i can barely keep up. s >> i know. >> tucker: thank you. good to see you tonight. >> bye. >> tucker: speaking of spouse, that our went fast. we will be back tomorrow night, but we have a surprise for you. the great sean hannity standing by a new york. >> sean: i'm having a hard time dealing with this, i don't know, maybe i wasn't praised enough as a kid. thank you, tucker. great show as always. buckle up and welcome to "hannity." a fox news alert, breaking right now, according to the atlanta, georgia, police department, they are now experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs 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 importants development, and scay development, later in the program. also, we have a lot to cover, just moments, the president of united states, donald j. trump, will be joining us for an exquisite interview. also tonight, we will discuss the breaking news out of atlanta, two police officers have been charged, one with

felony murder. by the way, in the death of rayshard brooks, and what the possible one of these could be there. but first, america, we begin with this. we are now facing, as a country, a very serious problem, a clear and present danger. it is one that could turn into a monumental crisis that could greatly impact the safety and security of every american. the never ending rush to judgment, rush to judgment, broad, sweeping generalizations, the widespread vilification of police officers, law enforcemeni all around the country, and this madness to defund the police, eliminate them altogether, it is extraordinarily dangerous, and it's playing out right before this country's eyes. police everywhere are under attack. 800 police officers to date now have been injured, rocks, bric bricks, bottles, molotov cocktails, some of them have died, another paralyzed for life. still, the insane and dangerous

"defund of the," movement seems to be gaining speed. if they are successful, what what i mean for you and your family? it will mean anarchy, roaming the streets, my daughter could actually disappear. this smear campaign against the 99% good, decent, brave police officers, it's got to end, and it's got to end now. without a doubt, the men and women that put on that uniform every day, every morning, have one of the hardest, the toughest, the most dangerous jobs in the entire world. now, we did see this play out in real time over the past couple weeks. just look at your screen. ins new york city, hundreds of police officers were injured, pelted with bricks and other objects, and in one instance, an officer suffered a head injury after getting mauled with a metal, you know, fire extinguisher in that particular case. t another police officer in new york was stabbed in the neck. in buffalo, new york, earlier this month, police were actually

mowed down by a man driving a car -- again, all told, 800 police officers now have been injured during this months of riots and protests. the media says they are all peaceful. they are not all peaceful. many of the protesters were peaceful,of many of them were n. many were agitators. and by the way, several officers have been killed. that police officer we've been telling you about in las vegas that was shot in the head, he is now paralyzed from the neck down. another officerar was murdered n california. more recently, a sheriff's deputy was murdered in the line of duty in mississippi over the weekend, 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 protecting and serving the communities in which they are working. make no mistake, every single time that officer is getting dressed, going to work, they risked death, and that is just a fact.

and yet, 99% of them, they carry out their dangerous duties, they do it with honor, they do it with distinction. they protect and if they serve. most fair-minded americans know this. now, they know the police are the single barrier between anarchy and peace. if they know that their jobs are incredibly dangerous. fair-minded americans -- can we ever really forget, remember, steve scalise, other congressmen, practicing for a softball game? was two, heroic, u.s. capitol police agents that ran across an open baseball field, going up against a deranged gunman who had a rifle, risking their own lives -- they had no protection. again, against a deranged gunman. attempting toad assassinate congressman steve scalise, severely injured. t he almost died in that attack. other republican lawmakers. they walked, in that moment, unprotected, in an open field, with an assassin that has a rifle, to say lives.

amazing, selfless service. have we forgotten? known, we the people can never forget. will we ever forget the heroes of 9/11/2001? you know, nypd, fdny, emergency medical professionals, remember those guys? that day, they ran toward there scene of the trade center is a burning, september 11th, and as thousands were racing down the steps to get out of those towers, well, this other group of people, they were running up in the other direction, brave members of the fdny, nypd, so many others, 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 abuse power -- i still wear this pin, the fbi, for the 99%. t we've got to make the distinction, as a country. i want accountability. all americans want

accountability. the president's reforms that announced yesterday address a lot of important concerns, but police are vital, it is a necessary part of this society. look at this recent video from ocean city, maryland, showing a violent attack involving thousands of people. look at the headlines out of minneapolis from the past few days. "s.w.a.t. response to shooting at broadway and irving.". "multiple shootings reported across minneapolis overnight, at least eight people shot." by the way, 32 people shot in chicago this weekend, two died died -- 34 people. six injured during shooting at minneapolis bar. if police departments are defunded, who are the residents going to call to protect them? who will arrest the gang members, the murderers, the drug dealers, the rapists, the other violent criminals that unfortunately live in a world where there isioio good and thes evil? who are the people going to call during an emergency? ask yourself tonight, any of you watching, who willen you call if

