giving? >> gift cards are the key to gift giving, brian. then you put the ball back in to the gift receiver's court. hey, here's a $100 gift certificate to marshalls or target or some sort of store. then they can buy the gift that they want. so gift card. you can never go wrong. it's not creative but that's the way it goes. >> joe, i'm going to buy your book but not your blazer. it's a little loud. tune in to "one nation" saturday night. everybody will be on. stay within yourself. a great show is coming up. i think it's "hannity."

welcome in to this special edition of hannity. i'm jason chaffetz. the president of the united states is still nowhere to be found. coming up, we'll have more on biden's sad exit from public life straight ahead. but first, here with the latest from capitol hill, chad pergram is back with the latest. what's the latest? >> no government shutdown right now. we're waiting for the senate to align with the house of representatives later tonight. the government would formally shut down in a little less than three hours here. we're not expecting that to happen. even if they do vote, it would probably be just a little bit past midnight. that would be a technical shut down but won't affect anything. the house of representatives passed this bill earlier tonight 366-34. there were no democratic nos and all the nos came from the gop.

this bill was more svelte. so right now we're just waiting >> chad, i served in congress for eight years. this seems to be standard operating procedure. you know when they have a deadline and it involves much longer, and this isn't abnormal to how it works. >> we've been here december to december to december. i love to say it's the most wonderful time of the year on capitol hill. they always have this rush to get things done. it's always dramatic. back in 2009 the senate on christmas eve morning passed the initial version of obamacare. but, yes, this is very typical. sometimes they have blown that deadline.

we have been here over new year's eve. i remember in 2012 going in to 2013 then vice president biden came to the capitol for negotiations at 8:40 at night and then the senate in the new year about 2:40 in the morning started to vote. that tells you how bad that year was. this is pretty easy compared to some other years we've seen up here, jason. >> jason: what's the atmosphere like on the house of representatives? how much animosity was there towards the speaker in, say, the last 72 hours? is this going to make his job that much more difficult at getting his confirmation vote to be speaker again in the 18th, 19th congress i should say? >> yeah, they have to vote for a speaker on january 3rd. there are some members here who are starting to say, look, he didn't handle this well. you kind of had the conflict with president-elect trump, certainly elon musk that muddled things. a lot of people said what were you thinking, a 1,500 page bill but there's a lot of things in

that piece of legislation that members think has to get done. so what does it look like when they try to turn around and do some of those things. the experience over the past two to three days, this portends issues for next year. it is going to be very challenging to manage the house of representatives when they're down to a one or two-vote margin. they have all these big promises for incoming president-elect trump, and what they want to do on taxes, on the border security, et cetera, it's about the math. and it might not work and that's exactly what we saw in the house of representatives here today and it's going to be about the math for mike johnson on january 3rd. again, he has to have an outright majority of all members voting for somebody by name. they'll start at 434 members. that means he gets 218. he has to get to 218. they can lose one on opening day otherwise they have to keep voting and voting and voting to get a speaker. generally the consensus here on capitol hill is that vote might

take one to two to three votes. it's probably not going to be one and out even if there are protests. president-elect trump so far, he supports mike johnson for the speakership, but remember the house of representatives cannot do anything until they elect a speaker. so if they get to delay this by several days, which is what happened in 2023 with former speaker kevin mccarthy, that kind of hamstrings the agenda of trying to get done the agenda right off the bat, trying to go through those things. it just staggers that. when they're talking about budget reconciliation and getting things done by march, any time you lose off that clock, that's a problem. >> jason: well, and it also includes the confirmation of the presidential election on january 6th. there's also that along the way. chad pergram, you're the best. merry christmas. thanks for joining us tonight. we're joined by wyoming senator cynthia lummus in the house of representatives. she's the senator in wyoming.

