my and, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. still no word on when the students will release "insurrection day"" darn bruce willis. we will keep you posted when we get that press release. in the meantime, have a great evening. despite everything, stay cheerful. sean hannity next. ♪ ♪ >> this is a fox news alert, i am marianne lafferty live in essentialist. president trump issuing final pardons and commutations as his time as chief executive dwindles to mere hours. not surprisingly, the lift includes steve bannon, who faces a federal case accusing him of defrauding donors as part of a fund-raising campaign purportedly aiming at supporting trump supporter while. president trump also granting clemency to former detroit mayor, a democrat. he resigned back in 2008 after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. he is currently facing a 28 year prison sentence.

also receiving clemency, wrappers lil wayne and kodak black, prosecuted on federal weapons offenses. the president, however, not expected to issue pardons for himself or members of his family, or his personal attorney, rudy giuliani. the former new york city mayor was at the forefront of unsuccessful efforts to get the results of the 2020 presidential election election overturned. he also rallied with trump supporters just before they storm the cat capitol building on january 6th. the possibility of pardons for the insurgents had reportedly been discussed but almost everyone involved in those discussions aggressively advised the president not to. trump has already pardoned a slew of longtime associates and supporters, they include his former campaign chairman paul manafort, also charles kushner, the father of his son-in-law, and his longtime friend and advisor, roger stone. also, his former national security advisor, michael flynn, and also on the list, four former blackwater guards who

were convicted of killing 14 iraqi civilians. we are joined now on the phone by brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to president george w. bush. brad, any names on the list surprising to you? >> no, they really aren't. look, presidential pardons and commutations and sentences are controversial by their very nature. if we look back at history, barack obama, in his eight years, parted 148 and gave clemency to over a thousand. george bush, george w. bush, 189 pardoned 11 clemency's and commutations, and bill clinton, 396 pardons, 61 commutations. you look, historical terms, donald trump falls way short of his predecessor, in either granting pardons or commutation of sentences. everyone will have their own

opinion. the president has the ultimate power, and, you know, in a week's time, nobody will even remember this. bill clinton pardoned a member of his family, his brother, roger, for drug offenses. if we go back in history, we will see, as president leave office, they have a history of either granting or giving commutations of sentences to very controversial figures. >> marianne: brad, also, wanted to talk about the fact that it sounds like he was strongly discouraged from pardoning himself or anyone in his family. talk about that, and why that is important, something that he may be should have done. >> well, the reason being, when you grant a pardon, the person receiving it is basically admitting they've done something wrong. the question is, what has the president, if you were to do that, having to admit to? that he did wrong in order to

receive a pardon. so, it is a double-edged sword. you know, it's never been done before. it could've been challenged. the ultimate authority of the president -- it would set a dangerous precedent if you were to do it. i think he made the right choice, he not only himself, but his family. i don't think there's any need to, and i think that is what the lawyers argued to the president, that there is no need, so why do it? >> marianne: yeah, we are looking at the list that just came out of all the pardons that he did grant. a name that stands out that is not on the list, julian's launch, a name people were discussing us potential, you know, someone he could potentially pardon, but that looks like that did not happen. what are your thoughts on that? >> well, again, i think it was a lot of lobbying back and forth because that had been floated before, and i think a lot of senators up on the hill,

including, perhaps mitch mcconnell being the most vocal, that the president should not do that. and let's remember that the president is still in jeopardy. and needs the senators, especially republicans, in his corner, as we go into the next phase of impeachment, which is a removal trial, in the sense. >> marianne: anything else that stands out to you about the names on the list? anything else that you think is important for people to note? >> no, i think a lot of these names had been floated. i don't see any name on this list that is striking. i think, tomorrow, certainly monday morning quarterbacks are going to be either in favor of what the president has done or not, but the president is not unlike other presidents, who, as the exit office, exercise their ultimate authority, which rests

with the president, to do these kind of acts. pardoning, forgiving crimes, and usually done for three reasons: humanitarian reasons, personal reasons, and politics. people will opine on it, and it will be just part of history. >> marianne: well, it seems you are reading that list, those names that are on the list, they must be celebrating right now, a lot of these 11th hour pardons. what do you think of those people are thinking right now as they are receiving the news that they have been parted? >> well, it is a huge relief, having been forgiven for crimes, basically -- the record is they had done something wrong, but there is no consequence anymore for those crimes. same thing, you know, commutations of sentences. you still have the saying of a criminal conviction, but you are

