will not be back too. tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we will see you then. in the meantime, have a great evening, handing off in new york to sean hannity. >> sean: thank you as always, welcome to "hannity" and we begin tonight with breaking news, a fox news alert because breaking, this show has exclusively now uncovered video of joe biden downplaying the coronavirus one month after the president's travel ban and of course over a month after the first identified case of corona in america, take a look. >> i want to talk a moment about thet coronavirus.wa i just wanted to say a few things to set the record straight. barack and i when we were 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'se not a time to panic about coronavirus, but coronavirus is a serious public health challenge. >> sean: here's a question tonight, will the media, the mob spend the next 24 hours freaking out about those comments? h i wouldn't hold my breath. a lot more coming up tonight to come also tonight the president of the united states will join us for an exclusive one-on-one interview, we'll 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 in democratic run s cities and blue states and so much more. also our own lawrence jones will be here with a full report, a rare biden campaign stop in the state of michigan -- but get this. they had more trump supporter's

showing up within biden fans, does anyone like joe biden? does anyone get excited by joe biden?y we'll have a report tonight. but first, we'll begin with something i call -- this is now the insanity season, 55 days away from the tipping point election, the lies, the smears, the slander, buckle up -- the hysteria is t not reaching a fer pitch. 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, newlyoo manufactured scandal pretty much every hour of every single day. for the past few hours, this 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. >> it's a tricky situation. it goes through air, that is tougher than the touch. you just breathe the air and that is how it is passed. that is a very tricky one, that's a very delicate one. more deadly than even your strenuous flu. >> tucker: 17 days after the first coronavirus in america. hiding the truth about the deadly virus of the american people, why did they put the travel ban in effect if he wasn't taking it seriously? even have "the washington post" accusing him of misleading the public, what would actually be the media mob lying to you, they are the ones that peddled one

conspiracy theory, one hoax, one right after another, they never corrected the record and never admitted they are wrong. the media lies on a daily basis, they are nothing but state run democratic socialist and print. if this is the latest political smear, here are the facts. by the time that interview was conducted on february 7th, the president had already taken what was on unprecedented step to protect the american people. january 31st of this year, only ten days after the first confirmed covid-19e case in the united states which was january 21st, president donald trump declared a public health emergency. he also announced on 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 and 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. 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 put 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 like on fracking and nonviolent protest, he reversed course. a campaign surrogate announced a biden support of the travel ban he had called the day after it was implemented, hysterical, xenophobic and fearmongering. let's play it again, brand-new bombshell video, joe biden february 28th telling a crowd not to panic over the coronavirus.

that's a month after donald trump implemented the travel ban he posted: xenophobic, take a look. >> i i want to talk a moment abt the coronavirus and 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 panic about coronavirus, but the coronavirus is a serious public health challenge. >> sean: donald trump acted, joe biden dithered and the media mob, did you see that? the biden campaign didn't even release an official response on the pandemic until march 11th.as the plan was a few paragraphs long, it included things the

lrpresident 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 and touching and speaking closely to the few biden supporters that actually few events. those it wasn't until june 26th, then he called for a national mask mandate. by the way, september 2nd after getting a lot of blowback for his mandate, he reversed course yet again and said he did not actually support federally mandated maskk wearing. okay. clearly there is one candidate playing politics with the pandemic, biden admits the worst in 100 years if not for 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 have 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, a typical day in the swamp -- take a look. >> what is out there, we want to be careful with how we deal with it. we do want to say to people come to chinatown, here we are. we are careful and safe, come join us. >> if you are under 50 and healthy which is most new yorkers, there's very, very little threat here. >> 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: on march 2nd, comrade de blasio was telling new yorkers get out on the town, here are my recommendations while these idiots played politics, the president took action -- immediate action. remember, early february, democrats were still in process