senator, you've seen this on both sides, the house and the senate. as i was mentioning with chad, this is sort of standard operating procedure. why is it like this? why do we keep doing this? this process seems totally broken. >> the process is broken, jason. you and i were both there when chad mentioned we were in session on christmas eve. you and i were both there when we were there at session on midnight on new year's eve. this is a process that is designed by leadership to get people to agree to things they wouldn't otherwise agree to because they force it to the last hours before christmas when everybody wants to get home. this bill that passed the senate -- or, excuse me, the house this afternoon is actually in pretty good shape. normally leadership stuffs these bills full of things for their

states or their districts. that's not really the case this time. this bill's pretty clean going in to march with a continuing resolution. so actually looks pretty good. i'm not surprised that it got the votes in the house to pass, and they will also get the votes in the senate tonight before midnight. so we're going to get there by the hair of our chinny-chin-chin! >> jason: but the person who is missing in this process who is actually key to it, who actually has to sign the bill is the president of the united states. is there any sign of life? is there any sign that he is involved or engaged in this process in any way, shape, or form at this point? >> there is not an indication that he's been involved. so when there's a vacuum like that, jason, as you know, people default to the person who is exhibiting leadership, and right

now that person is donald trump. so donald trump has had his people, elon musk, j.d. vance on capitol hill or tweeting in ways that inform legislators what soon-to-be president trump is thinking. so we've seen a taste of what things could be like when we get rolling in january with president trump working with j.d. vance and with elon musk. so i'm looking forward to it. it's going to be exciting. it's going to be bumpy. we know that. it's going to be really, really bumpy, but that's what the public's ready for. they want this place to get shaken up. they want disruptive change. they want transformative change, and i honestly believe they're going to get it. we're just getting a little taste of it right now. >> jason: i'll tell you, january 20th can't come soon enough to

have to go through what the country goes through at this point is just untenable with a totally absent president along the way and in the process. senator, thank you so much for joining us tonight on "hannity." merry christmas. all right. as tense budget negotiations unfolded this week, someone very important in the washington swamp has been noticeably missing as we were just talking about. it's the so-called leader of the free world. joe biden has been awol for days, but no one on either side of the aisle, do they even care. according to politico, congressional democrats didn't hear from the president but were "largely fine" with biden's absence, and there is little clamor for him to return is one of the quotes. this comes in the shadow of a damning report from "the wall street journal" entitled "how the white house functioned with a diminished biden in charge."

based on numerous sources from inside the administration, joe biden had good days and a whole lot of bad days but was simply not capable of fulfilling the rigourous duties of the presidency. his cognitive decline was apparent from day one. for example, in 2021, a mentally fatigued joe biden skipped an important call ahead of his disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. but according to the fountain of truth and knowledge, her boss is just fine and looking forward to one last taxpayer-funded vacation to italy before he leaves office forever. you heard it right. first part of january he's going to italy, and we're all going to pay for it. joining us now with reaction is fox news contributor tammy bruce and former clinton advisor and democratic pollster doug schoen. thank you both for joining us. tammy, you watch this closely.

i can't imagine why and how the president can justify going to italy and why that's in the best interests of the united states, but he's been absent but nobody cares. put this in perspective. >> well, see, that's it. when they say he's been awol over the last few days or week, he's been awol for four years. we've discussed this on various programs, certainly sean has discussed it, you've been on top of it. douglas knows this has been the case from the beginning, and it has been disturbing that the country and certain media has suspended disbelief this has always been fine, and the democrats -- this is their usual standard procedure here without this guy. the good news is donald trump actually had his first victory. that awful 1,500-page debacle --

woke debacle was eliminated, right? is that was something that the republicans and johnson was going to move ahead with and that has been stopped and they're getting down to -- i don't know if president trump will be entirely happy with this first stage, but they're actually going to get some business done. if we wanted business as usual as per your conversation with the senator, we would have elected biden again. i mean, this statement, the election of trump and vance and the cabinet that he's put together is a statement and a recognition about what the american people want. so, yes, this has been our problem and deserves investigation when trump is in office is exactly what has been going on for four years in the white house. >> jason: doug, did the democrats -- how do they look anybody in the eye? they seem to claim, oh, we were oblivious to how absent he was. we were oblivious to his cognitive decline. are you kidding me? i mean, how do they have any

