florida. jesse. have you ever watered a plant? yes, i have. i've watered many plants. i don't water plants anymore. i don't actually have any plants inside my house, although i was told to in the den, but never did it. i'll look into it. john from alexandria, virginia. hopefully johnny doesn't have a goldfish on his desk. you know where johnny is right now. johnny is at spring break, so definitely watch jesse watters primetime on monday. lisa from johnson city, tennessee. i thought you'd be tireless tonight. what happened? harold didn't like the print? no, harold liked it. i just wanted to wear a tie for you for 8:00. craig from uniontown, pennsylvania. hey, who was the mystery guest? we're out of time. you caught me. we had another mystery guest. it was a tease. >> wonders in my world.

>> and welcome to hannity. and tonight. woke pro-hamas agitators. >> on college campuses are getting booted out of the country. thank goodness. >> meanwhile, federal. >> funding was just stripped from at least one radical, hate filled university. and the trump administration is only getting started. coming up, we'll check in with judge jeanine and we'll get reaction from her. plus, we'll hear from charlie kirk, david sacks, michael rowe tonight and later jimmy failla. he's going to be here to analyze the democratic party and their latest theatrics and a week's worth of antics that we've never really seen before. but first, we have major developments from president trump's peace through strength diplomacy. good news for the country. good news for the world. today, the president threatened major large scale sanctions against russia and vladimir putin if they continue to escalate their war with ukraine. while he is negotiating a peace. the president was particularly tough on putin, writing, quote, i am strongly considering large

scale banking sanctions, sanctions and tariffs on russia until a ceasefire and final settlement agreement of peace is reached to russia and ukraine. get to the table right now before it is too late. putin is now saying he is ready for a truce. critical talks with ukraine and the u.s. are planned for next week in saudi arabia. that's called progress. what did i say a week ago? we're not patting ourselves on the back. what did i say after the zelensky meeting? didn't go well at the white house. i said he would be back. he has no other place to go. it's in everybody's best interest that the killing and destruction ends. this did not take long. now the president is ratcheting up the heat on putin and not too far away in iran. peace might also soon be on the horizon. now, donald trump's maximum pressure campaign there appears to be paying off. today, the president teased a possible nuclear deal that would put an end to the mullahs

nuclear aspirations. in fact, the president sent a letter to the mullahs of iran, discussed the contents of that letter with our very own maria bartiromo. take a look. >> i'm not sure that everybody agrees with me, but we can make a deal that would be just as good as if you won militarily. but the time is happening now. the time is coming up. something's going to happen one way or the other. i hope that iran and i've written them a letter saying, i hope you're going to negotiate, because if we have to go in militarily, it's going to be a terrible thing for them. >> now, that entire interview with maria will air this weekend on sunday morning futures on the fox news channel right here. but after weeks of nonstop action, it's safe to say that the trump agenda is making big progress both at home and abroad. now, the same cannot be said for the democratic party. they have no discernible plan to improve the country at all whatsoever. and then, to make matters worse, where's the hope and the joy? there's no sense of humor, no optimism, just anger, hatred,

rage, no big ideas, no leadership, just anti-trump rage. 24 over seven, along with a heavy dose of intolerance for anybody with a different opinion. after years of woke indoctrination, cancel culture, righteous indignation, democrats totally forgot how to kind of just be normal, authentic, to have a heart, a conscience, a soul. sympathy. we got yet another weird, bizarre, cringe worthy, cringe worthy video, this time from the house minority leader hakeem jeffries, who filmed himself doing some kind of pre-rehearsed rant. okay, take a look. here's the latest. >> just finished up a. >> telephone town. >> hall meeting with my dynamic sister, our attorney general tish james, and my team informs me that some far right extremists have introduced a resolution to try to throw democratic members of the house off of our committees. that