forgiven the time that you need to serve punishment. there is a reason why the founders did this, given the president broad power to exercise as he sees fit, for humanitarian, personal, or political reasons. and presidents have done it judiciously, some more than others, but not without controversy, nonetheless. >> marianne: so, you know, we are just getting word of all of these pardons. we've got 73 presidential pardons and 70 commuted sentences, for a total of 143. does that seem -- i know we talked about this earlier -- but does that seem pretty normal, as far as presidential pardons go? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, the present is right, historically, in the same category for his time in office as the president. bill clinton, 396 pardons, 61

commutations of sentences. some very controversial figures, including domestic terrorists, his brother, and of course, mark briggs, who defrauded the government in his taxes, so every president faces the controversy of who he pardons and why he pardons them, or why he commuted the sentence, and again, everybody will have an opinion, but nobody can change with the president has done. >> marianne: brad, anything else that you want to add that you think is important? >> no, again, i think tomorrow there will be a flood of experts who will either find fault or favor in what the president has done. i would urge people to read about the information behind with the president has done before they form an opinion, but the president -- this is less

than 1% of the total number of applications that the president has received. over 10,000 in his term of office. so it's the power that all presidents exercise judiciously. >> marianne: how about the pardoning of steve bannon? was not a surprise? >> you know, it was a surprise, to me. bannon has been less than helpful, at times, to the president, yet the president found mercy in what steve bannon had been faced with. steve bannon, of course, was indicted, but he hasn't been tried yet. this could be a big relief to steve bannon, and it shows that the president remembers the good the people have done, not necessarily the bad. >> marianne: does this presidential pardon then mean that everything goes away for

steve bannon? as if it never happened? >> correct. the pardoning excuses federal crimes and expunge the records come up with the fact is, steve bannon had done something wrong, in order to receive a pardon. and with a commutation of a sentence, the record still stands in the criminality, but the forgiveness is in the time needed to be served. >> marianne: got it. and one last thing i wanted to ask, not sure if you're familiar with this name, but there was a name being thrown around, the tiger king, and we were told that possibly he was standing via, waiting to find out if he was on this list, and it does not look like he is on there, joe exotics, you see him right there. is that a surprise to you? >> no i think, again, it's going to be interesting to see what the president said, if

anything, beyond the actions taken. so, people may have to read between the lines to figure out why people -- some people were pardoned or given commutations of sentences, while others were not. but it is truly speculation, because only the president knows. >> marianne: all right, yes, that is true. we just got this list a few minutes ago. brad blakeman, thank you so much for all your insight into these pardons. we appreciate you joining us. brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to president george w. bush. and if you're just joining us, president trump just issuing thousands of pardons and commutations. they included his former chief strategist, steve bannon, among other notable names that were not unexpected. we will have more on this as the day goes on. thanks for joining us, and for now, back to "hannity," already in progress. >> sean: scheme behind closed doors with your buddy, chuckie schumer. every republican in the senate,

let me be more clear.nno not one republican senator should be wasting a second of precious time, you are off half the year anyway, on this post presidential impeachment charade. every republican senator needs to walk out of what will be an impeachment schiff show, probably romney, sass, and murkowski will stay, and when it's over, republicans should walk back inn and acquit the president of the united states, or former president at the time, and stop the unconstitutional schiff show. and mitch, if the choice, to be frank with you, is weak, establishment republicanism versus america first, i choose the latter. i venture to guess the overwhelming majority of republicans would agree with me. it's why i'm not a republican. i'm a registered conservative. your fellow kentucky senator rand paul is absolutely right when he stated, the senate that you supposedly lead, republicans, go along with this

impeachment nonsense, it will be the end of the republican party. it is unconstitutional. it is beyond divisive. it is a political ploy by democratsy to seek revenge on president trump, and off course, humiliate the 75 million people who voted for him. 93%, according to a recent poll, would vote for him again today. this is also an attempt to banish president trump from ever running again. hey, mitch, that decision should not be yours. that needs to be left with a week, the american people. not republican senators. now, more than ever, we need elected officials to stand up for we, the people. the rhetoric from the left, downright chilling. it has gotten progressively worse over the last five years, with donald trump. now powerful institutions in d.c., now that would include the democrats, the media mob, big tech, all moving to silenceh and counsel any opinions they don't like. and as you all know, president trump has been banned