credibility on this topic? and certainly when you're in the midst of a budget negotiation, the guy should be there on the phones, working the phones, working with senators, working with the house members and he's just absolutely nowhere. >> you know, the problem for me, jason, is i wish i could disagree with you. as tammy acknowledged, this is something that people across the aisle have seen, but we democrats haven't been as candid as we need to be. and if we had been, we probably would have had a more robust nominating process and potentially nominated a stronger candidate than kamala harris. so it's been effectively a fraud on the american people and i dare say has hurt my party in being competitive in the recently-completed elections. i frankly think that joe biden, given that report about afghanistan, was not fully capable of making decisions during the bulk of his

presidency, and we the american people have been the losers. effectively now tammy's right. donald trump is the president, not joe biden. >> jason: doug, that's why we love you because you call balls and strikes and you're right. there's no defending this. >> there isn't. >> jason: tammy, it's amazing how many people were complicit from the national media to the family members to the senior staff to the senators around him. how could they let this go for four years as you said? >> well, the bureaucracy has always believed that they're the ones who run the country, that a president does not matter, that they're the ones who matter. they're the ones who make the decisions. they're the ones who are there forever. so that hubris comes through. they were panicked, and this also tells you about the lack of talent on the democrat side --

sorry, douglas. but that biden was their only choice and kamala harris. it's a serious situation for the country because the republicans need obviously a loyal opposition, and this country expects it, and the founders expected it, but you have people now -- and this is a constitutional quandary here. we have a president who is answerable, who has a lot of power and is answerable to the people through the elections and can be impeached, can be removed, but when you have a faceless, nameless, unelected bureaucracy that may make horrific decisions, destroy the military, destroy the country, who do you punish? who do you bring forward? because none of them are known. and then they slink back as they expect to do in to the system itself, in to the bureaucracy to continue. that is not what the constitution demands, it's not what the american people want, and, as we've seen, jason, it

destroys things because everybody knows who's doing it, that they'll have no repercussions publicly or when it comes to their jobs. >> jason: doug, we only have a few seconds left, but i want to make sure you get the last word here. >> yeah. what i took from today which was heartwarming and beneficial is that there was a bipartisan vote of about 336 if i remember correctly for the bill. this suggests that with a common sense, centrist agenda on crime, the budget, and on the border we can potentially do serious business as the negotiations on immigration are suggesting. let's hope that's what comes from it, and joe biden, he's mia and gone and that's to the good. >> good point. >> jason: doug, tammy, thank you. by the way, no justification for going to italy, i can tell you that. have a wonderful merry

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[ ♪♪ ] >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." it looks like a christmas miracle is now upon us because the mainstream media, at least some of 'em, are actually admitting they were wrong. take a look at what former cnn political analyst chris salizza posted on-line yesterday... >> i should have pushed harder earlier for more information about joe biden's mental and physical well being and any signs of decline.

i worked at cnn through 2022. during that time, the early part when i was at cnn, 2020 to 2022, republicans would regularly ping me and say why don't you ask more questions to joe biden and how he's doing. he's 76, 77, 78-year-old man, and i would sort of brush them off. the white house and the people around joe biden were absolutely adamant that suggesting anything, asking the question about whether he was in some physical, mental or both decline was offensive. how could you? it's age shaming. and i think that impacted me. >> jason: at least he's admitting it now out loud, but he's not the only one. the owner of "the los angeles times" is telling his editorial board to take a break from

writing about and trashing president-elect donald trump. some in the media are starting to realize that they've been missing the boat for quite some time. for example, the house has been investigating the weaponization of the federal government for two years, and you probably haven't heard about it, not even a peep on cnn or msnbc. as the weaponization committee closes out its work, it just released this. now, get this, a 17,000-page report detailing a government drunk on power. here now with more is incoming counsellor to president trump alina haba. you've been on the front lines of the weaponization of the legal and justice system, but it goes to a whole other level the weaponization of government. it's not just the department of justice but it's also all these

other departments and agencies. so what's life going to be like? what can the president do to fight back and tear down this attack on conservatives, republicans, and specifically the trump and their family quite frankly? >> nobody knows better than you, jason. you were part of the oversight committee. here's what we have to do. we have to look. we have to look. we have to have oversight. we have to have real oversight, not just a bunch of subpoenas that go nowhere. america wants action and that's very clear. i'm an american. i'm sitting here like everybody else watching. i'm watching subpoena after subpoena, testimony after testimony. people dodging testimony. people ignoring subpoenas for documents. it has to end. and they put this 1,700-page document together hoping that the american people won't read it. let's be very straight. because there's a reason the bill that just got passed went from over, whatever, 1,500 roughly pages to 118. there's a reason they do that.

