we'll be back, too. we are out of time to tonight, but tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of my income, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we will see you then. in the meantime, have a great evening, heading off in new york to sean hannity. >> sean: all right, tucker, thank you as always. welcome to "hannity," and we begin to met with breaking news, a fox news alert, because breaking, "hannity," this show has exclusively now uncovered video of joe biden downplaying the coronavirus one month after the president's travel ban, and of course, well, over a month after the first identified case of corona in america. take a look. >> i want to talk a moment about the coronavirus, and i just wanted to say a few things to set the record straight. barack and i, as president as ad vice president, we took on the virus that was threatening all of africa and the rest of the

world, and we set up a mechanism that worked. but i want to take a moment to say it's not a time to panic about coronavirus, but coronavirus is a serious public health challenge. >> sean: here's a question tonight. will the media and mob spend the next 24 hours freaking out about those comments? i wouldn't hold my breath. we have a lot more of this coming up tonight. also tonight, the president of the united states donald trump will join us for an exclusive one-on-one interview. we will talk about the nonstop, never ending hysteria on the left, the lies about his coronavirus response, the double standard, the hypocrisy that is frankly never ending. it hasn't ended in four years. the violence from biden supporters and in democratic run cities, blue states, and so much more. our own lawrence jones will be , a rare biden campaign stop today in the state of michigan, but get this, they have more trump

supporter's showing up than biden fans. does anyone actually like joe biden? does anyone, you know, get excited by joe biden? we'll have a report tonight. first, we begin with something i call, this is now the insanity season. 59 days away from a tipping point election, the lightning, the smears, the slander, buckle up, the hysteria is not reaching a fever pitch, and with just 55 days until you become the ultimate jury, the anti-trump insanity is going to be nonstop. i hate to report it will only get worse in the days and nights to come leading to what is, to me, the tipping point election in this country. there is a well coordinated, a newly manufactured scandal, pretty much every hour of every single day for the past few hous crisis of the day involved a series of interviews between author bob woodward and president trump. most of that hysteria surrounds this moment when the president talked about the seriousness of covid-19 on february 7th.

let's listen in. >> you know, it's a very tricky situation. it goes through air, bob, so it is tougher than the touch. the touch, you don't have to touch things, but the air, you just breathe the air, that's how it is passed. so that is a very tricky one. that's a very delicate one. it's also more deadly, you know, even your strenuous flus. >> sean: data 17 days after the first identified case of coronavirus in america. that's also seven days after the president's travel ban was implement it, trump haters on the media mob are now accusing the president of hiding the truth about the deadly virus from the american people. why did he put the travel ban in effect if he wasn't taking it seriously? even have a "washington post" accusing him of misleading the public. it would actually be the media mob lying to you, as they have for four consecutive years. remember, they are the one that pedaled one conspiracy theory, r

another, they never corrected the record, they've never admitted they are wrong. him the media lies on a daily basis. they are nothing but state run democratic socialist tv and print. this is just the latest political smear. here are the facts. by the time that interview was conducted on february the 7th, the president had already taken what was in unprecedented steps to protect the american people. again, january 31st of this ye year, only ten days after the first confirmed covid-19 case in the united states, which was january 21st, president donald trump declared a public health emergency. he also announced an unprecedented travel ban to and from china. on the same day, the president ordered the first mandatory quarantine in more than 50 years in this country. shortly thereafter, the president formed a task force, he filled it with top scientific and medical professionals led by the vice president of the united states. on march 11th, the president

extended the travel ban to most of europe. these were serious, severe, quick actions by the president. he took it seriously. according to public health officials, they saved countless american lives and prevented untold suffering and death. on february 1st, joe biden, the day after the president but the travel ban in effect, he suggested that travel ban was racist. he called it hysterical, xenophobia, and fearmongering. on april 3rd, this is 62 days later, joe biden now, as per usual, you know, like on fracking and nonviolent protests, well, he reversed course. a campaign surrogate announced the biden now supported the travel ban that he had called the day after it was implemented, hysterical, xenophobic, and fearmongering. and tonight, let's play it again, brand-new bombshell video, joe biden, february 28th, telling a crowd not to panic

over the coronavirus. now, that is a month after donald trump already implemented the travel ban that he opposed and called xenophobic. take a look. >> i want to talk a moment about the coronavirus, and i just want to say a few things to set the record straight. barack and i, as president and vice president, we took on the virus that was threatening all of africa and the rest of the world, and we set up a mechanism that worked. but i want to take a moment to say, it's not a time to panic about coronavirus, but coronavirus is a serious public health challenge. >> sean: donald trump acted, joe biden dithered, and the media mob, did you see that? because the biden campaign didn't even release an official response on the pandemic until march 11th. the plan was a few paragraphs long and included things that

the president was already doing. perhaps he was taking a daily nap and missing with the president was doing. all the while, joe biden was campaigning without a mask, he was hugging, touching, speaking closely to the view biden supporters that actually showed up at those few events. it wasn't until june the 26th, then biden called for a national mask mandate. and then, by the way, september 2nd, after getting a lot of blowback for his mandate, biden reversed course yet again, and said he did not actually support federally mandated mask wearing. okay. clearly, there is one candidate playing politics with the pandemic, even biden admits the worst and 100 years, and it is not president trump. if joe biden were in charge, it's not a question of if more americans would have contracted the virus and died, but how many hundreds of thousands more americans would've contracted this virus. how many more thousands would have died? by the way, it wasn't just

