>> tucker: not only the most vicious political group ever but definitely the creepiest, w we can report they are done an they can stop accepting donations. they are history now. sean hannity takes over next >> if you probably want to stay if you want to hang out, -- welcome to hannity. tonight we are tracking multiple . the developing stories. we will bring you the new details surrounding the lincoln project scandal. this story keeps getting worse and worse by the day. a smoking gun email has just revealed showing james comey new hillary clinton's dirty russian disinformation dossier was unverified, yet he signed three fisa applications, now we are certain he signed up on knowing it is not verifiable. john durham, where are you?

also tonight, new york governor cuomo now facing widespread condemnation from both sides of the aisle, but will he be held responsible for his covid nursing home death cover-up? we have a full report straight ahead and also later, very latest run down on the biden administration's radical far left agenda including now coming for your second amendment as we warned you. donald trump jr. will be joining us tonight, dan bongino will be here, but first, this weekend in what could be the least shocking development we told you all last week was predetermined the outcome, the former president donald trump was officially acquitted. take a look. >> the senate having tried donald john trump up one article of impeachment exhibited against him by the house of representatives, two-thirds of the senators present not having found him guilty of the charge contained therein is therefore ordered and adjudged that

donald j. trump is hereby acquitted for the charge in said article. >> sean: let's make one thing clear, other republicans have turned their backs on the former president are way out of touch with the base of their own party. record 75 million americans turned out for donald trump in november and they support him to this very day. take a look right there, see that video, see what's on your screen? a few hours ago spontaneously thousands of people in palm beach lined up in support of the former president as his motorcade traveled through florida. i have a question mitch mcconnell, john thune, how come you never had this kind of enthusiasm at any of your events? take a look. >> usa! usa! usa! usa! usa!

usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! >> sean: voters in this country are smart, not stupid. we can see the snap impeachment was nothing but political theater, no due process, no evidence, no defense, none of it and now finding out it was all preplanned ahead of time and another needless smear that accomplished nothing. it's been five years of this. they've also had it with republicans and democratic swamp creatures, and this is the question the republicans are now going to have to ask themselves tonight. where was john thune and mitch mcconnell fighting against the biggest abuse of power and corruption scandal in our history with operation crossfire hurricane? they were missing in action.

where is the sanctimonious mitch mcconnell, john thune demanding that kamala harris, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, maxine waters, when is he going to give a speech on the senate floor and hold those democrats accountable for their incitement of insurrection and they are insurrection like language? the time is now coming for new leadership in the u.s. senate. will be dealing with that. we will have a lot more in the days to come. there is important work that does need to be done. it's urgent. this was all put on hold because of this political latest show trial in this case first and foremost, what happened on the 6th of january can never happen again. our capital was attacked elected lawmakers in both parties will put in harm's way. that can't ever happen again. all those that broke the law must be held responsible and we need a full investigation into what went wrong. the security was breached within minutes, the capitol police were

overwhelmed prior to the breach the capital police chief requested the national guard and their assistance six separate times, every plea of his was rejected. the president was very vocal about offering his security assistance leading up to january 6th and even ordered 10,000 national guard troops to be on standby and be ready, but they were not called on until it was too late. why did this happen? they knew a massive crowd of hundreds of thousands of people, they knew days before they were descending on washington, they knew the night before they were there, they knew this was an important day in the halls of congress, they knew the vice president and all our elected officials would be inside the capitol building. they knew that violent individuals we now know were plotting and planning and scheming. they were warned the fbi knew about the plots, the planning

the scheming, as did other law enforcement agencies. even congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez claimed she was warned of the attack ahead of time. the person ultimately responsible for security in the house would be nancy pelosi. the sergeant of arms answers to her but instead of getting to the bottom of this massive security failure, no, the speaker just rushed through yet another snap impeachment, no due process, no presumption of innocence, no defense, having a no facts and no investigation and recently, she didn't even want to answer questions about this massive post-9/11 security failure she called a waste of time. take a look. >> as far as the impeachment trial is concerned senator graham said that if the democrats call any witness that they will be prepared to call in the fbi and "tell us about people who planned this attack and what happened with the security footprint at the capitol. what's your response to that? >> your question is a waste of

