and left with a reality check. crisp from oregon. would things have gone differently if zelenskyy read the art of the deal? yet would have. or maybe more manners. kamren from dayton, ohio,, i've never seen lindsey graham so fired up in favor of not sending another country money. that is how bad zelenskyy performed. mary from hopewell junction new york. the only one missing from the white house meeting was hulk hogan. lu from atlantic city. i am so happy that zelenskyy wasn't my divorce attorney. i thought you were going to say so happy craig got caught. and from arizona, biden would have given zelenskyy to billion-dollar check, trump wouldn't even give him a free lunch. i'm waters and this is my world. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> sean: welcome to "hannity" and tonight one thing is perfectly clear. if there was ever any doubt american strength on the world stage, it is back big time. president trump will always stand up for you, the american people and he's going to put america first. we will not be disrespected, we will not be swindled and not bullied. today, ukrainian president zelenskyy, frinkly in many ways disgraced himself, lost the opportunity of a lifetime to stop the death and distraction of his country and he did it on the world stage. president trump graciously invited him to the white house for a key minerals deal that he promised to sign, linking our two countries together with a long-term agreement. president trump even offered to reset relations after zelenskyy, you may recall, actually campaigned for kamala harris on the campaign trail. keep in mind ukraine has received a steady flow of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars and equipment from the u.s., including under donald trump.

but under biden and harris? hundreds of billions of dollars and not all of it accounted for. far more than any other country in the world, including far more grants than the entire continent of europe. but in the oval office while the cameras were rolling, zelenskyy seemingly ungrateful, combative untyped -- entitled and his ego seemed more important than the war-torn people in his own country. and his behavior is something i am betting he is going to regret for a long time, take a look. >> if i didn't align myself with both of them, you never have a deal. you want me to say really terrible things about food an end then say hello vladimir, how are we doing on the deal? it doesn't work that way. i'm not aligned with prudent, i'm not aligned with anybody. i'm aligned with the united states of america and the good of the world. >> we tried the pathway of joe biden of thumping our chest and pretending that the president of the united states words matter more than the

president of the united states actions. what makes america the good country is america engaging in diplomacy. that is what president trump is doing. >> what kind of diplomacy are you speaking about? what do you mean? >> i'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that will and the destruction of your company. mr. president, with respect, i think it is disrespectful for you to come to the oval office and try to litigate this in front of the american media. right now you were going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. you should be thanking the president for coming into this conflict. and you think it's respectful to come to the oval office of the united states of america and attacked the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country? >> a lot of questions, let's start from the beginning. first of all, during the war, everybody has problems. even you. but you have a nice ocean and don't feel it. but you will feel it in the future. >> you don't know that.

>> god bless you will not go to war. >> don't tell us what we're going to feel. we are trying to stop a problem, don't tell us what we are going to feel. because you are no position for that. you are not any good position, you don't have the cards right now. with us you just don't have the cards. >> i'm not playing cards. i am the president . >> you are gambling with world war iii. you are gambling with world war iii. and what you are doing is disrespectful to the country, in this country. >> have you said thank you once this entire time? no in this entire meeting, have you said thank you? you went to pennsylvania and campaign for the opposition in october, offer some words of appreciation for the united states of america and the president who was trying to save your country. >> please. you think that if you will speak very loudly about the war -- >> he is not speaking loudly. your country is in big trouble.

you've done a lot of talking. your country is in big trouble. >> i know. >> you were not winning this. you have a good chance coming out okay because of us. >> mr. president back we are staying strong from the very beginning of the war. we have been alone and we're thankful. i have said thanks in this cabinet. >> we gave you through that stupid president, $350 billion. we gave you military equipment and your mentor brave but they had to use our military. if you didn't have our military equipment -- if you didn't have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks. >> in three days, i heard it from putin. >> i gave you the javelins to take out those tanks. obama give you sheets. you have to be more thankful. because let me tell you, you don't have the cards. with us you have the cards. but without us you don't have any cards. >> sean: given the chance today, he had a chance to sign a mineral deal that would lead to