joe biden. nearly every powerful democrat in america was playing down the coronavirus, all while trying to score cheap political points against president trump. in other words, typical day in the swamp. take a look. >> what is out there in other places, going to be careful about how we deal with it, but we do want to say to people, come to chinatown, here we are, and again, come join us. >> if you are under 50 and you are healthy, which is most new yorkers, there is very little threat here. >> what you are saying what happened in other countries versus what happened here, we don't even think it's going to be as bad as it was in other countries. >> sean: and on march 2nd, comrade de blasio was telling new yorkers "get out on the town, here are my recommendations," while these id politics, the president took action, immediate action. remember, early february, democrats were still in the process of their impeachment

trial, including quid pro quo joe and zero experience hunter. the president and i want to create a panic, what president would want that? on march the 19th, here is exactly what he told bob woodward, take a listen. >> well, i think, bob, to be honest with you -- >> sure, i want you to be. >> i wanted to always play it down. i still like playing it down, because i don't want to create a panic. >> sean: while democrats and the media mob spin in circles, well, let's look at some perspective with a brief "hannity" history lesson. as many of you know, all four of my grandparents, i talked about them a lot, they all came to this country from ireland at the turn of the last century. they didn't have any money. my own parents, they grew up or during the great depression, my dad spent four years fighting in the pacific in world war ii, but during the time they were growing up and the great depression, unemployment was nearly 25%. gdp down 30%. 2 million americans were homeless, the stock market down

90%, people's life savings were wiped out, average incomes are down by 40%, and every city, every town, there was soup lines around the block. my parents, like millions of other americans, they struggled. those were tough times, they were poor. did president roosevelt fan the flames of misery? to vehicle for panic and anxiety? no, he rallied a nation in a time of need and focused on making americans stronger by staying positive, and he got to work and rolled up his sleeves. during world war ii, with the country on the brink, fdr proclaimed we have nothing to fear but fear itself. well, those were brutally tough times. the media attack him? of course not. what about in the aftermath, 9/11, 2001, two days, what was president bush supposed to say? america is going down in flames, you better go hide in your basement bunker? of course not.

the president's job is to maintain order, and by the way, right the ship during and after a crisis, not spread panic, not spreading fear among the population. let's make one thing perfectly clear, president trump has never misled or distorted the truth about this deadly disease. no, he acted faster than anyone else. don't take my word for it, let's listen to dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, i have a lot of respect for him, and guess what, he is very well respected, especially by democrats on the left. well, guess what? here's what dr. fauci had to say about the pandemic on february 29th, take a look. >> dr. fauci, saturday morning in america, people are waking up with real concerns about this, they want to go to malls and movies, maybe as, as well, should we be changing our habits, and if so, how? >> right now, at this moment, there is no need to change anything you are doing on a day-by-day basis. right now, the risk is still low, but this could change, i've said that many times, even on

this program. you've got to watch out because although the risk is low now, you don't need to change anything you're doing. when you start to see community spread, this could change, and force you to become much more attentive to doing things that would protect you from spread. >> sean: medical community from all of the models were wrong, china lied to the world, i don't blame dr. fauci or anybody else, they were doing the best he could come he has devoted decades of his life to saving lives. dr. fauci has also praised president trump's response right here on "hannity." he was on the show, by the way, on the show january 27th, on my show february 10th, this is what he said on march 10th. take a look. >> now, are we doing everything possible that you would do up to this point? >> you know, i believe so. always, when you have an outbreak, there is a little bit of the fog of war associated with that. you are trying to do the right thing, you are trying to keep up with an evolving situation, i think in the context of what we

are being challenged with, i think everybody is doing really well. >> sean: and on march 22nd, fauci doubled down on a space for president trump in an interview on life liberty and living with the great one, let's take a look. >> the coordinated response has been -- a number of ways to describe it, impressive, i think, is one of them. i mean, we are talking about all hands on deck, so i can't imagine that under any circumstances that anybody could be doing more. >> sean: can't imagine anybody could be doing more. today come on the daily briefin, fauci once again defended president trump, let's take a look. >> so, did you get a sense he was or wasn't playing this down? >> no, no, no, i did end. i didn't get any sense he was distorting anything. in my discussions with him, they were always straightforward about the concerns that we had. we related that to him, and when he would go out, i would hear

him discussing the same sort of things. >> sean: clearly, the hysteria we see from all the trump haters across america is nothing more than the typical election year distraction. their candidate, they know he is weak, they know he is frail, they know he is, well, seems a quite a bit of a decline. their candidate, frankly come up to this point, has been a national embarrassment. joe biden inspires no one, he struggles to communicate clearly, some days he doesn't know what day of the week it is, some days he doesn't know what office he is even running for. constantly at state of confusion, seems to be using the teleprompter, move that up a little bit, something is obviously wrong, but the media, and of course democrats, they want us all to ignore the obvious truth. today, at a rare campaign event away from his basement bunker, there were way more trump supporter showing up than biden fans. joining us now with the full report, "hannity" 2020 election correspondent investigative reporter lawrence jones. so, they didn't tell anybody, my

