october 7th for special coverage of the vice presidential debate in utah. until then, i'm back 6:00 p.m., speed 27 tomorrow. >> and i will see you at 7:00 eastern with "the story." sean hannity is up next, have a good night, we will see you next time. >> good night. [applause] ♪ >> i'm not going to answer the question -- >> i want to answer the question? the radical left -- >> would you shut up, man? >> who was on your list? you've had 308,000 military people dying because you couldn't provide them proper health care in the military. >> i'm happy to talk about -- >> if you were here it wouldn't be 200, it would be 2 million people because you are very late on the draw. >> you can't fix the economy till you fix the covid crisis and he has no intention of doing anything about making a better for you all at home. number one. number two -- >> you agreed with bernie sanders on the far left on the manifesto, we call it.

socialized medicine. >> are not going to listen to him. you are the worst president america has ever had, come on! >> let me just say, i've done more in 47 months -- i've done more than you've done in 47 years, joe. >> sean: all right, welcome to "hannity." the very first presidential debate is now officially in the books in the extremely weak, the frail, the confused kind of angry joe biden just got steamrolled by president trump. joe flat out refused to answer simple, basic, fundamental questions, unable to respond to the president's beat downs and he appeared flustered, irritated, and well, cranky. joel, maybe it's past his bedtime, probably stayed up too late, needs his nap. we have a lot of life reaction for the full hour, analysis moments away. donald trump jr. will be here, sarah sanders, dan bongino, judge jeanine will also join us, ari fleischer will join us as

well, but first, let's start with joe biden, who once again refused to answer a simple, basic, fundamental question. would he support packing the supreme court? he refuses to answer. take a look. >> are you willing to tell the american people tonight whether or not you will support either ending the filibuster or packing the court? >> whatever position i taken that, that will become the issue. the issue is the american people should speak. you should go out and vote. you are in voting now, vote and let your senators know how you feel. vote now. make sure you in fact let people know, your senators. i'm not going to answer the question because the question is -- the question is -- the question -- would you shut up, man? >> who was on your list, joe? >> gentlemen, i think with end of this -- we have ended this segment, we are going to move onto the second segment. >> that was a really productive

segment, wasn't it? >> shut up, joe. he's running for president also. joe won't answer a pivotal, important question on whether or not he planned to destroy the u.s. supreme court with a practice known as court packing, pretty much a pathetic, simple question, why couldn't he answer? tonight joe wasn't just refusing to answer basic civil questions, at times he could barely form a sentence. many struggling moments, take a look. >> 20 -- 200 million -- the 200,000 people that have died on his watch, how many of those have survived? there are 7 million people that have protracte contracted covid. he puts pressure and disagrees with his own scientists. >> senator harris is saying you can't trust the science. >> you can trust the scientists. she didn't say that. >> she's of the public health experts "will be muzzled, will be suppressed." >> that's what is going to try to do. >> the way to open businesses is

to give them the wherewithal to be able to open. we provided money -- >> i was asking about masks. >> masks make a big difference. billionaires have made over $300 billion because of the tax proposal and he will only focus on the market. you have 19 -- 91 companies federal -- in the fortune 500 who don't pay a single penny and tax. >> go ahead -- you get the final word. >> it's hard to get any word and with this clown -- excuse me, this person. >> sean: it's a wonder that joe did so little to improve the country. he spent nearly five decades in the swamp, the sewer that we call washington, d.c., as the president pointed out, also numerous times tonight. let's take a look. >> i've done more in 47 months -- i've done more than you've done in 47 years. we've done things that you never even thought of.

>> sean: instead of actually helping americans, yep, 47 years, joe biden was busy lining the pockets of his own family. in spite of him denying it, he is wrong. that includes zero experience hunter biden, and as we have learned this week, we got russian oligarchs, we got ukrainian oligarchs, russian nationals, chinese nationals, ukrainian nationals who, yeah, all in business. we have wire transfers, millions of dollars from ukrainian russian oligarchs, shopping sprees courtesy of china. people connected to the communist party of china and of course the $1.5 billion deal with the bank of china. but he denied it all. not true. >> trade deficit with mexico. >> no wonder, your son goes in and he takes out -- he takes out billions of dollars, takes out billions of dollars, and also, while we are at it -- just out