permanently from nearly everyy social media platform. so too have many of his supporters. american citizens. four days, our friends at parler, competitors to twitter, were kicked off the internet altogether thanks to an alliance of big tech companies. meanwhile, incoming president joe biden is comparing senator cruz and holly to nazis and propagandists because they supported a legal audit of election results. oh, something democrats in 2000, 2001, 2016 and '17, 2004 end '05 called for. other top democrats want them to be treated like domestic terrorists and put on a no-fly list when they were expressing an opinion and looking for a legal audit, that is all. students at harvard now calling for the school to revoke any

degree from anyone associated with president trump. have you or have you ever been a president trump supporter? if "forbes" magazine writes that if youaz worked in the trump administration, we're going to take note, you better not be higher -- what? is that the america we live in? now going after the president, going after his daughter, son-in-law, his other son, they can't even buy a house without being persecuted. live in a neighborhood, when they pay -- that's america? a truly insane column in "the washington post" today, all but accusing people like me and this network of sedition, wanting us to be silenced, ripped off the air, and that's not all, former pbs lawyer, i thought it was probably an outlier, i was wrong, caught on tape, we are going to empower the government to take kids away from their parents, children of trump supporters. and then have them go to reeducation camps where they will watch pbs all day. many other outlets in the mob openly searching ways to

deprogram trump supporters. you can't make this up. take a look. >> 74 million people are going to believe that because they have been brainwashed, joy. i really believe they have been brainwashed by this misinformation campaign over the past four years. >> the bottom line is, all of america needs deprogramming, because we have all been negatively influenced by donald trump. >> sean: make no mistake, this is a common s theme now of the left, media mob, big tech. it is not good enough to win an election, control the house and senate and white house, they don't just want power over your government and paycheck and your business, they now want to control the way you think. you don't think right, they are going to deprogram you and reeducate you. and from the radical new democratic party, freedom apparently is a dangerous thing. these are dangeroushi times. >> we have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge

audiences. people on youtube, for example, havee a larger audience than daytime cnn. >> there are millions of americans, almost all white, almost all republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed. it's as if they are members of a cult, the trumpest cult. >> and bought into this big lie, and the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of trump? >> sean: by the way, hearing from the people that are part of the cult of rage, psychotic hatred of all things trump, deprogram, reeducation camps, they don't believe in freedom. that kind of rhetoric on the left, americans will need leaders in washington who are willing to boldly fight for our ideals and our rights. the nonstop vilification, censorship, or whether the mt programming, reeducation, unlearning b.s., that would be dangerous and the end of our

country. this impeachment schiff show and charade is going to throw fuel on the fire. tonight, i will end with another quote from ronald reagan: "freedom is a fragile thing. was never more than one generation away from extinction." this cannot -- my fellow american citizens, happen on our watch. you know why? because our children and our grandchildren deserve better. and mitch mcconnell, if you are not going to fight, we deserve better. you can go back to representing the people of kentucky and let somebody that knows how to lead lead. here with the reaction, fox news contributor dan bongino. a host of "justice," judge jeanine pirro. judge, we start with you tonight. your reaction? >> well, first of all, i think your monologue was terrific. what we are seeing with mitch mcconnell right now is his, you know, he's not going to be the majority leader any longer, he is going to be the minority leader. we saw him kiss the ring of chuck schumer and basically trashed president trump on his stlast day in office, which to e

makes him ineligible, as far as i'm concerned, someone who wants sat on a jury for an impeachment trial come up then again i think anyone impeachment of someone not in office is unconstitutional, given the fact they can't then remove them from office because he is already out of office, but having said that, we are the tipping point right now. the left is so hateful and so vengeful -- i wrote a book about this, that they are determined to cancel, not just the president of the united states, who has done more good that you just outlined, but they want to cancel anyone who is a conservative. they want to cancel conservative thought. they want us to lose our jobs. they want us to be harassed. they want people in our faces. this has to stop, sean. this is america. and joe biden is not the guy who is going to stop it, for sure. and mcconnell seems like, you know what, he's already on the side of the left. and i am disgusted with him as

