♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity." tonight, we have breaking news on numerous big stories. new york governor cuomo in big trouble after a bombshell new report revealed that cuomo attempted a cover-up, the nursing home death toll related to his disastrous covid-19 policy. some are now calling for cuomo to be prosecuted for obstruction, even have fake news cnn fake jake tapper, he's actually covering with scandal, tweeting today, "the story keeps getting worse for andrew cuomo." we are going to update you on more with this developing story and give the latest from the multiple scandals now rocking the anti-trump lincoln project. now in complete meltdown mode. meghan mccain, wow, unleashed

brutal tweets tonight. one of their cofounders, steve schmidt, just resigned in disgrace. but first, the democrats snap impeachment charade sham, it just faced its day of reckoning. finally, the president's legal defense team, they completely eviscerated all of the democrats paper-thin arguments, all of which were, as we told you, unconstitutional. none of which meet any real legal standard that would ever hold up in any court. no rules of evidence matter in any way, shape, matter, or form, and to add to that, they are editing, slicing, dicing, and then purposely ignoring all damaging, exculpatory evidence, and presided over by a judge who already declared trump guilty. wow. this is the united states of america. that's a kangaroo court.

the house managers, they were eviscerated on their argument over incitement. their favorite word, insurrection. they were eviscerated on their argument of the constitution. the president's defense team exposed to managers' manufactured, selective editing, and expose the democrats rampant hypocrisy. it was a humiliating, total, complete beat down. now the defense team started today by showing how the impeachment managers actually had to manipulate and did manipulate the president's january 6th remarks. watch for yourself. >> we are going to walk down, and i will be there with you. we are going to walk down -- we are going to walk down to the capitol. we are going to walk down to the capitol. and we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we are probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.

because you'll never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength, and you have to be strong. we have come to demand that congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated. lawfully slated. i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building. to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. >> sean: now, as you could see, not only did the democrats selectively edit the president's speech, they also manipulated key evidence, pieces of evidence, and they frequently relied on, guess what, well, their best friend, sketchy news reports and rumor to make their case. i would never fly in any court of law. take a look. >> according to those around

him, at the time -- >> reportedly responded -- >> trump reportedly reports. >> cross major news networks, including fox news, reported -- >> reportedly -- >> reportedly not accidental. >> according to reports -- >> spoke to the guard. >> according to reports. >> reportedly. >> sean: this is why, as jonathan turley warned the country, you do not do snap impeachments. this is why you actually need real time that you've got to take so you can gather real evidence, so you can conduct thorough investigations, allow due process, and even, oh, the thought of it, allow for a defense. now the democrats case rests on two incredibly flawed and extremely weak arguments. now the first, that the president said "fight like hell" and those words are unacceptable, and they incited

an insurrection on january 6 from the president's rally. as the president's lawyers rightly pointed out today, in what became a ten minute straight montage showing democrats themselves frequently using this phrase, "fight like hell" or "fight, fight, fight" in front of their own supporters. hypocrisy on display. take a look. >> we can find or we can fight back. i am here to fight back. i am here to fight back! >> but we are going to make sure that this fight does not end tonight. >> this is a fight for our lives. >> i will fight like hell to fight back against anyone. >> we need to say loud and clear that we are ready to fight. >> a bare knuckles fight. >> now they are going to have to actually fight back. >> we are going to fight back, not just take this lying down.

>> what we have to do right now as fight as hard as we can. >> we have to rise up and fight back. >> continue to fight. >> this is going to be a fight. >> we will fight him and challenge him anyway we can. >> this is our fight right now. >> there's a fight -- >> there's the fight -- >> then there's the fight to defend. >> just have to say this is a fight for our country. >> sean: so based on the democrats definition, all of them were inciting insurrection. if that's what you believe, every democrat would be guilty by their own standard. what is their standard? and what about their violent rhetoric? doesn't count as incitement to insurrection? as as always on the show, we will let you decide. take a look. >> an uprising. maybe there will be. >> there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there is unrest in our lives. >> we have to be ready to throw a punch. >> donald trump, i think you

need to go back and punch him in the face. >> i thought they should've punched him in the face. >> punching him. >> i would like to take him behind the gym and fight him. >> if i were in high school, i would take the gym and beat the hell out of him. >> if i were in high school, i would take in behind the gym. >> take them out now. >> when was the last time an actor assassinated a president. >> anymore, anywhere. >> i thought an awful lot about blowing up the white house. >> get in the face of the congresspeople. >> i want to tell you, gorsuch, i want to tell you, kavanaugh, you have released a whirlwind, and he will pay the price. >> sean: "you will pay the price!" okay, as you all know now, it wasn't just democrats spewing violent rhetoric, but their pals and allies, their press offices in the media mob.