resolution is going nowhere. you ain't throwing no one off of any single committee. these people are malignant clowns. you aren't throwing anyone off of any committee in the house of representatives. don't make me expose you to folks who don't know you. >> the only thing missing was their hitler, their stalin, their mussolini. this is the leader of the democratic party in the house of representatives, by the way. i didn't see him standing for the mothers that lost their daughters to unvetted joe biden, harris illegals, or a 12 year old young man that beat cancer, or the wife of a hero whose husband died in the line of duty. why wasn't he standing? why wouldn't he stand for the first lady? you know, he would be speaker today if democrats didn't get crushed in last year's election. and now he frankly looks empty and

pathetic like his entire party. and to be honest, this past week looked like a cry for help more than anything else. a party in need of a major soul searching. a change, of course, that in all truth, is likely impossible as they cling endlessly to their radicalism and extremism. there was just one bizarre video after another this week, including one inspired by a video game asking americans to choose their fighter. but as the trump team pointed out, america, they already chose their fighter. and guess what? it wasn't any of those democrats on your screen. take a look. >> who's your character? >> now? we do have their worst videos of the week. we'll get reaction from jimmy failla.

that's straight ahead. not that anyone at the dnc or the democratic party wants my advice, but let's be kind of clear. there's really only one way for the democratic party to recover, and they would first need to admit they've got a major problem. and their problem is their policies. their problem is their radicalism. their policy is their extremism. and they just keep doubling and tripling down on on dumb, dumber and stupid and weird and bizarre and also terrible candidates. now, according to reports, kamala harris, she is now gearing up for another election, apparently is considering a run to be the governor of california. this is. democrats express outrage at the current governor of california. that's gavin newsom, our old friend. the left is now turning on their own golden governor, all because he appeared on a podcast with our friend charlie kirk and dared to criticize biological men who compete in women's sports. we'll check in with charlie in just a moment about that interview, but sadly, it is becoming almost

impossible to speak up for sanity, decency and common sense inside the democratic party that was on full display all week freedom of speech, freedom of thought no longer exist inside the dnc. they just have their little, you know, bingo paddles that they pull out. kind of why joe rogan pointed out that the left and their attempt to mimic his podcast, they are doomed to fail. by the way, unless you're authentic in broadcasting in some way, shape or form, you're destined to fail. take a look. >> i saw one cnn after the election. they were talking about us in specific, and they were talking about how there's this network of podcasts that are interconnected that has been financed like this, this huge corporate finance network, but they were like trying to sort it out. >> bro. it's so funny. >> support each other. they go on each other's shows and they're all in this together. well, we need that on the left.

like good luck. >> yeah. >> you guys cancel each other if you're ukraine. flag is too small. yeah. >> six by six. >> yeah. you talk about each other for not having trans kids. yeah. you guys are out of your mind. you're not going to. you're not going to sync up together. you're in a suicide cult. >> they already have three broadcast networks, two left wing radical cable channels. they have almost every major newspaper in the country. so can they recover? is that the answer? and what should we make of governor newsom and his recent split with his radical colleagues? anyway, here with more turning point founder ceo charlie kirk. charlie, great to have you. so last night i knew you were on the show tonight. i tuned in and i was listening to the podcast and i didn't get through all of it. but first of all, you were very gracious. you were very nice. you could have gone at him really, really hard. you did it in a really

nice way. and i'm. i know gavin too. well. i've interviewed gavin, i moderated, i think you brought it up. i moderated the debate with desantis, and i have tried to reason with this man, and he does not listen ever. maybe. is this the tipping point for him? did you get the feeling he really wants to change? >> i don't know, i think he wants to be president, sean, more than anything else on the planet. i think you can agree he has more political ambition than almost anybody in the democrat party. and i think he understands that the entire country is moving center right and is accelerating at a rapid pace. in fact, we are course correcting after four failed years under joe biden and all of the woke stuff and the anti common sense movement. gavin newsom had me on his podcast and i was shocked all of a sudden where he decided to diverge away from the orthodox opinion in the democrat party, which is as simple as saying that it's not fair that a biological man can compete in