you are. >> sean: it is time for new leadership. that's it. and rand paul is right, it will be the end of the republican party, and frankly, at that point, it would be, if they go along with this. in my opinion. you know, i look at this, dan bongino, and it's likeey they've learned nothing from donald trump. this is what i was thinking about. they didn't seem to learn, why does donald trump have this passionate support? is it because we have been -- we are in a cult? no, because he kept his promise to cut taxes, ended the bureaucracy, kept his promises unconstitutional judges. he protected the border. he made us energy independent, better tradede deals, peace through strength, no foreign conflicts or wars in his time as president. those are big promises, and he kept them all. republicans, i don't remember them, 65 show boats to repeal obamacare, when it mattered, they didn't show up. >> yeah, goes to my golden rule

of the feckless republican party, which is this: you will never bee disappointed if you respect the golden rule, it's that most republicans are really democrats, but no democrats are really republicans, folks. it's an axiomatic truth. if you ever want to be let down, you can always rely on the republican party come in your moment ofy feet, to kick you in the face as he tried to get up. listen, mitch mcconnell, did a decent job with the judges, congrats. that is what we hired you to do. you have one job. does he want an award? on my own podcast, i said nice job, you're getting paid, what, $200,000 a year to vote for conservative judges while pretending to be a conservative? congrats! mice job. but if mitch mcconnell wanted to put together a recipe and a cookbook on how to destroy the republican a party, this is exactly how you do it, by falling right into the trap of falling for media narratives. malcolm i want to make a point here because it is important. i am hearing a lot of chatter

about we need a third party. folks, forget it. that is not the solution. it is a strategic disaster. we don't have a parliamentary system, and wewe have winner-take-all congressional districts. it's not going to happen. here is my suggestion, because i owe you a fix, not just a complaint. it is your republican party. when you build it, you donated, you knocked on the doors, you built the email lists, many of you gave your email. we have a primary season coming up. >> sean: hey, dan -- >> the infrastructure of an entire party. these idiots. not there is. >> sean: do not legitimize -- no republican should legitimize an unconstitutional act. they need toan walk out and walk back in when it is time to acquit -- >> but sean -- >> sean:] indistinct] >> we've got losers. you have ben sasse. the guy -- listen -- >> sean: benitez time for them to retire, go home. >> this is important!

the smart stupids people are the most dangerous people in the world.n stupid stupid people know they are stupid. they are not as much trouble as smart stupid people, and the republican party -- >> dan -- >> sean: quick last word -- >> stupid people like ben sasse. >> here is the bottom line, we have to get the width is in the senate and the house out of office. and america is mad enough to do that in 2022. america understands the pulse of what is going on with this leftist, fascist ideology, and none of us are going to be erased or canceled, and we are not going to -- we have not been brainwashed, they have been brainwashed. in the end, all we want is a free country, and we get them out of office. i don't care what you want to use, get them out of office. >> sean: thank you both. breaking tonight, the president has officially and formally declassifiedn documents related

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♪ ♪ >> sean: this just breaking, a fox news alert. president trump has just formally declassified more documents tonight, exposing the crossfire hurricane russia hoax, proving once again and once and for all this was nothing more than a political witch hunt a conspiracy theory fueled by the mob in the media for four long years, and democrats. in other words, the russian collusion truthers.

contained in tonight's documents is moren proof that, in fact, it was christopher steele that leaked the russia collusion story toto help hillary clinton and the fbi. steele explained as the election season went on they as a company were writing to horses, their client on the fbi, dr. fbi director comey is reopening of the hillary clinton investigatik one horse and chose the business client relationship over the relationship with the fbi. wow. that's pretty deep. why aren't we tryingtt to expede christopher steele to the u.s. and wasting time on a guy in the media called julian a sans. joining us now, john solomon, investigative reporter, chief editor. okay, this is big. >> yeah, it is, sean. i've been through all of the documents at least one time now, and i will give highlights. the most important of all of the documents is what i call the september 2017 confessional.

