paul manafort, you look healthy. sure it's better wearing a suit and tie than orange suit. >> it's great to be with you here after all these years. thank you very much and i appreciate this opportunity tonight. >> sean: you really in many ways, you, roger stone, carter page, flynn, all of this stems from a false phony narrative based on a false dossier and phony fisa warrants. tell us about the whole experience from your point of view. >> well, from my point of view it's been a very complicated last five years and certainly not a fun experience. a lot of surprises, when things first started to break and the false narrative first started to be promoted in august 2016, i didn't take it very seriously because i knew how ridiculous it was to even say that there was russian collusion going on with the trump campaign. but as time went on, as the drum beat got louder, and all of a sudden anonymous government sources started putting out stories which i knew were fake, and working with social media and the mainstream media to

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paul manafort is writing a book that contests the 2019 financial fraud charges filed against him by the federal government. the book political prisoner will be published by skyhorse this summer mr. manafort was sentenced to more than seven years in prison, but was pardoned by president trump in 2020. also in the news the fbi arrested a 29 year old man accused of operating a fishing scam that secured unpublished manuscripts by best-selling and first-time authors phillip o bernardini who was employed by simon and schuster uk allegedly impersonated publishing executives and used fraudulent email addresses to obtain the documents. the case is puzzled the publishing world because none of the stolen manuscripts ever resurfaced and no ransoms were demanded simon and schuster is not named in the indictment and has placed mr. bernardini under suspension pending further information. in other news a recent gallup poll found that 27% of americans read more than 10 books last year an 8% drop from 2016 the 17% that did not read any books is on par with surveys from prior years. and according to npd b

. >>> so convicted fraudster paul manafort has landed a book deal, but will selling a book that coulde filled with lies be enough to buy him another ostrich jacket? >>> and a right wing commentator says she would rather die than take the covid vaccine. john avlon looks at the sad trend of anti-vaxxers who are doing just that. narrator: on a faraway beach, the generation called "our greatest" saved the world from tyranny. in an office we know as "oval," a new-generation president faced down an imminent threat of nuclear war. on a bridge in selma, alabama, the preacher of his time marched us straight to passing voting rights for every american. at a gate in west berlin, a late-generation american president demanded an enemy superpower tear down a wall and liberate a continent. american generations answering the call of their time with american ideals. freedom. liberty. justice. for today's generation of leaders, the call has come again to protect our freedom to vote, to fortify our democracy by passing the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights act because america - john l

paul manafort looks pretty trim. was it a prison diet? what is that? he looked great. >> sean: i wouldn't want to spend a year in a jail. would you? so boring, i would bore myself. we do know. it was interesting to see him. hannity, awesome show. >> sean: great stuff. have a great show. >> laura: i am laura ingraham from an unintentionally hilarious washington tonight. clinton-cheney 2024. that is the focus of tonight's angle. as omicron was spreading in the u.s. last month, biden warned of a winter of severe illness and death. a year earlier, he warned of a very dark winter, again about covid. but he might as well have been forecasting his own political trend line. the data from a new quinnipiac poll is devastating. biden's approval rating is approaching kamala harris territory, at just 33% among adults. it gets even worse when you dig into the cross paths. 25% with independence, 26 approval with men. 24% with 18 to 34-year-olds. that's the future. and he has just 28% approval with hispanic voters. things are only going to get worse for biden this yea

former trump campaign chairman paul manafort's is writing a book that contests the tormenting financialraud charges filed against him by the federal government. the book, political prisoner, will be published by sky horse. he was sentenced to more than seven years in prison but was pardoned by president trump in 2020. also in the news, the fbi arrested a 29-year-old man accused man accused of operating a phishing scam that secured unpublished manuscripts by best-selling and first-time authors. he was employed by simon & schuster uk allegedly impersonated publishing executives and use fraudulent e-mail address adopting the documents. the case has puzzled the publishing world because none of the stolen manufacture ever resurface and no ransom was demand. simon & schuster is not named in the indictment and is placed him under suspension pending further information. a recent gallup poll found 27% of americans read more than ten books last year, an 8% drop from 2016. the 17% that did not read any books is on par with surveys from prior years. according to npd bookscan print book sales were u

four of the individuals in that have connections to paul manafort. at the connections between somebody like russia and the united states, those links go directly to people who were intimately involved in getting president trump elected, and also in his administration. that hasn't been fully explored, and the american people don't have an understanding of the links there and the vulnerabiliies that continue to exist. >> ari melber talked to three former members of trump's team who outlined the plan for fake electors, they say it was legal. do you get the sense they're testing the letter of the law, as opposed to the spirit of the law? >> it's an extraordinarily audacious plan. anytime you look to undermine the will of millions of millions of people, it's an undemocratic thing to do. but it comes down to accountability. the type of person donald trump is, the type of people he has around him, are not swayed by civic duty or the institution of the united states. what they understand is, if they do something wrong, whether or not they're punished. and th