somebody is trying to break into your house and cause harm to you and your family? as i said earlier, this vilification, so widespread, it needs to end. it needs to end now. because when police officers are left out to dry by local governments that are always playing politics, that are being vilified by their neighbors and unfairly being called racist, what's going to happen is there going to quit. where they are just going to turn a blind eye. or perhaps even find a new, less dangerous career that likely pays and the more money. already in buffalo, nearly 60 police officers have resigned, en masse, from the city special response team. seven police officers in minneapolis have resigned, and at least seven more are in the process now of leaving. so far this month, eight police officers in atlanta have stepped down. there are rumors tonight of a growing rebellion in atlanta. well, what if this really is a national stick out?

what they call a blue flu? in southern florida, ten officers, they quit the s.w.a.t. unit. if this continues, brace yourselves, because that means you and your family will be less safe, less secure, and all americans will be in more danger. here now with much more, fox news contributor dan bongino. forma nypd, former secret service officer. you know, 800 officers now have been hurt. i always talk, when i discussed the deep state, i always talk about the 99%, and i did it on purpose because it is fair. the fbi is the premier law enforcement agency in the world. we have 99% of officers, they 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. they are called racist, rocks, bottles, bricks, molotov cocktails, you know, a number -- dead, 800 hit already come and hurt. this is getting scary to me.

>> i've never seen anything like it, i really haven't. i'm receiving so many texts and emails from police officers who see me on the scale, or my show, wherever they run into me, and sean, they are devastated. i mean, these guys are at the breaking point -- and women out there -- they are breaking. the pressure on them is overwhelming. put them for yourself for a moment in their shoes. they've given anything to your community, everything. they're not there to get rich, not to get famous, they will never be on fox news, this has been a gift god has given me to have a voice that i will never forget, but that is not 99% of police officers. i have been blessed, a lot of them are out there every day busting the butts and i think to myself when i was in the 7-5 precinct, they used to turn out of that precinct, they lost a number of guys on 9/11. do you know how many times i go they are and i passed guys in the parking lot that are now no longer with us? father's day is coming up, and ask everybody just for a moment -- yes, it's tragic,

mr. brooks is dead, i don't wish ill will on anyone, he was a father, too -- >> sean: by the way -- >> we are all human beings. but sean -- >> sean: that was universal. >> nobody does, but father's day is coming up. do you have any ideas how many families across the country, their kids are going to get up right now andan their dad put a left left a piece of themselves is not their whole selves in the street, in the street, they are not there anymore. there's going to be a dinner on father's day with an empty chair. this matters. there's going to be an empty chair -- they are never coming back. they didn't do it for them. a lot of people -- police officers don't even live in these neighborhoods. they live in adjoining neighborhoods or even adjoining towns. they did it because they cared about you and public safety. they weren't doing it for some -- you know, could have tv deal later on, or anything like that. they were doing it because they gave a damn, and the fact they did is why they are not here anymore. i ask everyone to please, have some perspective in this

argument. p there are bad seeds. we can fix that. we will do better. but my gosh, vilifying every police officer out there who have left everything, their families, some of them, their souls, in the street for you. it is just a really sad point in american history. i never thought we would be act, and god forbid this get any worse, i don't know what is going to happen. >> sean: never thought i wouldng witness in my life police precinct burned to the ground. taken over, like we see in seattle tonight. i've said this a lot on the air, both my parents grew up poor, really poor, south bronx, my mom -- i mean, really poor, depression poor. my mom worked, what, 25 years, 16 hour shifts for days and days and days on end as a prison guard. my daddy family court probation guy and a waiter on the weeken weekends. these guys are not being paid a lot of money. last question, the blue flu. you've heard the phrase before. everybody knows what it means. is that a possibility?

because that is also scary. >> sean, it's not a possibility, it's actually happening. i mean, these guys have got to take as stand. and candidly so. someone has to stick up for the citizens in these communities. if they are going to be depoliced, the cops are not going to sit there and watch the tavern, what else do you want them to do? that are sent a message or your communities are going to descend into pure chaos. these are the best -- the finest men and women i've ever worked with in my life, i would trust them with my kids, my house, my car, my wife, my family, and he won. listen to me, i am not kidding. the finest men and women i have ever worked with in my life. >> we've got to go -- >> the stereotyping of all of them as racist killers is disgusting and gross. >> sean: we have a statement from the atlanta police department, a earlier suggestios of multiple officers from each zonefr walked off the job were inaccurate, the department is experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs with the incoming shift. we have enough resources to