of curiosity, the mayor of moscow's wife gave your son three and a half million dollars. what did he do to deserve it? >> sean: with the mob, the media, will they ever fact-checked joe? let's see. tuesday november 3rd, that is 34 days away, so much is at stake for this country. joe biden, card carrying member of the sewer, the swamp, and he has been in washington nearly 50 years with nothing to show for it but a growing bank account for his entire family. now joe, he's made a deal with the radical left and in spite of his denial tonight, he did go along with the manifesto, he might enter the oval office, but they will be in control, that's for sure. joining us now with tonight's debate, ari fleischer and sarah sanders. i'm sure your text message in your inbox was probably as full as mine. one thing i've concluded at the end of tonight is it's

basically -- you're going to get a gladiator warrior fighter in donald trump, a guy that is going to go to battle like he has for the last four years, fighting for trade deals, fighting for his promises, getting the money for the wall, everything that he says he's going to do, including battling covid and with joe biden, you're going to bring -- what they bring in 50 years, sarah sande sanders? >> certainly i think what we saw tonight, donald trump is absolutely a fighter, he has been since day one. it's the reason he's still standing. if he wasn't, he wouldn't be. one of the biggest takeaways i thought was the big reminder of joe biden's willingness to shut down the economy again, which would be absolutely detrimental for american businesses, especially small businesses. we also saw donald trump very strong online order while that the same time joe biden couldn't

name a single law-enforcement endorsement that he has, not one. those are still the top two issues that voters are voting on, the economy and blonde order. the president should be hammering those vulnerabilities on joe biden every single day, all the way up to election day, two of his biggest ranks, two of joe biden's biggest weaknesses. i think it was great on those issues, he should keep hammering them all the way throughout until november 3rd. >> sean: ari, i had to make a list because it so long, i followed your tax laws, joe. talked about all the money that hunter made. he made that money. that's just a fact. there is no law enforcement support. he will answer a simple question, do you support stacking the court, ending the legislative filibuster, what have you done in 47 years, joe? he did refer to african-americans as super predators, the president could have mentioned he also talked about integration in public schools and said he didn't want his kids going to schools that

were racial jungles. he did sign onto the burning manifesto. he did lie about the money that hunter made. he lied about a lot of different things and, you know, i actually prefer a new style of debate. maybe we will have it in the future one day and that is let him go. just, like, we like to watch football, worriers and gladiators in the octagon and boxers box, let them go, let them have at it and let the american people decide. >> well, first of all, i thought that the president had the best line of the night, when he said i've done more in 47 months than you've done in 47 years, that was a pretty good way to sum everything up and i still think that joe biden's leaving himself very vulnerable because he just refuses to take the stand out of weakness. i won't give you an answer on court packing her filibuster because i want my answer to be the issue. what kind of leader or statesman answers a question like that? the president has got to continue to hone in on that and what i would do us president essay i will veto it, will you

veto it? but, sean, i should say we are not elected gladiators and they shouldn't be a food fight. i think this is a train wreck. both candidates, too much interruption, too much back and forth and that's just not good for the country and so there might be people who like to have this kind of thing for the entertainment value. i'm just not one of them. i just think when you come to a debate you should air the differences come occasionally interrupt, poke your opponent, but this was way over-the-top tonight by both candidates and the president started it but joe biden returned fire, biden called him a clown, he called him a liar, he called him a racist. that doesn't serve any purpose either. >> sean: lesson, everybody has stylistic differences. i've been in cable and talk radio 33 years my cable 25 yea years. i don't run from a fight. i actually like it. because i think it's refreshing and i also think it's real. and i think the american people

like real too in the fact is we are really divided. that is just a reality. this country is divided. >> yeah, and it's real, sean. i acknowledge that of course. that's been one of the president's greatest strengths and one of the pushback that was get the president is a fighter and i acknowledge that, i credit the president with fighting. my only point is dial it down to noxious. don't do it all the time. do it often, do it sometimes, don't do it almost all the time. >> sean: sorry, less five. >> wasn't exactly a statesman, and he interrupted him regularly with pejoratives but then he was also weak and couldn't answer basic questions. >> sean: sarah, you'll get the last word. >> i think ari was exactly right, the line of the night that i think sums up so much of both of these candidates, donald trump has done more in 47 months than joe biden has done

in 47 years. that contrast is very clear, i think the president will be smart to keep making that point, talk about what he's done in those 47 months for the things that we have failed to do that he had to fix when he came into office. >> sean: good to see you both, ari fleischer, sarah sanders, thank you. joe biden didn't have a defense for the corruption allegations made against us on. if we had a media that did their job, they would point out that yeah, there are russian oligarchs, ukrainian oligarchs, russian nationals, chinese nationals, ukrainian nationals, all involved, wire transfers and zero experience hunter making millions of dollars. they don't bring it up. they had the nerve to go after the president's family. the president wasn't having any of that. take a look. >> here's the deal, we want to talk about families and ethics, i don't want to do that. his family we could talk about all night.