a very strong relationship with the u.s. after that, hopefully a cease-fire. then he negotiated settlement that would have been in the ukrainian people's best interest and should have been the president of ukraine's goal. instead, too much arrogance and the president of ukraine seemingly ungrateful for the hundreds of billions of u.s. tax dollars used to fund this war. coming and he wanted to dictate to the u.s. how he wants more aid to come in further. how president trump should take his side which would only drag all of this out and that would mean more death, more destruction and a risk to the entire continent of europe. as a result, ukraine's president was then booted out of the white house by the national security advisor and the secretary of state marco rubio. ukraine's ambassador to the u.s. held her head in shame, lunch was canceled, the joint press conference also canceled, the signing of the minerals deal is off the table for now. the state department has already

terminated funding for ukraine's energy grid restoration and president trump instructed zelenskyy to come back when he is ready for peace. and by the way, if there is a next time, you may want to put on that suit, it is the white house. take a look. >> why don't you wear a suit? [laughter] 190 where a suit? you are the highest level in this country's office and you refuse to wear a suit. do you own a suit? >> yes. >> a lot of americans have problems. >> i don't have such. i will put on the costume after this war will finish. maybe something like yours, yes. maybe something better, i don't know. we will see. maybe something cheaper. >> sean: you need to keep in mind that historically this is not the first time that zelenskyy has disrespected the u.s. you may recall joe biden reportedly lost his temper with zelenskyy because of his insulting behavior,'s lack of gratitude.

apparently the president of ukraine needed a wake-up call. 's is in europe, donald trump was able to do something that biden and harris were not able to do. and that is bring vladimir putin to the table. he has stated publicly he wants peace and this war to be over. as to president zelenskyy. so today was a golden opportunity for ukraine, all of europe and vladimir putin and russia to stop all of the death and destruction. and that opportunity passed over today. by the way, the u.s. has now demonstrated over and over again under donald trump that we can and we will defend ourselves, regardless of what happens in ukraine. and for the record, the oceans are not our only protectors. we have the most powerful military the world has ever seen, we on the sky, we on the seas, we own outer space. and president trump is dedicated to producing the next generation of weaponry, including, as he often speaks about, and iron dome that will one day perhaps save millions of lives and our

logistics are unmatched. we don't need ukraine, they rely on us and they have been as successful as they have been because of the hundreds of billions of dollars of your money that has been spent on this war that is ending right now in a stalemate. american people stop paying that money, they will be in an awful position. you have generously supported them financially, militarily, we have offered humanitarian aid and this of course in their brave fight against a truly malignant vladimir putin. nobody disputes that. if this keeps going, there is not going to be a country left. so let's be clear. zelenskyy's behavior at the white house was unacceptable. but don't take my word for it, up next, one of ukraine's biggest supporters in washington, sender lindsey graham posted this. unfortunately america was disrespected and the deal is off. i have never been more proud of president trump, vice president vance for standing up for

america first. and then senator graham went to the microphones and had this to say, take a look. >> most americans witnessing what they saw today would not want zelenskyy to be their business partner. including me and i have been to ukraine nine times since the war started. i met with him this morning. president trump i talked to last night who was upbeat about the deal. i have never been more proud of president trump for showing the american people and the world that you don't trifle with this man. and the question for me, for the ukrainian people, i don't know if zelenskyy can ever get you to where you want to go with the united states. either he dramatically changes or you need to get someone new. >> sean: powerful words. feel free to turn off the noise on fake news cmn -- cnn, msnbc and 1986, you may recall a similar cast of characters in a state of panic. remember reagan walked away at the table and the summit with the soviet union over the issue

of strategic defense, marked by the media, "star wars". maybe now we will call at the iron dome. ultimately reagan's tough negotiations led to a peaceful end to the cold war. and now zelenskyy is trying to clean this disaster up writing, quote, thank you america, think you for your support, think you for this visit, thank you to the president of the united states, congress, the american people and ukraine needs just and lasting peace and we are working exactly for that. apparently even tried to come back to meet with trump at the white house, take a look. >> i want anybody that's going to make peace. if he is capable of making peace which you may or may not be, i want someone that is going to make peace. again, he doesn't have the cards. when we sign up he has all of the cards. that doesn't mean he can fight. he has to stop the fighting, stop the death. he says now he wants to come

back right now but i can't do that. >> sean: meanwhile, zelenskyy did sit down with our very own bread bear on a special report in this what he had to say. >> i'm not hearing from you, mr. president, i thought that you owe the president an apology. >> no. i respect the president and i respect the american people r and i think we have to be very open and very honest and i am not sure that we did something bad. i think maybe sometimes some things we have to discuss out of media with all respect to democracy and to free media. but there are things where we have to understand the position of ukraine and ukrainians. and i think that is the most important thing. we are partners. we are very close partners, we have to be clear. we have to be very free. >> sean: here now with a host of special report, joining us. great interview tonight.