maintain operations and remain able to respond to incidents. dan bongino, by the way, thank you. and thanks to all the men and women, the 99% of law enforcement officers that risked their lives every day. thank you. behalf on this whole audience, i know i can say those words. joining us now, full report, ongoing, police investigation from our own trace gallagher and breaking news center tonight. trace? >> we shipped the first in video on your show last night, she was walking in manhattan within 92-year-old woman supporting herself with a pushcart came walking by him and was popped in the face and knocked to the ground, where she hit her hd on a fire hydrant. he kept walking, but has since been arrested for the 104th time, including ones for allegedly sexually abusing a 13-year-old goal number girl, and ten times for other offenses, which are supposed to disqualify him for early release gets arrested, he was given a

desk appearance ticket, which means he gets a court date and been set free. meantime, in houston, police are looking for six young black men who were caughtki on video punching and kicking a man who just left a convenience store. the victim said he confronted the men inside the store for trying to cut the line. once outside, they attacked him. he says he thought the beating was over, until a suspect kicked him in the chest and said "black lives matter, blank." sean? >> sean: its chilling out there. trace gallagher, thank you for that report. we turn now to the breaking news out of atlanta. garrett rolfe, the now fired police officer involved in the fatal shooting of rayshard brooks come has been charged with 11 criminal offenses, including felony murder. if convicted, he could face life in prison without parole, and even the death penalty. the other officer on the scene, we are told, apparently now a

state to turn to witness, devon bronson, facing three charges including at a graded us i assault. apparently set to testify for the prosecution. earliero today, georgia distrit attorney powell hall where it announced the charges. let's take a look. >> these are the 11 charges against officer role for. the charges felony murder. this is the death as a result of an underlying felony, and in each case the underlying felony is aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. and the possible sentences for a family vision would be life -- life without parole, or the death penalty. >> sean: this show is going to remain consistent as we have throughout the years, this is notte what happened -- that was cut and dry, the tape is clear. like always, you cannot rush tor judgment, we will not do that on the shoulder. we have not seen on the evidence, we don't have all the tape from apparentlywe we have a lot more to learn off a lot more

to see. ofmo course, what happened at te wendy's and rayshard brooks was killed, and that is a tragedy, is of these turtle officers, they deserve, like every american cost estimate for a child trial, presumption of inn, a fair trial, a thing a lot of people up a notch. this is by no means an open and shut case. look look at georgia state law, "police may use deadly force to apprehend a suspect in family room, only when winston reasonably believes that the suspect possesses a deadly weapon or any object, device, or instrument, when used offensively against a person is likely to result in serious injury, federal or state it may also play a role. supreme court rulings in tennessee v gardner, police officer may use deadly force to prevent the escape of a suspect if thepe officer has

probable cause and a good faith of the suspect a significant event of death serious bodily injury to the articles in or to community. in graham versus connor, another landmark case, please officer could be in the clear if his or her action are deemed objectively reasonable based on the circumstances on the ground. let's keep in mind for 40 minutes what were really polite, courteous, almost as a routines, interactions with the police, rayshard brooks resisted the rest of their crystals in the taser, monogrammed, standing up first with the taser and listening to them, then attempting -- when he was running away -- to turn around the taser from the officer in pursuit. keep in mind, brooks was shot in the back factoredot in. shortly after the fire with taser, according to the decay od not render any life-saving treatment for over two after.

in other words, right after it happened. the d.a. also claims the former officer, officer local, kicked brooks after the shooting. why not take yet. another way, this is more complicated case from and it will play out not to look withic the political union, nonfunctional television come. we are a nation governed by and constitution. the foundation law. george floyd was clear as day. i reviewed it all, and neither did anybody else. in this case is very different 41, 17 seconds, courteous, confessional, poor joint both sides. in serious altercation occurred was placed under arrest. on the other question that often comes up in these cases, time will tell. commented the d.a. overcharge? movies to officers being convicted? remember the standard for this will become a fair, impartial jury of 12 people.

