>> tucker: we are completely out of time. kind of a grim hour. sorry about that. we don't make the news. it falls into our laps. in the meantime pete hegseth, speaking of cheerful and optimistic, sitting in for sean hannity. here he is. >> i'm going to try. it might a little grim. always great, tucker. merry christmas. welcome to this special edition of "hannity," i am pete hegseth and for sean on this monday night tonight we begin on capitol hill where they really got them this time. two years after the events of january 6 at the capitol, democrats and a few self-serving republicans are recommending that the doj charge donald trump with four separate crimes. of course is pointed out by

"the washington post" and consider the source "the move has no legal weight." okay. coming up, gregg jarrett and alan dershowitz will join us with the moron what's up with that a conclusion to the always pointless january 6th comm commission. never look into the stuff we really want answers but we begin with a real crisis with the white house is still trying to ignore. as we speak, at this moment, waves of illegal immigrants are amassing at the southern border. all preparing to cross in just a few days. barring a last ditch effort at the supreme court, title 42, which you know is up and to make your a policy that allows illegals to be quickly deported, will expire very soon. at that point, it becomes exceedingly difficult very time-consuming for the federal government to deport anyone which means they basically won't deport anyone. right now it's a funeral go to

basically zero. believe it or not the wide open southern border is about to get much worse. going to white house press secretary, chief propagandist karine jean-pierre, you just can't believe your lying eyes. >> migrants who might be thinking about it, what should they do after wednesday. >> i just made that really clear. it would be wrong to think that the border is open. it's not open. i want to be very, very clear about that. >> pete: it's not open, don't worry. very, very clear. it's not open. tell that the record 4 million illegal immigrants who crossed since biden was sworn in. way more that we are not aware of. title 42 hasn't even ended yet and already border facilities, totally overwhelmed. the situation is so bad that el paso's democrat mayor, despite begging from the white house that he doesn't call the cops and doesn't declare a state of emergency, finally did just that, declaring a state of emergency on saturday night.

texas is attempting to patch gaps in the border without help from the biden administration. new york city's flaky mayor, eric adams, which way is he going, you never know. just announced public services for citizens of new york city will likely be cut in order to pay for the influx of new illegals. this is a crisis that impacts every corner, every state of our country, every community. the president of the united states can't even be bothered to think about visiting the border. according to one white house advisor, is just too difficult for joe to make the trip. >> why doesn't he go to the border. he was just in arizona. why wasn't it worth his time? speak you have to remember when the president travels, it's not like you are i jumping on an aie only getting often going to our destination. everything comes to a halt. all of these things are in consideration for the president.

is it the best use of resources? all of the u resources that will be deployed on the ground. >> is that why he didn't go? >> i can't speak to what he has or has not gone. i'm speaking to the fact that it's a bit more descr for the president of the united states to travel than you or i. >> pete: all these things come to a halt. maybe illegal crossings would come to a halt. maybe we could station in there and it would all stop. joining is now the full report is someone who's actually visited the border many times, fox news contributor sara carter joins us live in brownsville, texas. sarah, thanks for all the work you're doing. >> thank you. thank you. i'm here in brownsville, behind me is the port of entry, it buttresses mexico. i've got to tell you, right across the border, several miles from us is open park or over

8,000, over 8,000 just here, people are waiting to come across the border. these are people that have been told by the smugglers that title 42 is going to end on wednesday. right now chief justice roberts did have a state to uphold title 42. they are to uphold it until tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. when they're going to give the department of justice an opportunity to respond. the biden administration is going to respond as to why we don't need title 42. i can tell you this. federal long enforcement officis are concerned. they are seeing migrant swells coming and not just in brownsville, in mcallen, texas, cross the border in arizona and california as well. they say with the removal of title 42 they expect up to 18,000 people a day.