2019, "the washington post," jennifer rubin calling the republican party, calling for it to be burned to the ground. "we have to level them because if there are survivors, if there are people who weathered the storm, they will do it again." after years of this type of rhetoric, there was a wave of far left political violence. we all watched it with sadness and horror all summer. most democrats, the media, completely silent, in complete denial. the silence was deafening. the lack of just counting reality before their very eyes. one year of riots, the democrats, the media mob, oh, now finally, they are telling you they care about rioting. well, we should all condemn, this shouldn't be political, all these riots, any violence, whatever it takes place, and yes, every conservative condemned what happened at the capitol. in fact, in many cases, you had democrats actually encouraging

this summers riots. watch for yourself. >> they are not going to stop, and everyone be aware. >> some of the damage people will be waking up to. >> i'm proud of new york, and i'm proud of the protests. >> there is damage everywhere you look. honestly, it looks like a war zone. >> heartwarming to see so many people turn out peacefully. >> they keep doing it day after day after day. a nation of protests. the patriots were protesters. >> st. john's church is on fire. >> i hope someone burns down your whole precinct with all of you all inside. >> not generally speaking unruly.

>> sean: this summer, the vice president of the united states kamala harris even promoted the bail fund for rioters arrested, so they could get back out and join their friends, i guess. can you imagine if president trump ever did this. senator lindsey graham raised a powerful question earlier today. take a look. >> does a politician raising bail for rioters encourage more rioting? >> counsel has 5 minutes. >> yes. >> sean: if donald trump incited violence and insurrection, then so did pretty much every democrat in this country, especially vice president harris, and if the democratic managers, if they applied their same standards to kamala harris and other democrats, they should all be impeached and they should all be

tried, including joe biden. the guy that wants to take trump to the back of the gym, then president, and beat the hell out on the president of the united states. is that not incitement to insurrection? now, so are their claims about the president's rhetoric, the same thing. they want you to believe his statements about election irregularities and voter fraud, that it caused violence on january 6th. you know, when he said many of you will march to the capitol peacefully and patriotically so your voices can be heard? but if that is the case, well, please democrats, are they going to be impeached? are we going to put senator john thune, are we going to put them on trial, should they be censored, too? take a look. >> if stacey abrams not win in georgia, he stole it, it's clear. i say that publicly, it's clear. >> you can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee. and you can have the election stolen from you.

>> he knows he is an illegitimate president. >> he knows, he knows that there were a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out the way it did. >> votes remain to be counted. there are voices that are waiting to be heard. >> and i will not concede. >> i respect where you are coming from and i respect the issues you are raising. you are not answering the question. >> i am -- >> you are not using the word legitimate. >> there are still legitimate concerns over the integrity of our elections and of ensuring the principle of one person, one vote. >> sean: today's presentation was so compelling, so damning, the democrats were forced to return to their favorite smear, they accuse the president legal team of racism and sexism. yep, take a look. >> the defense counsel put a lot of videos out in their -- in their defense. playing clip after clip of black women talking about fighting for a cause or an issue or a policy. it was not lost on me, so many

of them were people of color, and women, black women. black women like myself, who are sick and tired of being sick and tired for our children. this summer, things happened that were violent. but there were also things that gave some of us black women great comfort. >> sean: often, when democrats turned to identity politics, kind of means they lost the argument. earlier today, here is what senator ron johnson had to say, take a look. >> i think the president's lawyers blew the house manager's case of the water. they legally eviscerated them. i think their arguments, when they show the distortion of the tweets, the selected editing, show the reason why due process is important. and it certainly proved that the