american citizens not to make the ultimate decision. after they hear both sides, a defense and prosecution. fear not, nationally syndicated racial humor regular was the elder, civil rights attorney leo terrel, fox news and correspondent guards geraldo rivera. all three are lawyers for the start with you, geraldo. your thoughts? we have a very swift, very submissive charge here. the courts will decide. that is our system of justice. i can't think of a better system. with perfectte system, no, i cat think of a better one. >> you know, sean, as i said last night that a crime-committed by the officer involved. put aside this preposterous overcharge for the politically challenging -- >> sean: you believe it is ann overcharge? >> i do this is clearly man's

honor, a person was provoked into killing another individual without originally intending to kill the victim. that demand product or the charge that should have been lodged against officer rolfe in this case. the question will become, remember, rolfe shot him twice in then back. the guy went to wendy's for a hamburger and ended up shot twice in the back by a cop. the question will be, for those of the fatal shots fired because the officer legitimate fear for his own life? was itca for the self-defense a jury to decide. clearly, i think this rises to the level of a death penalty case, and they think district attorney, he dishonors his office by playing to a mob of angry citizens, because this approximated time, i believe. it is on the tape shocking place tape, but he did not intend to murder him. if you give him the fifth penalty, what are you going to give the guy that killed 20 people, or rapes the child the

heads on? it dishonors the law, but if you can't lose sight of the fact that this comp shot this night in the back two times. >> seanthis feeling lives in a u are a civil rights attorney, do you agree with geraldo on overcharge? i thought we had a system of justice, do you believe in the presumption of innocence? i glue. i do not believe this is a case like george floyd. >> let me money personal savings, geraldo, when he was with longino is wrong with talking about shooting a guy in the back and i will get to that in a second. i may be as clear as possible. this was an overcharge and a war against the police department. looking pap smear -- she was very simple -- at the time if i? let's be clear, this is not the majority white lace, and this man was a fleeing felon gets als a fact. once you say to elizabeth two cases, what was in the officer's mind is not there could be 100 police experts will say that officer had a reasonable fear

that his life was being threatened by this man when he turned around geraldo coming talking about the fact what that officer's vehicle that this was a jury will decide. but let me. b but d.a. this in the 800 that you should be up for ethical violations. you don't have thehe civil attorney of their committed offenses attorney should ask for a change of venue. they have recently declared war on policing when that is why, sean from all of these officers are moving. one last point, very important, i am sick and tired just letting reviewed, sick and tired -- the people using the term "systematically deserve a nation," with mayor mpa are black. you don't stop saying it! >> we have gone through a lot of the big cities, what we are seeing, and i put it up on the screen and talked about it the other day, you have a

majority of minority officers and many of these cities, but i don't want to ask that question. i want to wait and discharges. you and promotable about an overcharge and what is your take on? >> i believe it is not only of overcharge, i don't believe the officer should have been charged at all. i spoke at a number of police officers, not a single one of the patient is been charged with murder. several are saying they could have done something different to. the tactic and outcome might have been somewhat meant, but we had a union, the police union said it was a legitimate shooting, there is a plaque share in georgia, also site with a legitimate shooting, not a single cop i talked to the reasons officers should have been trying to murder and i'm telling you something right nowt when you talk about the burden of proof, there's going to be a lot of people disappointed when the officers do not prompt him to a lower plea and it was to trial to try out there but and found not guilty of a whole bunch of peopleof might want to riot 11, so i think we should be

very comparable about setting expectations because there's a good chance officers between six will be found not guilty of. >> sean: i had sources in ferguson that is that they out and confront darren wilson's story. i have the same thing happen in baltimore, expectations were raised. this is dangerous, and -- >> very dangerous. >> sean: is dangerous.u all three of you have been phenomenal. we have a president coming up or i would give a lot more time critical thank you all three tough times for the country. when we come back, president trump, and explicitly don't want to miss. also, a quick first democrat for their years of inaction on inaction on policing and formal, straight ahead as "hannity" continues. ♪

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had eight years under president obama, justice and policing act, none of it was taken up virtually. >> sean: senator lindsey graham today slamming democrats over police reform efforts. joining us with a reaction, the president, by the way, will be joining us momentarily. senator lindsey graham. you know, we had ferguson, barack was president, joe was vice president. we had baltimore. barack was president, joe was vice president. at cambridge, all of thesewe otr cases, they didn't do a thing that i remember, senator graham. the president, if i look at the record, opportunity zones, that's donald trump. if i look at helping 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, youth unemployment, african-american youth unemployment but they didn't get that done eight years.

