the watters house? we don't really watch movies around christmas time. i've actually never seen the famous christmas movie. what's the one that everybody watches with the kid gets the shotgun or the christmas? i've never seen it. never seen a wonderful life. never ever seen it. jim from venice, florida. jesse, you didn't give kat her hat. i forgot. i couldn't believe how excited she was, and i just forgot to hand it to her. she got it when she left. terry from lexington, kentucky. what's the deal? first, you're against, now bubble baths. and best friends who hurt you. jesse, i have issues. brittany from saint louis, missouri. will cain definitely takes bubble baths. oh, yeah, and he takes two ounces each. lathered up. what a sick man. i'm watters. this is my world. >> welcome to this special edition of hannity. i'm tammy bruce in for sean. breaking

news tonight out of new york city, where the judge in the daniel penny trial dismissed the manslaughter charge after the jury deadlocked twice. joining us now with the latest in new york, our very own cb cotton, cb. hi, tammy. good evening. well, daniel, penny's fate is still in the hands of jurors until at least monday, when they are back here in the courtroom to deliberate on the lesser charge criminally negligent homicide. this has been a really high stakes day, tammy, because early in the morning, jurors sent back one note saying they could not reach a unanimous decision on whether penny was guilty on the most serious charge, second degree manslaughter. the judge then read an allen charge, encouraging them to go back and deliberate and try and reach a verdict. but by the afternoon, jurors returned, still deadlocked. penny's attorneys argued the deadlocked jury was grounds for a mistrial. prosecutors asked for the manslaughter charge to be

dismissed so jurors could deliberate on the lesser charge. the judge granted the prosecutor's request, but defense attorneys said multiple times in court they felt the move was coercive. tonight, penny's defense team tells fox it's trying to remain level headed for monday and says, quote, we are cautiously optimistic that the one remaining count will be dismissed by the jury on monday. that would finally put this nightmare behind danny and allow us to focus on the civil lawsuit filed two days ago for the same allegations contained in the criminal complaint. penny's defense argues their client protected others from neely, who was threatening people on the subway last year. prosecutors say neely's outburst only lasted 30s and penny took things, quote, too far. activists tonight, they remain saying that the case is somehow about racism. >> racism is still alive and kicking in america. there's no other way to view this.

everyone has looked at the case, and those among you who say that daniel penny is innocent, have racism and bias in your heart. >> on the lesser charge, penny could still face up to four years in prison. but tammy, the judge, could use his discretion and impose a sentence of one year or less. so a lot more to watch. back to you. indeed. great stuff. thank you cb appreciate it. now. after news broke that the manslaughter charge was dismissed, legal expert jonathan turley posted on x that this is what d.a. alvin bragg actually wanted all along in setting up a possible compromise verdict. well, let's talk about that. and everything else. joining us now with more harvard law professor emeritus alan dershowitz and fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. gentlemen, thanks for joining me again tonight. important issues here we're facing gregg. i want to start with you. at first, i think at first blush

that this dismissal of the manslaughter charge seems like good news, but to the point that this is what bragg perhaps wanted is what's interesting to me. can you explain that to the viewer? >> well, it is a partial victory for the defense that prosecutors threw in the towel on the top charge that they should never have brought. and then the judge dismissed it. but in doing so, judge wiley, i think, created what looks like reversible error so that if the jury convicts on the lesser charge next week, it would be overturned on appeal. why? because the judge contradicted his own earlier ruling that the jury could only consider the second count if they found penny not guilty of the first count. well, guess what? that didn't happen. so now the judge is letting the jury do what he said he couldn't do, and the defense is right. this is coercive, sort of forcing the

jury to convict by changing the rules after the fact. it's not just unorthodox, it's legally wrong. the judge's only option, one option only was to declare a mistrial on a deadlocked jury and dismiss one charge during deliberations and then double down on the remaining charge. you can't do that to me. it clearly violates penny's due process rights. but i agree with turley. you know, the lesser included was there as a potential compromise and maybe that was their intention all along. right. >> you know, this is for all of us. we believe this should never have gone to trial in the first place. and professor dershowitz, in this kind of a of a dynamic, when you've got even at one point he told the jury that it would have to be another jury if they couldn't come to a decision, there would be another trial. and, you know, another jury would do their job. but there's no guarantee that there would be another trial that the da could