that, to me, was the 1 billion-dollar or 200 billion or 300 billion-dollar question but what did you think of the answer? >> i tried three times to make sure she was understanding exactly what i was saying. they said it was like watching a man drowning who is not taking a life preserver. he did not apologize, he regretted that it happened, he said it was bad and that it was bad for the ukrainian people that that happened in front of the media. but he did not read the room. he did not read the room here in the interview and did not read the room in the oval office. maybe he thought it was similar to negotiating with president biden and talking like he was talking to president biden. obviously president trump is a much different president and vice president vance is a much different vice president. and the fact that it happened in front of cameras i think was really a bad moment for

everybody. not a bad moment for the president but a bad moment for zelenskyy. >> sean: for zelenskyy, for europe, i think it was terrible. however,, president trump was the only guy that would be able to get food and to the negotiating table. now i know before this meeting that 10 u.s. senators met with zelenskyy and they told him, this is going to be a three-step process. you will sign the mineral deal today, you will be appreciated of of that mineral deal, that will ensure u.s. presence in your country. that will help you. the president will advocate for european troops that will be there for security reasons. that was discussed this morning as well. the second phase of this would hopefully be a cease-fire and maybe that could have possibly may be happened today. and then after that a negotiated settlement which would have been the hardest part. so it is not like he went in there today not knowing what the agenda was.

>> and i asked him specifically that because i had the same intel. that not only did the senators say that, including senator graham, but also the white house. and in their interactions with ukraine they've been saying it for days and weeks, saying that this is a step in the process. you do the mineral deal first and then we talk about the negotiation going forward and with the security guarantee looks like and that is really what he wanted to talk about again and again which was the security guarantee which, listen, you said it probably five, six, seven times in my interview. >> sean: now i'm kind of asking you to give a bit of analysis based on everything that you know and your exclusive interview tonight. what happens if the u.s. stops providing money to ukraine? i don't think europe is going to step up and put in and make up the difference because they have been unwilling to do so up to this point. so at that point, there will be more death, more destruction and there will be more dominance by russia.

that would be the worst-case scenario for everyone involved, in my humble opinion. i would like to see the death stop. i would like to see the destruction stop and the better part of the mineral deal is, okay,, we will help them extract these rare earth minerals, that will help give them the money, provide them the money to begin to rebuild their country. what an opportunity that was missed. >> yes. i talked to the french president earlier this week, he said he is trying to get europe to do more, including france. they are at just over 2% as far as defense spending in nato. i talked to the u.k. prime minister, they want to do more they will do peacekeepers there at about 2.5%. these are numbers where they are low as far as what they are contributing individually not only to nato but into ukraine. now is europe, they put in about $140 billion. that said, it is not enough if the u.s. steps aside. if the weapons stock, if the

u.s. stops its support. you are right. europe probably cannot do it alone, despite their encouraging words that they tweeted out today. that is why today was so detrimental to the entire picture. all of the leaders acknowledge that this would not happen without president trump. he is the only person with this catalyst to change the paradigm that may be there could be peace. that's why it was so screwed up what happened in the oval office. >> sean: and you gave him every opportunity, i thought, to fix it. and you're right. you kept throwing him a lifeline, you may want to go here to make sure that he understood that was a fascinating interview on what was on incredible day. special report, we appreciate you, thank you. here now with more analysis, a senior fellow at the hoover institute. victor, i want to step back. if you recall, when putin was amassing troops on the border with ukraine, remember that