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

have completeig control of the government. they did nothing about police reform. but it's always off old. i'm not going to -- i will work with democrats to fix this problem, but i'm not going to be lectured to. you talk about being late to the dance, you had the entire government in your hands and you didn't do a damn thing. was not trump's fault, it's not obama's fault, this is a nation that needs to heal itself. there is not a binary choice, as tim scott said, but we do not need to be lectured to by democrats regarding police reform and our efforts, because they had a chance and they did nothing. >> sean: all right, senator, hate to give way, but there t is somebody that has a little higher ranking. >> [laughs] you've got that right. finally got to shut me up, good job. >> sean: okay, we love to have you on the program. thank you. president donald trump. mr. president, thank you so much for being with us. >> president trump: thank you very much, sean. >> sean: let me pick up what i

was just discussing with lindsey graham, and that is ferguson happened under president obama, vice president joe biden. same with baltimore, cambridge, all these other incidents. they didn't have any reforms. criminal justice reform happened with you. historically black colleges funded, more money for longer period of time, that was you, as well. i look at some of the -- opportunity zones, that's also, and you're always under attack. but then you came out with these reforms. let's talk about theit police reforms you announced yesterdayo >> president trump: well, we did come at if you look at the previous administration -- and frankly, many administrations, they did nothing on this and we did criminal justice reform. we did tremendous opportunity -- if you look at the opportunities we've 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 in areas and in terms of unemployment.

it's been incredible. before the chinese plague came to us, the african-american, if you look at the african-american unemployment, hispanic unemployment, asian unemployment, women, everything, we have the best unemployment numbers in the history of our country. we had almost 160 million people working. nobody has been close. and now we are doing it again, you see the numbers coming back very strongly. but you're right, the previous administration did nothing. >> sean: i talked a lot, for three years, we did an investigation, and we've been proven right every step ofof the way on what joe digenova kind of shocked me, he said 30 cops, because i have aed lot of family members that were in law enforcement, including my parents in some form. you know, and i always said the 99%, i have an fbi button on me that they wear every night, a cia button for the good people of intelligence. you talked about the good cops. there is a report tonight in atlanta that the department is experiencing a higher than usual

number of callouts for the upcoming shift tonight. you part of the term "blue flu." i openly show with, well, who are you going to call if we defunded the police or eliminate the police? that seems to be getting momentum in the country, that scares me. i would like to know your feelings on it. >> president trump: well, joe was k referring when he said 30 cops, i believe, to james comey, and he was right about that one, and mccabe and that group. so, he was referring to them. but it's a different form from a different uniform, and you know, you have bad and you have great. you have cops and police as law enforcement, they are great people, and that is a vast, vast majority of them. they do an incredible job and keep us all safe, and they love their country, and they don't want to make any mistakes, but they are under siege, there is no question about that, and we worked on some things very closely with law enforcement, and a lot of it you had on your show. i noticed the other night, you had it on your show, and whether it's the cams, you know, the

dashcam and the body cam, which is a camera, basically, very sophisticated camera, and other things, we have a lot of that in the bill, and it passed, and a lot of things are happening right now, but i signed an executive order, and a lot of that is included, and what the republicans put out today, and the democrats, all they do is complain, you know, they complain, but they've done nothing.y' they do nothing. they want to defunded and they want to abolish, they want to abolish police departments, and that is what it is going to be with biden, if you look, if he ever got in, you would be abolishing police. you can just watch because he is not going to be running anything, people around him will come and they will be abolishing police, they will be getting rid of your second amendment very quickly. you will not have a second amendment. and many other things you won't have that you'd like to have. >> sean: you know, watching what's unfolding in seattle, mr. president, the autonomous zone, c.h.a.z., c.h.o.p., summer of love as the mayor refers to

it, potluck spaghetti dinners, you have offered help to every governor that needs it, every mayor that needs it, have outright rejected it in states like new york, cities like new york, states like illinois, it is like chicago, and that includes seattle, where, you know, city blocks now have been taken over, and by the way, they built their own version of a wall, interestingly enough, to keep people out. and you keep offering to help, and they keep rejecting that help. and it's really the governor and the mayor's job, but there might come a moment where you might not have an option -- i assume we would know when that moment exists. why do you think they keep rejecting your help, because it seemed to work in washington, d.c., and minneapolis when they did accept it? >> 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 has never been said before in this country. and these people that are taking over this incredible piece of real estate are obviously very good at real estate, may be better than i was, because they paid nothing, they just took it over, and the police are somehow told not to be there. i'm sure they do a good job if they were told to do a good job, i assume they are properly trained, but we would go in there if they want us in and we will take it back very quickly. it should never be allowed to fester like it is festering right now. it's disgraceful to our country, it's a disgrace. >> sean: let's talk a little bit about your reaction to the two big cases. it seems to be universal condemnation as it relates to george floyd. and your thoughts on the charges that went down in atlanta earlier today? >> president trump: well, the george floyd case, nothing has to be said. i watched that. i couldn't really watch it for that long a period of time commitments over 8 minutes, and