>> my family lost a fortune by coming down and helping the governors. >> sean: joining us not to respond, president trump's son, donald trump jr. >> with intestate -- i don't want to -- don't throw us in the gulags. >> sean: so you are sitting in here, i'm watching it -- look, i understand, i played hockey, we dropped the gloves every day. some people probably think it's too hot. but it was both sides. but at the end of the day, i look at your dad and my take is if he didn't fight back against the deep state, if he didn't fight for the money of the wall, if china and japan and mexico and our western european allies and candidate didn't believe that he meant it on trade deals -- >> what about [indiscernible], sean? that happened not because of people like joe biden who have been a government for 47 euros but because donald trump took a different approach and when he

said he was going to do something, they believed him. i think you also have the look in the american people have to understand what donald trump has been through, impeachment hoax, russian collusion nonsense. there's actual russian collusion now. literally wire transfers from a known associate of vladimir putin to joe biden's son. she happens to be a billionaire, but guess what, you don't become a billionaire, first lady of moscow, without connections to vladimir putin. for four years, i get to hear about me. they were hoping that i did a fraction of 100 it, i'd be in jail right now. >> sean: you spent three years of your life -- >> paid for by the dnc. the fbi was working with a known russian agent. a known spy and it's like now we don't want to hear anything about it. if there's a competitive nature where you come out hot, it's because he's had to deal with it, he said to watch his family -- more important, he still delivered for the american people because that was the

reality. joe biden can answer what is done for 47 years. we talk about what he did, his statements, his comments, alice johnson was -- one of the first people. >> sean: don, jr., criminal justice reform, historically black colleges, police reform, record low on employment, african-americans, hispanic-americans, asian-americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment and i thought one of the most powerful knights was on covid. joe, if we would have listened to you, you are afraid, you call them the travel ban. >> it was racist. racist to shut down travel from the epicenter of a deadly viral outbreak. any other place that i've ever loan that would be called common sense but joe can't get out of the way of the local mob. he has to try to please them. it's why he couldn't do anything about police officers. it's what he couldn't -- and the dnc and no democrats at anything with the violence going on in

the cities because they don't want to upset their base and that's really problematic. >> sean: how does it go over with him actually denying the biden burnie -- bolshevik bernie manifesto which he agreed to? >> beyond that, they talk about the green new deal. they'll say it was $93 trillion, not the hundred $3 trillion that my father said. that's the reality, that's how they will be fact-checked. he denounced everything, first of all, right there. more important, he literally for the first american president made the kkk a domestic terrorist organization last week, so they will spend that but they will neglect the facts and that's the point. if i did what hunter did i'd be in jail but that's not a fact. if our fbi did this to an incoming president barack obama or an incoming joe biden, it would be the biggest scandal in american political history -- that's okay, we do electronic, we don't want someone who's actually going to be effective. wouldn't want someone who's going to take us out of these

endless wars. the things joe biden would push us for. the text policy -- joe biden made tax policy. they want to give donald trump a hard time for playing by their rules? it's ridiculous. >> sean: i always set america knew what they were electing in your dad in 2016. that is an iconoclast, somebody that is not part of the swamp, some buddy that is there to break down the system and it's not pretty is it. >> look at all the lies. i've seen more anonymous source stuff that gets debunked after they get one week to run with the story as though with the gospel. that's the real problem. if there is frustration were my father then comes out and comes aggressively, it's because they've been doing this for four years. they talk about a peaceful transition of power. [indiscernible] for 243 years. obama and biden were the first people to not have a peaceful transition of power. they tried to weaponize their

friends of government and the highest level of american law enforcement to try to combat this president, the duly elected president of the united states. they are playing games with ballots, pennsylvania, and we're supposed to pretend like it doesn't happen because the democrats control the media so they won't highlight very obvious things just like again they are not going to highlight hunter's connection to president xi and china and government investment. they're not going to talk about him being kind to money, to putin and human trafficking and rings. that supplement. if i did a fraction of it, it would be the biggest scandal, it would be the biggest story for weeks. it would single-handedly disqualify my father from being there because the meat of saved no big deal, it's not really a problem, it's okay for him. >> sean: things evolve in a country, things evolve -- we supposedly celebrate free speech in this country. why would i be very interested in putting the two candidates on the stage for two hours and let them go at it? let them take it on.