decide not to try it again. it seems again like there's a kind of coercion that's aimed at the jury, at this point. >> well, i think it's manipulation. it's manipulation by the prosecution. look, your commentator, that protester was absolutely right. this is a case about racism. it's about the racism by the district attorney. it's racism. because if the racial composition had been flipped, nobody would have brought this case. there'd be no protesters outside protesting about a black man being convicted of murder for choking somebody who who was white. this is all about race. which is why, although this is an attempt to manipulate the jury into coming to a compromise verdict, i think it will fail. i'm going to predict here and now that i think the jury will remain deadlocked on the lower count, because, as the judge pointed out, from what he's heard and seen on the notes, this looks like it's

about disagreement between the jurors over two things. justification. was he justified in doing this and causation? did he actually cause the death? and those issues are the same for the higher count and for the lower count. also, if it's tried again, he can't put him on trial again for the higher count. that would be double jeopardy. and so i think the issue is whether or not the manipulation will work and will get enough jurors to say, well, you know, no, he didn't commit manslaughter, but negligence. well, let's give the prosecution a victory. remember, to the prosecution is running for reelection and he can't win reelection if he loses this case. and also loses the trump case, which he will on appeal. if the trump is allowed to appeal. look, bragg is the worst district attorney in modern new york history. that's an office that has had such great people. thomas dewey was the district attorney. morgenthau was the district attorney. hogan was the

district attorney. these are great da's. and now we have bragg. my god, he is lowering the office to the lowest possible level and diminishing the respect at all new yorkers have for what was once a great office located in the hogan building. and it will never be called the bragg building, i guarantee you that. you know, it's a great office. >> it's it is a great city, all of which deserve better. and, greg, i'll ask you the same thing. what do you think this jury is going to do? i mean, a man's liberty is at stake. and if you're going to, you know, kind of do piecemeal things to placate the prosecution or you feel pressured by a judge. how is that justice at all? for when somebody's liberty is at stake? >> oh, it's not justice at all. as i said, the case should never have been brought. the top count? certainly not. and the fact that the deadlocked jury is, is still there. and i think they'll still be deadlocked. on monday, a

reflection of the liberal views in new york and the public pressure that social activists have applied resulted in this case. they care less about law and order and more about identity politics. if neely was white, penny black, this case wouldn't have been brought. but racial justice warriors try to make it into another george floyd outrage. you played the clip of the black lives matter person. you know, they vilified penny as a racist vigilante. alvin bragg, all too happy to go along and do their bidding and his lead prosecutor implied at every turn that penny was racist. so there's no evidence greg, but i think go ahead. >> i think professor well, i think this case was hung before they heard any evidence. >> i think as soon as the jury was selected, this became a hung jury that some members of the jury said, we don't care about the evidence. if a black man is killed by a white man, there's guilt and you're not

going to shake that. no amount of reading back of transcripts, no amount of evidence, no amount of instruction is going to shake that. so i think that the people who have voted for a hung jury, basically on the top count, they're going to stick with it on the lower count. i don't think you're going to move people by the law or the facts. you're going to move them only by the emotions of race. and that's what bragg has been playing into. and it's a disgrace. >> but see then, greg, that is that's i think exactly the point is that the things that made this indeterminable for the manslaughter charge is exactly the same as professor dershowitz noted for this other charge. so there's what unless again, unless somebody makes a decision because they've been bullied or pressured. but i think in this kind of a trial, i think that's less likely in this kind of a case. so what do you think they're going to do? can you can you read the tea leaves here for a minute? >> yeah. if you look at the