female sports. now, number one, i don't believe that he actually has any heartfelt beliefs on this. i think it's purely political, transactional. however, everybody in the audience should understand this means that we are winning at such a rapid pace that the governor of the largest state in the country, the largest democrat state, who obviously wants to be president, has to adjust his policies against the base of the party to even be taken seriously to run for president in 2028. >> okay. but the problem is, it's so transparently about political expediency. if he's going to change his core beliefs, and here would be the biggest problem that i would see that he has. he has something called a track record. he's been in government. he's the mayor of san francisco, lieutenant governor for eight years. at the end of this term, he'll have been governor for eight years. he has a track record. so i don't think you get to run away from the from the positions you have been holding for decades just by talking to conservatives like charlie

kirk. he never invited me on the podcast. i'm a i'm offended by the way. i'm very offended. i feel left out. >> well, you should text gavin. and secondly. you already did, right? sean? there was a moment. >> before you went. >> on, i there was a moment of the podcast. yeah. no. and look, there was this back and forth where i drilled him. i said, look, you have the highest cost of living in california. you have the most homelessness in the country. in california, you have the highest poverty rate in the country. in california, you have the second highest home prices in the country. you guys control the house, the senate, the governor's mansion, lieutenant governor's mansion, secretary of state and the attorney general, and every statewide elected office for the last 20 years. how is this republicans fault? what record are you going to run on? and you could every time there's anything california specific, you know this from moderating the wonderful desantis debate. he gets hyper aggressive and focuses on one little minute detail, and he just tries to bring you down into the ditch. but everyone has been voting with their feet when it comes to california over the last couple of years. they have net population loss. people are leaving in record numbers. they also have the highest gas

prices, unnecessarily highest gas tax. and so look, there's nothing to run on except for the fact that he is very slippery and slick and he's trying to reinvent and rebrand himself. and look, i'll talk to anybody at any time. and there was a whole part two where i even got him to tacitly admit that president trump is unlike any other cultural phenomenon we've ever seen. he's like, oh yeah, i went to the oval office with president trump and i had a great time with him. i said, well, are you going to work with president trump with ice and immigration and border patrol? and of course, he had a slick answer to that as well. but i think there is a looming democrat civil war happening because gavin newsom is realizing that if he does not come to the middle on a lot of issues and magnify some of his positions, there will be no chance for him in a general election. but president trump has completely remade the american body politic, and you can start to see the most opportunistic democrat of them all, gavin newsom, at least attempting to adjust with some of his rhetoric. we'll see if his actions follow. >> thank you so much. thank you. all right. tonight, more big news from the white house. now, siemens, they announced a

$285 billion investment in manufacturing inside the u.s. meanwhile, the president's brand new bitcoin reserve is off and running ahead of trump's crypto summit from earlier today. here to break it down, the president's ai and crypto czar david saxe, is with us. all right. i got a lot to ask you because i did invest in bitcoin and ethereum. i watched the fluctuations. if you tried for the entire hour to explain to me bitcoin's algorithm and i have had friends spend hours trying to get this through my thick skull. you will never be able to penetrate the way my brain thinks, and i will never get an understanding of it. however, it has proven to be a pretty good investment for me. what do you make of the president's crypto, and what do you make of the fluctuations in the crypto market? >> well. >> sean, good. >> good to be here. >> you're right. i mean. >> bitcoin has proven over time to be a very good investment.

it has proven to be very secure. i mean, the thing you just need to know about the security of the protocol is that it's worked. i mean, bitcoin has now been around for over 15 years. the price has gone up from basically zero to roughly $90,000 per coin. and we think this stuff is scarce. it's like digital gold and we want to keep it in a digital fort knox. now what we're talking about is bitcoin that's already on the federal balance sheet. so the federal government, as a result of civil and criminal seizures and forfeitures, had accumulated roughly 400,000 bitcoin over the past decade. and unfortunately, the federal government sold off roughly half of that at very low prices. i think we made something like $400 million or less than $400 million, and if we had held that bitcoin, it'd be worth over 17 billion today. so that has cost taxpayers dearly that we did not have a long term strategy. so president trump is now signing an executive order. we talked about it at the crypto summit to create a strategic bitcoin reserve. we think we've got about 200,000 bitcoin left. we want to maximize the value of those. and the way that you do them is you hold them for the long term. so that's what we're