that's only because of the removal of title 42. they are expecting those swells to come in. i spoke to vice president the national border patrol council here in the rio grande valley, chris cabrera. he said those people coming in right now aren't just people being held back from title 42. these are people who aren't being held back. people from venezuela, cuba, afghanistan, pakistan. i want you to take a listen to what he had to say. >> based on what you seen the last few years, how much of a difference is it going to be to remove title 42? if we are already seeing these numbers, is it just going to be more of the same or far worse? >> it's going to be far worse. we have certain people we can send back under title 42 but there are certain countries that can't be sent back under title 42, and that's what you're seeing now mostly gray venezuelans, nicaraguans, cubans.

they are coming across in huge numbers others nothing we can do about it. it's for everyone else. anyone else is not going to be affected. speak of 15,000 in mexico waiting to cross, that's it? >> on top of that you have the others getting the memo that are going mobilize and come over from all over, not just central and south america. we have a lot from european countries, asian countries. you name it. they are coming already. they're going to continue to come. >> despite the fact judges have upheld remain in mexico and title 42, border patrol agency of the biden administration doesn't uphold the law, then the law will not be upheld. it won't even matter. people will just keep pouring in. pete. >> pete: sara, hold on. the world is coming. is that just means we're going to process them faster and release them, more people in

mass? the process doesn't change. it's just a bigger mass release of people? >> that's absolutely correct. we are seeing a number of people. they talk about apprehensions of the border. the majority of those apprehensions are released within a day or two. we don't have the facilities here in texas, according to the governor, texas dps, border patrol, immigrations and customs enforcement to hold all the people coming across. what you're saying is correct, they are bringing them in. they are processing them, they can even do full background checks. they are just being released into the united states. before i got on with you, young family walked by me they had a baby and you can see they just come across the border. they were asking for directions to the bus station. they had a child with them. people are sleeping in the streets here in texas. they don't stay in texas. they end up all across the

united states. worst of all before i let you go, the fact that many times the cartels are moving a lot of people, big, large groups and while they are doing that, they are moving fentanyl and other narcotics into the united states and there's nobody there to stop them. this is a very dangerous crisis of our nation. we don't know who's coming in. it's affecting everyone, not just the people crossing the border but our children and the people in the united states as well. >> pete: we spent all those man-hours processing hordes of people, their agents that are not working the line is people with even more nefarious intentions are choosing different routes. hsara carter, thank you. you can't really vet people when you're processing through right away. get this next angle. it's no secret that america's resources are overwhelmed because of this influx where laying out tonight. according to new senate report the biden administration is handing over unaccompanied

minors. remember that phrase under the trump administration? the unaccompanied minors. they are being handed over to adults who have not undergone a background check. you heard that from sara carter. in other words, those kids are vulnerable to being placed in the legal custody, the custody of legal guardians who have a history of child neglect or even registered sex offenders. here with mark, wisconsin senator ron johnson who is on the committee that put out that report. senator, i can't help but remember the political hysteria that was how unaccompanied minors were humbled under the trump administration. now because of this crisis, you're saying it's possible that adults are not vetted enough to know what their criminal history might be yet they get unaccompanied minors? >> they are not being vetted. they've issued a couple executive orders that have relaxed the types of checks that you do on the people,

unaccompanied children are being really -- released two. 300,000 unaccompanied children since the biden administration took office. 225,000 been released to sponsors. we have no idea who they are. we don't track them. when president obama had his crisis, 2,000 people a day. trump had in one month over 4,000 today. under the biden administration it's over 7,000 people a day. they don't call it apprehension anymore. they call encounters. we are probably talking, as you are talking about, 4 million people so far have been encountered, processed, dispersed or come to this country is a known or unknown got-aways. 22 states have a population less than 4 million people. this is completely out of control with the biden administration apparently couldn't care less. they don't call it a problem.

