the dailey caller and breitbart .com are not just right wing blogs. they are publications.ve a bigger audience than many of the major newspapers in the country. >> sean: true. >> these aren't nameless faceless anonymous people coming forward. matthew boyle took the time to get a translator and interviewed the women who are coming forward with the allegations from the dough men republic.an >> one the underaged one at the time has a handwrite. >> and he also interviewed a government official from the dominican republic who has verified that senator menendez spends a lot of time in the dominican at parties like the ones that the prostitutes discussed and so that has been verified, too. these are not anonymous allegations coming from faceless sources. they are coming from legitimate news outlets that have very, very big audiences. >> sean: here is one of my big problems. what katie was referring to and that is the bias in the media. i remember there was a senator from idaho and an allegation he might have been toe tapping and trying to send a signal to it some guy in another se

"both of them are known by breitbart as brothers of hezbollah.g for a news organization to make up a story and fabricate it, it's quite another for senators to embrace that story and use it against a nominee. i mean, is the nomination process now not about ascertaining information but literally throwing rotten eggs at the nominee? >> absolutely. we have the right that doesn't believe in science, in polls, and in using real facts. it's like once again the eastwooding you see a lot on the gop, on the right, where we have reasonable critique we could allege at hagel, but we won't. we'll throw fake facts at him. why not actually use real facts? why not use real facts to attack the president and critique the president? no, we're going to use fake facts and present him as a kenyan, marxist, socialist, on and on. the right just wants to attack the president at all costs. when they go back to their district, they can say i stood up against the president. i was tough on the president -- >> even if that harms the nation? >> well -- >> even if it means the

. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today, which is one of the foreign funders behind senator hagel that he has not yet disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas. >> you know i saw that information today, also, and that is more and more concerning. >> there was a report that came out last week, not confirmed yet. but we-- also not denying it very vigorously that one of the groups behind the speeches may have been an outfit called friends of hamas. >> that has a ring to it. zint? >> stephen: oh, it has a ring to it. a ring that goes something like this: and folks -- [cheers and applause] friends of hamas is even worse than it sounds because this organization is so sinister that it doesn't even exist. [ laughter ] turns out, hagel's link with "friends of hamas" goes back to daily news reporter dan friedman who asked a republican senate aide looking for dirt in hagel's past if hagel had given a speech to the junior league of hezbollah or the friends of hamas. assuming that no one could take seriously the idea that organizations

. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today, which one of the foreign funders behind senator hagel is something called "friends of hamas. if that is, in fact true, senator, would that lead you to vote against mr. haig. >> well, i saw that information also, and that is more and more concerning, each day there are new things coming out. >> you can't take money from a terrorist supporting organization and come before the senate, can you? >> i'm troubled about it. >> cenk: he may have to go down, mike huckabee weighed in. there was no one on the right side that didn't weigh in on this terrible friends of had mass. then a report in the daily news. " friends of hamas: my role." he made it up. he did it as a joke. he was talking to a republican aide. let me quote you the article. hagel was in hot water for alleged hostility to israel. so i asked my source had hagel given a speech to say junior league of hezbollah in france, and it was clear that i was talking hypothetically and hyperbolically. no one could take serious that those organizations e

and it comes from breitbart news editor at large ben shapiro. now shapiro knows the scoop when he sees one. last year he told america about -- all about a nefarious hug that president barack obama gave a professor some 20 years ago. now citing unnamed sources, shapiro alleges that defense secretary nominee chuck hagel have made financial ties to a group called friends of hamas. pretty explosive stuff. the story published on february 7th, got picked up by some right-wing blogs, including the national review online. senator rand paul weighed in on it. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today, which is one of the foreign funders behind senator hagel that he has not yet disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas. if that is in fact true, senator, would that lead you to vote against mr. hagel? >> you know, i saw that information today also, and that is more and more concerning. with each day there are new things coming out. >> well, we got a problem, houston. friends of hamas does not exist.

also the editor at large of breitbart news. and that has the video locally and los angeles after border if you have an eye upon you can tune in. pacific time. start off by talking a little bit about andrew breitbart. and the editor at large. a mentor of mine. i met andrew and i was 17 years old. he had just seen a column that i wrote. as he was wanting to do, he was sitting in a greasy talk of joint. saw the column and probably e-mail me at the time. it was just the secret other half of the report. and we got together, became aspirins, and one of the things that we used to talk about a lot because we knew each other for over a decade before his untimely death was, he used to talk a lot about how the west were a bunch of bullies, with the west really does is try to shut down the debate, how their sole goal is to avoid a solid policy discussion by trying to label us that human beings, racist, sexist, biggest, homophobes'. as his career went on andrew was one of the most genial people i ever met. i don't know many of the men andre

. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today which is oneforeign funders behind senator hagel that he has not disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas. if that is in fact true, senator, would that lead you to vote against mr. hagel? >> you know, i saw that information today also and that is more and more concerning. with each day there are new things coming out. >> they call it information not yet confirmed. all the while acting on it as if it's real, making it real. well, a small sample of friends of hamas were in an uproar, bogus on bogus, that's what i have to say. friedman, the columnist, south dakota ben shapiro about where his friends of hamas information came from. he got this response. the story as reported is correct. whether the information i was given by the source is correct, i am not sure. so now we've come full circle. the breitbart reporter who started the brouhaha acknowledges that his story was a true report of something false. got it? friends of hamas has no basis in reality. the whole thing was an example of

i want to start by talking about andrew breitbart. andrew was a mentor of mine. i met andrew when i was 17 years old. he had just seen a column i wrote for the ucla daily bruin, and he was sitting in a greasy taco joint, saw the column and then promptly e-mailed me. at the time, andrew was just the secret other half of the drudge report. we got together, we became fast friends. and one of the things that andrew and i used to talk about a lot because we knew each other for over a decade before his untimely death, he used to talk a lot about how the left were a bunch of bullies, how what the left really does is try to shut down the debate. their sole goal is to avoid a solid policy discussion by trying to label us bad human beings, racist, sexist, bigot homophobes. and i saw it happen to him personally, they tried to demonize him as kind of a wild man right-winger, crazy person with fire coming out of his ears. andrew was one of the most genial people i ever met. i don't know how many of you ever met andrew, i'm sure some of you did. there were probably 100 million

anthony weiner and media manner laughing until andrew breitbart had pictures then media i can't matters had to scurry under a rock. i have a feeling menendez will have to apologize to a few people. >> what they have so far is $58,000 that menendez reimburse add doctor for and flights to the dominican republic. beyond that there's not a scintilla of evidence. >> that's not true. i would point out -- >> tell me what the evidence is. >> today the story was a actual testimony from a girl who said they had sex with senator menendez at 16 years old. as much as we want to joke about fact finding missions, he could not be patronizing prostitutes. he could be a pedophile. abc news had the story in may 2012. the daily collar has been going to the dominican republic. martha ratties had an interview with senator menendez. they had the story and it was the same time mainstream media was hammering mitt romney and republicans for war on women. >> the new chairman of the foreign relation committee and you suggest a 16-year-old prostitute. >> it's not just one. >> faceless, nameless girls. >> let's let

slightly less combative place than some of the outlets that have arisen since, such as the andrew breitbart empire, talk radio. i'd be interested to hear what you think rusher would have to say about that. >> to begin with, rusher liked almost any active, reasonably responsible, vigorous, or fearless conservativism. he, therefore, appreciated talk radio, appreciated the, you know, the more controversial aspects of fox news. he watched fox news. he specifically admired rush limbaugh even 20 years ago before rusher -- before rush limbaugh was quite as much of a household name as he is now. i asked him about "national review" which for some time -- this is about 2005 or so -- for some time, of course, it had been, it had been more sort of repper tore y'all and news oriented and current events oriented than it once was. and, yeah, there were people who didn't really like that. rusher said he was fine with that. he was for that. although he also told me -- and i don't believe this was really a confidence -- that when buckley himself retired from the actual editor hardship of the magazine -- edit

breitbart's hero defended his piece saying he got it from three separate sources.n inconvenient fact about his story, no group called friends of hamas. the whole thing is a charade. david brooks missed the mark with his column on friday as he admits. in an on-line post crypt he said he was frustrated when he wrote the piece about automatic spending cuts, but it was not fair to suggest that president obama's only approach was tax hikes on the wealthy. the white house has proposed constructive changes for spending levels and entitlement programs. good for brooks for admitting his mistake, but it should have been called a correction, not a post script. >>> and this was appalling, bob beckel speaking dismissively of the serious crime of rape. >> raped on campus -- >> what are you talking about? rampant. >> it's rampant? >> rapes on campus? >> where? >> in particular date rape on campus. >> take a gun out and shoot your date? >> maybe you should. >> beckel has since apologized making light of campus rape, including date rape. it was an emotional return for robin roberts

breitbart's hero defended his piece saying he got it from three separate sources.n inconvenient fact about his story, no group called friends of hamas. the whole thing is a charade. david brooks missed the mark with his column on friday as he admits. in ann-

. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today. is one of the foreign funders behind senator hagel that he has not yet disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas. if that is, in fact, true would that lead you to vote against mr. hagel? >> you know, i saw that information today also. and that is more and more concerning with each day there are new things coming out. >> and then just a few days later senator ted cruz of texas questioned whether hagel had been financed by north korea. or saudi arabia. >> we saw with his nomination something truly extraordinary. which is the government of iran formerly and publicly praising the nomination of a defense secretary. i would suggest to you that to my knowledge, that is unprecedented to see a foreign nation like iran publicly celebrating a nomination. it may be that he spoke at radical or extreme groups or anti-israel groups and accepted financial compensation. we don't know. but it is a minimum relevant to know if that $200,000 that he deposited in his bank account came directl

senate source told breitbart news they had been told one of the reasons chuck hagel has not turned over hamas myth. my example -- [ inaudible ], but this is the kind of world we live in, and you have to operate in as a legislator. >> it is crazy, and we saw a lot of that played out in the whole benghazi business when they went after susan rice for something he is had nol involvement in. and they are relying on the best intelligence that they could produce -- >> stephanie: they were holding up cabinet appointment over something he had nothing to do with. every time i think i have never seen this, it gets worse, right? >> it is absolutely incredible. and you know you are in an alternate universe when karl rove is the voice of reason. >> i think the superintendent a thief. he is stealing from our kids. >> and i believe that you are an idiot. >> stephanie: this is the hyperbole that we have gotten to. >> it's incredible. i remember sitting in shock when one of the house members called the president a liar to his face. but that's the kind of world we're in at this point. >> stephanie: i thin

yet the folks at breitbart are not only sticking to the report, they're attacking anyone who even questions this is the way conservative media operates these days in the business world. worse yet, instead of throwing water on these baseless stories, elected officials are fueling the fire by responding to them. senator rand paul said he found hagel's possible tied to a non-existent group concerning. and earlier this week senator lindsey graham of south carolina demanded that hagel respond to a rumor about him published by another right-wing blog. in both cases the claims had absolutely no merit. yet pushing these stories helped the right-wing media and republican lawmakers further their agenda. smear hagel and undermine ultimately president obama. "the new yorker" weighed in on this troubling development earlier and they wrote, "at its best reporting is like science. you form a hypothesis and you try to prove it. but more importantly, you shoot it full of holes to see if any of the wounds are fatal. this unfortunately is a lesson that a certain part of the conservative media doesn't seem to

it really is race arson and i think that's a term that our late friend andrew breitbart used.s one of the biggest watch dogs on this whole entire industry, these scam artists of white privilege study going on 34 years now, not just at taxpayer subsidized universities, but in our public schools and it's got to stop. >> sean: michelle malkin, always love having you on the program. thank you for being with us. >> you bet. >> sean: and next. >> the idea that karl rove has an idea of creating some super pack and basically pick senate nominees, for example, is a terrible idea. >> sean: the former speaker of the house had some harsh words for karl rove, earlier today the architect will join me live to respond to that blistering critique after the break and log on to our special companion site. it's hannity live and share your thoughts on the program and you can join in. [ lisa ] my name's lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it re

this was a story delivered by thee the editor-at-large of breitbart media.adly does it look that republican officials were willing to believe these fabricated ideas which had no foundation in fact? i mean, i was reflecting on this, and the iraq war had better intelligence, didn't it? >> well, i think it goes to credibility. credibility doesn't mean that you sometimes get it right. credibility goes to whether you have a process and an authority and a trustworthiness about how you conduct yourself in campaigns and in office, and so ted cruz, who has got a lot of attention for being loud, he has every right to be loud. he doesn't have a right to sneer this way, and that's the big thing i see. this isn't just the fact that the white house played this out and won and are winners today. there's a lot of republicans who are losers today. not only because they lost the vote obviously, but because of the way they conducted themselves. >> right. angela, as karen was saying, the really reason for opposing chuck hagel was voiced by senator john mccain. take a listen,a.

is he right there, or is this an act of war like breitbart says in the headline?don't think it's an act of war. what they're saying is we can no longer just pick a candidate simply because they are a tea party candidate if they are really not a very good candidate. just because they can fill out a survey for the tea party effectively doesn't mean they are an effective candidate. what they're saying is, as long as there are better candidates who still live up to our republican idealogical beliefs but will be strong in november, this is where we should invest our time and energy. >> you're saying some are getting lost along the way, then. >> yeah. some of them became bad candidates even though they hit some of the main points of what they said they believed. but if they can't get elected, we haven't moved the ball forward and sometimes we have defeated very, very good candidates who believe very strongly in the republican ideology. >> admiral, could this republican intraparty struggle we appear to be seeing good for democrats, or could they run into trouble if repub