we have an exclusive interview with paul manafort. his first since being pardoned by president trump. this story will blow you away. you want to know how corrupt your government is? tune in tomorrow night at 9:00. that's all the time we have. please set your dvr an let not your heart be troubled. by the way, who did you want to win last night's championship game? >> laura: well, i have to say, alabama, as you know. you have a lot of fans there, a lot of georgia and alabama fans. they said to say hi to you. however, i'll say, an i'm going to get into this later. how did you know i was going to get into this whole thing? hannity: people don't know that about you that you love sports. >> laura: you knew it. >> you love sports. i do love sports and i'm going to get into this later in the show, but a huge fan base for hannity in the state last night. and alabama. >> and georgia. second so a lot of fans, but i will also say that even though i want alabama to win, there's a very positive story going to tell later in the show where alabama fa

we have an exclusive interview with paul manafort.s first since being pardoned by president trump. this story will blow you away. you want to know how corrupt your government is? tune in tomorrow night at 9:00. that's all the time we have. please set your dvr an let not your heart be troubled. by the way, who did you want to win last night's championship game? >> laura: well, i have to say, alabama, as you know. you have a lot of fans there, a lot of georgia and alabama fans. they said to say hi to you. however, i'll say, an i'm going to get into this later. how did you know i was going to get into this whole thing? hannity: people don't know that about you that you love sports. >> laura: you knew it. >> you love sports.

. >> sean: welcome to hannity and coming up, an exclusive tonight, paul manafort will join

justice, and some of the things that were cited there were the dangling of pardons to people like paul manafortperation with the government, so people who already have been charged who might otherwise have an incentive, and it could be anybody inclined to commit an attack in the future would feel empowered by trump's words, and for those reasons they could be seen as having a potential criminal exposure. it's a dangerous place to be going down the road to promise pardons for people who are enemies of our country. >> betsy, you have all the talk about pardons and then you have political with the new reporting about trump's other comments, the assertion comes amid efforts by trump and some of his fiercest supporters to re-write the history of january 6th, and the 50 detainees held in connection with the attack are political prisoners. tell me more. >> there has been a long-running narrative in some of the more conspiratorial corners of right wing media trying to claim, trying to prove that the reason the attack on the capitol happened is because of undercover law enforcement agents or informants

we know his defense attorney during the russia probe was dangling pardons to paul manafort who is a swindler. steve bannon who swindled donald trump's own supporters out of millions of dollars for a wall that never got built but steve bannon got a million dollars for expenses. he got pardoned for that. we could go down an long list of people that were enrimp ingenri themselves who donald trump pardoned. another thing that the people in that rally, i hope will remember is that donald trump actually had the opportunity to pardon the rioters, the insurrectionists after january 6th because he was still in office and he chose not to. what's very clear to me and i would read it as the subtext of that offer goes to the incitement point that i think david made so clearly, which is i will have the power, if you help me get it and have a bigger set of rallies than january 6th. that's excrutiatingly dangerous and disturbing. it's no surprise. >> talk about the pardon for january 6th people, that's incentivizing people for these other demonstrations and actions he wants to have. now people i'll take car

paul manafort, michael flynn, roger stone.people from talking whether against donald trump or other people who stormed the capitol on january 6th, that could be obstruction. >> but if he didn't face actual charges when he did it as a sitting president, why would he face it, you know, as someone who might be running for president, might win but isn't president today? i just wonder. the system hasn't proven itself capable of policing this, has it? >> jim, i completely agree with that question that you're posing, and i think it leads to the next question, where is the united states justice department on this? they have charged 700 plus capitol rioters, they charged some oath keepers with sedition of conspiracy for the first time but quite still literally at ground level. has not charged any person physically present at the capitol, at or around the capitol that day and unless the doj shows it's serious to the powerful players, i don't see why there would be any disincentive to anybody to engage. donald trump has been given no rea

on democracy, and some of the people involved in that, trump and roger stone, and bannon, and paul manafort, these are people with decades of experience in wrecking democracies and propping up dictatorships, and funding dictators in the case of trump's money laundering. and so trump -- it's been a huge wakeup call. and, you know, because i've studied fascism, i saw very early who trump was and i wrote "strongmen" because i wanted to let my fellow americans know that it can happen here, that over history many other cultures and peoples have been very amazed that it happened to them. and that trump was not going to leave quietly because he was using an autocratic -- and a democratic playbook to govern. >> let me ask you about the language. you talk about it being a wakeup call. not everyone has woken up yet. you say for a political system that affects the lives of so many, authoritarianism remains a surprisingly fuzzy concept. we still lack a common language to speak about the governments of the 21st century authoritarian rulers who repress civil liberties but use elections to keep themselves