questions they asked over and over and over of the judge, please explain to us the law on justification. well, the doctrine of justifiable, justifiable homicide applies to both the top count now dismissed and the lower count, which still exists. so those same people that had concerns about justification still harbor those concerns. and they're the type of concerns that are deeply embedded in them. and so i doubt that they're going to change. i think professor dershowitz is right. there's still going to be a hung jury on monday, but we'll have to wait and see. >> we will. and, you know, this is perhaps the best case, one, possibly the best case scenario is one possibility that, yeah, go ahead. >> i'm sorry. there's one possibility of the case being unhung and that is fear. fear on the part of some of the jurors who would vote for acquit. you have these people

standing outside shouting racial epithets. one of them was shouting homophobic epithets at the defendant in the case. nobody knows what his sexual orientation is. nobody should care. but these are rioters. these are black lives matter rioters. these are people who don't care about justice. they only care about justice for them and their race. and this is racial injustice. this is so scary for america. and i hope the judge will have the good sense to understand that you can't allow that kind of racism to enter into the courtroom. he allowed one of the black lives matter people to come into the courtroom and sit next to the family of the victim, after he had made these racial and homophobic statements. so we have to be very concerned because what is what is today unfair to one group of people can easily be as unfair to other group of people. >> we do have to go, but i'll

tell you, this is a dynamic where we've seen two too often. of course, with the jewish community here in new york and around the country, this jury refusing to participate with another, you know, deadlock would be obviously the best news we could have at this point. professor dershowitz, gregg jarrett, great job. thank you very much. appreciate it. have a good weekend both of you. of course monday's going to be busy again. turning now to another breaking story out of new york. police now say the suspect in the murder of the united health care ceo has left new york city. not surprising, turning the search into a nationwide manhunt. here now, with the latest. our very own kevin corke. kevin. >> evening, tammy. that search ongoing even as we speak now. the masked man who gunned down united health care ceo brian thompson in midtown is, as you pointed out, believed to have fled the city on an interstate bus and did so shortly after the killing amid an intense manhunt that, according to the

nypd, who tonight, with the help of the port authority, has managed to track the gunman's movements from when he first arrived to the city. all the way to immediately after the deadly shooting. now, police sources tell us tonight, the suspect arrived on a greyhound bus from atlanta on the evening of november 24th, although it's still unclear where the gunman actually boarded the bus. detectives are still working with greyhound even as we speak to identify all the passengers. and tonight the company says in a statement. the bussing giant is in fact cooperating with investigators now. at the time of his death, the wall street journal reported that the 50 year old thompson had been living apart from his wife, paulette, for years and was said to have earned roughly $10 million a year as the head of united health care. there is some indication that this may have been a disgruntled person who felt very strongly about the insurance giant. of course, that has still not been confirmed, and as i mentioned

earlier, tammy, the manhunt continues as we speak. back to you. >> well, fascinating developments, especially in such a high tech city. that's why i think many of us are fascinated with exactly how this guy pulled this off. kevin, thank you very much, sir. here, now, with more as we discuss this, fox news contributors paul mauro and ted williams. paul, let me start with you. thank you, gentlemen, for joining me on this friday night. you know, it's not surprising it looks like this fellow was meticulous in some aspects of the preparation for this, but then perhaps sloppy or and made mistakes in other ways. and having a plan to escape the city. paul, you would think, would be part of that planning. do you think that this is accurate, that he got out of new york city as quickly as he could? >> well, i don't think the police would say if that were not the case. >> it looks like they put together a pretty good timeline of his activities, at least in and around killing and then

subsequent. so yeah, they seem to put him at the port authority and leaving town the way he got in, and they're using all the stuff that we've heard in so many other cases they're using using digital forensics. they're using a lot of video that they're pulling. i'm sure they're looking into what he did during those ten days. it's a pretty good amount of time. is there any indication of who he was staying with? did he stay with anybody? did he have any associates? so they're putting that timeline together. but if they said he left town, he likely left town. >> ted williams, thank you very much for being with me. you know, there's a lot of different pieces of evidence. some we've heard have been confirmed, others that we haven't, including a dropped burner phone, possibly a he went to the starbucks before he committed the murder, allegedly, if this is the same person that seems to me to be a habitual kind of thing where it's if you're a creature of habit, it's familiar to you, maybe comforting, but he bought