it's strategic. in the legal world that i was in for so long, what they do is they do a page dump. they do a dump of documents hoping you don't look in the weeds. america isn't buying it any more, and when we go in, we're looking. that's what's going to happen. >> jason: so let's go back to the department of justice. i have no doubt that a kash patel, once confirmed along with our new attorney general pam bondi, they have the fortitude to get it done, but they're going up against 110,000 people at the department of justice. so it's quite a hill to climb. what should we expect coming out of a trump-run department of justice? >> oh, i have -- first of all, you couldn't build a hill big enough for kash or pam. these are friends of mine. they are amazing. they deserve their spot in this country. they have earned it. they are smart. they also know the ropes, and they are not going to let

anyone, i don't care if it's 1,500 people or 20,000 people, no one is going to get in their way because we have a short amount of time to fix america, and i can assure you that these people once they are confirmed, they will do what they need to do. they have a plan. they have a mandate from president trump. they will follow that mandate but also they will do it for the american people. this is not a revenge tour. this is a clean up america so we do not go to what we are right now. the two you mentioned, they are so qualified. i am ready to rock and roll with them. they are going to be epic. >> jason: a very quick story. when i was in congress, it was legendary that a member of congress went to go meet with the cabinet secretary. cabinet secretary wasn't there. and it was senior staff. when the senior staff was there but not the secretary, the member of congress gets update and decides i'm going to leave. and then they said -- he said i'm not going to go meet with the b team. the b team? that's not what i'm going to do.

finally one of the senior staff looked at him and said, yeah, we be the b team. we be here before you, we be here after you and we be the ones that make the decisions around here and that is so true. you've got to starve the beast. you've got to flush those people out, and you've got to get rid of 'em, and i have no doubt that donald trump will do that. last word to you, alina. >> i can't agree with you more. i think that was a perfect last word. we're ready to roll. i mean, i've spent -- i'm in palm beach. we're here at the winter white house, and everybody is working so hard. i think in your last segment you said president biden does not exist. president trump is the president. he is working so hard for the american people right now and so is every single person that he has nominated and we are ready. we are ready to save america. we've been saying it. it's not just a catch phrase. we are going to make america great again. i cannot wait. >> jason: it's a tenacious team and you've helped lead that charge. we've watched you from afar and god bless you.

godspeed. have a wonderful, wonderful holiday and a merry christmas. alina, thank you. all right, joe biden, he's got one month. you still have another month of this, folks, in his term. apparently he has no regrets. when asked during a recent podcast interview what he wanted his legacy to be -- this is hard to do with a straight face -- biden answered, "i keep my word that what i said i was going to do something i did it." really? here's a quick reminder of just some of the promises joe biden broke... >> various shots that people are getting now cover that. you're okay. you're not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations. >> we have a process in place to manage migrants at the border. we're working to ensure it's safe and humane. >> sounds to most folks like a crisis. >> look, it's way down now. we've now gotten control. >> are you committed to making sure that the troops stay until

every american who wants to be out is out? >> president joe biden: yes. wages for working families have gone up while inflation has gone down 65%. >> will you accept the jury's outcome, the verdict no matter what it is? >> president joe biden: yes. >> and have you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> president joe biden: yes. >> jason: here now with reaction are podcast hosts morgan ortega and tudor dickson. morgan, you think about joe biden, he said two things. he said his word as a biden is just solid and the other thing he said is that he would let a scandal-free administration -- i don't know where his cognitive capabilities are these days, but what's on your list of reality for joe biden? >> yeah, i mean, listen, i look at it from around the world. of course we know the biggest whopper that he told in the past four years was related to his son's pardon that he said he wasn't going to give.