they call it a challenge at most. >> pete: what is the "why?" to me always the most revealing question. alexandria ocasio-cortez crying about kids in cages because the trump administration was intentionally making sure no child was released to someone who wasn't able to be responsible for them. now it's tens of thousands. in the middle of the night often with no background checks. if there was your crisis or if it was just hysteria, what is the "why" for why they are doing it now. >> you have to ask president biden. you have death democrats who vote to not complete the wall we've already paid for. enough people that are larger than the population of 22 st states. it's pretty obvious. they want to bring people in that are going to be beholden to them when it comes the next election, even though they can't vote. of course, that's why they are

always for mail and balloting as well without voter i.d. i think they've got a game plan and their -- they are carrying out that game plan. >> pete: is there anything republicans on capitol hill can do? the senate remains in the minority. the house will be in slim republican hands. if there's one thing you could do that would actually be effectual at this point, what would it be? >> we have to raise the issue. i was chairman of homeland security committee, we had close to three dozen hearings on some aspect of the border when the crisis was far smaller. we had written a letter to our chairman who completely is and interested. the majority has no interest whatsoever in this crisis on the border but we just need to ramp up pressure, tried to get them mainstream media paying attention. right now it's almost just fox covering it so most americans don't realize a full-blown crisis occurring at the southern border.

>> pete: they seem to be paying attention a little bit but it's always what we need to spend more money onto process faster not actually fix the problem. senator johnson, thank you for your time tonight. joe biden's border policies are clearly not working, or they are working just like they want them to work which is the plan is no plan, after all. that's news to abcs martha raddatz. she is blaming republicans. take a look. >> you talk about the border wall. you talk about open borders. i don't think i've ever heard president biden say we have an open border, come on over. >> i would make sure that there is, we immediately search to the border all those people seeking asylum. they deserve to be heard. that's who we are. if you are wanting to flee oppression, you should come. >> pete: you should come. nice try, martha. running for long cover for the regime.

joining us now, fox news contributor tom homan. president of the national border patrol council. you both are clearly the pro problem. because you talk about the problem, tom, you're the reason they are coming, not the biden administration. >> look, i get angry. i spent my career putting smugglers in prison, hundreds of them. don't equate me to being in bed with the smugglers. that report was dumber than a box of rocks. i want to touch on what ron johnson said. this takes me -- this irritates me. they say president biden's policies are humane? a record number of migrants have died coming across the border. a record number of americans have died from fentanyl. people released to so-called sponsors. according to my sources they

can't find 40% of them. 4 out of 10, they can't find them. under president trump, we vetted the sponsor and everybody in the household. now they are not even vetting the sponsor. i guarantee some of these children are being forced in child porn movies are in -- are are in homes of pedophiles. how many americans weren't dying from fentanyl? how many suspected terrorists were coming across the country. 1400 migrants have died under his watch, 100,000 americans. don't say president trump and our administration was inhumane when the evidence clearly shows this administration is inhumane and people are dying every day because of it. >> pete: amen. very well said. brandon, is a cable news pundits talking about an open border

that smugglers listen to or is it the policies that the administration is pursuing? >> it's all about actions. smugglers look at the actions and the policies of an administration. they will react based upon what our government is doing. how many agents patrolling the border, the other night when i put on the uniform and patrolled the border, every agent was doing administrative duties including administrative duties. i was doing transport duties. you look, let's talk about facts. if we are only deploying between 40% to 50% of our resources to control the border at the beginning of a shift. by the end of the shift, those numbers drop down to either 30 or 20% that's actually patrolling the border. once title 42 goes away, we are going to have next to no agents patrolling the border. every single one of us are going to be doing administrative duties, processing these people through as quickly as we possibly can just to be released

into the united states. that's the definition of an open border. those are the facts yet the mainstream media and the democrats refused to talk about that. instead they deflect and lie to the american people because they know they're going to be covered for it. >> pete: no agents patrolling the border by the end of shift. tom homan, to your point, we are not vetting the backgrounds of adults we are handing kids too. and yet this administration is doing the humane thing. i appreciate you both for the courage of your voice and sticking up for the agents trying to do their job down there who can't. brenton and tom, thank you so much. coming up, chad pergram brings us the latest on the sham january 6 committee referrals today. gregg jarrett and alan dershowitz weigh-in. another bombshell twitter files drop today. it really is. concerning hunter biden. we'll bring you the latest is the special edition of "hannity" continues.