of their impeachment trial ignoring quid pro quo joe and a zero experience hunter. the president didn't want to create a panic, what president would want that? on march 19th, here is what he told bob woodward, take a listen. >> i think to be honest with you - -- >> i want you to be -- >> i wanted to always play it down, i still want to play it down because i don't want to create a panic. >> sean: democrats in the media mob spin in circles, let's look at some perspective with the brief history lesson. as many of you know kemal four of myll grandparents, i've talkd 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 grew up poor during the great depression, my dad spent four years of fighting in i the pacific in world war i. 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. every city, every town there was soup lines around the block, my parents like millions of other americans struggled, they were poor. president roosevelt fanned the flames of misery, did he call for panic and anxiety? no, he actually rallied a nation in a time of need. he focused on making americans stronger by staying positive and he got to work and he rolled up his sleeves during world war ii with the country on the brink, fdr proclaimed we have nothing to fear but fear itself. those were brutally tough times. did the media attack him? of course not. what about the aftermath of 9/11 2001, 20th anniversary and two day is? what was president bush supposed to say? america is going down in flames, you better hide in your basement bunker? of course not.

the president's job is to maintain order and right the ship during and after a crisis, not spread panic, not spread fear among the population -- let's make one thing perfectly clear, president trump has nevei 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. i have a i lot of respect for hm and guess what, he is very well respected especially by democrats on the left. here's what dr. fauci had to say about the pandemic on february 29th -- take a look. >> it's saturday morning in america, people are waking up right now with real concernso about this, they want to go to malls in the movies, made to the gym as well. she would be changingel our habs and if sor how? >> there is no need to change anything that you're 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: the medical community come all the models were wrong, trying out lied to the world, i don't blame dr. fauci or anybody else -- they were doing the best they could, he is devoted decades of his life to helping us save lives. he has also praised president trump's response right here on "hannity" he was on the show in january 27th, on my show february 10th, this is what he set on march 10th, take a look. are we doing everything possible that you would do up to this point? >> i believe so, always when we have an outbreak, there's a little bit of fog of war associated with that. you'rere trying to keep up withn evolving situation. i think in the context of what

we are being challenged with, i think everybody's doing reallyly well. >> sean: on march 22nd, he doubled down his praise for a president trump on an interview with the great one, take a look. >> the coordinated response has been -- a number of adjectives we describe it, impressive i think is one of them. we are talking about all hands on deck. i can't imagine under any circumstances that anybody could be doing more. >> sean: can't imagine anybody could be doing more. today, he once again defended president trump, let's take a look. >> did you get a sense that he was or wasn't playing this down? >> i didn't get any sense that he was distorting anything. in my discussions with him, they were always straightforward about the concernslw that we ha. we related that to him and when we would go out i would hear him

discussing the same sorts 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'sk weak, they know he's frail, they know he seems in quite a bit of a decline. their candidate 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 whatt day of the week it i, someday he doesn't know what office he's running for. he seems to be using the teleprompter -- move that up a little bit. if something is obviously wrong, but the media and of course democrats want us all to ignore the obvious truth. today at a rare campaign event away from his basement bunker, there were way more trumpp supporter's showing up than biden fanned the spirit of now with a full report, election correspondent and investigative reporter lawrence jones. they didn't tell anybody, my

understanding is until like an hour before the event where the event was and when they did tell people, more trump people showed up then bidenn people? >> you got it right. 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 up outside, but the only thing is the people who were outside who were fired up, they weren't biden supporters, they were trump supporter's, take a look at what they have to say. >> why are you fired up? >> because we love the president, we love what he does for the country. >> does it surprise you you have all these trump supporter's right here and only two biden supporters over o there? >> my position would be that biden supporters are so fractured and most of them are probably still asleep at home. >> why is joe biden bad for michigan?

>> china owns joe biden. >> why do you think there aren't more biden supporters here? >> biden doesn't have the support trump has. >>an you think they want to show up in no supporters? >> many political insiders are questioning if the vice president hiding from voters, is he really focusing on michigan? or is he making the same mistake that hillary clinton made the? ictalked with more supporters and people in michigan, this is what they had to say. >> did you know the vice president was going to be here in michigan? >> not really, not until the t very last second. d >> do believe the vice president snuck in town and got back out of town? do you think he worked enough so far to win votes in michigan? >> i don't think either one of them i've worked hard enough. >> do you think he's going to win this time? >> yes. >> but as a biden vote or do would've spent a little more