time. >> sean: protecting our institutions and protecting elected officials from both sides of the aisle is not a waste of time and now that the impeachment charade is over having never investigated a thing, pelosi is now finally ordering a full-scale investigation. i'm sure it will focus only on donald trump. the reason for the delay is obvious, nancy pelosi knew any serious investigation would clear president trump and there is a mountain of evidence that all of this was preplanned and the multiple serious warnings were missed or ignored, it can't happen. clearly january 6th, those remarks could not have incited insurrection if the attack was organized well before january 6th, which we now know from court documents, the fbi and so many others. so the political schiff show charade is out of the way

pelosi can finally get on with the business of protecting every elected official and our house the people's house. make no mistake, this is swamp sewer politics at its worst. even republicans like mitch mcconnell and others meanwhile this failed snap impeachment also sets a dangerous new precedent. donald trump can be impeached for political speech where he urged supporters to fight like. there's a ten minute montage during the trial, david schoen will show us, aired out for all of us to see in many of you will now peacefully so your voices will be heard senator lindsey graham explained, now pandora's box has been wide open. let's see if republicans will hold democrats to the new standard. take a look. >> we've opened pandora's box to future presidents and if you use this model, i don't know how kamala harris doesn't get

impeached if the republicans take over the house because she actually bailed out rioters and they went back to the streets and broke somebody's head open. so we've opened pandora's box and i'm sad for the country. >> sean: so are they now going to use the same standard that was used against donald trump on inciting insurrection? there's a long and growing list of democrats who should now qualify for impeachment and impeachment trial, you can start with kamala harris chuck schumer, joe biden, and work your way through the list but of course swamp creatures the media mob will likely never hold democrats to the same standard they held donald trump two. pretty much the history of the last five years. last week, too busy breathlessly cheering on house impeachment managers and it was all nauseating and nobody in this country is better off because of it. meanwhile, the media had no shortage of complaints about the president's legal team and they

delivered an epic beat down with an excellent defense that was put together in about eight days. over the weekend, one of the president's attorneys dealing with the cbs anchor voiced his frustration with the mob during an interview on that network. take a look. >> the media has to start telling the right story in this country. the media is trying to divide this country. you are bloodthirsty for ratings and as such, you're asking questions now that are already set up with a fact pattern. that's the problem, the media has to start living by the truth. and not try to create a narrative. >> michael vanderveen, thank you for joining us. i do appreciate. okay. i see you taking off your microphone now. >> sean: he did. imagine having almost every news outlet in the country rooting against you, every tv show

every article, every headline, every pundit every second, every minute, every hour of every day. that's what this country has lived through, donald trump at his family have lived through the last five years and that is what the president's lawyers faced over the last few weeks and this is what president trump again faced for five years. journalism in this country is dead and buried. we are in the middle of an information crisis in this country and the media is not coming back to life anytime soon. joining us now with reaction, to members of the president's legal team, michael vanderveen and bruce castor are with us. thank you both for being with us. first, let me talk with you about that exchange because you were right, 100% right because the issue was based on they might have altered evidence in some way. rules of evidence in the courtroom were applied to this case, would pat lahey have presided, would any of the

evidence the house managers brought forward, the edited sliced and diced tapes, would any of it had been admissible in a court of law? >> no, it wouldn't have. what we did down in washington was nothing like a trial we normally go through in there was no due process of any kind, no fair exchange of any information of any kind, and there was suspect treatment of the evidence that as being presented. > sean: bruce scanner, i learned since the first day what the circumstances were and i was critical of you on this show and my radio show and it turns out i was wrong, you didn't even expect to speak, certain things have happened that led up to you feeling the need to kind of calm the waters after the house managers had said and done things that you thought were over-the-top, so i was wrong and had i known the context, i