doing. we're creating a digital fort knox. and i should just say one more thing, which is we don't know for sure that there is 200,000 bitcoin left because no one has ever done a full and complete accounting or audit. and that is one of the things that president trump has directed is we need to do a full accounting right away. everything needs to be audited because we need to maximize the value of these assets for the american people. >> okay, i don't tell people how to invest because i'm not an expert. i'm definitely not an expert on crypto. with that said, i do read a lot, and i do talk to a lot of people that know a lot more about it than i do. and you have people like michael saylor, for example, who i'm sure you're very familiar with, extraordinarily bullish. i've interviewed him once, extraordinarily bullish on the future of bitcoin. where do you see bitcoin going yourself in terms of, you know, where does it ultimately you know, how high does it ultimately go. >> well i don't want to be in the business of making predictions around the prices of assets. you know i don't

measure the success of what i'm doing based on price levels, but really based on innovation levels. i'm a policy advisor for innovation. so the last thing i want to do is come on your show and tell people to buy a particular asset. what i can tell you is that if you look at the historical trend, bitcoin has gone up over time, but with huge and volatile swings. so as an asset, it's not necessarily for everyone. if you're a retiree on a fixed income and you might need the money anytime soon, you should talk to your financial advisor. but i would tell you don't don't do it. if you're a young person and this is surplus funds and you can afford to take a risk, then talk to your financial advisor about doing it. so i think that ultimately your risk profile has to matter in a decision like that. but what i can tell you is if you look at the 15 year track record of bitcoin, it's basically gone from zero or almost nothing to 90,000 roughly. so it has over time, with wild swings, proven to be a good investment. and i wish that the federal government had held on to all of its bitcoin

instead of selling half of it so cheaply. >> okay, maybe a better way to kind of get you off the hook and you're not going to be giving financial advice. and we'll use a disclaimer. this is you are not advising people one way or the other, but but you obviously believe in crypto. you obviously believe in its long term viability. you believe in its long term future. you believe for a lot of people, it will be a good investment. and you see, do you see anything that would inhibit its growth? one thing that's kind of shocked me a little bit as i follow it and i and i, i'm on coinbase, i see it every day is the volatility is very real. it's not for the faint hearted. and i look at it as a long term investment. i'm not betting the milk money on it, but it's been kind of a fun little hobby of mine. but overall, are you bullish on the idea that crypto is here to stay and its value? there will only be a finite number of, for example,

bitcoin? are you bullish that it will maintain value? do you think the odds are very high knowing the volatility aspect of it? >> well, the reason why bitcoin has maintained its value is because it's scarce. the bitcoin protocol only allows for the creation of 21 million bitcoin. now, if anybody ever figures out how to create a counterfeit bitcoin fake bitcoin or it's a problem called double spending, then all bitcoin could become worthless. but no one has figured out how to do that. and we're talking about now a system that's been around for roughly 15 years. so it's been a long time. and bitcoin now has something like a $2 trillion market cap. and you can think of that market cap as a huge bug bounty or incentive for hackers to try and figure out how to break the security of bitcoin and create fake bitcoin. nobody's been able to do it. and so as bitcoin has become a bigger and bigger target, it has proven to be more and more resistant against these attacks. and that i think, has led to more confidence and more acceptance throughout the world. so

bitcoin is accepted by huge numbers of people all over the world who view it as, again, a kind of digital gold. so or it's known as a store of value. and so, you know, i do think that as long as the acceptance keeps growing the way it has and the security remains intact, then i do think that long term it will do well. >> yeah. by the way, and david, i can't emphasize enough to people don't make any financial investments without talking to professionals. i don't know. enough about it. so i think that's sound advice and we appreciate your time when we come back. the trump administration, they're wasting no time cracking down on radical agitators at american universities, including revoking visas for international students who support hamas. we've got the details. we'll get reaction. our friend judge jeanine pirro, straight ahead. passenger airbg