>> i think it would be great. we knew that was coming anyway with chris wallace. i understand he is a fox guy, but he's no conservative. he's no centrist either. that's sort of the nature of this game and i think that's why my father has to play it that way, he's got to combat that because is not just fighting conservative ideas versus liberal ideas. he's taking on a multibillion-dollar mainstream complex. joe biden can hide in the basement, he doesn't have to do campaign rallies, the media will do that for him. he can set up for months debate trap so my prep because no one's going to ask him a question. >> sean: how do you get away with not answering whether you will start the quarter not? >> because you know what the answer is. he knows what the answer is so he doesn't want to line out for when he eventually does it, but it's no secret. amy coney barrett, she's the reason they are not talking about this. they were talking about this two months ago before ruth bader ginsburg passed away and donald trump was right. ruth bader ginsburg said the president is the president for four years, not a fraction of that, not three years, he's the president for four years. >> sean: [indiscernible]

because it is like you have to have an election. we had an election, it's happened 29 times in election years. >> is not the president until january or whatever it is? of course he is. no one is going to call him out on that very real fact. there are people watching in america right now that think because of an election that's different. you are only partially president because you're in an election year. it's ridiculous, but by not [indiscernible] -- by not saying that's not how it works, that's not the constitution -- that's not what obama said, that's not what biden said, it's not what ginsburg said, it's not what schumer said, it's not what pelosi said in a foster b16 with marek arlen. the difference is they didn't control the senate and they didn't have the votes. >> sean: how do you feel as we now see all of these instances -- i mean, and it seems to be every swing state, issues in pennsylvania, issues in north carolina, issues in wisconsin as it relates to let's change the rules, let's extend out the days in which we will

actually count votes. >> it's happening all the states that have democrat-controlled because that's how they play their games. they don't have a ground game, they haven't bothered to try to staff that up, they haven't done doorknocking, their plan is to start all of this on november 4th when they can start litigating it, contesting it and in places like pennsylvania where you have a democrat governor and a democrat state legislature, that's why it was so critical for my father to say you've got to get out there and vote. this has to be a landslide. if it's in the margins these guys are going to play games, ballots are going to be coming in for weeks and probably months afterwards, they will magically all be 100% for joe biden because we'd see how this works, we've seen this game play out too many times. republicans don't win special elections once they go -- >> sean: every ballot was cast for your dad that was in the garbage can. >> from the military. and again, that doesn't mean -- but the notion also that absentee balloting is perfect. this isn't absentee balloting, states that have never done this before doing a dry run with literally hundreds of millions of potential ballots, that's not the same as an absentee ballot that you have in florida that hasn't worked in four years.

there are differences but they try to take and conflate the issues, they try to say it works in florida. in a system that's been tried and proven and tested. the democrats don't want the signatures to have to match up on ballots. please explain to me, give me one reason, sean, one reason why the signature of the person who's saying they're voting was registered to vote should not have to match unless you're trying to steal the election, which of course they are. >> sean: when i went to the dnc convention, i needed a photo i.d. usually i go there, the guys would say hi mr. hannity. >> obviously racist. that's their answer for everything. it's asinine. if you can't -- >> sean: [indiscernible]. >> one of the easiest things in the world. >> sean: it is the biggest choice election this country has faced. i got to let you go. appreciate you stopping by. anyway, long story. coming up, a lot more to recover from tonight's presidential debate. judge jeanine pirro,