to could watch that? but it doesn't get any more obvious or doesn't get any worse than that, and i think it's a different kind of a case. and that man has some big problems, there is no question about it, the police officer. i haven't met any -- i deal with law enforcement all the time, and i left a a big group of gret comedy top sheriffs and law enforcement people in the country, and nobody was sticking up for what he did. the event that took place yesterday, which i thought it was a terrible situation, but you can't resist a police officer, and if you have a disagreement, you have to take it up after the fact. it was a very sad -- very, very sad thing, and look, you really, you take a look, it was out of control, the whole situation was out of control. i heard today and just got a report that the police officers lawyer said that he heard a

sound like a gun, like a gunshot, and he saw a flash in front of him. so, that's an interesting, you know -- i don't know that i would have necessarily believed that, but i will tell you, that's a very interesting thing, and maybe that's so. it's going to be up to justice right now, i hope he gets a fair shake, because police have not beenpo treated fairly in our country. they have not been treated fairly. but again, you can't resist a police officer like that, and they ended up in a very terrible disagreement, and look at the way -- look at the way it ended. very bad, very bad. >> sean: terry mcauliffe, you talked about in your interview with my colleague and friend, harris faulkner, you talked about joe biden, almost having compassion on him come in a lot of ways. terry mcauliffe actually said, i'm fine with him staying in the

basement. he only sees two people a day, his body men, i'm fine with that. which i think is a very unusual and unique way to run for president of the united states. to me, i think there are legitimate questions as t ite relates to mental alertness, and well, let's say stamina and strength and acumen. i would argue just in the last three plus years, your job is probably the hardest job in the world that i can see, 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. i think he's really been run beautifully -- she's not runnint his campaign, people are running his campaign. i see quotes all the time that he said this, he said that about me, and they are long, beautiful, flowing sentences. i said, joe didn't make that statement. joe doesn't even know the statement was made. but they are leaving him there, and at some point, he's going to

have to come out for air, and i think, look, we've done a great job. we've done a great job. if you look back a few months ago to an economy that was the greatest of all time, everything we had was at records, every -- no matter it was unemployment, whether it's in the stock market, and now you look at what we are doing, i'm doing it all over again, we had to turn it off, we would have lost millions of people -- we did, we turned it off, and now we have started up again, and we are going to have an amazing year next year, when you have a great third quarter. we just have the best jobs numbers, the biggest job gain in history, and we just had the biggest retail sales number in history for the last month. so we are starting up and it's going to be very, very strong. we are very close to a vaccine -- even without it, but i will tell you, we are very close to a vaccine and we are very close to therapeutics. really good therapeutics. but even without that -- i don't even like to talk about that,

because it is fading away. it's going to fade away, but having a vaccine would be really nice, and that's going to happen. >> sean: so, all of theseap protests have been going on for weeks, and talk about social distancing, kind of went away almost completely, from what i can tell. many people i saw were not wearing masks. and even some of the politicians now that are critical of you having a rally in oklahoma on saturday, and now all of a sudden, they are saying, well, this may not be safe. i understand temperature are going to be taken, people let go, signing a waiver, i understand masks will be worn by people. even distributed, i think i read somewhere. maybe you should change the name of the rally and call it al protest, and maybe they will say it is okay, then. >> president trump: yeah. [laughs] that's true. i mean, protesters and anarchists and terrorists and

looters and all of the people that were marching on various locations over the last couple of o weeks have since died down. they've lost some 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, and they were right on top of each other, and nobody complained. when you look at fake cnn, it's total fake, it's a fake news operation. and it's really, like, an extension of the democratic party. and then he look at msdnc, which is dnc, democratic national m committee, and you look at it, and you see the way they talk -- they never mentioned that, they don't talk about it.on this is all you hear about oklahoma, what we are doing. we will be in tulsa. you have a great mayor and a great governor, i spoke to him yesterday. they are so excited about it that you have no idea, and we have had so many sign ups, and

there are lines of people now, we won't be there for three days. they have lines of people right now trying to get into the arena, they'll be there, they'll be early. they'll be in one of those early front rows. >> sean: how many people signedea up, do you know? >> president trump: over a million people requested tickets. well, there is just a hunger for the rallies, and i enjoy doingor them, but they enjoyed them, more important than me, it gives energy to everybody, and we have tremendous enthusiasm. if you look at the polls, we are way ahead of sleepy joe in terms of busy as them. we have enthusiasm like they have never seen before, actually. joe has the lowest -- i hear -- enthusiasm on record. now they have a party, and party believes in a lot of bad things. open mortars, sanctuary cities -- open borders, think of it. supposedly, tijuana, we are up to 212 miles of wall, this is serious wall, i'm going to be at