but i think what's really scary, when you look at the clips that you just did there, look no further than afghanistan. and i think that withdrawal in august of '21 is where everything went downhill for him. he said his military leaders did not advise him that he should go below 2,500 troops. we know of course they did. he said no one told me that the afghan national army wouldn't be able to defend themselves against the taliban. of course intelligence and military professionals had been warning him about the withdrawal. you go from afghanistan, you go to russia. he said he was going to destroy the russian economy with his sanctions. while there was a good initial sanctions tranche, that certainly didn't happen. russia has been injured by this war but their economy has hummed along. you look at asia. he said four different times that the u.s. was going to support taiwan militarily if china invade, and every time his own white house had to walk that statement back because that wasn't actually the policy of the united states. of course he said things like

whenever we gave billions of dollars to iran and ransom payments to get americans out, he said they're only going to use that for humanitarian purposes. that's just a quick glimpse, my friend, of some of the hot spots around the world where the president unfortunately told -- i'll be gracious on friday night. he told half truths. >> jason: that is being very gracious, morgan. tudor, what's on your list? what pops to mind when you think of this topic? >> yeah, i think the first thing that pops to mind is the fact that he told us that he was mentally capable of handling the job, that he was not in mental decline, that he didn't have any problems with dementia, and yet we've seen this. now these reports have come out where people have said, oh, we had to do so much to hide it. we had to find out if he had a good day or a bad day, that he wasn't actually even totally with it on the day that he made the decision about afghanistan, but, jason, then he doubles down and he runs again for office.

this is a double lie. he runs again saying he can handle the job but he doesn't actually run because he steps out of the race and then he hands it over to kamala harris who he also knows is not prepared for the job. i mean, that alone i think is the biggest disaster of his presidency. we have not known who was running the country. >> jason: well, and it permeates not only from the commander in chief but down because look at korinne jeanpierre? how many times did she say it's clear and that the president is running circles around us? or telling us that the border was secure and they had operational control? it wasn't just joe biden that was lying to the american people, morgan. it was a whole host of people. they were taking the cue from the president, running with this, and telling us lies that were shown to be not true. >> and that hurts american credibility on the world stage.

if you actually care about america leading the world, if you actually care about democracy as the democratic party, as biden has like to say that they care, then you can't actually say -- you can't actually put this man up and say, oh, sure, everything's fine. there is so many surprising things to me about the past four years. "the wall street journal" piece in the last few days was one of the least surprising things i have learned in the past four years. we all knew he wasn't capable of doing it because it was obvious. and i think the damage that he did on the world stage and not just him but his staff, that they did to american credibility by essentially trying to force this lie upon all of us that everything okay, the lights are on, everybody's home when we knew that wasn't -- you know what happened? it provoked war after war after war in so many theatres. thank god we have president donald trump coming back to put the world back on the right path. >> jason: i've only got 15 seconds here. last word to you. >> well, i'll just say coming

from michigan, their lies about e.v. vehicles have been devastating to our state and we are so glad that donald trump has promised to bring true manufacturing back to michigan and true manufacturing back to the united states, and we believe that he will keep his promises as he always has. >> jason: thank you both so much for joining us. you're both right because help comes and it comes on january 20th when you have a commander in chief, our friends will respect us and listen to us and work with us and our enemies, they're going to fear us. that will make the world a safer place. thank you again for joining us. all right, coming up, donald trump fights back after the so-called resistance against his border security agenda. sarah carter and joey jones join us next on this special edition of "hannity." narrator: for generations, this ally to the north has been by your side. ontario, canada, a partner connected by shared history, shared values, and a shared vision

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[ ♪♪ ] >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." tonight the left continues their resistance against trump's mass deportation plans. the aclu is even touting a game plan to advise cities and states on how to help illegals evade deportation under trump. meanwhile, this week president-elect trump filed an amicus brief in support of a legal effort by texas and missouri to stop the biden administration from selling border wall materials stating that "such conduct likely constitutes a criminal act such as conspiracy to defraud the united states." and, surprise, surprise, since donald trump's victory in november, monthly border crossings fell below 100,000, the lowest level since biden took office in january of 2021. joining us now for reaction, fox news contributors sarah carter