understanding is, until like an hour before the event, where the event was, and then when they did tell people, more trump people showed up than biden people? >> you got it right, sean. good evening. earlier today, joe biden left his basement and traveled to warren, michigan, to meet with union workers and with only an hour notice, supporters lined ue only thing, sean, the people that were outside, that were fired up, they weren't biden supporters, they were trump supporter's beer it would take a look at what they had to say. >> tell me, why are you also fired up? >> because we love the president. we love the president. we love what he does for the country. >> does it surprise you that we have all of these trump supporter's right here, and only two biden supporters over there? >> my position would be the biden supporters are so fractured, and most of them are probably still at sleep at home, just like sleepy joe. >> why is joe biden bad for michigan? >> because china owns joe biden.

>> why don't y'all think there is more biden supporters here? >> because biden doesn't have the support that trump has. >> why do you think they're keeping it secret -- >> because they don't want all this. you think he wants to show up and see no supporters? >> and sean, many political insiders are questioning if the vice president is hiding from voters. is he really focusing on michigan, or is he making the same mistake that hillary clinton made? i talked with more supporters and people in michigan, and this is what they had to say. >> did you know the vice president was going to be here in michigan? >> no, not really. not until the very last second. >> do you believe the vice president kind of snuck in town and got back out of town? do you think he worked enough to win methods in michigan? >> i don't think either one of them have worked hard enough. >> do you think he is going to win at this time? >> yes. >> but as a biden voter, he wish he would have spent more time

talking with voters? >> yeah. >> you are in a swing state. do you feel like the vice president is hiding from you as a voter? >> a little. >> do you think he is trying to hide from the people? >> well, yeah, he's trying to hide from the people because he is not actually representing the people. the people have different views than what he is actually pushing. >> sean come as you can see, these weren't just trump supporter is saying this, this was his own supporters saying he is hiding from them, so it begs the question, is he really serious about this race, is he really serious about winning michigan? i think he is still making same mistake hillary clinton made. back to you, sean. >> sean: all right, time will tell. lawrence, by the way, thank you. president trump will be in michigan tomorrow if you're here with, fox news contributor, we call him the architect, karl rove. karl, it's interesting, because he's been able to hide in a basement bunker come he comes out, puts out his head, says a few things, but he really has got this whole other army in front of him, that would be

pretty much 99%, 99.9% of the media, he is their favorite candidate, so they are doing the work for him, aren't they? >> well, yeah, but he went over the top today and the fact that the media didn't call to count or make -- i have three points i want to make. we have a record going here. first of all, i was intrigued by his rhetoric in his speech. he said the president failed to do his job on purpose. that is to say, the president wanted people to die, he wanted them to get sick, and he did it on purpose. he said, this is a life and death betrayal. i mean, that is really over the top. he said, "experts say if the president acted one week earlier, 36,000 lives would have been saved." earlier in the year, he said if the president he had acted one week earlier, 36,000 lives would have been saved. "the washington post" said this was completely inaccurate. this was not accurate. he said the recession was

created by trump's negligence, so it is not the responsibility of the coronavirus, it is trump who created the recession, and how did the president create that? by shutting down the economy as the science told him to do and have us quarantine at home, would joe biden have said no, we should not do that? i mean, is he going to listen to the science or not? so, he deliberately attacks the president in an over-the-top way. here's the more important point to me: i'm interested, what did joe biden know, and when did he know it, and what was he thinking at the time this coronavirus came on? because right now he is saying, president trump did everything wrong, i'm a genius, if you would only listen to me, if i'd only been in charge. i'm interested in, what did joe biden say is this came on, and what did the people around him advising him say? january 27, he writes an op-ed, says this is a dangerous disea disease, and here's my plan. in 2021, after i'm elected, we are going to set up a public

health emergency fund, we are going to give the president the power to declare a pandemic disaster, emergency, which he already has come up and set up what he called the global health services to help countries around the world. does any of that sound like this guy was confronting what we were facing at that point? that was the 27th of january. on the 31st, trump puts in the china band, you know what he said, he said this is a xenophobic, this is racist. on the 28th, two days before, three days before trump puts in the travel ban, ron klain, and advisor on health issues come he says this would be premature. on the day before, zeke emanuel, who is a top health care advisor to him and constantly being heard, says stop panicking over the prospect of what the coronavirus is going to do. stop panicking, he says. on the second -- excuse me, on

the 6th of february, he had an expert, a guy named erwin read lanter said the idea that s is going to be a serious pandemic is not likely and the odds of it being a lethal form is negligible. that was the guy advising joe biden on the 11th and 13th, we hear from klain, klain says this is not serious, we don't face a health academic, we face a "fear epidemic." attacking president trump for raising concerns about it at. on the 20th, zeke emanuel says this is all an overreaction. we then have nancy pelosi go out and say come to china count, don't worry about this, that happened on the 23rd. on the 23rd, zeke emanuel says, you know what, the masks aren't going to work, don't use a mask, this is the day the first american dies from coronavirus and they are on television, don't get a mask, it's not going to do any good peers on the 12th, as president trump is