wouldn't have made those remarks, so i apologize for that. tell us what was going on. >> actually, we'd prefer that mike do that because he is more articulate about it than i am. i'm still pretty frosted about what happened, and if i may, when the trial started, the first two hours at the house impeachment managers put on their case, they had a lot of hollywood produced type audio and video, and then injected personal loss tragedy and emotion into it. when we left the chamber after the presentation on the break, you could really feel the heat in the room. it was hard to breathe, there was a lot of emotion in the room and bruce called audible on the brakes saying the two hours of jurisdiction was pretty dry and i'm going to go in and the jurisdiction guy caught it back to an hour and a half, going to go in for 30 and cool the

temperature down in the room. the tempo may not have been on 100%, the rhythm wasn't there because it was unexpected he accomplished what they needed to do, cool the temperature down and put the defense forward. the media slammed them all for days after that not having any understanding of what they need to do. trial and adjust. >> sean: you had eight days to prepare for one of the biggest cases you'd ever do in your career, both very successful. bruce cantor, i understand your home was vandalized, also michael vanderveen, your home was vandalized, the word traitor was spray-painted in red on your driveway. what happened to you? bruce castor, sorry. >> there were plenty of internet

trolls and the blog sphere and the twitter universe really rattled on my wife and of course the emails on the constant electronic intrusions. the local police and county detectives where i live and in fact the state attorney general's office all sent people to look after our house while i was away and my wife was in it alone and of course my wife is a pretty tough lady and able to look after herself but what happened to michael is outrageous and there is no greater patriot in this country than michael vanderveen and to be called a traitor is downright outrageous. >> sean: it has to be unsettling that the word traitor literally spray-painted in red on your driveway. welcome to the world of being a conservative talk show host. >> i would imagine. i'll tell you, i'm not a

conservative talk show host, i'm a trial lawyer, and we were hired to put on a defense. in eight days, we did a fantastic job, we focused on the tasks in front of us, knock them out and really put together a solid defense. our defense was rooted in the constitution. we looked at this as defending the constitution, the first amendment, due process and the fifth amendment, the sixth amendment was all in play here and we had strong constitutional defenses, they couldn't rise to meet them, and we won the case. >> our opponents were just flat-out dishonest with the creation of evidence, but what happened at the beginning of the case was based on dishonesty. we had an order from the united states senate saying the first two hours of argument around the issue of jurisdiction. we had prepared a scholarly piece on jurisdiction.

the house managers ignore the instructions from the senate and went down this emotional tirade about a dead child in another child in all of these things that had put us in an awful position and we were unable to use our prepared response, the only thing that was available where my notes for the opening where i was to give the following day which i hadn't typed up yet that i had to utilize out of place in order to bring the temperature down. i didn't want us to be so far behind by the time we got to our case that we couldn't catch up and as you saw after they put on 14 hours of nonsense, we completely eviscerated and destroy their case. >> sean: if the democrats applied the same standards for themselves, then they would all be impeached, all the people that you showed in the videos that you ran, eight days of preparation, won the case congratulations to both of you and thank you.

>> it's interesting, but our position was, and it's right that what we show the democrats saying, we didn't show they were using the same words as mr. trump to say it's to balance his words. all of these words are protected. robust speech between our politicians is protected in this country because we need them to speak robustly. their dialogue, their discussion is about how they're going to govern our lives, our society individual and collective citizens. their speech is protected but what we are saying to everybody as you need to cool the speech down, need to come together and have clearer dialogue about the problems that face this country the real problems, the pandemic the economy, social, racial, and economic equality, education infrastructure. there's so much for these folks in washington to focus on, to

come in the middle and meet and focus on it, but it's broken down. it's broken in washington and these two sides are having difficulty getting over their ideology and focusing on what this country needs. >> we wanted to show the absolute hypocrisy on the other side and until that's shown, the sides can never get back together. >> sean: michael vanderveen bruce castor, thank you so much for being with us. congratulations, thank you. here with more reaction is donald trump jr. i thought the tapes they put together were a devastating -- it was an evisceration even, and if you did apply the same standards that they applied to your father, don, jr., all of them would be impeached and all of them would be put on trial. but i don't expect republican leadership to hold democrats accountable to that standard.