and joey jones. thank you both for joining us. joey, i want to start with you because i've got to tell you, the selling of the border wall materials, that is one of the most offensive things. it's just an efface to the american people. but the idea that there's going to be all this resistance to enforcement of our laws, it's just -- it's so wrong. >> yeah. i've got one better for you than that, jason. before they were selling the border wall -- at least selling this still to americans, maybe regular americans can get a deal on some steel. i got e-mails over a year ago, maybe two years ago from a friend in a different government agency, they were telling every other government agency, here it is, just come get it. come pick it up and use it for whatever you need, parks, service, any other agency out there. what makes that possibly illegal

is it was not allowed to be for anything but the border wall. that's where the trump camp i guess at this point about to be administration is looking at how maybe there's some repercussions for this. >> right. >> jason: sarah, we all know tom homan, and he is already been telling us the stories about some of the resistance that he's going to be having. the idea that we have sanctuary cities, sanctuary states, that they won't cooperate with law enforcement, we're talking about the criminal element within the illegal immigration population. people have committed horrific crimes and yet they won't communicate or help i.c.e. is just unbelievable to me. >> well, it's not only unbelievable but it is criminal. it really is criminal. president trump is right. i want you to think about this, jason... they don't even want -- they being the aclu and this radical level agenda, this open border, biden crime administration agenda that they have going on, they don't even want to deport

the criminals. they don't want i.c.e. to have access to criminals that are being held in prison. they don't want i.c.e. to have access to the criminals that are on the streets. they don't want those deported. go ahead and tell that to the families of jocelyn ungare, of elizabeth medina, of all the people that have faced this with such heartache and pain who have lost their children or people who have just been, you know, caught in the middle of a crime syndicate. this is unbelievable. but i can tell you this, jason, this is a fact... we both do know tom homan. he is going to be our border czar and president trump means business. that's why they filed this amicus brief with the southern district of texas. they are not going to allow that to happen. they are going to hold them accountable and they're going to pull funding from these states. they are going to pull funding from the cities if they do that and they're not going to allow the aclu to break the law in the united states of america. this is going to end come

january 2025. >> jason: yeah, which can't come soon enough. joey, there's something like i read 1.4 million people who have been ordered by a federal judge to be deported or leave the country and they just haven't. they've just flaunted the rule of law like there's no tomorrow. >> you know, criminals in new york city don't care about getting arrested because they're going to be let right back out. illegals in this country under the biden administration don't care about being ordered to be deported. they can go down the road and get a green card with a different name and social security card. it's been happening in my hometown for 30 years or more. this is nothing new. there are funny parody movies about guys making green cards. you can change your identity as an illegal in this country more quickly that you can become a legal immigrant, that's for sure. when we start ordering

deportations -- when they started bringing people in and documenting their identity and saying see a judge in two to seven years, they go in to the country and if they ever get caught up to, they completely change their identity anyway. when i went to -- at 16 years old or 17 when i went to register with the unemployment office to find a job, some illegal had been using my identity for five years. that's how this country has allowed this problem to persist. it happened in little places, industry towns that needed the jobs and workers for a long time, but now it's happening everywhere and those people that came then, they'll look at you and say the people coming now aren't coming for the same reasons. they're not coming for jobs and supporting their family. they're coming because they think they can get a free ride. if you look at new york city and other places, they kinda can. >> and the national security implications, jason. and the national security implications that joey just pointed out. people just selling identification all over our streets. we're looking for another

september 11th to happen if we don't put a stop to it. >> jason: look, this administration has been putting people on flights without any sort of documentation. i mean, it's happening in mass. meanwhile, good hard-working american citizens, they have to go through all those gyrations. they're treated better as the illegal immigrants than they are who is someone who is a hard working american. thanks so much for joining us. have a wonderful weekend and holiday. all right. coming up, 2024 was not easy for many on the left. we'll bring you their very worst political predictions of the year. you're going to want to see it. stay with us. we'll be right back. [ ♪♪ ]