a year after he was fired, terminated by the fbi, christopher steele sat back down with the agents and described his motives and tactics, what he did come and there are some bombshell revelations. first off, as you just reported, his motive for going to theep ns media and trading the false russia collusion narrative in the 2016 election was the email scandal had reared its head again against hillary clinton. he was concerned it was going to hurt hillary clinton's chances, so he put the russia story out there to help kind of distract from her scandal. secondly, he admits -- another one of his motives was that he m considered donald trump to be his main opponent. he considered donald trump to be bad for great britain, for the u.s.-u.k. relationship, is that is another reason he leaked. think about that, he is a foreigner interfering with our election by leaking informationm to help hillary clinton and to help great britain. that is what he admitted to in this interview with the fbi. third, he divulges where he got his sub source -- the famous sub

source, primary sub source, as the fbi called them. f this is a personal gave him most of the bad garbage that was ultimately discredited by the fbi, disproven. he got that relationship with that sub source from none other than fiona hill, former security council for national childhood became a witness against trump in 2016. i s beyond the interesting connections, by the time fiona hill turned over the sub source to christopher steele, the fbi was already investigating the sub source as a possible russian asset. in fact, they returned to get a fisa warrant on him when he fled the country to drop the effort. so, fiona hill, some who worked for the trump presidency, gave christopher steele a bad source of the fbi ultimately feared was a russian asset. >> sean: pretty amazing developments here. one has to ask,pm okay, we know durham had these documents the whole time. where is he? >> yeah, i think he is fast at work trying to build the final

parts of a criminal case. that is onts my source and reportingas indicates and talkig to lawyersse and other people, t looks like he is going forward to build a significant criminal case. something that will take time to develop overnight, but i think people willle be surprised by ts revelation. in 2014, the fbi determined that a foreign power was trying to influence hillary clinton and her campaign. when she ran. in fact, they feared they were going to do it through the delivering of money. the fbi tried for several months to get a fisa warrant, but according to these documents they were turned down not held up by the seventh floor, james comey and andrew mccabe, the seventh floor. they ultimately decided not to investigate any further, and unlike whatt they did to donald trump, they went to hillary clinton and gave her a defensive briefing, and told her what this foreign power was trying to do. a did it through her attorney. it shows the entirely different system of justice. hillary clinton gets a defensive briefing, no fisa, donald trump gets a fisa, no briefing, and three and half years of pain

and suffering to his campaign on presidency. these documents are extraordinary. they were kept from the american public and the congress, as president trump said today when he declassified the documents. >> sean: this is the tip of the iceberg. we are going to have more with john tomorrow night. that is unbelievable, unreal. now tonight, there are g.o.p. senators standing up to the madness being promoted by chuckie schumer and the model, and apparently, mitch mcconnell, but what would be an unconstitutional post presidency impeachment. one thing is for sure, republicans go along, and another one of the democrats schiff shows on ther capital, it would come i think, destroy the g.o.p. for good. here with reaction, south carolina senator lindsey graham. senator, rand paul said it and you'veve been warning people, ad thenne you heard mitch mcconnell today. thoughts? >> well, number one, our country needs to heal, and a second impeachment of donald trump after he leaves office won't heal the country. it will further divide the country. so that is a good reason not to

impeach the president. another good reason, i think, it's unconstitutional to impeach a person who is out of office, that will create never-ending revenge against presidents, particularly former presidents. and as to the republican party, if we throw in the towel, or perceived to having thrown in the towel, and not fighting against this impeachment, the republicanpe party, as rand paul said, will crack up. 90% of republicans, at least, believe a second impeachment of president trump is unconstitutional, unfair, and forward.t go so i'm asking republican leaders in the senate to lead. i like mitch mcconnell. he did more than confirm judges. he really helped president trump with everything that he did. he is a street fighter, legislatively. he is a smart guy. but what we need right now is for senator mcconnell to unequivocally say that the second impeachment of donald trump after he leaves office is not only unconstitutional, it is bad for

the country, and stand up and fight back. >> sean: you've got constitutional scholars, alan dershowitz, people like ted cruz, people like mark levin, the great one, and you are an attorney, yourself. and former judges that sat on the bench for years and years. have all said the same thing. now the question is, the last day of the president in office, what was the point of that, if not to signal that it's okay to do this, and drag the country through yet more hell, and on top of that, you would be validating what the house did with the snap impeachment, as jonathan turley has said, is extraordinarily dangerous. >> if you are an institutionalist, and i consider myself very much an institutionalist, why would he want to legitimize and impeachment inu the house, less than 24 hours, the president did not have a lawyer to defend him

