welcome to hotels.com >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." we are take you inside the president's autobiography, "dreams from my father," to discover who helped shape barack obama into the man he is today because it gives us a close look at his inner circle. in fact, our future president spoke about the process that he used to select his friends while growing up on page 100. listen to this. >> to avoid being mistaken for a sellout, i chose my friends carefully. the more politically acteddive black students, foreign student, chicanos, marxist professors and punk rock performance poets? >> punk rock performance poets. good to know that the president was close to them and the marxist professors. here to talk about this is the editor from the washington examiner. good to see you. what do you make of that? >> i think it's very interesting. just prior to that in the book, you are seeing the story of a young barack, through his father/son relationship with frank marshal davis who, is one radical, being led to a despair about his place in the world a

. >> sean: welcome to this special studio audience edition of "hannity." i am joined by commentators, journalists and authors to discuss the president's autobiography, titled "dreams from my father," a story of race and inheritance. although it was published in 1995, the mainstream media is just beginning to pay attention to some of its explosive content. trust me tgoes well beyond eating dog meat. over the next hour, we will help the obama administration allies and the press, doing some of their own work for them and systematically walk through the controversial book, let you hear from the president, in his own words. we have a studio audience, many of whom, i am sure you will recognize. do we all agree, probably in the course of this campaign, the top issue is going to be the economy? anyone disagree? you disagree? economy? agree. second biggest issue, national security? disagree? all right. everybody agree, national security. third biggest issue, obama's record. right? as president. okay. because that brings us to those that would be critical of going b

no. >> sean: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity."ned by our studio audience. let's start with you, jejedediya, everybody here has a strong voice in the media. where do you think this goes in terms of the campaign? it is not the economy. it is not national security. do you think this begins to resonate? >> i do. i think because he has a record, it's important to go back and see what led him to this type of policy. what shaped this policy that we see now, the big government agenda? where did it come from? i am so glad michelle did this. in 2008, when i wrote my book, i importanced the same thing. i would meet people, they had no idea why they werede defending this guy, they knew it was cool to do it. but they had no idea why. it is not too late. let's figure out what he's about and how all of this policy that's so ineffective, where did he get that from? what is he about. >> sean: you wrote about being a conservative in new york and you wrote a book, backlash, best seller, did very well. but you start in the beginning of the book how,

sean hannity can say anything he chooses like you can. romney has reputuated this with the super pac. we should do the same and address the real issues. >> look at this. ted nugent goes forward and has plausible deny blt. now we're talking about the super pacs. either you're going to outright distance yourself from them and say as a matter of both strategy and protocol that we will not engage in this blister assaults upon each other's viewpoint s or else all things are fair. there's one thing to have plausible deny blt o. we have to be across the board and open. when wright was assaulted there was no such kind of justification put forth to suggest that barack obama would not be unduly influenced by him. we have asterisks and exceptions and that's fundamentally unfair. >> mitt romney on february 7th invoked the name of what we're talking about right now. he said his name. you can't run away from that. >> ed, that is different. he was asked a question about whether or not he felt that wright had some kind of influence. he said yes. he's inf

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this is beyond television media right now, and the reason they get the big 54-page deal on this and hannity is on it, is because they want us to keep ringing the jeremiah wright bell one more time. is that smart thinking? >> well, it could be. i frankly don't know how far this gets them this time. it is not as if everybody doesn't know about jeremiah wright. this is kind of red meat for the -- >> well, i hear about the guy ricketts is the guy who owns the cubs is still about it. >> and these are people who have not heard of jeremiah wright. >> what did black theology have to do with the auto bailout or other issues, because it is like other political consultants, fred davis in this case, to find these venting billionaires who say we have to kill a book and you gave us $500,000 and whatever it is, we can take it out. >> it is not for the audience. >> right. it's a vanity production. that you can go back to the club and say i took out obama with that ad. >> and here is the guys on television who thinks like them, but hand -- hannity disagrees. and i cannot tell sean what he believes and what