first amendment applies to political speech, probably more than anything. so yeah, i think the president's lawyers just blew the house manager case out of the water. >> sean: as you can imagine, the media, the mob, was not taking today's evisceration very well. in fact, they were so upset by the facts of the case amid a multitude of complaints they decided even to attack yours truly. how did my name get brought up in this little event? >> while titillating and surely satisfying to viewers of right-wing media, none of it defended the tragic consequence of donald trump speech. >> i hope and trust you have never used the word fight in a live report, as you will be part of the afternoon montage. >> this presentation is very partisan. it was a sean hannity mix tape. >> almost literally. >> what we saw to me was a preview of "hannity" tonight, and it really did seem to be trying to make this as much of a partisan process as possible.

>> because long video clips, so many of them that we have seen, you know, "hannity" and other shows on fox. >> and the video presentation, gratuitous, over-the-top, repetitive about democrats using the word "fight," was that meant to do? number one, make the client happy. >> sean: the truth that they won't tell. their audiences today, probably many of them, seeing their own words in the media, and the democrats, oh, incitement to insurrection. that is why this program is independent. this is why we don't rush to judgment. it's why we conduct our own investigations and we provide important context. that is why we got it right and they got it wrong on the russia hoax. the duke lacrosse case, uva, kavanaugh, ferguson, cambridge police, baltimore, the covington high school kids, the media mob got it wrong again and again. they rush to judgment on get it wrong. they do it every day. every time, we were right, they were wrong, every single time. that's the same going to this snap impeachment.

this comes onto three facts. one, senate has no jurisdiction over a private u.s. citizen and cannot remove president trump from an office he does not hold. two, according to the fbi and doj, court documents, aoc, and even the fake news media outlets, the attack on january 6th was preplanned. the president's remarks, therefore, did not incite an insurrection. that was planned ahead of time. now, a small percentage, maybe 1%, of rally attendees sadly participate? yep, and they will all be held accountable. and three, if the word like "fight like hell" and "election challenge" is not grounds for impeachment, than the democratic party are in a lot of trouble. the snap impeachment schiff show charade will be over, the president will be acquitted as he should be, and in the coming months, democrats will be forced to answer for their own conduct. the height of a pandemic, millions out of work, millions more suffering, democrats chose a political show trial as their number one priority.

in the midterms, i hope you remember that. you now need to know this, as well. to vote raskin and swalwell and warren and pretty much every other democrat, schumer and joe and kamala and pelosi, fight like hell. as part republican senators like senator john thune, reportedly open to continuing this charade with a censure of the former president, any republican that votes to keep validating and legitimizing this madness while never, ever, john thune, having the courage to ever apply these exact same standards to your colleagues on the democratic side, he would need to be primaried, and when did john thune ever lift a finger to help expose the russia collusion hoax? i don't remember. anyway, any republican, you are

going to apply these standards, any more of this, to donald trump, apply it to joe, kamala, chuck, maxine waters, nancy pelosi, and every other insurrectionist and violence-setting democrat. joining us now with reaction, host of the podcast, harvard law professor, alan dershowitz. you had terrible remarks per day 1, for the president's team. how would you rate it? >> a+. a+ today. they understood what most lawyers don't know what to do, when you are ahead, sit down and shut up. they kept it short and to the point, made the most important point in response to a question, told senators that even though the senate voted that they had jurisdiction, you who voted that there was no jurisdiction can still vote to acquit based on a lack of jurisdiction. that is what happened in the belknap case. you should do it now. it does not matter how you get to the acquittal.