a bottle of water and disposed of it. if it is the same person, which means there would be, i think, a lot of evidence there. do you think that ultimately it's this kind of a guy going to be on the radar, ultimately of having done things that have him in the databases? or is it possible if this could be the first thing this kind of a person's done before? >> you know, tammy, it could very well be the first time that he has committed this kind of a crime. >> but i can tell you, i don't believe that this is a professional. i think this is a professional wannabe. and the things that he have done, as you've said here are leaving breadcrumbs all over the place. and when i use the word definitively, breadcrumbs, i'm speaking of where the water bottle, for instance, that he was supposed to have drunk at the starbucks. when you look at the burner phone that he was alleged to have been on, or

when you think about the fact that the only time they were able to see him was at that hotel that he was staying at, where he was allegedly flirting with a woman and pulled his mask down long enough for them to get the facial recognition of this guy, or this guy is playing a cat and mouse game with the authorities. and i think paul will tell you, as i will say, it's just a matter of time before they catch him. >> you know, i it seems like it would have to be certainly. paul, with facial recognition. but this is a unique guy that anybody who's been in this person's circle is going to recognize him. don't. isn't it normally human intelligence or someone calling up? i don't know if the $10,000 reward is enough. these days, but don't you think that somebody who knows this person may be the one that breaks this wall? >> definitely could be the case. and let's admit the possibility that the police very well may know his identit. and perhaps because of exactly

what you're saying, he they may have gotten a call saying that i know who this person is, but they may just not have been able to put him on a particular spot yet. and as far as the dna goes, let's remember one other thing. even if the dna doesn't pop in the dna database, you can do the kind of thing these days that we've seen in other cases where the commercial databases, the genealogical dna, right. you can go tracing that down. you can go to these commercial databases. again, as we saw in the kohberger case out in idaho right now, all you got to do is hit a relative. now it's a lot it's a lot of work. it's technical work, married to detective work. but this agency is purposely, perfectly capable of that. >> wow. it certainly is a different age when we're dealing with, like, the ease with which bonnie and clyde were able to move about. but even they got caught. paul. ted. clearly a story that's going to keep us enthralled and show us the benefits of our technological world and sometimes the limitations. but yes, let's hope that this guy

is caught soon, sooner than later, to say the least. for the sake of the family of the victim. here, gentlemen, thank you very much. now, coming up, barack obama addresses kamala harris crushing defeat. plus, tim walz says he was surprised by the results of the election. can you believe that horace cooper and representative ronny jackson join us with reaction next on this special edition of hannity. >> the perfect gift. the jewelry exchange has three carat topaz pendants for 59 one carat bracelets, 199 star bypass rings, 792 carat bands, 1991 carat studs. >> 599 always the lowest price, the jewelry exchange direct for gentle, dependable constipation relief. >> try seneca. it works differently than other laxatives because it's made from the senna plant, a natural vegetable laxative ingredient. gentle, dependable seneca is also available in delicious

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democrats to talk to people with whom they disagree. suddenly, he's interested in building coalitions that are open. now, get this to quote not only the woke, but also the waking as though that's a confession that it's not just people who are always going to disagree, it's people that have to come along anyway, no matter what. but even obama is a bit further along in the grieving process than vice presidential nominee tim walz. he still can't believe that he and harris lost. apparently, he thought that the campaign's positive message would be enough to get by on. yeah, that's by the way, that is an element of groupthink when you just simply can't see the reality outside of your own bounds. now, here with reaction, our project 21 chairman horace cooper and texas congressman ronny jackson. horace, let me start

with you. it is you know, i did i was i was swearing a little bit before we came back on the air as i was thinking about, you know, barack obama had so much potential. it did invigorate so many americans. the symbolism of his presidency as the first black president was vitally important. but there now seems to be like the spell is broken that this guy being becoming president, part and parcel of all the problems we've had dividing people, you know, maligning them, you know, relying on their, you know, clinging to their guns and religion, the, the, the smug superiority. and now people are hearing him saying things like, you know, we've got to have a pluralism and build coalitions horse. wouldn't you say that the condition, the situation we're in now is a direct result of what barack obama laid out when he was president and even before.