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♪ >> sean: all right, tonight president trump forcefully defended his nomination to the united states supreme court, judge amy coney barrett as well as his constitutional duty to fill that supreme court vacancy, i don't know, joe said we have to have an election. we had an election, 29 times in election year we've had vacancies on the u.s. supreme court, all 29 times the president at the time, they put forward a nominee. this is no different, take a

look. >> we won the election, elections have consequences. we have the senate, we have the white house and we have a phenomenal nominee respected by all. we won the election and therefore we have the right to choose our and very few people knowingly would say otherwise and by the way, the democrats would not even think about doing it. the only difference is they're trying to do it faster. there's no way they would give it up. justice ginsburg said very powerfully, very strongly, at some point, ten years ago or so she said a president in the senate is elected for a period of time but a president is elected for four years. we are not elected for three years, i'm not elected for three or so we have the senate -- >> selected to the next -- >> during the period of time, we have an opening. >> sean: joining us now with reaction, she is the host of justice, author of her brand-new book "don't lie to me" -- by the

way out, i would never recommend doing that. judge jeanine pirro was with us, 2020 campaign senior advisor mercedes schlapp, she, like don, jr., has also been covid tested. okay, so let's get your take on the night. >> i think the president absolutely dominated the debate -- quite frankly he could've been the moderator but we won't tell chris wallace that -- >> sean: i don't want a moderator. this is no diss on chris, i like chris but i would just rather them go at it. >> i agree. joe biden wanted to keep attacking the president, the president wanted to defend his record, rightfully so. joe biden came across week, he continued to not give direct answers on questions like will you pack the court? or what is your stance on a green new deal, which it seems like he flip-flopped that as well. >> sean: he denied the bolshevik barony manifesto. >> the president pointed that out strongly and for joe biden it definitely did not give a very clear direction on where he

would take america other then he kept shifting. it was like the shifting of joe biden while i think president trump made it very clear that he is providing economic growth and prosperity for our nation and combating coronavirus and developing the vaccine and it's a laundry list of accomplishments that he accomplished. >> sean: as a productive, judge, i believe coming into this joe biden probably spent all these days, half of the month of september, pretty much staying in his basement bunker the whole time, learning his rear four points, but even then, i don't know what you call it, he gets lost, he digresses, he gets confused. i felt like i'm looking at, you know, it confused, you know, corpse, versus this never ending -- this energizer bunny that is ready for battle and combat. >> you know, when i talk about the president, i talk about the

president's being the kind of guy who goes into the lion's den and he comes out with a pelt over his shoulder and his ties straight. and tonight was an example of that. joe biden kept looking down -- kept looking down and writing, but i tell you what bothered me, sean. what bothered me was the name-calling. that he told the president to shut up. he called him a liar, he called him a clown, he called him a racist. aside from that, the fact that he wouldn't answer the question that the american people are entitled to know, whether he packed the court, and then the whole thing on the filibuster, then saying antifa is just an idea -- i mean really, are you stupid too, joe? and the next question when he was talking about reimagining policing, what does that mean? did you hear what joe biden said? joe biden said we want sociologists and psychologists to go with the police when they respond and i think his exact words were to keep the police from using force.

really? we train the police on how to act in situations and now joe wants to send a psychologist and sociologist with the police to not only stop him from using force, but to end up in the line of trouble themselves. joe biden's ideas -- >> sean: name a law enforcement agency that supported you, joe. he just flat out lied about hunter. priming, provable lies that the media is letting him get away with all the time. >> he kept saying it's discredited, debunked. by whom? i kept waiting, by whom is it debunked? we know it is the bank records, we know people confirmed -- he just said it's a lie and we are supposed to accept that. joe biden cannot come up and look as we conceded, as timid as he did and think that he can run this country and you know what, sean? i want to see joe biden out there tomorrow fighting. i don't want to hear that he's been in his house relaxing

tomorrow because this has taken such a toll on him. >> sean: usually goes on at about 9:30, he needs his hot cocoa and his little nap. >> lets her member, the idea is that it's the far left that's controlling joe biden at the end of the day, that's why he couldn't even give a clear answer, so when the president kept pressing, tell me, are you going to say the law and order? are you going to say law enforcement? joe biden would not answer that question. joe biden does not stand for law and order. he does not stand with our law enforcement and it's why you're seeing all these associations align themselves with president trump. he is at the end of the day, what we want to safe communities. and yes, we believe in community policing. we don't believe in reimagining public safety, which is exactly what joe biden is pushing. >> sean: [indiscernible]. there are people in this country that would like somebody that just plays by the rules in place polite and doesn't interrupt and does everything the nice, nice way. i don't see how you fight the

deep state now with all that we've learned. this was a conspiracy organized by quentin from the get-go. they knew that christopher steele's source was abrupt on aggression operative for ten years. now we've got russian oligarchs. ukrainian oligarchs, china national's, nationals, ukraine and. it's so corrupt and it's like it's the exact opposite of what the country has heard the last four years. now it's all out there. now it so much to consume in such a little period of time before the election. but donald trump was elected on this. he was elected to be a disrupting iconoclast that is going to fight win and get things done in his list is impressive. >> it's very impressive and i think for joe biden, the biggest problem that he's having is when it comes to hunter biden, you're talking about corruption. for talking about joe biden's family ties to china, to russia.