you can do it on jurisdictional grounds, you can do it on first amendment grounds, you can do it on due process grounds, the goal of these lawyers today was not to lose, not to lose more than the six republicans they may already have lost, and they did a masterful job in narrowing the issues, making the senators focus on it, and i think it was a winning argument. i think they redeem themselves. >> sean: professor, you do not give it a+s easily. i know that for a fact. both secretary of state pompeo and ted cruz were your students. you do not give out many a. i never heard you give an a+. all right, let me ask this last question, because it is important. you are a democrat, intellectual honesty test here, okay, if they are going to define the presidents language as inciting insurrection, doesn't it apply to all the tapes we saw and heard, that we have been playing, that they played today? >> yeah. it applies certainly to some of them, where they say we will have to fight on the streets, where they say punch in the

mouth, it doesn't apply where they say we are going to fight, we are going to fight. look, all of that is protected. we have a very big risk -- vigorous first amendment. you can advocate. you can assert. you can provoke. you just can't incite, and it can't be incitement if you said "peacefully" and "patriotically," "to have your voices heard." i think those are the most important words in this whole mess. so i do think we are going to see an acquittal. this is going to go down in history as a terrible, terrible abuse of the constitution. the democrats put themselves above the law by putting a private citizen on trial and putting him on trial for making speech is protected by the first amendment. >> sean: well said. >> there is an acquittal, at least it will minimize the damage done, but already, there has been a lot of damage done to our constitution and to the divisions in our country. >> sean: all right, well said, professor. joining us with more, former white house chief of staff. i don't know, when jordan and nunes got the medal, i was was

like, what about my buddy, mark meadows? >> they deserved it. >> sean: so did you. but go ahead, get your general thoughts. i thought it was a beat down. >> obviously, president trump's team did a great job today, but more importantly than that, what we got to see on display was the double standard. it was a standard by the democrats trying to put forth, twist the evidence, twist the facts, and really put forth a narrative that was not accurate, and in doing so, they came face-to-face with hypocrisy and a double standard they had to face. let's look at it this way, sean. this was the democrat house managers saying that they didn't like donald trump, they didn't vote for donald trump, but more importantly, they don't like the 74, almost 75 million people that voted for donald trump, and

it was that disdain that we saw over the last couple of days. hopefully tomorrow, we go to a vote and to an acquittal for president donald trump. >> sean: i watched you, and i've known you for many years, and you are one of the most dishonest men i've ever meant. you are a man of a integrity and honesty and faith. i have watched you called a liar on other networks today. my blood boils, i get a little mad and sometimes, i'm watching that, and it was related to the fact, whether the president delayed sending national guard troops. did he ask for troops before the 6th, that day, and what time? >> yeah, two days before that. everybody can do that. i think secretary of defense miller will be glad to back me up on this. but more importantly, democrat governors and democrat mayors throughout the summer, they can back me up on it because i made personal phone calls to them

every time that there was not only violence there, the president was swift to call and say we want to offer help, but he offered help on this particular day, more than 48 hours before. i can tell you, when i got the phone call -- i didn't ever get a phone call from speaker pelosi, but from mayor bowser, the answer was immediate and yes, and that is what we focused on, and so again, another false narrative by some of the democrat house managers to suggest anything other than a very deliberate and quick action on the part of president trump. >> sean: if there's any republicans now that are not going to apply the same standards to people that we played tape of, using

insurrectionist language, their definition of it, anyway, i have no use for them. i'm not even a registered republican. john thune, we'll consider -- are you going to consider center of kamala harris and joe biden and chuck schumer threatening supreme court justices? we've got 30 seconds. >> well, i think the real key here is we need to get back to the main thing, which are the people across america, and support them. but more importantly than that, is this is not a time to try to look at free speech and suggest that it needs to be punitive and be met with vengeance. it's time to move on, and hopefully will do that tomorrow. >> sean: yeah, let's see if joe biden really meant it when he said "i'm for unity." it would be nice if he said "as time now to govern the country." he still has the trump vaccine to distribute. they are not doing too good a job and a lot of states. congressman, chief, thanks for being with us. all right, now despite his promise to fire members of his staff who disrespected others, biden is giving his deputy press secretary a pass after he threatened a reporter in the

media mob, absolutely melting down over impeachment today, oh, they tried to come in for the save, and it didn't work, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the services of the post office plus ups only cheaper get our special tv offer

a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. >> man: what's my safelite story? a 4-week trial plus i spend a lot of time a digitalin my truck. it's my livelihood. ♪ rock music ♪ >> man: so i'm not taking any chances when something happens to it. so when my windshield cracked... my friend recommended safelite autoglass. they came right to me, with expert service where i needed it. ♪ rock music ♪

>> man: that's service i can trust... no matter what i'm hauling. right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ these are real people, not actors, who've got their eczema under control. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. dupixent is a biologic, and not a cream or steroid. many people taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin, and, had significantly less itch. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. if you take asthma medicines, don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. so help heal your skin from within,

and talk to your eczema specialist about dupixent. if your financial situation has changed, we may be able to help.