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>> this is the fox news update. >> i'm chanley painter in new york. president trump threatening to impose large scale. sanctions on russia until a. >> peace agreement. >> with ukraine is reached. in a post on truth social, trump wrote he's considering the action, quote, based on the fact that russia is absolutely pounding ukraine on the battlefield right now. earlier this week, the white house paused military aid and assistance to ukraine. >> a south. >> carolina man executed by firing squad for the first time in 15 years, brad sigmon, was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. friday after being shot by three prison employee volunteers. the 67 year old chose a firing squad because his lawyer considered it a better option than the electric chair or lethal injection. sigmon killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001, during a botched plan to kidnap their daughter. i'm chanley painter. now back to hannity.

>> all right. the trump administration, they are sending a clear message tonight. anti-semitic protests on college campuses need to end and end now. they are taking decisive action to make sure that that happens. and earlier today, the departments of justice, health and human services, education all announced they are revoking $400 million in federal grants for columbia university, which has been the hotbed of anti-israel activity in america since october the 7th. the university says they are committed to combating anti-semitism. is that a bad joke? and pledges to work with the federal government to get their money back? but it doesn't end there. the state department has just revoked the student visa of an international student who joined a pro-hamas protest on an unnamed campus here in the u.s, and ice is getting ready to remove them from the country. this, as the state department also reportedly now

preparing to use ai to review the social media accounts of foreign students for expressions of support for the terror group hamas in order to revoke more student visas. now, president trump also plans to revive some version of the travel ban in the coming weeks. after all, why would we ever invite people who hate our country, hate our allies, and allow them to walk through our front door? and people that sympathize with radical islamists? anyway, here with reaction. she is the co-host of the hit show the five. she's also my favorite judge. her and judge judy, my two favorite judges. the two people that are my favorite except, god forbid, if i ever was before you and you were on the bench, i would. i don't think i would. i'd freak out from the pressure. i would not be able to handle it. >> you know what? it's more my. >> prosecution side. >> that you should be afraid of. not my judge side. my judge side was very understanding.

listen, i think people, first of all, thank god for president donald trump. that's number one. number two, people need to recall when you make reference to what happened during the first term of president trump, the supreme court ultimately upheld the move by the trump administration that sought to make sure that there was a travel ban against those individuals who presented some kind of a threat to the united states. we need to vet people in a way where we can identify who's going to be a threat to the united states. that's number one. number two, universities in this country have become a hotbed of anti-semitism. and donald trump, to his credit, has finally said, we're going to revoke the visa of one student. and they are now looking at all the students and whether they use ai for that to investigate the social media or anything else doesn't matter. universities are not places

where you can empathize with terrorists, especially a foreign terrorist organization like hamas and preach intifada along with violence against law enforcement, along with damaging university property and trespassing and the violence that goes along with that, that is not allowed. now, these universities, sean and i had to laugh when you said columbia is committed. i wrote it down to fighting anti-semitism. nonsense. it's only when we pull you by the short hairs and take $400 million, that all of a sudden you want to respect the right of jewish students to go to class, that you want to prevent these kids who are wrapped up in, in, in all kinds of coverings on their face and who have the unmitigated gall to say, we will not unwrap our faces until you tell us who you're giving money to, until you make a decision to stop supporting anything that is supporting israel. so it's

about time that we recognize that the immigration and nationality act gives the united states the authority to revoke the visas and deport these people immediately if the universities aren't going to do it. and remember, the university can say you are going to expel you, but the president and the state department can say, we're going to revoke your visa and we're going to deport you. that's the difference. and it's about time we had this judge. >> in all seriousness, we appreciate you because you know what? you always stand up for what's right and you always stand up for, in this case, people that are being oppressed, the underdog. >> it's not right. thank god for president trump. >> amen. for that. i'll double i'll double dare that. there we go. all right. when we come back, the american dream is about upward mobility, right? not access, not access to cheap goods that, according to our treasury secretary scott bessent, who is making a very compelling case for the president's economic vision.