famous moment when biden was asked what if they invade, what he going to do? now i would argue prior to that, had joe biden been a strong president, he would have started some type of negotiation and diplomacy. he did not. and then he was asked what would you do if he invades and i thought it was inevitable, people would say he was not going against, we were not. and he said it depends if it's just a minor incursion and at that moment i realized that to me was a green light to go in. then to, $300 billion, i don't know how much money we ultimately put in, a fortune of u.s. money. it seems to have evolved into a proxy war between the u.s. and russia. and we became the main source of defense for zelenskyy. he didn't seem to appreciate that today. >> i think his problem is that the people he feels most comfortable with and akin to

have no power to help him and that is europe and the out of power democrats and the people who can help him he doesn't feel comfortable with and that's donald trump. and the second thing is that he thinks our interest at the same as him. they're similar to his but we are a superpower and we have obligations. we don't want china to align with russia, to nuclear powers. we don't want a proxy war on the doorstep of the nuclear power that go to devcon to like we saw in 1962 with cuba. and the tragedy is that we were that close because all of the main issues have basically been resolved by trump. they're not going to be able to recapture crimea. the only two issues were how far could donald trump force putin back to his 2022. of borders and how would he be deterred and he came up with this idea of making a commercial corridor to get

prosperity and also it was a tripwire so there would be westerners there that putin would not want to dare bother. just to finish, he should take a notebook from benjamin netanyahu. the biden administration was hostile to him. they ordered him to have a cease-fire, they ordered him to have a wartime cabinet. they warned him about collateral damage. they didn't do any of that for zelenskyy zelenskyy and yet when netanyahu came over there, he knew there was a hostile administration, he knew that they were a client and talking to a patron as a guest to a host and he was able to weather that. and deal with the biden administration. and all good things happened. but he did not do with zelenskyy did. >> sean: i think that is a great analogy. i predict zelenskyy is going to be back. he has to be back.

how much more death and destruction will it take for him to come back? >> and donald trump works very hard, he is not prudent puppet. putin is afraid of donald trump because he is unpredictable. he proved that in his first administration, zelenskyy knows that. donald trump is this close to getting a deal and zelenskyy is wise to call trump up, you will apologize, you will get right back over here and resume talks and it will be in everybody's interest. i think you will have to do that and i hope he does. >> sean: i hope he does. he had an opportunity with brett tonight and i was shocked. when i interviewed him, i told him this will be a negotiated settlement. i said that some mineral deal is going to be made with the u.s. and you would pay back the u.s. for all of the money they had given you. i said you are not going to be in nato and you will probably have to give up land, you never answered any of my questions one time. i became a little frustrated but

it's sad that more people will be dead. >> i don't think he understands the irony periods friends can help them and the people he was hostile to can really help them. and that is donald trump because donald trump alone can deter putin and get a deal. and the europeans in the left here in the united states cannot do that. >> sean: great to have you, thank you. when we come back, the media mob , after all of these years, they do not understand donald trump. they had a meltdown over donald trump standing up to the american people and trying to create peace around europe in the entire world. were back next with reaction.

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pope francis condition takes a turn for the worst. the vatican now requires -- says he now requires assistant ventilation but remains conscious and alert. the setback follows two days of increasingly upbeat reports about a condition. the 88-year-old pontiff being treated for pneumonia in both lungs and we will keep watching the story. in the meantime carbon monoxide poisoning is ruled out in the deaths of oscar-winning actor gene hackman and his wife. they were found dead in their santa fe, new mexico, home on wednesday. preliminary autopsy reports suggest that there has not been a determined cause of death, at least not yet. the sheriff however in that town says the 95-year-old hackman's pacemaker stop working on february 17th which means he may have died nine days before being found. now back to "hannity". ♪ ♪ >> sean: predictably the media mob went into a complete meltdown mode over president trump standing up for

america in the oval office today. would stick a look, shall be? >> they come near hours after an oval office ambush of an american ally that will reverberate all around the world and stain america's image for years to come. it revealed instead a donald trump and a j.d. vance clearly on an errand for vladimir putin. >> they are popping the champagne in moscow. they have their best vodka out and they're doing shots as we speak no question. >> that is exactly the same thought that went through my head. >> the propaganda is what's coming out of j.d. vance's mouth and it is russian propaganda. >> catelyn, i want to start and look at her face. hold that thought for -- actually, please. take it away. >> never in the history of modern diplomacy, war, piece, whatever have i ever, ever, ever seen anything like it. >> sean: that's because you've never had a leader like donald trump. our friend clay travis another