♪ ♪ >> sean: now after team trump completely devastated the democrats impeachment case today, the mob, the media, they went into complete damage control. we have the tape. but first, we are also learning some troubling revelations about abuse of behavior from a white house deputy press secretary named tj ducklo. apparently launched into a vicious tirade against a "politico" journalist who was working on a story about his relationship with some reporter. reportedly screamed at a "politico" reporter, tara palmeri, saying, "i will destroyy you."

i think that was on the war room tape with george stephanopoulos, "you will never work here again." before accusing her of being jealous of his relationship while using other abusive language. it's about hypocrisy, double standards, outright lies. that is undeniable, and of course, no one knows more about double standards than fake news cnn on defense tonight after another democratic lead show trial crumbled on capitol hill. cnn trying to claim otherwise. of course. we can't admit the truth, got to perpetuate a the russia hoax still. take a look. >> i have never seen a set of lawyers so outmatched than the trump defense attorneys. >> the lawyers that he deserved, and probably the only lawyers, at this point, that he could find. >> they deflected, they mistook belligerence for actual substance. >> but if you watch the president's defense today, the president got the defense that he wanted.d.

it was full of lies, it was full of anger, it was taking things out of context, it was attacking democrats and not a answering ay specific question. t >> sean: oh, and as usual, they live in their alternative universe. joining us with reaction right now, fox news contributor and media columnist from "the hill" joe concha along with fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. will give it to you first, gregg is jumping at the bit on the legal side. >> sure he is. on the media front, we could tackle tj ducklo in terms of what happened in terms of him threatening thatis reporter, tara palmeri, a good reporter, by the way, the most sexist terms you could come of that i can't even repeat on the air, as you mentioned before, saying he would destroy her as well, let me give you the quote, and this is why it is controversial right now, from joe biden, january 20th, "i am not joking when i say this, he says. if you're ever working with me

and i hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, i will fire you on the spot. , spot, no if's and's or. you break my rules, and you were gone, right? as we are seeing during the biden administration and during his presidency, mr. biden's words and deeds are two very different things. for instance, okay, they're going to reopen schools and 100 days. actually, that means we are going to reopen schools one day a week. or you show disrespect to a female reporter, i said i would fire you on the spot but what he really means is you get a one-week vacation and we call it a suspension. tj ducklo should be uploading and updating his linked in account right now, but instead, he's going to be gone for a week, nothing happens to him, and joe biden again is not backing up his words with deeds, not using the type of action that we would like to see in these situations because this

was disrespectful. he has his rules, mr. biden does, and he does not apply them. in this case, he filled his first test, sean. >> sean: the promise of unity -- we will see if joe comes out on monday and says the trial is behind us, let's move on. i will tell america tonight, do not hold your breath. i do not think he has the courage to stand up to the radical base of the democratic party. gregg, you've been doing phenomenal analysis day after day. your thoughts about today? >> well, of course, sean, an extraordinary, one hour, the defense team for donald trump utterly and thoroughly destroyed and demolished the housers managers case. this thing was over in less than an hour. they could have just resteds their case. but what was so brilliant about the defense, they beat the prosecutors at theire own game. they effectively used lots of videotape to exonerate donald trump, and they exposed the complicity and dishonesty of the house managers come accuse the managers of manipulating evidence, and then they proved it.

the accused the managers of doctoring a trump tweet, and then they proved it, and they proved also that managers hadls cleverly manipulated and engineered evidence via videotape and turned it from exculpatory evidence into incriminating evidence. if this were a real court of law in front of a real judge, those house managers would have been held in criminal contempt, the case immediately dismissed. with the rank hypocrisy of democrats was on full display today.ed you played some of the clips. every single house manager used the exact same language that the accused trump of using and inciting violence. they showed democratic senators doing that. kamala harris, up to 70 times, using the exact same language. so you know, to use boxing terminology, this was a ko, 3030 seconds into the first round.