>> republican leadership will do nothing because that's what they do best, nothing. the reality is this, if this was in a kangaroo court, you'd have the republicans clamoring to go after the supposed prosecution for literally manufacturing evidence. imagine any prosecutor in america was caught manufacturing evidence against a witness, that would be a jailable offense. they would be disbarred, thrown out of their positions impeached. that's what should happen here. when there is manufacturing fake blue checkmarks, all of these things for effect because they know they have a media that will cover and run with everything they say regardless of how ridiculous it is, they are used to being able to get away with it and more importantly, used to republicans who don't have the guts to actually ever push back. they sit there and take it when it happens to a republican, when it happens to a democrat, the democrats feel outraged, they go full crazy and they get whatever they want each and every time on that's why this is donald trump's party.

he has taught republicans and conservatives they don't need to be steamrolled, that they can push back, they don't just have to roll over and die because the other side would like them too. that's the difference between donald trump and republican leadership for the last few decades which has done nothing but concede ground to the radical left. >> sean: your dad was out playing golf today and he did release a statement, he's been quiet. obviously, he's been canceled on twitter run run these other social platforms, but also obviously by design because he would be able to speak if he wants and i think for the time being, it's a pretty smart thing to do. did you see thousands of people out of nowhere, nobody organized it that i could see and certainly nobody associated with your father that i know of, do you? >> no. this is totally organic and again, it just shows you that the american people are with donald trump. those millions of people -- i saw it all day.

i put up a separate video events other what you posted earlier on my own social channels in front of mar-a-lago going back and forth on my facebook page thousands of cars flying flags playing music, honking their horns for their president on presidents' day. it was actually an amazing thing to see. it was so heartwarming to see that spirit that we know exist with the american public for someone that they know represents them. fights for them, for their values, for their jobs. i wrote a little book about liberal privilege and all of the things i talked about are exactly the thing that joe biden is doing which is exactly the opposite, crushing american jobs, crushing the blue-collar worker, catering only to the teachers union, they dictate science today, china tells us what we're going to be doing. that billion dollars, that didn't come for free. that was a great return on

investment for the chinese because they know they can get away with it in the political class will say nothing for decades. >> sean: unbelievable. did you have any insight into your data and what is next. he talked about what's next, in his statement that he has a lot to share with people in this country and to continue to make america great in the land of opportunity and hope and the shining city on a hill or as he said, one glorious nation under god, one family, one united family. do you have any insight? >> i spoke to him about it pretty extensively last night and the reality is he is going to push that america first agenda fighting for the american worker. he is going to be pushing for candidates who will do that. not the random establishment guys that have done absolutely nothing and total support from the establishment base, the

people who are going to be good for the american people going to fight, support, make sure those guys get elected and continue doing what my father has done which is bring it from the dead back into real life with people who love this country and are willing to go to bat for her. >> sean: donald trump jr. as always, thank you. david schoen the one who introduced all those amazing tapes, reacting to the acquittal. plus, matt gaetz, jason chaffetz straight ahead. glad you're with us. plus, matt gagagagaga start the year smiling at aspen dental where new starts happen, every day. get exceptional care at every step, unparalleled safety at every visit, and flexible payment options for every budget. now, during the everyday smiles event new patients get a full exam & set of x-rays with no obligation. no insurance? no worries, it's free. plus, now all patients can get 20% off their treatment plan. find every reason to smile.