>> look, doctor seuss has a book just for the former president. >> it's marvin k mooney. please go now. his leadership was wasted. the opportunity to demonstrate not just to americans as we talk neighbor to neighbor about what's possible in america, but the world, what's possible in america. instead, he divided us. instead. he misruled us instead, he lied to us. the associated press called it the lie of the year. if you like your plan, you can keep it. if you like your doctor, you can keep it again, he's the first president in 100 years when running for reelection. who got fewer votes than he did the first time he was already on his way out and after 2012,

every time he has shown up, he hasn't helped anybody. >> that is a great point. representative jackson, he could not drag hillary across the finish line even as the incumbent president. clearly he couldn't drag kamala harris across. he can't be like ellen degeneres and just leave the country because, you know, the money is here, right? his fame is here. and donald trump, he's when we think about the what's possible for all americans, especially those who are disenfranchized people of color, legal immigrants, people who are still struggling. trump and his team has shown just the passion you need for regular americans in order to make things work. >> well, tammy, that's why president trump won. >> he won because he brought all these people together. he he he regained everyone and made us all come together as americans again. you're right. this started back in the very beginning of the obama

administration. it just progressively got worse. and it's on steroids during the biden administration. but, you know, now he wants this to all come together and just kumbaya and get along. and he's worried that, you know, that we're going to weaponize the government against our political enemies and use the power of the state, all this stuff that they've actually been doing for the last four years. they, for god's sake, they tried everything they could to tear down president trump and anybody that even remotely thought he had a good idea. and, you know, president obama started this during the eight years of the obama administration. don't forget, i was in the white house. i was watching it every single day and every single day. it was identity politics. he didn't do anything that didn't revolve around identity politics black versus white, straight versus gay, rich versus poor, man versus woman. they fragmented this country. they made everybody in this country feel like they were a persecuted minority, and that everybody else was out to get them. and that's what led to the overwhelming defeat that they just witnessed. >> you know, this is what horse this is what is so great about

america and has always been great. is that americans, there's this this revolutionary spirit in our dna that we, you know, we like the underdog, right? we're romantics. and so we want things to be really good. but my goodness, if you keep punching us in the face, we're going to say, stop it, and we're going to have the courage to say, you know, you're fired. we don't want you. and it seems like we're there. i mean, who knew that it would be an older, white bad dancer who would bring all americans together? i mean, i love and we love him for it, but isn't that isn't this what we want? is really this this power of everyone coming together? that it's not some naive fantasy. it is the heart of what makes america great. always. >> well, first let me say, don't be hating on the trump dance. i'm not. it's actually pretty easy for everybody to be

able to do i love it, but seriously, seriously. in your introduction, you pointed out how barack obama has let america down because he attacked what it means to be american. one of the biggest complaints that i have about him as president is that he had an opportunity to say to every person, whether you were in rural parts of the country, whether you were in the inner city, black, white or brown. he had the ability to say to them, look at me, look at what's possible in america. if you apply yourself, you can achieve. he did not say that. that's right. instead, he said, oh, they're holding you back. they're never going to give you a chance. that's why i wrote my book. that's why i wrote my book predicting that black americans were not going to

stay on the democrat progressive plantation. and guess what? this election came, came and they didn't. >> they didn't. gentlemen, this is a great time in history. even as we dance our way through it. thank you very much for joining me. i appreciate it a great, great four years. they're going to be rough, but it's going to be a great four years coming up. thank you. congressman horace. thank you. coming up, speaking of the dance, donald trump receives the patriot of the year award at the fox nation patriot awards. plus, the president elect will sit with a meet the press this weekend for his first interview since his landslide election victory. caitlin mcgee white and joe concha join us with more next. >> if you missed out, now's your chance to watch the fox nation patriot awards. join sean hannity and the whole fox family as they celebrate america's heroes with surprising moments. you don't want to miss sunday on fox news channel. the 2024 fox nation patriot awards are presented by