>> sean: wow. okay, great acknowledge analysis. joe, thank you. gregg, thank you. just ahead, a growing scandal and growing calls tonight for new york governor andrew cuomo to be criminally prosecuted ovek his covid nursing home death scandal. gavin newsom now facing a recall effort. our own lawrence jones in new york, speaking directly with families affected, plus congresswoman elise stefanik is here with reaction. she wants the governor out. straight ahead. ♪ ♪ but your first treatment could be a chemo-free combination of two immunotherapies that works differently. it could mean a chance to live longer. opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread and that tests positive for pd-l1 and does not have an abnormal egfr or alk gene. opdivo plus yervoy is the first and only fda-approved combination of two immunotherapies

opdivo plus yervoy equals... a chance for more starry nights. more sparkly days. more big notes. more small treasures. more family dinners. more private desserts. opdivo and yervoy can cause your immune system to attack healthy parts of your body during and after treatment. these problems can be severe and lead to death. see your doctor right away if you have a cough; chest pain; shortness of breath; irregular heartbeat; diarrhea; constipation; severe stomach pain, nausea or vomiting; dizziness; fainting; eye problems; extreme tiredness; changes in appetite, thirst or urine; rash; itching; confusion; memory problems; muscle pain or weakness; joint pain; flushing; or fever. these are not all the possible side effects. problems can occur at the same time and some more often when opdivo is used with yervoy. tell your doctor about all medical conditions including immune or nervous system problems, if you've had or plan to have an organ or stem cell transplant, or received chest radiation. here's to a chance for more horizons. a chance to live longer. ask your doctor about chemo-free opdivo plus yervoy.

thank you to all involved in our clinical trials. we need to reduce plastic waste in the environment. that's why at america's beverage companies, our bottles are made to be re-made. not all plastic is the same. we're carefully designing our bottles to be one hundred percent recyclable, including the caps. they're collected and separated from other plastics, so they can be turned back into material that we use to make new bottles. that completes the circle, and reduces plastic waste. please help us get every bottle back.

♪ ♪ >> sean: tonight, new york governor andrew cuomo and his team are in full on damage control after it was revealedaf that they intentionally misled

officials about the extent of covid nursing home death to avoid the scrutiny of federal investigators, and even fellow democrats are now coming to terms with this reality, you have now in new york, a group oi democratic state senators demanding friday that governor cuomo be stripped of his emergency authority to deal with the virus. now we sent our own lawrence jones to talk to a family, one of many, as a matter of fact, maybe as many as 15,000, lost a loved one in a new york nursing home, and get their reaction to this new development. lawrence, l.j., how are you? >> good evening, sean. new york governor andrew cuomo received a lot of praise during the pandemic for his press conferences, he even received an emmy. now under fire after reports of his covid-19 were nursing home numbers. i talked with one of the families. here is what she had to say. is your mother-in-law concerned when they were bringing those patient into the nursing home? did she want to be moved, or what took place when she started to see that happen?

>> she was absolutely in tears,o crying on the phone to me and my husband every night saying "i'm going to die, i'm going to die." >> how did it make you feel when your mother-in-law expressed that there were covid patients in the nursing home, and no one did anything about it? >> very sad, very angry, really didn't even get to say goodbye to her, we weren't able to have a proper funeral. >> who do you hold responsible for your mother-in-law's death? >> i blame the nursing home. i blame cuomo for letting the infected patients come into the nursing home. people dying in the nursing home that my mother-in-law told me, she called me h and my husband saying she was scared. >> should cuomo m resign? >> yes, he should resign. yes, he should impeached. >> if the governor was standing in front of you, what would you say? >> it's a disgrace and he needs to resign.