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♪ ♪ >> pete: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." the sham january 6 committee today referred former president trump, of course, for prosecution meaning any criminal charging decisions will ultimately made by doj

prosecutors and attorney general merrick garland. here with the latest is our own chad pergram. chad. >> pete, never been done before. in its final public meeting, the 1-6 committee refer to former president to the doj for possible prosecution. >> ours is not a system of justice where soldiers go to jail when the masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass. >> the charges, conspiracy to defraud the u.s. by attempting to send in fake electoral votes, lying to investigators, obstructing congress from certifying the electoral college, and helping spark the riot at the capitol. >> president trump lit the flame. he poured gasoline on the fire and sat by the white house dining room for hours watching the fire burn. today he is still -- he still continues to fan the flames. >> doj is already probing mr. trump through special

counsel jack smith. the committee referred house minority leader kevin mccarthy and three other g.o.p. members to the ethics committee. they do not respond to subpoenas for testimony. changes to how congress certifies the electoral college are included in the upcoming omnibus spending bill. the plan raises the bar to challenge electoral votes and guards against possible mis mischief. pete. >> pete: chad pergram. thank you very much. this is a committee that had a predetermined outcome. we know that. it was stacked with trump haters and refused to conduct their investigation with any semblance of objectivity. it's why today's news is fueling more concerns that have been simmering for a long time. do we have a two-tiered system of justice in america? here with more legal analysis on today's news, author of "the price of principle," esteemed law professor alan dershowitz. along with fox news legal analyst the esteemed gregg jarrett. thanks for being here.

professor, you heard chad pergram. he said never been done before. talk to me about the implications of what this sham committee has done. >> of course it's never been done before. it's unconstitutional. violates three provisions of the constitution. article once has the power of congress is limited to performing a legislative function. this is not a legislative function. making a referral to congress has nothing to do with legislation. the second is bill of obtained prohibition which has congress doesn't have the power to specify a name people for prosecution. in the spirit of that provision was also violated. the 14th amendment does say congress does have some power. when it comes to the kind of insurrection that led to the civil war but that's a very limited power. this is a very dangerous thing. it's not just irrelevant. the justice department will toss this into the wastebasket after writing apply letter to the

committee. they should rejected and denounced the committee for violating the separation of powers and our system of checks and balances. >> pete: gregg, is that what you think will happen? does it make it more or less likely that third apartment of justice and merrick garland would pursue it. >> this is symbolism at its worst. partisan act by a politically driven committee. i don't think anybody in the department of justice is even going to read it. politicians are not prosecutors. good prosecutors know that they have to prove every essential element of a crime beyond reasonable doubt. legally when you read through these referrals, as i have, they are anemic. for example, obstructing government process because trump worked with others to object to

biden's slate of electors? like democrats did in 2017. 2017, 2005, objecting to republican electors? one of the other referrals is incitement of insurrection. where's the evidence of that? the committee spent 16 months trying to find evidence of that. all they have is trump's beach which is just the opposite which he urges his supporters to protest peacefully, cheer on the allies, let your voices be heard. that's not the standards set by the supreme court for incitement of violence. this isn't just a week. it's farcical. >> pete: professor, do they know that it was unconstitutional from the beginning and it was all a p.r. exercise? it was never really about serious criminal charges.

>> jamie raskin was my student. i defended his father against georgia's relating to the vietnam war. he's a profe professor of constitutional law. he no congress doesn't have this power to refer. the mccarthy committee did that in the 1950s. they would specify individuals. and call on the prosecutors to go after them. we civil libertarians strongly objected to that. where are the voices of the democratic civil libertarians who should be railing against congress going after people and naming names and being specific and making referrals and violations of three provisions of the constitution. when it comes to get trump, many leftist democrat civil libertarians have forgotten about the constitution. in the ends justify the means. >> pete: you're absolutely right. where does this go with the new republic in that house of