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edition of hannity. i'm tammy bruce. now, last night sean hosted the sixth annual. there's been six of them. fox nation patriot awards. it was a great night honoring america's unsung heroes and true patriots. the whole event built up to an epic, grand finale. donald trump made a special appearance to accept the honorary patriot of the year award. >> take a look at this and we're going to bring our country back, and it's going to be bigger and better and stronger than ever before. and we're going to be proud of our country again. right now, we're not so proud of our country. we're going to be very proud of our country again. it's going to be it's going to be better than ever before. it's going to be more successful than ever before. we're going to be more respected throughout the world than ever before. countries are going to respect us again. they already do. actually, i think you have seen more happen in

the last two weeks than you've seen in the last four years, and we're not even there yet. >> yeah, boy, he's not kidding. it's funny how everybody jumps when daddy's home. ha! trump will be in paris tomorrow, not paris, texas. paris, france for the grand reopening of the notre dame cathedral, which is just fantastic. he also taped an interview with meet the press to air this weekend. trump's public appearances come as states continue the election certification that is going on. by the way, you guys, it has been this is a process which is ahead of the electoral college vote later this month. he is now the certified winner in all seven of the most contested swing states from this election. a clean sweep. and by the way, if once texas does its certification, he will have the 270 electoral votes and so

it'll be sort of official. and that could happen any day now with texas. all right. so here now with more are the blankley fellow at the steamboat steamboat institute kayleigh mcgee. white and fox news contributor joe concha. thank you both for joining me on this friday. a very busy so many things. it's so funny. it's like life doesn't know that. it's almost the weekend and it needs to slow down. kaylee thank you. thanks for being here. you know, when we think about and you saw that crowd last night with the president, he mentions that already the world is respecting us again. it's true that it kind of confirms that just like in a home with your children or with america, with defunding the police, if people believe that there's no authority with which it will hold them accountable for their bad acts, they will do bad things. and america, whether we like it or not, has held that role because of the strength of our presidents.

don't you see this for years? this is going to be a time where that is reasserted in an undeniable way. >> absolutely. and, you know, the world's reaction to trump's election also confirms that no one has been in charge the past four years. right. great point. who in the world is in the white house right now? because president joe biden clearly is not doing anything. you have hezbollah that has already reached a cease fire deal with israel. mexico suddenly cares about stopping fentanyl smuggling. canada is down in the united states begging to remain our economic ally. and as trump mentioned, he's not even back in the oval office yet. and these sorts of things are contributing to really what is a very optimistic environment, which you saw last night. if you were you were able to attend or watch the patriot awards, where there is a genuine sense that everyday americans who have been fighting for change, who've been standing for what makes this country great, are not in the fight alone anymore. and many of them were honored on that stage last night. and i think it's great that they were able to hear from the guy who

is going to go into the white house and fight to make their vision a reality. >> it is if for people who've not heard him in person, you know this guy, joe, i know you've talked with him. i've talked with him. we've you can go to events that donald trump that people saw last night. and every time, whether it's the butler rallies or, you know, on interviews, which you were going to see on sunday with nbc, trump is always the same guy. but for many people who are wondering why would he speak with nbc, he did mention about welker that he had appreciated that she was fair to him in the past. what do you think that his approach in that way is going to be maintained with with the press? >> it's a great question, tammy. i mean, here's the thing about that meet the press interview. donald trump should be applauded for taking it, because just like the debates he did on cnn, abc, hostile territory, he's showing he has high confidence in his arguments, his policies, his worldview, and what he wants to do to move the country in the world forward. he's willing to