he would not answer that question. >> sean: he lied. >> he did live. and that's the thing, that's why this president kept pressing on joe biden to say you need to address this hunter biden issue, which he refused, rejected and i think it was a big mistake. >> sean: judge, we will give you the last word. >> well, i think that joe biden has disappointed just about everyone tonight. he's disappointed the left because he said to his vice presidential candidate and aoc, who was supposed to be in charge of the green new deal, i mean, he's disappointed americans when he said to them i'm not going to tell you whether i want to pack the court, i'm not going to tell you who i'm going to put on the court and then law and order, tried to get out from saying that he wasn't in support of it, couldn't say it. i mean, he lost tonight as far as i'm concerned. lost people on every side because the guys not a fighter and is not going to fight for you. he's got a lot in line but he didn't memorize -- he is not

genuine, is not convincing. >> sean: it's funny, they always say every election cycle that oh, the american people don't like negativeive ads, peoe say they don't like combativeness. the america that i live in, they like hockey, they like the octagon, they like boxing. they like football. >> they like football. >> sean: they like warriors and i think when it comes down to for the american people, the choice is going to be do you want somebody was going to go to battle and war with a force of energy that is unmatched versus pretty much a half awake corpse that barely can memorize his lines and never leaves his basement bunker? it becomes that fundamental to me and i think the american people, they might not tell the pollsters, but they want somebody that is going to get record low unemployment again and fight for them. we will see in 34 days, they are the ultimate jury.

judge, thank you, mercedes, great to see you. if the girls are doing well? >> [indiscernible]. five girls. >> sean: thank you both, we will continue our coverage. another powerful moment tonight, the president raising important concerns about joe biden's huge problems. didn't mention law and order, safety, security in american cities, the president kept hammering and then he couldn't name one law enforcement group that supported him. take a look. >> did a crime bill, 1994. you call them super predators, african-americans, super predators and have never forgotten it. so you did that and they call you super predator and i'm people out of jail now that you have treated the african-american population community, you have treated the black community about as bad as anybody in this country. you did the 19th -- and that's why, if you look at the polls, i'm doing better than any republican has done in a long time because they saw what you did. you call them super predators

and you've called them worse than that. you can even say the word law enforcement because if you say those words, you're going to lose all of your radical left supporters. we believe in law and order but you don't. the top ten cities in just about the top 40 cities are run by democrats, in many cases radical left and it got you wrapped around her finger, joe. >> sean: here with reaction, dan bongino. fox news correspondent at large, we are in his hometown at home city with competing lawn signs. thank you, my friend. leo, where's the hat? wears the hat tonight? speak on here, i'm serious, i'm angry. i'm ready, i'm angry, let's go. >> sean: why are you angry? >> why am angry? i'm angry at the fact that donald trump has to fight 24/7 to get the message. it's donald trump versus the left-wing media. look, i agree, donald trump

should be a gladiator. i did an op-ed piece, can joe biden win my vote back? no, absolutely not. let me tell you, he's a liar. systemic injustice? what is that? he lied tonight. as far as the violence in the city, he lied. he's had no plan and joe biden is not a friend to african-americans. i wish i was chris wallace for , what have you done for black america for the last 40 years? what have you done"? i wish i was chris wallace because joe biden didn't explain why black voters should vote for him. so i'm upset and donald trump, keep fighting, keep fighting, because you cannot trust the media. >> sean: you know, there was other stuff he could have brought up too. we have brought it up on this program, praising the former klansman that filibustered the civil rights act of '64, was against the voting rights act. fought against integration of public schools with the former klansman because he didn't want his kids going to public schools