the ball pretty soon. celebrate over 200, but 212 miles now, nobody is getting through. very, very few people are coming through on our border. we have a tremendous border. think of it come in tijuana, tijuana, mexico, it's one of the most effective places on earth. and we have a wall between tijuana and san diego, you know, it's's like, beautiful, very powerful wall, and california is a 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. we were very early to the call -- as you know, because you are one person that reports it, but when we heard about it, i made the decision not to let people from china come in. we love people from china, but they were having a tremendous problem, and at there end of january, i said,d, you can't come in, you can't come in, and we saved tens of thousands -- and everybody, even our critics, give me credit for that, but we

say tens of thousands of lives, and then i banned europe from c, many of the people that couldn't come here went to italy and they went to spain and france, and we had a ban on europe and we did that fairly shortly thereafter. we've been very early, and our testing has been phenomenal, and we came up with ventilators, we are the kings of ventilators, we are making thousands of ventilators a week. all our people -- not one person that needed a 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 tol make, they are expensive and they are big and very 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. when you have the travel ban. we haven't had a quarantine in 15 plus years and my

understanding, and the subsequent travel ban can be recalled racist, xenophobic, fearmongering, 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. what made you come at that moment, make that one decision? that seems critical to me. >> president trump: well, i received information that china, wuhan in particular, was heavily infected. and i just said, look, why are we doing this? and let's see --k. and nobody kw anything about it at that time, we did and it affected the elderly much more so thant children. that's why we have to open our schools in the fall, the children, the numbers are very, very small. almost nonexistent. and it's an incredible thing. their immune system is very strong. ande so, we have to get the

schools open, and i'm sure they will be open, i think most of them, if people are doing the right thing, they are going to be opening up schools, you have to have it. too much of a strain in many ways and unfair to the children. butt i just felt it was a heaviy affected area, and how are we letting people into our country -- nobody knew that it was going to be that contagious, it's a highly contagious -- there's been nothing like this since 1917, over 100 years ago, where probably anywhere from 50 to 100000000 people died, probably ended world war i because all the soldiers were si sick. and it probably -- one thing, it ended world war i, very likely, but nobody had any idea it was going to be this kind of contagious. it has been really rough. but we've learned a lot and we are doing really great in the laboratories, and we are going to have -- we are going to have a vaccine very soon. >> sean: john bolton, who worked for you, has a book, and

in that book, he is claiming that you asked china for help with your reelection, your trade representative -- by the way, the u.s. trade representative, just breaking, came out with a statement claiming that is false, and denies it. they were just recently released documents tonight, and affidavits, that says the nsc has determined that the information in the manuscript is classified as confidential, secret, top secret levels, accordingly, the publication release of "the room where itti happened" would cause irreparableus harm because of te exposure of classified information in the manuscript reasonably could be expected to cause except the 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

fellow colleague greta van susteren, bolton said i think one thing you can be f sure of, this was just before he got fired, is president trump is not going to make the mistakes of prior administrations here, that's of come to the idea that if he gives them economic benefits you automatically count on them following through ma commitments. he said on your views on russia, the press that gets criticized for being soft on russia, i'm still waiting to see evidence of that. he's authorized us to take very strong action against election meddling by anybody, strong action against intrusions into our information technology systems, country like russia, china, north korea, and iran, what iss your reaction to the discharge end of this claim that the president -- and what now, government is saying basically compromising national security, the way i interpret that. >> president trump: first of all, nobody, nobody, has been tougher on russia and china than i have, nobody even close. china is paying us billions of

dollars a year. they never gave us $0.10, and biden's son walked away with $1.5 billion to manage, making hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars on it, so nobody has been tough on china, and nobody has been tough on russia like i have. and that's in the record books, and it's not even close. the last administration did nothing on either. and then, in terms of both income he broke the law. he was a washed up guy, i gave him a chance. he couldn't get senate confirmed, so i gave him a nonsenate confirmed position, put him there, see how he worked. and i wasn't very enamored. he went into the middle east, he was one of the big guns or "let's go into iraq," and that didn't work out too well, i was against that a long time ago, before i was ever even thinking about doing what i'm doing now, but he was one of the people thatat wanted to go to a rack. and ask him about it, i said, recently, i set about a month in, when he was about a month income i said "what do you think? you think you made a mistake