putting into place a travel ban on europe, lisa monaco, top advisor to biden, inviting himself go go out and double-team on the issue of the european travel ban and say we don't need to do this, this is premature. we don't hear the word mask from biden, we don't hear the word social distancing from biden, we don't hear the idea of a lock down we don't even hear the idea of invoking the national defense production act in order to get control of the ppe problem that the biden obama administration created by not refilling our stockpiles. we don't hear those until after the middle of march when president trump is already talking about all of those things. so i'm sitting here saying, here is a guy lecturing the country, saying donald trump killed people deliberately, and if he'd only listens to me, would he and his people are not saying we need to shut down the economy, we need to have everybody wear a mask, we need to quarantine in place, we need to do this, we need to do that -- in fact, they are saying that is a fear

epidemic in the idea that this is going to be a serious pandemic is very unlikely. final point, final point. this guy is tone-deaf. what value is a promise? what is the worth of a presidents word? does he do what he says he's going to do? we have a different philosophy when it comes to giving our word. well, i remember joe biden being the guy who said we got shovel-ready jobs when we were talking about the stimulus bill in 2011. i remember him joining in all of those lies that were told to sell obamacare. if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. i remember -- i'm old enough to remember when he ran for president in 1987 and got kicked out of the race because he was caught plagiarizing his speeches from the labour party leader of great britain. i even remember when he was running around the countryside saying i had a full scholarship to syracuse law school, i

graduated at the time of my class, and it turned out he got a half scholarship for need, near the bottom of his class. i remember when i got caught up. here is a guy lecturing about president trump, he and i have a different philosophy about what your word means when he has lied to the american people he was vice president, and lied to the american people when he first ran for president in 1987, and lied about his academic background i got caught on it a national transit know my television before that. please, can we have a little humility? take a step back from these grandiose, president trump the literately killed people -- can we really, you know, president trump doesn't know how to tell the truth, we have a different standard -- can we please step back and look at ourselves first? i mean, this is just over the top. >> sean: wow. that is, like, worthy of a levin rant. karl rove, great analysis. you can bring three boards every

night between now and election night. well done, sir. when we get back from a quick break, we'll check in reince priebus, matt gaetz, and the president of united states in an exclusive interview straight ahead. tonight on speed 29. ♪

♪ >> sean: all right, a fox news alert, president trump joins us, literally, two or 3 minutes from right now. joining us first, former white house chief of staff, reince priebus, and congressman matt gaetz of florida. how would you be responding to woodward's book, number one, reince, and also, you know, the attacks that karl rove was just talking about? >> yeah, well, sean, thanks for having me. i do exactly what your monologue

just laid out, i would attack this just like the president attacked "the atlantic" article, except i wouldn't play any defense, go all in on offense, just like you laid out, the travel ban in china at the end of january a week before the woodward interviews, the restrictions on the e.u., set up the task force, dr. birx and dr. fauci, every day getting the recommendations, far more restrictive than what joe bidend out, and here's what i would be doing, early vote, right now, in florida, i'm going to give you an example, the early vote is at 4.8 million ballots have been requested as of today in florida. that's 2.5 times what we were in 2016. the campaign should be spending five times the money on tv, telling the american people, just like you laid out in your monologue, the real story of coronavirus. do not get outflanked, do not let anyone rewrite your history,

and go on offense, no defense. that is what i would do. >> sean: i agree with that that wholeheartedly. i was told by a mutual friend of ours, watched in florida over the weekend, the labor day weekend, saw tons of biden ads, not trump ads, which surprised me. matt gaetz, your advice? >> in the state of florida, we have seen from flags on just about every boat. the president just banned offshore oil drilling in florida. it really highlights the extent to which the media is a joke. when the president urges calm, they say he is a responsible. when he takes aggressive action, they call him a racist. a great nation cannot respond to a pandemic by panicking or hiding in the bunker. president trump had a well executed, focused plan, initial estimates said 2 million people could have died from the coronavirus, it is going to be far less than that, and we are going to have an economy capable of rebounding because we have

had strong leadership of president trump. >> sean: all right, reince priebus and congressman matt gaetz, i would keep you both longer, but somebody else thinks you. they are up next. joining us right now, live on the phone, exclusive interview from the white house tonight, president donald trump. mr. president, thank you for being with us. >> president trump: well, thank you. they did a very good job, i will say. >> sean: okay. [laughs] me go to the woodward book. i was surprised you spoke to him. i don't think a lot of good comes from talking to bob woodward, my own personal opinion. let's go to the things karl rove was pointing out, that biden said today, ten days after the first identified case, ten days, you put the travel ban in effect, and it was a subsequent band, first quarantined in over 50 years, he said it was hysterical, xenophobia, and fearmongering on your part. two and a half months later, he reversed himself, at least according to a campaign ad.

