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: welcome to this special edition of hannity, failures of the left. i'm jason in tonight for sean and we begin with our continuing coverage of new york governor andrew cuomo. last year hisfatal and cavalier position caused a massive outbreak. a brand-new study is linking at least a thousand deaths to this policy. according to a report andrew cuomo is under a federal and state investigation for attempting to cover up the true

nursing home death toll. one state assemblyman, a democrat named ron kim, now claims governor cuomo threatened to "destroy him" if he blew the whistle on cuomo's scheme. dozens of others are now coming forward with similar claims. another democratic new york assembly woman tweeted, "my text messages, my dms and my inbox are flooded with cuomo stories," so many people have been bullied, mistreated, or intimidated by him. now, new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is calling for an investigation and let's not lose sight of the worst part of the story. thousands of loved ones are dead because of cuomo's idiotic nursing home policy. but governor andrew cuomo is

unapologetic. watch this. >> i'm not going to let you hurt new yorkers by lying about what happened surrounding the death of a loved one. i see that as my job, and i'm going to do it aggressively but in truth i was not aggressive enough in fighting back against these crazy political theories, and these crazy political opponents. >> keep in mind in the middle of the pandemic, cuomo wrote a book about his wonderful covid-19 response and leadership. he also received an emmy for his heroic work. as it turns out he was acting all along but the liberal media does not care. last night cnn and msnbc devoted their coverage to senator ted cruz's brief overnight trip to mexico, and world news tonight on abc devoted four times the

amount of coverage to the cruise trip. joining us now with reaction is former arkansas governor and fox news contributor and all-around good guy governor mike huckabee, fox news contributor charlie -- thank you for joining us. governor, i want to start with you, governor, because you've been there. you've been in that seat. you've dealt with tough situations but the ego is big in this one with andrew cuomo. what's your take on the situation? >> you know you're in trouble when you're andrew cuomo, a democratic governor of new york and you've got aoc and alec baldwin and members of your own party who smell the water -- smell the blood in the water and they are coming after him. i think cuomo is in big, big trouble because of what he's done and his cover-up which is always equal or worse than the crime. he's bullying has finally caught

up with him and people are no longer pretending that they are afraid of him, and they are speaking out. i think his time is limited. he may finish his term but this is the last thing he'll ever do politically. >> congressman, you used to be in the state assembly before you were in the united states congress. you know a lot of these people and these players. and the quotes we did in the intro, these are from democrats that are jumping on-board here. what's the atmosphere like there in new york? >> people are upset because governor cuomo's tactics are to bully. to be filled with revenge and spite and back stabbing. that's his political tactic. it's been since he first came into office. lets break some stuff down. the nursing home directive, they just had a press conference earlier today, his administration's position is they had to do this deadly nursing home directive because

they were running out of hospital bed space. they had just -- by 50%. the federal government was sending the uss comfort. the javitz center was turned into a hospital. they were building temporary hospitals in other counties in the area. governor cuomo says he didn't have time to put out all of this information that the public was demanding and that the legislature was demanding because he was too busy saving lives. yet he had time to write a book as you just pointed out. he's receiving an emmy for his communication with the public, and, oh, by the way the secretary to the governor, derosa, she just admitted that the reason why they weren't providing this information was because of their concern of being pursued by the department of justice. so we just have to take all of this with a grain of salt. and the other reason, to answer your question is that these democratic state legislators are tired not just with the bullying, but the lies and all the costs of all the lies.

>> yes. charlie, you have a system that basically the right hand person to the governor coming forward and making the allegations, saying she had first hand knowledge of what the governor was doing in not providing the information. >> completely admits that they were -- that they had an extravagant scheme to cover up what they had done. but i still say, you know, from 30,000 feet up, the far worst crime is the cover up by the media. the degree to which the media is treating him like some kind of hero, treated him like some kind of hero from the beginning, and refusing to pursue this story the way they should. we're talking about thousands of people who died, you know, because of a directive he issued, forcing covid patients, highly transmissible infectious covid patients into nursing