time talking to voters? >> yeah. >> do you feel like the vice president is hiding from you as a voter? >> a little. >> do you think he's trying to hide from the people? >> he's trying to hide from the people because he's not actually representing the people. the people have different views than what he's actually pushing. >> these want to just trump supporter us saying this, this was his own supporters saying that he was hiding from them. it begs the question, is he really serious about this race? is he serious about winning michigan? i think he's still making the same mistake that was making.ton >> sean: time will tell. thank you, president trump will be in michigan tomorrow. here with reaction, fox news contributor, we call him the architect -- karl rove. it's interesting because he's been able too hide in a basement bunker, he comes out, pokes up his head, says a few things -- but he's got this whole army in front of him and that would be

pretty much 99% of the media, he is their favorite candidate. they are doing the work for him, aren't they? >> he went over the top today and the fact of the media didn't call him to account, i have three points on i want to make and i have a three board night. i was intrigued by his rhetoric in his speech. he said the president failed to do his job on purpose -- that iy to say the president wantedo people to die, he wanted people to get sick and he did it on purpose. he said this is a life and death of the trail -- thatat is really over the top. he said experts say if the president acted one week earlier, 36,000 lives would've been saved. earlier in the year he was saying if the president would've been listening to what i was saying in january, 36,000 lives would've been saved. "the washington post" said this was completely inaccurate, this washe" not accurate. he said the recession was

created by trump's negligence. it's not the responsibility of the coronavirus, it's trump who created the recession and how dide the president create that? by shutting down the economy as a science told him to do and have us quarantined at home. would joe biden have said we should not do that? is he going to listen to the science or not? he deliberately attacks the president in an over-the-top way. here is the more important point to me. w i'm interested in what did joe biden know and when did he know what and what is he thinking at the time this coronavirus came on? right now he's looking back and saying president trump did everything wrong and i'm the genius, if you'd only listen to me if i would've been in charge. what i'm interested in is what the joe biden say when this came on and what did the people around him who were advising him say? he writes an op-ed and says this is a dangerous disease and heres is my plan. in 2021 after i'm elected, we are going to set up a public

health emergency fund, we are going to get the president the power to declare a pandemic disaster or emergency he already has and we are going to set up what he called the global health services to help countries around the world. does anything sound like this guy was confronting what we are facing at this point? that was the 27th of january.1s on the 31st, trump puts in the china band. you know what he said, he said this is, xenophobic, this is racist. two days before, three days before trump puts in the travelv ban, ron maclean who is a bigot visor to him on health issues says if he does this it will be premature. on the 30th, the daytu 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 6th of february, he had an expert a guy named erwin reae said the odds of it being a lethal form is negligible. that was the guy advising joe biden. t on the 11th and 13th we hear again, he says this is not serious, we don't face a health epidemic, we face a fear epidemic. attacking president trump are raising concerns about it unnecessarily. on the 20th, zeke emanuel says this is all an overreaction. we have nancy pelosi sake on the china town, don't worry about this, that happened on the 23rd. on the 29th, zeke emanuel says the masks aren't going to work, this is the day the first american dies from the coronavirus and joe biden's top advisors on television say don't go out and run out and get a mask it's not going to do any good. then on the 12th as president trump is putting in

place of travel ban on europe, lisa monaco a top advisor to biden and biden himself go out and double-team on the issue of the european travel ban and say we don't need to do this. we don't hear the word mask from biden, we don't hear the word social distancing fromen biden,e don't hear the idea of a lockdown, we don't hear the idea of invoking the national defense production act in order to get control of the ppe problem that 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. i'm saying here is a guy lecturing the country saying donald trump killed people deliberately and if he would only listen to me when 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 -- they are saying it's a fear epidemic and the idea this is going to be a serious pandemic is very unlikely. final point. this guy is tone-deaf, what value is a promise? what is the worth of the president's word? ies he do what he ft says he's going to do? we have a different philosophy it comes to giving our word. i remember joe biden being that 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 allies that were told to sell obamacare -- iff you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. 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 remember when he was running raround the country side sayini had the full scholarship to