what do you believe that one decision -- ten days after the first case in america, what impact did that have come and what were you saying to bob woodward? >> president trump: first of all, on the woodward book, on the book itself, i didn't participate in his last one, and he does hit jobs with everybody. he even did it on obama, constant hit jobs come on bush, i guess they did three books, they were all terrible, so i figured, let's give it a little shot, it wasn't a big deal, i speak to him, i don't know if the book is good or bad, i have no idea, probably, almost definitely i won't read it because i don't have time to read it, but i gave it a little bit of a shot. sounds like it's not going to be good, but if you look at what i said today, i said don't panic, we don't want to be jumping up and down and going wild, don't panic. i'm a cheerleader for this country, and i don't want to see panic, and i did what matt said was fantastic, because we would have lost 2 million, 2.5 million lives instead of number we are talking about,

anything above 1 is no good, its no good, we can't have it, it was china's fault, they sent it to us, it was no good, but i thought i would give the bob woodward some time, i gave him some time, but as usual, with the books he writes, that didn't work out. perhaps, i don't know, maybe it's good, who knows? but as far as the timing is concerned, i did something very important, as you know, at the end of january, i banned -- i banned china, because the people from china, they were heavily infected, and i had a lot of people, including dr. fauci -- and i don't say that with disrespect, that's really what he believed, but a lot of people believe that, that we shouldn't ban them, that it was no reason to ban them, and biden was going around for many weeks after that saying is not even going to be a problem. you covered it incredibly. actually, karl rove covered that incredibly tonight, and just incredibly, actually. they were all going around, no problem, no problem -- everybody. practically everybody.

nobody had any idea it would be as violent as it turned out to be, and we studied it, we understand it, now we are opening up, but we could've lost 2 million, 2.5 million, maybe even more than that if we did it a different way, and we've done a really good job, but if you look at our numbers, our fatality numbers compared to other countries, we are in really -- i mean, it's amazing, what we've done. we've been able to do something that a country, especially with the kind of size we are dealing with, we've done an incredible job. >> sean: i watched your press conference today, and the general tone of the questioning was that you misled the country because you told bob woodward on february 7th, this looks like it's going to be five times as bad as a normal flu virus. i think most americans may not even know that there are years, with the influenza virus, that we live is tens of thousands of americans, not uncommon. but your actions ten days

earlier to put a travel ban in effect, a quarantine in effect, again, hasn't been done in 50 years, so action means somethint serious it was very clear then, and you say i don't want people to panic, well, they say you must have been downplaying it, what in your actor actions contradict that narrative? >> president trump: absolutely. if you look, we have had flu years where we lost 70, 80, 90,000 people. people don't realize that. you look at that and multiply that times five, it's actually more. then we lost. we could've lost 2 million, 2.5 million, as matt said, if we did it a different way, but what i want to show as i want to show a calmness. i'm the leader of the country, i can't be jumping up and down and scaring people. i don't want to scare people. i want people not to panic, and that's exactly what i did. if you look at the representatives of joe biden, you see what they were saying. they were saying no problem, this won't be a problem, he

didn't think it was him to be a problem until months later. he was way late. pelosi was way, way late, and i was at the end of january, far ahead of everybody because i did something nobody wanted me to do. nobody wanted me to do the ban on china, and as you know, shortly thereafter, i did a ban on europe, and i was even more controversial, and i was good, because i saw what was going on in italy and in spain and in france, and we did a band there, and if we didn't do those bands, we would have a numbers that were much, much more, and if we didn't do the shutdown and now the reopening, and they should do the opening faster, if you look at some of the states like north carolina, pennsylvania, you look at what they are doing, they are taking -- they are shut down, they are still shut down. michigan is terrible. it is still shutdown. and that's a shame. it's a shame. they don't know what they're doing, frankly, but they should all be opened, and our country is doing very well, we have record numbers of jobs. use all the numbers, just came out, for the four months,

largest number ever, by far, not even close, and retail sales, the same things, its record numbers, so we are opening up with a strong v, not just, a strong v. we are going to have a tremendous year next year, a very good quarter, and that is going to be announced before the election. >> sean: there is voting going on now. you see joe biden, he makes very few appearances, the media seems to be -- i don't think he has answered 100 question since march. you know, you've answered a couple thousand plus questions in that period of time. do you think the media is giving him a pass? do you see -- look, everybody that i meet, that i run into, everywhere, and even people in the media, interestingly, quietly, in democrats, i know, quietly, are saying joel looks like he is weak and he is frail. how do you interpret joe biden, the basement bunker strategy come his unwillingness to take

questions? >> president trump: well, the media in terms of what they are doing is worse than what you are saying, because it looks to me like what they are doing is asking a question and he is reading an answer at the teleprompter. that would mean, like your friend over there, donna brazi donna brazile, who fox brilliantly hired -- >> sean: sounds like your favorite host. >> donna brazile is another real great one. it would look like me he has been given the questions, and he is reading the answers, but that would mean the media is giving him the questions -- they never gave me the questions, i can tell you that. it's like, we have some pretty wild times, but they hit me with the worst possible questions possible, and you have to learn to do it, and you have to be able to do it, and if you can't do it, you can't be a politician. you certainly can't represent our country, because when you deal with president xi and putin and kim jong un and all of the people you have to deal with, and all the respect to the