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all over the weekend, those seem to be the most upset with the mob and the media. here with reaction president trump's attorney, david schoen. i don't know, i thought with all that tapes that you introduced in your commentary around it, it was like art. i'm jealous because some of your montages frankly were a lot better than mine. i'm a little mad. >> that's not true. i learned it from you. you're the man. i have to credit president trump. i have to tell you, every day, i spoke on the phone two or three times a day, it was upbeat. they were as gracious as can be and president trump was as gracious as can be every time i spoke to them and i was glad to be able to do this. >> sean: you've been a longtime friend of the program and that's the biggest stage has

as we were talking to the other attorneys, did not have a lot of time to prepare and able to pull it together but i just happen to know behind-the-scenes. >> i slept about eight hours last week. >> sean: eight hours for the whole week? now you're headed into hannity territory with that. >> that's why you put out such a great product. >> sean: the standard issue when the president says that you're going to fight, going to fight like, that montage went on 10 minutes, where the insurrectionist, how is that there is this huge double standard? >> that's exactly what it is, a double standard and we played this video with every single senator in the united states senate on the democratic side

and every single house manager was there saying the word fight aggressively should a big montage of senator warren doing it and speaking of senator warren, what made them question the dominion voting machines? they got the letter, questioning the integrity of dominion voting machines and that's forgotten. the double standard with everything. so after we played the video i turned to the democratic senators and said everyone of you when the house managers. but it's okay to use the word fight, let's stop the hypocrisy saying that's a terrible insightful word but you can use it with impunity. >> sean: i appreciat it. thanks to all of you when i know you had a whole team of people dan's giving of the tate master and a lot of people out there jason chaffetz pointing out a new column today speaker pelosi is ultimately at the top of the capital police, failed to act in

maine while also learning more about just how much the fbi knew about the fake phony clinton bought and paid for 30 steele dossier because guess what, there's a smoking gun email january 2017 obtained by just the news.com, we know that james comey told the director of national intelligence james clapper the fbi was unable to sufficiently corroborate steele's work. that didn't stop him from signing and using that as the bulk of information to obtain three of the fisa warrants he signed. it says in the top of the fisa application verified. here with reaction, never let a good crisis go to waste, author of the best seller, matt gaetz. let's start with this james comey email. i'll start with you. that is to me john durham, did you see that? that's called a smoking gun email, is it not?

matt gaetz firebrand. >> it appears that way. at times, seems like it's going to be able to contact trace john durham and figure out what he's been up to. not only did our own justice department set up the president on the russia hopes, they did it with rotten information and they knew the information was brought in when they did it. that is premeditated effort to try to dislodge the duly elected president of the united states the viewers are watching wondering why hasn't anyone been held accountable. he dragged us all along and there was this expectation there would be this accountability didn't see it come to fruition deeply disappointing and you know and i know and all the viewers know that there's not going to be any accountability under the fight in justice department because none of the career people there think the way to move up in the biden justice department is to expose the russia hoax and instead going to be targeting the president, his family members and the supporters of the america first movement.

>> sean: you can comment on that but you also have 13 specific questions you want to ask nancy pelosi in an article i saw on foxnews.com, these are all pertinent. who's in charge of security they we now know the capital police chief requested beforehand the national guard, we know the president wanted the national guard on standby. mark meadows was on this program friday saying so. what are the questions she needs to now answer? >> she's been in charge of the security, the sergeant at arms, called for the firing on dismissal of the chief of police, there for the capitol hill police, and that happened as well. but she's been in charge for years. she hasn't learned how to protect herself, members of congress, capital complex, the national guard was ready to go. why didn't those things happen. on february 1st, the former chief of police sent