homes, into rooms with our most vulnerable people in the country, and i've always believed that voters, you know, in a pandemic, in a crisis like this, voters are going to give you a lot of leeway. the problem is when a politician like governor cuomo decides to politicize this thing and democrats have politicized this from day one, when that's your posture, not only did they politicize it to attack president trump, but they also politicized it to expand their own powers into areas that they never should have authority in, in the first place. if you're going to politicize something like this all of that good will, all of that sort of willingness to sort of give you a path about making a bad mistake goes out the window, and i think -- i agree with governor huckabee. i think his days are numbered. >> you know, governor, it's not just the political p.r. spin that the governor seems to have put on this but the centers for

disease control wants this information because that's how they are assessing who is getting infected. how -- the implications are far beyond the borders of just new york state. >> that's right. >> they certainly are. this is a national problem. it something that every state has to worry about. but i think the big problem is, cuomo is simply unwilling to be accountable for his decisions. the one big difference, you mentioned ted cruz getting all the media attention but there is a big difference. ted cruz did something that wasn't real good, wasn't real smart but he apologized for it. he recognized it wasn't a great idea to go to cancun in the middle of texas' total freeze but he said so. that's something andrew cuomo cannot bring himself to do. his arrogance is so overwhelming that he refuses to say, i was wrong. people will forgive you for being wrong. they will not forgive you for being arrogant and unwilling to

accept responsibility once you have that job. >> yes. i think it's even beyond wrong. i think it was just flat out deception and deceit to have a scheme, to purposefully withhold numbers from the federal government, from the state lawmakers, that wanted this information. that's devastating because that was not just a snap decision. you have to talk to other people to put that in motion, so congressman zeldon, when does the dam actually break because i get the sense now, you have democratic assembly women, alec baldwin, aoc and others, that dam seems to be breaking, isn't it? >> yes. i think that the governor is going to be losing his emergency powers. there is bipartisan support for that. the republicans in the new york state assembly are pushing for impeachment. i saw someone doing an interview earlier today. it seems like there might be some democratic support for that we'll see where that goes. you mentioned calls for him to

resign and governor huckabee points out that governor cuomo is up in the ballot box in 2022. as we get census data and new york losing congressional seats. why is that? a lot of that has to do with policies to take away freedoms, to raise taxes, to erode public safety, cashless bail, an effort to defund the police in new york city. that's why governor cuomo needs to go and whether it happens right now, whether he resigns, gets pushed out or in november 2022, if we want to save our state, i'm a proud new yorker, if we want to save our state cuomo has to go. >> thank you for joining us tonight. all right. coming up next, former texas governor rick perry weighs in on biden's snow day. you'll want to hear about that and what texas needs to do to get back on its feet. stay with us, as this special edition of hannity continues. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office

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>> jason: welcome back to this special edition of hannity. yesterday as texas continued to suffer under a massive and deadly winter storm the demander in chief joe biden took a snow day. watch this. >> where is our commander-in-chief? you know that new guy? oh, that's right, this morning he decided to take a snow day. the guy ultimately in charge of fema and all the country's emergency resources and federal agencies, yes, he took a day off in the middle of this natural disaster. where is the phony selective liberal outrage on this? i guess to be fair, it's not even really totally clear that joe even fully understands what's going on in texas.

>> jason: after the show last night the biden team felt the need to release a tweet. biden now plans to visit the state sometime after the weather warms up. no doubt democrats will use the winter storm as a political tool to push their radical agenda. already the united states has reentered the paris climate accord. no time to waste. biden's green energy oracle john kerry now claims we have just nine years to save the planet. joining us now with more is former energy secretary and former texas governor rick perry. i guess i'll call you governor because that's how i got to know you best. i appreciate you joining us. this, to me, is going to be what i call a disaster liberalism. this is classic disaster liberalism. disaster happens and they want to have a solution and their

solution is usually more government, more regulation but that's not how we're going to solve these problems and these challenges, is it? government, more government, more regulation? >> exactly right, jason. thank you for having me on. i would love to have president biden come to texas. we can show him some things that he certainly needs to see. what's gone on with this crisis, and kind of explain to him why we need the federal government to be a partner in innovating our way to better energy solution rather than regulating, and that's what i worry about when people say let's get into the national grid. i'm like, let's just tap the brakes on that. let's talk about it. certainly let's hear what that would mean. but i'm telling you, my experience with the federal government has been the first thing they do is regulate, and