that one of the things the muller team found was that when trump dangled pardons to people like paul manaforte one, that if you keep your mouth shut and you don't cooperate with federal agents and federal prosecutors, i have something for you down the road, a pardon. so i worry that this is the exact same signal that people who have been charged but have not yet pled guilty and may be contemplating cooperating so that investigators can move up the ladder, i think it's dangerous, i think it's wrong, and i think it's conceivably illegal. >> but, jake, does it even make sense politically? his comments, yes, they're going to lock in the votes of rioters, but those people are going to vote for him anyway. what does this do to middle of the road republicans, to americans who all they need to do is watch a campaign ad from the january 6th riot with joe biden or any other democrats saying trump things this is a-okay, he wants to free these people? >> what happened on january 6th as someone who lived through it, it was clear it was an attack on the capitol in an attempt to overthrow a lawfully elected

install a puppet regime, prorussian regime and here is a name we heard before a candidate linked to paul manaforting development. your thoughts on that? >> well, i read that intelligence reporting obviously not the classified but the press reports of it. i have no reason to doubt it's authenticity. i have a hard time connecting the dots, though, joy. how do they do that? they don't have the power to install somebody in kiev. that would never happen. what makes me wonder if this is part of the post invasion planning. i can't imagine if god forbid there was a massive military intervention invasion that this would be what they would do afterwards. i can't see it before military intervention. >> and let's talk about what it is that putin wants. he does seem to have a complex that the soviet union i guess in his mind is not viewed like people in the united states or they did before trump came along. fiona hill, the former national security counsel wrote a lengthy piece that was good in the "new york times." mr. putin wants to give the united states a taste of the same bitter medicine russia had to swa

paul manafort is writing a book that contests the 2019 financial fraud charges filed against him by the federal government. the book political prisoner will be published by skyhorse this summer mr. manafort was sentenced to more than seven years in prison, but was pardoned by president trump in 2020. also in the news the fbi arrested a 29 year old man accused of operating a fishing scam that secured unpublished manuscripts by bestselling and first-time authors phillipo bernadini who was employed by simon and schuster uk allegedly impersonated publishing executives and used fraudulent email addresses to obtain the documents. the case is puzzled to publishing world because none of the stolen manuscripts ever resurfaced and no ransoms were demanded simon and schuster is not named in the indictment and has placed mr. bernardini under suspension pending further information. in other news recent gallup poll found that 27% of americans read more than 10 books last year and 8% drop from 2016 the 17% that did not read any books is on par with surveys from prior years. and according to npd book s

paul manafort is writing a book that contests the 2019 financial fraud charges filed against him by the federal >> the book, political prisoner, will be published this smemplet mr. manafort was sentenced to more than seven years in prison pardoned by president trump in 2020. also in the news, the fbi arrested a 29-year-old man accused of operating a phishing scam that secured best selling manuscripts by first-time authors. he allegedly impersonated publishing executives and used fraudulent e-mail addresses to locate the documents. the case had puzzled the literary world. simon & schuster has placed mr. bern dinny under suspension. in other news, a recent poll says 27% of americans realize more than 10 books last year, an 8% drop from 2019. and according to npd book scan, print book sales were up close to 9% in 2021 over the previous year with 825 million books sold. adult nonfiction book sales rose 4%. this is the second consecutive year of sales growth. booktv will continue to bring you new programs and new publishing news, and you can also watch all of our past programs anytime at boo

former trump campaign chairman paul manafort writing about the financial fraud charges filed againsthim. the book political prisoner will be published by skype course this summer. mister manafort was sentenced to seven year in prison but was pardoned by trump in 2020 and also in the news the fbi arrested a 29-year-old man accused of operating a rushing scan that secured unpublished manuscripts by best-sellingand first-time authors . he was employed by simon and schuster uk allegedly impersonated publishing executives and used fraudulent email addresses to obtain the documents . none of the stolen specs ever resurfaced and no ransoms were demanded. simon and schuster is not named in the indictment and displaced mister bernardini pending investigation. in other news a recent poll from the 27 percent of americans read more than 10 books last year. an eight percent drop from 2016. the senate chamber did not read any books is on par with surveys from prior years and according to npd bookscan print book sales were up to nine percent in 2021 over the previous year with 825 million books who