that are racial jungles. record low unemployment, geraldo rivera, by every minority group in this country, that was trumped, that wasn't biden, that wasn't obama. >> i want to get to the record low unemployment and the african-american community but first let me defend chris wallace. my god, the guy signed up to moderate a debate in the ended up trying to referee a knife fight. i was worried the president came on -- you know, i was afraid to is going to be accused of bullying and then guess what? joe biden decided to grapple with him, so you had -- >> sean: geraldo, wait a second. >> ultimate fighter. became a boxer, didn't do too well against mayweather. >> sean: actually liked your old tv show because there was a lot of fighting on your old tv show. >> i know, i know, but on the issues -- let me say, the president's strongest argument was "law & order" and you're absolutely right that joe biden's most uncomfortable

moment when he was asked by the president who demanded to know what police department had endorsed joe biden and joe biden could not answer. i thought that was the president's best moment. joe biden in the race and race relations and racist stuff,

among his pejoratives calling the president a clown and shut up, man, and all the rest of that, but i thought that the president of the united states could have said i'm against white supremacists is represented by proud boys or some group -- he should have -- kkk. he could have addressed that issue and dismissed it and put it behind him. instead, he was kind of like playing around -- i didn't like that he equivocated when he could have slam-dunked that. all in all, i don't think that tonight helped either of these people. i thought that joe wasn't sharp and the president i thought was so forceful at times that i thought it was going to try and eat joe biden, literally, on the stage there. >> sean: we have a couple of polls that have come ou i mainstream media will have corrupt polls as they always do, but those are 2/polls that we have already. >> i'm watching the postdebate spin, i'm listening to geraldo and f got to tell you, people are reading this all wrong. you clearly didn't watch what i watched here. trump had a strategy and i think, geraldo, i'm sorry but i think you missed it. trump's strategy was executed brilliantly. what did he want to do? heath to he knows what i think geraldo is missing. forget independence, it's of basic election. trump is an apex predator, he's the lion king, trump went out

there tonight and did what trump does. he's the shark in the ocean and he acted like it. he lost no one from his base, no one. but what did he do to biden, sean? why do you think he brought up that predators were marked? why do you think you brought up the green new deal? why do you think he brought up government-run health care and the public option? he wanted biden on the record saying he doesn't support that stuff. what's that going to do? that's going to alienate biden's base. biden lost everything tonight with his base. this is a base -- you totally missed trump strategy. [indiscernible]. >> [indiscernible]. >> that is not far-fetched. >> [indiscernible]. >> sean: hang on a second. guys. i feel like chris wallace right now. let's just go one at a time. hold on, hold on. >> let me tell you right now -- >> sean: geraldo, let me -- help me out right now. geraldo first, then leo, then

dan. >> this election is not about database, what you saw tonight at the next debates is all about the five, seven, 8% who are truly undecided in the middle. i don't think that biden saying shut up man or the president saying you know, china eight your lunch is going -- i think actually china eight your lunch is a pretty good line by the president, but when he speaking over and being a bully, i'm not sure that that is swaying the undecided voters. >> my turn. my turn. >> this is more than a base election. this is about the undecided -- it is almost always about that thin sliver in the middle. >> wrong. >> sean: filibustering leo. >> my turn. thank you very much. inside the beltway talk, geraldo. dan bongino was absolutely right. donald trump is trying to resonate and inflame his base,

in large in his face, loyal supporters. let me be very clear, donald trump has to fight 24/7. that margin of four or five that you're talking about -- let me finish, my turn. the fact that donald trump has to -- his base knows what he stands for. >> sean: we've got to get dan in. dan. >> as usual, geraldo was wrong, completely wrong. what he doesn't understand is what donald trump -- i'm sorry, you're just wrong. you know, what he loses in independents who are still, he gains with massive turnout unforeseen in american history with republican -- biden did the exact opposite. the enthusiasm for biden, geraldo, is exactly zero after tonight on the left. >> i agree. >> sean: good to see you all. geraldo, thank you for the great hospitality. great town. up next, more highlights from the first presidential debate. matt gaetz and tammy bruce