representatives? does it die? does it change the referral? >> this was the last, i think it was the tenth hearing. they had to do something that they chose referrals which i agree with the professor go in the circular file, the wastebasket. the committee's function lists effective early january when republicans regain the house of representatives control and i think one of the investigations that are going to be conducting is the malfeasance of this committee. andy biggs has said we are going to subpoena all of the thousands of hours of videotape that they carefully edited. in other words, editing out exculpatory information and cleverly editing in incriminating information. that's fundamentally unfair and

i think americans deserve thoughtful unadulterated truth so i hope they do that. >> pete: go ahead. >> we know there was editing because when they presented the president's speech on january 6, they omitted the word specifically "peacefully and patriotically." you don't do that. if the lawyer did that in a court of law, the lawyer would be sanctioned. the idea that congress can pick and choose without any cross-examination or a dissenting view is suggestive that this was, as president trump said, a kangaroo committee. i'm not think anybody should pay attention to its predetermined conclusions. >> pete: absolutely right. professor dershowitz, gregg jarrett, thank you. more a big breaking news surrounding twitter's censorship and corruption. new reporting from michael shellenberger reveals that the

fbi used your tax dollars to weaponize intelligence and squash the hunter biden laptop story despite the report being true and accurate. as michael shellenberger explains, an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community aimed at senior execs at news and social media companies to discredit leaked information about hunter biden before and after it was published. translation: the fbi, the federal bureau of investigation, was hell-bent on defeating donald trump and covering for team biden no matter the cost. as shellenberger continues, writing during all of 2020 the fbi and other agencies reportedly primed someone to dismiss reports of hunter biden's laptop is a russian hack and leak confirmation. they did a tabletop exercise about how he should respond when the leak comes out. so-called leak.

remember, john paul macisaac gave the fbi the laptop in december 2019. the fbi already knew by 2020 that the laptop was authentic. they already had it in their possession. it gets even worse. by mid-september 2020, fbi agent elvis chan had set up an encrypted messaging network so that employees from the fbi and twitter could communicate, nonetheless would have a chance to look at those communications. we now have indisputable evidence that the fbi colluded with twitter to conduct election interference, all done to help defeat donald trump help joe biden. what is so revealing about the twitter dome, it was all done using your federal tax dollars. meaning the fbi paid twitter for all the time twitter employees been doing work for the fbi to the tune of $3.5 million of

taxpayer dollars. number 46 of tweets in the seventh twitter dump. also breaking tonight, and explosive report from john solomon reveals that the justice department used grand jury subpoenas to obtain information about kash patel and others. republicans are vowing to investigate the new intel abuses in the new house but as you know the time for accountability, well, long past due. here for reaction, fox news contributor ari fleischer and former republican senator scott brown and radio show host buck sexton. where to start. what's your biggest takeaway. people are following it. it's getting deeper and deeper in the connection between twitter and the highest levels of our intelligence agencies. >> this is awful on every grounds. how can the fbi -- how can a unit, some people

inside the fbi, i don't think this is the whole fbi. how can anybody inside the fbi try to interfere an election like this by suppressing information? the fbi's job is to investigate crimes. it is not to put his finger on the scale of american elections for or against anybody. it's not to put its finger on the scale of whether somebody's engaging in quote-unquote disinformation. it's none of the fbi's business. this is extraordinarily worrisome to see that the tentacles, the fbi, elements have extended into twitter. even twitter is starting to resist the fbi in some ways. they were so worried about the fbi's overreaching. this is extraordinary. >> pete: senator, it's exactly right .1. put her execs are saying are we supposed to be doing this but they almost moved them and paid for it. there was a carrot and stick

approach. is this how washington works? is this an outlier? >> i hope it's an outlier. we've heard many times government agencies say we don't have any influence over the private sector at all. how many times have we heard that the testimony? we find that it's not true. i think we are finally seeing that conservatives had been kind of put on the front seat in terms of -- the mainstream media and other groups not getting a fair shake. but people want in this country is for the fbi and the doj and other government entities to call balls and strikes. don't play influencers. don't metal with things you don't have any purview over. there is a breach and a lack of trust that basically contributes to the turmoil we are seeing. we have to get those agencies to do the jobs, do them fairly, to them openly and transparently. i'm glad i praise elon musk for