we've got these great national labs, jason, across the country, that do some extraordinary work. whether it's in the area of small modular reactors, compact fusion reactors, we're seeing fascinating things on fuel cells and hydrogen. all of those are areas we can innovate. let's be clear. this was probably a once-in-a-lifetime event that happened in texas. a lot of reasons that it happened, you know. people are pointing fingers over at the wind industry. people are pointing fingers over here saying -- i would just -- i would caution folks, look, let's find solutions. every time there is a national -- a natural disaster, rather, in the state, when i was governor, we learned something from it. so what is it that we've learned

from this? we obviously didn't have the weatherization going on that we should have had. we need to have more diversity in our portfolio. i think walking away from fossil fuels, walking away from nuclear is an absolute recipe for disaster. so i would love for the president to come to texas, and, as a matter of fact, i would love for him to come down to the border and talk to the people along the border of texas, and find out how misguided this immigration policy is that he's trying to push through, that would be an absolute disaster. i'm telling you, a lot of those folks along the border down there historically have voted democrat, and they never will again, if he carries through with this very, very bad immigration policy he's talking

about. >> so governor, you know, to hear joe biden, the president, talk about this, he believes that the paris climate accord is going to help save this situation. what's your reaction when you see that? job one right out-of-the-box, that's exactly what he's doing as if that's going to help solve the problem. >> the trump administration made substantial increases in clean energy. they did some things on the emissions side. american natural gas was going to europe replacing older, inefficient power plants, not to mention the reliance upon russian gas. to hear john kerry and joe biden talk about it, those are disastrous policies. well, emissions from electrical power generation in america is

down to 1987 levels, jason. i mean, isn't that good? isn't that what our goal was, to reduce emissions? and american natural gas that was developed through hydraulic fracturing, directional drilling, was right at the heart of that, so fossil fuels, and i'll tell you, last week in texas, as people were losing their power, thank god we had fossil fuels in this state because if all we had had was the aoc green new deal plan with wind and solar, we would have had a massive disaster on our hands. as it was, fossil fuels are what really saved the day here. so i think the wise move here is coming up with the innovation. look at ways to create new diversity.

use all of your natural resources wisely. cleanly, which we've done in this country. all the climate agreement is going to do is to let countries like china off the hook. they are going to continue to develop their energy resources, climate be damn, and america will pay the price. i don't understand why john kerry and president biden can't see the truth to that. >> jason: they live in a different bubble and it's the washington, d.c. bubble and it's not rooted in reality, but governor, i thank you for your time and services. governor and as secretary, for you and all of your fellow texans out there, stay warm and get past this and let's get that innovation. we'll learn from it. we'll learn from it. >> jason: coming up, you won't believe who the biden

administration is considering giving amnesty to now. a full report ahead as thisssss

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>> jason: the biden white house continues to double down on its destructive immigration overhaul prioritizing masks, amnesty and open borders over safety, security and enforcement. for example, according to a new report from breitbart news biden's plan actually includes a waiver for previously deported illegal aliens to seek amnesty. and that's not all. as house republicans today sounded the alarm over a possible health crisis at the southern border. amid revelations that the biden administration is apparently not requiring all migrants to get

tested for covid before entering the u.s. interior. and get this. ice officers will now need pre-approval from managers to arrest some illegal immigrants if they do not fall into narrow criminal categories. and yet another signal from the biden-harris administration that border security is not a top priority. but the good news is, some state and local officials are pushing back against biden and harris's open borders agenda. this week 18 state attorneys general scolded biden and harris over their decision to cancel an ice operation targeting sex offenders. in texas one local mayor is begging biden to stop releasing illegal aliens into his city, a border city, amid the continued fallout from severe weather. take a look. >> mr. president, my name is -- mayor of the city -- texas and

