore, where were you for the eight years of the obama administration? i'm getting tired of being lectured to by my democratic

colleagues, that all this is trump's fault. you had eight years under president, and none of that was taken out virtually. >> and, we had at baltimore. we had cambridge and all these other cases, they don't do a thing that i remember senator graham. the president, if i look at the record, opportunity is for donald trump and if i look at historically black colleges for five years with more money, that would be president trump also. record after record low unemployment, african-americans, hispanic-americans, asian-americans, women in the workplace, he was on a plane at an african-american youth

unemployment, they didn't get that done in eight years. and they want to lecture everybody now and you seem pretty ticked off about it. >> i actually lived through it. for the first two years they had the house, the senate and the white house. i want you to look at what you are proposing today, the justice and policing proposal that they come out with, and ask yourself how many of those initiatives did they push when they control the house, the senate and the white house? for eight years they could have done something that they chose not to. dated 21st century policing which truly was toothless. this president and executive order has done more this week than obama and biden did in eight years to correct misconduct by the police. the one i forgot criminal justice reform. i've come to know her and love her, a wonderful woman. they didn't get that done either. >> the priorities, they didn't do immigration reform when they

had complete control. they did nothing about police reform but it's always our fault. we will work with democrats to fix this problem but i'm not going to be -- you had the entire government in your hands and do a thing. this is not trump's fault, it's not obama's fault, this is a nation that needs to heal itself. still, honoring cops and there's not a binary choice as tim scott said. we don't need to be lectured to guarding police reform because they had a chance and they did nothing. >> sean: senator, i hate to give away but there someone with a little higher links with you. >> don't like -- we love to have you on the program. joining us now from the white house tonight, mr. president, thank you so much for being with us. >> president trump: thank you

very much. >> sean: flip's talk about what i was discussing with lindsey graham, vice president joe biden, and criminal justice reform have been with you, historically black colleges funded more money for longer periods of time, and that was you as well. the other opportunity zones, that's also. and you are always under attack but then, you came out with those reforms. let's come up with the police reforms that you announced yesterday. speak to what you did and if you look at the previous administration and frankly many administrations did nothing on this and criminal justice refo reform. we did a tremendous opportunity if you look out the opportunities we have given everybody, but the opportunity zones have been incredible, it's been one of the great -- really one of the great things in terms of investment and areas and

terms of unemployment, it's been incredible. before the chinese plague came to us, the african-american, if you look at the african-american employment and hispanic unemployment, asian unemployment, women and everything, we have the best unemployment in the middle of our country. and it now, we are doing it again. you see the numbers coming back very strongly. but you're right, previous administration did nothing. >> sean: for three years we did an investigation and have been proven right every step of the way. joe digenova's shocked me the first time and said dirty cops. i always said the 99%, i have an fbi button on me every night. i have the cia button for the good people of the intelligence. he talked about the good cops and there's a report tonight, in

atlanta, the department is experiencing a higher than usual number of callouts for the upcoming shift tonight. i opened the show with, well, who are you going to call if we defund the police or eliminate the police? that seems to be getting momentum in the country and that scares me. i'd like to know what your feelings are. speak to joe was referring to when he said dirty cops, to james comey. so he was referring to him. it's a different form, it's a different uniform. you have bad and you have great. have cops and police and law enforcement, and they love their country and they don't want to make any mistakes but, they are under siege, there's no question about that. we worked on some things very closely with law enforcement, and a lot of it, you had in your show. i noticed the other night you had it on your show.

whether it's the dashcam or the body camp which is the camera basically, a very sophisticated cam. and other things. we have a lot of that in the bill. it passed and it's going to -- a lot of things are happening right now but i signed an executive order and a lot of that is included in what the republicans put out today and the democrats, all they do is complain. but they've done nothing. they do nothing and they want to defund and they want to abolish. they want to abolish police departments and that's what it's going to be. if biden ever got in, he would be abolishing police. they will be abolishing police and they will be getting rid of your second amendment very quickly. he will not have a second and many other things, you won't have it you'd like to have. >> sean: watching what's unfolding in seattle mr. president, the autonomous zone, chas, chops, the summer of

love as the mayor refers to it, potluck spaghetti dinners. you have offered help to every governor that needs it, every mirror that needs it. if you have outright rejected it in states like new york, cities like new york, states like illinois and cities like chicago and that includes seattle where city blocks have now been taken over. by the way, they built their own version of a wall interestingly enough to keep people out. you keep offering to help and they keep rejecting that help but there might, a moment where they might not have an option. this seems to work. >> president trump: because the governor of the state of

washington is weak and the mayor is weak and what they are doing is setting a precedent that is improvement that before in this country. these people that are taking over this incredible piece of real estate are obviously very good at real estate, may be better i was. they were told to do a good job, i assume they were properly trained. but we would go in there if they want us in and we would take it back very quickly. that it should never be allowed to fester like it's festering right now, it's disgraceful to our country. that could be universal condemnation as it relates to george floyd and the thoughts on the charges that went down in atlanta earlier today. speak to while the george floyd case nothing has to be said of. it was over 8 minutes.