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special edition of "hannity." it's that time of year again. 2024 is coming to a close. hard to believe that year went by so fast. and politico has released their annual list of worst political predictions. this year's edition did not disappoint so let's dive in. remember when the democrats promised us biden wouldn't pardon hunter even after the election? once december rolled around, biden changed his mind and of course did just that. then there were many on the left who promised us that kamala harris would win in november. how did that work out for them? even more ridiculous, democrats first promised us that biden would beat trump. of course this was all before he fell flat on his face and trump thumped him at the june debate. speaking of which, we were also told by biden's advisors that he would benefit from the early debate. in reality it ended his campaign. of course no list would be of

wrong 2024 predictions would be complete without mentioning allan lickman and his infallible keys which all but guaranteed a kamala harris win. he was very wrong and even a fellow leftist called him out. remember this? >> i debated professor lickman before. i told him his theories about the keys were wrong. i said he'd lose his keys. >> that's a cheap shot and i won't stand for it! >> who won, brother? who won? >> you should not be taking cheap shots at me. >> who won? you live in a total world of denial. >> you got it wrong! you were preposterously and stupidly wrong! >> don't call me [bleep] stupid! i admitted i was wrong. i don't need you to call me stupid. >> great to see you democrats getting along so well. >> [bleep].

>> allan, shhh! >> jason: here with reaction, author of the new book -- now, this book, "under his wings," rockin' the "new york times" best seller lists. it's flying off the shelves. and fox news contributor leo terrell. thank you both for joining us. emily, since you've sold the most books of any of us here ever, give us your perspective on all these predictions that happened in 2024. >> thank you for that very generous introduction. look, i have all of these predictions set in to two categories, jason. the first is wishful thinking and the second is downright lies. so one wishful thinking would be, for example, james carvell saying that trump would be a no show, and biden winning based on the economy and then things like that and then the downright lies

category were things that biden will never pardon hunter. at the end of the day, this is what democrats hoped for. that's why at the top of this politico list is this symbol at the top. it was crossed fingers because this is what they wanted to happen. about that predictor model, the whole point is that you cannot predict the human psyche, the human emotion, the fact that americans rose up, had the end to their patience was totally spread thin. they said no more to this opaque, lying, treacherous administration that has destroyed our entire way of life from the economy all the way down. no more. no predictor model can ever say oh, it's going to be based on these factors. the human emotion is far too strong. so is america. >> jason: leo, what's on your list? >> i'll tell you right now, in addition to what you have pointed out, i want to also mention the one regarding the week before the election, the i will register poll results which indicated that kamala harris was

going to win iowa. that's not a lie. that's just outright election interference. no one in this country, jason and emily, honestly believe that kamala harris was going to win iowa. that was an outright lie. it was designed to hurt trump chances. it backfired. and in reality trump, as you know, won all the seven battleground states. the bottom line was that the democrats lost their own constituents. look what trump did. the lies were not going to work on the republican party but the lies didn't work with the democrats. the democrats lost blacks, hispanics, jews, catholics. they were sick and tired of all the lies told by the democrats and by joe biden and kamala harris. >> jason: i have a very short amount of time but any time kgp would go out and say it's clear or when jen saki at the beginning of the administration

would say let me circle back with you. >> like you said, january 20th cannot come fast enough. look, at the end of the day these predictions didn't come true because everyone underestimated trump and everyone underestimated the american people. there are no riots. there are no successful trials. there's no incarceration. all it is is a duly elected president-elect that's about to clean house. >> jason: yeah. leo. they told us hitler was going to take office and it was so offensive and so wrong. come on. >> the most offensive thing -- remember the madison square garden love-fest with trump? that was hitler. that was nazis. that was a coalition of every american who wanted a change. what emily said is absolutely correct. i can't wait until january 20th because this country is going to be made better again, great again by president trump and his staff. >> jason: real quickly, i've got only seconds left.

quick predictions. 10 seconds each. emily? >> everything's going to be awesome! guys, that's my prediction and i think that's the end of biden's pardons. >> no question about it, i think president trump will be the greatest president we ever had. president trump will become better than ever before in history. >> jason: merry christmas. stay with us. more of this special edition of "hannity" right after the break. (♪) new alka-seltzer plus cold or flu fizzy chews. chew. fizz. feel better fast. no water needed. new alka-seltzer plus fizzychews.

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