there?" "no, i don't think so." i said, explained that one. a terrible terrible thing he did, but he brokeke the law, vey simple. as much as it's going to be broken, highly classified, that's the highest stage, is highly classified information, and he did not have approval. that's come out now very loud and very strong, and iut appreciate ambassador lighthizer in front of the committee today on an unrelated topic, they asked him that question, one of our friends in the democrat party was very nice to ask him the question, and he said, absolutely not, trump was tough on china, but nobody has been tough like me. nobody has been tough like me on china. taking in right now billions and billions of dollars from china. i gave aom lot of it to the farmers, because the farmers were targeted by china. nobody has ever done that. >> sean: 500 billion for just two years alone if i remember the first part of the deal. not insignificant. all the other trade deals. let me go -- one thing that kind of waso. interesting to me,

everybody knows your opinion on the anthem and kneeling and you've been very outspoken about it, but comments you made ont colin kaepernick about if he deserves to play in the nfl. if he has the playing ability, if he -- you're right, he did start off, by the way, as a great, great quarterback. i mean, amazing couple of years. you say didn't end up in terms of being as good of a player and some of the later years, but said s terrific his first two years. and he wasn't playing up to snuff, and use of the answer is absolutely, i would like to see -- love to see him get another shot. obviously, he has to play well, if he can't, no, but you would like to see him get another shot, i found that interesting. >> president trump: he has the ability. he can only get it if he has the ability. they're not s going to lose gams because of wanting to be politically correct or whatever time -- i don't know if that is politically correct for the opposite, but if he has the ability.si look, he was a great rookie, and

his second year was great, and then after that, he started going downhill rather rapidly, hand then he was out of footba, and then he suing everybody. and i think he made a lot more money doing that then he did with football. but it was -- if he has the ability, somebody would take him -- look, i know a lot of these owners. if they had -- if they had somebody that was going to win my games, they will sign him no matter who they s are. it doesn't matter. i don't like come also, relatively -- another subject, but i figure it is your next question, when the national anthem plays and our flag, the great american flag is raised, you should not be kneeling. you should be standing, ideally with your hand on your heart, or saluting, but they should not be kneeling. they can protest enough -- and i saw the nfl get very weak, i saw drew rees was a warrior, great quarterback, a fan of his, i'm a fan of his, i saw him make this beautiful statement, then the next day he retracted the statement, talked about his

father and his grandfather fighting in the war for our country, our flag, then the next day he retracted it. i just don't get that. but you have to stand when the flag goes up, and i think they lose a lot of fans and a lot of support in the nfl, that already happened before, i thought they learned their lesson, but ied think it is going to happen again, and i was surprised at roger, roger goodell, that he 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 and the economic recovery. you did mention, you know, just like the coronavirus model's predictions, they were so off-base. i mean, shockingly so. but with all of that said, nobody predicted, you know, they were predicting, i think it was 9 million job loss in may, and i know mike ended up gaining 2.5 million. that had a record retail sales at 18%. we saw gallup poll that you are doing better even now on this

issue than obama ever did at any point of his presidency. how worried about -- are you about, we know it is when, not if, in terms of hot spots emerging. we've now been dealing with -- how confident are you that we are able to get on them quick enough so we don't ever find ourselves in a o position againo have to shut down, you know, a big portion of the economy and the country, and that would become again, the cure can't be worse than the disease, right? >> president trump: well, we will get on it. my original statement, the curee can't be worse than the disease. where working with 50 governors, some of whom are outstanding like in oklahoma as an example. we are working with the e governors and we are working with local representatives and mayors, and we are supplying them what they need, including the ventilators, now we don't need any, no matter what, we have that taken care of. we are in great shape -- i used to call them the embers, the

flames, they flare up in certain areas a little bit, but i think we will put them out very quickly, we won't be closing the country again. if we didn't do what we did, we made all of the right moves, we would have lost anywhere from one and a half minimum, ten times what we -- think of that, with all of the loss, multiplied times ten, minimum, you could have gone up to three and a half or more million people, many times more. we also learned a lot about it, who it attacks, it attacks different people but it doesn't attack the young, as we said, but it doesn't attack older people, especially if they have a problem with their heart, they have diabetes, they get attacked violently by this horrible disease. china should have -- china should have kept it where it was. they could have easily stopped

it. they either lost control, they either suffered 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, and yesterday, it hit beijing to a certain extent, and we'll see what happens they are. just hit beijing, but other than that, they kept it inside, except when it came to lettingep it hit the rest of the

>> really? five seconds, that's okay. >> sean: i like to hit the post. >> hannity, i cannot wait until the debate. don't you get the sense -- >> super bowl ratings. >> i'm not sure they are going to happen. >> sean: joe is going to try to get the debates. he is a two body