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♪ >> i listen to joe talking about a transition. there's been no transition from when i won. i won that election and if you look at cricket hillary clinton, if you look at all of the different people, there was no transition because they came after me trying to do a coup. they came after me spying on my campaign. they started from the day i won and even before i won, from the day i came down the escalator with our first lady, they were a disaster, they were a disgrace to our country and we caught them. we caught them all. we've got it all on tape, with caught them all and by the way, you gave the idea for the logan act against general flynn. you better take a look at that because we caught you, in a sense in president obama was

sitting in the office, he knew about it too so don't tell me about a free transition. >> sean: the president blasting joe biden for all the deep state corruption of the obama administration at tonight's debate. joining us now with reaction, matt gaetz, his new book out there, firebrand, and by the way, a top seller and fox news contributor tammy bruce, you know, i'm a little old school and i like a fighter. and donald trump i don't think would have accomplished anything as president, fought back against the deep state if he was not a fighter. i think joe biden descending into whatever confusion and flashes of anger and brain lapses in digressions, i don't think you help themselves, matt gaetz. >> joe biden did look frail. here's the question, america. which of those two men are you picking to go up against president xi in a negotiation about your jobs? i'm picking trump. i'm not picking slow, basement-dwelling joe biden. i tell you who qassem soleimani

and osama bin laden would pick. they would pick joe biden. trump killed two of them and joe biden was against killing the third, so i think the president wins the debate also when he makes joe biden the candidate of lockdowns. president trump showed empathy when he talked about the impact of this lockdowns on people's lives and that's not washington nonsense, that's exactly what's happening at the kitchen table for america's families. i think also president trump may joe biden the candidate of the mob. it was just sad when trump pressed joe biden for a single law enforcement organization that supported him, and by the way, sean, mostly they support democrats. they are unions. local races back to democrats candidates but they are all backing president trump because they see joe biden, the candidate of the mob, very effective night for the president, the only strong leader in the debate. he came prepared for the debate and copped him i probably can prepare to moderate it. i thought president trump's

questions were better than chris wallace's. >> sean: tami, riots, law and order, calling outrightly hunter, the mayor of moscow, joe's comments about super predator. i follow your tax laws, if we would have followed your plan of xenophobia not having the travel ban, couldn't name anybody in law enforcement. you know, honestly on issue after issue, i didn't really see joe biden scoring on the substance either. >> no, and look, a lot of people were saying a lot of new people are going to be watching this. they are going to see what joe biden can do because they hurt so much -- it was a very low bar that he was able to go over what they also saw was not the same joe biden they saw a number of years ago. and what they saw in president trump is the guy that they've known. this is not a surprise president trump.

he was i think being actually gentle and this is a president trump who's cared about what he's built for this country, who cares that he got us back on her feet, he does not want to let that go like dropping it back down into the deepest part of the ocean for all of us to drown. he has invested literally in making sure that he can continue this job because otherwise it's going to go all to hell and he knows that. this is a man of action, and his best deal is to be himself. to not try to -- some people were saying he's all most going to be a bully. this is a man was going to stand up for his family and his family now is the united states. his family is your family and he's making it work. joe biden noted several conspiracy theories that have been debunked already that the media pushed. i noted that people wanted to hear policy finally from

joe biden. he wouldn't even give us that. he wouldn't say if he would support an ending of the filibuster or packing the supreme court as though we are infants and can't handle the real news or the truth. that is insulting. i think it was a loss for him. >> sean: and he just did not suffer swot. your 47 years of nothing. just broke down into that. what have you done? nothing in 47 years and he has no patience for anybody in the swamp and frankly neither do i. okay, i agree with both of you. thank you, more "hannity" after this live from cleveland. usable and remember the moment that things, for one strange time in our lives, got very quiet. some lost work and invented new ways to get by. others were busier than ever, and found strength

they never knew they had. we sheltered with the people who matter most, sometimes finding how far apart we'd drifted. we worried over loved ones, over money, over our planet. and over take-out. and we found a voice one the noise out there had kept quiet. when the world starts spinning again, let's remember this time where none of us felt secure, and fight for a future where everyone can. because when the world seems like it's standing still... that's the perfect time for us to change it.

>> this confirmation process has become a national disgrace.

>> sean: plan that you're not going to want to miss. we will be back our regular time, 9:00 p.m. eastern, never miss an episode of "hannity," let not your heart be troubled. i'm dying to hear what laura ingraham has to say next. laura. >> laura: hannity, who said anything was solved by just people sitting around a table just pleasantly disagreeing with each other? they've obviously never been to my house for dinner. come on, you get a lot solved when you kind of duke it out. you and i are from similar backgrounds. all the elites are like "it was so -- it wasn't nice enough." that's not really the problem with the debate. if that wasn't nice enough. the problem was that there were a lot of people debating at one time, but you know, what the country has gone through isn't very nice. >> sean: i'm sorry. i know everyone will feign outrage, they've never