syracuse law school, i graduated at the top of my class and it turned out he got a half scholarship for need and was near the bottom of his class. here's a guy lecturing us about president trump and he and i have a different philosophy about what your word means when he has lied to the m american people, lied to the american people when he first ran in 1987 of lied about his academic background and got caught on national television before that. can we have just a little humility? can we step back from these grandiose -- president trump deliberately killed people? president trump doesn't know how to tell the truth, we have a different standard? can we please step back a little bit and look at ourselves first? this is over the top. >> sean: that is a worthy rant. greattov analysis, you can bring three boards every night between

now and election day -- well done. when we come back, a quick break, on the other side we will check in with reince priebus, matt gaetz, and the president of the united states in an exclusive interview straight ahead tonight on "hannity." ♪ ...is death. we're getting out of here. infidel. rated r.

♪ >> sean: all right >> sean: fox news alert, president trump joins us in about 2-3 minutes from rightro now. joining us first reince priebus and congressman matt gaetz from florida -- how would you be responding to woodward's book and also the attacks that karl rove was just talking abo about? >> thanks for having me, i would do exactly what your monologue

laid out, i would attack this just like the president attacked the atlantic article except i wouldn't play any defense -- iik would go all on offense. the restrictions on the e.u., set up the task force, dr. birx and dr. fauci, the cdc, nih, every day giving their recommendations, far more restrictive than what joe biden laid out. here is what i would do, early vote in florida, let me give you an example. 4.8 million ballots had been requested as of today in flori florida. that's two want to have times where we were in 2016. the campaign should be spending five times the money on tv a telling the american people just like you laid out in your monologue the real story of coronavirus. do not get outflanked, don't let anyone rewrite your history.

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

the strong leadership of president trump. an sean: reince priebus and congressman matt gaetz, i would keep you bothtt longer, but somebody out ranks you. if right now, exclusive interview, president trump. thank you for being with us. >> president trump: thank you, they did a good job, i would s say. >> sean: they get good grades. let me go to the woodward book, i was b surprised that 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 that 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,ba first quarantine 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 aac campaign add.

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

talking about. anything above one is no good, we can't have it, it's china's fault, they sent this to us and it's no good. i thought i would give bob woodward some time, i gave him some time but as usual with the books he writes, that didn't work out too well -- perhaps. maybe it's good, who knows? as far as the timing is concerned, i did something very important. at the end of january, i banned china because the people from china because they were heavily infected and i had a lot of people including dr. fauci and a don't say that with disrespect, it's really what he believed -- but a lot of people believe that that we shouldn't ban them, non reason to ban them and biden was going around for many weeks after that saying it's not going to be a problem. you covered it incredibly. karl rove covered that incredibly tonight, just incredibly. there w were all going around, o problem, practically everybody, nobody had any idea it would be

as violent as it turned out to be. we studied it, we understand it, we could have lost 2 million, two under half million, may be more than that if we did it in that way. if you look at our numbers come ourr fatality numbers compared o otherr countries, it's amazing what we have 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 d incredible job. >> sean: i watched your press conference today and the general tone of the questioning was you misled the country because you told bob woodward on februar february 7th, it looks like it's going to be five times as bad as a normal flu virus. i think most americans may not even know there are years with the influenza virus that we lose tens of thousands of americans, not uncommon.

your actions, seven days earlier your travel ban comes into effect. actions mean something and you taking it seriously was very clear that in. i you said i don't want people to panic, you must of been downplaying it -- one to your actions narrative? >> we have had flu years where we lost 70, 80, 90,000 people,op people don't realize that. if you look at that and multiply that times five, it's actually more than we lost. we lost two and a half million matt said if we do it a different way.o i want to show calm, i'm the leader of the country, i can't be jumping up and down and scaring people. i want people not to panic. that's exactly what i did. if you look at the representatives of joe biden, you see what they were saying. no problem, this won't be a

problem, he didn't think it was going to be a problem until months later. l he was late, pelosi was 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. shortly thereafter, i did a ban on europe, that was more controversial. if i sawco what was going on in italy, and in spain and in france and we did a ban on. if we didn't do those, we would have been numbers that were much more, we did the shut down and now the reopening and they should do the opening faster if you look at some ofom the states like north carolina, pennsylvania, you look at what they are doing -- they are shut down, still shut down. michigan is terrible, still shut down. it's a shame, they don't know what they are doing. they should all be open and our country is doing very well, we have record numbers of jobs, we saw the numbers camee out.