go anywhere to make that argument. >> so one would think that nbc news would have learned something from this election. >> but listen to this, guys gals, i should say, and many it may be bring on somebody who is remotely pro-trump to discuss and analyze the interview afterwards on what we call in this business a panel discussion. >> but no, the four panelists they've decided on tammy kelly is eugene daniels at politico, who surely would have been kamala harris's press secretary if she won. >> he's vehemently anti-trump. >> carol lee, nbc news go back and look at her so-called reporting. she's anti-trump and then it gets better because jen psaki is going to be on the panel, who is anti-trump on pixie sticks and steroids? the biden press secretary, tammy, who lied for years about joe biden, whether it be his record cognitive decline, she's on the panel and then we have marc short on this panel, who is portrayed to be the conservative but who is as anti-trump as the lincoln project and liz cheney combined. sounds like we already know where this is going to go. >> you know, it almost sounds

like they've set up like group therapy after the interview, right? that they can that they all are just going to, like, pat each other on the back and hand out the tissues. and, you know, there's a lot of we got to get back to reality here when it comes to what these conversations are. but very quickly, joe to paris for the opening of notre dame. that's international press. of course, paris and france are in some difficulty right now with the collapse of their government invitation by macron. yeah. what do you think? do you think is going to be good for trump? >> i think it shows that he's doing something while joe biden again is asleep at the wheel. he's negotiating with mexico and canada as far as securing the border without being in office yet. and now he'll be over in france as well. he looks like the commander in chief right now, tammy. certainly not joe biden. >> and kaylee kamala harris. >> you could find edward snowden before you find her. these days, she's the vice president. >> kayleigh, what do you think when it comes to going to paris? i'm sure it's important to mrs. trump. what do you think is going to happen there? >> i think it's another example

of leadership, which is especially important right now on the global stage. and it's good that at least we have someone in the united states government who is capable of standing on his own two feet for long periods of time. speaking to global leaders. >> yeah, they're going to have to get used to it. but they certainly know to not underestimate donald trump. as i say, kiddingly daddy is home. but this is perhaps a trump is going to be seen as the greatest american leader, perhaps in the last hundred years. we're going to see that develop over the next four. we are in a in a wonderful historic time here in this country and for the world. joe, kaylee, thank you very much for joining me tonight. have a great weekend. now coming up, gavin newsom heads to the southern border to resist donald trump's immigration agenda. oh, plus, new york city mayor eric adams is not ruling out switching parties after his outspoken criticism of the left's disastrous border policies. we will explain, and we're going to try to and get reaction from leo terrell and sara carter. they will have some opinions next on this special edition of hannity.

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at talkline .com. >> all right, welcome back to the special edition of hannity. i'm still proven that i love the trump dance. california governor gavin newsom, who does not like the dance i'm sure is making one final border push before trump takes office next month. hurry visiting the california-mexico border yesterday to highlight a new port of entry. isn't that the entire southern border? that's like the biggest port of entry ever. a new point of entry project, which he is working to secure federal funding for. of course, before biden leaves the white house, he could just call himself ukraine and get like $10 billion. but not all democrats are pushing back on trump's immigration agenda. new york city mayor eric adams has

become an outspoken critic of the left's open border policies, and now says he has not ruled out switching parties. watch this. >> i have to ask because i know you were enrolled as a republican from 1997 to 2001. >> would you ever consider rejoining the gop, the party? >> that's the most important for me is the american party. i'm a part of the american party. i love this country. this is the home of the free, the land of the brave. my 19 year old nephew died on the fields of vietnam. protecting what this city and this country represents. and that's the party i'm going to always be a member of. and i did it as a police officer when i wore that bulletproof vest for 22 years. and i'm gonna do it with this blue suit as the mayor of the city of new york. >> all right, well, there you go. here now with reaction. fox news contributor leo terrell and sara carter. you know, it's interesting that gavin newsom, sara thinks that everything's going to change and the sun is going to come out and all the clouds will go away if he,