doing what he's doing. he's obviously taking a hit for it we are getting this information that otherwise we would not have any verification on and it's real and it can't happen again. i am hopeful republicans address it but i'm also hopeful they don't just focus on biden's laptop. they focus on issues affecting a country. inflation and all the things we know about. >> pete: folks on twitter. this is what we know it's been revealed because of elon musk. it could be worse than other places. buck, you work in intelligence agencies. can we trust the fbi? i don't mean every person works in the fbi but based on these revelations, can cultures of agencies like this become so corrupted that average people feel like they can't trust them anymore? >> look, it's time for massive hearings i think looking into intelligence community abuses. let's do a quick review. in 2016, the fbi director stood

in front of the american people and said hillary clinton shouldn't face charges. not his job. oh, by the way, they also created the russia collusion lyda china destroy donald trump and the lessons somehow the fbi took from that was in 2020, to get directly involved in the hunter biden laptop situation which almost looks like a covert action campaign. it looks like a propaganda campaign against the american people. the exact sort of thing that shouldn't be done by the intelligence communities, they have meddled now in two presidential elections in a row. we ate see because of the twitter files the extent of the collusion between twitter and the fbi. the fbi pushing it. it's not like the twitter people were bringing down the fbi's door. this has to be something that's looked at seriously by lawmakers. there have to be repercussions for this. >> pete: the fbi was so eager to do it, they brought them to special events.

tabletop exercises to war game how they would suppress any leak of the hunter biden laptop. our tax dollars paid through the fbi to twitter for their time to do the bidding of the fbi which at first they did more reluctantly. and then very enthusiastically. >> they are not a think tank. they are not a news organization. why are they telling twitter the jokes should be pulled down and accounts should be suspended in helping them up for a propaganda campaign to lie about the hunter biden laptop. this is bad. this is soviet level stuff. it's a cabal and it needs to be cleaned up. >> individual names. >> pete: real quick. >> we need to see more names of the individuals. >> pete: senator first. >> thank you. the left wants this to happen. they want to break up big companies. what elon musk is doing is providing that transparency.

if we break up tech companies, china is going to get an upper hand in that advantage that we have on job creation is for naught. >> pete: ari, last word. >> we need to draw a line and not say the fbi did this. we need the names of the individuals, who their supervisors were and what section of the fbi they were in. we need to know who is responsible, who did this. not the whole agency. the fbi doesn't do things. individuals do. who are they? that's what congress needs to call before them. >> pete: buck, ari, scott, thank you. straight ahead, the dems over performed in the midterms by 2024 is already looking like a disaster for the left. we'll explain why, mike huckabee wa special edition of "hannity"s it continues. inevitable. but if you're over 50 or live with a chronic condition, waiting could be deadly. because conditions like heart disease or diabetes

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battle of the bulge. he was not feeling very well. not because of the battle of the bulge. he won a purple heart and he never received it. he never got it. do you think you could help get it. we will surprise him. i got him the purple heart. he had won it in the battle of the bulge. came over the house and i came out and i presented, the family there. >> pete: he is just wandering around making things up. biden claims he awarded his uncle the purple heart, like a serious, very important award that you would remember giving. he says he gave it when he was the vice president. but biden's uncle died in 1999. biden didn't become vpn tilt is -- didn't become vp until 2009. here for a reaction, arkansas governor mike huckabee and fox news contributor lisa