a letter to the speaker and others saying these are the things that i saw him when i saw them and the speakers running out of excuses. why? she has surrounded the united states capital with a fence and a wall, but at the same time, biden and the administration is getting rid of the wall on the southern border where there's actually incursions happening. there is no ongoing threat now so there are 13 questions and there are more. i know congressman davis congressman jordan have sent a letter. she needs to answer those questions as well. >> sean: would you ever consider running against mitt romney in a primary in utah? >> yeah, i would. >> sean: matt gaetz, would you endorse jason chaffetz? >> i would be for or against jason, whatever would help him more in utah, but there's 14 questions i have. >> sean: same for me. >> i have dedicated, don't get

me wrong. i thought about that. >> i want to know exactly what happened to the death of brian signet, has more surveillance than a casino and you're telling me we don't have any video evidence of what exactly happened to cause that murder? i want to know, are the murderers in custody? if they're not, what other information do we know about them? this is supposed to be the top priority of the justice department and i don't think we have answers in the letter sent my republican colleagues will let us know but let me caution against -- i don't want to give the democrats in any more of a basis to be able to have this forever occupation of washington, d.c. jason's right. we have a capital city wrapped in barbed wire, crisscrossed in barricades and is not what our country deserves. let's not helped nancy pelosi

and that democrats. >> sean: more scandals about the lincoln project coming to light tonight, our own trace gallagher has the latest. also andrew cuomo is on defense trying to spin the new report about the covid nursing home deaths. was it obstruction? he now has more democrats more angry than republicans against him. straight ahead. rats more angry than republicans against him. straight ahead >> man: what's my safelite story? i spend a lot of time in 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. ♪

>> sean: tonight, learning more details about the apparent corruption inside the anti-trump lincoln project as a new report reveals tens of millions of dollars raised went directly to firms run by the cofounders good here to explain more, chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher. >> most of the information

involving the lincoln project is available through open records data, which has been reviewed thoroughly by fox news, and shows since the anti-trump super pac was founded, the lincoln project raising roughly $90 million. as a rule, super pac spent the majority of their funding on advertising and records show the lincoln project did spend $27 million on ads attacking president trump, but the lion's share of the $90 million went to consulting firms that were controlled by the founders of the lincoln project including $27 million by a founding member reid galen and $21 million paid to affirm operated by lincoln project member. on top of that, tens of millions of dollars also went toward production costs and consulting fees. the super pac which is also accused of covering up sexual harassment allegations against cofounder john weaver says it will fully open its

books as soon as the trump campaign and affiliated super pacs open up theirs. >> sean: trace gallagher. we did reach out to the lincoln project for comment, also growing bipartisan calls to strip failed new york governor andrew cuomo is covid emergency powers talking a possible removal from office amid what is now a full-blown nursing home death cover. refusing to take responsibility for his actions calling the march order a distortion. take a look. >> there is much distortion around what's called department of health memo on march 25th covid did not get into the nursing homes by people coming from hospitals. covid got into the nursing homes by staff walking into the nursing home.

covid may have been brought into a nursing home because visitors brought it in. the void we created by not providing information was filled with skepticism and cynicism and conspiracy theories which furthered the confusion. >> sean: blaming staff visitors, nursing homes, and when all else fails, blame trump everyone but yourself, not exactly leadership. i don't think governor cuomo intentionally tried to cause any of this pain and what he did is still inexcusable and hiding the truth about it as the whistle-blower who works for him told the world, that's a bigger problem. instead of using the field hospitals at the javits center, the navy hospital ship which donald trump and his administration built, manned and operated, put sick patients back into nursing homes, didn't have to be this way and that's the worst part of all of this.