it's the largest number ever by far, not even close and retail sales thelo same thing. we are opening up with a strong v, and we are going to have a tremendous yearr next year and a very good quarter and that's going to be announced before the election. >> sean: there is a voting going on now. you see joe biden, he makes very few appearances. i don't think he is answered 100 questions, you answered a couple thousand questions and that period of time. do you think the media is giving him a pass? everybody that i need to come everybody thatat i run into everywhere and even people in the media interestingly, quietly, democrats i know quietly are saying joe looks like he is weak and he is frail, how do you interpret joe biden basement bunker strategy and his

unwillingness to take questions? >> themp media and terms of whas they are doing is worse than what you're saying because it looks to me like they are asking him a question and he is reading an answer off thesk teleprompte. that would mean like your friend over there donna brazile who fox brilliantly hired -- >> sean: sounds like your favorite host. >> president trump: is another great one, he's giving me the questions and 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. we have some pretty wild at times. they hit me with the worst questions possible and you have to learn to do it and 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 kim jong un and all of the people you have to deal with, and all due respect to the media, they are much tougher,

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

calling on joe biden to release the names of people he would like to appoint to the u.s. supreme court? >> president trump:e outside of war and peace, the most important thing the president does is too elect supreme court justices and judges. we are going to have over 300 by the end of my first term which is a record, over 300 federal judges, court of appeals judges too. that's a number nobody thought possible, we will have that number, nobody a thought confird and supreme court judges and justices, the whole country it depends on these decisions which way you go, second amendment or not. if i wasn't here, you wouldn't have a second amendment now, you wouldn't have a right to guns. whether you had it or it was just totally obliterated. it would be in a very different form we have it now, i kept the totally as it was.

it's something i'm very proud of. i think it's a real voting issue, second amendment. these judges are going to be making massive decisions and the next president is going to get one, two, three, four justices in the supreme court. i have two, you've had many presidents where they didn't -- i think they had none, many of them had none. they stay on there a long time. you don't have many and they stay on there a long time. you've had presidents that have been in there for a long period of time. i've already had two. you c could have anywhere from 1 to 4 additional, that changes the entire fabric of the nation for many years. they are on the court for 25, 30, 40 years depending on what age you choose. most of them are young because you want them young, you want

them on as long as you can have them on. it's a very important thing that's happening. i felt i should announce the list from which i will onlypi pick. 2we had 22 or 23 and now i added 20, so we have 43. it will only be from that list i will pick whether it's one, two, three, four -- everyone can look at thatt list.s joe has to put up a list. this is something i came up with lastam election, i think it might've been one of the reasons for my success in the election. people weren't sure who would i pick? and i put out a list of 20 and then 25 and i said only from that list come only from this list in the previous list will i pick. joe has to come up with a list, he should come up with a list. otherwise people can't vote for him. the reason he possibly won't is he's going to come up with far radical left judges.

these will be people that are very far to the left that are revolutionary in a sense, i think it he's got to come up with them, i don't know they are going to allow it because they control him totally. they control joe biden, he's not controlled of himself. he's controlled by the radical left, it's a very dangerous part of our society and he is totally controlled and he is not going to be able to name democratic judges that are in the middle someplace or normalized, people that are 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 name judges he has to pick our justices soon tos be that he's going to pick, i don't think he would be electable. he's got a real problem. me go to the issue of national defense.