media, they are much tougher, they are much smarter than the people i have to deal with in the various rooms and outside by the helicopters and all the places i am willing always to take questions, but i don't get any help in terms of, here is the question, and you can read an answer to it. i never seen anything like it, and frankly, i think the media is disgracing themselves, but it's obvious that joe is reading the answers off a teleprompter come in many cases. that happened yesterday when he said "move it closer." >> sean: "move it down," i think is what he said. >> president trump: movie teleprompter closer. it's terrible. >> sean: it got ignored today, you added 20 additional candidates to the previously used list of potential justices, in the mold of scalia and thomas. senator tom cotton, senator ted cruz, senator josh hawley, people well known to this audience. why did you want to release them, and you are also calling

on joe biden to release the names of people he would like to appoint the u.s. supreme court. 's >> president trump: because outside of war and peace, the most important thing a president does is select supreme court justices, and judges. you know, we are going to have probably over 300 by the end of my first term, which is a record, over 300 federal judges, court of appeals judges, too, so that is a number that nobody thought even possible, and we will have that number, and it'll be all confirmed and done and great, and also, supreme court judges or justices. the whole country, it depends on this decisions, which way you ga second amendment or not. the 2nd of may will be under siege. if i wasn't here, you wouldn't have a second amendment right now, you wouldn't have a right to guns. whether you had it or it was totally obliterated, it would be a different form then you have right now. i've kept it totally as it was,

and it's something i'm very proud of, and i think it is a real voting issue, second amendment. life, you look at that, so these judges are going to be making massive decisions, and the next president is going to get one, two, three, or four justices of the supreme court. i have two. that is actually considered a lot. you've had many -- you've had many presidents, frankly, where they didn't have -- i think they had none, many of them had none, you know, they stay on there a long time. you don't have many, and they stay on there for a long time. so, you had presidents with none that have been there for a long period of time, but i've already had two, and you could have, literally, anywhere from 1 to for additional -- and that changes the entire fabric of the nation for many years. you know, they are on the court for 25, 30, 40 years depending on the age, depending on what age you choose, and frankly, most of them are young, because you want to pick young, you want

them on as long as you can have them on. so, it's a very, very important thing that's happening, and i felt that i should announce the list -- from which i will only pick. so, we had 22 or 23, now i added 20, so we have about 43. it will only be from that list that i hope it, whether it is one, two, three, or four, it will only be from that list. so everyone can look at that list, and they will be happy or not happy. joe has to put at playlist. this is something i came up with the last election. i think it might be one of the reasons for my success in the election, because people weren't sure who i would pick, and i put out a list of 20, and then 25, and i said come only from that list. well come only from this list and the previous list live pick. joe has to come up now with a list -- he should come up with a list, otherwise people can't vote for him. but the reason he possibly won't is because he's going to come up with far radical left judges. i mean, these will be people

that are very, very far to the left, that are, you know, revolutionary and a sense, i think, and he's got to come up with them. i don't know that they are going to allow, because they control him totally, they control joe biden, he is not controlled, he is not in control of himself. he is controlled by the radical left, it is a very dangerous part of our society, and he is totally controlled, and he is not going to be able to name democrats judges that are in the middle someplace, or normalized, you know, people that are, like, normal people. he will be forced to pick extremely radical left judges, and i don't think you can get elected if you do that. if you do what he has to do, which is named judges that he's going to pick, or the justices, soon to be, that he's going to pick, i don't think -- i don't think he would be electable. so he's got a real problem. >> sean: let me go to the issue of national defense. as president, the largest

military buildup since the reagan years. first pay raise in many, many years for our military. he resolves the va hospital scandal that existed in the biden-obama years. year he moved with the engagement. which allows you to beat the caliphate in syria, which joe and barack were not able to do, you got soleimani, baghdadi, and associates, the al qaeda leader in yemen, and you are pulling america out of long, protected wars by the use of military technology. but the story is claiming that you disparaged more fallen soldiers. 's >> president trump: yeah, it's a total lie, total this information. they put it out, then they do commercials on it, and to think -- nobody that i know could have said those things. looked down at soldiers that have been dead for decades and decades and decades. real heroes. and they made it up. they made up the story. and we have 21 people -- i think

you saw, much more than that, there were many people there, and the secret service wouldn't let me take the trip because of the dangers of going through very crowded parts -- certain part of your outcome as you know, we were in paris, and they said we can't do it, because the helicopter couldn't fly. it was raining as hard as i've ever seen it rain. it was foggy, so foggy you couldn't see anything. it was serious paris fog, and like you couldn't see anything, so i knew immediately you couldn't take the helicopter, the drive would have been a very long one -- had nothing else to do, i went there for that. i went to another cemetery, by the way, it was pouring, not nearly as hard, and i made . no umbrellas, know anything. they said, it's just disinformation, i didn't want to get my hair wet. i got in my hair wet plenty of times, i've had plenty of speeches in the rain, and if i didn't, you wouldn't be president right now, that i can tell you, so with disinformation.