to lie to all of these families, and makes you wonder what his agenda is. >> sean, legislation was put in place to protect the nursing homes from being sued. there was an investigation by the attorney general. many are asking, will there be a federal investigation? so the governor in his office on the nursing homes can be held accountable. back to you, sean. >> sean: all right, l.j., lawrence, good to see you. earlier today, joe biden met with governor cuomo to discuss vaccines on the virus response. new york in particular having a particularly hard time getting the virus out. i know down in florida, guess what, you can go to your local publix and sign up when itit is turn. pretty easy. apparently not new york, and it's not about the governor's massive nursing home cover-up. so ask yourself, why is the biden white house refusing to condemn this lack of action? hasn't biden said over and over again that he is committed to following science? well, science was right about one thing -- they were wrongha

about a lot, they were right about one thing, that older people, underlying conditions, comorbidities, compromised immune systems, pre-existing conditions, in nursing homes, were the most vulnerable population. that was the case in the beginning. that never changed. the mob and the media, they are pretending like this isn't a full-blown cover-up, barely covering the story. now congresswoman a elise stefak is demanding answers on all of this and demanding prosecution. congresswoman, thank you for being with us. it's sad, maybe asou many as 15,000 families impacted here. i watched the governor. at one point, he had an 87% approval, lashing out at donald trump, who built the hospitals, man for hospitals, converted the hospitals, provided masks, shields, gloves, and everything else, and sent the navy ship. those beds remained empty, and they went into nursing homes.

blaming the nursing homes from wanting money. a lot of excuse making here. >> absolutely. all excuse making. and we heard from that new yorker. we know over 15,000 families in new york have lost loved ones. and i i said from the beginning, sean, this is not just a nursing home scandal, this is a corruption scandal at the highest levels of government of new yorkur state. and the bombshell report this week is that the senior aide of the governor, the secretary to the governor, knowingly withheld and obstructed justice and was going to not provide information, not only to the public, but to the department of justice. that is a federalbl crime. i call for a federal independenu investigation from it a primitive justice, andnd i'm calling on president joe biden to ensure that the department of justice is independent and not swayed by political pressure from governor cuomo. it's a disgrace. the governor should resign. i don't have an expectation that he will, but i think he needs to be prosecuted immediately.

>> sean: okay, now what happens from here? n because look, we know albany, new york, we watched a lot of corruption over the years. why do i have little to no faith in anything getting done? >> well, i think whato has changed, sean, is the fact you have democrats in the state senate, democrats in new york say that they need to rescind the executive authority that the governor has been given over the course of this pandemic. they have been on record saying there needs to be an investigation, calling for an investigation, both at the state and federal levels,d and we need to continue to demand transparency, accountability, and prosecution. when you have a seniormost aide to the governor admitting and releasing a transcript admitting to obstruction of justice, there is literally no excuse that the doj shoulder not pursue this. every american deserves these answers so we can make sure it never happens again, and the governor is held accountable. if you want to join this effort to prosecute the governor, sign up at cuomocorruption.com.he we are going to stand strong, and there's bipartisan i'll try

to stand up forig these familie. >> sean: all right, congresswoman, we need answers. we do. thank you. coming out, anti-trump the lincoln project spiraling out of control, and it's even worse than anyone imagined. the journalist who uncovered it all will join us with more explosive revelations, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ tients using salonpas patch reported reductions in pain severity, using less or a lot less oral pain medicines. and improved quality of life. that's why we recommend salonpas. it's good medicine.

to defend against dark forces attacking your organization, you need to see in the dark. to have the wisdom to understand multiple cyber threats. the precision focus to end attacks instantly. on computers, mobile devices, servers and the cloud. join the world's leading companies in our mission to defend.

cybereason. end cyber attacks. from endpoints to everywhere.

♪ ♪ >> sean: now breaking tonight, the lincoln project, the never-trunk group, continues to spiral out of s control. it's cofounder steve schmidt, you can see there, resigning from the group amid more and more troubling developments surrounding john weaver's alleged sexual exploitation of young men, alleged efforts by the corrupt cofounders to try and hide it from the public,

according to reports, and as we have explained, there is now evidence building members of the project were very well aware that these disturbingha allegations against weaver dating all the way back to the summer, maybe before. involving his attempts to groom and sexually exploit young men. meghan mccain tweetingts tonight, "wow, john weaver, steve schmidt were so despised y by my dad, he made it a point to ban them from his funeral. since 2008, no mccain would have spit on them if they were on fire." oh, ouch. adding that, "i hope anyone who covered up for this never works in politics again." last night,e we read you the lincoln project statement and contacted them again today to see if they had anything to add. they have not gotten back toto . here with more to explain the journalist that first broke the story, author of "no, they arehe not listening," ryan girdusky is with us come along with former