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brilliant idea. a lot of kids don't want to go to college. a lot of kids don't graduate from college anyway. here with reaction. he is the ceo of the mikeroweworks foundation, which is now in the application process for its annual work ethic scholarship program. i'll look at that smile. that guy's always got a golden smile. the golden set of pipes, that great voice. the guy's amazing. how are you, my friend? how are my guys on deadliest catch doing? they're all right. >> they're terrific. in fact, i've got an autographed poster for you right here. as promised. it goes in the mail tonight. >> i paid for it twice, i think. i don't know, i mean. >> i know. >> donating to charity. >> a way to a make a wish kid, but this one's for you. it's on. >> its way. okay? make me feel awful for even requesting it. now give all of them to the make a wish, kids. no, that's sean, you know. >> i'm sitting here smiling

because for 16 years, as you know, we've been out there with a couple of messages, but the big one was a question. and the question was, has there ever been a more harebrained decision in the history of education than removing shop class from high school? the problems and the unintended consequences that have arisen from that decision are manifest? i can draw a line from from taking shop class out to 1.7 trillion in student loans, to sky high commission, to a widening skills gap to, well, even the tariffs that we're talking about right now in the manufacturing that we hope to bring back to this country, you know, there are 580,000 open manufacturing jobs right now. i'm hoping the president gets his way. i i'm hoping we see massive reshoring. but this idea that there's a giant, enthusiastic workforce just waiting for new jobs to appear, that's not

true. you know, we've got 7.6 million open jobs right now as we speak, and over 7 million men able bodied, sitting out of the workforce. so there are other things revolving around this that are, i think, really important to talk about. but getting shop class back into high school and reinvigorating the skilled trades, that is at the heart of the american dream, at least the way i grew up understanding. >> so i don't want to regurgitate my life story. i've i've been open with this audience. i've told the story many times. i spent many, almost ten years of my life working in the restaurant business and almost ten years in the construction business. and i will tell you that probably the single best thing, one of the best things i ever did in my life, and having good parents, that instilled a work ethic in me. and i was working when i was eight years old, i was in a restaurant at 12 years old, and here was the most fascinating thing. i think i

read on the economy in a long time. the next generation of millionaires are going to be tradesmen. now think about this. that means contractors, that means carpenters, that means plumbers, that means electricians. that means people that get their hands dirty, dirty jobs. that would be a great, great show. i think you'd be really good at that. but but i will tell you the sense of accomplishment i felt after every, every day that i worked with my hands and ran my you know what off. i can't even begin to describe it. and it was one of the best things i did in my life. and now they're going to get rich doing it. >> you don't have to describe it. there are millions of people who understand exactly what you mean, and tragically, there are millions who don't. the simple satisfaction that comes from watching a job get completed is a consummation devoutly to be wished, you know, and a lot of people don't

have it. you can't find that in a cubicle. but look, that's why we've awarded a little over $12 million in work ethic scholarships over the last 8 or 9 years, specifically to kids who want to learn a skill that's in demand. that's not to say that a four year path is bad. it's expensive, that's for sure. but it is to say that it's not for everybody. and part of the reason we're in such a hole right now is that we've been telling a whole generation of kids for a long time that the best path for the most people is the most expensive path, and never mind the stigmas and stereotypes and myths and misperceptions that keep people from giving the trades an honest look. those are real, and we fight against those every day at mikeroweworks. but there's math, shawn. there's really horrifying math that's been going on for over a decade. for every five tradesmen who retire to replace them five out, two in, five out, two in, it's just not sustainable, which is why you've got 100,000 open

positions right now in the maritime industrial base, 80,000 in the automotive space. the numbers are huge, so we've got to do a lot of things right at the same time, including getting shop class back in the high school. but in my little slice of the world, i got $2.5 million right now this month for the next generation of skilled workers. and as always, you know, first come, first serve. but your viewers are invited to check it out. >> you know, i ran into a young man and he was about 19 or 20, and we started talking and i said, are you going to college? you said, no. i said, what are your plans? and he said, i'm not really sure. i said, okay. and it wasn't a dead end job. any job is a good job to me. if you're working, you know what? you're not getting in trouble. you're earning money and you're being productive and you're serving others. i think every human being was born to serve, and i just had a long conversation. i said, you know, have you thought about becoming