friend joe. the most amazing thing is, and i will start with you joe, because this is your wheelhouse, and ambush propaganda for putin, he is trying to end a war that is killing hundreds of thousands of people. it is destroying an entire country. and america have been using america's hundreds of billions of dollars to fight this war. and it would be in everybody's best interest but vladimir wants him to take his side. okay. not vladimir, present zelenskyy wants him to take his side. fine. you can ask for that but that will not bring peace to europe and peace to your country and your country will continue to be brought to ruins and more of your countrymen will be dead. that is the choice he is facing. >> yes, and yet we have are patently dishonest and lazy media, again claiming that president trump is on the side of russia. and to your point, will he is trying to broker peace that

would save ukraine and end this stalemate that would have otherwise lasted in perpetuity as long as a democrat administration was in power. and in the process, draining what, you're in 50 billion u.s. taxpayer dollars with $100 billion unaccounted for? for those who need to be reminded of this again, putin invaded other countries when george w. bush, barack obama, joe biden, when they were president. the only u.s. president in office and the 21st century when putin did not invade anyone was when donald trump was in power. in this case, just watch the full 46 minute video from today. because it is clear zelenskyy came in and tried to dictate u.s. foreign policy as if he was holding a full house when he doesn't even have a pair of threes. and to publicly challenge trump in front of the worldwide media in his own dojo, and his own house, that was 31 of stupid. so perhaps this was the breakup before the makeup, zelenskyy would be wise to apologize, sign the deal. but during his interview

earlier, it appears that is not going to happen. overall 72% of american voters, this is a harvard whole, they want to negotiate a settlement to end this war so the media thinks there's a groundswell of support for zelenskyy to end this war, they're completely disconnected from the public again. and by the way, would it kill him to wear a suit when he goes to the oval office? this guy looked like he was about to go raise the roof at a discotheque in budapest. show some respect, please! >> sean: i brought up the point earlier, good point. i understand, that is the least of my worries, to close that he is wearing into the oval office. but i tell you, that pole, dead on accurate. the american people do not want this. and here is the miscalculation, i think clay, on the part of zelenskyy. he thinks he is holding cards. he said i'm not playing cards, he has no cards to hold. and without the u.s. and basically biden giving him so much money that involved into

the proxy war with the u.s. and russia, donald trump is trying to put an end to it, save lives, help them rebuild their country by doing a business deal with them that would create a u.s. presence in ukraine and he just blew that all up today. >> i don't understand what any critic actually wants here. sean, we know this war is over. unfortunately, ukraine lost. i wish that russia had not invaded. i wish there was no war anywhere in the world. but what trump is doing, joe made a good point there. the reason why ukraine got invaded was because joe biden came into office. vladimir putin had four years to invade ukraine while trump was president. he didn't. you know why? because he feared how trump might respond. trump has been in office for, what, 45 days now? and he is already on the precipice of ending the war. why can we not have fun immediate cease-fire? and for everybody out there who

is losing their minds and deciding to criticize donald trump, what is your end game scenario here? ukraine is not winning. spring is coming soon. russia is inexorably advancing closer and closer and taking more and more of ukrainian territory. the time for a cease-fire is now, the time for peace is now and the time for americans to be spending hundreds of billions of dollars in a war that ukraine cannot win is over. trump is being eminently reasonable, he is trying to avoid war, he is the good guy here. i don't want to get fired up, i wish putin hadn't invaded, he is a bad guy periods lens key isn't perfect either, let's solve it. >> sean: and that opportunity was blown and present trump said come back when you want peace. i appreciate it, thank you clay. and joe, thank you. when we come back, another big win for president trump. mexico just extradited dozens of notorious cartel leaders to the u.s. and meanwhile, a self-proclaimed