like, goes down to the border because he wants. what is this, a new port of entry? don't we have hundreds of miles, sara? of a new port. a point of entry here into the country. >> well, yeah, we have roughly almost 2000 miles of u.s. border. southern border with mexico. and gavin newsom's a hypocrite, actually, because in 2018, he was so boisterous and loud. and then twitter talking about how he has a sanctuary state and he's going to open his state up to diversity. and he called everybody in. and yes, we are a nation of immigrants. we believe in legal immigration. and i come from california. i remember when i first started covering the border and the issues in california, and it was already exacerbated. and i'm talking over 20 years ago under gavin newsom. it's been a complete and utter failure, a gigantic mess from los angeles to san francisco to anywhere in california, you could see the effects of illegal immigration, which is why tammy, over

550,000 people fled. i say fled the state of california, and they lost a seat in california because of that. gavin newsom is just sitting here. he wants to join the trump train. good for him. but i don't think people are going to buy it. i don't think they're going to buy his hypocrisy. >> they can't, you know, your native californian, leo of course i'm a native californian. it's a great state. it's horrible what's happened to it. but they're both of these guys. leo, eric adams, gavin newsom, they really think that they can just like be shape shifters and that they think that americans are going to like, like fall over and trust them. after everything we've been through, what do you think california is going to have to vote for a new governor? what do you think's going on in that state? can it be saved? >> no, not with gavin newsom. not until this state becomes at least purple. let me be very clear. trump was trying. i mea, gavin newsom was trying to trump proof california. this guy is definitely trying to say

try to remain relevant. he's a lame duck governor. he still favors sanctuary city. he wants money from the trump administration. and i would submit to you, unless he eliminates sanctuary cities, unless he cooperates with ice. don't. trump should not give him the time of day. and eric adams, you're right. he's a shape shifter. for four years he did nothing. and you know what he's doing now. he talked about being in a blue suit. he's going to be in an orange suit because he's looking for a pardon. tammy. he's looking for a pardon. what has he done for four years? for four years he's done absolutely nothing for new york. he allowed jewish students to be attacked. he allowed crime to go on. he never criticized alvin bragg going after trump. these guys are con men. trump's in power. trump should never take eric adams call. he should never take gavin newsom, call. and he should not give him a dime unless they cooperate 100% with tom homan and ice. >> you know, leo, i just wish you would express yourself in your opinions more directly. i don't how will the audience

understand what to think about what you think? you know? see, this is this is sarah for new yorkers. people sometimes forget the media stopped covering it. you know, he's under investigation. a lot of his staff, you know, quit. they're getting subpoenas. people are getting raided. and there he is. you know, suddenly some different guy and he cares. new york it's a horrible it's horrible city. and this guy disappointed everybody. >> so a transformation right? a chameleon. right. and i get i get what you're saying, leo i totally get it. but i also think it was a huge wake up call for everyone in new york. look, when governor abbott sent over 120,000 people, they bust them to sanctuary cities. all of a sudden, the rest of america woke up. and especially new york city mayor eric adams was like, where am i going to put these people? i don't even know what to do. and remember when they put him in the

elementary schools, tami. remember that? and parents woke up. yeah, in the gyms and parents all of a sudden said, what are you doing? you're putting unvetted men in our child's gym about ten feet away from their school. and mayor eric adams was really stuck between a rock and a hard place. he had to wake up really quick, and i think he's come to a point. >> and i woke up on november 5th. >> i think he's worried about yeah, he woke up on november 5th and he's right now saying, okay, look, look, look, what have we got to do right now to fix the problem in new york? >> you, leo, i go, it's one question we got about 30s here. kamala harris thinks she's going to become the next governor of california. do you think that that could happen to so many people have left, as sarah noted? do you think it's possible that that kamala harris could be the next governor of california? >> let me let me ask you that in less than seconds. what a nightmare. will she run? yes, yes, she will run. will she win? no way. absolutely no way. save this tape. no no, no.

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