if you can't do better next time if he won't admit what you did wrong. here with a reaction, former acting director of national intelligence ric grenell along with former lieutenant governor betsy mccoy. >> i always think that -- i went to pick up on your comment because i think it's really important to say covid has been a disaster for so many leaders and i think it's okay to say we were trying our best, but what's happened with governor cuomo is a cover-up. he hasn't been transparent, and so i think what the public now wants to know is what's the real truth? you said one thing, then you set another, and we've had this area where we didn't know what was going on. area where we didn't know what so he can clear this up. he can just become transparent. he couldn't give us the memos he's talking about. he can have his staff brief. if we are not trying to play monday morning quarterback but

what we are here for is transparency and to stop a cover-up because that's what's happening. >> sean: did the governor tell the truth today? >> absolutely not, one lie after another and as on the phone and communicated via email with his health department since last march when the scandal began, it was clearly a cover-up. after that march 25th mandate the death toll soared in one nursing home, patients died so quickly that the home had to leave deceased patients in their beds for several days next to their living roommates. but to cover up the rapidly increasing death toll, the state health department finagled the numbers, manipulated the figures, stopped counting the deaths of nursing home patients who died after being sent back to the hospital and andrew cuomo kept insisting in his press conferences that new york had fewer deaths in nursing homes

than other states which was a big lie! all summer long he continued with that big lie, and finally even the democrats in the state admit that andrew cuomo should have his emergency powers stripped from him this week. he should no longer be able to close businesses by himself close schools, ruin people's lives. new york is the worst state. >> sean: i'll give you the last 30 seconds. >> i always think that politicians don't understand that they can't control the situation. something nefarious has been done and what we need to do is call for transparency, everyone needs to calm down and get to the bottom of it, but the governor must be transparent. we have to have politicians who are willing to come forward and present the information. >> sean: the whistle-blower said they did it to avoid giving department of justice the real numbers. that might be in the legal arena.

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>> sean: i wish our warnings were wrong. they're not. joe biden appears to be moving forward with his anti-second amendment agenda tonight putting out a statement over the weekend calling to ban so-called assault weapons, high capacity magazines among other policy objections. here with reaction, fox news contributor dan bongino. it doesn't surprise us. based on what i read and my interpretation, sounds like they

want to ban anything that would be described as a semiautomatic weapon. not even really knowing probably what it is. >> yeah, you know, i debated a liberal hack politician in maryland, the attorney general. he won his race. i asked him to define for me what an assault weapon was. watching this buffoon and bumble and stumble and explain how things that look scary are assault weapons. i said well, that is an interesting categorization. you're a lawyer, right? you have any other facts there? what else? you have any characterics of the firearm? they don't know anything. take this to heart, folks. liberalism is the cancer on the rump of america right now. when liberals tell you something they will probably destroy your life and make you less safe, damn well listen.

they told you they want to defund the police. ask minneapolis what is happening. they tell you they want to take your firearms. joe biden said bingo. you better listen. i'm glad you said that, sean. it's not like they didn't warn us. i don't know why people didn't believe them. >> sean: taxes will go up. regulations. we see the tens of thousands of jobs now evaporating before our eyes in the energy sector. and by the way, wind turbines are freezing in texas, i understand, with the cold snap there. not particularly good if you don't have other means of energy. the life blood of the world's economy. >> yeah, they're going after other pipelines, too. embolden by firing 11,000 people involved in keystone, they're going after others. if your voted for liberalism, you want to lose your jobs? you didn't believe them? if they take the cops away, god

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>> sean: all right. unfortunately that's all the time we have. as always, we thank you for joining us. we can't do this without you. a lot of people hate us and want us off the air. too many of them. we hope you set your dvr so you never miss an episode. we'll always be independent. we do our own work and research

and we usually get it right. they usually get it wrong. it's sad. meantime, let not your heart be troubled. why? laura ingraham standing by to take it away. >> laura: i loved your lawyers. i liked your interviews with a the lawyers. i have to say, i was very impressed as the close-out happened. because they took the fancy pants ivy leaguers to town. so i loved it. i thought -- i love it. you had the junk yard dogs come in. i mean that positively. great. >> sean: we criticized the -- that guy wasn't supposed to speak on that that day. turned out, a couple of other things happened that threw everything off. >> laura: i know. it's easy to criticize. >> sean: only eight days to prepare. >> laura: no, it was -- i