who could watch that? but it doesn't get any more obvious, and it doesn't get any worse than that. that man has some big problems, no question about it for the police officer and what he did. i haven't met with -- i deal with law enforcement all the time and i left a great group of law enforcement people in the country. i thought it was a terrible situation and if you have a disagreement, you have to take it up after the fact. it was a very, very sad thing. you take a look and it was out of control, the whole situation was out of control. i heard today and just got a report that the police officers

lawyers said that he heard a sound like a gun. it was like a flash in front of him. i don't know that i would have necessarily believed that, but i will tell you, it's a very interesting thing and maybe that's so. it's up to justice now. i hope he gets a fair shake because police have not been treated fairly in our country. they have not been treated fairly. but again, he can't resist a police officer like that and they ended up in a very terrible disagreement, look at the way it ended. very bad, very bad >> sean: you know telling mcculloch, you talked about joe biden almost having compassion on him in a lot of ways. terry mcauliffe actually said,

i'm fine staying in the basement. which i think is a very unusual and unique way for the president of the united states. i think there are legitimate questions as it relates to mental alertness, and let's say stamina, strength and acumen. i would argue just in the last three plus years that your job is probably the hardest job in the world that i can see and i believe that to be true. should that be an issue in the campaign? >> president trump: i think it's going to be an interesting issue. he's been in the basement for a long time and i think he has really been running beautifully. he's not running his campaign, people are running his campaign. i see quotes all the time about he said this or that about me. and in long beautiful flowing sentences i said, joe didn't make that statement and joe doesn't even of the statement was made but they are leaving

him there and at some point he's going to have to come up for air. i think we've done a great job, if done a great job. if you look back a few months to an economy that was the greatest of all time, everything we had was in records. no matter whether it was unemployment or a stock market, now you look at what we are doing and we are doing it all over again. we've had to turn it off and, now we started up again. we are going to have an amazing year next year. we will have the biggest job gain in history and the biggest retail sales numbers in history for the last month. so we are starting up and it's going to be very, very strong. very close to a vaccine, even without it, but i will tell you we are very close to a vaccine and very close to therapeutics. very good therapeutics. but even without that, i don't

even like to talk about that because it's fading away. it's going to fade away but having a vaccine would be really nice and that's going to happen. >> sean: it's all these protests have been going on for weeks. talk about social distancing kind of went away almost completely from what i can tell. there were many people that i saw that were not wearing masks. even some of the politicians now that are critical of you having a rally in oklahoma on saturday, now all of a sudden they are saying that, it may not be safe. i understand temperatures are going to be taken and people that go to the signing a waiver, i understand that masks will be worn by people and even distributed, might think i read somewhere. maybe you should change the name of the rally and call it a protest and they will say it's okay then. speak to while that's true.

the protesters and anarchists, terrorists and looters, all the people that were marching on various locations over the last couple of weeks, that has died down and the loss of energy, that's good. because many of them don't even know what they are protesting, frankly. but you look at that and they were right on top of each other, large numbers, pretty large numbers right on top of each other. nobody complained, it's a total fake news operation. it's an extension of the democratic party. you look at mst and c, which is dnc, democratic national committee. and you look at it and you see the way -- they never mention that, they never talk about it. this is all you hear about oklahoma. you have a great mare and great governor. i spoke to the governor yesterday. they are so excited about it that you have no idea.

we've had so many sign-ups, there are lines of people now and we won't be there for three days. they have lines of people right now trying to get into the arena. they will be there, they will be early. they will begin one of those early front rows. >> sean: how many people people signed up, do you know? >> a million people requested tickets. there's a hunger for the rally's, and i enjoy doing them but, it gives energy to everybody. we have tremendous enthusiasm and if you look at the polls we are way ahead of sleepy joe in terms of enthusiasm. we have enthusiasm like they've never seen before actually. joe has the lowest, i hear, enthusiasm on record. now, they have a party and at the party believes in a lot of bad things. open borders, sanctuary cities. supposedly, we built and it's