i'm requesting to you please put a halt to any release of immigrants. we do not have the resources available to accommodate them within the community. if you send them into our community we'll be forced to make a decision to leave them without resources under these dire circumstances. >> jason: make no mistake. what the administration is doing is making our country less safe, less secure and less prepared for what's to come. don't be fooled. the message from the white house is being received loud and clear. come to the border and come for citizenship. it's dangerous and destructive but unfortunately it's not all that surprising. this is what joe biden and kamala harris campaigned on and this is what democrats have wanted to pass in congress for years. but they couldn't get it done. joining me now for reaction, former acting commissioner of the united states border patrol, mark morgan, along with talk radio host dana -- thank you

both for joining us tonight. mark, i want to start with you because, you know, biden was supposedly going to return to the norms and do things the way they were supposed to be done by the book but that's not what's happening. >> we talked about unity and this is another important element. everything you rattled off has been done with the stroke of a pen. a white house directive, memos from dhs or other components within dhs. what we're seeing right now is the most radical single piece of immigration legislation this country has ever seen. if we want to talk about meaningful immigration reform, we have to talk about securing our borders and part of that, as you said in your opening, is addressing illegal immigration crisis. open borders and mass amnesty is not the problem. right now, this is not going to be the last amnesty request. you're living a pipe dream if

you believe that right now because of the policies we're allowing illegal aliens to enter the country, be released into the interior of the united states and then protect them from deportation. ice can't do their job. in a couple of years we'll have several million more illegal aliens, the next individuals demanding amnesty. that's what's going to happen. >> jason: in addition to being magnet that really these policies put into place in saying, come rush the board because we're going to treat you better than we treat americans, i guess that's what's so infuriating, these people that are here illegally, they get treated better than the united states citizens and going after sex offenders here illegally, i can't think of anything worse than that. >> isn't that kind of the brush there? i think that's why so many individuals are made resentful of the promotion of one group before the other in the face of law, which is not how this

country operates. as a republic we're a nation of laws and it's a particularly bad rub for those who enter the country illegally and did everything they were supposed to do and then they see another group of individuals that are getting -- receiving this preferential treatment. you make a good point as well. when you talk about some of these convictions that are going to be excused from consideration when you have law enforcement looking at these cases, determining whether or not these individuals are going to be deported. drunk driving is now considered one of those exceptions, which, for any other american citizen, this is horrible, and particularly in texas, which the last i looked led the nation in drunk driving deaths, but to have something like that and for that to be made an exception, where as, for any other american citizen, that's a crime, and you're called into account for it. the law -- part of one of the reasons why law has strength is because it's practiced with consistency, and when you are applying law inconsistently, and

penalties as a result you're going to get a lot of people questioning your motives and you're going to encourage more people to not follow the law. >> jason: along with that, mark, what does this do to the average person who works on border patrol, who puts their life on the line, goes down there, puts on that badge and fights for the united states of america to have these kind of policies in place, we won't arrest this one, if they did this, don't worry about it, what does that do to the morale of the men and women who serve so valiantly? >> it's devastating. i've talked to thousands. it's demoralizing. everything that dana said is just right. let's take ice. what the biden administration has done is basically to strip 90% of their statutory authorities to enforce the law and remove people. look, i've got a kip of the latest dhs memo that went out. it goes even further than that jason. it actually says basically, unless you're a terrorist or a convicted rapist or murderer, you're scott-free. in fact, if you're in the

country illegally before november 2020, you're off limits, and they say that those priorities, unless you're a terrorist or convicted rapist or murderer, you will cancel notice to appear. be released from custody. those are their words, jason, and even to not execute when they have a final order removal. so they have gone through the process. a judge has said they should be removed. they are telling ice, let them into the country. it's absolutely outrageous. american interests are taking a second seat to the interests of illegal aliens. >> jason: i've only got 15 seconds left. >> jason, i appreciate you talking about this topic, as for the mayor warning this administration, don't allow these people to be dumped into our towns, as someone who lives in a town that lost power and water, literally took my first shower yesterday, since sunday because of all of this, i can second that. resources have been spread thin so the administration needs to help the state respond, and they are not doing it. >> jason: thank you both. we appreciate you joining us tonight on hannity.