they made up a story about two disgusting words that they say i said, and i didn't. when i many witness -- we have 21 witnesses, they only have sources. sources say. there were no sources. they made it out. it's a bad guy. it's a bad, failing magazine called "the atlantic," and of course, the media picks it up, and they do television commercials. week with them a notice, don't do it, take it down. i've worked too hard on the military and making it really great again, it was totally depleted when i took over. it was depleted, it was tired, it was exhausted from all of these endless wars were our soldiers are being brought back, because i can't stand to see them coming back, when they are not really fighting, they are really serving as police forces over there. we are not fighting to win, and they haven't fought to win. but i knocked out isis, kill soleimani, killed al-baghdadi, did things obama can't even think about doing. when i took over, i systems all over syria, all over iraq. but i wanted to get out of

there, we've done it, let them protect themselves, there's plenty of countries over there that can do it. >> sean: let me ask you about the violence that has been going on well over 100 days in american cities, you new york, obviously chicago, we have portland, we have seattle, we have los angeles, we had kenosha. three cities that did request your help and assistance, d.c., minnesota, kenosha, you were able to send in the guard, they restored order. you've been begging the defazios and mayor lightfoot, ted wheeler, the mayor of seattle, pretty much begging them to allow you to help them restore order. joe biden said at one point police become the enemy. wants to reallocate funds. kamala harris was for the reallocation of defunding the

l.a.p.d., $150 million, got a billion dollars now cut from the new york pd. why do you think that these mayors and governors steadfastly refuse your offered assistance to restore order? >> president trump: well, kenosha is a great example. that was ready to burn down after three nights, and we went in with the national guard and just closed it i would. it took, like, so quick, and minneapolis is another example. it was burning for two weeks before the national guard came in, and once the national guard came in, it was over. it took, you saw it, 45 minutes to one hour, and it was all over. this was going on for weeks. we would do the same thing -- we were ready to go to seattle, they took over 20%, a big chunk in the middle of the city, and we told them we are coming in, and then, they sent their police, and their police are fine, they are good, if they let them do what they are supposed to be doing, but they don't do that. they are all democrat run

cities, and they are not a well run, and they are very, very, very unsafe, because the level is so ridiculous. they do want to defund the police, and i've never seen somebody that could change like biden. now, i don't actually think he is aware of what he is even saying, to be honest with you, but i've never seen anything like it, where he talks about defunding the police or not doing much for the police, and then, all of a sudden, he sees what is happening with his poll numbers, because as you see, we are going way up, i think we are leading in florida, leading in wisconsin, leading in pennsylvania, leading in north carolina, i think we are leading in new hampshire, we are leading by a lot, we are really leading by a lot in ohio, i guess i poll a little while ago, i think we are leading all over the place, frankly, for the fake news doesn't like to say that. i must tell you, fox does among the worst pollsters of all, i don't know who at fox is doing it, but they are terrible pollsters, and a half and, frankly, even four years ago, probably the same group, but

they don't have a clue, your pollsters -- >> sean: he is separate and apart from the -- i've known him since newt gingrich's contract with america days. >> president trump: is very good. >> sean: scott asked me to send. let me ask you about some of joe biden's position that have changed. i mentioned he was against the travel ban, said it was a great decision, he was against all fracking. a lot of denial on the issue of the violence and riots and anarchy in cities, and one point said the police become the enemy, reallocate funds, et cetera, et cetera, now he is talking about even manufacturing jobs, when when he was vice president and obama was president, they said those jobs ain't coming back. >> president trump: that's right. >> sean: do you think americ

america -- >> president trump: sean come i've never seen anything quite like it. the travel ban, all of a sudden, he denies that, think that was fine, thinks it was good. but how about fracking? and you need that, it is basically your fossil fuels, your energies. we would have to close many of the plants, a big percentage of the plants in our country if we didn't do this. we have these massive plants and they are not going to run by wind and not by solar at this point -- maybe at no point -- but we have natural gas, which is really, really environmentally friendly. who have all sorts of things -- we are the number one in the world now in energy, we've done a great job with energy, and you look at what you are paying, price per gallon on your car, people are saying it is unbelievable, they're paying less than $2 in many places, going down, and i can't believe how well we have done, we don't need to be in the middle east other than for the protection of israel. there is no reason to be there from the standpoint of oil. but we have allies, saudi arabia and others, that have really

spend a lot of money here, and treat us well, and will take care of a lot of our people -- we have some very good allies over there, and israel, of course, we help israel a lot. we took out soleimani. we took out -- a lot of problems, they were having over there, or they would have without us. without us, i don't think any of them would survive for very long. so -- but we don't need it for energy anymore, we are energy independent. it is an incredible feeling. i guess the first time we have ever been -- or at least for many, many decades -- energy independent, and you look at the price of energy, if biden ever got -- he was talking about no fracking, very strongly, and his super liberal running mate, the most liberal person, more so than bernie, rated the most liberal in all of the senate, kamala, if you look at what she said about fracking, throw it to be any fossil fuels, won't be any fracking, and they are all disciples of aoc, and aoc plus three, and it is ridiculous. they constantly talk about no