212 miles and nobody is getting through. very, very few people are coming through on our border. think of it in tijuana, tijuana, mexico, is one of the most effective places on earth and we have a wall between tijuana and san diego. it's like a beautiful very powerful wall. in california is very happy that we have it because they wouldn't have any numbers, they would have numbers like you wouldn't believe right now if we didn't have that. so we've done a great job and we were very early to the call. and when we heard about it we made the decision not to let people from china come in. we love people from china but we were having a tremendous problem and at the end of january i said to come you can't come in. we stayed tens of thousands and everybody, even our critics gave

me credit for that. we saved tens of thousands of lives and then i van europe from coming in. they went to spain and france, and we had a van in europe and we did that pretty shortly thereafter. we have been very early in our testing has been phenomenal and we came up with ventilators, we are the kings of ventilators, making thousands of ventilators per week. not one person that needed the ventilator has not gotten one. every single person that needed a ventilator got one. and it's been incredible. now we are helping other countries because it's hard to make. they are expensive and vague and a highly complex and we are helping other countries. many other countries, we are sending them ventilators. >> sean: let me ask you, it was ten days after the first identified case of corona in the u.s., we haven't had a

quarantine and 15 plus years. we were called racist, xenophobic, hysterical, if your monger. that was ten days after the first case here. i'm told according to my sources that everybody that was advising you didn't think it was necessary. the models were wrong, predictions were wrong all the way around, i don't know why they've been so wrong. china lied to. what made you at that moment make that one decision? because that seems critical to me? >> president trump: i was seeing information in china, wuhan in particular was heavily infected. i just said, look. why are we doing this? and nobody knew anything about it at that time. we didn't know that it affected the elderly much more so than children and that's why we have to open our schools in the fall. the children numbers are very, very small, almost nonexistent. and it's an incredible thing.

your immune system is very strong. if most people are doing right thing they will be opening up schools, you have to have it. too much of a strain in many ways and unfair to the children. i felt it was a heavily infected area, and how are we letting people into our country? nobody knew it was going to be that contagious, it's been nothing like this since 1917, over 100 years ago when probably 150 million people died. all the soldiers were so sick. and they probably -- that was the one thing, it ended world war i very likely. nobody thought it was going to be this kind of contagious, it's been really rough. but we've learned a lot and we are doing really great in the laboratories. and we will have a vaccine very soon. >> sean: a john bolton who

worked for you has a book and in that book he's claiming that y you, the u.s. trade said that's false and denies it. they just recently released documents tonight and affidavits that says the nsc has determined that the information in the manuscript is classified as confidential secret and top-secret levels accordingly. the publication release of the room where it happened would cause irreparable harm because of the disclosure of instances and classified information in the manuscript which recently could be expected to cause serious damage or exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the united states. i went back, i think it was a month before he was fired and i have a whole series of articles,

i don't have time for them all, in an interview with my former colleague greta van susteren. this was before he got fired, president trump is not going to make the mistakes of prior administration here, let that succumb to the idea that if you give them automatic benefits you automatically count on them following through with their commitments. the president gets criticized for being soft on russia and i'm still waiting to see evidence of that period is authorized us to take very strong action against election meddling by anyone, strong action against intrusion and our information technology systems, countries like russia, china, north korea and iran. what is your reaction to this charge and the claim of the president and what now the government is saying that is basically compromising national security is the way i com intert that. >> president trump: first of all, nobody has been tougher on russia or china than i have.

china is paying us billions of dollars per year, and biden's son walked away with a billion dollars to manage. nobody has been tough on china and russia like i have and that's in the record books and it's not even close. the last administration did nothing on either. then in terms of vaulted, he broke the law. he was a washed up guy, he couldn't get senate confirmed so i gave him a nonsenate confirmed position so i could put him there and see how he worked. i wasn't very enamored, he went into the middle east and was one of the big guns for, let's go into iraq. that didn't work out too well and it was against that a long time ago before i was ever thinking about doing what i'm doing now. but he was one of the people. when i asked him about it, i said recently, about a month in, i said what do you think, do you think that you made a mistake

there? i don't think so. i said it, explained that one. it was a terrible thing that we did it, he broke the law. as is a much as it's going to be broken, it's highly classified information. and he did not have approval that has come out very loud and very strong. i appreciate ambassador lighthizer in front of the committee today on an unrelated topic. one of the friends of the democrat party was very nice to ask him a question and then he said absolutely not. trump was tough on china but nobody has been tough like me. taking in right now, billions and billions of dollars from china. i gave a lot of it from farmers. >> was in it 500 billion, and if i remember it, let me go.