as president, the largest buildup since reagan, the first pay raise in many years for the military, you resolve the va hospital scandal and removed the rules of engagement which allowed you toou beat the caliphate in syria which joe and barack were not able to do. you got the al qaeda leader in yemen,n, you're pulling america out of long protracted wars by the use of new military technologyte. but the story is claiming you disparaged fallen soldiers. >> president trump: it's a total lie, total disinformation. they put it out, than they do commercials on it. to think that nobody that i know could have said those things, looked down at soldiers that have been dead for decades and decades, real heroes and they made it up, they made up the story. we have 21 people, and the

secret service wouldn't let me take the trip because of the dangers of going to a very crowded parts in a certain part of europe. they said we can't do it because the helicopter couldn't fly -- it was railing as hard as i've ever seen itn. rain, so foggy yu couldn't see anything. it was serious fog, i knew immediately you couldn't take the helicopter and the drive would've been a very long one, i went there for that. it was pouring but not nearly ah hard and i made a speech in the rain. no umbrellas, no anything. it's just information, i didn't want to get my hair wet, i had plenty of times made plenty of speeches in the rain. if i didn't, you want to be president, that i can tell you. it's disinformation, they made

up a story about two disgusting words that they say i said and i didn't. we have 20 witnesses and there were no sources, they made it up. it's a bad guy, bad a failing magazine called the atlantic and of course the media picks it up and they do television commercials. don't do it -- take it down. i've worked too hard on the military and making it great again, it was totally depleted when i took over. it was depleted, tired, exhausted from all these endless wars where our soldiers are being brought back because i can't stand to see them coming back when they aren't really fighting, they are serving as police forces. we aren't fighting to win. i knocked down isis, kill the soleimani, did things that obama can't even think about doing. when i took over, isis was all over syria, allia over iraq.

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

l.a.p.d., they have a billion dollars now cut from the new york pd. why do you think these mayors and governors steadfastly refuse your offered assistance to restore order. >> president trump: kenosha was a great example, that was ready to burn down after three nights. we wenttin in with the national guard and just closed it out. so quick. minneapolis is another example, the problem is it was burning for two weeks before the national guard came in. once the national guard came in it was over. it took 45 minutes to make one hour. this was going on for weeks. we were doing the same thing, ready to go into seattle. they took over 20% of the city. we told them they are come again, there police are fine. let them do what they arein supposed to be doing but they don't do that. all democrat run cities, they've

become very unsafe because the levelic is so ridiculous, they o want to defund the police. ni've never seen somebody who cn change like biden. i don't think he isll aware of what he's saying to be honest with you. i've never seen anything like it. hehe talks about defunding the police or not doing much for the police and all of a sudden, he sees what's happening with his poll numbers because he sees we are going way up. we are leading in florida, leading in wisconsin, leading in pennsylvania, we are living in north carolina. i think we are living in new hampshire, we are really leading by a lot in ohio. i think we are leading all over the place. the fake news doesn't like to say that. i must tell you that fox has among the worst posters of all, i think they are terrible.in i don't know what fox is doing it but they are terrible pollsters. four years ago, probably the s same group.

>> sean: matt bowery, i've known him since newt gingrich contract withh america days. let me ask you about some of joe biden's decisions have changed. i mentioned the travel ban, a few months later, right decision. numerous times and some of the primary debates against all fracking. a lot of denial on the issue of the violence in the writing in the anarchy and cities come at one point he said police become the enemy, reallocate funds. now he's talking even about 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: why the flip-flops?

>> president trump: have>> never seen anything quite like it, the travel ban come all of a sudden he denies that, thinks it's fine, thanks it was good. how about fracking? you need that, it's basically her fossil fuels, your energy -- we would have to close many ofig the plants a big percentage of the plants in our country if we didn't do this. these massive plants aren't going to run by wind or solar at this point may be at no point but we have natural gas which is really very environmentally friendly. we have all sorts of things, we are number one in the world in energy, we've done a great job with energy and you look at what you're paying per gallon with your car, people are saying it's unbelievable, paying less than $2 in many cases and going down. 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 thehe standpoint of oil, bt we have allies -- saudi arabia and others that have spent a lot

of money here and treatat us we. we have very good allies and we help israel a lot and 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. we don't need it for energy anymore, we are energy independent, it's an incredible feeling. it's the first time we have been energy independent for many decades. you look at thet price of energ, if biden ever got -- he was talking about no fracking.ib his super liberal running mate who is the most liberal person, she set about fracking there won't be any fossil fuels and they are all disciples of aoc and aoc plus three and it's ridiculous. they constantly talk about no