fracking, but all of a sudden, he sees his poll numbers going down, he sees texas wants oil, i say they are against guns, they are against oil, and they are against religion. that doesn't do well in texas or pennsylvania or north carolina, or just about any other place that i can think of. and it's -- you know, it's incredible, but he will change in an instant and pretend like nothing ever happened. they'll say, oh, no, i'm okay with fracking. he said it the other day, biden said it the other day, he said, no, no, no, fracking is okay, we are going to grandfather it. we are going to do something with it, but fracking is all okay, yet he just ran months and months of fighting fracking, and she -- i don't think she could possibly say, she has been fighting -- but the bottom line, they will go bac back to where y come from, and where they come from is no oil, no fracking, no drilling, religion -- look at what they are doing to religion. they don't let your church is open. they let a casino open, but they won't let your churches open. they will let protesters protest

in the streets without masks by the thousands, but they won't let your churches open. so it's religion, its oil, and its guns. and those three items alone, how can anybody even run -- george washington and abraham lincoln, as a combo, as a combination, couldn't win. but this is what we're up against. they change their view, but where they are going from, and where they are going to, is where they originally came from, and that is none of this stuff, you are not going to frak, you are not going to have energy, and our nation is going to have one of the best years ever had next year. last year was the best year we've ever had, next year is going to be better, and the third quarter coming up, and the are going to be out before the election, those numbers are going to be fantastic, you watch. >> sean: well come the numbers were at 8.4% unemployment, some predictions early on -- i do not think you'd see the jobs come

back as quickly as they did, to be very -- >> president trump: record-setting. record-setting, sean. >> sean: but early voting has started. before the first debate, which is scheduled for september 29th, early voting and states around the country. we talked a lot about that. are you preparing yet for your upcoming debates, and if so, how so? >> president trump: well come a little bit, but what i am concerned about her all of these ballots. they are sending unsolicited ballots, could be as many as 80 million throughout the nation, and when you have small races, like a congressional race in new york, with two people, where the ballots are a mess -- >> sean: 84,000 plus. >> president trump: yeah, the ballots are missing, they are gone, there has been fraud, there has been deceit and deception, and this is just a small congressional race. carolyn maloney, a small congressional race, and then you look at new jersey, what happened in patterson, what happened in virginia, what

happened in a most every place -- and these are small little races that are easy -- you would think it would be very easy, but it's terrible, and now we are sending out 80 million ballots, and they are unsolicited. so when you send out -- that means people are going to get bw they are getting them. and that takes the enthusiasm away a little bit, because we have massive -- the largest ever, they say, the difference in enthusiasm, but if people are going to start walking up to your door and saying, "you want to sign this to vote," will sign it, i will sign it, there is no enthusiasm necessary there, it is really a corrupt system, they have a plan, and it is not a good plan, they want to tie it all up, because they can't control the ballots on a small congressional race and smaller races even then that, in the mall, you are going to control 80 million ballots? i don't think so. >> sean: attorney general barr has warned about it, the heritage foundation has identified almost a thousand convictions on the issue of voter fraud, almost 1300

examples of voter fraud, you know, the election is now, anecdotally, there's been reports that may be our campaign is short on cash. i made some calls today. my sources say that is not the case, that you have -- >> president trump: no. >> sean: you are shy of $300 million, but i was told by a friend in florida that joe biden has 3 to 1 ads running against yours, is this a strategy, you are waiting, or is this something that you didn't want -- maybe you are just ramping up after labor day? >> president trump: so, four years ago, i wanted in the last month, and we have about three times more cash -- that is without me putting up any -- if i need extra, i will put it up my shelf, i said that two days ago, i said if there's any necessary extra cash, but we hae a lot of money coming in and small donors. when you called big donors, you sort of put yourself in a very compromising position, when

somebody puts up a lot of money, you are in a compromised position. whether you say it, whether you don't say it, because doesn't matter. what i like are the small donors. we have substantially, two to three times more than we had four years ago at this time come in four years ago, we won, but if we needed anymore, if i saw that we needed more, i would put it up myself, absolutely. >> sean: mr. president, we have an election, we have less than 20 seconds for you, an election in just 55 days. 20 seconds, what this means to you, the selection, and what does it mean to the country? >> president trump: if and when we win, we are going to have the greatest economy and history of our country. it will be next year, and you will be no maxi numbers like you've never seen, with tax cuts and regulation cuts, further, ay done the biggest tax cut in history, going to keep our military and our vets very, very happy. >> sean: mr. president, from the white house tonight, thank you so much for joining us. >> president trump: thank you very much. >> sean: all right, that is unfortunately all the time we

have left this evening. don't forget, live free or die, america and the world on the break, 40% off, amazon.com, costco's, walmart, books a million, barnes & noble. let not your heart be troubled. like? because the news continues, and laura ingraham is standing by next. >> laura: hey, hannity, great interview, and the drip, drip, drip, that is just a flop, flop, flop, continues against trump. you and i predicted this, we knew it was going to happen. it's actually laughable at this point, but don't you love the way that she is such a fighter for the american people, i'm telling you. it's fascinating. he is going to love my "angle," because i pick up where you left off. >> sean: i'm going to watch closely. there is going to a breathless, oh, media mob. i tell you why, they are scared to death. >> laura: oh, yeah. >> sean: the american people can shock the world again. >> laura: there is a smell of