hannity -- we just saw him thursday night saying go for it. >> yeah, sean hannity wants to. a lot of republicans do and a lot of the further right people feel like we never vetted obama sufficiently. talking about us, the media. and to some extent they're not wrong about that. they do feel that we kind of pulled back on reverend wright. it was sort of like president obama will not -- candidate obama said yes, i was -- i was in his church for 20 years but i'm not responsible for what he says and i can't say that characterization -- >> we have to remember mainstream media, the right wing wouldn't have that story if it wasn't for the mainstream media. >> the most important part here is reverend wright is irrelevant to obama now. he's been president for four years. and he has a record that you can attack. it doesn't matter. >> exactly. most americans don't see obama as some militant black socialist. that's just not the image that they have. there might be many swing voters who are unhappen with his record on the economy. but -- unhappy with his record on the economy. but they wo

. >> sean: welcome to this very special edition of "hannity." i am joined by national security expert, former navy seal, a member of congress and many more to discuss the first anniversary of the death of osama bin laden. now, this week americans remembered that momentous day, but as we did, well, so president obama chose to politicize the matter, both here, at home and abroad. now, the move has many people outraged, including a group called veterans for a safe america. now, take a look at this. >> osama bin laden has been killed. >> there will be no parades. they have already gone back into the shadows, without the outside world even knowing their names. >> kireport, i directed leon panetta. i was briefed, i determined at my direction, i called the president. i was the commander in chief. >> we don't need to spike the football. i said i would go after bin laden if we had a clear shot at him and i did. >> suppose the navy seals had gone in there, suppose they have been captured or killed. the downside would have been horrible. >> that campaign a

. >> sean: welcome to "hannity" earlier today, a new report in the new york times revealed that a g.o.p. super pac was looking at a proposal to run ads linking president obam to his friend jeremiah wright, around the time of the democratic convention. and the democratic reaction -- panic. the chief spin responded on twitter at 5:45 this morning. he wrote, stunning, will mitt romney stand up as john mccain did or allow the purveyors of slime operate on his behalf? let's listen to this... >> as i read the article, i want to make it very clear, i repudiate that effort. i think it's the wrong course for a pac or a campaign. i hope that our campaigns can respectively be about the future and about issues and about a vision for america. i -- i have been disappointed in the president's campaign to date, which is focused on character assassination. i just think that we are wiser to talk about the issues of the day, what we do to get america working again. talk about our respective records. >> sean: now governor romney, i have to respectfully disagree with you. i do believe the economy, jobs, nat

sean hannity wants this story. where has reverend wright been for the last 3 1/2 years? have you seen him in the news? has he been doing any protests or testified on capitol hill? has he injected himself into the political process in this country? was he around when barack obama saved the automobile industry or signed off on the stimulus package or so many other good things when it came to health care. where was reverend write when it happened? he wasn't anywhere to be found. this is low rent and sleazy and just like romney. i think romney is lying when he says he doesn't know anything about it. i wonder how often mr. romney has had dinner with mr. ricketts or talked on the phone? you mean to tell me romney went on sean hannity's radio show and brought up reverend wright and happens to distance himself today? i don't buy it. the good thing, this will rile up the liberal base in this country, to go out and attack their guy, once again being attacked with sleaze. get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think. are republicans getting desperate to bring up jeremiah

. >> sean: welcome to this very special edition of "hannity." i am joined by national security expert, former navy seal, a member of congress and many more to discuss the first anniversary of the death of osama bin laden. now, this week americans remembered that momentous day, but as we did, well, so president obama chose to politicize the matter, both here, at home and abroad. now, the move has many people outraged, including a group called veterans for a safe america. now, take a look at this. >> osama bin laden has been killed. >> there will be no parades. they have already gone back into the shadows, without the outside world even knowing their names. >> kireport, i directed leon panetta. i was briefed, i determined at my direction, i called the president. i was the commander in chief. >> we don't need to spike the football. i said i would go after bin laden if we had a clear shot at him and i did. >> suppose the navy seals had gone in there, suppose they have been captured or killed. the downside would have been horrible. >> that campaign a

a special edition of "hannity" tomorrow night. >> greta: tonight, he's back.ntroversy end in the 2008 election, you were so wrong! do you remember this? >> who cares about what a poor, black man has to face every day if a country and a culture controlled by rich white people? somebody missed that. u