and the witnesses called. that is something we do not want to legitimize in the senate. in terms of the senate's roll in all of this, we have a chance here for the future of the country to say that there is an end to all of this. once the person leaves office, we are not going to pursue them. we are not going to have a scarlet letter impeachment to bar them from running for office. the democrats have one goal here,, and that is to deny president trump the ability to e ever run for office again. that should not be the republican party school. the republican party's goal should be to stand up to unconstitutional impeachment and realize that president trump did a lot of good for the conservative movement. you can be disappointed with the president's behavior, but applaud his actions, and the people who defile the capital, they did that, not me, not donald trump, and that does not represent a 74 million people who stood behind president trumo my republican colleagues in the senate, we have to rise to the occasion. if we don't, we are going to

destroy the party. >> sean: the american peoplepl should decide. if anyone wants to run, they want to let them. that's number one. number two, as it relates to this entire process, it is extraordinarily divisive and dangerous and yes, the main thing come unconstitutional. what, specifically, mitch has to lay out a case, the democrats didn't in their sham snap impeachment. all right, lindsey graham, thank you. coming up, the mainstream media mob can use to trash the first lady. their obsession continues. tell you what grotesque comment was just made about congresswoman elise stefanik. joe concha, mike huckabee react, straight ahead. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> sean: now the mob, the media, they are not just

attacking the president as they have done the last four years. they continue their nonstop, never ending, rage filled, hateful, psychotic rhetoric about the trump family on the first lady. nothing but poised, professional, courteous over the last four years. that is not stopping the mob, who continued their cheap shot smear tactics. here's one small sample. >> folks, this week, it isn't just the president who is leaving the white house, because melania trump is also getting ready to make the transition from first lady to unnumbered dame. ♪ ♪ >> [bleep] you. you suck! wear a mask, you suck! >> colorful characters with their impressions. >> i will miss these two like i missed pms and hot flashes. okay, goodbye! don't let the door hit you feare for the question is, is she as bad as trump? that is people want to know.

is she an active coconspirator? does she agree with him, or is she under duress? i don't know, is she afraid of him? >> sean: not just melania trump and the trump kids and family, as the times union, look at this come under fire tonight, rightly so, after a vicious piece attacking republican congresswoman elise stefanik. she and her husband decided not to have children, like it is any of their business. they released a statement, saying in part, "the times union decision to publish the article is a new low, and wildly inappropriate." the shameful statement is not only inherentlyin shameless, its abusive and heartless. here with traction, joe concha along with former arkansas governor, fox news contributor mike huckabee. you were up early on "fox & friends" earlier, i gave you an a+ for effort.

let me ask you, just in general, the trump kids, the first lady, you know, elise stefanik, really? >> the whole thing is disgusting, but let's keep it in perspective, something. when you resort to the kind of hateful, name-calling, and pettiness that we have seen, it's because people deep in their hearts are jealous of the people they are trying to tear down. they want those people to be pulled down to the level which they deep down feel themselves to be in. melania trump is a lovely lady, and she has been a gracious and graceful for lady, we ought to be grateful for her. elise stefanik, a terrific congresswoman from new york, who is bold and absolutely effective. and the people who criticized the melania trump, elise stefanik, show two things. they are not about women more about gender, they are about hate. and two, they are deeply jealous

because they see in others what they know they can never be themselves. and it reveals a heck of a lot more about i the critic and it does about the criticized. >> sean: we watched this for five years, joe. >> five years, and for people like stephen colbert, who was a distant third place in late night, to mark the first lady in the way that he did, with such hate, to the governor's point, well guess what? and a couple of weeks, stephen colbert is going to actually have to find a way to be a comedian again, because he has turned his show basically into an extension of cnn or msnbc, serving at the pleasure of the democratic party. enough suddenly, with president trump gone, so does the gravy train for him go, and as am result, you're going to e stephen colbert become irrelevant in an awful hurry. but look, melania trump was mocked by the jimmy kimmels of the world. you remember, sean, having an accent. shesh is an immigrant. so now, it's okay to mock

immigrants for their accent? she speaks five languages, four more than kimball speaks. she also once had a kidney surgery, and you had reporters openly wondering, where is t melania trump? after she literally hadhe a procedure on her kidney and was recovering from something like that. this first lady has been treated worse than any first lady inn modern history, by a country mile. was far as elise stefanik, she is 36 years old. at last check in new york, it is not really that big of a deal, or really that much of a newsworthy item, that if you redon't have kids in your mid-30s while you are pursuing a career like she is, i know, in my case, and with my wife, it wasn't until i was in my early 40s until we had our first child. obviously, my wife, much younger, looking much younger, as well, can attest to that. all thing, as far as elise stefanik is concerned, if there