one thing that was kind of interesting to me, what everyone knows your opinion on the anthem and kneeling and you've been very outspoken about it but comments you made on colin kaepernick about if he deserves to play on the nfl company if he has the playing ability, and you are right, he did start off by the way i think great, great quarterback. didn't end up as a good a player as he could and he wasn't playing up to snuff. he said absolutely i would love to see him get another shot. and you would like to see him get the other side. >> president trump: he can only get if if he has the ability. i don't know if that's politically correct or the opposite. but if he has the ability, look.

he was a great rookie and his second year was great and after that he started going downhill rather rapidly. then he was out of football and started suing everybody. i think he made a lot more money doing that than he did with the football. if he has the ability, someone would take him. i know a lot of these owners, they had someone that was going to win games, they will sign him, it doesn't matter who they are. and i don't like also, when the national anthem plays and they can protest enough and he was a great quarterback and i'm a fan of his. he made a beautiful statement

and then the next day he retracted it and i just don't get that. you have to stand when the flag goes up, you lose a lot of fans and a lot of support in the nfl which already happened before. they learned their lesson but i think it's going to happen again. i was surprised that roger caddell would have done what he did and made the statement that he made. nobody was even asking for it. >> sean: let me go back to covid the economic recovery. you did mention just like the coronavirus model prediction, they were so off-base, shockingly so. but with all of that said, nobody predicted -- i think it was a 9 million job loss in may and then ended up gaining 2.5 million. then record retail sales at 18%. we see in the gallup poll that

you are doing even better than obama did at any point of his presidency. how worried are you about -- we know it's when, not if, in terms of hot spots emerging. that was now been dealing with them, how confident are you that you've been able to get on them quick enough so we don't ever find ourselves in a position again to have to shut down the economy in the country and that would again be the cure can't be worse than the disease, >> seant but the cure cannot be worse thn the disease itself. we are working with 50 governors, some of whom are really outstanding like in oklahoma as an example. we are working with the governors and we are working with local representatives and mayors and we are supplying them what they need, including the ventilators and that we don't need any no matter what. we have that taken care of. we are in great shape to put

out -- i used to call them the embers of the flames they flare up in certain areas, but we will put them out very quickly and we won't be closing the country again. we won't have to do that, but at the beginning, i tell you if we didn't do what we did, we would have lost anywhere from probably 1.5 minimum and you have to understand that is ten times what we are talking about now, ten times. think of that. with all the loss multiplied by the thames, that is a minimum. you could have gone up to three and a half or more million people and that is many times more. so we also learned a lot about it, who would attacks, it'd text different people but the young as we said, but it does attack senior citizens, older people especially if they have a problem with their heart, if they have diabetes, they get attacked violently by this horrible disease. china should have kept it where

it was pure they could have easily stopped it. they either lost control, they suffered a great incompetence, something happened or i don't know, the worst thing would be if they knew this was going to happen because other than just tonight, i heard in yesterday it hit beijing to a certain extent. it just hit beijing but other than that, they kept it inside. you know except when it came to letting it hit the rest of the world. >> sean: only 139 days until election day, reince priebus was on the show saying may be, joe biden could have more than usual debate that the president would have. would you like that or do you like it the way it is? do you have any fear that joe will try to duck him? we only have 30 seconds, sir. >> president trump: i would frankly like it, television would like it. your company would like it.

but that would be fine. i'm open to whatever you want to do, sean, get the word out to. >> sean: thank you, sir for being with us, we appreciate it. really troubling times, but we will get through it. we are americans, sir. >> president trump: you very much. >> sean: father's day this week and, and indeed.com, let not your heart be troubled, lauren ingle i will give five ss back more tomorrow. >> laura: really come up five seconds, that is okay, i don't care. >> sean: i like to hit the post. they want to oh, okay, okay. i can't wait. hannity come i cannot wait until the debate. >> sean: i'm waiting. >> laura: do you get this sad since that is not going to happen? speak to stomach >> sean: super bowl ratings. >> laura: i'm not sure that will happen but something is going on here. >> sean: joe will duck the debates because terry mcauliffe will see only to copeople. >> laura: i'm just