the reason the reason why hannity doesn't go after every peterson is simple fox is the mouthpiece of the republican party a party that is currently waging a war on women that takes many different forms one form of supporting lawmakers who want to end women's access to contraceptives. another form is to enter a venture out of health programs like planned parenthood or jump to the defense of shock jocks like rush limbaugh who call women sluts and giving air time to a christian taliban pastor who thinks we should repeal the nineteenth amendment just like with homophobes and islamophobia republicans have to appeal to massaging this as well in order to expand their party base how else can they get joe afraid of women sixpack to vote republican if joe knew that the only real agenda the republican party is to look out for the top one percent so fox so called news gives a platform to christian taliban reverend peterson and sean hannity bites his tongue that's business as usual over g.o.p. t.v. but lost in this whole mess is how much better the it that it states would be if we actually gave w

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listen to hannity. >> you're 29 years old. stop wasting your time. novel concept. up at 6:00, shuffle coffee down your throat, get to work, stop complaining and get your [bleep] out of bed like everybody else in america and get to work. >> give me a jobbism i'll go to work. >> eric: listen to maine's governor for straight talk for lazy, whiny free loaders. >> compassion and commitment to the children. to all of your able-bodied people up there, -- >> good for you. we have a choice. do we want to be a hardworking america that wins the global economic war. or the lazy whiny americans that sit on a couch, rely on the government to get our lunch by china everyone else. >> bob: the governor of maine, chris christie and i could use weight watchers. i sit around the table for almost a year and all you complain about is the obama administration no, jobs created. now you are saying why doesn't everybody go to work? if it's job, they go to work. >> eric: there are always jobs but there are just fewer jobs now. >> bob: then why, if there are jobs, and people really, most of t

the reason hannity is doing this, the president wasn't vetted in 2008.agree in we didn't get a look at who he was. a lot of members of the media didn't read "dreams of my father." >> are you saying we have to read a book he wrote prior to 1995 when - published to know who we're voting for? what happened to personal responsibility as voters. we have a responseability to inform ourselves then as now. most people made up their minds. the small forward that hasn't don't care what he did in college. or romney did. >> a lot of people are like -- maybe people are educated. >> andrea: listen to the sound from obama that people may or may not know about his past drug use. >> i spent the last two years of high school in a daze. locking away the questions from life system unfolding. i kept playing basketball. attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily and tried drugs enthusiastically. i discovered it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the doom room with a brother you met at the gym. or on the beach with a couple of hawaiian kids who dropped

poor hannity. that's personal for him because he's only mentioned the reverend wright in 291 segments of his show since the president's inauguration. we've got a fantastic panel here with us on friday. in philadelphia, professor james peterson, director of africana studies at lehigh university and a blogger for "washington post" and in washington, julian epstein. good afternoon with all of you. dr. peterson, if i might start with you, the president. he's left an invariable trails of tears from the likes of herman cain and sean hannity, right? >> right. to think they haven't covered it enough is absolutely absurd. as you mentioned hannity has had it on his show consistently for years now. i'm not sure what mr. romney is talking about. this is a huge issue in the previous presidential election. >> dr. peterson, you can't expect mr. herman cain to pay attention to anything. >> you're right. here's what's interesting. when you look at mr. ricketts and that super pac and all the politics around chicago

for a body in motion. >> sean: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity."studio audience of navy seals, military experts and others to discuss the first anniversary of the raid that killed bin laden. the president pulled out all the stops to promote his role in the terror mastermind's death. but as you are about to see, he didn't always think it was appropriate to politicize such issues. let's take a look. >> i have had enough of using terrorism as a wedge issue in our politics. [cheers and applause] >> i have had enough of that. i have had enough of that. i don't know about you, but i think that the war on terrorism isn't supposed to crop up between september and november of even-numbered years. and yet, that seems to be the pattern. there is a sudden burst of activity, a sudden urgency about this whole thing, three months before an election, every other year. >> sean: joining me with political analysts of all of this. fox news contributor dough schoen and ed rollins. what do you make of those comments, based on his actions and the ad against romney? >> he