was not a r next to her name, this isn't a story, but she is marked as childish at 36 in new york? i'm sorry, this is why 86% of the american people believe that the media is biased, because they see this crap, and that is what it is. >> sean: well said, both of you. thank you, joe. thank you, mike huckabee. coming up from hillary clinton obsessed with russian collusion. wait until you hear what she said this time. and of course kemal breaking news, yeah, all of the russia hoax, yeah, it was all done by christopher steele to protect her from her email problems. straight ahead. ♪ ♪ hihi if you have risk factors like heart disease, diabetes and raised triglycerides,... ...vascepa can give you something to celebrate. ♪ vascepa, when added to your statin,... ...is clinically proven to provide 25% lower risk from heart attack and stroke. vascepa is clearly different. first and only fda approved.

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♪ ♪ >> sean: hillary clinton still peddling her mother russia

truthers, suggesting a nancy pelosi on a recent podcast, vladimir putin may have known about the capitol hill riots. listen. >> i hope, historically, we will find out who he is beholden to, who pulls his strings. i wouldld love to see his phone records and see whether he was talking to putin the day the insurgents invaded our capital. >> sean: i would like to see your emails, too, that she deleted. hear his reaction, fox news contributorre ari fleischer, author of the upcoming book "never let a crisis go to waste," jason chaffetz. we learned tonight from new documents, christopher steele manufactured the whole thing. she paid for the only russian disinformation. tonight corroborated completely, we are exonerated. >> we live in an era where democrats and the media want to

put qanon with every republican's name and they wante to tar all are republicans of the conspiracy theory, so thank goodness forto hillary clinton's reemergence today to remind everybody thatrg the previous presidential standard-bearer self is the wacko doodle who traffics conspiracy theories. if you really want to get into the conspiracy theory business come every anchor on cnn who touted the steele dossier and collusion, the cnn anchors who touted donald trump for receiving an email alerting her about the wikileaks ahead of time. all of that was conspiracy theory nonsense, and everybody in the mainstream media chased the collusion conspiracy theory. so, i'm against conspiracy theories on all the fringes, and just a reminder, it exists on both fringes. >> sean: what did you o think of that truth tonight, the declassification? that means john durham has known the whole time that steele did this for hillary, and that he did it for political reasons.

>> hillary clinton come up with -- -- >> sean: sorry, jason. >> here hillary clinton come up with this crazy stuff, and part of me thinks she has those funny eyes and she really actually likes donald trump because she has a crush on him. but the more serious jason chaffetz looks at this and i think, you know what, this is all projection.'s it's the reason and the way they operate. she is deflecting from the very fact that she paid millions of dollars to create the fiction, in order to get away from f her emails, and they do this so we don't talk about hunter biden and all of these other scandals that actually have proof and evidence and are real. and the reason she comes up with thison wacky stuff is because se doesn't want us to think aboutec or look at what is really a scandal out there. all of the other medias, fox news andnd sean hannity hada couple of others, they'll take the bait and follow

hillary clinton. only this show and a couple of others actually will show evidence. it's sad but that is where we are, sean. >> sean: last word come ari. >> yeah, i can't wait to see where this ends. i don't think we have heard the last. i think john durham is a serious prosecutor and going about this in a serious way. what a headache it is going to be for the biden justice administration when it comes on under their watch. >> sean: thank youat both. ari, jason chaffetz, congrats on the new book. more "hannity" after this. ♪ ♪

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energy independence, border security. we will stand up for constitutional judges and we will stand up for trade deals,we peace through strength. but with that let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham's last show with donald j. trump as president starts now. >> laura: well, what can you do? everybody is ready to throw in the towel, america is over but how many times have we seen that headline where conservatism, and always the most tedious refrain. i just don't buy into that. there is so many great americans out there. as the president said in his farewell address, he wishes the new administration will come and he hopes he can create prosperity like he did. >> sean: that is why i really didn't like mcconnell today. really, you will go forward with this? >> laura: i don't understand dithat. i don't get it. >> sean: all that will do, it won't be a united party and by