coming up, biden continues with his america last foreign policy. his america last foreign policy. rick

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the american people can't afford to go back to those policies. the iranians knew they had the capacity to push president obama around, to get a deal that gave them the pathway to a nuclear weapon and our administration didn't permit that to happen. we put real costs on them. >> jason: but so far it appears that biden and harris want the failures of the past to be did framework for the future. and would rather retreat to the status quo. instead of standing up for the interests of the american people. because remember, it was president trump who stood up for ending endless wars. obliterated the isis caliphate and fought back against the disastrous politicalization of intelligence. joining me for reaction, the first green beret to serve in congress, along with former acting director of national intelligence rick grenell. gentlemen, thanks for joining us

tonight. you're both experts on. this i want to ask you both the same question. as you see joe biden and kamala harris taking the reins and changing the direction of what the trump administration did what do you see happening and what will be the consequences. rick grenell, let's go first to you. >> look, i think what we're seeing is that the goal is consensus. the goal is to make sure that the europeans and russia and china and the u.n. security council and everybody come out all happy and in agreement. and the problem with that is when the goal is consensus it just means that the others get to water down our policy. maybe even veto our policy, and so, instead of viewing talks as like a tactic, say, so that we come together and we push our policy, looks there is no question that sometimes the american policy or the american position in the trump administration, we stood alone, and we would step out, but we did that because we felt like

that was the best thing for the american people and then we would convince others to follow, and many times they did follow. our goal wasn't to be accepted by the rest of the group. it was to protect the american people and that's the opposite goal that the biden team has. >> jason: it's the difference between leading from behind and actually leading world as president trump did. but give me your perspective on what's happening here. >> rick is exactly right. he really took this on as ambassador to germany as did secretary pompeo. the bottom line is, the iranians smell weakness. they can smell from it a mile away, and i don't think chamberlain could have been this naive to give away our leverage. the massive pressure campaign is working. the thing the iranian regime cares about the most is not its own people. it cares about its wallet. its oil exports are down to virtually zero. it's struggling.

it can no longer pay its terrorist proxies. yet, in the middle of this dynamic, we're going to release sanctions. that's what the biden regime is doing. it's going to allow its diplomats free travel now. and it's going to ease back because they want the deal so badly that they are going -- they are going to give away our leverage, and i want to remind everyone the iranian regime tonight as we speak are holding americans hostage, including one that was promised by the iranians to be released during the iran deal and they reneged on that promise and they just had their proxies attack an american facility, just this very week. yet, we're going to start pulling back on this maximum pressure campaign and start to give our leverage away. if we would just keep up that leverage we could actually get a better deal that has all of the elements of their nuclear program and get -- and get to a permanent deal that doesn't have sunset provisions.

>> jason: rick grenell it was a year ago today that you became the acting director of national intelligence. amazing things happened under your leadership. we had progress in the middle east with peace deals with israel, in the united arab emirates and others because we took a approximation of strength. that ronald reagan adage, peace or strength, isn't it? >> yes. for sure. our allies saw what the u.s. policy was like in the obama-biden administration, and they didn't like it, and so in the trump administration, they actually were scrambling. we should thank president obama and vice president biden at the time for having such a weak policy that they convinced our allies to sign on to peace deals with israel. if you think about that. they saw what happens when you allow iran to bully the neighborhood, as mike says, they smell weakness, and this is exactly what happened. they threatened us, by the way, the iranians, we're not going to

let any inspectors in unless you drop the sanctions, and let our diplomats do more walk about in new york city, and that's exactly what we did, is we caved. they smelled weakness. mike is right. >> jason: congressman, i've only got about 30 seconds here. what's your biggest fear as we go forward because we're not be even a month into the biden administration? >> the iranian regime is emboldened by weakness and deterred by strength. if you look at just over a yes, they were attacking international shipping, they launched cruise missiles into a saudi oil facility. they attacked our embassy, killed an american and almost overran it in iraq yet trump took out soleimani and all of that stopped. deterrence was restored and that's the posture we need to stay in and finally, if we let up the gas here, if we let our foot off the gas they will march towards a bomb on a ballistic missile and that will

proliferate across the entire middle east, and that's my biggest fear. >> jason: i'm afraid you're right and we're only days into this administration and they have already let up on the gas pedal. gentlemen, thank you both for your service to this country and thanks for joining us tonight on hannity. appreciate it. coming up, progressives are already unhappy with joe biden. we'll explain why. that and more as this special edition of hannity, failures of the left, , , , ,