. >> sean: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity."joined by a studio audience of national security experts, navy seals and congressmen and many more. the president is not afraid to brag about his opposition to enhanced interrogation or gitmo. the irony that those are the very same policies that allowed our intelligence community to locate bin laden. my next guest took to the op-ed pages of the wall street journal this week to remind the president that abraham lincoln never spiked the football after the civil war. it's a very valid point. joining us is the attorney general of the united states, who presided over a flb of very high-profile terror trial, michael mccasey. i have read your whole piece. i have it in front of me. first of all, the thing that has bothered me which has not been talked about is the president had a fall-back, a cya. >> that memo was significant. >> sean: explain this. >> there was a memo from leon panetta that described the authority that was given to mccra ven to proceed according to the risks, only according t

>> one was a cereal moment, hisean hannity telling me a joke on the air. it and my head exploded. [laughter] >> i had to tell all of my friends, i made it in show business, i was talking onto the set and sean hannity was, like, all right, clinton's up on stage. >> sean: i asked, do do you hava clinton voice? >> considering this... >> sean: all right. here's the point. you are upset because he's going -- his president's about to lose. so him and his liberal friends over at the comedy central channel are in meltdown. >> they are melting down. >> romney doesn't have a chance. >> sean: you want to bet you? are -- [overlapping dialogue] >> because of the poll? >> sean: no, it's not the poll. >> it's the new york times poll. which is bias, of course, according on to -- >> look, i think obama hurt himself, i do think he politicized the gay marriage issue. i haven't seen a public official politicize the gay agenda since the policemen in the village people-- >>> that was a funny line. >> when you kids go loam, you can google village people i. it is not just that he

can i get back to hannity. i have several questions. mr. hannity, are you, have you, are you nor or have you ever been a pen, listen, you were brutal on this guy, and there are a lot of the issues he raised. >>sean: is there a question here? >>bob: i learned how to do that you ask a five minute title and you repeat yourself and you get mad. i want to know what you agree with some of the things. do you not agree the income inequality in the country? >>sean: i don't think it is the government's role to be redistributing the wealth. and --. >>bob: but corporations --. >>sean: i turn this question on you and i think it is fair to ask especially if light of the fact you have this love affair with president obama and you have portrait of him over your bed and you light a candle before you go do bed at night. here is an important question. whether you are wealthy or middle-class, but say you are in the 1 percent the movement talks about, and forget what ever figure you make, if, after you pay your state, local, federal, fica, property tax and sale

. >> in other words, that's your job, hannity? >> absolutely. and another rain i think romney shouldn't handle it is because the reality is as bad as the relationship with the reverend wright was, he has not governed as president as a candidate of black liberation theology. i mean -- >> which is black socialism. >> cornell west is a follower of black theology and he hates obama. he feels he betrayed him. and what obama does very well, he's a performance artist. >> that's what the book is about. i have many identities. i'm the first jewish president, i'm the first environmentalist president. >> hang on. this brings us to the point, let's go to some of the book which we are going to be enter speakersing throughout the program tonight. first i think, which is foremost important, the president says in his own words that he stands by the stories in the book. in other words, which he their rates often himself. listen to this. >> i cannot honestly say that the voice in the book is not mine. that i would tell the story much differently today than i did

when that was sean hannity episode taped? february. now we're in mid to late may and it's a different context. the implicit premise of this tom ricketts proposal is that john mccain made a political blunder -- >> that was romney contributing to black history month. to black history month. that was his tribute to black history month? whacking at him for his minister and religion when he is allowed to do it, and now he is saying we don't attack each others religions in may. why would you let him skip away from the standard he set? trash his religion and race here? why did he bring it up? what's he up to? no wonder this guy brought the ad campaign to him. he brought the ad campaign because he saw this guy was willing to play this card. he saw that john mccain was a man of honor and said i'm not going to play this card. then this new guy is desperate to get the job, he'll do it, so i'll get a 54-page proposal for him. it hits the "new york times," and wait a minute, now the "new york times" finds out about it and he says he won't do it. he