a mechanic? have you ever thought about becoming a plumber? have you ever thought about becoming an electrician? i said, the demand for these trades is astronomical. and let me tell you how much you'll make starting out. and i started, you know, discussing apprenticeship programs. i said, you show up on a job site and you tell a plumber, you tell an electrician that you'll do, you know, anything they want you to do? if they would just give you an opportunity to learn the trade and see what happens, i would bet maybe you'd have to go to 3 or 4 plumbers. he'll get hired, wouldn't you agree? >> i think it's good advice. but look, the trap. and the trick is to understand, especially in in this position, it's hard to know exactly who is listening. right. and sometimes people need to be nudged in this direction or encouraged in another direction. i don't like to paint with too broad a brush, but i can tell you that at mikeroweworks we're not, honestly, and i always get in

trouble when i say this out loud, but we're not trying to help the maximum number of people. we're we're trying to help the people who are going to make a persuasive case for themselves. and to your point, show up early, stay late, go to where the work is, be of use. we have 2200 success stories to tell. so the kid you're talking about, he's not alone. there are lots of men, and women are are a trade job away from the prosperity that they've been told is the american dream. it's still up for grabs. you just got to go take. >> it. >> i said. in five years, you'll be able to be looking at your first home. you'll drive the car or the truck that you want. you'll eventually break out on your own, and you will have a successful life. and you'll be able to, you know, provide for your family down the road. probably things that you weren't given when you were growing up yourself. so, mike, i love your work. you're a good man. i am not holding my breath. i do not believe that

poster is going to show up. hell is going to freeze over. >> it's right here, man. it's right here. it's got your name on it. >> let me see. i want to see my name. put it up near that camera. >> i want. >> to see my name on that. >> it's. it's sealed shut. >> and sealed shut. >> well. >> it's got your personal address on it. you sure you want me to show it? >> well, forget it. i don't want that part i have. i have enough crazy people after me. all right, mike rowe. thanks, brother. when we come back, a dumpster fire inside the democratic party. we're going to review the week's worst moments. oh, and meghan markle's back in the spotlight. jimmy fallon is chomping at the bit. he weighs in. next tonight on hannity. >> g. ivanova. powers. america every day as the leading american energy manufacturer, we've never stopped building the technologies that drive today's economy and define the future of energy. we know an. >> abundant. >> independent and secure energy system starts here at

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behavior at trump's joint address to congress, to some bizarre videos posted on social media. democrats are falling apart right in front of your eyes. take a look. >> choose your character. >> that's what. >> inflation is getting. worse and worse. grocery prices. housing. groceries. gas. >> yeah. >> meanwhile, meanwhile. >> donald trump. >> has done nothing to lower costs. >> for you, nothing. >> to lower. >> costs for you. >> representative al green be censured with public reading of this resolution by the speaker.

>> oh. >> deep in my. >> heart. >> not in. >> my. >> the house would come to order. the house would come to order. >> all right. there's only one person that we need for reaction here. fox news saturday night host our friend jimmy failla. all i can say is bup bup bup bup bup bup bup bup bup bup bup bup bup bup bup bup. help me out here. that's all i can say. i have nothing to say. i want to know what you have to say. >> well, clearly. >> rfk has to get. >> to work on the mental health. problem in. >> this. >> country, because. >> there's no way you can. >> watch that and tell me there wasn't one. sean. >> i can't believe. >> i'm going to. >> say this to you, but the democrats, the democrats best option in 2028 might be joe biden. like, we might have to prop this guy up for another four years. yo, sean, how do you tell. >> me you're. >> for real? how do you tell me you're the party of the youth and show up with an old man