fracking then all of a sudden he sees his poll numbers go down and he sees texas wants oil -- i say they are against guns, they are against oil and 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. it's incredible. they will change in an instant and pretend nothing ever happened. it will say i'm okay with fracking. biden's head at the other day, he said no, no, fracking is okay, we're going to grandfather it, we are going to do something with it -- f fracking is okay ad he just ran four months and months were he's fighting fracking. they will go back to where they come from. where they come from is no oil, no fracking, no drilling, religion -- look at what they are doing to religion, they let a casino open, to let protesters

protest in the streets by the thousands but they won't let your church is open. it's religion commits oil and its guns. those three items alone, how can anybody even run? george washington and abraham lincoln as a combo, as a combination going to win. this is what we are upbu agains. where they are going from and where they are going to is where they originally came from that is none of this stuff. you're not going to have energy and our nation is going to have onet of the best years ever had next year. next yearet is going to be bettr and this third quarter coming up in the numbers are going to be out before the election -- those numbers are going to be fantastic -- you watch. >> sean: the numbers for 8.4% unemployment, some predictions early on -- i didn't think you would see the jobs come back as quickly as they did.

>> president trump: record-setting. >> sean: early voting has started. the first debate scheduled for september 29th and now going on in states around the country. are you preparing for your upcoming debates and if so, how so? >> a little bit but what i'm concerned about are all these ballots. they are sending unsolicited the ballots. it could be as many as 80 million throughout the nation. when you have small races like a congressional race in new york with two people with the ballots are a mess. >> sean: 84,000 plus. >> president trump: the ballots are missing, they are gone, there's been fraud and deceit and deception and this is a small congressional race, carolyn maloney. you look at new jersey, what happened in patterson, what

happened in virginia, what happened in almost every place -- these are little races where you think it would be very easy but it's terrible. now we are sending out 80 million ballots and they are unsolicited. that means people are going to get ballots that don't know they are getting them. that takes the enthusiasm away a little bit because we have a massive, the largest ever difference in enthusiasm but when people are going to walk up to u your door you say i don't want to vote, will sign this --y there's no enthusiasm there. it's a corrupt system. you watch, they have a plan and the plan is not a good plan. they look to tie it up because they can't control the ballots on a small congressional race and a smaller races evenio than that, now you're going to control 80 million ballots? i don't think so. >> sean: attorney general barr has warned about it, the heritage foundation isnd identified almost a thousand convictions on the issue of

voter fraud, almost 1300 examples of voter fraud. the election is now and totally there has been reports that may be your campaign is short on cash. i made some calls today, my sources say that is not the case. a little shy of $300 million but i wasil told by a friend in florida that joe biden has three make one ads running against yours. is this a strategy, you're waiting? or is this something, you're just ramping up after labor day? >> president trump: four years ago, i won it in the last month and we have three times more cash now than we did then. if i need extra i will put it up myself. if there's any necessary extra cash but we have a lot of money coming in and small donors, i haven't been heavy on big donors. when you call big donors, you put yourself in a very compromising position when somebody puts up a lot of money,

you're in a compromised position. whether you said, whetherhe you don't say it, it doesn't matter. what i like the small donors.no we have two to max three times more than we had a four years ago at this time and four years ago, we won. if we need to anymore, i would put it up myself, absolutely. >> sean: mr. president, we olhave an election, less than 20 seconds for you, an election in just 55 days.ha 20 seconds, what this means to you this election, what does it mean to the country?f >> president trump: if and when we win, we're going to have the greatest economy in the history of our country, you will see numbers like you have never seen with tax cuts and regulation cuts, already done the biggest tax cut in history that we are going to do a great job and keep our military and our vets very happy. >> sean: mr. president from the white house tonight, thanks for joining us, that is

unfortunately all the time we have left this evening. don't forget, live free or die, 40% off on amazon.com, costco, walmart, target, barnes & nobleb let not your heart be troubled. why? because the news continues at laura ingraham is standing byut >> 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. te 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 panic in the air, and it is not coming from trump. it