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commit crimes all over the world. but the trump administration is declaring these thugs as terrorists because that is what they are an demanding justice for the american people. but of course the left wing and their dangerous obsession with protecting illegal immigrants and their rights over the safety of american citizens, you have left-wing activists out in california now alerting illegals to ice enforcement operations. they are blaring sirens and shouting from bullhorns, clearly intending to disrupt law enforcement operations. here with more, a former acting dhs secretary. is that a crime? >> it certainly could be. obviously if they are interfering with law enforcement officers and not allowing them to do their job, i think that could be against the law. that is something that obviously the justice department should take a close look at. >> sean: so if i were to tip-off somebody about the raid coming, a police raid, and ice

rate, am i not not aiding and abetting in lawbreaking there? >> i think you certainly could be. and look, is not that you were leaking information to the press or they can do a story on it, you are putting law enforcement lives in danger because that is what is happening here. when law enforcement goes out to do an operation, they largely depend on that element of surprise so that the targets of that operation don't cause them harm. so when you leak that information in any number of ways, you were putting law enforcement officers, you were putting members of that community in harm's way. that is why it is so critically important, this is a big issue and weather you are internal to dhs or the fbi or whoever you were leaking this information to or a left-wing agitator trying to stop ice from doing this, i think the justice department and others need to take a hard look at this and hold some of those individuals accountable and make an example out of them. >> sean: i think you are right, 100% right.

let me ask you this. because we now have known terrorists in the country, we have cartel members in the country, gang member's in the country and drug dealers in the country. we have murderers and known criminals in the country. you know this job as well as anybody. how is it possible with the estimated 14 plus million people or so unvented illegals in our country, how do you find all of those bad actors and deport them? i have to imagine that will be a hard job. >> undoubtedly. it is a challenging job but look, president trump and the team at the department of homeland security and others are up to the challenge. but you have to do this on a number of fronts. you all beastly have to do it here internally, have to work with our foreign partners, you need to incentivize people to leave voluntarily as well. there is a number of things that can be done here when it all adds up here at the end of the day, individuals who don't have a legal right to be here need to be repatriated and removed back

to their home countries. you need to start with the worst of the worst which they are doing with those hardened criminals but again, if you don't have a legal right to be here in the united states and you have gone through our justice system which millions have, but they have refused to leave, there needs to be a consequence for that and you need to be removed. >> sean: i just find this the most preventable national security event in the history of our country. and for four years the american people were lied to, the borders secure, the borders closed active or to secure, the borders closed. and americans saw that that was a lie. now we know about all of the murders that are taking place. the democratic party seems to have settled on the party that wants to stand up for the rights for men to play in women's sports, they want to stand up as the party that wants all of these woke green new deal transgender dei programs to be spent abroad, outside of the country.

and they put the rights of illegal immigrants over the rights of law-abiding americans to keep them safe. politically, it doesn't seem too viable to me. >> i think that is exactly right and i think the american people now know that this was a choice. president biden and his staff went on tv and everywhere to say look, our hands are tied. we need congress to act, this is up to congress to fix. yet president trump can fix it on his own. they had the same ability, they just chose not to exercise it and they didn't have the leadership to make those decisions. >> sean: thank you for being with us. when we come back, the democratic party is still in shambles. who does biden blame for his ousting? we finally know the details. thanks to transparency from, you got it, donald trump. a biden insider also says the campaign was gaslighting the american people. why didn't you tell us ahead ofe time? the full details are straight the full details are straight ahead. all around the world through tiktok.

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>> sean: tonight the democratic party is still in shambles and now new information about infighting prior to biden's ousting is now being revealed. if only we knew at the time. during an interview, president trump president trump spoke about his oval office meeting with joe biden following his november victory. he revealed that biden said he blames obama and pelosi. who told you he suspected that? that would be me, take a look. >> and i asked him, i said so who do you blame? because he was really angry. a very angry guy. and he said, i blame barack. and i never think of him as barack. i was think of him as obama. he settle have to think about that for a second. and he said i also blame nancy pelosi.

and i said what about the vice president? he said no, i don't blame her. which was interesting. he didn't blame her, he told me he blamed those two. >> sean: by the way, in the back of my mind, that third-rate actor who thinks he is so good, george clooney, i know he is friends with obama, i wonder if he talked to obama before he wrote that op-ed. keep in mind, the former biden press secretary echoed a similar sentiment this week, take a look. >> it was a firing squad and i had never seen anything like it before. i had never seen a party do that in the way that they did. and it was hurtful and sad to see that happening. a firing squad around a person who i believe was a true patriot. a person who i believe did everything that he can for this country. >> sean: also this week, a former biden aide admitted the campaign was, quote, gaslighting