shaking his cane at trump and then whip out bingo paddles? you know why they didn't? do you know why they didn't clap? do you know why they didn't clap for anything? because they're so old. the lights would have went out. like they have the clapper on their side of the chamber. what am i watching? what am i watching? >> oh. >> i just want to know, is all that spontaneous or did you actually prepare that? because that's really good. clap on, clap off. you know, that's. i mean, i'd ask you a serious question. you can't stand for the president. okay? you hate donald trump. you can't stand for the first lady kid with cancer. mothers that lost their kids. you can't stand for a young, a young, a young man that lost, that prevailed over cancer, or a kid that got into west point who lost his dad or the wife of a slain officer. what the hell is wrong with them? >> and think of how crazy that is. democrats can't cheer for a boy who becomes a cop, but they'd cheer for a boy who becomes a girl. something is wrong with this picture. and it

takes me back to the video. you know the choose your fighter video. nobody wants. nobody wants choose your fighter advice from a party that would let a man box against a woman. like, how about we just. how about we just choose to forget about this party for a few years and we can revisit the subject? >> you are so on your game. i can't keep up. this is too good. i mean, i love this one smiling away. it's almost like their version of ymca. >> they're just. they're trying to do the trump dance. we figured it out. >> they're trying to do it. that's amazing. all right, i got to ask you this. meghan markle back in the headlines again. not in a good way. her new netflix lifestyle series entitled with love meghan is getting blasted by critics as inauthentic and out of touch. let's give you a quick sneak peek. take a look. >> i don't think anyone in the world knows that meghan markle. >> has eaten. >> jack in the. >> box and. >> loves it. funny too, that you keep saying meghan markle.

you know i'm sussex now. you have kids and you go, no, i share my name with my children. yes. and that feels so i, i didn't know how meaningful it would be to me, but it it just means so much to go. this is our family name. our little family name. >> well. >> now. >> i know. >> and i. >> love it. >> oh, what did you just do to me? >> what did. >> i you know what? that's a hate. >> crime, right? >> what? >> what did i do? it's a hate crime. what did i just do to the audience? i mean, i'm scaring them away. >> i know. >> this is so phony. that is fake. fraudulent? that is phony. >> oh, totally. mindy kaling, i don't know that meghan markle a jack in the box. i don't know that anybody cares that meghan markle a jack in the box. but you know why they titled the show with love, meghan? because producers realize that at a nicer ring than whiny, entitled brat who won't go away. so it's shorter given that it's shorter. >> oh wow, you're getting an a

plus plus plus tonight. you're you're. >> well, that never happened in school. that never happened in school, so i'll take it. >> you know what? well, see, you've grown a lot. all right. i got to take you to that hard hitting news show, the view. and trump hating co-host, our dear friend joy behar, made a pretty, pretty shocking claim that she could be friends with a trump supporter. i wonder if she's sure about that. you decide. >> i be. >> friends with a. >> trump supporter. i won't give them a kidney, but i could be friends with them. i mean, the question the thing about it is it's not just about politics. it's about morality, ethics. it's about cruelty. it's about discrimination. it's about a lot of things. so those are personal human values. we're not really just talking about fiscal conservative who pays more taxes. we're talking about you as a human being. so it's hard to be friends with someone who signs on to something like that. >> oh gosh. >> her party wouldn't stand for a kid with cancer or mothers that lost their children. and

she's going to lecture us on morality. >> for real. >> but i. >> i do agree with her, though. she said she could be friends with a trump supporter. she kind of has to be because she has no friends. sean, nobody wants to hang out with joy behar. you're never going to be at a party and hear somebody go, i can't wait till joy behar gets here and complains about everything and eats all the dip and goes home. >> stop it. all right now. i used to go on that show. i bet you didn't know that. >> is that true? that changes everything. okay. >> no, that does change everything. now, recently i said to steve today they've not invited me on in years. and guess what? they invited me on. if you were me, would you go sit in the middle of that? >> oh, shaunie, you have to. you owe this to the american people. >> oh, man. >> have a good game. >> why? why are you doing that to me? >> for me? you do it purely for me. i will be for you. i listen, just so you know, everybody watching at home, i can get tickets to the view. they're $10 to get in and 100

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