. >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of hannity. president joe biden, he's been the president for just about a month and progressives are already pushing back against some of his early policies. for example, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is attacking biden for rejecting her student loan forgiveness plan. meanwhile, biden has reportedly been telling governors that the minimum wage hike is unlikely. don't expect it to slow down as progressives are making it clear they intend to hold biden to his campaign promises. joining us with reaction, former trump white house chief-of-staff, along --

chairman of the republican national committee when donald trump was elected. the atmosphere for donald trump is far different from the atmosphere with joe biden. is joe biden going to be able to do everything he promised he would do? >> thank you, jason. first, you're a hundred percent right. you have to look at what is the core of the democratic party? the core of the democratic party are the progressive issues that aoc is talking about. debt cancellation. green new deal. socialized medicine. that's their core. that's their horsepower an they have a problem because joe biden doesn't have the votes and he probably doesn't believe in it also. that's their problem. the reason it worked for president trump is that the tea party issues became mainstream republican issues. that became trump issues. the american worker, china, stop endless wars, taxes, deregulation so the horsepower of the republican party, the

issues of america first, that became the agenda of the entire republican party. whether you were a jim jordan or a paul ryan or mitch mcconnell or whoever. and that's why we've got a huge difference, and they are going to have a real governing problem in the democrat party. >> jason: emily, what's going to happen. i'm a conservative. i don't want this to pass the radical agenda but the infighting, we're not even 30 days into it and you can already feel the tension. >> that's right. i think representative -- said it best, this is the first key decision besting biden's real commitment to progressive issues. the reality is we're seeing biden sort of back away from it. we're seeing him say, if it's through legislation i'll only do it by executive order. if the doj approves it and he's also reduced the conversation from $50,000 down to $10,000.

we know there is a political strategy to putting this into the budget. it has nothing to do with the budget. sanders said specifically there is no way this will get passed unless it goes through reconciliation so therefore that's how we're going to do it but to the point, for example, aoc is making in her seven tweet thread about telling a story and not being persuasive and how everyone needs to get on-board the fuller story is that if you wipe away part of deft the cost is elsewhere in the chain. take california, for example, they pay almost $1.5 billion in pension. that's why tuition is so high and you can't simply wipe away financial obligations of a state from federal legislation. you can reduce it to a slogan, no matter how hard the progressive left is trying. i'll close by saying it seems to me presidents biden has made it clear he's going to not let this happen and sort of apologize later rather than expend the political capital it takes to win support for this now. >> and that's exactly right. i mean, this process -- if you

wanted to glide past to get stuff done you wouldn't create a congress with a house and a senate, republicans, democrats, multiple parties, the presidency, you're supposed to go slow but i think progressives are going to put pressure on joe biden, and kamala harris like there has never been before, and to the previous point, i think in their heart of hearts, i don't know that he actually wants to do these things. i just think, he's been there for 50 years for goodness sake. anyway, i've got to shift gears here. we're nearing the end of this segment and i have a hard out, but the rumor is pretty strong out there that you might run for governor. the question is, are you seriously considering running for governor of wisconsin? >> well, a rumor mill time in all of these special races, jason. you never say never, but the reality is, there will be a lot

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it's called "they never let a crisis go to waste," the truth about disaster liberalism." go to fighting with governor cuo too. the details on that tomorrow, 10:00 a.m. here is "the five" right. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. i'm jesse watters along with juan williams, gillian turner, greg gutfeld and judge jeanine. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." president biden declaring america first is dead, the president causing controversy in two key areas today, the vaccine and foreign policy. while meeting with key leaders, biden jumped on the vaccine equality bandwagon and later today, he promised to distribute the shock more fairly to