lisa boothe. governor, i feel like you'd remember something like that. a purple heart for your uncle. the context of it happening. what does it tell you, i don't know. take it wherever you want. >> i think what we are watching is that joe biden is the new star of the sequel "back to the future part four." he can weave in and out of various things regardless of what happened. this is the same joe biden who said he was raised in a puerto rican community. talked about having a chain fight with corn pop. the same joe biden who said he merged with civil rights leaders in the 60s. there is no evidence he ever did. that he was first in his law class. he wasn't. he was near the bottom. his own biography makes santa claus and the elves look like the most historically verified reality that we have ever had in america. i am just waiting on any moment, he's going to say that the reason he couldn't get down to

the southern border was because he has been up at the north pole helping make toys with santa and the elves and packing that big old bag and the sleighs we can take off on christmas eve. >> pete: it sounds plausible to me. it really does. why couldn't he just go with santa claus and believe it for himself. lisa, again. we laugh. it's a story. but we see it time and time again. we have a lot of serious stuff going on. >> i'm sure that he will tell us his uncle is santa or something. i don't know if it matters, which is what is sad. what i struggle with right now, where we are as a country, it's the basic question of, do we still have free and fair elections? we are finding out with the twitter files in the new information, the revelations, we have an fbi that's perfectly happy reading elections, spying

on americans, using social media to surveil americans. what democrats did with cuba, using a virus that is as deadly as the flu to completely upend the political process and the way that we vote. elections are no longer about earning votes. it's about collecting ballots. and so i don't know if it really matters or really if any of this matters with facing down what we do right now. with elections coming up. we do things as a country. >> pete: it is scary, it really is. a small correction, governor, for those kids out there, don't worry. santa really is coming to deliver your presence. it's not going to be joe biden. it will be the real santa claus. >> thank god for that. >> pete: nothing to be concerned about. we've got to leave it there. lisa, governor, thank you very much. i wish we had more time. coming up, and exclusive look at my new fox nation series, the life of jesus. stay with us.

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>> pete: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." my brand-new fox nation series "the life of jesus," where we retrace the steps of the most consequential human in history, fully god and fully man, it's available right now at fox nation. here's a short preview. 2,000 years ago, jesus christ walked this very land, fully god and fully man. the most consequential in human history. in this series, we retrace his steps, where he lived, where he healed, where he died, and where he rose. the gospel has come alive. >> pete: here with more, a man

who joined me on this incredible journey, my pastor, chris durkin, sr. pastor in new new jersey. it's so great to see you. fun to see you in those images. i recognize that backdrop, that same story. you came along to make the gospel come alive. what will people learn from watching the story of jesus as we tell it from the places where jesus lived. >> thanks, pete, for the experience and thanks for having me on tonight. what they will learn is what we will see this weekend, pete. think of it. we will see billions of people filled churches all over the world to remember the christmas story, to remember the story of god becoming man, to remember the story of the cosmic creator of everything lying in a cradle. remember the story of the infinite becoming infant and to

remember the story of the transcendent descending, out of love for his people to save us from our sins. so what they will learn is what the scriptures teach in what they will learn and see is the exact same place that this literally happened. factually, historically, how and impacts them personally. >> pete: you're right. it's not "if it happened" or "maybe it happen." it's with the scriptures tell us is true. was there one moment or one place that really hit you? >> in this first segment we get into the holy week, i can answer that question in another way. for the next half of this wonderful documentary. when you and i were right there in bethlehem, pete, and we were at the place where we believed jesus christ was born, in that moment to think that the prophecy about a child conceiving and giving birth to a son, to think it happened right there where we were, where we

were standing and were all the viewers of this document or you can see it, we hope that it increases your faith in what the bible says about history, mostly about jesus christ. he is in fact the savior of the world. >> pete: amen. the reason for the season, i hope folks will check it out on fox nation and chris, great to talk to you tonight. god bless you. great project. don't forget to watch the "life of jesus." don't forget to tune in tomorrow night. the great laura ingraham and her angle takes it from here. >> laura: hey, pete. i have a hard time keeping up with you. you interviewed me for your fox nation special. now you've got tracing jesus' steps. you are on morning, noon, night and it's fantastic. can't wait to watch. >> pete: thank you. >> laura: all right, pete, merry christmas. i am laura ingraham and this