the american people by dismissing concerns over the presidents age. thank you for sharing, take a look. >> there are sarr things -- some things that are true like the gaslighting. there was a lot of denial, of polling. room and i will use the term gaslight because that's what they were doing in the campaign and former colleagues. the message to everybody was to make sure that you tell people it is too early, it is too early. these polls don't mean anything. will these polls didn't mean anything for about a year and a half. the numbers never moved. but by denying the data that was out there publicly, by denying the really insightful journalism that they were actually demeaning a lot of the people. >> sean: joining us now with response, it was gaslighting, it was way beyond that. it was a massive cover-up. straight out lying to the

american people, miranda. and i remember i played this week, lara trump, jake tapper is writing a book on this, meanwhile he was excoriating her back in 2020 for reporting will i was being crucified in a sense politically, for saying the obvious, stating the obvious. this guy is a mess. >> exactly. anyone who pointed out that joe biden was sort of wondering around the g20 totally lost, kept on forgetting everything and wandering around. they were accused of peddling cheap fakes. to remember that was their final response? and you are quite right. it is gaslighting and i think the reason that the blame game has started is because of, as you call him, fake tapper's book. he of all people, they are now writing a book which claims to

be the last word on the cover-up of joe biden see melody and they are blaming joe biden. they're saying he should not have run for a second term which is correct, you should not have run for a second term but he should not have run for a first term. and they can blame each other all they like. the real culprit is there policies. and we saw today with what happened in the oval office, the manifestation of part of that. and donald trump trying to clean up their messes. >> sean: it was so obvious before 2020. we know these truths to be self-evident, men and women are created by the thing. jason, you know the thing. that would be god, the creator of everything. but it was almost every day before 2020 and then people like me would point out the obvious, play the tape and let people decide. and while, i did a horrible thing. and then all of a sudden now, here we are all of these years later, they are going to join on board? a little late for my liking.

>> it was well beyond gaslighting, it was flat out lying. they were lying and deceiving the american people, they were doing it in unison, they were doing it en masse. it was a flat out lie. and for fake jake tapper to go on and write a book that is published 30 days after the president is sworn in, all three of us have written books. you have to submit that manuscript well in advance, months in advance in order to get it published which means he was writing it. he wasn't reporting it. and that guy just thinks the american people are suckers because he had that story, he weight until after the election because he had a horse in that race and it was joe biden. but i don't blame everybody but joe biden, joe biden said he was going to pass the torch. and they could have stepped out a year before that. and these people never trusted the democratic voters, they never trusted them because they

actually did not go through a real process. >> why doesn't he blame kamala harris, miranda? and do you agree with me, i know for a fact, clooney and obama are friends. do you think clooney did that without any prompting from obama? i have my own personal suspicion. >> it seems pretty obvious that george clooney doesn't really think for himself. he was doing the bidding of his good friend barack obama. but i don't actually believe joe biden's line about him not blaming kamala harris because we have seen on a number of occasions now, since the election, where both joe biden and joe biden have iced out kamala harris in public occasions. so they are pretty dirty on her. i think joe biden realized halfway through the campaign that kamala harris had put up her good friend to do private polling which she circulated

around donors, showing that joe biden had no chance after the debate and then the donors shut their wallets. and i think joe biden has good cause to suspect that kamala harris was playing her own game. >> sean: i suspect it, jason, what about you? >> look, i don't think kamala harris had it in her, i think the way that joe biden quickly put kamala harris in that position and endorsed her was cut quite frankly, screwing over barack obama and nancy pelosi and the rest of the democratic party because there is no way she would have gotten the nomination by herself. so it was, a, you did this to me, all do it back to you. nobody was ever going to be donald trump, by the way. >> i don't think either one of their policies failed, and when kamala went on the view and said she would do nothing differently, it was over. when she couldn't do interviews, it was over. when people find out about taxpayer-funded sex change

operations for illegals, that's over. the radicalism is way out of touch with the american people. anyways, we appreciate you coming on this friday night as we continue, or "hannity" straight ahead. ♪ ♪ planning to move? join the 6 million families who discovered a smarter, more flexible way to move, with pods. save up to 20% now for a limited time. whether you're moving across town or across the country. save up to 20% at pods dot com today.

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