acting director of intelligence, ric grenell. ricker, thank you for being with us. i often talk to never-trumpers. i look at a lot of republicans that hated trump style, and they weren't as conservative as they say someone like me. never took it personally. for them, this was always personal, i thought. >> right, they ran an organization based on accountability. they were going to hold members of the trump administration accountable, and when these accusations against john weaver have emerged and there are three credible stories and two other journalist who sat there and said they knew, they want no accountability whatsoever. justho one second. steve schmidt wrote in his six-page apology today, four pages of which were how he was prayed upon as a 13-year-old, ia feel sorry that happened to o h, i feel sorry that happened to anybody, but he is not holding accountable. he said he had absolutely no idea. that is simply not true.

i have victims who have come to me saying that he knew. you have the article on the 19th. you have the "new york magazine." you haveu associated press. they called a trump hit piece. you have "the new york times." all have reported the same thing.ha they knew, and they didn't care. and if steve schmidt cared so much about these victims, and if it made him feel like he was in that 13-year-old again, being molested, why didn't he say anything when my story broke at january 11th? why did he not say when the story broke on january 11th? when axios broke the story and it was a puff piece where john weaver said every conversation he had was consensual, why doesn't he speak -- the official statement from the lincoln project was at his comment -- when a 14-year-old was involved, that they cared. >> sean: that's a lot to digest. let me go to ric grenell. ryan brought up the issue of doxxing.

okay, the lincoln project when you have a database of trumpea officials and staff and they are going to be held accountable? are you, have you ever been a donald trump supporter? really? stuart stevens, i believe. >> they've been vindictive. they've been nasty. but look, i want to answer ryan's question of why steve schmidt didn't respond. it's the age-old question in washington, d.c., because it's about money. this is an organization that collected $87 million to unseat donald trump, and other republicans.s. they are claiming to be former republicans. they are disgruntled because they didn't get in onic all the consulting fees from the beginning. make no mistake, if donald trump would have hired any of them, they wouldn't have done the lincoln project.

this is the old story of washington: money, money, money. they all got millions of dollars, and i think the big story right now is why aren't the donors topr the lincoln project abandoning them? there was a story today saying that some of them are thinking of possibly not funding them anymore. are you kidding me? this is an organization thatat hated pedophilia, it's outrageous, and every donor should apologize -- >> sean: real quick, ryan, ten seconds, was this underage kids? >> yes. yes, underage kids, absolutely. not many of them, but yes, there were. >> sean: all right, we will continue to watch the report. ric, good to see you. more "hannity" after this. ♪ ♪ report. report. ric,c,c,c,c,

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. celebrate less risk. even for those with family history. ♪ don't take vascepa if you are... ...or become allergic to icosapent ethyl or any inactive ingredient in vascepa. serious side effects may occur like heart rhythm problems and bleeding. heart rhythm problems may occur in more people... ...with persistent cardiovascular risk or who have had them in the past. tell your doctor if you experience an irregular heartbeat or other heart rhythm problems. possible side effects include muscle and joint pain. celebrate less risk. added cardio protection. talk to your doctor about adding protection with vascepa.

these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the services of the post office plus ups only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again.

♪ ♪ >> sean: this is all the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with the spirit we hope you will site or dvr so you never miss an episode of "hannity." if you're in texasve or oklahom, you have a massive storm coming. keep yourself and your family

safe. we will be praying for all of you. a lot to digest from the weekend on monday. we will see you back here onon monday. ♪ ♪ >> i'm laura ingraham this is the ingraham angle, a very busy friday night. terms team turns tingles and in a devastating for fashion. also, as the anti- trump lincoln project crumbles, we expose those who facilitated their rise with glenn greenwald perry joe biden says we will wear masks for the next year even if vaccinated. what is the science a? we told you they were going to do that. t reacts to all that, plus jill and joe's garden of love. what is that? and the upside down hearing goes upside down.